Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . rizaba had beenassigned to the Second. but owingto some confusion that vessel wastaken b\- certain Regulars, and on the8th of June Company C found such ac-commodations as it could upon theConcho. In the light of subsequent events,the api)rehensio
Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . rizaba had beenassigned to the Second. but owingto some confusion that vessel wastaken b\- certain Regulars, and on the8th of June Company C found such ac-commodations as it could upon theConcho. In the light of subsequent events,the api)rehensions of the nationalgovernment, and of its representa-tives upon land and sea, as to theintentions of the S^^aniards seemalmost ludicrous. Never for an in-stant, even, showing the aggressive,when thev did leave the harbor of San- 102 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR tiago, it was only to run away as bestthey could. Tlu-n to think thatwe should, tor a ninmcnt, haveentertained the thouL,dit that theDons were tryini;- to enter the Gulfof Mexico with the purpose ofwipino- out our continc^ent there, seems many transports which were evidentin the waters near. ()wing to some ofthe vicissitudes sure to happen in wartimes, the Second, or a part of it, hadto take up with such quarters as itcould find on the Concho. This samevessel would not have been selected. CoKf. C. A. \Ari;iiAN. Jii. CoRr. P. W. I .nr [S i:. I ; X .S, IRINC K. .\. V. WheELER. Kil Mi;.\, C().\II.\X^ C. absurd, yet just such fears and alarmsdisturbed the embarkation and lun-dered the . dejtarture not a \er, the Infantry and its fellowcom])anies were at the landing andanxious to go aboard some one of the as an excursion steamer if found inIloston Harbor, hut it was one of thosechosen to carry representatives of UncleSam to their (lestination. Alreadyon l)oard were two regiments of U. , one of them colored, and LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 103 witli the Massichusetts
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