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 . tar-spangled Banner. Thatsour Every man uncovers. LIGHT INFANTRY, lOMTANY C. 125 Thats what ins[)ircs men to ili> bravedeeds. At Santiago. Jtily 13. Everybody: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Haveyon heard the news? Santiasjo and20
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 . tar-spangled Banner. Thatsour Every man uncovers. LIGHT INFANTRY, lOMTANY C. 125 Thats what ins[)ircs men to ili> bravedeeds. At Santiago. Jtily 13. Everybody: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Haveyon heard the news? Santiasjo and20,000 troops surrendered. Just thinkof it! No more fighting, for a whileat least. Xo doubt you are as muchrelieved as we are. Well, yesterdaywe crawled into our trenches, expect-ing a long siege. \\e had worked hardand had made preparations for a pro-longed encampment, in a hole in the of tomatoes. A strong guard is postedall around our camp, not in fear of theS])aniards. but to keep our enthusiasmwhere it can be looked after. Cantwrite any more, am too happy! Arentyou happy, too? The f(.>rmal surrender of Santiago hashad many descriptions, but this writtenby one of the Company, Henry , who was an orderly on Gen-eral Ludlows staff, has never beenin print, and is presented as an ex-pression of a privates notions of thishistoric event:. UrIGHAM. 15EJUNE. HaLE. DrURY. DoWSE. AT LAKELAND. ground. Wc sat there for about fourhours watching the rainwater crawl-ing up our legs, for it rained all theafternoon, as usual. About fouroclock the sun came out and wecrawled out of our pits and lookedaround to see why the shooting hadnot beguiL Just then a mighty cheerrang out from somewhere up the line,and then we began to have then a mounted orderly boundedinto our line and shouted that Santiagowith 20,000 men had surrendered. Justimagine the scene! They wouldnt letus cheer, for some unaccountable rea-son, probably for fear the Spanks wouldget mad and change
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