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 . M. I., lie J. H. , J. A. G. I Asi v. likely none of them iniilerstODd). theywere fired upon and a large numberdropped in their ])laees: six dead out-right and the cithers badly blood flowed freely upon the dec!;and their comp
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 . M. I., lie J. H. , J. A. G. I Asi v. likely none of them iniilerstODd). theywere fired upon and a large numberdropped in their ])laees: six dead out-right and the cithers badly blood flowed freely upon the dec!;and their comprehension of orders, eve ithough given in an unkmiwn tongue,seemed to grow amazing]v. During the next three d;iys there isno firing and the men have a chance tocompare Cuban climate with that oftheir homes, and few nf them wouldcare to make the Island, wonderfullyfertile though it be, their ]jermaneniabode. The health of the men continuesgood and the rations tolerable, thoughsome begin to find fat bacon rather tooconstant in its daily a])pearance. ()nthe 8th, Jvlusician Sullivan sends to theWorcester Gazette a letter, in which heingeniously depicts the assault on SanJuan Hill b\- picturing Worcesters\ewton Hill as the scene, capping it. The Emmets at Santiago. I-;. l\ StU 11. \\ . 1 l( ..VN,,K. with a blcickhouse, stationing twn thou-sand Spaniards, determined to hold it,and clothing the hillside with trees,whose tops conceal sharpshooters, anddense undergrowth, threaded with in-terminable lines (if barbed wire, upagainst all of which the .\mericans, onthe 1st day of July, were hurled. Thatthe\ shiiuld gain the top wa-; the won-der cif every one. Tt was in this period that a Spanishsharpshooter, found in a tree, where hehad Iieen for several days, not daring toClime (Inwn. was brought in so nearlyfamished that when carried beforeLieutenant-colonel Logan, he actuallysnatched from the latters hand acracker which he was eating. Whenthe guard would punish the captive forhis in
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