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 . to Colonel E. P. Pearson, com-mander of the brigade. ( Hir Worces-ter men, (i, and the Clinton company,K, were designated, but it was notso easv to locate the Colonels posi-tion, hence Private Steele of the Em-mets and Smith of the Clintons weres
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 . to Colonel E. P. Pearson, com-mander of the brigade. ( Hir Worces-ter men, (i, and the Clinton company,K, were designated, but it was notso easv to locate the Colonels posi-tion, hence Private Steele of the Em-mets and Smith of the Clintons weresent out to find the waw ( >n reporting toiho coniniamler he ordered them to re-main where they were for the present,since the firing was then on .along theentire line. When the messengers re-turned at of the 3d, they foundI lie men asleei). but they were speed-ilv roused, and at 2 oclock, havingtilled their canteens from the \ elloww;iters of the San Juan River, under of Steele an<l Smith, pushingand dragging themselves throughsw:nnps and underbrush, the compa-nies reported to LieutenaiU-colonel Kellogg of the loth U. S. Infantryat in the morning. He said thathis men were exhausted and ought to berelieved, but the fact of black jiowderprevented his sending the men of the CrAKIlS, COMlANY (1. 25it. Hugh McCiuiRE. J. E. Casey. E. II. Lyons .1. II. .Sweeney. Xinth to tluir immediate relief. 1 low-ever, they coiilil cHl; traverse trendies tothe firing: i^- where the men ofthe loth were on duty. This wa,-done mider the direction of Lieu-tenant Eh Ilehnie. of the regulars,he warning the luen to work lively,since the enemy would fire at distance to the Spanish lines is i)5vards and the position is an exposedone, subject to a cross fire h\ the enrm\.a long:, low hill on which Captain JohnDrum of the loth Infantry was Spaniards do open fire at daybreak,as expected, and digging- ceases, Init themen of the Xinth take
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