. The Detroit Light Guard : a complete record of this organization from its foundation to the present day : with full account of riot and complimentary duty, and the campaigns in the Civil and Spanish-American wars : a complete roster of members at the time of muster-out of the United States service, as well as a roster of all classes of members . d its band and manyof its members turned out and cheered the Michigan boysas they went by. The natives thatched huts in the smallvillages, the palms and banana trees and tall grass, gave apicturesque coating to what was more or less actual squalid-ne
. The Detroit Light Guard : a complete record of this organization from its foundation to the present day : with full account of riot and complimentary duty, and the campaigns in the Civil and Spanish-American wars : a complete roster of members at the time of muster-out of the United States service, as well as a roster of all classes of members . d its band and manyof its members turned out and cheered the Michigan boysas they went by. The natives thatched huts in the smallvillages, the palms and banana trees and tall grass, gave apicturesque coating to what was more or less actual squalid-ness when viewed at close quarters, and from what they sawof the natives themselves, they gathered the opinion thatdress was not an item of much importance with them. Atthe first stop, a place called Homiguero, the boys were sur-prised to see rather a neat looking station with some at-tempt at landscape gardening, but what caught their atten-tion was something they had not seen since their boyhooddays—an old-fashioned street car with a little mule, rattlingalong on a narrow guage track. Some of the stations alongthe route were decorated with tricolor bunting. The boysgot their first sight of a Spanish block house near Cien-fuegos, and later near Rodrigo. Approaching Rodrigo—the destination of the battalion—it could be seen that the 283. Light Guard Battalions Train en route toRodrigo being cheered by Natives atPalmaro.
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