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 . equal to the Emmets thus left behind wereSergeant P. J. Moynihan, Corporal J. Privates J. J. Creaven, EdwardSullivan and P. J. Prendiville. Forsafe keeping, a large number of prison-ers, captured by the fleet on the 3d, hadbeen
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 . equal to the Emmets thus left behind wereSergeant P. J. Moynihan, Corporal J. Privates J. J. Creaven, EdwardSullivan and P. J. Prendiville. Forsafe keeping, a large number of prison-ers, captured by the fleet on the 3d, hadbeen placed aboard the vessel. Duringthe night these men, either to relievetheir crowded condition or to seize thearms of the guard, which were stackedupon the deck, roused the apprehensionof those on duty. The sergeant of theguard was Moynihan of the on the failure of the Spaniards toheed the commands of the guard (most GUAKUS, CUMlANY G. 2(il. 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
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