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 . iboney and Santiago ap])ear tobe undergoing simultaneous shelling,the shores are blazing with flames, andthe air throbs with vibrations. At last there comes a change spirit of the dreams of the Second,and it comes none too soon, for ratio
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 . iboney and Santiago ap])ear tobe undergoing simultaneous shelling,the shores are blazing with flames, andthe air throbs with vibrations. At last there comes a change spirit of the dreams of the Second,and it comes none too soon, for rationsare getting low; even the officers areliving on two meals a day. While ly-ing off near Daiquiri, at i 1 m the22(1, headquarters boat Xo. 12 steamsalongside, and an officer tells ColonelClark that they had been looking forhim all the morning, and that he wasto steam within a C|uarter of a milefrom the shore,a command that was re-ceived with cheers. That afternoon allthe men of the Second got off, exceptthose of the y\ I>attalion, who. it willbe remembered, were the first to boardthe steamer in Tampa Bay. The tow-ering and apparently rough and rockymountains developed, as they wereneared,into heights richly covered withthe rankest tropical growths, and it isto the credit of the old Bay State thatthe first volunteer regiment to set foot. MmHIKV 1*. on hostile soil was her glorious .^ were regulars before us. but imvolunteers. At on this day a trans-formation scene was beliehl. rivalinganything e\er seen in trookwonders, brom the to]) of a l)lock-house, surmounting a steep height atthe right nf the landing at 1 )ali|uiii. \\a^floating a Spanish tlag. Some soldierswith a conunendal)Ie sense of the eter-nal fitness of things had climbed to llu-spot, and,the garrison having abscond-ed, they had no trouble in hauling(lc)\vn the foreign emblem and in sub-stituting the Star-spangled since Hookers men threw out theflag of the 8th Ke
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