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 . s. Notcaring to take any uimecessary steps, hemet his Companv in the city rather thanretiu-n to camp. The latter had beenIjroken on the 23d, and weak, wearyand halting the men had reached thewharf in tliat far-famed ])lace. Let hisown words tell
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 . s. Notcaring to take any uimecessary steps, hemet his Companv in the city rather thanretiu-n to camp. The latter had beenIjroken on the 23d, and weak, wearyand halting the men had reached thewharf in tliat far-famed ])lace. Let hisown words tell what he saw after a sc])-aration of three weeks: The meetingof the Company and myself at the wharfI shall never forget. .Such emaciatedspecimens of men I had never met. Irealized in a moment what havoc thedread disease had wrought in threeweeks. Half the Company had notstrength tn rise, and many wereso ill that they failed to recognizeme. Those who could not walk had tobe carried on board the lighter whichconveyed the troops to the transi)Ort,which was anchored out in the transport was inadequate to i)ro])-erh- carr\- more than one-half the num-ber. Soldiers in the last stages of dis-ease, those half well and those quite sowere all huddled together. He furtlierremarks that at least two hundred ofthese men were fit subjects for a hos-. Santi.\go Whakf. 272 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR.
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