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 . ine, which everywhere inthe South a])parently run at large, tillthey, with that sense of the fitness ofthings characteristic of .Massachusetts peo])le, denoniinate them ant-eaters,a name whose appropriateness no onewho has seen a southern razor-b
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 . ine, which everywhere inthe South a])parently run at large, tillthey, with that sense of the fitness ofthings characteristic of .Massachusetts peo])le, denoniinate them ant-eaters,a name whose appropriateness no onewho has seen a southern razor-backwill i|uestion for one moment. Somespecimens were caught and takenalong, and it is on record that Ca])tainn, of the Wellingtons ran downone of the swiftest of the porcineracers and carried him aboard, but histender heart relenting, pig,gy was re-leased Ijefore the train started. At Rocky Mount, North Carolina,there was a jjleasing episode in the ap-pearance of Annie Tillery, a miss oftwelve summers, who in a gracefulmanner ])rcsented the headtjuartersofficers with a beautiful bouquet offlowers, with her best wishes for thesuccess of the soldiers of Massachu-setts. ( )utside there was a large dele-gation of citizens carrying a flag andmaking the welkin ring with cheersfor the ( )Id Bay State and the SecondRegiment. Howe\er, the cheers of the. Sergt. C. II. Corp-,. (1. N. Jcppson, Seruts. E. L. Iicrce. C. H. Claflin. C. H. Holden, II. (. ^?^llll^i, \\. E. Earle. C. E. Monroe. Samuel Slocomis, H. T. H. Ames. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. COMPANY H, 1896. \VI-;i,LI\GTO\ , COMPANY H. 169 natives were not so much of tlichurrah variety as they were of tliatold-fashioned rebel yell that manya veteran recalls, and Colonels Clarkand Shumway were not slow to indi-cate their recollection of times whenthey heard it in combats fierce. Onetall, lank fellow with a big, graymustache and an imperial, giving anexpressive look, asked if any one therehad any remembrance
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