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 . borne. It washere that Gendron indicated liis liter-arv i)romptings by sweating under the 184 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. bunk-n uf a hit;- Spanish dictiunaiAwhich lie had found in Sihonex. Heaimed to make his Spanish first-class. .\s to the me
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 . borne. It washere that Gendron indicated liis liter-arv i)romptings by sweating under the 184 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. bunk-n uf a hit;- Spanish dictiunaiAwhich lie had found in Sihonex. Heaimed to make his Spanish first-class. .\s to the merits or demerits of theeng^agement at Las Guasimas on Fri-day, the 24th. it is no ])art of this storyto dilate. War critics are yet wrans:;-ling as to who ordered the attack. l)ulall that is definitely known is that theRough Riders, with certain ])ortinnsoiregular troops, suffered severely intrying to dri\-e the enem\- from his of their time, when the assemblycalled the men to action. The alacritvwith which the negro soldiers grabbedtheir clothes and rushed naked fromthe bath to their camps will ever be re-membered by those who saw the move-ment, and the same call, sounded byRandall of the Wellingtons, pro-duced a similar though perhaps not soimmediate an efl:ect. Of what theCompany saw and did, let the mentliemselves discourse. Allie .\. D. K IM L. Sh tDD. C. E. C-noK. M. W . .\ n. E. ItRIGHAM. position on what (iencral Wheelerchose to consider ihe road .San-tiago. The Second Massachusetts hap-pened to be near, and with others wentto the rescue. It was well towards themiddle of the afternoon when the hur-ried arriwil of a from thefight foinid the soldiers in all sorts ofoccu])ations. They were bathing, cook-ing, washing, and making the best writing on the 29th, says: You canbet we had a good, heavy load (refer-ring to the burdens each man had tocarr_\-) : it was a very pleasant marchat first. By the way, the countryth
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