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 . of the sameday the Colonel called his officers to-gether for a conference. Five menin H Companv were reported sick,and one of them. J. L. did notreturn to the Company again for duty.()ur soldiers are of a social nature and,getting accptain
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 . of the sameday the Colonel called his officers to-gether for a conference. Five menin H Companv were reported sick,and one of them. J. L. did notreturn to the Company again for duty.()ur soldiers are of a social nature and,getting accptainted with the neighltor-ing people, are surprised to find thatsome of the supposed southern nativesare really from Connecticut. One ob-serving youth wrote home that if hewere to characterize central Florida,he would say it consisted in niggers,log cabins, hogs, swam])s and pinetrees. It was at Lakeland that thegreat military question as to whether acow should be challenged by a senti-nel arose. The guards had been dulyplaced and the orders were to challengeanything that attempted to pass, sowhen a poor innocent bovine beast, inpursuit of better fare, essayed to passthe vigilant guard, he vociferouslychallenged and only failed to fire at theadvancing animal through the oppor-tune arrival of the corporal. To what 174 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH FDlR SCENES IN ];RE.\K1N(; CAMI. LAKELAND. extent the man was comnicnilalilc orcensurable, the annals dn ndt re\ the senlinel himself, it l)esaid that, when he was present, hisCompany was nut without its llond,and thai, later, as a reg-ular. he wasone of the men who accompaniedFunste)n on the meiiinraMe ad\-entineresultin- m the c;iplure of .\,i;; ritmors of dei)arlnre liore realfruit on the 30th. for then the re\eillesounded at threi- , and breakfastwas eaten by the \\;lons at fouroclock, vet all this niidne haste didnot secure their l;i liiiL; before taking- their tents therew
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