Identifier: worcesterinspani02roea (find matches)
Title: Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, M.V.M., during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of E. R. Shumway Camp, no. 30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Roe, Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye), 1844-1917
Subjects: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1898) Massachusetts infantry. 9th regiment, Co. G Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories United States Worcester (Mass.) -- History 19th century
Publisher: Worcester, Mass., The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ell kiss.The lighted torch was thus passedalong. Everywhere the stories of deedsin Rebellion days bore similar fruit. lionfires light the way as the regi-ment in two sections proceeds south-ward to Xewport, and it is nearly mid-night when, on the steamer i My mouth,the soldier boys steam out into theSound on their way to .New York,where they find themselves at 8 oclockon the morning of the 13th. Many inthe party are getting eye-openers asto the magnitude of the world andthe possibilities of sound, for steamwhistles salute them as they round intothe steamers station. They are soontransferred to the Saratoga, a steamersaid to have been the very last Amer-ican craft to leave the harbor of Ha-vana, and it is expected that the tripsouthward will be made in her. not en-tirely a pleasing ))rosi)ect. for thedepths of lier hold are not only hot.they are filthy. However, there are goodtimes for some of the party, since MajorI-airljanks is speedily taken away by 166 WORCESTER 1\ THE SPANISH WAR.
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