: 
 
WORCESTER 
 IN THE SPANISH WAR 
 
 BEING THE STORlE.s HF 
 
 Companies A, C, and H, 2d Regimrnt 
 
 AND Company G, 9th Regiment 
 
 M. V. M. 
 
 DURING THE WAR FOR THE LIBERATION OF CUBA 
 
 May — Novemher, 1898 
 
 WITH A ROSTER OF E. R. SHUMWAV CAMP, No. 30 
 SPANISH WAR VETERANS 
 
 FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF 
 
 WORCESTER CITIZENS 
 
 IN AIDING THE SOLDIERS AND THEIR 
 
 FAMILIES 
 
 By ALFRED S. ROE 
 
 ,-/ J'dtrjti of the CitU ff'iir, '6/-'0j 
 
 
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 WORCESTER, MASS. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 
 
 1905 
 
Hoea Collection f 
 
 190I63 p1^^ 
 
 1912 ^ Q 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 Readers nf this \'(iliinie will nljserxe news|)a|)ers of |S<>S. with luTme letters, 
 
 that in no sense is it a histury of the diaries, journals, and word-of-mouth 
 
 strife rendered necessary \)y the recitals, have lieen emidoyed to .Sfive to 
 
 strus;'e;le of Culta for indejiendence, it the stury an air df direct cimtacL ndt 
 
 being a plain statement nf the ])art dtherwise attainable, 
 borne by Worcester men and buys in In telling the deeds of those who 
 
 the cit_\''s several militia cumpanies. served, one cannot supjiress a feeling 
 
 The story itself is the imtgrowth of of regret fur the others wdio had no 
 
 a beginning made in the Worcester chance. \\ hen the war rnmons were 
 
 Magazine, Xovember, 1902, when a rife, im one thunght it ])iissible that 
 
 resnnie (if the part borne in the SiJanish I'.attery 1'. wudil remain at home and 
 
 War by A Company, or the Cit_\- have nn pait in those stirring times. 
 
 Guards, was undertaken. Later the yet such Avas the case. There had 
 
 same was followed b\- a similar nar- been \ery few left in the Battery 
 
 rative of the Light Infantry. The ranks had not the men supposed that 
 
 work of Collecting and arranging ma- .Massachusetts .\rtillery wouhl be as 
 
 terial for one-half of the companies necessary as Liay State Infantry. Fate, 
 
 concerned in the war hax'ing been howex'cr, was unkind, for, save a short 
 
 done, the engravings used Ijeing ac- tonr of duty 1 >n I'lnni Island, the snm- 
 
 cessible .nnd the type itself being, for nier of i8c)S was cpiite uneventful for 
 
 the most part, still set up, what more the artillerymen, while their l)rothers 
 
 natural th.an th.at the other two com- in the infantry ranks were winning 
 
 panics should receive similar treat- fame anil honors in active service; 
 
 nu'ut ? hence this history cannot include a 
 
 The iloulile-colunm I'age and the record of P>atter_\' 1!, much as the 
 
 somewhat ijeculiar sha])e of the writer ;ind the cit\- would be pleased 
 
 volume are the results of facts already i(, ha\e it |iossible. 
 
 stated, with the .-iddilional truth that Then, too, there is the long list of 
 illustrations, whether groups of indi- Wijrcester patriots who, failing in 
 viduals, scenery or e\'ents, can be their eft'orts to enter the several corn- 
 more conveniently em|)loyed on a mag- panics, sought opportunities for mil- 
 azine page than in a smaller book. itarv experience in the regular army. 
 
 .\o story of this nature can be told The nmnber was as large or larger 
 withoiU many conferences and com- th.an that of the men in the home com- 
 parisons with those who had a part in panics, and nothing would please the 
 the events described. Every word in writer more than to give their names 
 the volume was read to one or more and services coidd the same be ob- 
 memliers of the companies, that con- tained. Ca])tain D. F. Anglum, who 
 firmation or denial might be had. The had the recruiting station in W'orces- 
 
 C'orVHir.HT. igos. Hv .\lfred S. Roe. 
 
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 WOKCESTKk IN -(ilK Sl^VMSII W AK. 
 
 ter, and who sent on such a fine array 
 of the city's youth, did not retain his 
 rcjlls, and access to them, nnw in tlie 
 custody of the government, is denied. 
 While reference to the daily pa|)crs of 
 the period and the careful scrutiny of 
 war histories might reveal some [lor- 
 tion of the names desired, still the roll 
 would be so imperfect that it is 
 deemed best to confine the narrative 
 to the work of Worcester militiamen. 
 
 This conclusion rules (HU ihe inter- 
 esting stories of West Pointers: (ieo. 
 H. G. Gale, Roger B. Bryan. Marcus 
 D. Cronin, Roger F. Gardner, luhnund 
 X. Benchley ; with Annajjolis men. 
 Charles Ward Bartlett, Austin M. 
 Knight. Timothy S. 0'Lear\- and 
 Ralph Earle, all of them being repre- 
 sentatives of \A'orcester in the army 
 or navy during the war, and each one 
 giving a good account of himself. 
 
 At one time it looked as though 
 \i_dunteer organizations would be 
 called fur instead of militia, and the 
 t|uota of Massachusetts in such an 
 event was four regiments, and among 
 the colonels thus designated liy (.Gov- 
 ernor Wolcott was Major E. T. Ray- 
 mond, who had won distinction during 
 the Civil War, Had there been an 
 opportunity, there can be no doubt 
 that to his standard had rallied 
 as valiant a body of men as responded 
 to the call of duty in the trying days of 
 a generation before. Among the com- 
 panies of tliis central regiment might 
 have been mustered the fine body of 
 young men who gave in their names 
 to Sergeant Harry S. Putnam in the 
 hopes that a place might l)e found for 
 them. l)ut this plan, too. proved 
 abortive. 
 
 Had the scope of the Milume per- 
 mitted, it had been a pleasure to 
 enlarge on the concerted efforts of re- 
 ligious and secular bodies to further 
 the great object of making happy, as 
 
 far as possible, the homes wliich were 
 lonesome on account (}f soldiers gone. 
 Perhaps tluri- was ncit a pul|)it in 
 Worcester frfiin which was not heard 
 rei)eatedl\- the reipiest for funds to 
 hel]> iin the good cause, and it sIkuiIiI 
 he stated that, in\ariably, the re- 
 sponses were i|nick ;in<l generous, 
 P\<.'ry charitable (irganizatii m set at 
 work all its activities to help. There 
 were societies formeil for the express 
 |)urp(ise of aiding the Mijdirr .'ind hiji 
 family, but the records are lost in the 
 haste with which the ])ast is obliter- 
 atid. The Red Cross, world-wide in 
 its usefulness, had its branches in 
 Worcester churches, and in the last of 
 .\ugust. a central organ i/.at ion was 
 effected and considerable money was 
 forwarded to Miss Clara Barton for 
 dislribiuii in. ( )f this latter body 
 scarceK more can be foinid to-day 
 than that its President was .\lfred S. 
 Rue and its Treasm'er I-'.. J. McMahnn. 
 and that its contrilnitions amounted 
 to nearU- three hundred dollars. 
 
 The book itself is the result of many 
 favors rendered by those interested, 
 and to tliem. one and all. thanks are 
 returned. While the names of those 
 who ha\e aided in various ways are 
 legion and tints hardly to be enumer- 
 ated, it does ap])ear desirable to 
 mention specially certain ones whose 
 assistance particularly furthered the 
 enterprise: among these should he 
 named Captain H. G. Barrett. S. E. 
 Clapp and Joseph T. Latlamme of .\ 
 Compan\'. whose daily records ac- 
 counted for their period of service: in 
 C Company much hel]) was had from 
 Captain 1". I- Allen, from the letters 
 and diaries of Lieutenant .\. C. King, 
 Sergeant \\illiam E. Barton, Cori)oral 
 C, T. Eldridgc and Henry J. Greene: 
 the actixe assistance of Captain C. S. 
 Holclen in H Company, with that of 
 Sergeants H, C. Young and C, E. 
 
6 WCIRCESTEK IX THE Sl'ANISH WAR. 
 
 Smilh, alon- with the diaries and let- untiring efforts of citizens, while the 
 ters of Sergeants C. E. Monroe, F. B. written and i.rinted records of the 
 Jordan, Corporal A. P.. Scott. Willis "Eniniets,- as preserved by Mr. M. B. 
 Gleason and Allie Kimball, rendered Lamb, in the writing of the late W d- 
 the ••Wellington" storv possil)le ; the Ham J. Tansey. along with the i.nce- 
 faithful attendance of Captain M.>y- los conipilati-.ns of -Mr. Richard 
 nihan and Lieutenants Hurlev an<l ( )'inynn, made the home eft'orts mem- 
 McCann of the •• Emmets." at repeated orable. In arranging the matter pre- 
 readnigs, is remembered gratefully, liminary to the story of the "Em- 
 while 'the Cuban letters of Musicians mets," the writer acknowledges his 
 N. T. Skerrett and Leter F. Sullivan, obligations to Dr. George McAleer for 
 along with the co-operation of Ser- valuable suggestions. 
 
 b 
 
 geant L J. Corliss, in manv ways The roster of Colonel E. R. Shum- 
 
 helped'along the project. way Camp is taken from the books in 
 
 The profuse illustrations in the the keeping ni Secretary A. I- . 
 
 volume must excite remark. The same Wheeler, and he, too, is entitled to the 
 
 had not been possible without the as- gratitude of all interested, 
 
 sistance of manv people, among whom Xo one can regret more than the 
 
 should be mentioned H, C. Cxrover, writer the fact that every member of 
 
 whose war sketches are admirable: the four cunpanies is not represented 
 
 the cameras of Sergeant Young and i" tli>-' following jiages, that readers 
 
 Fred P. Dean contrilnited no little to might know how their soldiers looked, 
 
 the ai.pearance of these pages, while Earnest efforts were made to secure 
 
 the generosity of Colonel F. E. Pierce the portrait ni each man. Letters were 
 
 of the Second Regiment adds interest written, many miles were traveled and 
 
 to the v..hime. Captain P. 1.. Rider. all h,,nnrable means were taken to get 
 
 bv the iM.-in of cuts and data furnished, the pictures, but in many cases with- 
 
 enlivened manv pages. Thanks also 'hU success. There is little doubt that 
 
 are due to the Worcester P„,ard of ■•^""H- veterans will be disappointed at 
 
 Tra.le fnr the use of half-tones, pre- the non-ai)pearance of their sem- 
 
 pare.I when the first part of the work blances here, but such will have only 
 
 was running in the Magazine; t., the themselves to blame. The preparing 
 
 Worcester Evening Caxette fnr j^lates "t the story was play compared with 
 
 made during the war peri.ul. and to the work necessary to obtain the illus- 
 
 Editor 1). 1'. TMomev of Dimahoe's trati.ms. 
 
 Magazine, for the loan of engravings Such as it is, the story with its em- 
 
 in his possession. Lieutenant Mc- bellishments g,,es forth to the fnen.ls 
 
 ,, ,. fit -.i .1, and relati\es of the men who faltered 
 C anil s collection nf i)hotos, with tlio^e 
 
 ,,,,.,. , ,- ,, ,, , iKit in the i)atli ot dutv.and m so actniP' 
 
 of |. 1. ( iirliss and l'.. R. Barker, , ,. ' , ■, ,■ 
 
 aided nut a little 
 
 rellected credit upnn the city which 
 nurtured them, and to these men. 
 
 In preparing the sketch nt the home ^^.,,^,^,^^.,. ,,,,,.^. ,|^,,^.i„^. „, ^i,^. ^..,i,i„g.. of 
 
 work of \\,,rcester. the writer is j,^..,,.,. ,,,,,.,,.;„.- ,.,,,ssed the great di- 
 
 under great obligations U, Mr. ll.al- .-[.i^. ;„-^. .vaitmg in the realms of bliss, 
 
 Icck i'.arllett. .Mr. Carl I'.oiiney and ^,^j^ account of their devotion, action 
 
 Mrs. William L. Robinson for the use .|„,i triumph is dedicated, 
 of records in their keeping, the same .\LFRED S. ROE. 
 
 chronicling in a faithful manner the March. 1905. 
 
Worcester in the 
 Spanish War 
 
 CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A, 2ND RKOIMLN T, M. \ . M. 
 
 [Though the origin of the company was owing to pohtics. all <iueslions of politics in the com- 
 position and management of the City Guards long since disappeared. In 1840. when the 
 campaign for the Presidency was run, on one side, along the lines of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too. 
 and hard cider attained a prominence never before held, the rival Whigs and Democrats of the 
 Light Infantry became almost belligerent towards each other, and, in the e.\ccss of their rancor, 
 the Whigs withdrew, all save the Captain. D. Waldo Lincoln, and proceeded to organize a mili- 
 tary company whose appreciation for W. H. Harrison and accompanying beverages knew no 
 qualification. From the start the company won a popular position and has ever held it, though 
 to-day not one member in fifty among tlie active, veteran and honorary members could tell the 
 real reason for its beginning. 
 
 The first Captain was George Bowen, and his successors to date have been George Hohbs. 
 Leonard Pool, George B. Conklin, L. Lincoln Newton, Edwin Eaton, Charles W. Longley, John 
 M. Goodhue, George H. Ward. A. B. R. Sprague. R. H. Chamberlain. Joseph H. Titus, 
 W. H. King. E. R. Shuni way. George H. Cleveland, Wni. D. Preston, Wm. A. Condy and E<hvin 
 G. Barrett. When the War of the Rebellion came, the company, under the command of A. B. 
 R. Sprague, went out in tlie three months' service as a part of the Third Battalion of Rilles, 
 Later, nearly every member saw service in some capacity throughout the struggle. Few, if any, 
 organizations furnished more commissioned officers for loyal troops, and the record from the 
 beginning of the war is a proud one. 
 
 The organization of the company was in September, 1840, and on the igth day of that month 
 the first parade was made. Its first encampment was in the fall of the year 1840, in Worcester, 
 and its second the year following, in West Boylston. Its reputation for proficiency in drill was 
 early gained and has been ever retained. It was present at the dedication of Bunker Hill Monu- 
 ment, June 17th, 1843, did guard duty on that auspicious occasion, and heard the words of Web- 
 ster as he gave his immortal address. 
 
 Of the original roll, only the Hon. Julius L. Clarke of Newton and Mr. David J. Baker of 
 Worcester survive.] 
 
 K(7)M the early days when 
 the frontier town of Wor- 
 cester was expected to re- 
 turn her quota to repel In- 
 dian attacks, down through 
 French and Indian wars, 
 that of the Revolution and 
 later encounters, the town 
 and city has ever been 
 readv to render a good account of it- 
 self. The \\'ar of the Rebellion wa.s not 
 so far away but that meuKiries of 
 it were fresh in the public mind, 
 and the militia of the Bay State 
 was largelv composed of men whose 
 
 fathers had seen service in the days of 
 1861 and T)5. Long before the final 
 order was issued, the question of active 
 service had been discussed in all the 
 armories of Massachusetts, and there 
 appeared to be only one sciinmenl. viz., 
 that of a desire to take a hand in end- 
 ing Spanish rtile in America. Xot 
 a man in the militia could remember 
 the day when there was not some 
 trouble in Cuba, and the conviction 
 was tleep and widespread that the 
 I'nited States would eventually have 
 to go to the rescue of the struggling 
 patriots in tlie Pearl of the Antilles. 
 
WOKCESTER IN THE Si'A.MSH WAR. 
 
 Capt. Edwin G. I'arrett. 
 EiKsr LiEiT. MosKS II. Tisdell. Sfcond Lieut. \\m. II. I'lummer. 
 
 COM MISSIONED OFFICERS. COMPANY A. 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 9 
 
 It is just pcissililc that tlic siii'char,L;ciI 
 cniiditidn (if the atmosiihcrr adiK'd zest 
 to otherwise nKinotoiitius (h'ill. fiir the 
 boYS were beginninsj tu tliink that 
 sometliiiiij might come of the ex'erlast- 
 ing handhng of firearms, the unlimited 
 facings, marchings, and dcYotion to 
 tactics generall}'. At the same time, it 
 must ever redound to the credit of 
 American snhhery that \-ery few men 
 were anxii)us to go sim|dy fur the sake 
 of carrying guns with tlie intent of 
 shooting some one. ll was a distin- 
 guished Freneiinian wild said, mure 
 than one hundred years ago, "In Amer- 
 ica no men are soldiers by trade, hut 
 men of all trades are soldiers." These 
 militiamen were ready td bear their 
 part in helping rid an oppressed por- 
 tion of humanit\- nf its liurden. even to 
 the extent (if risking their nwn li\es in 
 doing it. 
 
 However, while to the praise of our 
 men the foregoing is true, there was 
 needed some overt act. smne bl(iod- 
 curdling deed, to kindle the tire which 
 had been laid sn long. The spark was 
 afYorded when, during the night of Feb- 
 ruary 15, in the harbor of Havana, the 
 United States ironclad, the Maine, was 
 blown up. It was the crowning igno- 
 miny of the century, an act fith su]iple- 
 menting the barbarous rule of Spain in 
 the Western Continent, and tme which 
 immediately welded into a C( impact 
 mass North and SdUth. making every 
 American desimus of wiping (lut a des- 
 potism ^vhich would C(3untenance sucli 
 a diabolical deed. E\'ery man cip.ible 
 of bearing arms seemed like a grey- 
 hound straining at his leash, needing 
 only its severing to spring u|iiin the 
 foe. While some people might Hatter 
 themselves that the outcry was wholly 
 owing to the desire to fight fur Cuba, 
 in their heart of hearts they knew full 
 well that from the murkv waters of 
 
 that i>land h;irb(ir there was a never- 
 ceasing UKian. "Avenge me." and the 
 cry. "Rememl)er the Maine," after six 
 years filled with their own history, has 
 not ceased to re-echo. 
 
 " Wlicn tlic splendid M.iiiu' wont dcnvii. 
 .'\nd we saw (lur lirdtluTS drdwn. 
 Tlion a llood of sudden tears 
 Cliangcd the smould'ring wratli of years; 
 And, above tlieir Cuban grave, 
 \Ve vowed to see our banner wave." 
 April 19, a momentous day in .Massa- 
 chusetts history, saw Congress pass an 
 act warranting the declaration of war 
 b\ the President, and the same was 
 signeil the following day. Then fol- 
 lowed, on the 23d, the c.ill for 125.000 
 troo])s. of which numi)er tiie (|iiota for 
 .M;iss;u'husetts was four regiments of 
 infantr\' and one of heavy artillery. 
 April j8 ( io\ernor Roger W olcott 
 called out the militia of the State, and 
 ])reparations to com])ly were immc- 
 diatel\- afoot. Worcester was the 
 proud ]i()Ssessor of four companies of 
 infantry and one of artillery. The 
 Emmet (Inards constituted Company 
 Ci of the ((tti Regiment, while the other 
 three companies belonged to the 2d. 
 Those were stirring times, and to many 
 a home the call came with all the 
 empliasis that r>yron de])icts in the 
 immortal night before the I'lattle of 
 W aterloo. Playing war w;is done, and 
 our bovs were soon to know what tiic 
 actual was like. 
 
 In obedience to a regtilar summons, 
 the members of Company A assembled 
 in their .Armory rooms Friday evening, 
 April 21). to ascertain what the attitude 
 of the men would be in regard to the 
 call. It was a well-attended meeting, 
 and, long betVire the nominated hour 
 had arrived, the rooms were crowded 
 bv the soldiers and their friends, and 
 one spirit seemed to actuate the crowd. 
 At precisely 8.15 p.m. Ca])tain Edwin 
 G. Barrett called the gathering to order. 
 
10 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 and requested the withdrawal of all 
 those not belonging to the enmpany. 
 After a brief setting forth of the ]>ur- 
 pose for whieh the meeting was called, 
 remarks from others were asked for, 
 and the first to respond was Sergeant 
 \\'. H. I'lummer, who, in a ringing 
 speech, urged the men {<> \-olmiteer as 
 a comi-tanv and to follow the Hag 
 wherever it might lead. He touched 
 the right chord, for his wiirds were re- 
 ceived with cheers, and the men were 
 ready to volunteer at once. However, 
 words from others in a similar vein fol- 
 lowed, after which the Captain called 
 for a rising vote upon the great ques- 
 tion, and. be it said to the everlasting 
 credit of the members, every man rose 
 in the affirmative. 
 
 So much for the altogether, the vote 
 when men ;ire in>])iritcd bv each other; 
 then followed the nn ire trying ordeal, 
 as each man was called into the private 
 room of the non-commissioned officers, 
 where, in the ])resence of the Ca]itain, 
 and Company Clerk, Corporal R. L. 
 Allison, he was asked to make his per- 
 sonal decision, and again there wa> no 
 Hinching. for every man was ready to 
 l>ut down his name. The UKJUients, 
 as the inler\ie\\s progressed, were 
 anxious ones to the men. ami it was a 
 long breath of exultation th,-it followed 
 the final announcement. I'or reasons 
 which seemed sufficient to himself 
 Ca])tain llarrett refused to acce])t four 
 men. reasons in no way refiecting upon 
 them. but which were ob\i(iusl\ 
 worthy of consideration. Xot till 11.33 
 p.m. did the meeting end. and llieii the 
 time was none too long, for it was the 
 most imp(_irtant ;issenililing of the 
 Guards since 1861. 
 
 .Sunda\'. .Ma\- i. tlu' lut'mbers assem- 
 bled again to transact further business, 
 looking to the near de])artnre for scenes 
 of hostilitv. .\ committee of veterans 
 
 w-as appointed to lo(^k after the corn- 
 pan v property during its absence, and 
 the further order was read directing 
 every man to report at 7.30 a.m. Tues- 
 day. May 3. in heavy marching order. 
 Following adjournment, each man pro- 
 ceeded to look after his own belong- 
 ings, and to discuss the ])robable dispo- 
 sition of the regiment on its departure. 
 Mondav followed with about the same 
 situation, fc.ir the victory of Dewey, the 
 day before in Manila Harbor, had not 
 then been heralded, but the next day 
 was all afiame with the wondrous story 
 of Dewey and the results of the first 
 naval battle fought with modern ap- 
 pliances. 
 
 There was no one in W orcesler who 
 did not wish a bright, beautiful day in 
 which to see the boys dejiart. but with 
 characteristic weather fickleness, Tues- 
 day da\\ned rain\- and dismal. (July 
 the glorious news from .Manila saved 
 the dav from downright gloom. ^lany 
 a time has the cit}' risen abo\e tempo- 
 rarv troul)les. and this case ]M-oved to 
 lie no exception. Red, white and blue 
 bedeckeil the buildings, and Main 
 Street looked as it must have appeared 
 so nianv \'ears before when the sons of 
 Worcester were departing for the 
 Southland. E\-ery a\ailalde inch of 
 standing room was occupied liy those 
 who were bound to see their boys 
 march hw Moisture, not e\en rain, 
 could dampen such ardor, and the \>to- 
 gr.-imnie of dei^arture was carried out 
 just as if the sun had shone his bright- 
 est. The Armory at the appointed 
 hoiu- was filled with the members of 
 the three companies who were that 
 morning to sav "good-by" to it for they 
 knew not hiiw long, it might be for- 
 ever. It was cpiarter |);ist nine when 
 into the drill-shed walked His Honor 
 .Mavor Dodge and the Rev. Alnion 
 Gunnison, D.D. -\n earnest and 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPAN'V A. 
 
 11 
 
 l^'-V 
 
 toucliins- praver was (iftcri.-d liy the 
 latter, and re-marks (if an appropriate 
 character were made by Mayor Rufus 
 P.. Dodsje, Jr. Interested onlookers of 
 the incident were Generals A. B. R. 
 Si)rague and Robert Chamberlain, both 
 of tlu-m veteran members of the com- 
 jianw 
 
 The line moved aw-ay, led by a scpiad 
 of policemen, each one of wlK)m had 
 been a soldier in the Rebellion. Then 
 came llattcry P. P.and. and the grizzled 
 ranks of the Grand .\rmy of the Repub- 
 lic followed, for P'ost lo had been 
 assigned the honor of the right of the 
 line. Sons of \'eterans. and survivors 
 of the Old 6th Regiment of 1861, 
 marched next. There were carriages 
 containing infirm veterans of the G. A. 
 Iv. and of the several companies; then 
 came the Polytechnic boys, and finally 
 the chief part of the event, viz., the 
 dei^arting companies. A. H, and L , in 
 order, with l.ieut.-Col. Edwin R. 
 Shumwav and Alajcn- Harry P.. l-"air- 
 banks riding at their head. They had 
 been seen in march and drill many and 
 manv a time, but hnw nmiienuis were 
 the beholders who were willing to 
 affirm that they had never really seen 
 them before. Such is the difference 
 between the actual and the seeming. 
 
 So adown Main Street, with scarcely 
 moving sjiace, the gallant companies 
 marched, the band playing Auld Lang 
 Svne till, for very i)ity"s sake, the strain 
 was changed lo the more lively one of 
 Yankee Doodle. The southern limit 
 of the i)arade was Myrtle Street, just 
 bevond the Post OtSce, and thence 
 through it and by Southbridge the loop 
 was made back to Main Street and by 
 the City Hall, where the grand review 
 was had by the Mayor and many con- 
 spicuous citizens. In honor of the day 
 the no-school signals had been rung, 
 and Young America of both sexes was 
 
12 
 
 W(1RCr,STEK IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 ev(.-r\"\vlicrc in evi<l(.'ncc, ck'terminc-d 
 that nothint;- that could l)e ddiu- should 
 be lackiiijL,'' to make sei)araii(in nuMiio- 
 rahlc. 
 
 'flu- crowds thronged to the station 
 and up to the very car doors, where the 
 s:;;ood-l)\s were spoken, and the train 
 mo\-ed off for the familiar campiuL,^ 
 grounds of Sr)uth Framingham, The 
 trip was a short and nnexeiitful one. 
 and the transferral from the cars to the 
 ground was soon effected. Owing to 
 the deeds on the first of May the new 
 camp \-erv fittingly assumeil the name 
 of Camp Dewey. No time was lost, 
 and after a dinner provided 1)\- Caterer 
 Yeaw, the Cuards were the first to 
 ap])ear l)efore the surgeon for his 
 examination. The tests to which the 
 men were subjected jiroved to be 
 muisually severe, hence many failed to 
 reach the standard, and many a would- 
 be patriot was obligeil to fold his 
 blanket and depart for home. In L'om- 
 pany A no less than ele\en men were 
 rejected, though on a re-examination 
 three of these nu-n were taken liack. 
 The inability of _'d Lieut. V. 11. Lucke 
 to pass the ordeal, on account cif his 
 eyes, was particularK- regretted. 
 
 'I'hen came the first night in camp. 
 'Idle weather was cold, and rain a sorr\' 
 comforter. .\ot all the dreams of that 
 long night are recurded, but it is safe 
 to say th;il many of them pictured 
 scenes of pleasure and hap])iness on 
 which waking e}'es were not to rest for 
 many a long day. 
 
 'I"he rostt'r of the com])any as it left 
 Worcester was as fidlows: 
 
 Captain, Ivdwin (1. li.irrett. 
 First l.ifiit., iMoscs II. Tisdell. 
 Second Lieut., Frederick H. Liicke. 
 Sergeant, Herliert W. Woods, 
 
 Win. II. I'hunnier, 
 
 Walter II. .Mlison. 
 
 F.dvvaid K, Kie.ll, 
 
 Charles A. L..land. 
 
 Corporal, Elbridge B. Sawyer, 
 
 James T. Cruikshank, 
 
 Horace L. Ware. 
 
 Archie F. Murray, 
 
 John G. Hagberg, 
 Musician, Frederick C. Gagnon. 
 
 Privates. 
 George E. Allison. George Jones, 
 Hubert E. Austin, Robert A. Lohnes, 
 
 Herbert A. Ballon, Julius H. Lowell, 
 Chas. .\. Barton, Jos. T. Laflamnie, 
 
 Jos, .\. Bergeron. Chas, A. Lamberton, 
 
 Jacob Bieberhach, D.ivid D. McTaggart, 
 
 Jos. H. Boardnian, .Arthur C. McGee, 
 Walter Bnrkhardt. Wm. E. Moody. 
 
 Will. E. Cardin, Wm. H. Morse, 
 
 Samuel E. Clapp, Edward J. Power, 
 
 Jas. A. C(]Ie, Williatn W. Rice, 
 
 Benj. Cooper, Wm. E. Sherman, 
 
 Win. G. Cornwell, W. E. Schofield, 
 Thos. R. Dand, Win. G. Standish, 
 
 Frank L. Fairbanks, Quincy F. Thomas, 
 Chas. A. F'ischcr, Alex. G. Thomson, 
 
 Geo. L. Forest, Geo. M. Thomson, 
 
 Ernest B, Hall, Ingwald E. Torkelson, 
 
 Fred R. Hayes. Reinhard -V. Torkelson, 
 
 .\rthur L. Heyward. Win. A. Traver, 
 Wm. .A. Hinchley, Samuel .X. Wallace, 
 Leroy C. Hinckley, Peter N. White. 
 Horace K. Hobbs, 
 
 Re\'eille sounded promptly at 6 
 o'clock in the morning of the first day 
 in camp, and little else than the results 
 of the plnsical examinations occupied 
 the minds of the volunteers. The tests 
 were finished this day and resulted 
 in the rejection of three more men. 
 To serve on guard detail. L'lunpany .\ 
 furnished sixteen men. The rain of 
 the preceding da} had cleared away, 
 but the air was cold and raw. There 
 was no drill, and Captain T.arrett left 
 for Worcester to secure recruits for the 
 \acant places, since the full comple- 
 ment of seventv-seven men must be 
 h;id. 
 
 Tlie Captain returned on the 5th with 
 recruits wdio. with a single exception, 
 passed the examination, and in the 
 afterno. m a \dte was taken by the com- 
 panv to fill the vacancy made by the 
 rejection of Lieutenant f.ucke. Ser- 
 
CITY (H-ARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 13 
 
 City Guards. Company A. in Camp Dewey 
 
 .ycaiit \\ . II. I 'luiniiuT bail rcnsun to 
 he priiiid III liis staniliiiL; annmq;' liis 
 follows wlirii tlu- rK-ciii HI resulted in 
 lis iiiianiiHMiis clmici.-. 'I'Ik' lirst drill- 
 ing- in camp was done on this dav. 
 I he wcalhiT was nut idr.al fur camp 
 ill. since rains were freipienl and the 
 winds were decidedly .\rctic in their 
 li inper.ature. All were ]^k'a,sed at the 
 new l.ieutenanl's snccessfnl passincf of 
 the tests leadinfj tu his ci miniissinn, 
 while the re.alities of life ajipeareil in a 
 sudden attack of illness mi the part .if 
 line 111 the prix'ates. and he was sent 
 liiinie til W I ircester ; thnni^h rrivatc 
 Austin reciixei'ed he did nut c;i i with 
 llie ciinipauy. \\ ith w.anner air and a 
 dress parade on Saturila\ . the jth. a 
 dejjree of cheer hejjan tu per\-ade all 
 hearts. 
 
 Cam]5 Dewey's first and t^nly Sun- 
 day, so far as the Second Rei^inient 
 was ciincerned. was observed as an 
 .iitnal il.iyiif rest. Cha])lain J. C. W'ell- 
 w III 111 held a serx'ice in the mess hall, 
 
 U the greater part of the jjassing 
 
 • urs was L;i\en to consideration of 
 
 ihe |irohable disposition of the resji- 
 
 ment .Massachusetts beiuL;' on the 
 
 ocean, and a large part of her coast- 
 
 ihvellers suffering- from the severest 
 
 form of S]ianiardphobia, it was deemed 
 
 priihahle that all the forces of the Com- 
 
 nunweallh would he retained for her 
 
 wii defense, in which case the Second 
 
 •I mid dind)tless be happih- located in 
 
 >me one of the exposed cities; and 
 \ hat fancies the boys had of the possi- 
 'ilities of a sun-imer by the seaside! 
 
 iitle did they know of what was 
 heady written on tiie near-by pages 
 I the \iilume reserved bv h'ate. 
 
 .Monday, the 9th, ushered in a regu- 
 .11- round of drill parade and camp 
 duty. On this day the complete 
 (lescripti\-e list of every man was made 
 out, and the whole company signed the 
 
14 
 
 WORCESTER IX THE SPAXIS?! WAR. 
 
 \\'. A. Jkaver. 
 1'enj. Cooper. 
 SEKGr. John C. (kiwans. 
 
 llhNRY G. COLEV. 
 
 Wm. E. Moody. 
 Corp. Rai.ph L. .Vllison. 
 
 Wm. E. Sherman. 
 
 \\ m. c. cornwell. 
 
 Walter E. Schomeld. 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMTANY A. 
 
 15 
 
 United States A'oh'.iiteer muster-roll. 
 The siildiers diiln't know it, Init mat- 
 ters were coming to a head rajjidly. 
 
 Tuesday proved to be the greatest 
 day >'et in this new chajiter of (niards' 
 history. At 0.50 a.m., the eompauy 
 ceased to be a part of the State Militia 
 and was mustered into tlie volunteer 
 service of the United States by Lieu- 
 tenant E. M. ^\'eaver, detailed by the 
 ^^'ar Department f(jr this duty. An 
 earlier order had assembled the com- 
 pany in its street, whence it had 
 marched across the parade-ground to 
 the immediate vicinity of the flag-st^afif, 
 from whose tip was flying the Star- 
 spangled Banner. Under its folds, 
 with uncovered heads and with up- 
 raised right hands, each man repeated 
 the oath which bound him to two 
 vears of faithful service to the national 
 government, unless sooner discharged. 
 If there had been any lacking of appre- 
 ciation of the im])ortance of the step 
 which the men were taking, this act 
 revealed the full magnitude of the part 
 they were about to play. It was no 
 round of camp frolic upon which they 
 were to enter. In the afternoon. Cap- 
 tain Barrett read the Articles of War 
 to the comi)any, and upon Quartermas- 
 ter-Sergeant C. A. Poland were laid 
 also the duties of commissary. The 
 day closed in a memorable manner, for 
 at the head of each company street had 
 been placed ])iles of wood, which the 
 bovs proceeded to use for camp fires, 
 around which they gathered, and with 
 songs of home, love and war, passed 
 the hours awa}'. 
 
 With entrance upon the U. S. service 
 came a change from rations prepared 
 by a caterer to the more soldier-like 
 manner of having a company cook. 
 Accordingly three days' rations were 
 given out, and it was understood that 
 the next day would put them on their 
 
 own resources. .Mreadv. uuiUt instruc- 
 tions, the caterer had \ivvu narrowing 
 the range of tabU- dis])lay. 'i'able- 
 cloths and napkins disai>])eared and the 
 menu was shortening up gradually, 
 lliat. when the change came, the shock 
 might IK il be loo rude. 
 
 ( )u the nth, reveille nio\rd up a half 
 hour, disturbing soldierly dreams at 
 5.,^o. Caterer C. S. Yeaw served his 
 last breakfast, and then came the 
 weighty responsibility of selecting 
 men for the kitchen sfpiad. and the lots 
 fell u|)on rri\ates Mills, i.amberton. 
 Hays. Green, Standish and .Schofield. 
 The new cooks prepared their first 
 meal at noon and were ready to offer 
 their hungry comrades beefsteak, fried 
 bacon, baked potatoes, fried onions, 
 bread and coffee. The afternoon 
 brought from Worcester Mayor R. B. 
 Dodge, Jr., and the military committee 
 of the city government. Supper's bill 
 of fare dwindled to hash, with bread 
 and coffee, for the dinner lavishness 
 could not be expected at every meal. 
 It is fully time for taps when an order 
 is received tlirecting the regiment to be 
 ready to leave camp on the following 
 day. This news banished all thoughts 
 of sleep from the camp, and letter- 
 writing to friends at home is the order 
 of the night. .\ summer by the sea- 
 side gi\es I'lace to the knowledge that 
 
 ".\uay down Soutli in Di.xie" 
 is the regiment's immediate destina- 
 tion, and no one knew how much 
 further he might go. 
 
 Though reveille came an hour and a 
 half earlier than the day before, it 
 awakened very few. "Tired nature's 
 sweet restorer, balmy sleep," had not 
 shut many eyelids during the preced- 
 ing hours, and, for once in their soldier 
 lives, the resounding bugle disturbed 
 them very little. There was much to 
 do in packing up, eating breakfast and 
 
IG 
 
 WOKCESTKR I\ THE SPANISH WAR 
 
 
 Xy. •**' 
 
 ^ 
 
 .•*. -x^ 
 
 a 
 
 Cai=t. Edwin (i. IIakkett. 
 
 Se<(im) I.iiM-T. r. II. Lucre. First Lieut. M. H. Tisdeli.. 
 
 ("(l.M.MISSION'ED I )I'I'KI-:K.S. ( I T'i' CUARDS. iSq6. 
 
 makiiiij final arraii^cnu'iits for iL'part- 
 ure. .\t <S o'rldck llir U-iil.'- were 
 struck, and then fullciwed till noun an 
 opportunity to visit with fiiends, who 
 were present in larsje niniihers. The 
 
 hlend! At J ]i.ni.. in ohedienee to the 
 asseinl)l\' call, the rei^inient fell in and 
 was re\iewed 1>\ ills Iv\cellenc\' the 
 ( io\ernor. J\oi;rr W'olcott, always an 
 inipressi\e ti^ure. ne\-er looked better 
 
 telephone wire to Worcester was kept than when he ap|ieared on this occa- 
 
 hot by officers and men in their anxiet\' sioii. h'ollow in^; the re\iew. a ludlow 
 
 to say "good-b}-" to listeners more square was formeil. and in a most 
 
 than twenty miles awa\-. Strange that etTective maimer the ( iovernor gave 
 
 science and war should so kindly each officer his commission. That 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMI'ANV A. 
 
 17 
 
 little march truiii his statimi to the 
 Governor's liaml was the most im])or- 
 tant that many of these officers had 
 ever taken. Certainly the most that 
 was possible was made of the oijjior- 
 tunity. 
 
 Time flew swiftly, but it was nut till 
 3.40 p.m. that the line was formed for 
 the march to the station, and tlu last 
 sight of the "old camp-ground" was 
 coupled with the figure of Caterer 
 Yeaw, who \vas actually in tears over 
 the going away of his boys. Again 
 the Grand Armv of the Republic acts 
 as escort for the later generation of 
 soldiers, since it is Middlesex Post. No. 
 163, that takes the right and leads the 
 way. The whole township of Fra- 
 mingham could not furnish the many 
 thousands of ]>eople who crowd and 
 jostle that they may catch just a 
 glimpse of the departing volunteers. 
 These masses of beholders have come 
 from distant points, that they may 
 once more see their loved ones and 
 take the parting, possibly the final, 
 farewell. Lea\'e-taking of soldier 
 boys on their way to actual warfare 
 has ever been the saddest of partings, 
 and it is no mark of weakness if tears 
 dim the eyes of the man in uniform as 
 well as of those of the friends who 
 remain. The good peojile nf South 
 Framingham had erected, near the 
 station, so that the line would pass 
 under it, a beautiful arch nu which 
 were the appropriate words, "("n)d be 
 with you till we meet again," a sen- 
 timent to which even the most 
 thoughtless coidd not resist respnnd- 
 ing "Amen." 
 
 The station itself beholds a vast 
 array of humanity, military and civil, 
 but all intent on the departure of this 
 regiment of Massachusetts men and 
 boys. The soldiers themselves are 
 especially jubilant over the thought 
 
 that theirs is the very first regiment of 
 \'iihnitcers to be thus urclered away, 
 and many are noting the happy coinci- 
 dence with the great event of .April. 
 1861, when the Massachusetts Sixth 
 was the first equipi)ed organizatii m to 
 |ilace itself between the government 
 and its foes. Once more the bared 
 arm ;mil firnily-gras]ied sword, ever 
 visible upcjn the escutcheon of the i'>ay 
 State, were significant. Xaturally the 
 1)1 lys had hoped that their way soiuh- 
 wartl would be \ia W'urcester and 
 Springfield, so that the fnlks at home 
 might see them in their regimentals 
 and tliat more of the luxed ones might 
 sav "goiid-by:" but it had been ruled 
 otherwise, and the route si-lected was 
 that l)y the way oi \e\v]nirl ;ind the 
 Sound. 
 
 The last farewell is spoken, and at 
 7.45 ]».in.. amid cheers and waving 
 handkerchiefs, the long train moves 
 out and takes its way towards Rhode 
 Island. Those parting words and ten- 
 der emhr.-ices had ])roduced a (|uieting 
 effect, and many a loy.'d he;irt. beneath 
 his coat of blue, realized, as the man 
 had never done before, just how father 
 and mutlu-r felt when they se])aratcd 
 so long ago. Thus do we all get by 
 actual exjierience what nilu-rwise we 
 sliciuld nexer know. Then, tno, the 
 night hour had its effect, and the leave- 
 taking was sadder than it wotdd have 
 l)een at noon or in the early morning. 
 Sup])er, consisting of hardtack and 
 canned roast beef, was served en route. 
 All along the way every \illage was 
 astir to see the soldiers, and with wel- 
 coming shouts and red fire galore, the 
 people attested their admiration and 
 regard. Xot till 10.30 p.m. is Newport 
 reached, Inn even at this late hour the 
 people are tint to see the first regiment 
 arrayed to combat the Spaniard. It is 
 the magnificent steamer Plymouth of 
 
18 
 
 WORCKSTKR I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 the Fall Ri\cr Line that is to hear the 
 boys to New York, and if these same 
 soldiers could have had their choice 
 thev would nut have chosen otherwise, 
 for there was a sio;nificance in the 
 name that a])])ealed to e\-ery loyal 
 Massachusetts heart. 
 
 At II. 30- or just a half hour before 
 midnij;"ht. the staunch \es,sel moves 
 awav from the d(_K-k. and the men. 
 weary from the excitement and events 
 of the da\', early seek convenient places 
 in which to bestow their ettects and 
 their tire<l bodies. i\lriny of these 
 same soldiei's as cixilians had often 
 gone over this mute in former days. 
 finding repose in the finely furnished 
 stateroonis ; now they were glad to 
 take their rest upon the soft siile oi the 
 floor with scant covering, though some 
 lucky fellows had the privileges of 
 excellent staterooms after the officers 
 had all been placed. E\-idently the 
 boat was the reginient"s for the night. 
 Fair weather, though somewhat 
 windy, allowed the tri]) to be made in 
 good time and with no untoward inci- 
 dent. The morning of the 13th came 
 early, for the steamer is mo\ing along 
 one of the most fascinating routes in 
 America, and to a large ])roportion of 
 the men the scenes are entirely new. 
 Evidently, the mission of the Plymouth 
 was well understood, for every passing 
 tug and steamer gave three greeting 
 whistles, and the shores appeared black 
 with i)e(.)])le whose voices and handker- 
 chiefs ])roclaimed iheir interest. \\ bile 
 under the famous Jirooklyn bridge, so 
 intense was the sound, it verilv seemed 
 as though e\ery whistle valve in the 
 harbor were held wide oi)en. 
 
 The Plymouth reached her slip, or 
 Pier No. iS. on the Hudson Ri\'er side 
 of New York at 8.15 a.m. Two hours 
 are given to the unloading of baggage 
 upon the wharf and then tlie next 
 
 mii\e in the pla_\' is awaited. On the 
 arrival of the transport Saratoga the 
 men go aboard, and again pass around 
 the foot of New York Island and touch 
 at Pier 17, East River, where six com- 
 panies, imder Colonel Clark, land, leav- 
 ing' the remaining six under the com- 
 mand iif Lieutenant-colonel Slium- 
 wav, and the balance of the day is 
 given to taking on board supplies, as 
 directed by Captain Barrett. At 6 
 o'clock the Saratoga moves out and 
 drops anchor near r)edloe's Island, on 
 which stands the statue of Libert_y 
 Enlightening the ^^^)rld. The Seventy- 
 first New York was near by on board 
 the Citv of Washington and the Sene- 
 ca. The long wait here of forty-eight 
 hours is remendiered with anything 
 Init pleasure. Bunks arranged between 
 decks were not exactly luxurious and 
 the air was something to breathe light 
 if possible. Evidently, no more ]5repa- 
 r;itions had been made for the rece]!- 
 tion I if the men than would ha\e been 
 taken for a liiad of cattle. Those who 
 Could crowd out on the deck slept there 
 in the open air. Xo particular fault 
 was found w ith the food. It was while 
 Iving here that the men learned what a 
 boat steward cduld do for the comfort 
 of men if well paid. Men ])aid as high 
 as 15 cents for a glass of ice water, and 
 ])ie — well, it ranged from 50 cents 
 ujnvard. Familiar faces were not im- 
 known even on the transport, and 
 while at Pier 17. llarry Alerritt, a for- 
 mer member of the (iuards, came 
 aboard to see how his old comrades 
 looked wdien on their way to real war. 
 .\11 were glad t'l see him. 
 
 ( In Saturday the 14th, a change 
 came over the spirit of the sokliers' 
 dreams, for then the i)lan of going 
 south by water was abandoned, and, on 
 steaming to Jersey City, the men were 
 soon transferred to the trains in wait- 
 
CITY GUARDS, COIU-AXV A. 
 
 19 
 
 
 Captain Barrett and Caterer Veaw 
 
 —Camp Dewey. 
 
 Fall in for Rations— Lakeland. 
 
 Hospital Tent— Lakeland. 
 
 For the Stomach's Sake- 
 Lakeland. 
 Drawing Rations— Lakeland. 
 Lake Morton— Lakeland. 
 
20 WORCESTER IN THE SPAXISH WAK. 
 
 iny-, and the journev scjuth was l)egun. tranMiiitt(.-il from Rcliellioii sires to 
 Anchor had lie;n weighed at 2 p.m.; Spanish War sons. The rations on 
 the landing was effected at 4.30, and which the journey was progressing 
 the ho\s who had kept cpiick and were not up to the standard for hun- 
 observing eyes out for the Seventy- gry. \igorous }-(nmg men. They were 
 first New York rejoiced that Massachu- fair in (piality. Init the (piantity, ah! 
 setts still had the |ireference and the there was the rul). The autliorities had 
 right nf the line, fnr the Second landed forgotten what hungry Inisiness rail- 
 and rolled nut of the station first. roading is. \\'hat might have done for 
 There was tlie usual crowd of enthu- a seasick, ocean trip was not sutTicient 
 siastic people shouting their approval for the land excursion. However, the 
 of the proceedings, and at cj.30 p.m., in stop at the capital soon ended, and at 
 three sections, the regiment was off. 7.50 a.m. the trains pushed along 
 Colonel Clark, with Companies K, G, southward, over the same way taken 
 B and I), had the first secti<in: Major by the soldiers of 1861, viz., the Long 
 Whipple, having I., E, M and T, was ISridge, and the first stop was in .\lex- 
 with the second, while Major Fair- andria. Here, too. Southern people 
 banks took charge of .\. I'. V and H in are ready to give real live Yankees the 
 the third. Tliev were not sleeping- heartiest kind of a greeting. .\t 
 cars to which the men were assigned. Cherry Hill there was a wait of suffi- 
 and close, crami)ed seats, though each cient length for those who wish to take 
 man had one to himself, were not a bath in the nearby creek. The stop 
 exactlv the thing for comfort. Init all is to enable the second section of the 
 managed to get some sleep, enough .-^o regiment to come up. At Portico 
 that they had little idea of Philadelphia bouipiets are received in exchange for 
 and P.altiniore, through wdiich they hardtack, each one giving that of which 
 passed during the night. Massachu- he ha<l the most. If only some vet- 
 setts was in better favor with the eran of the Rebellion could have been 
 dwellers in that latter city than she along to describe the country through 
 was in 1861. which the train was passing! For 
 Washington dawns on the sight of every stopping-place is fraught with 
 the travelers at 5.20 a.m., and it dill not memories of the fierce struggle of 
 take long to disembark, for near at nearly fi>rty years ago. iM-edericks- 
 hand was a bakerv, wdiich. with pass- burg. Summit. .Milford, Clayton and 
 ing milk wagoUN. makes an exceeding- Stony Creek in Yirginia, with Wel- 
 Iv happv combination, l-'resh bread, don in North Carolina, are historic 
 pie. cake and milk aft'ordeil a breakfast names. In the latter city, supper was 
 good enough for anv one. Itisonrec- had. but the most enthusiastic recep- 
 ord that one milkman, muvilling to sell tiou was received in Selma in the old 
 anv of his stock, not onlv tried to drive .Xorth State, where refreshments were 
 off, but, in lashing hi> horse to get served and houipiets were given, many 
 awav. actuallv whii)i)ed some of the of which had scrajis of ])ai)er attached, 
 hungry blue-coaled bovs. Just how it hearing the words, "Remember the 
 happened no cjue has told. but. strange .Maine." I'ayetteville, .\. C. is noted 
 to sav, that milkman's can> apjieared in passing, and Florence. S. C, where 
 on the train after its departure. 1 'os- in the earlier days Cnion men suft'ered 
 sibly the science fif for.aging had been so liorribl)- in the detestable prison 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 21 
 
 located there. Old issues were forn^ot- 
 ten in the supreme thoug-ht of the sub- 
 ject on which Isnth Xnrlh and Snuth 
 were agreed. Xu thoughts of former 
 sufferings ]ire\'ented the heartiest of 
 greetings at CYcry sto]). 'idle I'otinnac 
 had marked the di\'iding line between 
 home and Soutliern weather. an<l from 
 that point downward the cars were hut 
 and filled with tlust. but cYen the latter 
 could not hide from Yigilant eyes the 
 beauties of the passing scenery. 
 Amid so much that was new few 
 remembered that the da\- was Sunday. 
 
 The morning of the 15th finds our 
 \\'orcester boys in SaYannah. da... 
 where hot coffee is serYed. Watches 
 had to be set back one hour, owing to 
 the difference in standard time. Still 
 progressing steadily southward, the 
 train passes through Marion. Dupont, 
 Forest and Ale.xander\-ille, in ("reorgia, 
 and Baker's Mills. Jasper, LiYoar. 
 High Spring, etc.. in I'dorida. till Lake- 
 land, the destination, is reached, at 11 
 p.m., and the remainder of the night is 
 passed upon the cars. The following 
 day rcYcaled scenes peculiar to the 
 Land of Flowers. The soil looks like 
 white sand. Long, gray moss hangs 
 in great masses from the trees, while 
 the forests seem to be comi)osed of 
 scrubby pines. To many of the sol- 
 diers the prospect was as strange and 
 weird as it was. hundreds of years 
 before, to I'once de Leon, when he 
 here sought the foimtain of youth. 
 Lakeland, located in Polk Count}-, in 
 the western side of blorida and at the 
 junction of two railroads, well deserYCs 
 its name, for a large part of the coun- 
 try, apparently, is under water. 
 
 Though the earliest Yolunteers to 
 arrive, the regulars were ahead of the 
 Second, and the men of the Tenth Cav- 
 alry, with their horses, were much in 
 evidence. Men of all shades of com- 
 
 plexion crowded the streets of the 
 small though bustling village. Soldier 
 and citizen jostled each other in their 
 respective occupations, h was not till 
 9 a.m. that the men left their trains 
 and marched a short distance front the 
 town, and on the shores of Lake Mor- 
 ton pitched their tents. The trees, 
 UKAss-laden, were tall, and thick 
 enough to keep oirt thtisun bytlay and 
 the dew at night. Recognition of the 
 changed climate was had in the substi- 
 tution of l)rown canvas uniforms for 
 the regulation blue. Scarcely lia<l 
 camp been arranged than the boys 
 sampled the clear waters of the lake in 
 the wa\- of much ajjpreciated l)aths. 
 The\ had not as yet thought of alli- 
 gators, but when, one day, a big ten- 
 footer showed his itgU- jaws, swim- 
 ming across the lake, till tliL-n a favor- 
 ite pastime, became decidedly unpoj)- 
 ular. Colonel Embury Clark recalls 
 the home .State in giving to the newly- 
 tented field the name. "Lamp .Massa- 
 chusetts." 
 
 Till May 30th this was the regimen- 
 tal home. flard work was not put 
 upon the bo\s too (|uicklv. There was 
 a bit of dela_\ , that the new-comers 
 might become acclimateil and used to 
 their surroundings: but regular camp 
 hours and regulations were estab- 
 lishi-d. At first inan_\- letters were 
 written Iiome and much talking was 
 done as to the future of the regiment. 
 There was some drilling on the first 
 da\ in camp, and Captain T.arrett was 
 the \ erv first officer of the day. May 
 i(;th ])rought the latest news from 
 home in the shape of the "Worcester 
 Telegram. ' and the boys cheered 
 tuniultuously at the sight of the 
 "(irain." "Worcester's Only," whose 
 pages had never looked half so attrac- 
 tive l)efore. Later, resolutions of 
 thanks were adopted for the daily gift 
 
WORCKSTKR TX THE SIWXISII WAR. 
 
 I--. I. Chris TKN j.nN 
 \Vm. II. Morse. 
 Fked'k I\. Hays. 
 
 Is. A. TOKKKLSON. 
 
 Wm. T. Turner. 
 Ernest B. Hall. 
 
 (). W. Davis. 
 
 W. K. Johnson. 
 
 .\KrHUR Ci. Mills. 
 
 K X L 1 .^TE: ) M EX. C( I M I' A X N' 
 
Cnv CUARDS, CnMl'A.W 
 
 23 
 
 of fifty ciipics. Camp is a fa\'orilc 
 place fnr the tnwnspenple to visit, 
 and they never tire of making' compar- 
 isons between the Seventy-first New 
 York and the Second, and sumelinw 
 the Empire State ajipears to sufi'er l)y 
 the contrast. Gradually, the men set- 
 tle down to a routine of drill and 
 stuclv and such variations as fatigue 
 and other duty may afford. The cook- 
 ing department is in the hands of I'ri- 
 \-ates Mills and Lamberton. The for- 
 mer had been a prospector in Montana 
 and is no no\ice in his responsible 
 position. All are lou<l in their praises 
 of the bread, biscuits, roast beef, 
 mashed potatoes and cofifee which they 
 receive at stated intervals. Luxuries, 
 however, come high, and lo cents is 
 the regular price for a cube of ice four 
 inches scpiare, though eggs may be had 
 at from 9 to 40 cents a dozen, the cost 
 evidently ranging along the line of age 
 in inverse ratio. 
 
 The scarcity of fruit is a matter of 
 considerable remark, and it was popu- 
 larly thought that all that could be 
 sold North had been sent there. But 
 if there was no fruit, the same could 
 not be said of l:)Ugs and insects. They 
 abounded in all shapes and sizes. 
 Laundry operations were had in the 
 river hard by. That the I'.ay State 
 might maintain its long-deserved rep- 
 utation for well-informed soldiers, 
 there was early established a school of 
 the companv and also one of the sol- 
 dier. 
 
 The first death in the regiment was 
 that of T'rivate Wesley S. Brass of 
 Company 1, on the 21st. Naturally, 
 the sad event macle a deep impression 
 on the men, who recognized thus how 
 near they were to the grim destroyer. 
 On the next day, funeral services were 
 held by Chaplain Wellwood at 9.30, 
 and, with a detail from each company, 
 
 the remains were escorted to the sta- 
 tion, where they were placed in care 
 of the express com|)any for shi])- 
 mcnt lo W'estfield, the late home of the 
 deceased. After taps sounded by 
 Chief -Musician Ricliardson, tlu' men 
 marched sadly back to their camp. 
 W ilh willing hearts the boys chijjped 
 in to hel|) pay the expenses home of 
 tile body of their comrade. 
 
 I'he following is the first promul- 
 gated order for the (lav's observance: 
 
 Reveille, 
 -March, 
 .\sseinbly, 
 Breakfast. 
 
 .\. M. v. .\i. 
 
 4..>5 Dinner, - - i-j.oo 
 
 4.55 Guard mount, 
 
 5.00 1st call, - - 5.40 
 
 5.15 -Assembly. - - 5.45 
 
 Surgeon's call. 6.00 Retreat, ist call. 6.00 
 
 1st Sergeant's Assembly 
 
 call. - - 6.45 roll call, - - 6.05 
 
 Drill. 1st call (Sat- Supper, - - 6.15 
 
 urday and Sun- Tattoo, - - 8.30 
 
 day excepted 1 , 7.00 Taps, - - 9. 00 
 
 -\ssenibly, - - 7.05 
 
 Recall. - - 9.30 
 
 'ihe first dress-parade came May 
 2C)th, and won deserved ]iraise. It 
 was liad in the street adjacent to the 
 camp and was followed bv a short 
 street parade. In the evening the 
 l)and of the Tenth C. S. Cavalry (col- 
 ored) gave a very enjoyable concert. 
 ( )n the 29th came remembrances from 
 honie in the shape of a box of food for 
 -\. Ci. Thomson and C. .\. l'"ischer, also 
 the annmmcement that camp would be 
 broken the next day. Thus it was at 
 3.30 in the morning of the Xorthern 
 Memorial day that tents were struck 
 and ])reparations for departure claimed 
 e\ery hand. The next camiiing jilace 
 for the Second is in Ybor City, a sub- 
 urb of Tam])a. and the train is left at 
 4 p.m. Then comes a march of about 
 one mile through the sand, a fatiguing 
 and disagreeable trip. The sand was 
 realh- ankle deep, ami the water, 
 brought through pipes laid on the top 
 of the ground, though not at the boil- 
 
24 WfiRCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 ing pitch, somelimes seemed to be not full of moisture. However, it takes a 
 far from it. No dinner was served, deal to completely phase a Yankee sol- 
 and supper did not come till 7.13. The dier. and these boys of Company A 
 new camj) is pitched on the edt;e of a were not without resources, for they 
 wood, and on either side are re.i;"iuients ])roceeded to use certain wood which 
 of regulars, lune ist ga\e the Ijdvs thev founcl, in building a roaring fire, 
 a taste of a Florida rainsti>rm, which aroiunl which they disported theni- 
 flooded the streets and tents. Xo sehes. keeping, at least that side near- 
 retreat was sounded. It was not nee- est the tire, tolerably warm, and 
 essarv. June 4th was noteworthy, as through it all the men kept their tem- 
 on that dav Uncle Sam ]iaid a month's per. They were growing jdiilosophi- 
 wages to his Massachusetts boys — cal. 
 
 $15.60 ])er man — and they were happy. The sun of the 7th of June was 
 Orlo W. Davis is detailed for service shining upon the broken camp. There 
 in the U. S. Ambulance Corps. The was no reveille, for the men were 
 next dav Ybor I'itv was placed under already up. llreakfast's bill of fare 
 martial law on account of a riot the was short, only hardtack and coffee, 
 night before. Man}- of the comi)an\- and nothing was so much desired as 
 obtained ])asses and went to Tampa the coniniand. "Forward." Every- 
 to make ])urchases. or to send their thing has an end. and there came at 
 monev home. Though the day was last an end to tedious waiting, and at 
 Sundav. evervthing was running wide 4.30 i).m. the long-expected came. At 
 open. 5 o'clock ranks are formed and the 
 After a da\- of drill antl regular regiment marches away from Ybor 
 rounfl of duty, at G p.m. came the City to the train, which transports our 
 orders to break camp and be re.ady to 1), ,ys to Tampa, reaching the latter 
 leave at (j o'clock. The order was place at 10 p.m. The boat for the 
 ipnckK' obeved. and in an hour all rece])tion of the soliliers was not in 
 were jirepared to march. Knapsacks readiness, hence another imcomforta- 
 were discarded and the necessary blc night followed, happily the last on 
 under-clothing, with blankets. rul)ber bdorida soil. Slee|) was had as best it 
 blankets ;ind shelter tents, a so-called could be found, on docks and in ware- 
 horse coll;ir was formed which w;is houses, in some cases the men accom- 
 readiU- slung over the shoidder. modating themselves not onl_\- to bales 
 -\ninnniition boxes were opened and of merchandise, but to the ])resence of 
 solid food for the enemy in the sha|ie army mules as well. While military 
 of fort\-li\e rounds per man was life la\s stress on many hue class dis- 
 issued. I bit there is many a slip tinctions. it effectually erases others, 
 'twixt eup and lip. for (j o'clock came, .Still as these x'ciung men had not left 
 and there was no sign of ileiiartnre. comfortable homes with the expecta- 
 1 lour after hour passed, till fmally the tious of luxuries, they were by no 
 nij;ht li;illiugly went b\- ami yet the means cast down. 
 
 men waited. The\ had packed u|i ;ill There was no necessity of telling the 
 
 their a]ipliances for comfort. They bows when the morning of the Sth of 
 
 dared not unpack lest foi-\v,ird com- June arrived, for their slumbers had 
 
 mauds should tind them unprepared. not been of that luxurious character 
 
 The night was \er\- cold ,-ind the air that thev were disposed to repose in 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANV A. 
 
 25 
 
 WORCESTER GAZETTE 
 
 First Lieutenant Tisdell. 
 
 C'aftain Barrett. Second Lieutenant I'h-m m eh. 
 
 Vl;i)K CITY. FL()KII).\. 
 
 the arms of ^lorpheus one mimite 
 long-er than darkness lasted, hence 
 they were up with the sun. and in many 
 cases some time before. Tamjia Bay. 
 always beautiful, never looked more 
 lovelv than under the rays of this 
 morning's sun. Added to the beauties 
 of nature, were the works of man in 
 the shape of many transports and war- 
 ships at rest or in motion, but all there 
 for the purpose of furthering the cause 
 which has brought these Massachu- 
 setts boys anil thousands of others 
 from their far-away homes. There is 
 the accustomed round of early duties, 
 and the full complement of "falling in" 
 antl "right dressing," marching hither 
 and thither, till there finally comes the 
 welcome order for the 3d Battalion 
 to go on board the Concho. Xi'. 14- at 
 2 o'clock p.m. The boat luust have 
 been rated as an omnibus, always ca- 
 pable of receiving more, for already on 
 board were the 4th U. S. Infantry and 
 the 25th (colored) Infantry. "First 
 come, first served," was the rule here 
 
 as elsewhere, and for the latest comers 
 there remained only the hold, which 
 was below the water-line, and it was 
 oh! so hot! For once in their lives, 
 the soldiers realized what the lUack 
 Hole of Calcutta meant. Fresh air was 
 scarce, and what little there was soon 
 fouled. The old law of self-preserva- 
 tion prevailed here, and it was a com- 
 mon thing lo find some gasi)ing i)rivate 
 with his body thrust into the opening 
 of the great canvas tube down which 
 the wiiiil sails were sup])osed to fur- 
 nish needed air. The ini])ression one 
 had at the sight was that of a human 
 being entering the jaws of some giant 
 constrictor. Of course, he couldn't 
 stay there long, for some other equal- 
 Iv suffering man would yank him back, 
 that he might get his place. Till that 
 dav, many had had no adeciuate no- 
 tions of Dante's Inferno. nor of the heat 
 of Sheol. as rendered in the modern 
 version. The bunks, extending from 
 the floor to the ceiling, were three and 
 five deep, according to location, and 
 
26 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SrAXISH WAR. 
 
 the alleys, between tiers, were so nar- 
 row that two men could pass each 
 other imly liy crowding. General 
 Shafter with his immense figure would 
 have still h1 nn chance there. 
 
 But before the full force of this heat- 
 ed hole was realized, there was much 
 to do in the way of loading the trans- 
 port with pro\isions for the trip. Also 
 there had to he put on hoard all the 
 outfit for Cid)an camjjs. It was a long 
 and tiresome task, for some of the cars 
 were cpiite a quarter of a mile away. 
 .\s usual, when there was work of this 
 kind to 1)e done. Captain I'.arrett \vas 
 in charge, and before the same was 
 o\'er his ^'ankee ingenuit\- and nerve 
 stood hiiu and his men well in hand, 
 for, uioiniting a locomotive that ap- 
 peared to be leading an aimless exist- 
 ence, he directed the engineer to move 
 u|) and <Iraw the cars down to the 
 wharf. The driver at first demurred, 
 saying he would just like to know who 
 was running things there ;in\ wav, for 
 first he was ordered to d.i one thing 
 and then another, till he was all mixed 
 up, liut our L'aptain, in his con\incing 
 way, made him believe that the change 
 of jjosition was tlie prii]ier thing, 
 and the cars were lin.ught wdiere the 
 trips became much shorter, ;iud Xevv 
 England's lalior-saving abilit\- was ex- 
 emplified. W here all work with a will, 
 much can be done, and the matter was 
 all finally loaded and perspiration and 
 backaches were s])ee<Iily forgotten. 
 
 With men and rations on board, the 
 Concho steams out into the harbor, and 
 as she mo\es aw;iy there are long and 
 liearty rounds <if a])])lause imm the 
 shore and from tlie other trans])orts, 
 loaded or Awiiling. 'Idle brass bands 
 on the vessels ]il,'iy popular airs, and 
 war does not seem to be such ,i 
 terrible affair after .all. Well out in 
 the bay at anchor, the transport waits 
 
 while darkness settles down on the 
 < iuard's first night upon the waters. 
 Had as the ([uarters were, the\- were 
 enjoyed at first, so wearied \vere the 
 men from their marchings, lack of 
 sleep, and the labors incident to the 
 loading of the craft. Sleep clo.sed every 
 eyelirl till I o'clock in the morning of 
 the oth. when there came a report that 
 a S])anish fleet was at the entrance of 
 the baw The -Armada of old could not 
 have thrown the dwellers of southern 
 iMigland into greater consternation 
 than did this baseless rumor the slecp- 
 
 CoNCHo Comfort. 
 
 ers in the dingy depths of the C<mcho. 
 ]'>y the disp.atch boat Fearless came 
 an order directing the vessel back to 
 the dock. Hack she went, anil tliat 
 she might enter the slip without 
 wrenching off the coverings to the 
 port-holes, they were all carefully 
 closed. The eft'ect upon the interior 
 may be imagined. What had been 
 dreadful, now became unendural)le. 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMl'AXV A. 
 
 27 
 
 WORCESTER GAZETTE 
 
 IIDSriTAL TENT. LAKELAND. 
 
 All ettorts to reach the deck were pre- 
 vented by a stalwart colored .sentinel, 
 who. with his bayonet, had orders to 
 keep all below. So intense and stitiino^ 
 was the heat that men lost their 
 senses and were driven into delirium 
 or unconsciousness. Ai^ain. Yankee 
 wit helps out. for by connivance be- 
 tween surgeon and officers, it takes ten 
 or twelve men to help each man. over- 
 come by the heat, to the deck f(Tr re- 
 covery. By judicious manag'cment. 
 the suft'erers are all allow-ed again to 
 breathe the free air of hea\en. ( )n 
 further inspection, the surgeon de- 
 clared the lower quarters unfit for oc- 
 cupancy, and the men were permitted 
 to bestow themselves on the upper 
 deck, above the space allotted to the 
 officers. The loss of bunks was not 
 thought of in the luxury of air — just 
 air, that is usuallv considered the most 
 common and the cheapest of all neces- 
 sities. All day the boat lay at the 
 dock, and at nightfall came a batch of 
 U. S. mail, ever welcome. The day's 
 routine as ordered was as follows: 
 
 .\.M. 
 
 P.M. 
 
 Reveille, ist call. 5.45 
 
 Guard mount, ist 
 
 Roll call. 6.00 
 
 call. ,V45 
 
 Breakfast. 6.15 
 
 .•\ssenibly. 4.00 
 
 Surgeon's call. 7.00 
 
 Retreat. 1st call. 6.00 
 
 First Serg't's call. 8. 00 
 
 Roll call, 6.05 
 
 Co. inspection. 11.00 
 
 Supper. 6.15 
 
 Dinner. 12.00 M 
 
 Tattoo, 8.00 
 
 
 Talis. 9.00 
 
 One of the features of the inspection 
 was the novel one of considering the 
 feet of the men. Some of the t)Id "sore- 
 toes" of the Civil War would have 
 looked upcni this as the rankest tyr- 
 anny, but be that as it may the Massa- 
 chusetts 2(1 started away with the John 
 \\'esley maxim, that cleanliness is next 
 to Godliness, firmly fixed in mind and 
 l)ractice. Ilarefooted. the men were 
 ranged in line, and literally, from head 
 1(1 foot, they were inspected. What 
 would have happened to the inifortu- 
 nate whose patterers could not pass 
 muster is unknow-n. for no underpin- 
 ning were found so untidy as to neces- 
 sitate an (irder to "go soak your feet," 
 though a fre(|uent quiz among the boys 
 was. "Are vour feet clean?" 
 
2S 
 
 \\"i iKCF.STF.R IX Till". SI'AXISII W A k 
 
 WOfiCeSTER 
 
 I.EA\'IX(.; LAKEI.AXD. 
 
 I'hc rations consist of liardtack, 
 canned halted J^eans, "]ii"imc roast 
 beef," and coffee. The lieans were 
 good, and their onl\- faihtiij- was their 
 scantiness : the roast beef was "jjrinie" 
 only I)y name, like the "hot mince ]>ie" 
 of the western restaurant, which was 
 neither hot nor mince. It will be re- 
 membered that, to the indignant guest 
 who. with .-ippetizing memories of his 
 early days, ha<l ordered it, and finding 
 himself confronted with a nondescript 
 bit of tilled pie crust hail |)rotested, the 
 burly waiter said, "\'ou neiMln't get so 
 cocky, that's just its nauu'." Water 
 f'jr drinking anil culinar\ purposes is 
 distilled sea-\\;iter, and ;i little of it 
 goes a long way. t'old. it eouhl be 
 used, but warm, it was |)ositi\el\- nau- 
 seating. In the "canteen," on ship- 
 board, there are two oi- tlirei- hundred 
 bottles of l.'iger, kept upon ice, and 
 though lhe\ are helil at J3 rents each, 
 it does not t;ike ;i ])oat-lo;id of se\er:d 
 hundred nu-n :i great while to miload 
 the entire supply, and when the alter- 
 native of n;insealing hot se;i-\\ater is 
 considered, the most |irouounced tot.il 
 
 abstainer could hardly blame these 
 young men if the_\' imbibed an\-thing of 
 a cooling nature. The recorded trilni- 
 lations of Di\-es differed only in degree 
 from those of these heat-famished 
 boys, and they bought not onlv lager, 
 but were willing to |iay the demanded 
 ])rice of fnnn ten cents to twentv-tive 
 cents for a drink of ice-water. Though 
 long anxious to reach the ship's deck, 
 the boy> were not thiding life on "the 
 briny" an_\- t(j( 1 halcyi m. 
 
 June TO was noteworth}' in that at 
 5.43 p.m. came an order to move away 
 from the wharf, all danger from Span- 
 ish fleets haxing \'anishe(l. .\lso it is on 
 record that the cook midertook the dif- 
 ficult feat of making coffee with salt 
 water. The strength of the berry was 
 not sufficient to o\ ercome the saltness 
 ot the sea, and hence tlie men went 
 coffeeless, a hardship difficnlt for the 
 a\erage layman to appreciate. The iith 
 brings a Ijright morning, and the glori- 
 ous ap])earance of thirty trans])orts, 
 cruisi'rs, gunboats, and ('ther craft at 
 rest I ir mo\ing about the ba\'. It gives 
 the men a buo\ant feeling" to realize 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 29 
 
 that thev arc a ]iart of such a vast 
 arrav which will sunn launch itself 
 against the naticin's foe. In the fore- 
 noon comes the brigade commander, 
 and a thorough inspection of the quar- 
 ters assigned to the 3d Battalion, ami 
 said aggregation is not very unhappy 
 at the announcement that the (piarters 
 are not fit ior their use. and that they 
 are to go on board another vessel. At 
 10.25 the Concho moves further up the 
 bay and drops anchors. 
 
 June 1 2th, in the morning, comes the 
 welcome order to pack up, and the men 
 had long been ready when the Knicker- 
 bocker, at 12 m., rangeil alongside the 
 Concho. The new boat could not otTer 
 anv worse accommodations, for an}' 
 kind of a change was an improvement, 
 and the name was decidedl}' reminding 
 of \\'ashington lr\ing and his immor- 
 tal story of early New York. At 3 p.m. 
 the work of transferral of baggage from 
 the old to the new quarters begins, and 
 takes the entire afternoon. ISeing first 
 on board, the boys of the 3d Battalion 
 had their pick of location, and they 
 chose the bow of the boat, a choice 
 that they maintained, though, later, ef- 
 forts were made to dispossess them. 
 The old adage of possession and the 
 nine paints of law fully applied. Even- 
 in.g brought a characteristic Florida 
 shower, in which the rain came in tor- 
 rents. The drinking-water proxidcd is 
 direct from the Mississippi river, and 
 though somewhat muddy it is a great 
 improvement on the Concho's distilled 
 sea-water. Changed and improved 
 (piarters produce a marked elevation in 
 the spirits of the men. The next da_\', 
 or the 13th, the Knickerbocker dropped 
 down the bay and cast anchor near the 
 Orizaba for the purpose of taking on 
 board the ist Battalion of the Second. 
 Following the transferral of our com- 
 patriots, the vessel steamed up to the 
 
 wharf, and proceeded to take on board 
 neces>ar\- sujiplies tor the ])rcijecled 
 tri]). 'l"he task took the entire night, 
 and. on account of tlie noise, no one got 
 .1 wink of sleep. The supplies consisted 
 of hardtack, potatoes, coffee, bacon, 
 beans, tobacco, etc., and it was a note- 
 worthy fact that the most perishable of 
 all these articles were placed furthest 
 awa_\- or in the most inaccessible ])laccs. 
 Ai)parently the stevedore-in-chief had 
 little comprehension of the needs of the 
 larder. W bile the lading was in i)rog- 
 ress, a steam-i)ipe leading from the 
 boiler to the derrick burst, .and ;i great 
 excitement followed. Added to the 
 noise of the explosion was tlie lilinding 
 steam, and a stampede was onl\' nar- 
 rowdy averted. As it was, one of the 
 gangways was broken, and several men 
 were tund)le(l into the water. The 
 worst result of the entire atifair was the 
 loss by Lieutenant Fish, Company H, 
 of his ej'eglasses. 
 
 Eight o'clock in the morning of the 
 14th came the orders to mcjve at once, 
 but the moving out into the ba\- at 8.30 
 and the dropping of the anchor at 12 ni. 
 is as near as we came to compliance. 
 A military "at once" is a queer thing. 
 Four o'clock comes, and with it an 
 order, borne by the dispatch boat Hor- 
 net, to take our place in the line of 
 vessels. Over waveless waters the 
 Knickerbocker steams to her position, 
 and the long line of black-hulled crafts 
 moves slowly out through the winding 
 channel, bearing what was to do their 
 part towards ending four centuries of 
 Spanish misrule in America. There 
 are thousands of people upon the 
 wharves, and every one is cheering. 
 From the decks come responsive shouts, 
 while each one of the twenty boats is 
 doing its best to keep up the glorious 
 harmonw The rigging is black with 
 soldiers, who have clambered there for 
 
30 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 
 A. T. Si.UIRES. 
 
 I'. C. Cacnon. 
 W M. W . Kick. 
 
 R. C. Creen. 
 
 Corp. J. (!. Uagberg. 
 
 F. L. Fairbanks. 
 
 r>. E. W'h eeler. 
 
 S. .\. W AI.LACE. 
 W . T. liRLSO. 
 
 ENLISTED ME.X. t(iMr.\.\V .\. 
 
CITV GUARDS, CO.MI'A.W A. 
 
 31 
 
 a farewell look at native land. Soon 
 the outer waters of the Gulf are 
 reached, and the ships are formed in 
 three columns, 400 feet apart, with the 
 flag'ship, Annapolis, at the head, flanked 
 liy the Castine an<l the Helena. .\ fleet 
 of torpedo boats jiatrols the outer 
 waters and acts as dispatch boats be- 
 tween the transports and the na\"y 
 proper. Reaching- the waters of the 
 gulf was the signal for many cases of 
 seasickness, for the surface was rough, 
 and few of these lads were possessed 
 of sea-legs. Though the sight of the 
 long lines of steadily-moving steamers 
 was one to be remembered, the arrange- 
 ment was not unfraught with danger, 
 as was evident when the one ahead of 
 the Knickerbocker suddenly stojiped, 
 thereby narrowly escaping a collision 
 with the Irving named. \\'ith the ex- 
 ception of those who were paying in- 
 voluntary tribute to Old Neptune, the 
 men are happy and serene, man}' of 
 them sending final letters home by the 
 pilot on his departure. \\'hile the day 
 has been fair, it is followed by rain at 
 night. Early in the morning of the 
 15th, a craft crossed the bow of the 
 Knickerbocker, just escaping a crash, 
 and the bovs begin to think her num- 
 ber, 13, a hoodoo. Naturally, excite- 
 ment followed, and many a dream of 
 home and mother was ruined by that 
 "close shave." At 6 a.m. a distant 
 light is pointed out as that of the Dry 
 Tortugas. and any old soldier of the 
 Rebellion could have enlightened the 
 lads about him with stories of how the 
 desolate islands were used during the 
 strife of i86i-'65. The day is clear 
 and warm, and more men are con- 
 vinced, through troubles of their own, 
 of their possessions in the way of 
 stomachs. The i6th brings rougher 
 weather, and consequently a larger 
 throng by the rail gazing down into 
 
 the sea. This day came the orders that 
 each man of Company A must sleej) 
 in hi^ bunk, seemingly a harsh and un- 
 necessary command, for the deck was 
 so much cooler and more pleasant. 
 Perhaps in later nionths. the relief 
 from severe malaria that these men 
 enjoyed, as compared with others, 
 may have reconciled them to the seem- 
 ing hardship. To unacclimated peo- 
 ple, southern night air is unhealthful, 
 whether on land or sea. l'"ood. such 
 as it was, came at regular intervals, 
 but the men as a rule were not craving 
 their rations. The so-called "roast 
 beef" was a study in itself. ( )n the 
 top of the newly-opened can was a 
 layer of something like jelly ; when this 
 was cleared away there was displayed 
 a watery mass in which apparentlv 
 floated bits of l)eef, stringv and 
 flabby. The sight was not alluring 
 then, and the memory is nauseat- 
 ing now. Even beans, without vine- 
 gar or other relisli. had lost their 
 charms. 
 
 June I7tli. in Massachusetts recog- 
 nized as Hunker HilTs day. was not 
 celebrated as such on the Knicker- 
 bocker. .\t g.30 land is sighted, and at 
 T2.30 is seen what is said to be Point 
 Mulas light on Cuban soil. ^T■r_\• like- 
 ly the e\ent had no connection with the 
 da}-, but in this forenoon, at 9.30, the 
 bugle blew an alarm, and everv man 
 came tumbling up from his middeck re- 
 gions armed with his full equipment. 
 and it was to the credit of the regiment 
 that the line was completely formed in 
 five minutes and twent}- seconds. Hiuv 
 surprised each man looked as lie i:)ro- 
 jected himself through the hatchwav 
 and sought his place in line. Every 
 face seemed to be asking. "Well, what's 
 up now? Have we at last sighted 
 Cervera, and is it a boarding squad that 
 we are to forn-i ?" To add seriousness 
 
32 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAB. 
 
 to thf scene, a cannnn shot is heard in 
 the front, and even those who had 
 ordered the formation had reason to 
 think, for a few moments, that possibly 
 thevhadhuihled better than they knew. 
 The shot, however, proved to be one 
 fired at a strange craft, which, on being 
 overhauled, was allowed to go on its 
 wav unharmed. 
 
 It was (in this day that the otftcers' 
 mess lost their dinner, or at least a part 
 of it, through the theft of certain hun- 
 gry enlisted men. Though the roasts of 
 beef afforded by the cmk were not of 
 strictlv first-class order, having been 
 kept entirelv too long, still it was eat 
 this or nothing. So while at noon day 
 they were awaiting the entry of the 
 roast, the cook came in, exclaiming m 
 a desperate way, "Aly T.— . the men 
 have stolen the meat." It appears that 
 the surroundings had been carefully 
 examined, and the plans were well laid, 
 for at the auspicious moment, they had 
 with a boat-hook deftly lifted the roast 
 to iheir deck, and had speedily made it 
 play the grand disappearance act. 
 Certain pleased and satisfied counte- 
 nances in the later hnurs indicated 
 where the meat had gone, but suspi- 
 cions would not convict. Hence the 
 marauders went scathless. 
 
 At I n'cldck p.m., land is again 
 seen, and in the early evening a range 
 of mciuntains appears to arise fn>m the 
 sea. However anxious the men were 
 to get away fnim Florida, now they 
 were ei|ually desirous of stepping on 
 drv land again. The rear of the three 
 colunms is brought up by several trans- 
 ports towing lighters, and, sometimes, 
 the latter liecome unruly .-uid are man- 
 aged with (lifliculty. .\t >uch times 
 the wdiole fleet has to jiause long 
 intervals, frequently hours, while the 
 trouble is righted. The iSth is Satur- 
 day, and so far as outside matters are 
 
 concerned is cpiite uiie\entful. The of- 
 ficers do not find their (|uarters so good 
 as those afiforded them on the Concho, 
 being close and stuffy. The Knicker- 
 bocker is an old, condemned Mississip- 
 pi steamer, impressed into her present 
 vocation, but the knowledge that the 
 men are so much l)etter oft' is some 
 compensation for their own inconven- 
 ience. To the end that cleanliness might 
 be maintained, the officers had arranged 
 a kind of bath, wdiere with a line of 
 hose and something like an old-fash- 
 ioned garden engine, the men gave each 
 other shower baths each day. The of- 
 ficers had the same from 7 to 8 a.m., 
 while the men had washed each other 
 down from 5 to 7 in the morning. Some, 
 imkiiowing to the dift'erence between 
 ordinary soap and that adapted to sea- 
 water, at first resumed their uniforms 
 with their bodies thoroughly larded 
 with soap, and with no great opinion 
 oi salt-water bathing any way. It was 
 on this day that all were afforded the 
 rare sight of a water-spout in motion. 
 Luckily the experience was confined to 
 sight only. Sunday brings continued 
 visions of land in the distance, but no 
 prospect of setting foot upon it. There 
 is no religious service, and the entire 
 day is given to si)eculati()n and conjec- 
 tures concerning the passing landscajie. 
 Each vessel carries a signal officer, 
 hence c(_imnumication between the dif- 
 ferent members of the fleet is possible, 
 if not too far apart. In these later 
 davs of wireless telegraphy, the signal 
 ser\-ice bids fair to become a lost art. 
 
 Monday, the 20th, brought the fleet 
 to the entrance to Santiago harbor, 
 seven or eight miles away. It is early 
 in the morning that the goal is reached, 
 and to energetic young .\merica there 
 seems to be no reason why they should 
 not go ashore. Alas for their expecta- 
 tions, there were long hours yet to be 
 
CITY Gl'AKDS. COMl'ANV A. 
 
 33 
 
 spent aboard tlu-ir rinatinti prisnns. ll 
 was a long and hot day that the ves- 
 sels passed under that tropical srn. At 
 5.45 p.m. orders were received ])y the 
 government tug Osceola to steam out 
 into the Atlantic a distance of ten 
 miles or so. that the different ships 
 might thus avoid collision. Ily steam- 
 ing a certain number of hours in a 
 given direction and then tacking at 
 right angles, and repeating this course 
 twice, each tack taking the same length 
 of time, the crafts were brought back 
 in the iiKirning to jirctty near their 
 starting-point. ( )n the 21st the course 
 of the 20th was pursued, only Captain 
 Betts of the "Old Knick." sailed so 
 far out into the ocean that in the morn- 
 ing his vessel was alone, and it took 
 him hours to find his associates. Dai- 
 cpiiri, Siboney and Santiago ap])ear to 
 be undergoing simultaneous shelling, 
 the shores are blazing with flames, and 
 the air throbs with vibrations. 
 
 At last there comes a change ove." 
 the spirit of the dreams of the Second, 
 and it comes none too soon, for rations 
 are getting low ; even the officers are 
 living on two meals a day. While ly- 
 ing off near Daiquiri, at i p.m. 1 m the 
 22(1, headquarters boat Xo. 12 steams 
 alongside, and an officer tells Colonel 
 Clark that they had been looking for 
 him all the morning, and that he was 
 to steam within a C|uarter of a mile 
 from the shore, a command that was re- 
 ceived with cheers. That afternoon all 
 the men of the Second got off', except 
 those of the y\ I>attalion, who. it will 
 be remembered, were the first to board 
 the steamer in Tampa Bay. The tow- 
 ering and apparently rough and rocky 
 mountains developed, as they were 
 neared,into heights richly covered with 
 the rankest tropical growths, and it is 
 to the credit of the old Bay State that 
 the first volunteer regiment to set foot 
 
 cm.. MmHIKV 1*. t'l.AKK. 
 
 on hostile soil was her glorious .^ecnnd. 
 There were regulars before us. but im 
 volunteers. At 5.30 on this day a trans- 
 formation scene was beliehl. rivaling 
 anything e\er seen in I'.lack t'rook 
 wonders, b'rom the to]) of a l)lock- 
 house, surmounting a steep height at 
 the right nf the landing at 1 )ali|uii"i. \\a^ 
 floating a Spanish tlag. Some soldiers 
 with a conunendal)Ie sense of the eter- 
 nal fitness of things had climbed to llu- 
 spot, and, the garrison having abscond- 
 ed, they had no trouble in hauling 
 (lc)\vn the foreign emblem and in sub- 
 stituting the Star-spangled Banner. 
 Xot since Hooker's men threw out the 
 flag of the 8th Kentucky from the nose 
 of Lookout on the 25th of Xovenil)er, 
 1863, had the glorious ensign been re- 
 cei\ed with such acclaim. Tlie \aliant 
 deed is ascribed to Major Laniothe and 
 two of his men from the Rough Riders. 
 The landing itself was effected with 
 difficulty on account of the rougliiiess 
 of the sea. A steam latmch from the 
 cruiser Xew York, with a line of small 
 boats in tow. comes to the side of the 
 transjjort. and the men had to clind) 
 
34 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 ( )^ 
 
 S«fIC"EO Br 
 
 Landing-place 
 
 ddwii a rope laililrr ami thus tiiniljle 
 in as l)est they could. There was no 
 standinn' on the order of their L;"oin,<j, 
 hut tlie\ had to go at once or nut at 
 all. W hen the boats were filled they 
 wrre drawn c iff towards the landinp'. 
 where new dans^ers awaited them. (.'< in- 
 stant care was necessary to prevent the 
 dashinsj of the boats against the iron 
 pier. Just the moment that the boat 
 and the landing were on a le\'el, must 
 be seized to jump for it. .AH military 
 precision of mo\-ement was lost sight of 
 in the effort to get out of the boat and 
 to the wharf with whole skins. .Sixty 
 or sc\'enty boats might l)e seen at once 
 thus engaged in circling arimiid and 
 trying to land their men. Notwith- 
 standing the utmost care several boats 
 were shattered, and two coloreil troop- 
 ers were drowni'd." From Co. A on 
 tills day landed Cajjtain Barrett. Lieuts. 
 Tisdell and I'hnnmer, Sergts. .\llison 
 
 *Corporal Edward Cobb, cif Ricbiiinnil, \'a., 
 and Private John English, of CliattannoKa. 
 Tenn. Brave Captain O'Neill of the Ront,;h 
 Riders, who. a few days later, was to fall at 
 ,San Juan, did his best to rescue them. l)iit 
 without avail. Their bodies were recovered. 
 
 AT DaIOUIRI. 
 
 and l\iedl, and l'ri\ates Clapp, liruso 
 and Traver. The remainder of the 
 company were doomed to one night 
 more with "Old Knick.," which steamed 
 out aliout two miles from the shore. 
 
 The last day on shipboard is not 
 without incident, for in the excitement 
 of the morning of the 23d, the cajitain 
 ("if the shi|) just misses running into an- 
 other x'essel, also steaming for the 
 shore. The prospect of such violent 
 landing is not relished by the men or 
 their officers, and when the excitement 
 has subsided. Captain ,\llen of the Light 
 Infantry speaks his mind to the chief 
 officer of the ship in unequivocal lan- 
 guage, very much to the delight of 
 those listening. However, the getting 
 off was eff"ecte<l finally, and a happy lot 
 of men they were as they again trod 
 terra tiniid. e\en though it was foreign 
 soil : and how good it seemed to be able 
 to stretch one's legs again. \'ery little 
 delav is had, liowe\-er, and tmder the 
 command of Lieut. -Col. Shumway the 
 3d liattalion starts to eft'ect a union 
 with the other two. Daiquiri is more 
 
CITY GUARDS, COM TAN V A. 
 
 35 
 
 in name than in fact, onl\- a few scat- 
 tering shacks of honses.and even these 
 have been sadly shattered by the fire 
 from the gfunlKiats. On the marcli, at 
 the top of a hill, near a ronndhonse, 
 are seen two wonnded Spaniards, the 
 first bloody evidence of warfare ever 
 seen by the great majority of the men, 
 and it were not strange if the sight had 
 a somewhat sobering efi'ect. Here, too, 
 was seen the first starving Cuban fam- 
 ily. Having halted for a few moments, 
 from a near-by rambling structure ap- 
 peared to come a cry of human distress. 
 Investigation revealed a mother lying 
 helpless upon the floor, and near her 
 was a wailing infant. Also there were 
 three little girls and a boy, all more 
 resembling skeletons than humanity. 
 Openings through the roof and side of 
 the house had been made by shells from 
 the ships. Generous hands speedily 
 offered the contents of haversacks to 
 the starving sufferers. 
 
 The roads are only trails or paths, 
 and through the crookedest of such the 
 march is made. The Second is ahead, 
 till it drops in behind the 22d Regidars. 
 Just before reaching Siboney there is a 
 slight brush between the enem\- and 
 the troopers in advance, but it lasts 
 scarcely more than ten minutes, the 
 Sjianiards gi\-ing way and retreating 
 beyond the town, which is as God-for- 
 saken a place as eye ever looked upon. 
 The bombardment had ruined e\ery- 
 thing. an iron bridge had been cut an<l 
 slashed bv shot and shell, and filth aj)- 
 parentK- lure reigned supreme. .V fit- 
 ting place for a camp was hard to find, 
 but one was found in which tents were 
 pitched, and from the abundance of a 
 certain kind of shell-covered life it was 
 called "Crab Hollow." 
 
 Company .\'s first night camp on 
 Cuban soil will not be forgotten soon. 
 New experiences were found every 
 
 Imur. Hardly were the tents pitched 
 before rain began to fall in torrents. 
 During the sleepless hours which fol- 
 lowed it was easy to rexiew the march 
 anil scenes of the da\-. It was not far 
 from l)ai(|uiri that a small brook was 
 encountered, and the boys learned that 
 neither bridge nor pontoon was in 
 stock and that they must wade, and 
 wade they did, with resultant water- 
 filled shoes. Some of these emhrvonic 
 soldiers, wholly unused to wet feet, 
 and remend)ering early maternal in- 
 junctions, hahed long enough to ex- 
 change their wet socks for dry. Of 
 course they were comfortable till they 
 came, a quarter of a mile further along, 
 to another runlet, and thereby, to 
 another change. lUit the third stream 
 put an end to all prudential ])edal pro- 
 visions, and. wet or dry, thev trudged 
 along. It was a new world that was 
 opening to these Massachusetts men, 
 and their eyes widened at the sight 
 of cactus and chaparral, both distin- 
 guished for their thorny, hayonet-Iike 
 projections, warranted to ])ierce and 
 cut like a knife. Cocoanut ])alms were 
 e\erywhere conspicuous, and. ere long, 
 the soldiers learned that the liquid 
 contained in the green fruit was both 
 cooling and ])alatable. Likewise they 
 earlv disctivered how to elimh these 
 same palms. 
 
 It was at the noontime hall for din- 
 ner that Private Wills, for obvious 
 reasons ycleped "The l!ug Chaser. "dis- 
 covered in the leafv heights of a tree 
 a gorgeouslv colored serpent, irue to 
 his proclivities, he proclaimed his in- 
 tentions of capturing that snake, anil 
 actualK- climbed the tree and brought 
 the reptile down with him, a crawling 
 (iphidian fully four feet in len.gth. and 
 of the brightest hues — rather a ven- 
 turesome proceeding in a strange land, 
 and wholly ignorant as to the charac- 
 
36 WOKCESTER IN' THE Sl'AXISIl WAK. 
 
 teristics of the nl)icct ; bul as all is well hunk-iu-d cry, "A light, a light !" What 
 that ends well, the private was not bit- cnld it lie! Nothing like it in agony 
 ten, and the tragic part was contined had ever smote the ears of those lads 
 to his snakeship. before, and they hastened with the 
 All sorts of reasons conspired to light-giving tai)er to investigate. Fol- 
 murder slee]) in this first night, promi- lowing the ever-resonnding call, they 
 nent among them being the unloading f. lund the same jn-oceeding from the 
 of vessels in the offing of Siboney. tent of their ])opular Captain, who. ap- 
 Stripped to their skins, volunteers parently, had struck either a night mare 
 worked through the entire night get- or a severe attack of the olic. They 
 ting out the rations and munitions nee- fouml their beloved Captain lying on 
 essary for the expedition; all this un- bis back, and, with distressed eyes, 
 der the rays of search-lights from the looking at one of his shoulders, on 
 o-unboats. Perhaps no one circum- which had recently been ])erching 
 stance contributed more to the men's something, what he knew nut, but 
 discomfort than the abundance of land afraid of tarantulas he i^referred to 
 cralis. whose presence, indeed, had have a light before he brushed him 
 gained for the camp its uneuphonious away. The varmint, unfavorable to 
 name. If the .Spaniards ran away and light, tpiickly scuttled oft', disai)pearmg 
 left the coast clear f(ir the Americans. under the edge of the tent. Wdiatever 
 the crabs did not : rather did they come disposition to sleep there may have 
 in large battalions to see and taste just been up to this moment, the foregoing 
 wdiat these new comers were. Xor episode effectually destroyed, so crawl- 
 were they the tiny objects familiar to ing out the boys stood around the 
 thenorthern schoolboy who on freedom camp-fires, sang songs, smoked, and 
 bent plays liookv along some purling talked of far-off Massachusetts and the 
 stream, but great big fellows with long folks at home till morning. 
 pincers and staring eves. Hiiw were June 24 is the date of the fight at 
 these boys to know but that they were Las C.uasamas. where Colonel Wood 
 as ])oisonous as their cnusius. the tar- and his Rough Riders had their first 
 antulas? To crown all. l.ieut. Tisdell enCMunler with the enemy. It has been 
 had a seven' attack nf insonuiia. and. state<l that this engagement was not 
 wholly unable to wo., the drowsy god contem|'lated by ( ieneral Shafter. but 
 himself, he evidently determined that was the result of the W. m ul-Roosevelt 
 none other shoubl. It was a nightlong over-eagerness to win renown, in a 
 race between the Lieutenant and the measure contriluUed to by the accpiies- 
 crabs, but it will ne\er be known to cence of (leneral W heeler. I'.e this as 
 which partv the li<.n..rs Deling. The it may, it is certain that the fight was 
 antipathy and disgust i.f ;i W..rcester on within hearing of the volunteers, 
 boy at the contact of his llesh with the and naturally they wondered when ami 
 claws of a crustacean were intense, and where they were to go m. but there 
 aroused the keenest merriment in were duties near at hand before they 
 evervl)ody except the nne touched. cmld march to the sound of the guns. 
 While Lieut. T.'s orgies were at Rations were t<i be drawn and dis- 
 their height, and he was happy as a tribiUed. ami it was wdiile cooking his 
 crab-chasing officer could be. there breakfast that Private ( irover con- 
 
 came 
 
 fr.mi a iiearbv tent the horr. ir- iribute.l no little to the mirth of his 
 
CITV r.UARDS. (.■()M|•.\.\^' A. 
 
 37 
 
 fellows. Always fond of wfll-cookcd 
 food, on this occasion he had planned 
 for an nnnsnal dish, in fact, it was a 
 beef stew that he was contcmijlating, 
 of which the first essential was some 
 of the "prime roast beef" already re- 
 ferred to. The soldier had chosen the 
 site for his fire with great care, and 
 everything was ])rogressing finely, and 
 his mouth was beginning to water for 
 the toothsome combination when, 
 presto! up went fire, cup, stew and all. 
 It appears he had made his fire just 
 o\-er the hule i if a crab, which, under 
 
 .\ Native Cuban — Tarantula. 
 
 the provocation of excessive heat, 
 leaped up and away, scattering brands 
 and breakfast in his flight. The min- 
 gled looks of astonishment, disgust 
 and disappointment which overspread 
 the private's face had made the furtune 
 of anv one catching them in a snap 
 shot. Alas ! as usual, the kodak fiend 
 was not looking. 
 
 The surf-bathing was fine, and offi- 
 cers and men were not slow to improve 
 it. One party included A's commis- 
 sioned officers and Major Fairbanks. 
 
 They found the shore shelving rapidly, 
 hence a very abrupt tlesccnt, but the 
 temperature was genial, and no fear of 
 sharks marred the pleasures of the dip. 
 R\-ery one who indulged was better 
 and cKaner for the rinse. The hasty 
 departure of the enemy had prevented 
 tlie com])lete destruction of their 
 stores, and among them were several 
 casks of wine, which ini|uisitive Yan- 
 kees were not slow in finding and nc) 
 fear of ])oison prevented sampling. 
 Luckily, officers who knew the harm- 
 ful etTect of indulgence in such stuff in 
 this climate, <|uickly ordered the same 
 turned out upon the ground, much to 
 the displeasure of some who hated to 
 see so much good licjuor wasted. A 
 ver\- small portion was saved for sub- 
 secjuent hosinta! use. At least one 
 canteen in the ranks of A was lotuid 
 whose contents tasted of the casks, but 
 the fluid had been so thoroughly di- 
 luted that no e\il results were felt nor 
 apprehended. 
 
 No feature of the luiloading of the 
 transports gave more pleasure or 
 awakened more interest than the man- 
 ner in which the horses were brought 
 ashore. .-Xs at Daiquiri, ranging along- 
 side the piers was impossible, and the 
 letting of a horse down into a small 
 boat was impracticable, hence tlu- only 
 wa\- was to force him upon a i)lalforni 
 and then nm the same out till the 
 weight of the animal overbalanced it 
 and the steed dropjx-d down into the 
 water, when he must swim for it, some- 
 thing which he lost no time in doing. 
 
 There was as much difference, liowexer, 
 in horses as in men, and some of the 
 poor beasts, in their confusion, swam 
 for a long time in circles, ami a few 
 went directly out to sea and were 
 drowned, among the latter one of 
 Lieut. -Col. Roosevelt's saddle-horses, 
 
 Rain-in-the-Face. For the encourage- 
 
38 
 
 WORCESTER I\ THE SPANISH W'Ak 
 
 ment and t^uiilancu of the horses, as 
 they Avcre ,c;iven their involuntary 
 plunt;'e, hustlers were stationed upon the 
 shore to s(_iund the stalile-call as the an- 
 imals reached the water, and in mnst in- 
 stances the measure was effectual. The 
 siq-ht I if hiirses with erect ears changintj 
 their course in response to the familiar 
 call was jirovocative of reflections upon 
 the \ahie of discipline among all crea- 
 tures, bipeds as well u^ i|uadrupeds. 
 
 While the rumble oi the guns was 
 heard, there came over the hills whence 
 the sound seemed to jiroceed, a rider 
 on foaming steed, with arms and body 
 torn and bleeding from contact with 
 nature's weajions, galloping to the 
 commander of the lirigade, then Col. 
 E. P. Clark of the 2d. and in breathless 
 tones cries. "I ha\'e been sent for aid. 
 Send reinforcements. For God's sake 
 send 'em (puck!" Though the Colonel 
 queried for a moment he soon (irdered 
 the 8th and 22d U. S. to advance, while 
 the 2d Massachusetts was retained to 
 guard the landing. The tents of those 
 who were to march went down like 
 magic, and in a trifle more than two 
 minutes the troops were ready to move. 
 Was there e\er a time when troops 
 in the field did not ha\e troul)le with 
 tiieir rations? liefore tile same could 
 be distributed at Siboney. the boys 
 were on short coniiuons. and had it 
 not bt-en for some foresight on leav- 
 ing the Knickerbocker, certain of the 
 A boys had suft'ereil. .Vs it was they 
 had none loo much, but they were 
 enough better off than their Major 
 Fairbanks, who was drixen to sharing 
 the rations ilevoteil to his liorse. 
 
 Rebellion recollections of .\nnap(dis 
 and the deeds of the Ahiss.-ichusetts 8th 
 were roused in tlie ingenuity of our 
 \\'orcester nun, who. finding a dis- 
 mantled locomoti\e. set to work to se- 
 cure and put together its coni])onent 
 
 ])arts, in whicli eft'ort they were so suc- 
 cessful that they soon had it running 
 up and (lo\vn the tracks. Again, the 
 iron l)ridge. which had been destroyed 
 during the l)ombardment. was eff'ectu- 
 alh- repaired, under the direction of 
 Capt. Frank L. Allen of the Light In- 
 fantry. The Worcester battalion could 
 not only repair locomotive and bridge, 
 Init they could have constructed the 
 same dc novo, and could ha\e imder- 
 taken an\' other little job of skilled 
 workmtmsliip which ]niblic exigency 
 might have necessitated. Their soldier- 
 ing was only an avocation : their tri'.e 
 calling W"as using their wits for up- 
 l)uilding rather than destroying. 
 
 .\s rations galore were on the shore 
 an equipment for four days was given 
 out. and the l>oys soon realized what 
 too much of a good thing meant. Eachi 
 man was to carrv 150 rounds of ammu- 
 nition :untler his left arm he had a four- 
 quart can of tomatoes ; upon his right 
 shoulder was his gun; hardtack and 
 bacon distended his haversack, while 
 his roll of clotJiing crowned all. Wdiai 
 a sight for the folks at home, and how 
 small a figure his real im])lements of 
 war cut in all this outfit. The quantity 
 of hardtack was so great that each luan 
 could not carry all of his share, and 
 not wishing to lose any of the precious 
 staff' of life, for no one knew when he 
 would get more, all sorts of artifices 
 were devised to retain it. To com- 
 pass this en<l. long poles were secured 
 and by means of nails, taken from the 
 loosened co\ers of the tack boxes, with 
 stones the ])oles were attached to the 
 sides of the l>oxes. and the l)oys es- 
 saye.l the grand porter act, taking 
 turns in the attempt to keep the thing 
 going. Notwithstanding their eft'orts. 
 only a few of the boxes were thus car- 
 ried safeh' through : the draft upon 
 nerve and strength was too great. 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMI'AXY A. 
 
 39 
 
 It was at 4 i>.ni. that ilu- line o{ 
 march was taken 1)\- lun' \ohinteers, 
 and they had not proceeded far before 
 indications of the fi^'ht ahead hetjan to 
 appear in the shape of wounded men. 
 There was one man wdio had se\en l)ul- 
 let holes in or through him. hut the 
 courage and good spirits of the men 
 who had been hit were marvelous. The 
 march is around rather than over the 
 hill, and in column of twos, at times 
 reduced to single file on account of the 
 narrowness of the way. thereby in part 
 to escape the lacerating edges of the 
 omnipresent cactus. Our impressions 
 of the Cuban patriot are not heightened 
 bv this trip, for while Americans are 
 straining and toiling in his behalf he 
 is feeding and resting. As Massachu- 
 setts passes by. he is eating ovir "prime 
 roast beef." and is wearing our cloth- 
 ing, which the forced character of our 
 marching has compelled us to throw 
 away. In a word, the being wdiose mis- 
 fortunes have brouglit us from com- 
 fortable northern homes, before our 
 very eves has become a scavenger, and 
 is disputing with turkey buzzards the 
 refuse we have rejected. Truly the 
 Cuban is not a noble creature ! ! ! 
 Fighting seems to be furthest from his 
 thoughts. They are the individuals 
 against wdiom precautions must be 
 taken wdien we are compelled to throv.- 
 off haversack and rolls, for they would 
 quickly possess themselves of every 
 item. Such grateful beings are the\' 
 for the service the United States is 
 rendering them ! ! 
 
 The march is a hard one and tells 
 upon the men, but they plod manfully 
 forward, up steep mountains with 
 boulder-strewn trails, wdth ever-in- 
 creasing traces of the fight. \'oUui- 
 teers are enduring the forced march 
 quite as well as the regulars, and this 
 gives a deal of satisfaction, for every- 
 
 i.ih 
 
 7. tni-ONEL ¥.. i\. Sm-MU,\V. 
 
 thing in army lines is rated on or by 
 the regular arniv standard. There was 
 evervthing to make the marching hard 
 and tiresome: mud, rocks, pitfalls 
 and crowding cactus, but through it 
 all the Second forged ahead. The 
 shades of evening are gathering when 
 the men reach the "sun-dial house." 
 where the Rough Riders are perform- 
 ing the last rites over the bodies of 
 their slain. "I"is a gruesome sight ; the 
 blanketed forms, lying so stark and 
 still, are somebody's darlings, and 
 northern eyes arc to grow dim for this 
 day's work. Did any one wonder if 
 the game were worth the candle? \\'ho 
 knows? The quavering notes of the 
 chaplain as he intoned the service for 
 the dead titted well into the descend- 
 ing darkness, and '"taps." ever the sad- 
 dest of army calls, sent many a chill 
 through bodies that were not wont to 
 ear. Here is the real in war: the en- 
 listment, the parade, the departure are 
 only the glamour. 
 
 But this is not our camping place, 
 
40 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 since the Americans had drixcn the At nnon a fresh start is made and 
 enemy some (Hstance farther, and with the Second adwances about three miles 
 added weariness tlie line is taken u]) nearer the enemy. The march is made 
 again. I'or fnlly three miles, threiutjh cautiously and with tlankers and 
 rlifficidties like those of the earlier scouts, of which work, as the Second 
 afternoon, the aihance is made. If is on extreme left, the ^Massachusetts 
 possible the later way is even harder men have their full share. The 26th 
 than the earlier, and baL,rtjage, cheer- sees a further advance towards the 
 tnlly Ixirne till now. is thrown off and enemy, and in the same careful man- 
 left behind. Durino- the last half mile ner. Dnrint;- the dax's march Ca])tain 
 of the march, some can endure the pace John liigelow, Jr.. of the loth Ca\-alrv, 
 no hinger. and fall nut, to come halt- -t West Pointer, remarks as follows of 
 ing in at a later hour. ( )ut of a slimy, our boys: 
 
 dismal gulh- the line of men at last t 1 • *i c j i\t 
 
 '^■^^ I remember seemsj the Second Mas- 
 emerges, and on a grassy iilateau en- sachusetts go by, and being impressed 
 cami}s. W illingly woidd the men have by the im[)rovement of the men in aj)- 
 thrown themselves upon the ground pearance since I saw them at Lake- 
 
 withont tent or food, but e.impany A '''"''• '^'^^^y w*^""^ ^'^^"^ ^^ brown and 
 
 U 1111, 1, .r ^t,-;,i.r.„f ,-,,1 I ti / ^ looked almost as hardv as the regulars. 
 
 IS lUHlcr stimgent lule. and the tents ^, , ^, , ■ , , '^ , 
 
 , i hev went through mud and water, 
 
 have to go up, and the men are taught weH'closed up, at a g,>od swinging gait, 
 
 the value of i)ersonal care. They had ( )ur volunteers in L'uba, as a class, did 
 
 passed through their first forced march themselves credit. They had not the 
 
 and they h.-id covered tlu■m^el\■es with resjiect for shoulder-straps that is de- 
 
 eredit luit tii..,- ,,-.,-. , « 1 • siralde — nor had the regulars — but 
 credit, Dut tiles were not pluminir , , , '7 ,• , 
 
 .1 , • ■ , , " they were much better soldiers than 
 
 tliemselves lust then — the\- were too T ^ r /•■ -i w^ -^i ^i 
 
 J _i vviii. LOO yoluntecrs of our Ci\'il War with the 
 
 tired. 
 
 same length of ser\'ice. T am lioun.l 
 
 The morning of the 25th brings in- to say that they did better on the 
 creased sense of weariness and the march and in action th;in 1 had ex- 
 sight ,,f s,,me of yesterday's work, for '''''-"'^'•1 ^'''•'" ''' ^'°- 
 
 here are thr bodies of some of the slain. Even half praise from a West 
 
 among them those of e'aptain L'apron I'ointer, to whom a soldier is little bet- 
 
 and Sergeant Hamilton l'"ish, both of ter than a thing, is something, and fig- 
 
 the Rough Riders. As breakfast is in uratively the Second takes off its hat 
 
 I)reparation there come to men of the to Captain B. and remarks, "Thanks, 
 
 Second many of the tighter-, in yester- awfully, Cajitain ! \'ou do us ]>roud !" 
 day's tniy. cr;i\iiig MJiiie of the food .Monday, June 27th, there is a march 
 
 brought with -.0 much labor from Sib- of a few miles towards Santiago, and 
 
 oney. I lie Rough Riders had liet'ii the c;impiiig place is near the to]) of 
 
 ordered lo throw off ilieir extra bag- a sightly hill, woo.l surrounded. The 
 
 gage, and ;is a consecpunce h;id been outlook is fine, and the day is made 
 
 hungry since. ( lur boys would lia\e memorable b_\' the coming of a letter 
 
 l)een unnatural comrades if thev had from the States directed to Private 
 
 not (|uickly ;ind willingly contributed 1 l;iyes of .\ Company, bearing a North 
 
 of their own stores. The Cubans might ( iraftoii postmark. "June 10." Some 
 
 have exhibited ilieir ].airioiism 1>y of the men thought that combination 
 
 guarding rather tlian stealing the food of letters never could look so good, 
 
 of their ilefenders. Tile 2(Sth is given to camp duties, and 
 
CITY (;UAKDS, eOMI'ANY A. 
 
 41 
 
 a realization that time and the Rough 
 Riders have sadly depleted our rations. 
 Each day hring's its thunder-storm, 
 and the men are lieconiiiiiL;' almnst am- 
 phibious. 
 
 On the 2ijth th'jre was a conference 
 of the commissioned officers of the Sec- 
 ond to consider the shortn,.'ss of 
 rations, which were reduced to une tack 
 ancl a piece cif ])ork, the size of a small 
 walnut, per man. Three oiificers, in- 
 cludinj,^ Captain Harrett, were desisj- 
 nated to visit Colonel Clark, command- 
 ing the brigade, and to set forth the 
 situation. As a result all the In irses 
 belonging to the officers, some eight <ir 
 ten in nundier, were sent down to Sib- 
 oney, under the direction of Lieutenant 
 Vesper of Company B, to pack back to 
 camp as many provisions as possible. 
 The outcome of the expedition was a 
 ration of six hardtack for each man. 
 .■\lso on this day arrived Sergeant (i. .\. 
 Poland, who had been left at Daiquiri 
 in charge of the commissary stores. 
 His coming was most opportune, for in 
 addition to the want of foo.l, the luen 
 had run short of tobacco, a condition 
 jiarticularly disagreeable to the soldier, 
 and his stock of Xavy plug and other 
 delicacies was soon exhausted. The 
 day before $5 had been given for a 
 pa]ier of Mayo's smoking tobacco. 
 Some of our actpiired api^etites are 
 stronger than the natural ones. Just 
 now there is nothing wasted, and each 
 liit of food is most jealously guarded. 
 Xo crumbs are thrown awa_\', ami each 
 dish and platter is licked clean. Hard- 
 tack can not 1)e bought at any price. If 
 only some of the superabundance that 
 is moulding in the storehouses in .^i1>- 
 oney could be brought up. and it is not 
 so very far ott! Some one lias blun- 
 dered, leaving men hungry, when great 
 (|uantities of provisions ha\e been pr(i- 
 vided. "So near and \'et so far!" Rain 
 
 again, and se\enty-five rounds of am- 
 munition, of which there seems to be 
 nil lack. I'lir llu- Captain's cnmfurt and 
 eiimjiany headc|uarters, the men put u]) 
 a shack, consisting of four u])right 
 |)i)sts with cross-])ieces and long grass 
 laid over them, after the manner of a 
 thatch. 
 
 The last day of June came and witli 
 it orders to cook one day's rations an.l 
 to be ready to move at a moment's 
 niitice. liefore leaving camp rations for 
 seventy-seven men were distributed. as 
 follows, viz,: one box of soap, one-half 
 pound of tobacco, fifty pounds hard- 
 tack, two cups of beans, and one strip 
 of bacon. There was little danger of a 
 surfeit from that layout. .Small and 
 ridiculcius as the ration of beans was, 
 it was amusing to note the eagerness 
 of the men for an ecpiable division of 
 the same, .\ctually. they had to lie 
 counted out. Some of the best accoiu- 
 modations so far as the camp was cnn- 
 cerned were had here. The water came 
 down the hillside, and was fairly good, 
 liathing was the most longed-for privi- 
 lege, but of course it could not be tol- 
 erated in the stream whence also came 
 the drinking water. However, Yankee 
 wit sunn supplied the necessarj- facili- 
 ties, and they were had in this way. 
 Just a little ways from the stream a 
 hole would be dug in the sof' earth, and 
 in this was fitted the rubber Ijlanket 
 of the bather. Then, with cup or can- 
 teen, lie would pass water from the 
 stream to the receptacle, and when the 
 necessary amount was secured, he 
 wnuld take his improvised sitting bath, 
 W hen the water had served its ])ur- 
 jiiiSL-, two men. seizing the corners of 
 the blanket, by a quick and dextrous 
 movement would throw the contents 
 back fromthestream. In this way there 
 was not the least danger of pollution. 
 
 The men relate with some gusto that 
 
42 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Sergt. E. IJ. Sawyer. 
 Frfd'k <i. N'kwkll. 
 
 C'oKr. A. i'", M IHRAY. 
 
 J AS. W. Smith. 
 
 SaMT KL FC. (-LAl'l*. 
 
 I'eter X. \\'HiTfc:. 
 
 I In\\ ARD K. HOBBS. 
 
 John T. IJrl'sk y. 
 Chas. a. Eischer. 
 
CITV GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 43 
 
 Captain Barrett had just had liis hath 
 and was deep in the mysteries of a 
 washday strugg-le when the orders to 
 move came. The article that he would 
 like to don at once was in the suds, as 
 were several other items of a]:)]5arel. 
 There was no time to dry them, and 
 the very hest he could do was to wring- 
 them out and to hang them i>ver his 
 shoulder instead of a line, and in this 
 decidedlv cit licsIiabiUc manner he di- 
 rected the ad\ance of his company. It 
 was on this day that the war halloon 
 was noted. It apjieared to hang mo- 
 tionless in midair. Though used in the 
 Rehellion and in the Franco-Prussian 
 A\'ar, it would seem that ballooning 
 has not yet become a successful ad- 
 junct of military operations. 
 
 At 3 o'clock p.m. the advance was 
 begun, and was continued for possibly 
 si.x miles, and as rain had been falling 
 the roads were simply horrible. It was 
 nearly night when the regiment passed 
 through El Poso ; seemingly all the 
 troops were in motion, and sometimes 
 at right angles to the route taken by 
 the Second. Then there was halting 
 by first one and then the other of the 
 clashing bodies, a poor way to get any- 
 where. Finally, the San Juan River is 
 reached, and along its side the soldiers 
 march for a time, and thence turn to 
 the right and proceed to clind) a hill. 
 Six-pace intervals are taken, wads are 
 removed from the guns. and the utmost 
 pains are taken to prevent any kind of 
 noise as the march proceeds. Through 
 rain and wading streams the men are 
 completely wet through. No talking 
 is permitted, and every now and then 
 a man finds himself tangled up in 
 barbed wire, whereupon the words, 
 "barbed wire" would go along the line. 
 At a late hour orders to bivouac are 
 given, and the men eat uncooked ra- 
 tions because fires are forbidden. Xo 
 
 tents are pitched, and each man rolls 
 himself in his blanket and consigns 
 himself to his couch of mud and water. 
 Guards and pickets are demanded, and 
 from A Company the detail consists of 
 Corporal Fay. with Privates Lamber- 
 ton, Mills, Laflamme and Boardman. 
 
 Those who cast their eyes about them 
 are rewarded with seeing at their left 
 the lights of Santiago, while from the 
 cit\- come the regular chimes of cathe- 
 dral bells as they note the advancing 
 hours. To sleep on their arms has a 
 business flavor, but the announcement 
 bv a courier that the coming day would 
 doubtless bring on an engagement, 
 with the suggestion that each man 
 should direct what he wotdd like to 
 have done with his efifects in case he 
 failed to respond at the following roll- 
 call, sets many a man to thinking. 
 
 The first day of Jidy found our 
 \\'orcester bovs getting such comfort 
 as they could from their damp sur- 
 roundings, sleeping or listening to the 
 barking of El Caney dogs, or to 
 the more distant tolling of the great 
 bell in the Cathedral of Santiago. It 
 would ai5i)ear that some soul were 
 passingconstantly,or that i)ious friends 
 were paying fabulous sums for the 
 repose of the dead, since that was the 
 inter]>retation of the solenni sounds, 
 which through the entire night recalled 
 the full significance of the funeral bells 
 of Poe : 
 
 ■"Iron bellsl 
 What a world of solemn thoiiRln tlioir monody 
 compels! 
 In the silence of the night. 
 How we shiver with affright 
 At the melancholy menace of their tone I " 
 
 There were no ringing notes of 
 bugle-call to rouse the men on this 
 fateful morn, but at 3.30 a.m. the word 
 was passed which drove away all 
 thoughts of sleep. A frugal breakfast 
 
44 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 (if hardtack, liacc in an>l water was taken 
 cold. and Imig before nur nearest neigli- 
 l)ors, the 2J<1 I'. S., fell in. the 2d Mas- 
 sachusetts was rea<ly tn aiKance. 
 Cajn'on's i'lattery. which accompanies 
 the di\-isicin. is getting intu |iosition, 
 and is screening itself with lirusli. El 
 Caney lies (|uietly in the distance, and 
 soldiers can be seen ])lainly as they 
 march about. Each man evidently 
 knew that at last he- was to face the tire 
 of the enemy, and that was all that he 
 or his officers knew. The plan (if l)at- 
 tle, if ])lan there was, no one has ever 
 seen. Later, it has appeared that the 
 intent was to carry El Caney early in 
 the (la\-. and then with a swing to the 
 left move on San Juan, and so carry all 
 the defences of Santiago, but "there's 
 many a slip," etc. 
 
 "Eorward" was at last heard, and 
 after the 22d our boys followed, strug- 
 gling along the devious and cactus- 
 guarded trails, which came as near 
 being roads as anything in this mis- 
 ruled country could be. Tiirtnuus and 
 narrow, they were muddy besides. It 
 was at 0.43 that the first gun was fired 
 from Caldron's llattery. and the Cap- 
 tain of .\ was hard by when this awak- 
 ener was sent over towards theS]ianish 
 town, and its reception ])ro<luced a de- 
 cided sensatidu anicmg the inh.ibitants. 
 ( )ther shdts fciUowed, but ciwing to 
 the distance. 2500 yards, the results 
 were not all that could be desired. 
 This location nf the battery had neces- 
 sitated a di\i>iiin nf tlu- regiment, and 
 Com|)anies A, C. 1\ H anJ I found 
 themselves se\'ered from tlu'ir mvn fel- 
 liiws. .Major hairlianks being in cim- 
 mand. I'Hr snme time the \\ lurealx mts 
 (if the (ither cumpanies was unknown, 
 tlu'y having gone ' m. 
 
 At 7.45 a.m., (jvving to a cessation 
 of the artillery firing, the CdUiiianies 
 were allowed to proceed, ad\ancing 
 
 down hill through a tangle oi under- 
 brush and barbed wire, arranged to 
 impede progress. Striking a more level 
 stretch of surface the jiace increased, 
 though there are still vexatious delays 
 awaiting (irders or to investigate mvs- 
 ti'i'ious clumps of bushes, etc. Little 
 eft'ort is made to avoid mud, bayonet- 
 pointed cactus and other obstacles, for 
 the firing-line is nearing.and the leaden 
 danger becomes more imminent. Soon 
 the march brings the line to a small 
 and sluggish stream, across which the 
 men go without delay, and many will 
 remember that it was here they saw 
 their chaplain filling his canteen, and 
 it was a common remark that the jcjb 
 appeared to be an uncommonly long 
 one. A short distance beyond the 
 stream, the main road from El Caney 
 to Santiago is reache(l and a sharp 
 turn is made to the right. 
 
 The roar of artillery and the rattle 
 of rirtes have become so uniform that 
 the men are losing their nervousness 
 and await orders for their own ]iartici- 
 pation with eagerness, for the heat of 
 the battle begins to glow in each man's 
 breast. .Again there is a deflection to 
 the right, and. adxancing, the battalion 
 finds itself under fire. The enemy's 
 range, however, is too high and 
 lir.-mches of the trees sufl:'er more than 
 tlu- adxancing lines. Wounded men 
 are seen b\- the roadside, in \arying 
 degrees of suffering. Owing to the in- 
 creasing danger, cover is sought in the 
 edge of a wood. It was at this point 
 that I'rivate I'eter X.W hite was struck 
 jiv ;i spent ball, the same striking him 
 upon the shoulder, and he went down 
 at once, onl\- (piickly to rise again, as 
 he found that the stroke was in no 
 wav serious, the bullet ha\ ing hit the 
 canteen strap. 
 
 It was during this separation that 
 .Major Fairbanks added to his reputa- 
 
CITV crARUS, CdMI'.WV A. 
 
 45 
 
 Map of Kl Caney I'.atti.kfi klp. 
 
 tion for coolness ami the boys ever 
 sing his jiraises as they discourse (in 
 the way the "Dand}' Major"' kept 
 thing's in order. That he misjht know- 
 just where the_\- were, he called for a 
 couple of men to accom]iany him as 
 orderlies on a reconnoissance which he 
 undertook. He advanced far enough 
 to find the regimental adjutant, and 
 also to be so much exposed that on 
 their return. I'rixate Fischer \-o\ved he 
 didn't wish to be orderly any longer, 
 being quite willing to forbear any and 
 all honor connecteil with the position, 
 but he continued to serve, just the 
 same. 
 
 The impatient waiting was to ha\e 
 an end, and it came when an orderly 
 rushed uii with orders for Major Fair- 
 banks. Immediately follows the com- 
 mand, "F^orm for attack!" Cominuiy 
 I. under Captain Williams, is the firing- 
 line. Company A, Captain Barrett, 
 supports, and the other companies are 
 in reserve. Soon the order, "Form 
 
 line of s(|uad!" and "As skirmishers!" 
 \\-as given, in which formation the ad- 
 ^•ance on I'd Caney was made. Tiiat 
 the attack may he the moi'e etlectnal. 
 the rolls l>orne l)y the men are laid nil 
 mider a tree, and Cor]ioral Hobbs, with 
 Privates Jlall and Smith, are detailed 
 to guard them. 'Fhe first man wound- 
 ed is a ])rivate in F, wlmse arm is trav- 
 ersed len.gthways by a bullet, inflict- 
 ing so painful a woimd that he set 
 up a howl which was calculated to 
 disi^irit the stoutest heart. The ex- 
 citement and nervousness incident to 
 the event were quickly allayed by the 
 tact of Major Fairbanks, who. as usual. 
 was where he could do the most good. 
 The advance started in tlie hope and 
 expectation of finding the regiment, 
 thnugh the same was not found till 
 later. The pioneer corps, under Ser- 
 geant Jordan of Company H. was en- 
 couniere<I, and from him the location 
 of the other companies was learne<l. 
 From an elevated position the town of 
 
46 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 El Caney is seen some 800 yards awa}-. 
 Large and small block-houses are dis- 
 covered at intervals where they can 
 best protect the aggregation of houses 
 and shacks which constitute the vil- 
 lage. Here the companies were or- 
 dered to the right flank, to a ]iosition 
 near the stone fort, with directi(.)ns to 
 h(_ild the position and await further 
 orders. Company formation is had as 
 regularlv and as effectually as if on 
 ])arade, shewing the result of drill and 
 discipline. Nothing in the story of the 
 Culian campaign gives the Worcester 
 bovs more regret than the fact that 
 their ammunition was of that old-fash- 
 ioned character that every shot re- 
 vealed the presence of the one firing. 
 This was all right in olden times, when 
 every conrbatant w-as thus armed, but 
 the Spaniard was using smokeless 
 ])()wder. and was jjractically invisible. 
 The general commanding early discov- 
 ered the danger incident to this black 
 smoke and ordered a cessation of fir- 
 ing, and to not fire again unless to pre- 
 vent the escape of the garrisons in the 
 block-hiiuses. This was a bitter dose 
 f(ir iiur buys. They had come all the 
 way from their Massachusetts homes 
 to fight the enemy, and miw they were 
 held in reserve, all on account of an- 
 cient munitions which should have 
 been discardeil years before. However, 
 their disposition was good. They hail 
 not flinched an inch, and even then 
 were (piite willing to take all risks if 
 onlv they could use their arch.'uc wea- 
 pons. 
 
 In some unaccountable manner, the 
 battalion is so ranged that it is prac- 
 tically at right angles to the main line. 
 The he;it is terrible. .\ny kind of 
 shade is like the rock in ;i weary land. 
 I'rivate Rice thinks a small tree near 
 by is just the ])l;ice for him. and accor b 
 
 ingly seeks it. Hardly had he gained 
 the place when a bullet strikes so near 
 that it would seem that it had started 
 for him. He loses no time in getting 
 back under cover, declaring that shine 
 was preferable to shade. Pickets un- 
 der Corporal Allison look out for lioth 
 flanks. The situation is peculiar. In 
 front is an artillery-swept zone. Froin 
 the right and front the fire of the ene- 
 my is coming, and, to crown all, back 
 of the companies the 4th United States 
 is forming for an advance, and they 
 fire as they move forward. They are 
 to do just what the Second would like 
 to do, and what they would be doing 
 were it not for their aticient outfit. 
 Fortunately, the range of the Fourth is 
 so high that no action arises, but 
 great credit attaches to Private Board- 
 man of A, who, standing upon a knoll, 
 swings his hat and shouts till he at- 
 tracts the attention of the advancing 
 line, and so lets them know that there 
 are friends lietween them and the foe. 
 This act had been rewarded by special 
 mention had not the early death of the 
 brave bov prevented. 
 
 The soldiers of the Second are loud 
 in their praises of the colored soldiers, 
 to whom should go many of the hcni- 
 ors of the campaign. The}- knew no 
 such word as fear, but swept up the 
 hill like a legion of demons, clearing 
 the way of every obstacle. They rushed 
 o\er trenches, up to the block-houses 
 through lea len hail, and thrusting 
 their guns through the iron-barred 
 windows, shot the cowering occupants. 
 W hen. on their return, they were asked 
 \\h\ thev didn't take some prisoners, 
 one big treioper replied, "What you 
 talkin' 'l)out, boss; we didn't come here 
 to play liasketball !" And so the fight 
 wint on. The taking of El Caney, 
 which was to be accomplished by one 
 brigade in an honr, reallv toi_)k a whole 
 
CITY CTARDS, COMPAXY A. 
 
 47 
 
 division ei^'ht long' hours of stca.ly 
 fig-htin.L;-, Init it was clone at last. 
 
 C)\ving: to the extreme heat of this 
 July day. under a Cuban sun, the can- 
 teens were soon emptied, and a detail 
 was made from A to o;0 back for a sup- 
 ply. The sciuacl, consisting of Privates 
 Lamberton. Mills, Allison, Laflanime 
 and AIa,a:ee. under Sergeant ridwans. 
 taking all the canteens they could car- 
 ry, went back o\-er a distance of fully 
 a, mile, and in the midst of Ijullets fly- 
 ing in everv direction. Tliough they 
 accomplished their m'ission and had 
 started on their return, they were per- 
 mitted to go no farther than the field 
 hospital, as it was stated that a gen- 
 eral advance on the town was in prog- 
 ress : thus it was not till 4.30 p.m. that 
 thev rejoined their thirsty comrades. 
 It was at this time that Major Fair- 
 banks ordered A Company to deploy 
 as skirmishers, to see that the field 
 over which the firing had been done 
 was free. Reporting the same clear of 
 Americans, Captain Capron trained his 
 guns on the remaining block-houses, 
 and in three well-directed shots de- 
 molished them. 
 
 The last shot was tired at 5 o'clock. 
 and the privilege of returning to where 
 the extra baggage had been left was 
 a])preciated. but there was not to be 
 the opportunity for supper that the 
 men desired, though they had eaten 
 little from their early cold repast cif the 
 morning. Corporal Hobbs and his 
 aids had kept away the buzzards and 
 Cuban patriiit^. fcir our l.ioys had grown 
 to p.ut them both in the same class. 
 Scarcely had the longed-for haversacks 
 been found, and before their contents 
 could be sam])led. came the command, 
 "Fall in!" and the march towards San 
 Juan hill had begun. The Second had 
 about-faced, and was now marching, 
 with El Caney in the rear. The night 
 
 is dark and the wa\' muddy and as 
 prickly as ever. It would appear that 
 the Dons had prepared an ambuscade, 
 but their plans were revealed by the 
 newness of the wire which glistened in 
 the dim light. The boys must have had 
 some queer reflections on the part 
 which one of the chief industries of 
 their city was playing in this campaign, 
 for go where they might they could not 
 get i>ut of sight or touch of l)arl)ed 
 wire. X'liw Worcester's busy and noisy 
 mills made luts of trouble for Massa- 
 chusetts men in Cuba. Many reflec- 
 tions were due upon the government 
 for the inadequate utensils which were 
 furnished for cutting this obstructing 
 wire. The pincers were more archaic 
 than the guns, and that was quite 
 needless. 
 
 I'.lood-stained and mud-stained, the 
 night's march was made, generally in 
 double line along roads cut deep with 
 artillery and commissary wagons. 
 Some of the discomforts of "Our Ar- 
 mies in Flanders" are apparent, and 
 possiblv some of the language which 
 rendered those armies famous was not 
 lacking. biU at last the welcome com- 
 mand ti) bivouac is heard, and. supper- 
 less as well as dinnerless. our boys 
 sink to rest and to sleep, equally indif- 
 ferent to the jiast and future. 
 
 The halting place was near an old 
 stone bridge spanning the San Juan 
 River, where those who sought found 
 a drinking fluid, good for this coun- 
 trv. but the large majority were too 
 tired to seek anything but rest, and 
 sank at once into a condition akin to 
 stupor. There had been no orders to 
 bivouac, but the ever vigilant Captain 
 was determined that every man 
 should go under his blanket, as a pro- 
 tection from the deathly night air of 
 Cuba, a task, however, in many in- 
 stances exceedingly difficult to per- 
 
48 WORCESTER I\ THE Sl'AXISll WAR. 
 
 f(irni. Duriiiii' tJiis "in jilacc rest" pe- within the zone of S])anisli fire and 
 ri(i<l, a train uf mules bearin;;' supplies hlc jek-houses are abundant, 
 eame up. ami Company A's ajijireeia- This retrograde is, in re\-erse. along 
 tion of this much abused animal's in- the route of yesterday's advance till 
 telligence grew amazingly, for he had the .^an juan road is reached near the 
 to ]:)ick his way o^■er the prostrate "lUooily liend." (^Ireat numljers of 
 bodies of the men, a feat that he skill- wounded men are coming in to the 
 fullv acciimplishetl. thtnigh in some field hos])ital. At rt.j^o p.m. "Halt" is 
 cases he trod so closely to the heads ordered and the command giies down 
 of the sleepers that long hair kept the the line to ku- aside the rolls and to be 
 mule's feet out of the mud. read\- for acti<;in at any moment. S]ian- 
 It was at the extremely earl \' hoin- (:>f ish sharpshcioters, from ]50siti(.)ns in 
 2.30 a.m. that the Com]>any ^vas mango trees and elsewhere, are mak- 
 roused, so earl\-, indeed, th;it many ing themselyes dangerous to theAmer- 
 were willing to affirm that they had icans. Losing smokeless jiowder and 
 not been asleep, but as the boys were being effectually hidden in the leafy 
 not taking this excursion f<ir their to]is of trees. the\- plied their death- 
 health, thev responded with the least dealing\ocation with impunity, though 
 complaint possible. Rations, some- occasiiinally the_\- were detected and 
 what meagre in quantity, were dealt brought down without ceremony. The 
 out. comjirising a bag of sugar and enemy had little respect for the laws of 
 roasted coftee ])er man, and one liox civilized warfare, and even fired on the 
 of Jiard-tack for the company, and Red Cross representatives, who were 
 there were just two minutes in which about their mission of mere}-. Several 
 to open the latter. The contents of lost their li\-es in this way. The com- 
 the box were soon appropriated, but pany's position is on the extreme right 
 much of the sugar had to be left be- and the advance is very slow. Con- 
 hind. As the movement was a retro- gratulations are exchanged over the 
 grade one. the reversing brought apparent passing of danger, wdien or- 
 'Company A in the lead, whereas, the 'l^'rs are twice received to halt and lie 
 day before it had brought up the rear. '^^'t "1>"" the earth to escape the bullets 
 Evidently the advance had met some t'l''"".-'!! l"^^^' '^"^s m the hdls. \oth- 
 ,.',,■ 1,1-1* iiig. ho\v-e\-er, dampens the si)irits of 
 sort ot an obstruction, and this about- -^ .... 
 
 .,,, , , the men. the same lia\-ing risen with 
 
 face was to oftset it. 1 he march lie- . , ' . , ^ 
 
 , the advancing sun. i<.>r with taces 
 
 sjan m darkness so dense that eacli ,.,•,,'" , -^i 1 i- 
 
 burie(l m the grass and \\-ith bodies 
 
 man had to place a hand on the one m ,^^,_„^^. j,,^, ^,;,_ ^.^^,.,,^ ^^,^^^, ,j,^,„ ^, 
 
 '■■""t ui or,ler to keep m hue. 1 he jf .,t ^.^ ,.„„p.fire. and jokes were passed 
 
 dew. al\\-a\s thick and hea\-v. made the , ^i 1 41 ■ ,„, „,,<,„,, ,i„,, 
 
 • - along as though this were every-day 
 
 groun<l as slippery as ice. while the -^'ork 
 
 men themselves were too sleepy to \^ ., ^,ii j,^ ji,^. f|,-i„o-, the advance 
 
 sense where they were .going <ir what ^^,.,^ resumed and was continued for 
 
 they were trying to do. Had they been about two miles beyond the captured 
 
 wakeful and ilie light sufficient they block-house, getting there late in the 
 
 would ha\e seen the rank undergrowth afternoon, whereu]ion a sipiad was sent 
 
 of a (/uban forest, but all this is lost in back for the rolls left behind earlier in 
 
 the night moyement. The regiment is the day. ."Supper was prepared over 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 49 
 
 small fires, made under the range of 
 hills. There was no command neces- 
 sary to (lri\e the men to slee]i. and the 
 veriest roisterer in the Company was 
 soon seeking- "tired nature's sweet re- 
 storer." I'lUt l)lissful dreams were 
 rudely broken at 10.30 p.m. by crash- 
 ing volleys of musketry and the loudly 
 shouted orders of the officers, who 
 dashed up and down the lines pressing 
 their men into position. The music of 
 the bullet was evident as it sang 
 through bush and grass, or "spat" 
 against the trees along the river's side. 
 The intense darkness added to the hor- 
 rors of the night, and made the occa- 
 sion seem e\'en worse than the battle 
 of El Caney. The attack lasted fully 
 an hour, when the Spaniards retreated 
 again, through their lack of S}-stem, 
 drill or knowledge, having effected 
 very little. 
 
 The saying is an honored one that 
 lightning never strikes twice in the 
 same place, Init Company A men are 
 still wouflering that the mily man in 
 their ranks to be hit at all was struck 
 twice. Peter X. White got his firs': 
 stroke at El Caney, and in this night 
 attack he was apparently reserved by 
 fate for the only bldw that .V received. 
 Lieut. Plummer was the officer of the 
 guard when the firing began, and the 
 men were a(l\-ancing under orders 
 when White went down. Corp. Hag- 
 berg was the first to discover him, and 
 bent over the wounded man to ascer- 
 tain the tniuble. This time, the ]iri- 
 \ate, having learned wisdom from his 
 late experience, was not so certain 
 about his condition, but the running of 
 Capt. Barrett's hand around his neck 
 revealed blood: then the cutting away 
 of his clothing indicated the entrance 
 of the bullet. Complaints on White's 
 part as to some trouble near his hip 
 brought out the fact that the missile 
 
 had Clime out there, thus accoiuiting 
 for what the Captain had thought a 
 lireach lit discipline. .Strict cirders had 
 been gi\'en not to fire e.xcejjt as direct- 
 ed, but Captain Barrett was much dis- 
 turbe<l at hearing what seemed the dis- 
 charge of a gun in his ranks, and he 
 had been using some of the language 
 which the occasion called for, wdien it 
 appeared that the sound was owing to 
 the explosion of three cartridges, pro- 
 duced by the Spanish bullet as it left 
 the wounded man's body. The wciund 
 might have been a mortal ^ne. since it 
 entered the left shoulder and, after 
 traversing the trunk, left, as stated, 
 from the left hi]). How it managed 
 to esca]>e the vital organs, only the 
 chances that accompan\- gunshot 
 wounds can tell. .\ gun stretcher, 
 ma<le from two guns and a ])artly 
 rolled blanket, was used tn carry the 
 private down the exceedingly steep 
 hillside to the tempcirary hcis])ital. 
 Tenderly as a liab}- his comrades bore 
 him along with the utmost care, driv- 
 ing their heels intd the grduud lest a 
 slip might thrmv him oft' his blanket. 
 
 Jul\' 3d was ushered in by a false 
 alarm at 3 a.m.. and again at 6 o'clock 
 the men were roused, but those ap- 
 proaching were found tn be Cubans 
 rather than the foe. 1 )uring this day, 
 Prixate White is borne back to the di- 
 vision hospital, six of his comrades, 
 Cornwell, Hammond, Schofield. Tor- 
 kelson. Al)bott and Heywond, ha\ing 
 been detailed for this purjiose. As the 
 entire journey of three miles was under 
 the enemy's fire, no little credit is due 
 the men for the manner in which they 
 discharged their duty. They were 
 more fortunate than some in their 
 labor, for in several instances fatalities 
 arose, liearcrs as well as those carried 
 going down in a common calamity. It 
 is the consensus of opinion that Private 
 
50 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 \\ hilc, in case of another war. had 
 Ijettt-r not take an_\- more chances, 
 having- entirely too striking an affinit}- 
 iuT bullets. He was shortly taken 
 aboard one of the trans])orts and car- 
 ried to Georgia, where, in Fort Mc- 
 Pherson hos]Mtal. he convalesced, till 
 he was able to be sent home. 
 
 On this day began the Imig continued 
 labors of the regiment in digging en- 
 trenchments, using kni\es and plates 
 in lieu nf j)icks and shovels, just as the 
 fathers had done in the days of '6i-'Cic^. 
 The tiring was light during the fore- 
 noon, and at to o'clock a flag of truce 
 was run up. the same flying more than 
 twent\-four hours. The day is also 
 menidrable in A annals, since it was 
 on the ,vl that Trixate I'ischer, in his 
 rambles, fouiul and appr(ipriate<l a na- 
 tive burn I or donkey, which became 
 exceedingly helpful in the toting of 
 water, and on the march he was a 
 burden-bearer of no mean capacit}'. 
 
 America's great day. Jidy 4th, be- 
 holds our boys in the trenches, sub- 
 mitting to .-ilternate sun and rain, both 
 in the severest form, rarboiling is ;i 
 word not ina])pro]M'iate to represent 
 their con<Iition. The Hag of truce is 
 still up, and a further advance of ])os- 
 sibly two miles is made towards .San- 
 tiago, which now lies in plain sight, 
 not more than 2000 yar<ls awa\', so 
 near that people can be i)lainly seen 
 as thev go to and fro. while .America's 
 national colors, red. white and blue, 
 are conspicuous in the stucco-covered 
 sides of the houses. The picture is an 
 ini])ressive one. and not even the possi- 
 bilities of (I;mger from the nearby city 
 can dim the lustre of the scene. Again 
 rations are growing short. The abun- 
 dance at Siboney is not helping these 
 hard-working, suffering men. and with 
 one voice they cry out against tho>e 
 who needle.sslv leave men in hunger 
 
 when ])lenty is so near. ( )ne-third of 
 regular rations is not a good support 
 for trench-making. 
 
 The ne.xt day, or the 5th. brought its 
 own surprise, for long lines of jieople 
 were seen moving out of Santiago, and 
 at first the\- might easily be taken for 
 colunms of fours on the march, but 
 they were quickly resoh'ed intij un- 
 armed citizens of all ages, conditions, 
 and of both sexes, mox'ing out to El 
 Cane}- that they might escape the 
 threatened boml)ardment. The Coni- 
 panv had practiced consideral.)ly in si- 
 lent ])assing- of comn-iands. fron-i com- 
 n-iissioned officers to non-commis- 
 sioned, and the\- to their men, so that 
 when the non-con-ibatants appeared 
 the word of alarm was given through 
 Lieut. Tisdell, who ha])pened t(_i be the 
 officer of the guard ; and th.e result was 
 all that could be asked for. since in less 
 than four minutes every mai-i was in 
 place. In these crowded days each 
 Ijattalioii had its ow-n officer of the 
 guard and officer of the day. hence each 
 officer had to be on duty every alter- 
 nate da}-. 
 
 .-\s hitherto, .lig-ging trenches is the 
 chief calling of the first Brigade. 
 and the Second Massachusetts is by 
 no means slighted. The chain of earth- 
 \\-orks is a long one, extending from 
 lleneral Shafter's headquarters in the 
 centre of the line, a long distance to 
 the right, terminating in a swam]) made 
 bv the shallow-ing- of Santiag-(J Harbor. 
 If the men had been permitted to hold 
 ami (■ccnpy the trenches the} hail dug. 
 the}- had felt better about it. but when 
 the\- had. after great labor, fixed their 
 defenses with all that the occasion de- 
 manded, including- gunn}-bags. filled 
 with sand, placed for en-ibrasures, to 
 be obligeil to .give them up as the}- did 
 in one case to the Seventy-first New 
 York, there was a draft upon the raw 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMI'ANV A. 
 
 51 
 
 Frank E. Gale. 
 RuFus J. Martin. 
 
 PhILEMO.N r.RfLE. 
 
 CHAS. K. l.AMrERlOS. 
 
 Chas. .\. ISarton. 
 .\rtkvr C. Mac.ee. 
 
 Sergt. Jas. T. Cruik»ha.sk. 
 
 .Albert Johnso.s. 
 
 Herbert. \. Ballou. 
 
52 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 material that they were hardly able to 
 supply. The inadequacy of entrench- 
 ing' tools mav be seen when it a]ipears 
 that the entire regiment of above 900 
 men had fnur shovels and only one or 
 two picks, while the near-by regulars 
 were well sup|jlied. The query will 
 ever continue, "Who did sin?" that 
 these honest soldiers were compelled 
 to work at such great disadvantage? 
 
 Luckv the man who had one of the 
 coveted regulation tools, for the others 
 must imprdvise their WDrking material 
 from haversacks and pockets. Case 
 and pocket knife, plate, sj^oon, and 
 even, as the last resort, fingers, na- 
 ture's first weapons, were called into 
 use. 
 
 Under the fiery sun men must be re- 
 lieved every ten minutes, i'erspira- 
 tinn fairlv pours from the lioiiies, which 
 have been divested of shirts, the men 
 w I irking naked to the waists. lUis- 
 tered hands are the rule, till callouses 
 appear: bloody fingers, under their 
 primitive ordeal, are nnt imccimninn, 
 an<l manv a boy wonders what the 
 hi .me folks would say if they could 
 take a look at the scene. Something 
 of a contrast ivom a drill-shed parade 
 or an iiisprction on the Framingham 
 cam])-gronn(l I Night-work, too, is 
 necessarv, and this is done without 
 lights and with >inl_\' whispered words. 
 When tlu' welcome rests occur, tlv.' 
 men throw themselves uiKin the ground 
 with bared breasts, grateful to the 
 heavv. cooling dew. utterly careless as 
 to what tlu' results may be. 1 he 
 niglils are dark, mists ap|iearing to 
 hide the very stars. .\t such times, as 
 the men with naked, glistening skins 
 lal)ored in the trenches, fancy not un- 
 reason.-iblv pictured them as ghosts 
 rising from their grjives for a midnight 
 revel, and whatever Scotch blood there 
 was in the coni])any recalled Alloway 
 
 Kirk and its display of "cutty sarks." 
 
 The dawn of day would send the 
 men, dripping and muddy, through the 
 parallels to their camps, where, with a 
 hastily eaten morsel of food, they 
 dropped into sleep and forgetfulness. 
 
 The 6th of July brought with it en- 
 trenching for Company A until noon, 
 when the men are ordered to prepare 
 for an attack, but none came. At 3.30 
 p.m. the colors of the Second are 
 ]ilanted on the breastworks. Later at 
 their call, the officers assembled at 
 head(|uarters and were there informed 
 of the destruction of the Spanish fleet 
 oft:' Santiago Harljor. Nothing but ex- 
 treme weariness prevents the enthus- 
 ing which such an announcement mer- 
 ited, liut these men, like all makers of 
 historv, little realized the magnitude of 
 the victory on that memorable Sunday. 
 To cr(_iwn all their misfortunes, the 
 men had run against a wood poison, 
 similar to the poisoti ivy of our north- 
 ern states, anil what was ecpially bad, 
 the\- Could find no antidote till some- 
 one fouml that common salt relieved 
 the discomfiirt, but salt was as scarce 
 as tobacco. The source of the evil was 
 founil to lie a poison oak. the under 
 side of whose leaf was covered with 
 prickers which easily punctured the 
 skin, and were the' prime cause of the 
 misery. 
 
 The record for the Jth is a short one, 
 viz.: only trench-making and the re- 
 ceipt of mail from home, the latter con- 
 tributing its part towards thj second 
 half of the proverl), ".^hort and sweet." 
 
 ( )n the 8th it would ap])ear that there 
 were no more trenches to be dug, and 
 accordingly at an early hour Lieut. 
 Tisdell with enlisted men. Thomson, 
 Cl;ipp. Hall. Wills and Laflannue. leave 
 cam|i for a trip to El Caney and the 
 battlefield of July 1st. The village, so 
 often named in these ci;)lunuis, is a 
 
CITY GUARDS. COM PAW A. 
 
 53 
 
 small place of possibly 300 inhabitants, 
 and it is difficult to imagine 20,000 
 people crowded into its streets and 
 houses, yet that is its condition under 
 the influx from the threatened city of 
 Santiago. Here is no distinction of 
 person : proud Castilian is pressed by 
 the lowest type of Cuban negro : here 
 are all shades of complexion and every 
 rank of society. Costume shades down 
 from the richest fabric to rags, and 
 from them to naked nature, but all are 
 alike starving. Before reaching the 
 hamlet our observers had seen the ref- 
 ugees trving to secure food from man- 
 go trees and such other sources as the 
 forests and fields afl:orded. The aj)- 
 peals of these famished people were 
 heart-rending, and no American 
 haversack was proof against the cr\-. 
 
 The plaza in front of the church is 
 densely crowded, as are all the rooms 
 in the town, and the incoming masses 
 even dot the hillsides with their impro- 
 vised camps. That there are still gov- 
 ernments on earth is apparent in the 
 banners of different notionalities which 
 are flung out from several places, in- 
 dicating the presence of foreign con- 
 suls. There are no sanitary provisions 
 and filth reigns indescribably. The 
 stench is horrible, while the water for 
 all purposes is taken from a stream in 
 which children are bathing and women 
 washing clothes. Such sights make 
 our boys part with their rations all the 
 more readily, for they were rapidly los- 
 ing their appetites. Added to the fore- 
 going sources of discomfort must be 
 named the partially buried bodies of 
 the Spanish soldiers slain in the fight 
 of July 1st. whose reeking corpses 
 were producing a condition that seem- 
 ingly would speedily breed a plague. 
 The stay in the filth-reeking village 
 was none too long, and thence the boys 
 sousrht. the old stone fort east of El 
 
 I APIAIS liARRtTT IN THK FlKLD. 
 
 Caney. thence across the brook and so 
 over the ground held by the Second in 
 the fight. They visit the graves of the 
 men of their regiment killed in the en- 
 counter, and, at a late hour, make their 
 way back to camp. 
 
 The 9th of July is remembered on 
 account of the visit received by Com- 
 pany A from Captain Moynihan. Lieu- 
 tenant McCann and se\eral enlisted 
 
54 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 men of the Worcester Emmet (iuards, 
 then serving in another part of the 
 tiehl as Company G of the 9th Mas- 
 sachusetts. U. .^. V. The handshakes, 
 so far away from hcinie, were hearty 
 and sincere, and the interview was a 
 green oasis in the desert nf e\ery-ilay 
 camp life. The lirst man to go to the 
 hos]3ital frnni A Com])any on accoimt 
 of ilhiess was \\'. ( i. Curnwell, who 
 went this day suffering from rheu- 
 matism. 
 
 .Sundaw the loth. lirouglit \ery lit- 
 tle of the i|uiet home familiar to the 
 most of these boys, but at 4 a.m. the 
 reveille sounded, and an hour later the 
 march began again to the right, ap- 
 parently nothing less than the circum- 
 amliulation of the city being in store 
 for the regiment. The orders for this 
 start had been given at midnight in 
 the most (|uiet manner to the Company 
 officers by the Adjutant, and the mys- 
 terious way (if imparting them gave 
 the impression of something out of the 
 ordinary impending. However, the 
 march was continued till a railroad 
 track was ])assed, wdien there was a 
 slight swing to the left, near an old 
 sugar-mill, and there intrenching began 
 once more. The Cubans liad lieen there 
 before the Second's arri\;d. but their 
 work was scarcely better than the stir- 
 ring U]) of the earth with ^tick^. but 
 e\-en that start flid not fall to the lot of 
 A and I', which companies had to start 
 anew. hiring began at 4.43 ]).m., 
 before the trenches were completed, 
 but the men stuck to tlu'ir work with- 
 <3Ut faltering; indeed so careless had 
 the men become that it was necessary 
 to order some of them <lown from the 
 to]) of the earthworks, where, in their 
 desire to see how the shells struck, 
 they were needlessly exposing them- 
 selves. Cajjtain Barrett had the very 
 sensible notion that a live soldier is 
 
 \-astly more efficient than a dead one, 
 however brave he might be. \\'hile 
 the excitement is at its height groans 
 are heard from tlie bushes in the rear 
 of the line, and the cause is anxiously 
 Sought with a fear that some one has 
 been severely wounded. Something 
 akin to disgust sujjplants solicitude 
 when it is found that the sounds pro- 
 ceed from one of the l^oys who is suf- 
 fering from an exaggerated case of 
 stomachache, which his comrades aver 
 he might have had at home or any- 
 where. 
 
 The firing, which had died down last 
 night at 7 o'clock, was resumed on the 
 nth. but the enemy did not respond. 
 There is a slight shaking up of com- 
 mands to-day, on account of Major 
 .Southmax'cl's being invalided home, 
 and Captain llarrett Ijecomes the tem- 
 ]iorary conuiiander of the 3d Rattalion, 
 and Lieut. Tisdell goes to the head of 
 A Conijiany. This is only for two days, 
 when the Ca])tain returns to his own, 
 but the old battalion is now ntimbered 
 two. Once more the regiment is mov- 
 ing to the right, and on the way passes 
 the con<hiit which furnished water to 
 the beleaguered city. The Spaniards 
 had ])een guarding the same with con- 
 siderable care, for they realized the 
 \alue of the water-supply to the peo- 
 ple; howexer. fleeing on the approach 
 of the Americans, the Cubans had 
 ruslied in and very (piickly broken the 
 cement ]ui)e through which the water 
 ran. The result was a small water-fall, 
 at which the soldiers were not slow to 
 fill their canteens and to enjoy the un- 
 usual opportunity. The route is over 
 hill and through dale, with the city of 
 .Santiago plainly in view a large part 
 of the time. The red cross, conspicu- 
 ously displayed from so many of the 
 houses, would lead the observer to 
 think that the place was one vast hos- 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPAXY A. 
 
 ])ital ; that the display was one bis? 
 piece of duplicity were the safer con- 
 chision. At one time, rolls and haver- 
 sacks were laid off and the impression 
 was that business was impendinsj, but 
 nothint? came of it. 
 
 .•\ halt is at last called and camp is 
 pitched in a hollow, whence the city is 
 visible, but hardly were the tents up 
 liefore the severest thunder-storm as 
 yet experienced set in. The depressed 
 condition of the camping-ground ren- 
 dered the situation all the worse, since 
 the space became little better than a 
 catch-basin, wherein the fallino- rain 
 was detained. Meantime rations had 
 been brought up to a place some two 
 miles away and there dropped. Five 
 men were sent off for the Company's 
 share, but they returned too late for 
 distribution that night. In the Com- 
 pany annals no more uncomfortable 
 night is recorded. 'I'he thunder came 
 like reports of artillery just at hand, 
 and the bolts of lightning fell so near 
 and so constantly that it seemed that 
 no one could escape. Lieut. Tisdell. 
 with lower limbs swollen liy rheuma- 
 tism, found it imixissible to remain 
 under his tent. and so sat the longnight 
 through on a cracker-box with back 
 against a tree. Captain Barrett had to 
 spend a part of his time trying to hold 
 up the ridge of his covering, and the 
 earth became so tlmroughly soaketl 
 that it would not hold a tent-])eg. ^^'ith 
 no rations, soaked to the skin, it is not 
 strange that even the stoutest hearts 
 among officers and men were for a time 
 considerably discouraged. In this dis- 
 consolate condition, orders to pack uj) 
 came, and the rolls of tent and blanket, 
 made all the heavier by rain, were 
 taken up and the march proceeded. It 
 led through roads, always bad, now 
 ankle deep with mud, and so slippery 
 that regimental orderlies sometimes 
 
 measured their respective lengths in 
 the slime as they hurried to their des- 
 tinations. Notwithstanding the dis- 
 comforts of the situaticin, the boys had 
 no difficulty in cracking smiles at such 
 discomfiture. While the road seemed 
 to be tile \ery worst i)tissible. even 
 muddier fate awaited the boys in the 
 swamp through which they waded, a 
 sort of terminal of ."^antiagii I larbor, for 
 this dav's d(.iings ended the circuit uf 
 the citv. (leneral Ludlrnv and an en- 
 gineer came up and (lesignati'<l where 
 earthworks were to be thrown up, and 
 again the soldiers were doing the dig- 
 ging act. The Spaniards were in i>lain 
 sight, and it did not seem as though 
 they would permit trench-making so 
 near at hand without, at least, a pro- 
 test, and the work was started with no 
 little apprehension ; but for some rea- 
 son they were silent, and the excavat- 
 ing went on. day and night. Rain fell 
 so constantly that in some places the 
 bovs dug in water nearl\ waist deep. 
 By some means candles had been 
 found, and under their tlickering light 
 the direction for night-work was 
 gained, lust one Spanish gunboat had • 
 been left in the harbor, and it was the 
 constant wonder of the men that it did 
 not open on them, for it had been the 
 easiest thing in the world to blow them 
 out of their trenches. Possibly there 
 was fear of retaliation on the part of 
 the liatteries which General Miles had 
 brought, and which were now admira- 
 bly planted in positions to effectually 
 shell Santiago on the least provoca- 
 tion : or possibly the enemy had done 
 enough fighting to satisfy his honor, 
 and he was only waiting for the con- 
 venient moment to give up. At the 
 right of the Second are the 8th and 
 22d. and at the left, on a high hill, the 
 4th Regulars. 
 
 Rain falls every day. so that special 
 
56 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 ■ 4£ftaf. 
 
 CaPKOn's ItATIhKY AT I'Il C'aNF.V. 
 
 Stone 1»loc:k-hoiise. KlCaney. 
 
 Ct'BANS IN ^'aNKEE CJARB. 
 
 Co. A Kelie\'ed bv Co. C. 
 
 Field Commissary. 
 
 Camping in the Field. 
 
 nn-nti(in i> uiinrccssary, anil wlini tlu- 14II1, iIkti,- wa.s llic u.sual service in the 
 
 snn shino hetwern whiles the earth waler-hlled trenches, waiting for at- 
 
 fairlyreeks. The u])turning of the earth tacks which never came. On the con- 
 
 apiiears to release malarial germs. trary, at 3.30 p.m.. it was evident that 
 
 and the dreaded fever begins, hnt ex- sunietiiing nnusnal was approaching 
 
 tra i>recantions are taken against sur- from the left, and soon an orderly ap- 
 
 jjrise. Parallels are run out to the main i^eared stating that the city and its sur- 
 
 works. so that the saiue can be rcachei nam dings had siuTendered. To shout 
 
 without too much e.xposure. ( )n the and yell was the first thought of the 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 57 
 
 hearers. l)iit with the anm ninceiiienl 
 came the request to make no demon- 
 stration lest the enemy should recon- 
 sider his g'ix'ing- up. However, there 
 must be some kin 1 of a vent, and seem- 
 ingly the covers blew off, for each and 
 e\'ery hat went into the air, and swing- 
 ing arms had to express what the 
 voices lacked: Init so apprehensive 
 were all concerned of treacherv that 
 all the outposts were consideral)ly 
 strengthened that night. Hii\ve\-er, 
 the most of the men felt that their 
 work was just about done. 
 
 \\'ith the cessation of enforced toil 
 and the lessening of the strain came a 
 physical letting-down which soon told 
 on the men, and responses to the sur- 
 geon's call became more numerous. 
 The non-coming of mail also had a dis- 
 piriting effect. The 17th was note- 
 worthy in that the men were ordered 
 to mount the earthworks and thus con- 
 structively jiarticipate in the fnrmal 
 surrender of the city. At 12 m. the 
 flag was supposed to go up on the ( lov- 
 ernor's palace, and a salute of twenty- 
 one guns announced the auspicious 
 fact. Immediately thereafter the com- 
 ])any marched to regimental headquar- 
 ters, where a letter from President Mc- 
 Kinley was read by Colonel Clark. 
 Early in the e\'ening seven transports 
 came steaming into the harbor, and 
 "what next?" was in everybody's mind. 
 Many thought a trip to Porto Rico was 
 on the tapis, and, as the sequel showed, 
 it had been monev in our bovs' pockets 
 if they had gone, for then they would 
 have escaped that long period of fever 
 and partial starvation. 
 
 On the i8th came the ^^'orcesterTel- 
 egram, latest date July 3d, and its ad- 
 vent was hailed with cheers. Three 
 men, Bruso, Torkelson and Haywartl, 
 were detailed to go over to El Poso 
 and get the dela}ed mails. Nine men 
 
 are on the sick-list. The next day, llic 
 dixersion of digging l)eing over, drill 
 was resumed, and there were few days 
 in which A Company didn't get some 
 part of this essential feature of a sol- 
 dier's life. So near is the camp to the 
 city, the stroke of the public clocks can 
 he distinctly heard. Cajitain Barrett 
 has the distinction of being detailed as 
 a rcjad commissioner with the ]iower 
 to select his workmen at will. He 
 enters upon his task with so nuich zeal, 
 repairs and l)uilrls so effectual!}- that 
 in three days he re|5orts his work ac- 
 complished. General Ludlow can hard- 
 ly belie\e the statement and sallies 
 forth to inspect. After he had ])asseJ 
 over one bridge so \\v\l made an<l .so 
 eft'ectually concealed that he did not 
 recognize it in passing, his incredulity 
 \\as ended, and he at once com])li- 
 mented the Captain cm the thorough- 
 ness of his work. Some of tiiose 
 liridgesareyet in service in the swampy 
 land. Notwithstanding mifavorable 
 criticisms from some officers and many 
 men, the setting-up drill continues, 
 and possiijly the remarkai)le condition 
 of this company in the matter of 
 health as compared with other com- 
 panies of the same regiment may be 
 ascribed to this same enforced exercise. 
 On the 20th, Eieut. Tisdell is de- 
 tailed to sit in a court-martial at l)ri- 
 gade headquarters. The 21st brought 
 rations of fresh beef, which were high- 
 ly appreciated. Also sugar was issued 
 as the result of economy in the com- 
 pan\- fmid, the second expression of 
 this sort, the first being small quanti- 
 ties of rice and salt. Sickness is on 
 the increase, and many of the poor fel- 
 lows are seemingly losing their minds. 
 It is difficult to rouse some of them 
 from their stupor. \Mien summoned 
 for ])articular duty, they may rise, sa- 
 lute with a vacant stare or grin, and 
 
58 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 then immediate!}- lie dnwii in their 
 tents. The homesick feeHng is getting; 
 in its work also. Less than half the 
 Company resi)onils to drill-call on the 
 22d. an<l thdse wh<T visit the surgeon 
 begin tn think that his ]iill-box con- 
 tains quinine only ; thus does history 
 repeat itself, for such was the experi- 
 ence of these l:)oys' fathers in dark Re- 
 bellion days. 
 
 For the first time since leaving Ybor 
 City, fresh bread made its appearance 
 on the 23(1. but the way it came was 
 not particularly appetizing, since the 
 seventv-seven loaves were uncerenKini- 
 ousl\- (lumped u])(>n the ground. The 
 under loaves in this case were not un- 
 der done. The fresh-beef rations hav- 
 ing so lar lost their freshness that sus- 
 ])ici(ins of age were all tocT rife, they 
 were not taken witli favor, but were 
 forthwith buried. .\ hosjiital is im- 
 proxised from an old railroad dep(.it a 
 (piarter of a mile awaw Tt has neither 
 windows m ir doors, and the floor is 
 mother earth, but it does have a cov- 
 ering. Death, which had so mercifully 
 sjjared amidst the battle-shock, now 
 became a constant visitor, though he 
 took none of Company A. Taps over 
 a soldier's grave with following volleys 
 of musketrv became so common that 
 the men grew horribly depressed at 
 the sound, and it seemed that honors 
 to the de;id were likely to destroy the 
 living, till orders were given to bur\- 
 the departed comrades without sound 
 of gun or bugle. It was no uncon^mon 
 sight, in near-by comjianies, to see a 
 non-comnn'ssioned officer jieering into 
 a tent and then with hurried stc]) to 
 seek his cajitain or lieutenant, who 
 would ipiickly visit the same tent, and 
 then after a hasty glance, with sad 
 face, tie down the Ha]), indicating that 
 another spirit had been released. 
 
 To what must be ascribed this Coni- 
 
 Iiany's immunity fr(Tm actual death? 
 \ot luck, surely! To begin with, it 
 had the advantage of a full list of com- 
 missioned officers. These men had 
 been in command or service a long 
 time and were excellent disciplina- 
 rians. At the time many exactions 
 seemed harsh, and possibly worse ; nor 
 (lid they escape severest criticism, but 
 when the results of abstinence, drill 
 and self-denial became evident, those 
 who decried loudest were ecjually 
 decided in their ap])r(_ibation. Much, 
 too, must be allowed for the brotherly 
 spirit which pervaded the company. 
 An\thing that any one could do for 
 his fellow was none too good. Never 
 will the boys cease to remark on the 
 de\-otion of their comrade Israel, who, 
 when he began to convalesce from his 
 own serious illness, kindly volunteered 
 to remain and to try to soften the rigors 
 of the situation. The dishes that he 
 ]>rei)ared fr(">m potatoes and condensed 
 nrilk (piickened man}- a failing appe- 
 tite and perhaps saved lives, for the 
 hospital was utterly destitute of ever}- 
 luxurv. There was no lack of sincerity 
 when the sufferers voted him an Israel- 
 ite indeed, one in whom there was no 
 guile. 
 
 It was at this time that the Captain 
 learned that Clara Barton, the Red 
 Cross angel, was in Santiago, ;iud 
 knowing her ])lace of natixity. he con- 
 ceived the brilliant notion of writing 
 her a letter, which he sent in the hands 
 of Private Higginbotham. As the lat- 
 ter tells the story, the scene was one 
 for an artist when he communicated 
 his mission. Tears were in her eyes 
 as she said, "Do vou mean to tell me 
 that Massachusetts boys are suffering 
 thus in our very vicinity?" For Clara 
 I'.arton to realize a need was to set 
 about filling it, and it was not long be- 
 fore the messenger drew up in front of 
 
C\T\ ClAKllS, (llMI'A.W A. 
 
 59 
 
 ^■'""''l^Zl^r 
 
 Camp of Company A Before Santiago. 
 
 the compan\- with a two-wheeled Cu- 
 ban vehicle, carrying: all it would hear, 
 viz., a barrel of Quaker oats, a 250- 
 pound has: of corn meal, two boxes of 
 malted and one of condensed milk. 
 After leaving a fair portion for those 
 on duty, the remainder was sent to the 
 hospital. Cots were sent later. There 
 is an impression that the philanthropist 
 drove by quite near their camp, but 
 the Worcester soldiers had no oppor- 
 tunity to express to their fellow coim- 
 ty-born the gratitude they felt for her 
 kindness. 
 
 Also the company was fortunate in 
 having in its ranks two druggist 
 clerks. Private Morse was the very 
 next thing to a doctor and he was al- 
 ways to be found. Very soon after the 
 surrender, he made a prescription, or 
 several of them, for the Captain, that 
 the latter might have on hand a list of 
 most needed specifics. Captain Barrett 
 went into the city and had his lists 
 made out and then demanded the cost. 
 Having been told that the whole out- 
 lay ought not to be more than ninety 
 
 cents, he was nearly paralyzed ,d the 
 repl\- ■■|*"i\e dollars." l'"vidently this 
 was not a case of the invader spoiling 
 the lantl. but (|uite the reverse. Says 
 the Captain. "What do you mean by 
 charging nie such a price when yiui 
 know it should not cost one-fifth that 
 sum? Xow \(ni can take one dollar 
 or 1 will order in my men who are close 
 liv and they will clean you out." 
 Though there was many a shrug of 
 displeasure, the Don i)referred his dol- 
 lar to dispossession. 
 
 There are those who remember how 
 funnv that khaki blouse of Captain 
 Barrett looked. It was pocketed all 
 the way round. No one knows just 
 how many it contained, but there 
 seemed to be nothing in the way of 
 sup])lies that it was incapalile of fur- 
 nishing. One man who had accused 
 the officer of marching in light array 
 had occasion to lift the garment once, 
 whereupon he remarked, '■ni never 
 accuse you of carrying light weight 
 again." On occasion he could produce 
 from the mysterious depths (if that 
 
60 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 same coat iMiuliarl) aiiJ (|uiniiie pills; 
 doses of castor-oil : arnica, ammonia, 
 cholera medicine ; and there was a 
 precious pint flask of brandy whose 
 contents could be sampledc mly asa final 
 resort, and then only under the strict- 
 est surveillance. So carefully and judi- 
 ciously were the lirandy dmps dis- 
 pensed that when the l)oys reached 
 home there were just three swallows 
 of the Ii(|uid left. The ciimjiany also 
 possessed a stretcher which it had no 
 occasion to use for itself, l)ut it was 
 frequently loaned. IMoreciver, there had 
 beenpreparedanumber of small l^ittles 
 with close-fitting stoppers, and within 
 were bits of paper upon which the 
 names of any member dying could be 
 written, and the same, placed with the 
 remains, would aflford indubitable iden- 
 tification when effort.s should be made 
 to return the body to Alassachusetts. 
 
 Monday the 25th brought the Wor- 
 cester Telegram and measurements for 
 new suits of kdiaki, and tlu' \aluable 
 fact that Company A had the lowest 
 percentage of illness in the regiment. 
 The next day. Captain Barrett and 
 I.ieut. Tisdell went into town and also 
 ])aid a visit to the transport Knick- 
 erbocker, the one on which the trip to 
 Cuba was m.adr. While on board, the 
 Ca|)tain was attacked with \i(dent ill- 
 ness, and for a time it seemed as 
 though he could not leave the boat. 
 Knowing full well how his absence 
 might be misinterpreted. he determined 
 to get back to his company some way. 
 The 1 -ieutenant had gone on, and when 
 the sJKire \\;is reached (.'apt. liarrett 
 was so ill that he was wholly incapable 
 of walking. In this strait he luckily 
 descried the (/oloncl's colored cook, 
 who had ridden a mule into the city. 
 Wishing to remain for a time he was 
 particularly anxious to get the animal 
 backtocani]). Fortune fa^•ors the brave, 
 
 and Ijy an exchange of services, the 
 Captain rode back to his own and the 
 cook had his animal safely restored. 
 Twenty men are reported ill. 
 
 The 27th. r'ri\-ates Allison. Hall and 
 I.atiamme were sent over to the com- 
 missary headquarters to buv tobacco 
 and caiuied goods for theCompany.and 
 late in the same day. Allison with Pri- 
 vate Young was detailed for five days' 
 dnt}' in the city. The month of July 
 dragged its weary length along with 
 few variations save as new men went 
 to the hospital and a less number of 
 convalescents returned, and wdierever 
 such a case was noted, due credit was 
 given to Comrade ]\lorse and his in- 
 valuable medicine-chest. The non- 
 conunissioned officers of the Company 
 were efficient men. and all agree that 
 1st Sergeant Allison, though small in 
 stature, was large in deeds, and, though 
 his own brother was in the Company, 
 so al)solutelv impartial that the latter 
 thought, in the matter of detail for 
 extra work, he would have fared bet- 
 ter were some other man orderly. 
 Then there was Corporal Ralph .Alli- 
 son, who was also company clerk, and 
 he was as steady as a clock in the pur- 
 suit of duty : but he was badly sold one 
 dav. when demands were made for the 
 crack shots of the Company and the im- 
 pression was had that the nicest kind 
 of work was needed. When the Cor- 
 poral returned from his labors he re- 
 marked that the next time shooters 
 were wanted diggers had better l)e 
 sent, since it was a shovel he had to 
 use instead of a gun. Commissary 
 Sergeant Poland, in the Cuban days, 
 was sometimes regarded rather unfa- 
 \(irably b\- the boys, particularly if 
 special favors were wanted in the way 
 of rations, but a retrospect shows how 
 absolutely just and impartial he was 
 in all of his distributions. He saw his 
 
CITV GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 61 
 
 duty, ami he did it. Tlic very last day 
 of the month lirought small hits of ice 
 for the hospital inmates, secured by 
 the Captain, and a degree of comfort- 
 able weather cpiite unusual for Cuba. 
 
 Had the boys of Company .V been 
 aware that August, whose first day 
 came in fair and warm, would end 
 their service in Cuba, there had been 
 more smiling faces than there were 
 
 < )uR ,\rtist .\fi ei.d. 
 
 when the rumor was circulated that 
 peace had lieen declared. So many 
 times had they been deceived by 
 Dame Rumor, the}- declared this. too. 
 was only a "Jojo" story, devised to 
 keep up the spirits of the homesick 
 soldiers. .\p])ar(,ntlv there were some 
 
 will I ciiidd tiiid no better amusement 
 than in devising yarns which might 
 catch the ears of the unwary. As this 
 story was preceded by a deal of cheer- 
 ing, even the most incredulnus began 
 to fancy there might be something in 
 it. However wrong in principle, there 
 can be lit tie doubt that these fake rumors 
 had a beneficial effect, for hope, which 
 is said to spring eternal in the breast of 
 man.hadwellnighdied out of the hearts 
 of many of these Massachusetts lads. 
 The fever which reigned in their veins 
 had seemingly burned out the better ]iart 
 of their minds, and lhe\ woidd lie 1h1|i- 
 less upon the ground, or. if ablelo stand, 
 would reel like drunken men. Their 
 eyes were sunken, their cheeks hollow, 
 and one might doubt if his best friend, 
 thus suffering, knew him on meeting. 
 What a blessing it was that not every 
 one was thus sick at the sametime.else 
 there had been no one left to tell the 
 tale. ( ioing down to the \ ir\ brink of 
 the dark ri\er with almost a touch of 
 its lethean llow, they would slowly 
 come back to take up the duties of a 
 soldier's life, and to bear a part in tiie 
 care of those on the downward slope. 
 
 Rain or shine. sick or well, there were 
 ew days'when the Com|)any did not have 
 ,1 taste of drill, which the old Cernian 
 (/olonel ihcuight was the real end of a 
 soklier's existence. This necessity of 
 doing somethinghatl its part in tiie Com- 
 pany's escape from the actual presence 
 of Death. Idle hands are ])rovocative 
 not onlv of mischief, but of other ills 
 as well. For several days no rain is had. 
 and its absence is agreeable, Init the sun 
 shines with increasing fervor. Postal 
 facilities improve. and almost every day 
 somethingin the mail line gladdens the 
 eyes of the men. Xor are rumors want- 
 ingthatthe departure is at hand. While 
 the Guards do not succumb to the grim 
 destrover. almost everv dav sees some 
 
62 
 
 WORCESTER I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 poor boy's remains laid awav in the 
 grave. Some doubtless thought of the 
 rhymes, familiar in bo\'hood's davs, 
 from "The Rurial of Sir John ^foore": 
 "No useless coffin enclosed his breast. 
 Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound 
 him, 
 But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, 
 Witli his martial cloak around him." 
 
 At the best, only a blanket or half of a 
 shelter-tent is devoted to enwrapping 
 the clay now to nioKler back tci kin- 
 dred earth. 
 
 August moves slowly along with few 
 variations. Alen are going to the hos- 
 pital and returning thence, and all are 
 wondering what the\- are staving fcir. 
 The eighth day brought the pa_\niaster, 
 and compensation for two months. Then 
 the chief lacking was a place where the 
 pay might be profitably spent. The sur- 
 roundings afforded nothing, and there 
 
 
 
 1^ ^ ^k^ 
 
 4if 
 
 
 ■yd;?^ 
 
 :^f''^ 
 
 *'Ve Urave Orderly" and (jeneral Luih.ow. 
 
 was not even the old-time solace of a 
 sutler with his high-])riced commodities. 
 ( )ne might wonder where the chaplain 
 of the Second was during all these trv- 
 inghours,but the records appear singu- 
 larly silent as to the offices of this gen- 
 tleman. Ifhewerethe ministering angel 
 that army clergymen are supposed to 
 be, nothing of his deeds reached the 
 ears of Conqjanv A. but over in the 
 Twenty-second Regulars was a cha|)- 
 lain who had the ears and hearts of his 
 men, irrespective of creed. The priest, 
 Father I'ltzgerald. though his faith was 
 foreign to that <)f most of the men in 
 the Second, his coming was hailed with 
 a])plause and gratitu<le, for the\' knew 
 how faithfull}- he had ministered to 
 the boys in their suffering. 
 
 It was during these days that Col. 
 John F. Alarsh of Springfield, and later 
 Halleck liartlett of Worcester, visited 
 the camp on doiid .Samaritan errands, 
 but somehow the former's ministrations 
 did not appear to reach manv of those 
 su|)]uised to be interested. Indeed, one 
 .soMicr of A C'ompany says; "All the 
 lemijns and other viands we got, we 
 stole." There is nothing so direct nor 
 commendalile as military frankness, 
 though this extenuation may be offered, 
 that the soldier usuallv discriminated in 
 his reaching after things. ( )n the lotli 
 day there cami' to Colonel Clark ,-in 
 order that was better for sick men than 
 any medicine possible. It was to the ef- 
 fect that on the next day or that follow- 
 ing the Seci ind \\i ml d start fi irhome. The 
 bugle-call summoning the officers to 
 headquarters gave added weight to the 
 news. This day came the khaki imi- 
 forms,for\\ hich measurements had been 
 made in July. That the}- luight be well 
 off with the old before thev were on 
 with the new, orders were gi\en that all 
 the cast-off clothing should be liurnetl. 
 If this order hatl been literallv obeved, 
 
CITY fU'AUDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 63 
 
 Some of the Hats that Went up at the Surrender. 
 
 from 9 a.m. to 5 o'clock in the after- 
 noon, the men had been all but naked, 
 for the clothinij did not apjiear as early 
 as expected. One of the absurdities, in 
 this enforced burning, was that all 
 under-clothing was retained so that 
 fe\'er germs were still on hand. How- 
 ever, consistency was ever a jewel that 
 very few possess, ^^"hen the new khakis 
 ilid come, there was a general stripping, 
 and bonfires were started, into which 
 war-worn garments were thrown. This 
 destruction of apparel was not on ac- 
 count of the presence of the peculiar 
 curse of army-life, viz., vermin, for the 
 rule of cleanliness had been quite tud 
 generally enforced for thi.s calamity, but 
 that there might be carried to the States 
 no trace of yellow fever, the dread of 
 all hot climates. Though the Second 
 was encamped for some time in its final 
 location, the camp was so thoroughly 
 
 policed and the tents so constantly 
 .lircil an<l stirred up that the pcdiciilus 
 (■('r/>iir;.v fi)und no lodgment — a fact 
 which the fathers of these young sol- 
 diers claim renders their army expe- 
 rience much less varied than that of 
 1861-7,5. 
 
 TliL- de|);irtin-e from this land of the 
 palm sliMuld not be made without fm-ther 
 reference to the sulterings of tin- men 
 from causes which seemingh might 
 Iia\-e been avoided. l'"or instance, was 
 therenotsomewayto give the sick men 
 better accommodation than the old 
 railroad station afforded? W'indowless, 
 witli leaky roof, it ke])t out \-ery little 
 ot the wind and rain. .\s for doctors, 
 there were scores, htnidre<ls of men in 
 the States anxious to liel]:) here, but they 
 had no chance. Both Surgeon liowen 
 and. Assistant Surgeon Hitchcock were 
 tlunisehes in hos|)ital, where I'lowen 
 died, and .Second Assistant Gates had 
 beenidetailed for duty in one of the reg- 
 ular regiments, so that for two d;i\s the 
 Second was without any medical attend- 
 ance. \\ In 11 .Surgeon dates did return, 
 he did all that mortal man could do. and 
 forhis workthe men can ne\er be grate- 
 ful enough, nor will the\- forget the 
 contract surgeon, who also seemingly 
 thoroughly sensed the situation. Offi- 
 cers and men did all they could to have 
 the luxury of a bath. biU ])laces had to 
 be souglit with diligence, (iuards were 
 stationed t<i pre\ent the defiling of 
 those streams whence drinking water 
 was secured, so men would go off in 
 l^airs to find some trickling rill. and. 
 collecting the drops in canteens, would 
 take turns in pouring the contents over 
 their res]K'Ctive persons. All the time, 
 from any elevation the sea or harbor 
 was in sight, and why were they not 
 ]jermitted to take reviving dips therein? 
 As with Lord Dundreary, this is one 
 of the things no "fellah" can find out. 
 
64 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 The fanidus Kouiiil Koliin episode is 
 recalled wherein the heads of regiments 
 protested against certain action, and 
 the ditterence lietween regular and vol- 
 unteer officers became apparent wdien 
 the former would say, "I hope you will 
 do all you can to pre\-ent the sending 
 of the men back into the hills. With 
 vou it will make no difference. l)Ut 
 with us it means the loss of position in 
 our wa\' upward. If the men go to the 
 hills, few if any will ever return." 
 Fortimately the men did not make the 
 trip to the interior, and the epidemic 
 of ^•ellow jack was a\'oided. 
 
 'if 
 
 
 '■<.> 
 
 Cn. A';^ I)()\ (JiixcitE AM' His Ro^inantk. 
 
 If ('onipan\- .\ at any lime had a 
 niascot.it was wlun the boys came into 
 possession of a biu'ro which, like all 
 beasts of her order and se\.\\;i> known 
 as Jennie, ."^he was the most n^etul and 
 jiatient of animals, anil, imder the care 
 of Private .Mills, became a mar\t.-l of 
 hel])fiilness. Water had to be In'ought 
 some distance, so with characteristic 
 ingenuity the manager of the cara\an 
 had tilted up a saddle. u]"'n which the 
 bovs Could hang their canteens, and 
 
 thus caparisoned the ])rocession of 
 donkey and driver would set forth to the 
 watering-place. While the soldier was 
 hllingthe canteens. Jennie was allowed 
 to roll, crop the herbage, and disport 
 herself as she chose. \\'hen again load- 
 ed with her watery burden, she would 
 return to camp in the steadiest of jogs, 
 with the loss of never a drop. In camp 
 she was a general pet, and would eat 
 hardtack like an old campaigner. As the 
 currying of her hairy coat was a gener- 
 al diversion, she became exceedingly 
 sleek and fat. Had there not l)een an 
 order forbidding the taking on board of 
 all animals, save officers" horses, the boys 
 would ha\-e devised some means to 
 bring their Cuban friend home with 
 them. As it was, she became an invalua- 
 ble adjunct to Lieut, riummer in his 
 subsequent stay. and. tinally. she was 
 given to a Cuban boy wdio hail lieen 
 helpful and useful about the camp and 
 hospital. The boys tell, with great 
 gusto, the storv of Jennie's failure to 
 show u|) one mcirning and the conse- 
 (|uentconsternation. The disai^pearance 
 
 '- of .Santiago itself could scarcely ha\"e 
 disturbed them more. Had some envi- 
 ous company or regiment stolen the 
 beast? Search-parties were organized 
 
 , at once, and most diligently was the 
 neighboring region scrutinized. It was 
 the Captain's good fortune ti) find the 
 lost animal closely wound up in her 
 hilch-ro|ie. and so interlaced with 
 bushes and undergrowth that she had 
 inevitablv starved had not the discovery 
 betii made. The hurrah which announced 
 leimie's return was simil;ir to that 
 which accompanies the home-coming 
 of a search part\- with the joyful shout. 
 ■'The child which was lost is found." 
 .\ugust iitli saw the camp in all the 
 bustle of i)reparation to leave. How 
 happ\- the boys were over the thought 
 of seeing home again. E\ery heart 
 
CITV CUARUS, COMPANY A. 
 
 65 
 
 pulsates more rapidlx- and appetite 
 (luickens with \isions of Worcester and 
 her well-spread tables. As the Captain 
 and his lieutenants see the sun go down, 
 they remark. "It is the last time we 
 shall see the sun disappear over that 
 cursed hill." Hut at that very moment 
 there was in the Captain's possession an 
 order commanding one of his associates 
 to forego his home-returning, and to 
 remain in Cuba to look after the wants 
 of the sick who coidd not then be 
 moved. Thinking the Lieutenant would 
 rest better with the thought of going 
 home in his mind, the special order was 
 withheld till the morning of the 12th 
 
 prevent the intrriduction of yellow 
 fever into the United States. As the 
 da}s went on, his horses died, and he 
 could get no more ; then Jennie, the 
 donkey, worked in and she was verv. 
 very useful. The Lieutenant had a 
 small ])(_)cket Bible, which became very 
 much like a prayer-book in his minis- 
 trations over the dead. Graves were dug 
 1\v the Cubans, who would accomjiany 
 the officer in his placing the departed 
 in the ground, but being very supersti- 
 tiiius the least rustle of a leaf became 
 to them the presence of disembodied 
 spirits, and they were off at once, leav- 
 ing the lone soldier to his trruesome 
 
 W'm. G. Standish. 
 
 Ceo. E. Allison. 
 
 Jos. T. L.^KLAMMK. 
 
 after Vireakfast. Then Lieutenant 
 I'lumnier had his fate announced. Like 
 a true soldier he took his orders with- 
 out a grimace, and only said, "If or- 
 dered to remain. I shall stay and do my 
 duty." That he did his duty most ef- 
 fectually, every one at all conversant 
 with the facts agree. Before the regi- 
 ment had departed, he had appropriated 
 all the regimental and hospital tents, 
 and had the poor fellows from the rail- 
 road-station apology for a hospital car- 
 ried into them. The design was to have 
 those too weak to go on the trans- 
 ]iort detained, that they might follow 
 on the hospital boat : also to carefull}- 
 
 task; but he, stout of heart, woidd read 
 o\-er the grave words from his holy 
 book, and then return to his quarters. 
 which each day grew more lonely. Cer- 
 tain men W'ere detailed from other 
 companies to remain with Lieutenant 
 Plummer. The torture to which these 
 soldiers were thus subjected was akin 
 to that which Tantalus and Sisyphus 
 underwent. From all sides, both in his 
 own com])any and from others, come 
 continuous praises of the way our Lieu- 
 tenant did his duty. I^ike Jim Bludsoe 
 in the rhyme — 
 
 "He see his duty a dead sure thing. 
 .And lie went for it tliere and tlien." 
 
66 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 It was carlv in tlu- nioniino- of the I2th tlat-l>oat is trying to get rid of its load, 
 that the ctminiand was given for all to though with indifferent success. There 
 fall in whd thought they could stand the was Lieut. Vesper, too sick to help 
 trip hiime. ami it must redound ti:i the himself, and his men, too feeble to help 
 credit of Company Athat not a man was him. From Company A the cry came, 
 missing from the ranks except Private "It"s up to us to do this job"; and thus 
 Fairlianks, who was absent on duty, and intrusting their guns to near-by corn- 
 certain ones who had been sent home, rades. men enough jumped on board the 
 Though many had been on the sick list, craft, tied the Lieutenant into his chair, 
 and even then were verv shakv on their and with two men ahead and two be- 
 legs. not a man had yielded to the arch hind he was elevated up the ship's side, 
 enemv, but each and everv one could and theway was soon made clear for the 
 still answer, "Here." They march over contents of the "Laura and Bessie." 
 to head.iuarters, where they are in- On board the Mobile, the story of the 
 spected by the surgeon, who finally de- Knickerbocker was in a measure re- 
 cides thatFischershould remain for the i)eated. There was lack of preparation, 
 betterapiiointmentsof the hospital boat. The two regular regiments had had the 
 .^till tliere are men who can not endure pick of places, andthere was left for the 
 the march to the docks, so they are car- Second only second or third choice, 
 ried in army wagons, and even then Still Yankee ingenuity did not entirely 
 some of them faint in transit. It was a fail them, and they finally, by purchase 
 sorry looking lot of men wdio marched or otherwise, secured cpiarters not the 
 awav from the camp of so many days. worst possible. The sick-bay was on 
 Hollow-eyed. yellow-skinned, and limp- the first or upper deck in the after ]>art, 
 ing along, they must have excited the and its covering afforded scant prcjlec- 
 astonishment of the inhabitants a> they tion from rain, which frecpiently fell m 
 went through : and there would be little torrents, while the sun at times beat 
 wonder if some Spaniards, among the down upon the men most pitilessly, 
 onlookers, did not re]>roach themselves Hammocks were given out as far as 
 over the th. mght that they had surren- they would go, and then men who had 
 dered to such a sickly-looking crew as money, ami all had been recently paid, 
 the^e departing Americans were. Their made dickers with the crew, so that 
 way into town was over tlu- road that some had as good as the best. In the 
 tlieir own in-enuitv and industry had same way many improved their food- 
 hiuit, and over the roughly paved nitions. The fare for the sick was not 
 streets of the citv, they come to the adapted to their wants, and they had to 
 wharf, onlv to find that the lighters are take the regular rounds of hardtack and 
 not on hand, havin.14 had already the canned stuff', or nothing. The men fre- 
 carrving of thr other regimmts of the ipiently had not strength to lirush off' 
 brigade to the transptjrt .Mobile, which the flies which settled over their faces, 
 drew too many feet of water to admit Those who cared for the sick were only 
 of her appro.ach to the dock. lUit a bit better off th.an their patients, 
 everything comes to him who waits. The grand start for home is made on 
 and at last, bv means of the "Laura the i_:;th. and dinner call is unheedeil in 
 .-ind r.essie."Comiian\ .\ nears the ves- theanxiety of the men to take a parting 
 sel, but as usual there was something look atSantiago — "St. James"the word 
 between the men and fruition, for a is in English vernacular— but there is 
 
CITY Gl'ARDS, COMI'AiNY A. 
 
 67 
 
 nothing saint-like in the reflcctiims of 
 the men of the Second as they steam 
 away. Thr(iu,t;h the neck of the bottled- 
 up harbor the Mobile passes, close to 
 the sunken ^Merrimack, evidence of 
 Lieutenant Holison's bravery, near the 
 wrecked Reina Mercedes, tro|)hy nf the 
 deeds of July ^(\. and on yonder frown- 
 ing height is El M<irro, grim reminder 
 of days when suchljattlements were de- 
 fenses. Xow. armed with her guns of 
 century make, the fort is scarcely bet- 
 ter than a curiosity shop. The next day, 
 as they steamed along towards home, 
 there is seen in the distance a trace of 
 smoke, which soon develops into a ves- 
 sel, and, from the blackened clouds 
 which come from the stacks, it is evi- 
 dent that she ismakingsteam. The ccni- 
 dition of peace negotiatons was not 
 known on board, and the English cap- 
 tain had no relish for a Spanish capture, 
 so he calls for help to crowd in the coal 
 in his own furnaces. The same is readily 
 given by the men, but the stranger has 
 greater speed and rapidly overhauls, 
 though he is in such a direction that his 
 colors can not be made out. At last 
 
 there conies from his bow a pufif of 
 NUicike, but the Mobile- does not slack- 
 en ; then follows a solid shot, and, in 
 tiring it, the direction of the boat is so 
 changed that the Star-spangled llanner 
 is shown. The AbTile slows dnwn as 
 \"isions of a Spanish prison disappear, 
 and as the gunboat" Yankee" comes near 
 is heanl the call. "Who is it?" When 
 due answer is made the Mobile's com- 
 pany learns that their pursuer has on 
 hoard a contingent of the Massachusetts 
 Xaval Militia, so with a hearty exchange 
 of Bay State cheers the vessels separate. 
 Compan\- A had no intention of going 
 hungry, and Captain Barrett gave him- 
 self entirely to the help and comfort of 
 his men. A little judicious use of Uncle 
 Sam's currencv madeliim solid with the 
 Ciiok, hence when the boilers were not 
 otherwise employed, they were making 
 soup for Company A. To get the same 
 to the boys without exciting the sus- 
 picions of other companies, was the 
 chief trouble. When the proper time 
 came, a couple of men would aj^proach, 
 and, coxering their wash-boiler of soup 
 with a rul)ber blanket, the\- would cjui- 
 etly get back to their own, bearing also 
 a fresh Inscuit for each man, all this 
 being so much extra in their regular ra- 
 tions ;thusmuch for care and foresight. 
 In this home-coming there was no 
 sound so dreaded as that of t!n-ee bells, 
 when the vessel stopped, and all knew 
 that some poor bodv was to be con- 
 signed to the deep. It was not a long 
 pause, but chills ran through forms not 
 accustomed to fear at the thought, "The 
 next lot may l)e mine." In this way the 
 Worcester boys saw the body of their 
 staunch friend and comradeof Company 
 C, Harrv 1!. Wentworth. disappear. 
 Could it be possible that his stalwart 
 frame had wasted away till scarcely 
 more than a skeleton was committed to 
 the sea? On the fourth day out all that 
 
63 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 was mortal of I^icut. X^esper, whom 
 Company A bo}S had helped aboard. 
 wasgivenan ocean burial, ^\"ith rations 
 good and bad liehind them, with their 
 campaign un foreign shores ended, late 
 in the afternnun of the i8th of August 
 land is sighted, and our boys see again 
 their nati\-e shore. Never did it look 
 dearer, and it were not strange if there 
 were some stern resolves to never 
 leave it more. Peace settles down on 
 troubled souls, and to Captain Barrett 
 the sight is |)articularly consoling, for 
 now he can lay aside his cares and take 
 the first sound sleep that had fallen 
 upon his evelids since the departure 
 from Santiago Harbor. '"Uneasy lies 
 the head that wears a crown." 
 
 The morning of the loth of August 
 revealed the eastern extremity of Li:>ng 
 Island. N. V., known in geography as 
 IMontauk I'oint : and an tuiobstructed 
 sight of an\' part of (iod's country 
 gave satisfaction to the fever-stricken 
 soldiers, but an immediate landing 
 was out of tlu' <|uestion, since a hunt 
 for yello\v-fe\er symptoms must be 
 had bt'fore Irrrii liiimi can be touched. 
 As a preliniin.'iry all the men are drawn 
 up in line near their respective (piar- 
 ters. ;uid (piarantine ])hysicians care- 
 full\' inspect e;ich jaundiceil \oyager. 
 l'"ortunatel\ , ('oiii|iany A reveals no 
 suspect, so all nia\- go ashore as far as 
 the yellow danger is concernc'd. \\ Idle 
 the ins])eclion is in jirogress. Captain 
 Tlarrett. realizing how anxious the 
 folks at houie would be to kno\y how 
 the boys had I'ndured the return trip, 
 wroti' ci'rlain words upon a strip of 
 paper ami. \\'rap|iing ihe same aniund 
 a silver dojl.-ir, ihrew the missile to an 
 apparently honest party, with the 
 statement that he might retain the 
 change after forwarding the message 
 bv telegraph. This telegram was to 
 Mrs. r>arrc-tt in W oreester, and was as 
 
 follows : "Every one in Company A 
 alive. Please notify papers." This 
 message, received and given to the 
 local press, was the very first intima- 
 tii>n that ^^^:lrcester had of the condi- 
 tion of the returning Conipau}'. ( )n 
 this day, only the sick left the boat, but 
 |>a])ers and letters from home and the 
 outside world were received. 
 
 The 20th brings the real debarkation, 
 and as usual wdien anything of the kind 
 was to be done, the Captain of A Com- 
 pany had the task of superintending 
 the unloading. Selecting men from 
 each company, and with forty steve- 
 dc.)res, the wiirk \yas begun, and ])ro- 
 gressed steadil}' till, at 4 p.m., e\ery 
 man was off the boat. Those unable 
 to walk had been sent for\yard in wag- 
 ons, and the transport itself was swe])t 
 and garnished in an imusual manner. 
 Recognizing the merit of the work, the 
 skipper of the craft made a present to 
 the Cajitain of a nice cane-seated deck- 
 chair, a utensil highly .appreciated in 
 the following days of Alontauk stay, 
 though CajJtain Barrett had little time 
 to occu|)y it himself. At 4 (.)'clock, the 
 last load was started for camp, and 
 "good-by" was said to the IMobile, De- 
 tention camp ma\- have been a mile 
 from the landing |ilace, but in the 
 men's c<indition the distance seeme<l 
 much greater. Confusion ruled su- 
 jiri-me, and few appliances necessary 
 to camp life were at hand. The tents 
 were small anil insufficient, \yhile the 
 elexated site of the camp gave the wind 
 full sweep, a liberty it was n(_it sl(jw to 
 t.ake. and, coming as it did at a tempcr- 
 atiu'e fre(|uentl\- as low at 65 degrees 
 I'ahr.. it phued ha\oe with boys ac- 
 clim.ated to the torrid 100 degrees and 
 o\-er of Cuba. Had the government 
 sent the trans|)ort to some southern 
 ])ort and thus accustomed the retm^n- 
 iuL!' in\-alids c;raduall\'. ver\- likelv men 
 
CITY CUARDS, ^■oMl'.\^•^■ 
 
 69 
 
 Corp. A. Ci. Thompson. 
 
 THO.\t.\S n. II.VM.MOND. 
 
 Ser(;t. E. U. Ri EOL. 
 
 uii^lit l)c alive to-da}' whu then siic- 
 ciniiliod to the strain. As it was, many 
 of those who lixed are. after tltese 
 nearly four years, still hackintj and 
 coughing from the hrnnehial irouliles 
 engendered \'v the easterly winds of 
 Long Island. 
 
 Remembering nature's first law in 
 the matter of self-preservatii)n. certain 
 thoughtful members of "A" became the 
 possessors of a complete lUizzacott 
 outfit which had been dumped from the 
 waeons. It was true that it did not 
 
 .\kthi-'R C. M.\(-.ee. 
 
 SrMON IsR.\Er.. 
 
 belong to them, l)ut what booted that 
 so long as it was in use, and used it 
 was constantly. Soon alter arriving in 
 camp, there was a distribution of beef, 
 and the Captain, with Private W ei.xler, 
 set about preparing a meal of tooth- 
 some (piality for the men. so that be- 
 fore 7 o'clock every man in the com- 
 ]ianv had had a piece of steak, a boiled 
 potato, and a cup of cofifee. They then 
 set about the preparation of a soup for 
 breakfast. In the midst of their work 
 th.\v were inspected by certain soldiers 
 
70 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 not of "A." who, in whis])cred words, sidered contagious. On the last day in 
 
 declared their lielief that the cooking this place Captain Allen of the Light 
 
 outfit was theirs, and also their deter- Infantr\', who for some time had been 
 
 mination to ca]3ture it when a good in ^^'orcester on account of illness, 
 
 chance ottered. To prevent any such came to the regiment, bringing with 
 
 calamity, the plant, when the soup was him a goodlv arrav oi both solid and 
 
 cooked, was mined into a tent, and a liquid refreshments, which he shared 
 
 half dozen of the men stood guard over not only with C Company, but with all 
 
 it, ready to "fight till the last armed the \\*orcester bovs. Also this dav 
 
 foe expired." rather than surrender a there was another examination made 
 
 drfiji of soup or an ounce of the appa- by the physicians, and some men were 
 
 ratus. 'file name of that jolly old sent to the hospitals and thus prema- 
 
 rebel. General Joe Wheeler, was given turely home, but at this date it is fair 
 
 to the cam|i. and the men ]iroceededto to conclude that they actetl in accord 
 
 make the best of their rpiarantine. with their Ijest judgment. 
 
 For fciur days they were detained in ( )n the 24th came the orders to leave 
 
 this place till, thniugh their failure to quarantine, and the men were nothing 
 
 develop the _\ellow scourge, it was loath to obev. Packing up was soon 
 
 deemed safe to let them pass out. dijue. and then the\- marched awaw 
 
 During this time the Captain of the The sudden change from the heat of 
 
 City ("luards was a]ipointed brigade Cuba to the cool air of Montauk did 
 
 l)olice inspector, i. r., id ], k ik after the not produce the effect desired ; on the 
 
 cleanliness of the camjis, anil it was no contrary man}' men sickened quicklv, 
 
 small honor for a captain of volunteers and dysenterv, malarial and tvphoid 
 
 to be thus designated when there were fevers were verv common. Captain 
 
 two regiments of regulars in the bri- Barrett had to look after his own men 
 
 gade. A'ery likely General Ludlow re- in the removal, and also see that the 
 
 membered some of the Cai)tain's work cam]) was left in a proper condition, 
 
 in Cul);i. and knew that this duty To this he supjiosed he had given 
 
 would be done with the same faithful- ])roper attention, when he was accost- 
 
 ness. However, his directions were re- ed liy a young man. ])Ossibly a recent 
 
 ceived and executed with the utmost \A'est-l 'ointer. riding a horse and ])ro- 
 
 alacrity. requiring in oid\- one instance claiming himself an assistant inspector. 
 
 a quotation of regulations to let the 1 fe wanted to know who had the polic- 
 
 regular .Major understand that the in- ing in charge, and was informed that 
 
 s])ector knew what he was ;diout. ( )ne he was addressing that officer himself, 
 
 of the tantali/ing features of the deten- \\hereu|ion there was an exchange of 
 
 tionwas the ne;irness of visiting friends civilities, in which our Worcester Cap- 
 
 and yet iheii- inq)assable distance. As t.ain lost none of his dignit\- norstand- 
 
 \vilh the soullurn prisons of the Rebel- ing.but the young Lieutenant did learn 
 
 lion days, there was ;i so-called dead- that even a graduate of the military 
 
 line, across which only ( ieneral Ludlow acadeniv may be at times just a bit 
 
 andthepoliceinspector could go. Long- fresh. The upshot of the matter was 
 
 distance talking was indulged in, how- that the assistant informed theCaptain 
 
 ever, and koijak possessors shot over that he should report him for derelic- 
 
 the line, the impression received tion and incivility. When General 
 
 through jihotography not being con- Ludlow inquired of Captain Barrett 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 71 
 
 W'lLLi^^M M. Se\erv. Ahthi-r I,. Haywari), 
 
 Albert J, Reinbold. 
 l'"iRST Sergt. W. 11. Allison. Herhert li. Arbott. 
 
 concerning- the interview, he was 
 speedily satisfied that his young officer 
 had displayed zeal without knowledge. 
 There are only two days of stay in 
 the general infantry camp, but on the 
 25th come Lieutenant Liicke. D. D. 
 IMcTaggart. George A\'. Hubbard and 
 Luke Davis, all from W orcester. the 
 last named being the father of one of 
 the company, and Mr. Hubbard was 
 known to all as the long-time care- 
 taker of the Armory. There are so 
 many rumors of departure for home 
 that few can enjoy the really comforta- 
 ble appointments of the camp, nor the 
 food which bv contrast seems to be 
 
 actually luxurious. Mr. McTaggart, 
 formerly one of the Guards, took pic- 
 tures of the company, some of whose 
 members had changed so much that he 
 did not recognize them. Also the reg- 
 iment marched before a l)iograpii. and 
 fin- aught the men know, in some far- 
 away museum, they are marching still. 
 .Ml the arms and ammunition of the 
 soldiers were turned over to the bri- 
 gade ordnance officer, and those thus 
 giving up their guns were not a little 
 delighted at hearing the officer say that 
 theirs were the only ones in the regi- 
 ment returned in a fair condition. 
 
72 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 If the departure uf the Worcester 
 contingent liad been thus far the most 
 momentous e\ent in its histcirs', then 
 the story of the 27th of August was to 
 crowd it liard, since this was the dav 
 of the liome returning. "Let not him 
 that girdeth on his harness boast Iiim- 
 self as he that putteth it off." As earh' 
 as 4.7,0 a.m. some in tlie camp were 
 astir, and for his Ijreakfast each man 
 had two Ijoiled eggs, l)read and butter 
 with a cu]) of coffee. Then standing 
 in front of the lire the Captain gave to 
 each man a ihdnk of porter or whiskey. 
 Thus suppHed it was with ahnost a 
 s]iringy step these mahirial poisoned 
 kids set out for the steamer Bkick 
 I^k'inik al)oar<l which they went at 7 
 a.m., an early start, l>ut necessary, if 
 tile close of the day were to see the 
 men at home. Lieutenant-colonel 
 .^^hunnvay and L'aptain I'.arrett attend- 
 ed to the loading" of the boat, and at 
 7.45 she steamed away from the wharf 
 with her prow directed towards New 
 London. 
 
 'Idle Connecticut city was fully alive 
 to the situation, for a sea of faces 
 greeted the' arri\al iif the steamer, and 
 among the dwellers in the city were 
 many who had come down from Wor- 
 cester to accom|ianv the l)o\s home, 
 among them (leneral Fre<l W". Wel- 
 lington, whose stalwart pro|jortions 
 drew from an onlooking citizen the 
 words. "Uy (leorge! there is a man 
 who stood the campaign well. He 
 doesn't look as if he'd been in Cuba, 
 does he?" Xor were the attentions of 
 the good jieople coutmed to expres- 
 sions of sympathy, for they knew that 
 hearts are often reached through the 
 stomach, hence the baskets well filled 
 with the finest of food. C)ne ladv in 
 jjarticular had repeatedly llitted past 
 the first otfncer of .\ Com]jan\'. and he 
 had noticed the presence of what 
 
 seemed to be the nicest of chicken 
 sandwiches, but not one did she offer 
 to him. Finally he mustered up cour- 
 age to ask her what slie purposed do- 
 ing with the contents of the basket. 
 "\\'hy," said she, "I am giving them to 
 the poor soldier boys, just back from 
 Cuba." "Well." says our doughty ofifi- 
 cer in his most melancholy tone. "What 
 is the matter with giving me one. for 
 I was in Cuba?" Imagine his feel- 
 ings when the good woman responded, 
 "(111, no, you couldn't have been there, 
 for you are too fat." How little sym- 
 pathy rotund people receive on their 
 way through the wiirld ! 'Tis said, 
 luiwever, that the Captain convinced 
 the C(M_]d Samaritan that he had suf- 
 fered with the boys, and so caiitured 
 his sandwich. Boarding the north- 
 ward-liound train, the Second Regi- 
 ment \\as en route for home via 
 I'alnier. .\t the several stops through 
 the Land of .Steady Habits, the hospi- 
 tality of many coming on the train, 
 however well meant, was in some in- 
 stances of that excitable nature that 
 the dispensing of liquids had to be for- 
 bidden, though coffee and milk were 
 not considered contraband. Generos- 
 ity even reached the pitch of passing 
 arijund cigars. At Palmer there came 
 a separation of the regiment, part 
 going to the westward, while the ^Vor- 
 cester companies turned towards the 
 east. 
 
 At state line, where the imaginary 
 bonmlary separates Connecticut and 
 Alassachusetts, Governor Roger Wol- 
 cott came aboard, and it was a par- 
 ticularly pleasant thing for him to thus 
 welcome home the snr\d\(n's of those 
 -ivhoni, a few months before, he had 
 reviewed ui)on their Framingham 
 campground. Passing through each 
 car he gave the boys a chance to know 
 that he had not forgotten them. At 
 
CITY crAKPS, COM PAW A. 
 
 73 
 
 R. H. Brigham. 
 James A. Cole. 
 
 II. C. CiROVER. 
 
 C. S. IIlGGINBOTHAM. 
 
 Sergt. C. a. I'ola-nd. 
 
 Palmer there was a large delegation of 
 \\'orcester friends with more refresh- 
 ments. It really began to look as 
 though the iieople of the sister states 
 had begun to think the boys hollow to 
 their heels, and some of them were re- 
 duced to the condition of that news- 
 boy at the charity dinner who could 
 chew, but couldn't swallow. Among 
 the visitors were Dr. A. C. X. Petersen, 
 Dr. E. H. Trowbridge, Lieutenant 
 Liicke, Harrv ^lerritt, and others. 
 Xot onlv did they bring food, but they 
 brought waiters as well, whose duty it 
 was to anticipate every want of the 
 returning soldiers, while the physi- 
 cians looked after the sick. 
 
 It was at 3.45 p.m. that the train 
 rolled into Union Station. Everybody 
 in Worcester who could get there was 
 
 present to see the boys come home. 
 How pleased they were! Even the 
 long-enduring lions, that for more than 
 a quarter of a century have borne the 
 burden of the wondrous arch, were ob- 
 served to change countenance as the 
 Worcester boys debarked. The multi- 
 tude was in a rapturous mood, and 
 was ready to cheer and take each boy 
 to its heart, but when the yellow- 
 skinned, emaciated forms appeared, 
 the shouts died upon the lips of the 
 crowd, and sound gave place to tears. 
 Carriages had been secured for such 
 as could not march, but Company A 
 had decided to walk, cost what it 
 might. On the way down from Palmer 
 the Captain had mounted a seat, and, 
 stating the situation, closed by saying, 
 "Xow, boys, I propose to walk; how 
 
74 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 is it with >i:)u''" With a mighty chcL-r Yet every l)eing in that welcoming: 
 
 tliey \'iite(l tci a man to follow their erowd of citizens was rejoiced to his 
 
 Ca])tain. Thus when the train was dc- heart's core that the boys had reached 
 
 serted, the line of march was taken up home once more, and onlv regretted 
 
 through the familiar wa_\s. ne\-er look- his inahilit}' tci take each fever-racked 
 
 ing dearer than now as they are re- Imdy an<l breathe into it the fire and 
 
 tiu'ning from the field of danger and energ\- with which it was filled when, 
 
 honor. Again thev are i)receded l.)V the four months before, the men had de- 
 
 dulcet strains from the Ilattery 11 1'.and, parted. Though jM-essed up(.>n bv the 
 
 while, as of yore, the (.1. A. R. and the midtitude to the point of obstruction. 
 
 Sons of \'eterans act as escort. At though in many cases everv step was 
 
 Salem Square, I'.attery R salutes them fraught with pain, not a man fell out, 
 
 with twenty-one giuis, and now, if but each one stuck to his place till the 
 
 ne\er Ijefore, they are sure that the\- Armory was reached, 
 are of age. ( )f the sixty-seven men W hen the famib'ar structure was 
 
 who on Ma}' ,^1 uiarched away, there gained, each companv was dismissed 
 
 are fifty-four now in line, all who are to its respective room, and soon Com- 
 
 not in hospital or for some reason left pan_\- .\ is in its own; then follow the 
 
 behind. Lieutenant Plummer, with greetings and the congratulations and 
 
 rri\-ates I-'ischer and b^airbanks, were tbe lea\-e-takings, for Americans sepa- 
 
 left in Cuba; Artificer Clajjp, with rate easily. The Captain, who had not 
 
 I'rixates h'orest and Torkelson, are at been away from his men a dav in their 
 
 Montauk in the general hospital, while whole ser\-ice, speaks a few words of 
 
 Sergeant Sawyer, with I'rixates Chris- .g 1-by, till with broken voice, o\'er- 
 
 tenson and Israel, are in the tletention conie 1)\- hi> emotion, he had to cease, 
 
 camp hospital at Montauk, though he did manage to adx'ise his 
 
 It is a sympathetic mass of humanity loyal followers to avoid inniiediateh- 
 
 th;it stri\es for just a glance of the re- o\-er-eating and drinking, ami alwavs 
 
 lurning brave, "johnn\" \\a> truK' a desire to li\-e on their reputations, 
 
 marching home again, but he was not Then the boys ga\'e their cherished 
 
 coming in the manner outlined in the leader three royal cheers, and the dav 
 
 song. The boys were ready to shout, \\as ended, I'.efore departing for their 
 
 the men to cheer, ;ind the ladies h;id all homes, a brief meeting was held to ar- 
 
 turned out, luU tliese ])arboiled, h( d- range for the approaching anni\-ersary, 
 
 low-eyed, lim|)ing ol)jects were not the but as the men were without e<iuip- 
 
 beings they ex])ected to see, ;uid how nients, the annual observance was 
 
 cotdd the throng "feel ga\" llumgh given up, ami with ])ro]iriety, for they 
 
 re.ally and truly '■Johnny" was march- had already a memorable celeljration. 
 
 ing home. .'~>lo\vIy and with h.iltin'.^ I I.icks had been pro\-i<.led to carr\- the 
 
 steji the m.arch was made, .ind. though wearied soldiers to their homes, but 
 
 the llag \\:is there and the music be.at o\er the reception accorded each valor- 
 
 upon the air and the canui m thundered > msson within the privacy of the domes- 
 
 their greeting, somehow the return did tic circle, the public has nothing to do. 
 not measure up to what h.id been writ- .V si.xty days' furlough was the boon 
 
 ten and spoken, o\-er and over .again, gi\'en to the men, and the}" made the 
 
 "wdien the troo])s come marching home most of it, though there were some who 
 
 again with glad and gallant tread." could not wait the end thereof before 
 
CITY GUARDS, CO.Mr.WY A. 
 
 75 
 
 embarkinsT upon some enterprise, so 
 inapt is the average American to a life 
 of idleness. Though every man had 
 returned alive to America, September 
 3d, one of those who had come back to 
 \\^orcester passed over to the majority : 
 too feeble for the Armory march, he 
 was driven home at once. Henry Beau- 
 doin, known in the company as Board- 
 man, the soldier who had won distinc- 
 tion at El Caney. much to the grief and 
 surprise of his comrades had sickened 
 after reaching Montauk, and so sur- 
 \-i\-ed his home-coming only a week. 
 A deputation of the Company at the fu- 
 neral was the least that the sormwing 
 friends could send in memory of one 
 whom they loved. September 30 came 
 news that George Leon Forest had died 
 in St. Peter's Hospital, Brooklyn, of 
 typhoid fever. ( )ver his remains, which 
 were sent to Worcester, his comrades 
 paid their compliment of presence and 
 recollection. He had been a good and 
 faithful soldier, and all laiiienled his 
 earlv death. 
 
 A variation in the general trend of 
 afYairs is had when, furlnughs having 
 expired, on the 24th of (3ctol)er all 
 hands are ordered to report at the 
 Armory for a term of duty there. I'or 
 ten days they are to resume the rou- 
 tine of a soldier's life, with the conces- 
 sion of a choice between sleeping there 
 or at home, but all must be on hand for 
 roll-call. Landlord Robert Kessell of 
 the City Hotel has been employed to 
 supply meals, and it does not look like 
 a very severe round of duty to which 
 they are introduced. For sevent}--fi\e 
 cents per dav for each man he sets an 
 excellent table, and for the nonce the 
 boys almost forget Cuba and its "prime 
 canned roast beef." The duties im- 
 posed were not arduous, consisting 
 principally in roll-call, stan<ling guard 
 within the Armorv, antl an occasional 
 
 drill, the latter exerci.se counting as 
 (ine (if the cardinal virtues in the mind 
 (if the ('aptain. During the inter\-al 
 between the return and the muster-out, 
 the officers adequately bestowed the 
 time in making out the rolls, account- 
 ing for iiroperty, etc. 
 
 XiTvemlier 2d there was a meeting 
 of the CompaUN' t(j consiiK'r \ar_\'ing 
 phases of the proposed muster-out. as 
 to pay, etc.. but from the gathering 
 nothing came, since the government 
 took the entire matter into its own 
 hands, and did with the men as it liked. 
 C)n the next day caiue the momentous 
 tri|i to .Springfield. The train was 
 taken in Union .Station at O.33 a.m. ^\t 
 o'clock came a parade of the regi- 
 ment, which was reviewed by the Gov- 
 ernor and staff, the Mayor of Spring- 
 field, and the city government, thus 
 gradually reaching the auspicious mo- 
 ment of final and effectual release. 
 which came to Com])any A .at 11.20 
 a.m. in the Howard Street .\rmory. our 
 Citv (iuards being the \ery first to re- 
 ceive their muster-out ;it the hands of 
 Lieutenant Edmunds of the I'nited 
 States .'Vrmy. 
 
 Thus ended the nearl_\- six months of 
 service for the nation, 'idle men went 
 to Springfield as soldiers, each and 
 ever\' one under authority : they re- 
 turned as citizens, owing obedience to 
 no one or thing save the general laws 
 of the land, but very likely to be better 
 men for the discipline of service. They 
 took a stipulated morning train under 
 orders : they returned when they chose. 
 The Citv Guards had done their duty, 
 had responded in the day of national 
 peril, and while there was no long roll 
 of casualties upon the battlefield, each 
 man felt that he had done his duty, 
 and that the campaign of 1898 in the 
 Spanish War had added to the laurels 
 of Worcester in war. 
 
76 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 William E. Cardin. 
 < Ieorge L. Eohest. 
 I.ouis O. Standis.-i. 
 
 Joseph II. Hoardman. C. W. Weixler. 
 
 Corp. H. U. I-'ay. Lewis M. Fay. (J. F. Thomas. 
 
 J. II. Lowell. .\. .M. Wills. 
 
CITY GIARDS. COMl'ANV A. 
 
 THE DEAD IN COMl'A.W A. 
 
 Though not a man in the Company 
 snccuinlx'(l (hiring the Cuhan cam- 
 paign, tribute had to be paid, and he 
 upon the white horse appeared among 
 the Guards at last, though his work 
 was not so severe as in tlie other com- 
 panies. At this time, October, 1904, four 
 men have answered the final roll-call : 
 
 Joseph Henry Boardman. son of 
 Aimable and Marv Beaudoin. was in 
 normal condition when the regiment 
 came home, but he immediately sick- 
 ened and died September 3d. He was 
 born in Worcester, Alay 12, 1875, and 
 at the time of his enlistment was in 
 the employ of the Matthews Manufac- 
 turing Company. His real name, as in- 
 dicated, was of French origin and was 
 Englished on his enlistment for greater 
 convenience, though the Gallic word 
 recalls an early governor of the Com- 
 monwealth whose ancestors changed 
 the same word from Beaudoin to Bow- 
 doin. The funeral of the brave young 
 man was had from Xotre Dame 
 L'hurch. and was attended by a detach- 
 ment of ten comrades under the com- 
 mand of Captain Barrett and Iiy a fir- 
 ing squad from the Fifth Regiment, 
 then in camp at I'ramingham. The 
 burial was in St. John's Cemetery. 
 
 Lewis M. Fay was the son of Wil- 
 liam ^^^ and Mattie A. Fay. a native of 
 Brookfield, Mo., according to his en- 
 rollment. Both he and his brother were 
 residents of \\'orcester when they en- 
 listed, their home being on Chandler 
 Street. After the war the family re- 
 moved toCalifornia. hoping to stay the 
 indications of pulmonary disease which 
 had already made their appearance in 
 the younger brother. But e\'en the 
 mild climate of the far-famed land of 
 sunshine could not restore the health 
 
 of Lewis, and on the verv last day of 
 the year iijoi. he passed away in the 
 citv of Atonr(i\ia. and there his bodv 
 is buried. 
 
 George Leon Forest. He was another 
 young man of French extraction, the 
 son of Hormisdas Forest, and his early 
 (la\s were spent in the town of ( ).\ford. 
 where he had the advantages of the 
 public schools, including the high. 
 Thence he came to Worcester, and 
 after a course in Hinman"s lUisiness 
 College, he worked for Johnson & Bas- 
 sett ; Barnard. Sunnier & Putnam Co.; 
 for the N. E. Telephone Co.. and last 
 for the Cereal Food Co. on Jackson 
 Street. He had been in the Company 
 two years when the war l)egan, and 
 naturally he was among the earl}- ones 
 to volunteer for the tray. When the 
 Guards returned he did not come with 
 them, having been sent to St. I'eter's 
 Hospital in Brooklyn, X. Y.. where he 
 died October i. at the age of twenty- 
 two years. \\ hen in the city he was 
 conspicuous in several organizations, 
 particularly the "\'. M. C. A., in whose 
 basketball team he was the star actor, 
 being" its captain and. in the language 
 of the physical director, the best player 
 in the city. His funeral, at St. Joseph's 
 Church, was numerously attended, and 
 among those there were twenty-five of 
 his own comrades under the command 
 of Lieutenant Plummer; also Lieuten- 
 ant-colonel Shumway ; Secretary C. A. 
 Fenner of the Y. ?iL C .\. and Director 
 Wilder. 
 
 Sergeant Edward Robert Riedl was 
 of Cierman extraction, though he was 
 born in AXorcester August 12, 1870, the 
 son of Matthew and Louisa (Weidner) 
 Riedl, both of whom had come from 
 German v: the father from Bohemia, the 
 
78 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 mother fmni \\'iirtemberg. 'l"he son and on his return he (Hd not ralK', Imt 
 
 was reared in this cit\- and liad the grew steadily weaker, until death 
 
 most of his school life nn Thomas ended his sufferings October 21, 1900. 
 
 Street, under the excellent care of ^Irs. At the time of his death he was stav- 
 
 Wait. the long-time principal of that ing in ^Vestboro with Edward Fuller, 
 
 school. He had long been in the em- in the delusive ho]K\ as it appeared, 
 
 ploy of Logan, .Swift <S; lirigham as a tliat he might regain upon the farm the 
 
 shipper ; also he was an old-time mem- strength he had lost. A member of 
 
 ber of the Guards, and. as his position St. John's Episcopal Church, his fu- 
 
 W(.iuld indicate, was a favorite among neral was held there, attemled liv 
 
 his comrades. Seeds of consumption many rif his late comrades, ami the 
 
 were sown during the Cuban sojourn, burial was in Hope Cemetery. 
 
 AT PRESENT. 
 
 The following is a list of members Musician Walter A. Tra\-er. valen- 
 
 connected with the c<jmpany during inn- factory, 
 
 the war, an<l. as far as possible, the Artificer Samuel E. Clapp. machinist.' 
 
 • , , .. ,- W agoner \\ alter 1 . LSruso, traveling 
 
 l)resent residence and occiniation ot , -i--^ , , -^ 
 
 ' ' salesman, iMtchl^urg. 
 
 each man. Unless otherwise stated. Private Herbert "b. Abbott, U. S. A. 
 
 the state is Massachusetts: the place, Private Ceorge E. .\llison, machinist. 
 
 Worcester: Private Herbert .-\. Ballon, paints 
 
 Captain Edwin G. Barrett. bo,,t and ^''"' "i'^- 
 
 shoe merchant. l'ri\ate Charles A. Barton, electri- 
 
 First Eieutenant Abuses H. 
 salesman. 
 
 cian. 
 
 Private Ralph H. Brigham, art store, 
 
 Second Lieutenant William IL Southbridge : Ca])tain, Company K, 
 Plummer, First Lieutenant, Si.xth U. S. ^''''' ^^^- ^'- ^^■, 
 Infantrv. Pri\-ate Philemon llrnle. moulder. 
 
 First' Sergeant Walter H. Allison, Private John T. Brusky, steam- 
 
 Torrey Razor Shop. fitter. Providence. R. L 
 
 Sergeant Charles A. Poland, last fac- Private W ilham E. Cardiii. photog- 
 
 torv. Church Street. rapher. 
 
 Sergeant l..l,n < ). (inwaiis, p.-iper- I'nvate h.lnu-r 1. Lhnstenson, L. S. 
 
 hanger. ' Army. 
 
 Sergeant I'-lljridge B. Sawyer, 
 
 eiec- 
 
 'rivate lames A. Cole, l)lacksmitli. 
 
 trician. E\erett. " ' Private Henry G. Cole_\-, clerk, boot 
 
 Sergeant James T. Cruikshank, nu- ^"'1 shoes. 
 
 chanic " Pri^•ate Benjamin Cooper, carjiet 
 
 Corporal K;ilph L. Allison, tr;i\eling tactory. 
 
 salesman. Private ^^'illianl (1. C'urnwell. ma- 
 Corporal .\rchie F. Murra\, machinist, chinist. New London. Conn. 
 Corporal John G. Hagberg, Legisla- Pri\ate ( )rlo W. Davis, trucking. 
 
 tor,immigrationinspector,St.J.>hn,N.B. Private Frank L. Fairbanks, col- 
 
 Corporal Howard K. iloblis. rvgis 
 trv of deeds r)ffice. 
 
 ector. 
 
 , ,. , ,, ,■ , , Private Charles A. Fischer, clerk. 
 
 Loriioral Herbert K. law laimdr\-, ... „ . „ „ . , 
 
 e I'v ,- , - • Private Oumcv F. I'ortier, druggist, 
 
 San Diego, Lai. ~ 
 
 Corporal Alexander G. Thnmson, tharlestown. 
 clerk, Newi)ort. R. 1. Private Frank F. Gale, foreman. 
 
 Musician Frederick C. Gagnon, Private Ralph C. Green, clerk, 
 
 clerk, drui'- store. market. 
 
CITV GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 ri) 
 
 Private 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Henry C. Grover, artist, 
 
 Private 
 Private 
 Armv. 
 
 Ernest 1'.. Hall, electrician. 
 Thomas H. HamnKmd, L'. S. 
 
 Private Frederick R. 1 la_\ s. clerk. 
 Private Arthur L. Heyward, L'. S. 
 iVrmy: was in China. 
 
 Private Charles S. 
 TTigfg'inhothani. foreman. 
 Ansonia, Conn. 
 
 Private .Simon Israel, 
 dry goods, W'estboro. 
 
 Private .Albert John- 
 son, machinist. 
 
 Private Walter R. 
 Johnson, niotorman. 
 
 Private Joseph T. La- 
 flamnie, printer. 
 
 Private Charles F. 
 Lamljerton, tinsmith. 
 
 Private Julius H. Low- 
 ell, liastiaufe master. Cot- 
 tag'e City. 
 
 Private Arthur C. .Ma- 
 gee, Worcester Fire De- 
 partment. 
 
 Private Ruftis J. Mar- 
 tin, driver. 
 
 Private Arthur G. 
 Mills, machinist. 
 
 Private William K. 
 Moody, American Steel 
 & W'ire Company. 
 
 Private William 11. 
 Morse, druggist. 
 
 Private Frederick CJ. 
 Xewell, electrician. 
 
 Private.Alhert J . Rein- 
 bold, salesman. 
 
 T'rivate W'm. W. Rice, 
 motorman. Charlton. 
 
 Private Walter E. 
 .Schotield, C .S. .Army. 
 
 Private William M. 
 .Severy, pool-room. 
 
 Private William K. 
 .Sherman, machinist. 
 
 Private James W. 
 Smith, teacher. Porto 
 Rico. 
 
 Private Arthur T. 
 .Squires, conductor. 
 
 Private Louis ( ). Stan- 
 dish. L". S. Army: one 
 of those who scaled the 
 walls of Pekin : machinist. 
 
 Private William G. 
 Standish. machinist. Boston. 
 
 Private Ouincy F. Thomas, ma- 
 chinist. 
 
80 WORCESTER IN THE SI'AXISH WAR. 
 
 Private Rcinhanl A. Torkelson. Private William S. Younc^, stereo- 
 
 U. S. Army. typ^'r. 
 
 Private William T. Turner, carpet 
 factory, Denver. Colorado. 
 
 Private Samuel A. \\'allace, shipper. 
 
 Private Carl W. ^^'eixler, machin- Ciuilil the Frenchman, De Rocham- 
 
 ist, Ouincv. heau. who helpeil our people in the 
 
 PrTvateBert E. Wheeler, driver. days of the American Revolution, read 
 
 Private Peter X. ^^'hite, Worcester the foregoing list, all the more might 
 
 Fire Department. he exclaim, "'In America, no men are 
 
 Private .\lfred M. Wills, machinist, soldiers by trade, but men of all trades 
 
 Xavv Yard, Charlestnwn. are soldiers." 
 
 Ml-ster-in Roll of Company A, 2n Regiment of Inf.\ntry, Massa- 
 chusetts \'oLl'NTEERS, IX THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED St.\TES, FOR TwO 
 
 Years, from May id, iSgS, lfneess Sooner Discharged. 
 
 [The data, in order, cnvcr rank. name, age, birthplace and occupation.] 
 
 CAPTAIN. Alexander (iray Thompson, 24. I'all 
 
 „ , . ^. ^1, ^, c ■ 1; 1 1 Ri\er, clerk. 
 
 Edwin Grant Harrett, 2'). Siinngnelil, 
 
 shoe dealer. musicians. 
 
 FIRST 1 iFUTiCN \NT. Frederick Charles Gagni.m, 24, Wor- 
 
 cester, druggist. 
 Moses Henry Tisdell, 40, St. 1 aul. \\ ;^\x^.^■ Allen Tniver, 21, Xew York, 
 
 Canada, foreman. n^- y^ painter. 
 
 second I.IEUTENAN'r. .\KTIFLCEK. 
 
 William Henry I'lunimcr, 7,2. Lons- Samuel Edward Clapp, 24, .Xthol, 
 dale, R. 1., clerk. mechanic. 
 
 SERCE.VNTS. W Ai;oNER. 
 
 Walter Henry AUisim, 28, Wnrcester, \\ alter Taintcr I'.ruso, 30, Worcester, 
 
 razorsmith. shipper. 
 
 Charles Addison ^^:>land, 26. Xnrth- prixates. 
 
 boro, last-maker. 
 Edward Robert Riedl, 27, WcMxester 
 
 Ahlxjtt, Herbert I'.m-r, 18, Ilangor, Me., 
 clerk ' " teamster. 
 
 John George Gowans. 30, Dundee, Alli.son, George IMwin. 30. W ..rcester. 
 
 Scotland, woodworker. 
 
 nu'chanic. 
 
 Elbridge Boyden .Sawyer. '24. Orange, '•''l''_'"; ^'Z]!"''^ Arnnl.l, 22. Worces 
 
 electrician. 
 James Titus Cruikshank, 28, Somer 
 
 ville, driver. 
 
 ter. clerk 
 r>art(in. Charles Allen, H;, \\\ircester, 
 
 electrician, 
 lloardman, Joseph Henrv, 25, Worces- 
 coRPORALS. ter, pressman. 
 
 Ralph r,ivingstiine Allison, 2^,. Wcl- I'.righam, Ralph Hu])bard. 30, Wnr- 
 
 lingtun. Conn., shipper. cester, salesman. 
 
 .\idrie l'"rank Murrav, 2^. Worcester, I'.rulc, Philemon, 22. Worcester, 
 
 harher. 
 
 mi iiilder. 
 
 |ohn Guslaf Hagberg, 24, Dayfush, llnisky, John Thomas, 20, Xorth 
 Swedi-n, tailor. ilrooktield, steamfitter. 
 
 Howard Knowles Hobbs. 24, .\ubnrn. Cardin, William Ellsworth, 21, Wor- 
 clerk. cester, photographer. 
 
 Herbert Ruggles h'ay, 2^,. Rrookfield. C 'hristenson, Elmer Ingomar, ly, Cam- 
 AIo., laundrvman. bridge, machinist. 
 
CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 
 
 81 
 
 Cole, James Albion. 21. Worcester, 
 blacksmith. 
 
 Coley, Henry Clreen. 2t,. r)irniinf;bam, 
 England, clerk. 
 
 Cooper. Benjamin. 20, Kidclerniinster, 
 England, weaver. 
 
 Cornwell. William George. 22. Holden. 
 mechanic. 
 
 Davis, ( )rlo \\"illiani. 24. Worcester, 
 mechanic. 
 
 Fairbanks. F"rank Eamson, 18. \\'or- 
 cester, machinist. 
 
 Fay. Lewis ]\Iontague. 20. P.rooktield. 
 lanndryman. 
 
 Fischer. Charles Augustus. Port 
 Henry, N. Y., clerk. 
 
 Forest. George Leon. 2t,. Oxford, book- 
 keeper. 
 
 Fortier, Quincy Edgar. 22,. NN'ater- 
 bury. Vermont, shipper. 
 
 Gale, Frank Eugene, 22, Lowell, 
 clerk. 
 
 Green, Ralph Cla}'ton, 26, New Au- 
 burn. Minn., clerk. 
 
 Grover. Henrv Grossman. 28. Pirook- 
 field. student. 
 
 Hall, Ernest P.oynton, 28, Worcester, 
 mechanic. 
 
 Hammond. Thomas Harr\-. 20. Tonga- 
 noxie. Kan., steamfitter. 
 
 Hays, Frederick Robert. 20. Worces- 
 ter, clerk. 
 
 Hayward, Arthur Leon. 19, Concoril, 
 X. H., woodworker. 
 
 Higginbotham. Charles Samuel, 2^. 
 W'altham. diemaker. 
 
 Israel. Simon. 24. Svewelk. Russia, 
 clothier. 
 
 Johnson. Albert. 24. Stockholm. Swe- 
 den, steamfitter. 
 
 Johnson. A\'alter Reynolds, uj. \\'or- 
 cester, electrician. 
 
 Laflamme, Joseph Toussaint. 31, St. 
 Hyacinthe. Canada, printer. 
 
 Lamberton, Charles Franklin, 24. 
 Worcester, tinsmith. 
 
 Lowell, Julius Henrv, 2J. Springfield, 
 clerk. 
 
 Magee. .\rlhur Charles, 25, .Mnnlcalm, 
 Canada, machinist. 
 
 .Martin. i\ufus Joseph. 22. W'nrccstcr, 
 polisher. 
 
 Mills. Arthur Guodell. 35. Worcester, 
 carpenter. 
 
 .Moody. William Elvardo. 22. Red- 
 wing. .Minn., clerk. 
 
 .Morse. William Hoyt. 22. Ho])kinton. 
 druggist. 
 
 Xewell, Frederick George, 22, Flor- 
 ence, electrician. 
 
 Reinbold. .Mljert Josc])h, 29. ISoston, 
 chemist. 
 
 Rice. \\"illiam Walter. 2^. East Bos- 
 ton, conductor. 
 
 .'^choheld. Walter Edmund. 21. Wor- 
 cester, woodworker. 
 
 Severy. William Mansfield, 31, llran- 
 don. N'ermont. tobacconist. 
 
 Sherman, \\ illiam Edward, 21, Pas- 
 coag, R. I., mechanic. 
 
 Smith. James Whittemore. 18. Lei- 
 cester, student. 
 
 Scpiires. Arthur Thomas. 24. Worces- 
 ter, conductor. 
 
 Standish. Louis Odell. 2^. .\thol. 
 motorman. 
 
 Standish. William George, 27. Athol, 
 mechanic. 
 
 Thomas. Quincy Frederick. 21. llrat- 
 tleboro. N'crmont, mechanic. 
 
 Torkelson. Reinhard .\ugustus. 21. 
 Christiania. Xorway, boatbuilder. 
 
 Turner. William Tlionias. ^~. Kidder- 
 minster. England. wea\er. 
 
 Wallace, .^amuel Alfred, 22. Worces- 
 ter, inspecttir. 
 
 Weixler, Carl Wallace. 26. Worcester, 
 jeweler. 
 
 W heeler, I'.ert Elmer, ly. Magog, 
 Canada, machinist. 
 
 White. Peter Nelson, 22. .Millbury, 
 carpet-layer. 
 
 W ills, .\lbert Morrow, 22. Fall River, 
 machinist. 
 
 Young. William Stewart, 24, Worces- 
 ter, finisher. 
 
 L. M. Fav.— The following data were received too late for insertion in the 
 proper place: Private Fay's full Christian name was Lewis Montague, those of 
 his parents were William \\'irt and Mattie A. (Wilson) Fay. The father was a 
 veteran of K Company. 13th Mass. Infantry, and of F Company. 4th Heavy .\rtil- 
 lery. The body is buried in Monrovia, Cal. 
 
82 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Second Liel't. H. H. Warkkn. 
 Caft. v. L. Allen. I'~irst I.ieit. A. C. King. 
 
 COMMISSIONED OFFICERS COMPA.W C. 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 83 
 
 Worcester in the Spanish War. 
 
 LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C, 2D REGIMENT, M.V.M. 
 
 SIDE from the First an.l 
 Second Parishes, or the Uld 
 South and the First Unita- 
 rian Societies, the \\^orces- 
 ter Light Infantry is the 
 iildest active organization in 
 tlie city. There are two or 
 three nominal bodies which 
 iiccasioiially awake suffi- 
 cientl}- to partake of a din- 
 ner and then lapse into 
 their accustomed comatose condition, 
 but the Light Infantry has been up 
 and doing for very nearly a century. 
 It was away back in 1803 that (Gov- 
 ernor Caleb Strong appended his name 
 to a charter warranting the organiz- 
 ing and maintaining of a military com- 
 pany in the then remote and not over- 
 populous township of Worcester. The 
 application was written by the late 
 Governor Levi Lincoln while confined 
 to his bed by a broken leg. As the 
 first public parade of the Company 
 was on the 6th day of the ensuing 
 June, it does not require an}- great 
 stretch of fancy to tell just when the 
 Light Infantry of to-day pur])oses to 
 celebrate the end of its first hundred 
 years. 
 
 Organized for the purpose of helping 
 defend and advance American inter- 
 ests, the Company has ever been upon 
 the alert to volunteer whenever there 
 has been an opportunity to act. Ac- 
 cordingly when, in 1807, there were 
 mutterings of complaint against Brit- 
 ish arrogance and oppression, forerun- 
 ners of the \\'ar of 1812, there was sent 
 to the Governor an expression of the 
 Light Infantry's readiness to help in 
 any way possible to repel foreign ag- 
 gression. This action must have been 
 
 received by His Excellency James Sul- 
 livan with a deal of pleasure, for he had 
 military promptings himself. A brother 
 of the famous General John Sullivan 
 of Xew Hampshire, only lameness re- 
 sulting from a bovish accident pre- 
 vented the subsequent Go\ernor of 
 Massachusetts acquiring equal fame 
 with the man whose name is linked 
 with some of the most thrilling inci- 
 dents of the Revolution. As it was. 
 though excluded from active participa- 
 tion in deeds of war, James Sullivan, in 
 1775, had executed an im]iortant mili- 
 tary mission to Ticonderoga. and 
 throughout that sanguinary period his 
 was e\er a ]5otent voice in matters mili- 
 tary. Hence the satisfaction he must 
 have had over the thought that the 
 Heart of the Commonwealth was l)eat- 
 ing loyally. 
 
 This premonition of war ripened into 
 actuality only five years later, when 
 the true war of independence began, 
 and before it was over, our Light In- 
 fantry, under the command of Captain 
 John \\\ Lincoln, subsequently sheriff 
 of the countv and one of the best 
 equipped officers the city ever knew, 
 marched to Boston to help rej)el at- 
 tack. The Company went down, or 
 started, September nth, and was on 
 duty there till October 31st, when it 
 returned from, it is true, a bloodless 
 campaign, but this was not the fault of 
 the Light Infantry. It seems not a 
 little interesting that the late .\lbert 
 Curtis, who died in 1898, had a distinct 
 recollection of the marching away of 
 the brave and loyal men of that re- 
 mote day. 
 
 Again during the Mexican War the 
 \\'orcesler boys of this crack Company 
 
84 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 X 
 
 Q 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANV C. 
 
 85 
 
 were ready, and so expressed them- 
 selves, but their proffer of services was 
 not accepted, because the quota of the 
 State was already filled, and Governor 
 Georsje N. Brig-gs did not think well 
 enoug-h of the war to exceed tlie de- 
 mands to any great extent. Those were 
 days when, in 1846. "Hosea Biglow" 
 was expressing himself in most une- 
 quivocal terms, and Governor ''B." was 
 known to be in perfect accord with the 
 sentiments of James Russell Lowell. 
 But this did not prevent members of 
 the Company .going into, the service, 
 and Captain George Lincoln fell at 
 Buena Vista while serving on the staff 
 of "Old Rough and Ready." or General 
 Zachary Tavlor. while endeavoring to 
 rallv and advance a western regiment 
 which was retreating in disorder. 
 
 The War of the Rebellion is yet so 
 near the affairs of to-day that it is 
 hardly necessary to more than allude 
 to the promptness with which the 
 "bovs" sprang to arms in 18(11 . and the 
 cit}' will ever cherish with increasing 
 pride the fact that her Light Infantry 
 was among the companies of the Sixth 
 Regiment which, on April 19th. fought 
 its way through the streets of Balti- 
 more and was among the immortals 
 who stacked arms in the nation's Sen- 
 ate chamber on the evening of that 
 fatal day. the very first armed force to 
 interpose itself between the country 
 and its assailants. Many of those men 
 are living to-day, and if not active 
 memljcrs of the organization they 
 love, their s])irit is present and per- 
 meates every fibre of their successors. 
 
 The rank and file of the Light Infan- 
 try of 1898 were near of kin tn tlic men 
 who had done their duty in years 
 agone. hence there need be no wonder 
 that the active members were alert to 
 all the indications of approachingstorm. 
 It was not so much a feeling of appre- 
 hension as it was one of extreme anxi- 
 ety lest the trouble should blow over 
 and there should be no chance to show 
 their metal. As the news from the 
 Pearl of the Antilles grew more and 
 more intense, and it became daily more 
 clear that the nation would have to 
 undertake not alone the avenging of 
 the Maine. l)ut the complete expulsion 
 
 of Sjjain from this western world, the 
 citizen soldier longed for the oppor- 
 tunity to do his part. 
 
 As early as A])ril 11 Colonel Clark of 
 the Second Regiment sent out a precau- 
 tionary order with reference t(5 extra 
 pre])aration in the matter of culinary 
 outfit. As a veteran of the Civil War 
 the Colonel rememljered General Sher- 
 man's remark that an army moves on 
 its belly, and it was a wise precautivju 
 of his that the men whom he was to lead 
 should not grow hungry. The average 
 stomach can endure a great deal of va- 
 riety and many privations, but it must 
 lKi\e something, else the stoutest heart 
 will fail. .\i)ril 22 came another order 
 from the same source, directing every 
 care that all data and memoranda 
 should l)e carefully preserved, another 
 direction insj^red liy recollection of the 
 war. i86i-"63. Three days later, or .April 
 _'5l!i. came the order to hold the Com- 
 pany ready to respond within twenty- 
 four hours' notice. Matters were grow- 
 ing warm, and each member was ar- 
 ranging his affairs so that he could go. 
 
 The next demonstration came in the 
 shape of a telephonic communication 
 from regimental hea<l(iuartcrs in 
 Springfield to Captain Rider, of which 
 the following is a verl)atim transcript: 
 
 ".\|)ril 30. 1898. 
 "Order receivedty telephone. 12.20 p.m. 
 
 "I am to make arrangements with the 
 R. R. Co. to have my Company in Fra- 
 mingham. Tuesday. May 3, al 12 m. 
 Transportation order will be sent to 
 me by the Quartermaster General. 
 
 "Arrange to feed my command for 
 one week, same as at camp. Take all 
 .Slate property in my possession or 
 freight it down there. Leave at home 
 all men who are not going to volunteer. 
 Take enough other men to make a 
 total enlistment of 79 men. We are 
 going down there as a volunteer organ- 
 ization. Init not as the Second Regi- 
 ment. Copied by George H. Hill, 
 sergeant." 
 
 The same day came a telegram from 
 Springfield, worded thus : 
 
 "New orders from Adjutant General. 
 (U. S.) Total for company. JJ, includ- 
 
86 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 1'. L. KlUtU. FlK=l Lltl I tNAN I. W. I-'. IllLMAN. StCnNn LlEl-TENANT. 
 
 Henbv B. I-'airbanks, Captain. 
 I.ir.iri' IXIWXTK V CDMMISSIOXKn OFFICERS, 1895. 
 
 ins? officers. Take only this minil)er 
 Tuesday. Paul l\. Hawkins. 
 
 "1st Lieut, ami Ailjutant." 
 
 .\s this telefjram came at 10.17 ]).ni. 
 it superseded the noon tele])hone com- 
 munication. Then, to still further 
 modify the matter of numbers, a letter 
 came later stating that the ma.ximum 
 was seventy-five men in all. 
 
 So much for the orders under which 
 
 notifications were sent to the members 
 of the Comoanv. Thev found the men 
 or bii\s. since many of the members 
 li;id not ])assed their majority, in shops. 
 Iieliind counters, and some even in 
 school. Says one of the latter class, "I 
 was to take the ])art of "Jenkins" in a 
 ]ila\- to be given the evening of April 29 
 in the Classical High School, and on 
 theafternoonofthat day was taking my 
 lessons in a dress rehearsal, when my 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 87 
 
 father appeared to tell me that I was 
 wanted at the Armory in the evening at 
 eight o'clock. What could I do? At 
 last one of the teachers volunteered to 
 see the Captain and to try to beg off 
 for me till after the play. His plea was 
 effectual, and I took mj^ part till near 
 the end of the second act, when a 
 friend stepped into my place and I 
 went down to the Armory, where I 
 found everything at fever heat. Those 
 who were fierce for the war were mak- 
 ing speeches, while others were elo- 
 quently silent. That first evening thirty 
 two of the members expressed them- 
 selves as ready to go." Thence on- 
 ward there was an almost continuous 
 meeting in the company rooms right 
 up to the day of departure, which was 
 the 3d of May, Tuesday. The compa- 
 nies were to report in Framinghani 
 before noon and they were to proceed 
 by special train, which was to start 
 from Springfield. Unhappily the day 
 itself proved to be anything but the 
 beautiful one we might expect early in 
 the vernal month, but the people were 
 not to be cheated of their show, what- 
 ever the weather. They were out by 
 the thousand, of both sexes and of all 
 ages. Schools Avere closed, that younger 
 lads and lassies might see their brothers 
 march away, and right royally were they 
 rewarded. All the semi-military bodies 
 in the city were in line, the right of the 
 same being takenbytheGrand Army of 
 the Republic, many of whum had sons 
 among the departing volunteers. The 
 Mayor of the city gave a ])arting word 
 as the companies were drawn up in a 
 hollow square in the drill-shed, and a 
 fervent prayer was offered by the Rev. 
 Almon Gunnison of the First Universal- 
 ist Church. Then the march began, ex- 
 tending down Main Street as far as the 
 Post Office and around the same back 
 by the City Hall, where the Mayor and 
 the city government re\'iewed the em- 
 bryonic soldiers. Thence along Front 
 Street the line moved to the Union 
 Station, everywhere through thou- 
 sands of people, to whom the scene was 
 of vastly more interest than it was to 
 the men themselves. Indeed, one par- 
 ticipant modestly remarks in his diary, 
 "Somehow 1 didn't see as we were 
 
 doing anything to make such a stir, 
 but the older ones knew nuich better 
 than we did what we were to soon pass 
 through." The boy was right ; many in 
 that vast array of humanity had seen 
 men go to war before, and in so many 
 cases had awaited in vain the home- 
 coming of those who had so bravely 
 marched away : the gray and wrinkled 
 veterans of the G. A. R. knew just 
 what it all meant, for they had been 
 through it all. Xone the less, all made 
 the air ring with their applause, all 
 being determined that their boys 
 should have the ver}' best send-off 
 that \\'orcester could give. 
 
 Soon the vast station received the 
 "boys in blue," where the train from 
 Springfield absorbed them, also Com- 
 panies A and H and the two companies 
 which had come down from the north, 
 and then amid shouts and cheers, ac- 
 companied in many cases by tears, the 
 cars moved slowly out with their pre- 
 cious burdens of men devoted to what 
 they deemed duty and the right. Those 
 who left the city as members of Com- 
 panv C on that rainy Tuesday were 
 the following: 
 
 Capt.iin. P. L. Rider. 
 First Lieutenant, F. L. Allen. 
 Second Lieutenant, F. M. Clark. Jr. 
 First Sergeant, A. C. King. 
 Sergeant, H. W. Warren. 
 Sergeant, W, E. C. Fairbanks. 
 Sergeant, George H. Hill, 
 Corporal, A. S. Longley, 
 Corporal, George W. Stebbins, 
 Musician, F. J. Zacder, 
 
 PRIV.ATES. 
 
 John H. Allen, 
 E, ^L Barnard, 
 \Vm, E. Barton, 
 C. E. Butler. 
 J. J. Coburn, 
 C. H. Colburn, 
 W. G. Dennis, 
 R. H. Dowse. 
 C. T. Eldridge, 
 G. S. Farrow. 
 C. T. Fletcher, 
 H. J. Greene, 
 H, H. Ham, 
 H. L. Hastings, 
 J. \V, Holbrook, 
 Roland Johnson, 
 Geo, T. Jones, 
 
 H. H. Adams, 
 G. H. Bejune, 
 
 R. W. Kincaiil, 
 
 C. H. Knibbs. 
 
 P. W. Lincoln, 
 
 S. L Mayo, 
 
 W. A. Merrifield. 
 
 O. J. Newton, 
 
 R. C. Randall, 
 
 A. F. Rebboli, 
 
 G. E. Rix. 
 
 J. C. Stevenson, 
 
 Robert Tal't. 
 
 C. .\. N'aughan. Jr. 
 
 F. W. Washburn, 
 
 H, B. Wentworth, 
 
 J. L. Wilmot, 
 
 A. T. Wintersgill, 
 
 Emil Zaeder. 
 
 RECRUITS. 
 
 J, F. Bradley, 
 E, .•\. Briggs, 
 
88 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 C. A. Browne, 
 I. A. Brigliam, 
 W. H. Butler, 
 F. E. Crosnian, 
 F. P. Dean, 
 W. W. Eddy, 
 A. C. Gage, 
 W. L, Gage, 
 O. J. W. Gleason, 
 J. C, King, 
 
 E. J. Martin, 
 
 F. B. Mavnard, 
 E, G. OliVer, 
 
 F. S. Owen, 
 
 A, J. Pembleton, 
 F. W. Pettet, 
 
 R. H. Pitts, 
 J. E. Pope, 
 
 B. A. Prince, 
 W. D. Rheutan, 
 W, D. Roberts, 
 
 E. A, Stearns, 
 A. D. Stewart, 
 
 F. B. Taft, 
 F. W. Ward, 
 
 E. D. Wooldridge. 
 
 c;oo(l-bvs were said, and then the engine 
 tried to start its Ioiil;" train of twehc 
 
 Our Hves are made up largely of 
 "coming and going," and of the two 
 the latter is the one dreaded. The 
 friends of the Infantry were out in 
 force. For them rain had no deterrent 
 power, and though they knew the de- 
 ])arture was only for the camp in Fra- 
 niingham, yet it was a beginning of the 
 separation which was sure to come a 
 few days later, and many an eye grew 
 dim at the thought of seeing no more 
 the form now awaiting the muster-in. 
 Filled with the exhilaration incident to 
 the march and the enthusiasm, along 
 the entire line, possibly the boys them- 
 selves felt least of all the pangs of part- 
 ing, vet there were hearts in the ranks 
 which were beating rapidly as the 
 hands of wife and children were 
 grasped, for there were those who had 
 not heeded Captain Rider"s injunction 
 that only those should volunteer upon 
 whom no one was dependent. The 
 feeling of ])atriotism is a strange one 
 cjuite impossible to analyze. If a 
 father or grandfather has been a sol- 
 dier, the chances are that his siin or 
 grandson will imjirove the first op]ior- 
 tunity to take a hand in a possible fight. 
 Family pride coiuits for quite as much 
 as love of country, yet in this ]3articular 
 case, the destruction of the Maine in 
 Havana Harbor had roused the whole 
 people to a ])ilch bordering on frenzy. 
 One of Com]janyC"s sergeants marched 
 away with a knapsack packed the very 
 day that dastardly act was announced. 
 
 Very likely the majority of those in- 
 terested in the departure could not have 
 told what the bands played : they knew 
 that music was in the air, Init as ti.i 
 tunes they made little note. However, 
 the strains of the "Star-spangled Ban- 
 ner" and of "Auld Lang Syne"rang out 
 on the mist-laden atmosphere while final 
 
 :^w 
 
 heavily-bin-dened cars. The resistance 
 was too great, and not till the fireman 
 had sanded the track could the engine, 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, ^O^^r'AXV 
 
 89 
 
 at 9.30 a.m., pull its Springfiekl ami 
 Worcester men from the station. Once 
 away from the leave-takings, the boys 
 speedily settled down to the diversions 
 sure to be suggested to every soldier in 
 moments of leisure, and more than one 
 ])ack of cards served to while away the 
 time taken to run down to South Fra- 
 mingham. Less than an hour was em- 
 ployed in the trip, and then the compa- 
 nies debarked where so many of them 
 had been in former years at their an- 
 nual encampment. Possil:>ly the towns- 
 people did not know of the coming of 
 this contingent ; at any rate there was 
 no crowd to greet the men, and in the 
 midst of rain, still in e\-i(lence, the line 
 was formed for Camp Dewey, at which 
 in due time the men appeared and pro- 
 ceeded to make themselves as com- 
 fortable as they could. Says one of the 
 soldiers, "Save for the absence of the 
 Idue chests in which the refreshments 
 were usually carried, it seemed as if 
 we were simply entering on our reg- 
 ular tour of duty." After the assign- 
 ment of tents came the physical exam- 
 inations, to see who were probably 
 able to endure the privations sure to 
 follow in active service. Concerning 
 these same examinations, now that they 
 and the war are long past, it may be 
 proper to remark that very few of the 
 men held them in respect. Most peo- 
 ple supposed that when a regiment of 
 militia was ordered out for that on ac- 
 count of which they drilled, they would 
 go as an organization, just as so many 
 did in 1861, but in this case they were 
 very much in error. Evidently the 
 government feared too many applica- 
 tions for pensions, when the war was 
 over, on account of health lost in the 
 same, hence the attempt to allow only 
 strong, vigorous men to enter the ser- 
 vice. The intention was well enough, 
 but in its practical application there 
 were so many exceptions and so many 
 evasions that when the regiment finally 
 went to Florida, it may be questioned 
 whether it really was as well cundi- 
 tioned, in spite of all care and strict- 
 ness, as it would have been if the original 
 well-drilled men had been taken with- 
 out any interview with the surgeons. 
 Here are some of the incidents. Cer- 
 
 tain stantlards of height, weight and 
 chest measurements were set up, and 
 compliance with the same was nomi- 
 nall}' exacted. Here comes a man who 
 very much wishes to go. He knows 
 quite well that his weight is far under 
 that which his stature requires, but he 
 had been worked down in the early 
 spring and hence is under the normal 
 number of pounds, buthenotes that the 
 surgeon is not actually weighing, and so 
 he takes his chances on stating that his 
 weight is fuUy'fifteen ])ounds more than 
 it really is. Another is equally anxious 
 not to go, so he understates his avoir- 
 dupois, and without a further word 
 both get what they want. As to eye- 
 sight, there is a card iin which are let- 
 ters which must be named at a proper 
 distance. Here comes a young man 
 who is particularly desirous of getting 
 in. He has worn for a long time a pair 
 of pinch-nose glasses, but his comrades, 
 by diligent rubbing, have effaced the 
 tell-tale marks, and having fortified him- 
 self beforehand with a full knowledgeof 
 the relative location of every character 
 upon the card, he goes through with 
 flying colors. The absurdity of the eye- 
 test is apparent when one reflects that 
 had the same been applied stringently 
 in all cases there hatl l)een no Roose- 
 velt at San Juan Hill, and hence no 
 President of that name in the White 
 House. Again, a young man retires on 
 account of a tobacco heart, but an offi- 
 cer is particularly desirous to have him 
 go, so a re-examination discloses the 
 ifact ( ?) that the first report was too ex- 
 acting, and that the man should go in. 
 Here is an excellent soldier whom the 
 surgeon turns down on account of de- 
 fective teeth, whereupon a young den- 
 tist suggests that it would be a simple 
 operation to gold-crown the molars, 
 and the man would be all right. Happy 
 thought ! The man is accepted, but 
 si^imehow the crowning is not done, at 
 least before the Culian campaign. After 
 the examinations were over, and the 
 rejected were counted up. among them 
 were found in Company C the Captain, 
 the Second Lieutenant, and a large 
 number of enlisted men. Some of 
 these rejected ones took their fate most 
 grievously, and it was far from un- 
 
90 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 CiHU'. j. I.. W'l I.MOT. 
 
 <iHuRGE S. Farrow. 
 
 M. r.. KiNCAID. 
 
 CnRT', ('. T. Eldridge. 
 LKIIIT IXKANTKV E.\ l.ISTICD MEN. 
 
 E. n. WonLDRIDGE. 
 
 A. 'I". Wtntersgill. 
 
 nianl}' fur one thus cast down Id i;"i\e 
 way to tears. It would not be i)ut of the 
 way to state that prohaJ^ly not a man 
 was thrown out in these tests who would 
 not have been taken at a later date had 
 tile war cnntinued as it did in the days 
 of the Reljellion. In times of stress, per- 
 fection of stature, limlis and viscera 
 are nut mi much cimsidered as that 
 more impurlant query. "L'an he keeji up 
 and fire a gun?" There was nn troul)le 
 in finding men to take the places nf 
 tliMse wliM were dni]iped. ancl raw re- 
 cruits soon made the number g 1. 
 
 Among these recruits, whu in camp 
 parlance were called "hk ikies," there 
 were characters who were sources of 
 much amusement in their fellows. ( )iie 
 was a large 1)1 1\. just from the farm ; in- 
 deed he had ridden into the city i in a 
 car-load of [potatoes. The war bulletins 
 attracted him, and he thought a trial of 
 soldiering would please him. His 
 physique was quite correct, and the 
 
 boys dubbed him " I'at," though his par- 
 ents hafl named him Charles. (.)ne of 
 his comrades, wishing to jolly him, one 
 day said, "Pat, does your mother know 
 you are out?" Pat replied instantly, 
 '■\'es. and she gave me a cent to buy 
 a jackass. Are you for sale?" There 
 was a Greek who had been a canvas- 
 man with the Buffalo P)ill show, was re- 
 puted able to speak five languages, and 
 claimed to have killed a man. Another 
 man rode into towti on his bicycle, and 
 lu'aring abmu the wants i if the Companv 
 blew into headcpiarters, saying in the 
 strongest kind of a Yankee drawl. "I 
 understand you want recruits to fight 
 with Spain, and I thought as how ma_\-- 
 be I might gu." An examination re- 
 vealed under his guise, which might 
 lia\-e ]>asse(l for that of UncleSam him- 
 self, a frame of iron, with huge muscles 
 and tendons like whipcord; there was 
 no question about his being taken. He 
 proved one of the most enduring men 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 91 
 
 in the regiment, and, when the war was 
 over, he came lionie only to surrender 
 to a widow, and is to-day as good a 
 I)enedict as he was a soldier in 1808. 
 
 As Captain Rider was obliged to re- 
 tire. First Lieutenant Frank L. Allen 
 was promoted to his position, and First 
 Sergeant Arthur C. King became First 
 Lieutenant. Second Sergeant Herbert 
 H. \\'arren was the choice of his com- 
 rades for the Second Lieutenancy in 
 place of Lieutenant Clark, and George 
 H. Hill was advanced to the place of 
 First or Orderly Sergeant. It was 
 during this period of camp life that 
 Sergeant Hill essayed the matrimonial 
 act, and having a two weeks' leave of 
 absence, he came back to Worcester 
 and united his fortunes with those of 
 Miss Edna Jane Tanner, thus escaping 
 the infelicities of camp life, i. e., in 
 Framingham. There was little drill ex- 
 cept of recruits, in this way affording all 
 the more time for visiting with friends, 
 who were frecpiently in evidence. 
 
 Though it was in the month of May 
 the weather was exceedingly cold, and 
 the great fires which each night illu- 
 mined the'campwereenjoyable.not only 
 for the sociability they excited, but for 
 the comfort they aliforded otherwise 
 shivering bodies. \\'hen the regular 
 army-blankets came they were more 
 than welcome. Soon the caterer, who 
 had accompanied the boys to camp, 
 Antony Rebboli, himself a member of 
 the Company, was bereft of his job, for 
 it was deemed best to initiate the sol- 
 diers early into what they would have 
 to endure later, and regular rations 
 were issued to be prepared 1)y a company 
 cook. Much fault was found with some 
 of the items in the bill of fare, but a few 
 weeks later, when the hunger of Cuba 
 was on them, these same complainers 
 were longing for some of the anthema- 
 tized viands of the Framingham camp. 
 
 Company C did not linger in camp 
 long enough tohave its features become 
 so very dull, for the stay was only a 
 trifle above a week. So rapidly did mat- 
 ters move that the new officers hardly 
 had time to secure their side-arms. Bos- 
 ton could not supply their needs, so 
 great had been the demand, and at least 
 one voung lieutenant marched awav 
 
 wearing a sword which a friend had 
 kindly loaned him. On the first and 
 only Sunday in camji, the officers were 
 personally notified Ijy .Adjutant-general 
 Dalton that the regiment would proba- 
 bly move to the South inside of twenty- 
 four hours. This was May 8th. and 
 these officers were to learn that in mili- 
 tary orders there is many a slip, etc., 
 for it was not till the 12th that the de- 
 parture really came. The intervening 
 time was well spent in issuing apparel 
 and equipments to the men. All had 
 expected to leave the State via \\'orces- 
 tcr, and great interest was felt, both in 
 ^\"orcester and in camp, over this last 
 glimpse of familiar faces, but it did not 
 turn out as expected, as is usually the 
 case in war times, for when the train 
 was boarded it was to seek Dixie 
 through Newport, R. L, and on I-ong 
 Island Sound. 
 
 On the evening of the iith, orders 
 were given to break camp in the morn- 
 ing, and reveille was sounded at four 
 a.m. on the i2th. and at six o'clock not 
 a tent was standing. The men were 
 ready, but those in authority were not. 
 Again some of the inevitable lessons of 
 war were to be learned, viz., that great 
 bodies move slowly, that orders to be 
 ready to move at the word may mean 
 a long, long halt, while to pitch camp, 
 in marching days, means to break it be- 
 fore one's first nap is ended. One of 
 the final acts was the forming of the 
 regiment in a hollow square, and then 
 Governor Roger \\'olcott. in most im- 
 pressive manner, delivered to each offi- 
 cer his commission. Before this, on 
 the loth, each company had been mus- 
 tered into the service of the United 
 States and the Second Massachusetts 
 Infantry had become the Second Mas- 
 sachusetts Infantry, L'. S. \\ It would 
 not be the least strange if each member 
 of the regiment felt just a little larger 
 as he marched from camp to the rail- 
 road station, for now he was a duly- 
 enlisted soldier of the nation, not a 
 mere State militiaman. In due time 
 the train was boarded, and the last the 
 men saw of their popular Governor 
 was his tall form and extended arms 
 waving to them a fer\-ent farewell. 
 
 It was aliout four o'clock in the after- 
 
92 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 noon when in three sections the train 
 moved sontliward, receiving' on its way 
 the hearty greetings of all who recog- 
 nized the burden it bore. Newport is 
 reached at ten or thereabouts, and the 
 great steamer Plymouth, of the Fall 
 River line, is in waiting, and upon it 
 the bovs findplaces to rest theirwearied 
 bodies. They camp readily wherever 
 there is space, while the (ifficcrs have 
 state-rooms. Afterall.it may be doubted 
 if they slept any better than the ])rivates 
 did on the floor. The traversing of the 
 Sound is little heeded by our Alassaclui- 
 setts boys, since very few of them awake 
 before the steamer is in East River, rap- 
 idly bearing down on the greatest city 
 in the western world. At nine a.m. the 
 Plymouth puts into her Xorth River 
 pier.'and is saluted by the loud whistling 
 of all the craft in that crowded harbor. 
 Soon after touching, the Harbor Quar- 
 termaster came onlwardand anmumced 
 the next step in the prograninir, which 
 proved to betheleavingofthc I'lyniDiith 
 for the Saratoga, which the men thought 
 would be their means of reaching the 
 South. They were not in love with the 
 dingy, ill-smelling hold of the vessel, 
 and they were not displeased when on 
 the next afternoon the steamer ran over 
 to Jersey City and landed the men to 
 make their trip 1)y rail rather than b}' 
 water. The fact that the Saratoga was 
 the last American craft to leave Ha\'ana 
 after the declaration of war ilid not 
 make her any more popular with the 
 soldiers who had to remain aboard for 
 nearly two davs. While the Second was 
 on the transport, the Seventy-first Xew 
 \'ork came alongside of their vessel, 
 and our m.en were much disgusted by 
 the incessant cry of these fellows, who 
 were ever shouting. ".Seventy-one, Sev- 
 enty-one, the first to conie. gallant 
 Seventy-one."' a fact that the Hay State 
 boys did not forget in later days, when 
 in Cidia the New Yorkers did not 
 maintain the reinitation that they had 
 given themselves, hence some witty 
 lads shouted as loud as they could yell, 
 "Seventy-one, Seventy-one. the first to 
 come, and the first to run." 
 
 The railroad accommodations ac- 
 corded the Second Regiment were ex- 
 cellent, since the train convexing the 
 
 men southward was made up of three 
 sections, each section of fourteen cars 
 having on board a battalion, and the 
 Worcester bovs, with F of Gardner, 
 were in the third division under the 
 command of Major Fairbanks. It was 
 after nine p.m. that the start was made, 
 and with each man in ])ossession of a 
 whole seat, the officers having a Pull- 
 man, the trip was made down through 
 New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Maryland, 
 and the District of Columbia towards 
 their southern destination. Rations, 
 not too large, were issued on the train, 
 and it is remarkable what appetites vig- 
 orous young men have when the mind 
 is free from care and they are embark- 
 ing on a new and interesting venture. 
 Curled u|) or otherwise disposed, the 
 soldier lads made the most of their 
 sleeping facilities, and during the 
 night had little knowledge of the new 
 scenes through which their swiftly- 
 nioxing train was bearing them. Had 
 their trip been in the daytime every 
 nia)i would ha\'e relished a sight of 
 Jersey's garden farming; Philadelphia, 
 with its wealth of memories and asso- 
 ciations, would have excited his wonder 
 and admiration : while in P.altimore he 
 might have fancied himself back in 
 the Irving davs of i8()i, when it was 
 a matter of world-wide moment that 
 Massachusetts soldiers should pass 
 along the streets of the Monumental 
 City'. 
 
 Washington is reached at an early 
 hour Sunday, the 15th. and to nearly 
 e\er\- man in the company this visit is 
 his first. I'^roni his boyhood he had 
 heard of the wonders of the nation's 
 ca])ital. and the vast structure known 
 as the Capitol is indelibly stamped 
 upon his memory, but now he has an 
 op]iorlunil\- to see for himself. Had 
 there been a call for volunteers to make 
 an excursion through the principal 
 streets and avenues of the famous 
 citv. there would have been very few 
 who would not rush into line for the 
 trip, every foot of which would have 
 been fraught with pleasurable sur- 
 ])rise at the extent and magnitude of 
 the piddic buildings. As it was, there 
 was no chance for going far from the 
 train. The excursion was not a Ray- 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 93 
 
 iiiond palace car trip ; un the contrary 
 the boys were glad to find an opportu- 
 nity to wash their hands and faces, 
 though the means afforded consisted 
 only of long troughs, perhaps arranged 
 for the watering of cattle, but tliey 
 were very useful and pleasurable to 
 the blue-clad men, who had hastened to 
 avail themselves of what they oft'ered. 
 Something to eat was the next thing 
 to arouse the interest of the travelers, 
 and regular rations were of no account 
 when compared with the baker's prod- 
 ucts which nearby stands and passing 
 carts provided. These, in conjunction 
 with fresh milk, served to fill a long- 
 felt want, and men from the far-famed 
 pie belt of New England were not slow 
 to fill up with what their famous phil- 
 osopher. Emerson, had declared the 
 true indicator of the intellectuality of a 
 people. If the sage's dictum were to 
 l:)e taken literally, the Third T'attalion 
 was up to the highest standard in intel- 
 lect, for every man clearly had a mouth 
 for pies. The change from hardtack 
 and "prime" ri last beef was one that all 
 partakers appreciated. The stop, how- 
 ever, at the longest, was very brief, yet 
 in that time some of the boys found 
 opportunity to take a short walk, and 
 three Company C lads were not slov\- in 
 meeting some of the jiretty girls for 
 whom the city has long been noted. 
 The trio was not so Green as some 
 might have thought, and that one of 
 the triplet whose name suggests Win- 
 some, alwavs mindful of the obligation 
 of Mars to \'enus, and as a souvenir of 
 the sly glance she had taken at him, 
 ga\e her one of his blouse buttons, in 
 securing which he tore said garment. 
 To the jibes of his comrades at this 
 rent in his uniform, the gallant youth 
 responded that such a "darned jiretty 
 girl was worth more than the blouse 
 with all its buttons." 
 
 "Believe me if all those endearing young 
 charms 
 Which I gaze on so fondly to-day." 
 
 In these days of college cheering and 
 school-boy yells it was not strange that 
 the ingenious and rhythmic soldier 
 should improvise some expressions of 
 his vocation and of his blood-thirsty 
 intent. For instance, this collection of 
 
 well-bred l]ay State youths occa- 
 sionally rent tlie air with shouts like 
 this : 
 
 Three cheers for the Maine! Three cheers 
 
 for the Maine! 
 
 The Second Massachusetts '11 lick h— 1 
 
 out of Spain." 
 
 A declaration quite at variance with 
 the Sunday school instruction with 
 which the most of them liad been 
 favored from infancy. The transform- 
 ing influence of a bit of uniform and 
 the elbow touch of kindred spirits are 
 wonderful. Perhaps they had lu-ard 
 of that good priest over in their own 
 Bay State town of .Milford who, in a 
 farewell talk to the lads as they were 
 about departing, said. "Xovv, my bovs, 
 it is yours to go in and do your level 
 best. You are to carry the guns and 
 to do the shooting. \Ve at home are 
 to read our Bibles and look after home 
 affairs. You do your duty and we will 
 do ours;" and if these yoiuig men were 
 not out on account of Spain and her 
 many misdeeds, then what was their 
 mission.-' .\s for their ])recise lan- 
 guage it is a lamentable fact that men 
 who served as deacons at home, when 
 awav and under the inlluence of excite- 
 ment and surroundings, have been 
 known to talk in a way that would 
 scandalize the congregation. Old Gen- 
 eral Israel Putnam, in his memorable 
 apology to his fellow Christians of 
 Brooklyn. Conn., for profanitv at 
 Bunker Hill, closed his contrite words 
 with the remark that it was enough to 
 make an angel swear to see ''them" 
 Cowards run away. 
 
 If our boys lost something of sight- 
 seeing in their night aii]>roacli to 
 Washington, there was no such trotd)le 
 in their departure. However much 
 they might have delighted in a day's 
 stay in the capital, they were obliged 
 to repeat the well-known words, "so 
 near and yet so far," and then betake 
 themselves to their respective cars and 
 move southward. There were eyes in 
 Company C which in that ride out of 
 the city saw for the first and last time 
 the towering Washington monument, 
 and looked only once upon the tawny 
 waters of the Potomac as the train 
 sped across the Long Bridge and 
 
94 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 touched the "sacred" soil of Mr- 
 ginia ; "the first and last time," we 
 repeat, for ere they return to their 
 loved homes, under the weight of fever 
 and heart weariness, those eyes will 
 close in death. But today there is no 
 shadow over these spirited }-oung men; 
 all are equally intent im the scenes 
 made memorable in song and story, 
 and every stopping place is a signal for 
 as many as possible to alight and to 
 have a part in the unix'ersal chinning 
 with the nalix'es.nianv of will ini. though 
 
 long, always confined to talking. Razor- 
 back hogs from remote times have 
 been among the noteworthy products of 
 the South, hence some of the lads in 
 alighting were pleased to limber u]) 
 their cramped legs by chasing the 
 material for future bacon, and it was 
 high jinks for all concerned, though 
 there is only one catch recorded, and 
 that was made by Private F, of Com- 
 pany G, who carried his trophy aboard 
 the train. On his arrival in the land of 
 flowers he killed and roasted his jior- 
 
 Koi.AND Johnson. 
 
 (iFORGh K. Kix. 
 
 they proclaimed themsel\'es"J(jhnnies," 
 expressed the wish'that they, too, might 
 go. There are all sorts of dix'ersions, 
 anil oiu; inipreNsional)le \ontli s])ends 
 some part of his not o\-er-burdeHed 
 time in writing hi> name and address 
 upon hardtacks and inviting corre- 
 s])on(U'nce as he throws them from the 
 car window. After his arrival in Lake- 
 land he had no less than ti\e responses 
 to this invitation. The color or se.x of 
 those who found the liits of hard bread 
 is not stated, nor vvhether the same 
 was retained as a soux'enir or soon 
 found its way into the finder's stomach. 
 .\or wt-re the waiting ])eriods which 
 in the locomotive wood-burning re- 
 gions of the far South were main- and 
 
 cine prize for the good of himself and 
 his comrades. 
 
 Not the least among the noteworthy 
 observations, as this trip progressed, 
 was the change in tem|)erature. Only 
 a few days before, ice had formed of 
 considerable thickness in their Fra- 
 mingham camp, but now the}- were 
 clearly 
 
 " In the land of cottnn. 
 Cinnamon seed and .sandy bottom:" 
 
 gardens were }"ielding their early 
 products, and small fruits were well 
 ad\anceil towards ripening. These 
 men were beginning to realize the ex- 
 tent of this vast land of ours. While 
 the eve was thus feasted In- a con- 
 
LICIIT IXK.WTRV, COMPANY C. 
 
 95 
 
 stantK- chaniiiiiL;' landscapi.-. ])rn\isi(in 
 liad been made by the visjilaiit and 
 thoughtful commander of the bat- 
 talion. Major Fairbanks, so that hot 
 cofTee was served twice a day while 
 en route, which delectable fluid, with 
 associated solids, placed each stomach 
 in a condition akin to satisfaction. 
 
 These vounnf men are not so loni; out 
 of school but that history and geog- 
 raphy are constantly brought to mind 
 as they speed along through "Old \^ir- 
 ginny,"the Old North State and South 
 Carolina, and when, on the morning of 
 May i8, they arrive in Savannah, their 
 former teachers would be eternally 
 discredited if some blue-clad boy did 
 not remember that here Pulaski fell and 
 Nathaniel Greene long resided. Also, 
 if those who carry watches in any way 
 discover local time, they will be sur- 
 prised at finding themselves an hour 
 ahead, since they have passed out of 
 the range of the meridian of Albany 
 and are under that of Cincinnati. 
 
 Just where the train was going was 
 of very little moment to the careless 
 souls aboard, yet there was a general 
 impression that Tampa was the ulti- 
 mate destination, but at Waycross, 
 Georgia, the announcement was made 
 that the point of deljarking would be 
 Lakeland, a place singularly well 
 named, lying as it does among a vast 
 number of beautiful lakes, a compara- 
 tively short distance from the Gulf of 
 ]Me.xico. That these Yankee boys were 
 traveling with eyes wide open is evi- 
 dent in the comments made by a W or- 
 cester observer at the sight, near the 
 dividing line between Georgia and 
 Florida, of a party of fifty-seven 
 colored convicts guarded by seventeen 
 white men with guns, and to look after 
 the guards are five overseers. Says 
 the boy himself, "In school I had to 
 study up the subject of labor, hence 
 this sight naturally interested me. I 
 am told that for loafing the convicts 
 are whipped and that they get it often." 
 The vicinity of the future camp is 
 reached at about 3 o'clock in the morn- 
 ing of the i-th, but slumbers are not 
 disturbed by the arrival, for it is not 
 till well along in the forenoon that the 
 line of march is essaved for the camp. 
 
 which is fiiimd 1 m the shores of Lake 
 Morton in what Colonel Clark is 
 pleased In name Camp Massachusetts^. 
 With the temperature 96 degrees in 
 the shade, there is little wonder that 
 many a man is ]3rett}' well wearied by 
 nightfall over the labors incident to 
 the ])itching of tents and the clearing 
 up of debris. 
 
 It was many a year ago that Lau- 
 rence Sterne said that God tempered 
 the wind to the shorn lamb, and Mas- 
 sachusetts boys soon foimd that it was 
 not impossible to acclimatize them- 
 selves, and heat which would have been 
 unbearable at home was endured here 
 with considerable ec|uanimity. ()ne 
 soldier writes of his surprise on the 
 morning of his arrival to find a regular 
 ariTiy man asleep in the sand with his 
 hat over his face, apparently uncon- 
 scious of the baking quality of the sun's 
 rays, and it was not till a comrade 
 shook him and told him that it was 
 time to get up did he give any signs of 
 life. The same writer testifies that a 
 week later he could sleep anywhere 
 and at any time, especially after 
 twenty-four hours of guard-diUy. Ra- 
 tions are slow in arriving, and for three 
 days no meat is served exce])t bacon, 
 and the effect of this excessi\-ely fat 
 lueat in this hot climate is bad. Hos- 
 pital accommodations are jioor and 
 medicine is far from plentiful. The 
 soldier's consolation of grumbling is 
 soon in evidence, l)ut it is not all 
 gloomy, for there are many who see 
 only the funn}- side of everything and 
 they are salvation to their fellows. 
 
 The spirit of caste is abroad in Lake- 
 land, and the night before the Second 
 came, there had been a shooting affray 
 in which a black trooper had signalized 
 his ecjuality by using his revolver with 
 fatal effect upon a white man. a condi- 
 tion not often had in such troubles. 
 The result was that excitement ran 
 high, and the soldier was under guard 
 and in greater safety than he would 
 have been had there been less luen in 
 blue in his immediate vicinity. 
 
 The waters of the neighboring lakes 
 were inviting, and the men enjoyed 
 them as much as they could, consider- 
 ing- that thev were said to harbor alii- 
 
96 
 
 WORCESTER I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 gators and tliat tlie shores abounded in 
 moccasins and rattlesnakes. Right 
 here it is not amiss to tell the story of 
 how the first two ofificers of Company 
 C tried to shoot the most famous of all 
 the reptilian inhabitants of Florida. 
 Lake Parker was two miles away and 
 arrangements had l)een made with a 
 native for guidance and boat, but on 
 reaching his al)ode he was unable to 
 fulfill his contract and so sent his ten- 
 year-old boy. who, as night had fallen, 
 carried a lantern. The way led through 
 a long stretch of waste land having a 
 
 went along also lest some harm might 
 befall him. As they had taken the pre- 
 caution iif not informing the camp of 
 their determination, it was quite un- 
 necessary for them to tell any fish 
 stories the following day on account 
 of their lack of suljstantial tokens of 
 success. 
 
 The stay of the "Second" in Camp 
 Massachusetts extended from the 17th 
 to the 30th of May, a period of time 
 within which the regiment accus- 
 tomed itself to Florida climate and to 
 the routine of camp life. That the 
 
 L ATI. F. L. Allkn. 
 l''iR5T Lieut. .\. C. King. Second Lieut. H. H. Warren. 
 
 I\ FLOKinA CAM I'. 
 
 few trees, and altogether bearing a 
 most uncanny look. To beguile the 
 time the lad lolil tales of the abun- 
 dance of rattlers and moccasins in that 
 verv neighborlKiod, and said that on 
 reaching ihe water he was going back 
 because he wasn't fond of "gators and 
 that his mother wanted him at home, 
 besides the last time he was out with 
 his father fishing, a 'gator had jumpe<l 
 into the l)oat. These recitals ser\ed to 
 cool the ninirod promptings of the 
 young officers and iliey began to think 
 that ])erhaps night was not the best 
 time to hunt 'gators, and then, when 
 the lad returned to his home the officers 
 
 Ijovs were not out for fun was speed- 
 ily impressed upon them, and with 
 rapidly bronzing faces they re- 
 sponded to the bugle calls, which fol- 
 lowed each other with exasperating 
 regidarit}' and frequency. These young 
 men must learn that the real end and 
 aim of a soldier's life is not tlie battle- 
 field, but drill — continuous, unvarying 
 drill. The Worcester companies are 
 located on the left, and are adapting 
 themselves as rapidly as possible to 
 their situation. The wall tents are 
 9 X II, thus accommodating six pri- 
 vates and a non-commissioned officer. 
 There are twelve tents on the street, 
 
LIGHT INFANTRV, COM TAW C. 
 
 97 
 
 and the officers are quartered in two 
 tents which face the street. Trenches 
 surround each tent for the better dis- 
 position of the water which falls fre- 
 quently in Florida, and in great quan- 
 tities. That the lads are not particu- 
 larly qivcn to complaining can be 
 gathered from these words, entered in 
 his journal by a Worcester bov : 
 "These nights down here are delight- 
 ful ; no twilight, but with the soft air 
 and the stars :" though even this happy 
 youngster can not help breathing a 
 sigh over the absence of the gentler 
 sex. 
 
 Sleeping on the ground soon devel- 
 oped its disagreeable features, and to 
 obviate them Spanish moss was 
 sought, the same hanging in profusion 
 from the trees. Climbing the same, 
 material was found for Couches soft 
 enough for the body of a king, but 
 everywhere the principle of compen- 
 sation comes. It did not take a great 
 deal of time for some of the soldiers to 
 learn that their delightful moss was an 
 excellent harboring place for lizards, 
 snakes and other reptiles and vermin, 
 hence luxurious beds speedily lost 
 their attractiveness. Yankee ingenuity 
 quickly discovered that slender sap- 
 lings, trimmed up in part, made fine 
 gun-racks and hat-trees, and the tents 
 were often thus equipped. Still the quar- 
 ters were hampered, and only for the 
 fact that at least one from each tent 
 was usuall\- on guard, the boys would 
 have found their space somewhat lim- 
 ited; as it was, spoon-fashion was the 
 rule in sleeping, and "one over, all 
 over," was the cry when a change of 
 position became a necessity. Some 
 preferred the roominess of out-of- 
 doors wlun it did not rain, even 
 though guard duty had taken away one 
 of the number, and so slept in God's 
 big bed-room. 
 
 Perhaps no better idea of camp life 
 in Lakeland can lie had than that given 
 in a letter from a private of C Com- 
 pany to a Worcester friend: ''.Ml one 
 has to do is to get up at 4.30 a.m. : fall 
 in with working suits and arms at 
 4.45 for roll-call: breakfast at 5.15, 
 when we fall in line and pass in front 
 of our smiling (iernian cook and re- 
 
 ceive a delicious ( ?) cup of steaming 
 cofifee, along with a beautiful plate of 
 savory bacon and potatoes, and all the 
 hardtack one can eat. The coffee is 
 issuied green, and is either burned past 
 all usefulness or is boiled green like so 
 many beans, and the hog is cut in slabs 
 al)out one-fourth inch thick, 6 x 4, and 
 while one man gets a ])iece cooked to a 
 turn two others get cither a raw piece, 
 just warmed through, or a i)iece so 
 charred that it is bitter. ( )ii this sub- 
 stantial meal we perform |)olice dut\-, or 
 street cleaning, and chambermaid duties 
 till 6.43. .\t 7 we go out on the shores 
 iif the j)onil on which the camp is situ- 
 ated, and drill in the beautiful sunshine 
 (106 strong) for one and a half hours. 
 .\t 10.30 we have school for general in- 
 struction out under the trees in the 
 shade. One man in twenty can get in 
 the shade, which is usually located over 
 a nest of red ants. 
 
 "At 12.15 we partake of another 
 bounteous feast of fresh I)eefstew or 
 bean sou]) : at 2 p.m. school again : 4.40. 
 dress parade in the broiling sun and 
 ankle-deep sand: 5.40, guard mount: 
 6.05, roll-call : (j.30, supper, when we 
 again gorge ourselves on choice viands 
 similar to those of breakfast and din- 
 ner. It is dark at 7 o'clock, and 
 all of a sudden, too, for there is no twi- 
 light. .Vine o'clock sees all of us in 
 bed." 
 
 Lakeland itself is a comely place for 
 one in the .South, of perhaps 1500 peo- 
 ple, about thirtv miles from Tampa, and 
 is called the healthiest town in I'Morida^ 
 being a great winter resort for .X'orth- 
 ern people, but at this season the lat- 
 ter are conspicuous by their absence. 
 Like most of the cities and towns of 
 the Southlar.d. it has very little notion 
 of enter])rise, and was a long time in 
 awaking to the fact that in its inmie- 
 diate vicinity was a large army of men 
 with money to spend. Indeed, some 
 of the tradesmen were entirely bought 
 out before they awoke to the necessity 
 of restocking. So unwilling were some 
 to adapt themselves to the changed 
 conditions, thev even wished the sol- 
 diers afar o'flf. that they might 
 resume their accustomed tranquillity 
 and somnolence. One boy of C, who 
 
98 
 
 woiu I'.STicK i\ Tin-: Spanish war 
 
 had rrone to town for siqiplies, finding 
 himself overloaded, asked a native how 
 much he wanted to carry a small bundle 
 to the eanip. lie said, "No, I don't 
 want to. Said a merchant, "I shall be 
 g-lad when you fellows leave Lakeland. 
 I hardly get a chance to sit down unless 
 I lock the door." 
 
 He would be a queer soldier who did 
 not know the delights of running or 
 jumping the guard ; so unusually good 
 must such a man be it would be quite 
 unsafe for him to be exposed in the 
 least, for the gi.iod die early. Recog- 
 nizing the truth of this saying, some of 
 
 for the boys." That the "canteen" in 
 this regiment was well patronized is 
 evident from the fact that it had above 
 $Soo in the treasury. It would seem 
 that the visitors stole back into camp 
 considerablv wiser than when they 
 went out, but all the better satisfied 
 with their own volunteer surround- 
 ings. 
 
 Nor was the camp itself devoid of 
 fun ; and what the boys themselves 
 failed to provide sometimes came from 
 unexpected sources, as when a stray 
 calf, old enough to be strong and 
 active, wandered into the company 
 
 J()HNi.(.)N. JIii.1., Ldnhi.ky, Cheney, Jenkins. Stevenson, 
 Warren. Clark, Ai.len. King. Fairbanks. 
 
 i.KiiiT l^■l■"A^"^K^■ xo-V-coMMissinXKn hffukks. iSij5. 
 
 the Infantry lads tried the pleasures of street. Terrified by the sudden atten- 
 French leave and visited the camp of tions of the soldiers, with tail erect, 
 ■ ' ■' ' ' lieail down, and with blatant cries, it 
 
 rusluMJ through the tent of- Sergeant 
 Hill and landed in H Street in the 
 m'idst of foiu- men slee])ing, and then 
 made for tlie la]<e, his only way of 
 escape. .V young hound seeing the dis- 
 turbance also took a hand, so to speak, 
 and jntrsued the crazed bovine into the 
 water, swinmiing after him for fully a 
 hundred \anls, when his courage gave 
 out and he returned to the shore, leav- 
 ing the calf near the point of drowning 
 from weariness and fright, rnwilling 
 
 eert;ini cavalr\ men across the lake 
 The tri]) did the boys good, for they 
 had a chance to see how others lived, 
 and thus widen their own experience, 
 llerc they saw .Sibley tents, and learned 
 that tlie men sle|it with their heads 
 out or towards the rim. while their 
 feet congregated arouml the tent-pole. 
 .Also, thev saw the nuich-discussed 
 "caiUeen," and watcluil the Mexican 
 game of .\lonle in |)rogress, seeing 
 large sums of money won and lost, the 
 winner generously "setting them n]i 
 
LICHT IXFAXTKV. ((iMl'AW C. 
 
 99 
 
 that anythinsj should suffer thus, the 
 boys who had been laug'hing so heart- 
 ily now essayed the part of saviours, 
 and actually swam out to the rescue of 
 the poor beast, helping' him in till he 
 could himself touch the bottom, when 
 he made off, glad to be rid of his Yan- 
 kee acquaintances. 
 
 Here is a Sunday as described by one 
 who was there : "Got up as usual at 
 4.45 ; took breakfast of bacon, coffee 
 and potatoes, wliich tasted good. I 
 brushed my clothes, shined my buttons, 
 blacked my shoes, washed my face, and 
 at 8.30 marched over to headquar- 
 ters for service. Read prayer, sang 
 'America.' Account of the Prodigal 
 Son read by the chaplain. 'Nearer, my 
 God," sung by the choir and congrega- 
 tion : sermon on character, illustrated 
 by Gladstone, Depew. etc. Prayer 
 read to close. At 11 o'clock went to 
 a chapel down street, where our chap- 
 lain preached. Twelve of us went with 
 him and sang in the choir. Think 
 of my melodious voice echoing 
 through the aisles of the cathedral ( ?) 
 30 X 30 feet. Went home, had hardtack, 
 tomato soup, potatoes and coffee : 
 loafed in the afternoon. \\'e were 
 told that we were to leave for Tampa 
 lAIonday, so began to pick up ; 4.30 p.m. 
 went on guard duty." 
 
 May 30th, Memorial Day at home, 
 camp was broken and preparations for 
 departure were made. Reveille was 
 sounded at 4 a.m., at 8.20 all was in 
 readiness for leaving ; but that was not 
 the way of doing things in the army, 
 which never moves when the men are 
 ready, for it was not till 2.30 that the 
 train was taken, and a short ride had 
 till 4 p.m., not to Tampa, but to Ybor 
 City, a sort of suburb of the former 
 place and two miles away from it, 
 camp being pitched near the Fourth 
 Regiment of HeaAfy Artillery, on 
 which account it was rumored that the 
 Second was to be converted into that 
 branch of the ser\-ice, but all the heavy 
 artillerv experience our Worcester 
 soldiers had was that of looking over 
 the great guns and mortars with which 
 the regiment was equipped. While 
 camp is in a grove of scrub palmettos, 
 the most ahnumling element in sight is 
 
 sand. It is everywhere and is very 
 deep. To cross the street is to sink 
 ankle-deeo in it. and the nniles have 
 hard times in dragging their wagons. 
 'I'hc people are principally Spaniards 
 or C'uiians, and their jargon sounds 
 cjueer enough in this "land of tire 
 free." 
 
 One of the most interesting of tiie 
 near-ljy features is the great spring, 
 whence is had the water for camp use. 
 For fear of poison at the hands of 
 vengeful Spaniards, it is carefully 
 guarded. As at Lakeland, reptiles 
 and disagreeable insects are much in 
 evidence. Poor Little Miss MufTit 
 would have had no peace whatever in 
 Morida, for the big spider would not 
 have waited till she was comfortablv 
 seated on a tuffit before sitting down 
 beside lier. It was from Lakeland that 
 a C man wrote thus of his diiscom- 
 forts : "So far I have had only three 
 bites, but they will linger in my mem- 
 ory for some time, till the swelling 
 goes down any way. The day after I 
 was bitten I was conscious of a slight 
 soreness, and on the next I was so lux- 
 uriously inclined that I would do noth- 
 ing but lie on my back in the shade, on 
 a rubber blanket, and let my arms lie 
 out flat. They swelled so that for 
 three days I could not shut my hands. 
 Georgie is now a wiser if not a better 
 lx)y." 
 
 For a little more than a week, or un- 
 til June 7th, this is to be the camp of 
 the "Second," and with the usual 
 routine of drill and camp duty the time 
 quickly passes, every day there beiing 
 stories of when and where the regi- 
 ment was to go. There is no great 
 amount of varietv in the routine, but 
 occasi(5nallv the difference between 
 North and South crops out. The 
 negro is not looked upon as exactly an 
 ornament to society, and there is a 
 wav of self-assertion among the whites 
 that Northern men were not accus- 
 tomed to. Thus on one of the days 
 during which Lieutenant King was 
 Officer-of-the-guard, his attention was 
 directed to an evident entanglement in 
 a certain part of his bounds and. on 
 investigating, found a number of his 
 men rounded up b\- a woman with a 
 
100 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR 
 
 shotg-un. It appeared that near by the 
 camp was a tempting watermelon 
 ])atch, a situatiun entirely beyond the 
 power of the boys to overlook, but the 
 ladv proprietor was on the lookout also 
 and. gun in hand, she ran them off 
 the premises, corraled them in a 
 small piece of woods and. nn the 
 officer's arrival. ])roceedeil m prefer 
 her com|ilaint. saying thai if the 
 authorities could not protect her prop- 
 erty, she "reckoned" she could do it 
 herself. The looks and manners of 
 the amazon gave ample evidence of her 
 ability, and though a guard was sta- 
 tioned near her melons, the men 
 themselves thought her own presence 
 
 .MaJciK II. I'.. I'.MUUANKS. 
 
 sufficient iin >trctiiin. TIun didn t 
 her nielon>. ni>t e\en a liille bit, 
 
 ( )n Sunday, the 3th of June. I'om 
 nies (' and I) were routed mit 
 1.30 a.m. til Jissist in the Inading of 
 Heavy Artillery's big guns upon 
 cars for trans]iiirtation to 'rani])a. 
 same guns whicli, mi llie arrival 
 Cuba, (ieiieral Shaller fnund liim 
 unable In unloail. aiuitluv cunuuent 
 the unpreparediies'^ nf 1 mr naliuii 
 war with .-mv penple. 'riie r;iin dur 
 some of these da\s was s(.nu-lliing 
 astonish Northern eyes. \\ lien 
 rained it jjoured. great, big dmii 
 large, the bovs said, as walnuts. 
 
 like 1 
 
 pa- 
 
 at 
 the 
 the 
 the 
 
 in 
 self 
 
 I in 
 f. ir 
 ing 
 
 to 
 it 
 
 as 
 and 
 
 those who did not have raised board 
 floors in their tents just had to wade. 
 Then some of the extra careful men 
 had made nice little excavations be- 
 neath their floors, which, by courtesy, 
 tlie\ called cellars, where they kept 
 some iif their food, but the floods lost 
 nil time in transforming them into 
 small swimming tanks. 
 
 It was here that the boxes sent by 
 good Worcester friends came, and the 
 opening thereof was far ahead of any 
 ■'spring o]3ening" annually advertised 
 bv enterprising tradesmen. There 
 were boxes galore, big boxes and little 
 boxes, and he was a neglected boy who 
 had not some Imme token in this 
 shape. "It's just like Christmas." re- 
 marks one lad with imagination and 
 memory. Such a medley of contents ! 
 Tobacco, canned fruit, pickles, olives, 
 condensed milk, sardines, ham, pickled 
 eggs, acid phosphate, saltines, cake, 
 cookies, boiled eggs, ehuwchow. rasp- 
 berry vinegar, whiskey (for medicinal 
 use), tea, colifee, fish lines, and in one 
 case a baseball. While all these items 
 were gratefully received by the young- 
 soldiers, it 'is quite likely that they 
 would have been just as well off if they 
 had ciiuliued themselves strictly to reg- 
 ular ratii ins. 
 
 It was in this camp that a very pretty 
 tribute of home apiireciation came from 
 some of the younger Worcester girls 
 who called themsehes "the lUisy 
 I'ees." In their spirit of patriotism 
 they had called u]Min Captain Rider 
 and asked him if sumething in the 
 wa_\' of a sewing mitlit wmild not 
 )e good for the men in I'lurida. To 
 his' i)ractical mind the proposition 
 was admirable, ;uid he told them to go 
 ahead, which thev did. In time there 
 was brought to his Main Street store 
 a l)ox containing seventv-five of these 
 useful ciiml)inations, upmi each one 
 Ix-ing the name of a Light Infantry 
 man', with that of the maker. Called a 
 "Housewife," and filled with all the 
 essentials for mending and sewing on 
 buttons, the gift was just what every 
 man needed. The letter of thanks 
 from Cajitain Allen bears date of May 
 31, and was a great pleasure to the 
 Voung ])eople, who heard it read at a 
 
LIGHT IXlANTin', CO.MI'AXY C. 
 
 101 
 
 meetint;- lu-Id in the lioine of ^^rs. A. C. 
 Williams. In aildition, maiiv k'ttcrs of 
 individual thanks were written liy the 
 men to the particular ones who had 
 affixed their names to the presents. 
 
 Here. tuo. the boys were reminded of 
 one of their old comrades, "Toni" 
 Rebboli, the confectioner, who had 
 also been their caterer in some of their 
 l^ramino-ham life, for he sent them a 
 liberal s'ift of his sweetest wares, and 
 thouo-h the amount for each one was 
 not exactly cloyinaf. it served to remind 
 them of home, and was vastly more 
 toothsome to some than was the 
 tobacco which other friends sent. 
 
 June /th, Captain Allen wrote a let- 
 ter of thanks to Halleck Bartlett for the 
 medicine chest which the latter, as 
 Treasurer of the Worcester A'olunteer 
 Aid Association, had sent. He says : 
 "It was. just what we needed, and it 
 did us n'doil ser\ice. both in our I'um- 
 pany. where we distributed its con- 
 tents, and in the resfimental hospitals." 
 All these exam])les of g-iving serve to 
 illustrate the home love which followed 
 the men wherever they went. 
 
 The distance from the camp to the 
 neighboring town is short, and when 
 reached the men have free access to the 
 tent of the Y. M. C. A., where ample 
 provision was made for letter writing, 
 and there was little time when some 
 boy was not seen here writing a letter 
 to tilie loved ones at home. Nor was 
 the camp lacking in nearer attractions, 
 for not more than three hundred 
 yards away was the farm-house of a 
 native, where could be bought a wick- 
 range of food that ordinary army regi- 
 ments did not afford. "It is ])resided 
 over by two very pleasant and attrac- 
 tive looking young women, and a num- 
 ber of the Ijoys can be found there dur- 
 ing the day and evening." Tables are 
 placed upon the piazza and, with aljun- 
 dance of stationery, the boys find this a 
 fine place for letter writing. Checker- 
 boards are also furnished for those 
 who like the game, and with the best 
 of manners the people do a big busi- 
 ness. 
 
 The 6th of June is the ninety-fifth 
 anniversary of the Company, and for 
 years the event had been celebrated 
 
 with a deal of ceremony ; indeed, it was 
 the great day of the entire year. .\c- 
 cordingly, though remote from \\'or- 
 cester, action was taken towards mak- 
 ing the event memorable in l-'lorida, 
 and fift\- dollars had been subscrilied 
 for a spread and good time. Hut this 
 \v;is a case of certain men's ])ro])osing 
 and those in higher position disposing 
 in a counter direction. The hour of 
 fun had been set at 7 o'clock p.m.. 
 when, at 6. 30, the officers were sum- 
 moned to headquarters to be informed 
 that every-thing must be read\- for the 
 wagons at ().3o, and all festivities were 
 lift' at once, though as the secjuel 
 showed, there was am])Ie time for a 
 whole night's celebration, since it was 
 not till late the next day that a move 
 was made. "If we only knew" is so 
 often the refrain in after reflections. 
 As the men had recently been paid, 
 there was an al^undance of money on 
 hand, and an observance of such an 
 anniversary on Florida soil would have 
 been a delightful memory. .As it was, 
 the time came and went just the same, 
 tliough not exactly as had been 
 planned. 
 
 Everything was ready at the assigned 
 time, but the means of depart- 
 ure (lid r.ot show u]) till lung after- 
 wards. .\11 had the pleasure of sleep- 
 ing with onlv the arched sky for a 
 covering, awaiting the orders which 
 did not come, for it was not till 6.50 
 p.m. on the "th that the train was 
 boarded for Tampa, which was reached 
 at 10 o'clock. The C'omi)any biv- 
 ouacked on the depot i)latform, ex- 
 pecting to take the transjjort the fol- 
 lowint;- day. The Orizaba had been 
 assigned to the "'Second." but owing 
 to some confusion that vessel was 
 taken b\- certain Regulars, and on the 
 8th of June Company C found such ac- 
 commodations as it could upon the 
 Concho. 
 
 In the light of subsequent events, 
 the api)rehensions of the national 
 government, and of its representa- 
 tives upon land and sea, as to the 
 intentions of the S^^aniards seem 
 almost ludicrous. Never for an in- 
 stant, even, showing the aggressive, 
 when thev did leave the harbor of San- 
 
102 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR 
 
 tiago, it was only to run away as best 
 they could. Tlu-n to think that 
 we should, tor a ninmcnt, have 
 entertained the thouL,dit that the 
 Dons were tryini;- to enter the Gulf 
 of Mexico with the purpose of 
 wipino- out our continc^ent there, seems 
 
 many transports which were evident 
 in the waters near. ( )wing to some of 
 the vicissitudes sure to happen in war 
 times, the Second, or a part of it, had 
 to take up with such quarters as it 
 could find on the Concho. This same 
 vessel would not have been selected 
 
 CoKf. C. A. \'Ari;iiAN. Jii. CoRr. P. W. l.iNctiLN. 
 
 I .nr [S i:. I ; I.I X MAX. 
 PlKlcN .S, I'RINC K. lUcW.KR .\. V. WheELER. 
 
 HXI.ISI Kil Mi;.\, C().\II'.\X^' C. 
 
 absurd, yet just such fears and alarms 
 disturbed the embarkation and lun- 
 dered the . dejtarture not a little. 
 Howe\er, the Infantry and its fellow 
 com])anies were at the landing and 
 anxious to go aboard some one of the 
 
 as an excursion steamer if found in 
 I'loston Harbor, hut it was one of those 
 chosen to carry representatives of Uncle 
 Sam to their (lestination. Already 
 on l)oard were two regiments of U. S. 
 Infantrv, one of them colored, and 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 103 
 
 witli the Massichusetts addition, space 
 was at a premium. In the numbers of 
 these floatinp; caravansaries, the Con- 
 cho '•anked as fourteen, Ijut nothing 
 could make her lovely nor pleasant. 
 The tentage and ten days' rations, this 
 day issued, had to be loaded — ^lots of 
 wrork for those who did it, and at 
 about three in the afternoon, she 
 steamed away to her anchorage, with 
 the expectation that during the night 
 the start for Cuba would be made. 
 Colonel 'Miller of the First Infantry, 
 commanding the brigade, issued an 
 order read before the officers of the 
 battalion, to the effect that if there 
 should be an attack or any cHsturbance, 
 one officer should at once go to the 
 hold and stay with his men till the 
 trouble was over. At m'idnight came 
 the tramp of hurried feet on the deck, 
 above the quarters of Lieutenant King, 
 who immediately arose, dressed and 
 repaired to the cabin, where he learned 
 that Spanish gunboats had been re- 
 ported five miles out, and that the men 
 liad all been ordered below. If these 
 poor fellows had only known how 
 much the Spaniards dreaded coming 
 near the Yankees, they might have con- 
 tinued their deck repose. As 'it was, 
 they were pent up in the stifling 
 regions below the water's edge, suffer- 
 ing from the terrible crowding and 
 heat almost to th; point of suffocation. 
 Obedient to Colonel Miiller's orders, 
 Lieutenant King went below and re- 
 mained with his almost frenzied men. 
 to whose fancies came visions of catas- 
 trophe, with no chance whatever to 
 help themselves. They did not wish to 
 die like rats in the pit. After almost 
 two hours of this tribulation, orders 
 were received to bring the men on deck, 
 where they found that the vessel was 
 making her way l)ack to the slip, all on 
 account of possible Spaniards. Wor- 
 cester boys climbed the rigging and en- 
 joved the sights aft'orded by the flash- 
 lights wdiich illumined the busy scene. 
 For several days there was nothing for 
 the men to 'do but d'ivert themselves as 
 best thev could. Swimming was a 
 favorite sport when near the shore, but 
 at the anchorage to which the Concho 
 
 again moved on the iith. the presence 
 of sharks made the boys sick of the 
 water. Much to the relief of all, on the 
 1 2th the Knickerbocker drew along- 
 side, and the 3d Battalion was 
 transferred to her more roomy if not 
 more cleanly spaces. She is a smaller 
 craft, but as yet is not crowded, though 
 on the 13th she moved up to the 
 ( )rizaba and received the ist Battalion 
 of the Second, thus having the entire 
 regiment excepting the second section, 
 which was on the Seneca. The new 
 floating quarters is Number 13, and 
 Private Fred Dean, from his known 
 deftness with the brush, is directed to 
 paint this talismanic combination upon 
 the smokestack, while the men have 
 nothing else to do but cogitate on the 
 thirteens which may be made out of 
 the vessel and her history. There are 
 thirteen letters in the word Knicker- 
 bocker; the captain has commanded 
 her thirteen years ; she is about start- 
 ing on her thirteenth trip to Cuba; the 
 1st Battalion was taken aboard on the 
 13th; there are thirteen letters in the 
 captain's name ; there arc the same 
 number of letters in the name of the 
 State whence the men have come ; 
 thirteen steps are necessary to reach 
 the bunks below, and these ingenious if 
 not idle fellows had many other coin- 
 cidences which tended to make the 
 probability of the ship's reaching Cuba 
 extremely unlikely. 
 
 At nighitfall, the transport drew in to 
 the (lock and proceeded to take on 
 rations and water for the Cuban trip, 
 and the next morning started out again; 
 this time it really looking as if the de- 
 parture were at hand. Some of the 
 {)oys in the getting away were left, and 
 few people know how a soldier feels 
 under such circumstances, for there is 
 always the imputation of having tried 
 to be left, in other words just the 
 possibility of desertion, the crowning 
 disgrace in a military career. Thus 
 when the transport was likely to leave, 
 those on board, in their anxiety to get 
 their friends there also, climbed into 
 the rigging and signaled and shouted 
 themselves hoarse, but in spite of all 
 of their efforts quite a numlier were left 
 
104 
 
 WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAK. 
 
 and later were brought out by a smaller 
 craft, the Margaret. Next to reaching 
 home, the boys were pleased at getting 
 where they belonged. .\s it was, the 
 antics of the lads in their efforts to 
 "get there'" were equal to circus per- 
 formances, for after the gang-planks 
 had been taken in, some of the vigor- 
 ous fellows swung themselves aboard 
 by means of ropes. 
 
 At the last moments when the 
 "Knick." was moving out of her slip, 
 one of the voung men came running 
 down the (Idck with his arms full of 
 
 bath, even though he finally let go 
 everything to get a two-handed grasp 
 of the rope. He had to wait and to 
 come out with the other delinquents. 
 As the regulations were not too strictly 
 enforced, no harm came to any one, 
 except the inevitable an.xiety and some 
 rallying by their comrades. These 
 A'ankee boys were not starting away 
 lumgrv. They had money, the most of 
 them, and the shore affords food even 
 if the rations of "prime roast beef" 
 were not all the most fastidious could 
 wish for. Then there were boxes and 
 
 t'.\Ml' SIKICET SCENE IX LAKELAND. 
 
 bundles, no one nf which he was 
 willing to drnp rven f(ir the jxtssibil'ity 
 of reaching the deck. He had canned 
 goods in one hand and a bag of lemons 
 in the other. "Throw me a rojie" is his 
 cr\- as he nears the vessel. ( )ne is 
 thrown and he grabs at it, his foot slips 
 ujxin something anfl down he goes, 
 bundles and all, not one of which will 
 he relinquish. .Vnguish and anxiety 
 are pictured, ei|ually, on his face as he 
 holds onto the rope with one hand, the 
 other being devoted to budgets, and 
 he shouts to his comrades to draw him 
 on board. Tiiev. however, were more 
 discreet, and declined to help liiin to a 
 
 packages from home, which the re- 
 cipients generously divide<l with their 
 comrades. Slee]iing below decks was 
 not exactly comfortable, and some of 
 the \-oimgsters made up their minds 
 that if the licjrrors of the Middle 
 Passage, in the days of the .\frican 
 slave trade, were any worse than a 
 bunk in the lower regions of ( )ld 
 Knick., they were glad that they were 
 not passengers for America in those 
 same days of old. 
 
 ( )n the 14th, at 11.30, the Knicker- 
 bocker is in her proper place in the 
 line; at ? ji-m. the anchor is hoisted for 
 s/dod and the movement for Cuba 
 
l.llini IXIAXTKY. CDMl'.WV C. 
 
 105 
 
 lrjr;'ins. It is an ausiiioii ms eVL-nt in 
 American histoi"\-, hut to these men. 
 replete with animal spirits, there is 
 little thought of the significance of this 
 vast array of floating strength, on its 
 way to wipe out the crowning anachro- 
 nism of the century, viz., the survival 
 of mediaeval Spanisli rule in this en- 
 lightened western woild. In three 
 lines the majestic column of vessels 
 moves towards the outlet of the Gulf. 
 Our Massachusetts men are in the 
 middle line, numher six in the list. So 
 near her neighbors is the Knicker- 
 bocker that the closest watch is neces- 
 sar\- lest colhsions follow, and even 
 then they are not always escaped. 
 
 As the tri]) progresses, the beautiful 
 tint of blue of the water is noted, 
 though some of the men in their sea- 
 sickness are oblivious to the attractions 
 of their surroundings, and lucky the 
 man or boy whose stomach is proof 
 against the attacks of Neptune. There 
 is a whole week to be beguiled in some 
 wav before Cuba is reached, and in- 
 genuity will 1)e taxed to find diversions 
 for all this number of irrepressible 
 humanitw ( )ut of sight of land, there 
 was not a deal of variety, and some of 
 the diaries ke]5t afiforded no more inci- 
 dent than that of the ocean traveler of 
 whom Mark Twain records that his 
 daih' entries finallv dwindled to "(nit 
 up, ate, went to bed," though that 
 occasion was duly chronicled when 
 certain of the ship's crew attacked a 
 venal, grasping porter and compelled 
 him to disgorge four dollars which he 
 luul unjustly taken from the men, and 
 not only .gave it back to the soldiers, 
 but also gave out the stock of the 
 usurer, and then, knocking the fellow 
 down, "stepped on him." Some super- 
 stitious voyager threw overboard the 
 black cat which had started with the 
 Companv. declining to think such a 
 feline in the class of mascots. The 
 liovs while away the monotonous hours 
 asking themselves questions like these : 
 "What does 'the doctor give for a 
 broken leg?" Ans. "Salts." 
 
 "What does he give for seasickness .•" ' 
 Ans. "Salts." 
 
 "What is his remedy for a sore toe?" 
 Ans. "Salts. ' 
 
 "What >iiall we liave for breakfast?" 
 Ans. "Prime roast beef." 
 
 "What siiall we have for dinner?" 
 Answer, the same as abi)\T; .-nid thus 
 through the meals of tlie day. 
 
 I'ortunately there is no convention- 
 ality and the men dress very mucii as 
 they like. .\ pair of i)antaloons is full 
 dress, and one lad declares that certain 
 ones wear only a smile. There is little 
 reading aboard: in the start so nnicii 
 time was devoted to fixing for the body 
 that the mental outfit was forgotten. 
 However, one lad had an ( )utIook, an 
 Independent, a 1 Slack Cat and a Mtin- 
 sey. Though his name was plainly 
 written on each pamphlet he found his 
 ship exercise in trying to keep track of 
 his library. Personal appearance was 
 not improved in these earlier days of 
 raising a beard. Seemingly the barber 
 had been left behind, and the conse- 
 quent stubble of from one to two weeks 
 was something to remember. 
 
 All this time the men were likely to 
 have more or less colloc[uy with the 
 captain, who aiiparentiy was much like 
 the old Dutchman whom Washington 
 Irving used to describe. "F<iol Cap- 
 tain" was a mild term comjiared with 
 some of those applied to this son of 
 .\eptmie. He was seemingly jiroud of 
 his craft and naturally did not relish 
 the flings and jibes which were con- 
 stantlv ringing in his ears. Yet after- 
 wards the men were delighted to 
 learn tliat when the\- were well off 
 tiie boat and he ha<l ancjther ])arty 
 aboard, he could not talk loud enougli 
 in ])raise of those gallant fellows from 
 Massachusetts. So eccentric was he, 
 some of the men even questioned his 
 sanitv. 
 
 There was ainmdant opportunity to 
 study the characteristics of other craft 
 than the Knickerbocker, and at sight 
 of the .Miami, some one recalled tlie 
 (lescrii)tion of her given by Lieutenant 
 Ilenchley, Worcester's West Point boy 
 who went down in battle at San Juan. 
 He said she looked like a cross between 
 Xoah's .\rk and a roof-garden. The 
 appositeness of the simile was evident 
 to anv one seeing her towering so far 
 out of the water. Glimpses of land are 
 had at times as the fleet sails along the 
 
106 
 
 WORCESTEK IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 north coast of the Island, and the ship- 
 men are able to indicate tlie situation 
 of the more important places such as 
 Havana, Matanzas. etc. 
 
 M 10 a.m. of the 20th, the fleet was 
 within si^-ht of the harbor of Stmtiago 
 and the question of destination was 
 apparenti\- settled. It was a case, how- 
 ever, of "s(i near and yet so far," for 
 the landino;. so longed for, was still 
 some hours away. The fleet was to 
 stand off some miles from the shore, 
 to be well closed up and ready to obey 
 orders readily. On the 21st, the fleet 
 again pulled in nearer the landing, but 
 no command of debarkation was heard, 
 and at night another putting out to sea 
 was had : so far, indeed, did they go that 
 in the morning, that nf the 22nd, for 
 aught the soldiers knew, they were lost. 
 However, the captain had his ship so 
 well in hand that he soon came up with 
 other members of liis flotilla. He ex- 
 plained the situation saying that the 
 fleet was lost, they were all right. They 
 got back just in time to see the boin- 
 bardment of Daiquiri, where the land- 
 ing on Cuban soil was to be made. At 
 1.30 p.m. (ieneral Shaffer's boat ran 
 alongside and. through a megaphone, 
 he asked fur foldnel Oark. wanting to 
 know where lie had been, saying that 
 this load was to have been the very first 
 to land, and directing us tn ]iu!l in to 
 about a (juarter of a mile ironi ilu- sin ire 
 and debark at unce. 
 
 The captain dared not gi > much 
 nearer than iiur mile, and at -'.30 the 
 first ])oat load Kit. and the de|iartures 
 followeil so tlial at 3.13 the 1 st I'.altal- 
 ion was all nfl'. It was not till 7 a.m. nf 
 the 23rd that tlie unli .ailing "I the 1st 
 r.attalion liegan. the Light Infantry 
 going first. .Sergeant W'entwtjrth was 
 ordered to bring olT a Ihi.k of hardtack 
 and a case ni canned hrvf, a wise pro- 
 vision, fin- tile march to join the re- 
 mainder of the regiment at once pre- 
 vented |)roiier attention to connnissary 
 matters. It \\a> loo'clm-k in the fore- 
 noon that the men were all .-ishore and 
 began sizing up the land al)iint which 
 thev had heard so much .-ind to lake a 
 glance at the ]ieople in whose behalf 
 thev had left their own homes, and 
 the univtTsal opinion was that if the 
 
 specimens before them were fair sam- 
 ples, then the Cubans were no great 
 shakes after all. Xote the description 
 "made by our artist on the spot" : They 
 are mostlv short of stature, wear little 
 clothing, but each one has a gun or 
 machete, or both. One fellow not over 
 fifteen years of age, with face of ebon 
 l.ilackness, clothed in trousers one leg 
 of which is entirely gone and the other 
 parth', wearing no covering on the 
 up]ier part of his body, carries a 
 rifle over his shoulder, has a belt full of 
 anninmition, and in the other hand 
 carries a two-pound can of beef. The 
 grin upon his face extends from ear to 
 ear and betokens contentment with all 
 the earth. 
 
 These voung men of ours, who are 
 taking this Cuban trip, are boys in na- 
 ture as well as years, and it is not at all 
 strange that they lose little time in sam- 
 pling the resources of the locality. Not- 
 withstanding all of man's Ixiasted men- 
 talitv, he has never gotten away from 
 his stomach, and something good to 
 eat is ever a prominent subject in his 
 mind. In this respect he differs from 
 
 Clarence E. lii'TiER. Co. C. 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 107 
 
 tlie lower orders only in degree, and the 
 hungrier he becomes the nearer he ap- 
 proaches the creature from which, 
 through generations of survival, he is 
 supposed to have sprung. Here is the 
 record of one of the company just off 
 the boat, and whose stomach is bigger 
 than all thoughts of Cuba librc: "Then 
 G. S. and I started off to see what we 
 could find in the way of grub. We met 
 F. D. coming back with a chicken in his 
 hand, and he said he gave fifty cents for 
 it. He claimed to have bouglit it of a 
 woman who could speak notliing but 
 Spanish, and after making all kinds of 
 
 in departing tried to destroy everything 
 that was destructible, but they failed 
 to run off a large quantity nf wine stored 
 here. forty barrels of which fell into our 
 hands; and though soon guarded and 
 held for hos])ital purposes, some of the 
 prving Americans had found it soon 
 enough to get merry over its imbibing. 
 What the average soldier can not find, 
 when given an opportunity, is hardly 
 worth seeking. The Cuban soldiers were 
 not objects of soul-felt affinity to the 
 newly arrived. Long years of associa- 
 tion with the Island andUts needs had 
 produced a carelessness as to personal 
 
 CU.\1P.\NV C l.X W.uR LIIV. 
 
 signs he took the chicken in one hand 
 and a fifty-cent piece in the other and 
 oft'ered her the choice: she took the 
 money. A man who could speak Eng- 
 lish told the Yankee that this act of his 
 had raised the price of chickens 300 per 
 cent. \\'e tried (piite a number of 
 places at which we hoped to find a 
 chicken, but we couldn't make the 
 folks understand what we wanted. I 
 carried a feather and George the money, 
 but the people couldn't catch on." 
 
 At this point were located the Spanish- 
 American Ironworks, including shops, 
 railroad tracks, cars, engines, etc. Also, 
 here they had powder mills. The enemy 
 
 appearance wholly unreconcilable to 
 .American ways. Our men were accus- 
 tomed to pretty nearly a whole suit of 
 cli>thcs. while to the native, clothing or 
 raiment was not of much consequence 
 when compared with food, and the 
 readiness with which raw bacon was 
 devoured by the Cuban made our men 
 stare. Tliat Cuban privates should 
 carrv their officers across the water- 
 runs was cpiite an object lesson to our 
 bovs reared in habits altogether demo- 
 cratic. 
 
 Statements of the time of starting on 
 that first day's march from Daiquiri are 
 somewhat vague, probably because all 
 
108 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 (lid not advance at the same moment, 
 and then some generahzed on the ap- 
 parent position of the snn. If it were 
 stated that it was towards noon on tlic 
 23d tliat the first march on Cuban soil 
 began, it would be sufficiently near the 
 truth. Roads in the Massachusetts sense 
 do not exist in that belated land, Init 
 trails are substituted, and these are nar- 
 row, sr5 much so that it is difficult for 
 two to walk abreast. A twelve-mile 
 tramp brings the Company to its first 
 camping place on a hillside. This trail 
 proved to be an exceedingly hard one 
 to the men, just off the transports, and 
 many were quite overcome by the tem- 
 perature and the burdens. Indeed, Cap- 
 tain Allen found it necessary to halt be- 
 fore his Company did, and, by the side 
 of a fine spring, secured the rest which 
 enabled him. the fiillowing day. to come 
 111) with the others. Com])any C did not 
 start away from the landing place in- 
 tact, (|uite a number of men, some nine- 
 teen in all, having lieen detailed tore- 
 main with Lieutenant King to bring up 
 all arrearages, a deed fidlv accomplished 
 on the 24th. It was on this first march 
 that the men were introduced to the 
 nourishing possibilities of green co- 
 coanut milk, and the agility manifested 
 in climbing a palm for its delicious 
 fruit was a tribute to the young men's 
 gymnastic training. At Siboney or 
 Juragua, only five miles away from the 
 landing place as the crow would fly. 
 but representing twelve miles of weary 
 inarching, the .Second lay till the 24th. 
 some of it> inembers getting their 
 first taste I if hospital, 'incurred through 
 the extreme lu';it. Let one of the lads 
 speak for hinisrlf: "I felt dizzy, and 
 was ciirried ij\er lo ihe hospital on a 
 stretcluT. Tlie hospital, liy the way, is 
 a blockliousc liiiilt liy the .Spaniards. I 
 lay there all d,-i\ witlioui aiuthing to 
 eat. and in the e\i.iiing when my regi- 
 ment went oil. I was left at the brigade 
 hospital. There 1 saw some of the fel- 
 lows wounded in the 'Rough Riders'' 
 engagement. When 1 was lying in 
 my tent in the morning. 1 could hear 
 the firing, seemingly about two miles 
 away, lasting something more than an 
 hour. Tile killed included one of the 
 1st Cavalrv, two from the loth Colored, 
 
 and ten from the R(iiigh Riders, and 
 thirty-five were wounded. The S])an- 
 iards were in ambush, and had a 
 chance to kill all of the Rough Riders, 
 who were easy marks. The coming 
 u]i of the Tenth saved the Rough 
 Riders, whom our boys often denomi- 
 nated 'Wood's ^Veary W'alkers.' The 
 accommodations are mit much. The 
 wounded men are laid in a rude build- 
 ing on the floor, the very worst cases 
 being taken to the hospital boat. Don't 
 ever get into a hospital in war, if you 
 can help it : 1 mean one that does not 
 Ijelong to your own re.giment, and none 
 of them are any too good. They feed 
 }-ou what they please, and tell you to 
 get out before you are able to walk. 
 This was my experience. One of the 
 Rough Riders was ])rought in sick, and 
 the surgeon told him there was nothing 
 the matter with him. This did not suit 
 the men who had liroiight theircomrade. 
 so they went 1>ack, tour miles, and tuld 
 their lieutenant-colonel. It didn't take 
 tile latter a great while to put in an ap- 
 pearance, and to give that surgeon a 
 most genteel dressing down. He fin- 
 islied u|) by telling the surgeon that he 
 would lose his job. The mighty saw- 
 bones took oft' his hat and begged a 
 thousand pardons, but "Teddy' simply 
 said that he didn't wish to have any- 
 thing more to do with him," Evidently 
 the future President's shar]) tongue is 
 not altogetheii a late creation. 
 
 I'^very soldier in Cuba has a head full 
 of crab memories. In number and size 
 they by far eclii)sed anything ever seen 
 by them before. One of the men on 
 guard declared he halted one of them, 
 thinking him a man; while another ve- 
 racious soldier declared that one of the 
 rascals had scuttled off with his pipe. 
 When, some days later, this spot became 
 the site of a hospital, and one of the 
 colored patients was asked iftliere was 
 anything that could lie done to enhance 
 his comfort, the poor fellow, to whose 
 disordered fanc_\- these monsters had 
 become exceedingly repulsive, replied, 
 "\'es, l)uild around me a fence si.x feet 
 high ami strong enoug'h to keep out 
 these terrible creepers," As they made 
 their wa\- through the brush, some de- 
 claretl they made as much noise as a 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 l(l!l 
 
 horse. The halt here afforded opportu- 
 nity for salt-water baths, and an oppor- 
 tunity to see the transports unloaded. 
 Here it was that the hatless messen- 
 ger came up on horseback asking for 
 help, since the Rough Riders were hard 
 
 eral. We were immediately urderetl 
 under arms, and remained so for al)OUt 
 an hour." The 8th and the 22d were 
 sent forward instead, but on their arrival 
 the enemy had withdrawn. Fortunately 
 for the famous Riders who never rode, 
 
 Henry J. ('iri:ene. 
 Kmil Zaeher. 
 EXLISTKn MEN OF C()M1'.\.\Y C. 
 
 ( )ln ey T. .\ldrich. 
 
 .SKR(;r. (">, \\". Steriiins 
 
 WlNFIELD D. RhEI-TAN. 
 
 pressed at Las liuasimas. Lieutenant 
 King writes, "I directed him to (ieneral 
 Lawton's headquarters, and a second 
 courier, arriving a moment later, I sent 
 to Lieut. -Col. "E. R. Shumway, then 
 commanding the regiment, as Colonel 
 Clark was then Acting Brigadier Gen- 
 
 ihe 1st and loth Cavalry, by another 
 route, had come up just in the nick of 
 time, and so saved the venturesome 
 soldiers from even worse troubles. 
 
 At 8 p.m. on this 24th day of June, 
 the Company went to the shore to draw- 
 rations tor three days, among other 
 
110 
 
 WOKCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 items getting a gallon can of preserved 
 tomatoes, involving a Imnlen which no 
 provident disposition would warrant in 
 carrying any considerable distance. As 
 a conse(|uence many a can was thrown 
 away — a <lend l(5ss to the soldier and to 
 the department which furnished such 
 unreasonable rations. The camp was 
 abandoned at 5.30 p.m.. and a start was 
 made along the route already tra\ersed 
 by Roose\'elt's men, Company C being 
 the rear guard. Two hours' marching- 
 through characteristic Cuban thickets 
 brought the men to where they could 
 see the results of this first day's encoun- 
 ter, for here the colored troops were 
 burying their fallen comrades. The 
 burial service, read by the chaplain, a 
 dirge by the band, three volleys over the 
 new-made graves and then "taps," told 
 to all hearers the brief story of mortality. 
 Then through the darkness the mile- 
 long column stumbled along over roads 
 indescribable in their roughness, some- 
 times in the beds of streams now dry ; 
 everywdiere through vegetation so 
 dense that it had afforded perfect hid- 
 ing places to an enterprising enemy, 
 which, fortunately for these boys, did 
 not exist in their immediate vicinity, 
 and camp at last was pitched by the 
 side of the Rough Riders, whose dead 
 were lying under a tree near by. 
 
 Lieutenant King says this of the scene 
 of the fight : "Saturday, the 25th, I arose 
 early, and with several officers went 
 over the grounds ; a better place for a 
 small bodv of troops to stand off an 
 army was never seen. The two trails 
 over which the two columns had ap- 
 proached meet here at almost right an- 
 gles, and both running up hill. I think 
 500 U. S. soldiers could have held tjie 
 position against an army." The stop at 
 this point was short, though in the time 
 the Light Infantry had so generously 
 given of their own rations to the poorly- 
 provided-for Rough Riders that in sub- 
 sequent hours some of the Worcester 
 boys went hungry. At 6.45 the advance 
 again began, and continued for, pos- 
 sibly, two miles, till at Sevilla, on a 
 fine grassy tract, the weary soldiers 
 were permitted to pitch their tents. 
 
 ^^'hile in this camj) two batteries of 
 artillery came up and two dynamite 
 
 guns, and an officer, in whom the hunt- 
 ing disposition was developed, remarks, 
 iin his hearing the whistling of a quail, 
 making him almost homesick in the 
 memories the sound aroused. Later he 
 says he saw large numbers of the Ijird. 
 It was in this camp that orders were 
 issued against the eating of green man- 
 goes, it being understood from the na- 
 tives that the fruit at this time was ex- 
 ceedingly harmful. All of these days 
 were filled with vicissitudes for an hon- 
 est young soldier. One day a mechanic 
 was called for, and Eddie S. of C verv^ 
 properly volunteered. When he re- 
 turned, after an absence of several 
 hours, he was seen to wear a very much 
 abused look, and inquiries developed 
 the fact that the skilled workman could 
 not see where his mechanical al^ility 
 was particularly drawn upon in the 
 carrving of logs, for that was the work 
 he had been doing during his absence. 
 Such breaches of confidence begat 
 wariness in the minds of these astute 
 youngsters, and the same lad was not 
 often caught a second time, at any rate 
 not with the same bait. Picket duty and 
 general scouting expeditions enable 
 the men to pretty thoroughly learn 
 their surroundings. Rain and shine 
 alternate, so far as the weather is con- 
 cerned, and so hoi is the sun that wet 
 garments are speedily dried. Of the 
 variety in a soidier's life, here is an 
 excellent jncture nutlined by the chief 
 character in the scene : "I carry my 
 coffee and hardtack in the toe of a 
 stocking which is tied to my belt, be- 
 cause of the smallness of my haversack 
 and the necessity of carrying anununi- 
 tion, clothing, etc. The coffee is given 
 c lut in the berry, and when we would use 
 it we have to grind it ourselves, and this 
 we do by beating it between two 
 stones. Now, I had a glass jar of extract 
 of beef which I was keeping, in case of 
 an emergency, in the toe of another 
 stocking. Yesterday, when I went to 
 pound my coffee, I got hold of the 
 wrong stocking and pounded up my jar 
 of extract of beef. I was awfully sorry, 
 but it turned out all right, since we are 
 awfully short of food just nov,' ; so I 
 boiled the stocking and extract, get- 
 ting therefroma right down good feed.'" 
 
LIGHT IXF.WTKV. COMI'ANV C. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Reveille, to a soldier always early, 
 sounded earlier than usual on tlie^/th. 
 for it was at 4. jo that the well-known 
 notes were heard, and soon after the 
 Company started, niarchino: about four 
 miles to reach a point not more than 
 two miles off, in a straig'ht line. Here 
 camp was again pitched and men from 
 C Company, with some from D, were 
 put on outpost duty some distance from 
 the regiment. Towards the enemy, 
 hospital buildings in Santiago were vis- 
 ible, and the fort and block-houses of 
 El Canev also appeared. Indeed, the 
 
 indulgence in the fruit, winch abounds 
 everywhere. It is the rainy season too, 
 and to be wet to the skin is generally 
 the rule. Sometimes, in the night, the 
 boys remove their clothing, and wrap- 
 ping it in their rubber blankets to keep 
 it drv, enjoy for themselves a long 
 shower bath of the falling rain ; cool 
 and comfortable, but not just exactly 
 presentable. 
 
 The firing of a gun on the outpost did 
 not necessarily mean that the enemy 
 was in a belligerent mood, but rather 
 that the sentry in his ^•igilance has mis- 
 
 Fred Chester Hall. 
 Corp. C. li. Colburn. 
 
 I. A. nRi.-.HAM. Jas. E. I.. Todd. 
 
 R. E. Henderson. A. J. I'emuleton. 
 
 ENLISTED MEX. CI).MI'.\NV C. 
 
 position was such that a panoramic 
 view was had of a deal of the Spanish 
 line. Certain scouting parties were sent 
 out, but they failed to reveal any in- 
 dications of the enemy. Possibly had 
 they gone farther they might have 
 found the object of their search. The 
 country itself abounds in everything 
 that a tropical region can produce, but 
 medical restraint orevents unlimited 
 
 taken some crawling thing for a prowl- 
 ing Spaniard, hence discharges his 
 weapon, to the discomfiture of h'S com- 
 rades and the indignation of the offi- 
 cers. How the enemy felt no one can 
 tell. Late in the afternoon of the 28th a 
 sound was heard that was exceedingly 
 welcome to the hungry members of the 
 Company. It was not exactly a dinner 
 bell, though it announced the arrival of 
 
112 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR 
 
 food. It was the small tinkle em the 
 neck of the bell horse, and so indicated 
 the arrival of the pack-train with long 
 delayed rations for those famishing sol- 
 diers. The rations of bacon and hard- 
 tack which were soon distributed were 
 not large, but they were gratefully re- 
 ceived, and the men in eating them 
 wondered if they ever had been really 
 hungry in the old days at home. Sugar 
 and cofifee, luxuries for the American 
 soldier, wherever serving, also were re- 
 ceived in small quantities and refreshed 
 many a drooping spirit, for no n'.atter 
 how brave a man may Ije he never gets 
 away from his stomach and its cravings. 
 Probably the remark is much older than 
 Gen. Sherman, but he is credited with 
 saving that an army moves on its belly. 
 The location of the camp is possibly 
 fourteen miles from the landing, but dis- 
 tances are multiplied when the difficul- 
 ties of communication are considered. 
 Hence the hard work to keep the men 
 supplied with food. Ridiculous sums 
 were offered for hardtack, w'ith few sales 
 reported, because there was nothing to 
 sell. One boy remarks that the grass 
 near his camping place is two feet tall, 
 and he further states that if Uncle Sam 
 held that territory the whole workl 
 could not [irevail against it, so strong 
 are the natural fortifications. Fine as 
 is the locatiiin df the cam]), the men 
 have to go a niiK- and a half fur water, 
 and this, loo, in a thirsty land. Field- 
 glasses revealed a deal nf actis'ity on 
 the part of the eneni}-, and he could be 
 readilv seen throwing up intrench- 
 ments, evidently intending to hold out 
 aslongas possible. Military duties were 
 nut of so arduous a nature that the men 
 could not study animated nature. From 
 the tarantula ;ind chamelenn, u]3on the 
 ground. In a black jiarrot building his 
 nest in a tree, all were objects of hourly 
 study to these Yankee boys. The 29111 
 of June found the regiment still in 
 camp, W'ith accustomed rains, and word 
 is passed around that on the follmving 
 da\- an attack will fie made upon the 
 enemv's wurks. \\ hat \V(iuld army life 
 be without rumors, and what a re\-ela- 
 tion it would be to find out just how 
 thev originate. Xo man ever traced one 
 to its prime beginning. They were ever 
 
 as unsubstantial as a dream. Here, too, 
 the lioys had a fine opportunity to 
 judge the beauty of "taps," when the 
 dulcet sound goes from camp to cam]). 
 To paraphrase the remark of the great 
 Jonathan Edwards concerning the 
 strawdierrv. "Probablv man could have 
 made a lovelier combinatidu cif harmo- 
 nious sounds than those wdiich make 
 up taps, but probaljly man never did." 
 
 The last day of June brought orders 
 to prepare rations, and to be ready to 
 move at a minute's warning. It was 
 after four o'clock when the Company 
 started from its camp, and joining the 
 regiment, drew two days' rations and a 
 large quantity of ammunition, and after 
 a wait of considerable duration, at 
 aliout six p.m. another start was made. 
 It was not a stroll for pleasure, for the 
 Spaniard had forgotten to build con- 
 venient bridges, hence these boys, so 
 far from home, had to wade in water 
 U]) to their knees, and climlj muddy, 
 sli])i)ery banks. In the darkness, and 
 the silence which they were ordered to 
 maintain, the situation was somewdiat 
 gruesome. The pre\'ailing thought in 
 these men's minds was, "When and 
 where is all this business to endi^" 
 
 It was a welcdmc sound when there 
 
 Sergeant Rarton' Rests. 
 
i-iGirr iNi-wxTuv, lomi'axv c. 
 
 113 
 
 came the order to halt, to unrull 
 blankets, and to camp be.side the irail. 
 From the position of the hsjhts in front, 
 the Spaniards were nearer than when the 
 march be.eran. Even here, when so tired 
 from the hard marching, a careless or 
 over- vigilant guard discharges his gun, 
 thus murdering the sleep of weary 
 soldiers. It 'is 3.30 a.m. on the ist of 
 Jidy that the men are roused, directed 
 to roll their l)lankets. eat their break- 
 fasts and await orders. 
 
 In his "Fight for Santiago" Stephen 
 Bonsai has this passage concerning that 
 night march of the Siecond Regiment : 
 
 "We rode along the tra'il to the right 
 
 It was 5.30 before "fall in" was heard, 
 and yet the wait continued. Dame Ru- 
 mor circidating the report that a mes- 
 senger had l)een sent to demand the sur- 
 render of Fl Caney. ( )ver at the right 
 was L'apron's Battery, and its Captain 
 was only too anxious to get the com- 
 mand t(i fire, for Ms son, Caj)!. .\. K. 
 Ca|)n>n, was among the slain in the 
 Rough Riders" fight at Las (iuasimas. It 
 is fully si.x o'clock when he receives the 
 welcome order and the bombardment 
 begins, but the distance is too great to 
 be effective. Let one who was there 
 tell the story of his compan\- in his own 
 lana;uae'e : 
 
 SERGE.WT STltRIUNS REMEM l;ia<S ilO.UE. 
 
 before the sun rose, while the forest was 
 as still as death and the great dewdrops 
 clustered upon the plantain leaves like 
 pearls. The mists of the morning still 
 hung over the valley of Caney as we 
 rode out upon the little plateau over- 
 looking it. Slowly, stealthily, a column 
 of volunteers was disappearing down 
 into the valley below, where it was still 
 night. It was a strange and surprising 
 thing to hear the 'burr' of the Connecti- 
 cut valley men in tropical surroundings 
 such as these. They were the Second 
 Alassachusetts Volunteers going to the 
 front." 
 
 "At seven we moved, and then I 
 learned that the first two battalions, 
 with the exception of I Company, had 
 gone ahead while we had been held 
 back by General Lawton's order, since 
 the firing of the artillery was directly 
 across the road that we would have to 
 take. For some time after the firing 
 began, there was no answer frorn the 
 enemy, but shortly before we moved we 
 heard the guns of their infantr\', so that 
 we knew our own boys were already at 
 work. By 'our boys" I mean the Eighth 
 and the Twenty-second, which had pre- 
 ceded our regiment, or in military par- 
 
114 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPAXrSlI WAR. 
 
 lance were mi the ri,t;ht. Finall}' we 
 moved fonvard and turned down a 
 roiie;h trail imder the line of artillery 
 firing- and into a \alley and across an 
 abandoned plantation. We pressed for- 
 ward and struck the Santiago road soon 
 after, turned to the risjht and went in the 
 direction of the firing. 
 
 ".A.S we drew nearer bullets began to 
 slash through the grass and cut the 
 brush about us. There was an r>]ien 
 
 and again they woulil come swishing 
 through the grass or hit a tree near by 
 with a dull thud. Todd, who lay next 
 to me, had a Inillet iiass through his 
 canteen, rendering it useless. ( I '/(/r 
 Todd's statement later, page ii8.) 
 
 "I wondered why more were not hit, 
 and 1 thought of the terrible ravages a 
 bidlet would make if it should hit a man 
 when l\ing down. If it struck his left 
 shoulder, it wouhl go through the entire 
 
 Si-;hc;t. (has. T. I-'i-F-Tchhr. P'red I'. Uean. 
 
 l-'lRST Sergt. a. S. Longi.fy. 
 CuKr. J. \V. IIui-itKouK. Waldo .\. .\1 errifi eld. 
 
 field at the right, and Major h'airbanks 
 marched us in and ordered us to remove 
 nuv rolls and lie down. After having 
 atlempled to report our arrival, in the 
 absence of orders, he cle|)lo\e<I us and 
 started to adwuioe. .\t this stage three 
 men in our section wert' wounded. Inn 
 not dangerously, th'iugh one of theni 
 moaned ])ilifully. As I lay with my 
 head to the front 1 could hear the hum 
 of the bullets passing over me, and now 
 
 body. 1 wished I might stand up, for 
 then a bullet cinild only go through a 
 short sii;'ce. I)ut of course a man lying 
 down presents a much less conspicuous 
 mark than one standing upright. .At 
 the command 'forward' every man went 
 grandly and proudly, though ever}' one 
 felt that he might be going to his death. 
 The wounded and the dead were carried 
 by constantly and we were seeing war 
 in all its horrors. The infantrv firing 
 
T.IGIIT INM'AXTm', CliMI'ANV C. 
 
 LIS 
 
 was inct's.iant. and souiulcil like the 
 popping of corn over hot coals, only the 
 whistle and kiss of the bullets and the 
 frequent bursting of the copper jackets 
 on the bullets, used by some of the 
 Spaniards, added another sound to the 
 popping. 
 
 "After achancing several lunulrcd 
 vards the battalion was halted, and an 
 hour later we were assembled in a shel- 
 tered position by the Colonel, with 
 whom we had managed to connect. 
 After a considerable pause here we were 
 again deploved and moved to the right, 
 down a trail to the front to support a 
 battery which was brought u]) from the 
 rear so it might be more effective. Some 
 of the regiment were slightly protected 
 by a dirt bank, but our Company lay out 
 in the open, near a path over which the 
 wounded were carried on their way to 
 the rear, a situation of which the Span- 
 ish sharpshooters were soon aware. 
 When we were obliged to send for 
 water it was at a great risk, but the men 
 cheerfully and bravely undertook it. 
 
 "In our rear a man was seen in the 
 top of a tree, but he proved to be a 
 Cuban without a gun. He was promptly 
 ordered down, and the next day any Cu- 
 ban, Spaniard, or other race, found up a 
 
 Col. E. 1'. Cl.xrk in the Field. 
 
 tree v.-as sliot at sight, for we had no 
 desire to be marks for sharjishooters. 
 We lay in the broiling sun all day, ad- 
 vancing little by little Most of us had 
 eaten nothing since four o'clock in the 
 morning, and quite a number wt're over- 
 come I)v the heat, the thermometer on 
 that July day mounting to 130 degrees. 
 .\bout four o'clock the Twelftli and the 
 Twenty-fifth made a charge and drove 
 the Spaniards out of their trenches. 
 During this close encounter the bullets 
 came oiu" way in earnest, and 1 thought 
 the enemy was trving to make a break 
 thniiigli iiur lines, but mithing came 
 of it. 
 
 "In about half an Ikuu- the .\meriean 
 flag was raised on the fort amid the 
 cheers of our men. Just here General 
 Ludlow rode up and said. "Where in the 
 
 d 1 are the block-houses they say 
 
 they cannot take?' '1 will knock them 
 all to pieces.' Then he ordered up Ca- 
 pron's Battery, now in our rear, while we 
 moved out of the way, letting the big 
 guns get in their work, which they did 
 much more efTectually than in the morn- 
 ing. Two block-houses in a line were the 
 objectives. The first shot struck be- 
 tween the two, the second struck the 
 further house, the third hit the roof of 
 the first, the fourth and tiie fifth com- 
 pleted the demolition of the structures, 
 and the few Spaniards \\]m> were lett 
 alive ran away. 
 
 ".\t five o'clock we were setit back for 
 our rolls and haversacks, and we ex- 
 peete<l to camp for the night. l)itt no 
 such boon as a good night's sleej) was 
 in store for us. Though we had been 
 under fire ten hours, and the niglit 1)e- 
 fore had been sjient almost wholly in 
 marching or waiting, we were now 
 started off on the main road for San- 
 tiago to help the other part of our army 
 th;it. (luring the day. had been fighting 
 on the slopes of the surrounding, hills. 
 At one o'clock a.m. came the welcome 
 command to halt, and we slept for two 
 hours and then were off again, moving 
 bv the left flank, or, in other words, the 
 order of yesterday's march was re- 
 versed, for then our Company was in the 
 rear : now it led the bi^igade. We swung 
 off the main road, down a narrow trail 
 which, owing to the dense undergrowth, 
 
116 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPAXISII \\'AR. 
 
 became so dark that each man took 
 hold of the jacket of the man in front of 
 him so that we could more easily keep 
 together. We crossed a stream, went 
 up a slippery bank, passed El Poso, 
 taken the day before, and on towards 
 the trenches which surrounded Santi- 
 ago, getting there early in the fore- 
 noon of the 2d. 
 
 "The most of the day we spent in dig- 
 ging trenches, that we might be able to 
 hold our position on the hill, but the 
 work was done under great difficulties, 
 since there was a raking fire all day and 
 our only tools were mess-pans, spoons 
 and knives. Fortunately, the breast- 
 works proved too strong for the enemy, 
 who, at ten o'clock that night, made an 
 unsuccessful effort to take them. For 
 
 same tree. Being a generous fellow he 
 shared his store of hardtack with me. 
 Our talk drifted to the important ques- 
 tion as to whether we could prevent the 
 enemy retaking the hill, I told him of 
 our hard time in trvnng to dig trenches 
 without pickaxe or shovel, and said I 
 shciuld like to get a sword bayonet, with 
 which I could work much faster. He 
 said there was one on the other side of 
 the tree. I started to get it and while 
 stooping to pick it up, a bullet went zip 
 close to me. I thought at first that it 
 had hit the ground close to my feet, and 
 said, half aloud, 'Rather a close call,' f)ut 
 thought nothing more of it until I saw 
 the man with whom I had been talking. 
 His head was drooping and his body 
 bent forward. 
 
 Fred Dean Raints "13" 
 Upon the Knick- 
 kkiukker. 
 
 Charles M. .Sainhs. "Pat.' 
 
 RuGLER Wheeler 
 
 four davs and three nights we had liad 
 very little sleep and very short rations, 
 the most of the time having been de- 
 voted to marching, receiving the fire of 
 the enemy and digging. On our way 
 up to this position, after crossing the 
 first stream, I grew very tired, and see- 
 ing a large tree invitingly near, I 
 thought i would get a liule ^hade as 
 well as a few moments' ])rt)tection from 
 the bullets, which were uncomfortably 
 numerous. 
 
 "\\'hile silting en the least exposed 
 .side of the tree and wishing for some- 
 thing to eat, ;d(>ng came a Sixth L. S. 
 Cavalrvman, wlm took refuge under the 
 
 "Getting down on luy knees I in- 
 quired if anything was the matter with 
 him and he said Tiu hit,' and pointed 
 to his side. Right below his ribs I dis- 
 coveretl a hole which was so small that 
 I should hardly have noticed it had it 
 not been for tlic little l>lack and blue 
 spot where the bullet had entered, but it 
 was bleeding internally, for there was 
 not a trace of blood to be seen. I asked 
 hiiu what I could do for him, and he 
 called for a drink of water. He had 
 turned deathly pale, but complained 
 verv little. I hailed some passers-by, 
 and asked them to hel]) me. Six of us 
 t(Hik him in a blanket and started for 
 
LIGHT IXFAXTRV, COMPANY C. 
 
 IK 
 
 the hospital, about three hundred yards 
 away. \\'e liad gone perhaps fifty yards 
 when one of our nuniher uttered a cry 
 and sank to the grountl. He had been 
 shot in the ankle. One of our party took 
 the second wounded man on his back 
 and started again for the hospital. His 
 wound must have been painful, for he 
 begged his Ijearer to put him down. 
 When we reached the hospital, I 
 thought the cavalryman was dead, but 1 
 know nothing more of him. I went 
 back to the tree for my gun and roll. 
 As my own gun had disappeared I took 
 that of the dead trooper." 
 
 It was July 1st that Captain Allen was 
 
 were nut many army wagons loaded 
 with wuuntled going to the rear, the 
 regiment passed near "Bloody Bend." 
 so called, where the road takes a turn 
 towards the .San Juan River. The local- 
 ity was thus named from the number of 
 deaths during the fight, when concealed 
 sharpshooters swept the entire .space. 
 The river itself is reached as the batter- 
 ies of ( jrimes and Capron come rolling 
 back from the front, having been com- 
 pelled to abandon their ])(isitions on ac- 
 count of the intensity of the enemy's 
 fire. To the onlooking infantrymen 
 the dash through the river by the artil- 
 lery was an inspiring one, they coming 
 
 Kdward J. Martin. 
 
 Fred. B. Maynard. 
 
 SeRGT. Wm. E. nARTON, 
 
 compelled to give up and go to the hos- 
 pital. Rheumatism of the severest char- 
 acter had him in its grasp, and there 
 was no help for him in the field. His 
 enforced departure from the Compan\- 
 was regretted by all, and by no one 
 more than by the officer himself. .\s his 
 aiilment did not yield to treatment in 
 Cuba, he was obliged to return to ^^'or- 
 cester^ and not till Montauk was 
 reached did he see hii men again. (3n 
 the march from El Caney to the 
 trenches before Santiago, after passing 
 El Poso, through a lane or road in which 
 
 (uit very near the spot where, the day 
 before, Lieutenant Benchley, a Worces- 
 ter boy. who was serving in the Sixth 
 Regulars, was instantly killed. The ap- 
 ])roach to San Juan liill was none too 
 easy, the way having to be cut through 
 the intervening barbed wire. Com]ia- 
 nies C and H were at once put upon 
 the firing line, just under the crest of 
 the hill, but they were not kept there 
 long, being .soon withdrawn to a less 
 exposed place, very likely on account 
 of the archaic weapons the boys were 
 obliged to carrv. Later a move was 
 
118 
 
 WOKCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 made to the right, where intrenehing 
 was the order of the day. 
 
 Reference havting been made to the 
 wounding of Private Todd, the follow- 
 ing letter, written April 13, 1903, is 
 apropos: "We had thrown off haver- 
 sacks, rolls, etc.. and left the same with 
 Fred Dean and another man, detailed 
 to take care of them, retaining onlv the 
 
 which in some wa\' had gotten under 
 me. rendered me so uncomfortable that 
 I raised myself on my left arm, and 
 reaching under grasped the canteen and 
 gave it a toss over onto my left hip. 
 I had hardly come back to my original 
 position of resting on my elbows, with 
 mv gun grasped in anticipation of an 
 order to advance again, when a bullet 
 
 \\ M. \\ I IISTKH lUiDV. LkONARD E. CrOOKER. 
 
 JaMFS \\. I'OPK. 
 
 I\nnKKi TAf-r. (hari-ks H. Knibbs. 
 
 clothing wc wore, together with guns, 
 anmnm'itiim and canteens. .Advancing 
 in skirmish line, we were soon in the 
 zone where bullets were flying and sing- 
 ing ])ast, and were ordered to lie down 
 and to get under cover as nuich as ])os- 
 sible. I was not furtunate cmmgh to 
 get under any cover, so had to lie in 
 an open space, where iirobably some 
 sharpshooter of the enemy got Iris eye 
 on me. I had been lying in this place 
 but a short time wln'U mv canteen. 
 
 zi])pe(l ]>ast my left ear, and. striking 
 the canteen, wliich ,1 moment before I 
 had thrcjwn to my left hip, passed 
 through it, and then grazed the fleshy 
 ]iart of the thigh, just above the bone, 
 and finally went, I know not where. I 
 still have the canteen 'with the hole 
 through it, and I know from the dent, in 
 addition to the jagged hole, that it 
 glanced and thus saved me from a 
 l)roken hip. Not thinking I had much 
 of a wound, th<nigh my thigh was so 
 
I.ICIIT IXFAXTRV, COMrAXY C. 
 
 119 
 
 sore 1 coulil not lie on it tiie fullowing 
 two niights, I made no mention of it, be- 
 ing a little bit afraid of being thought 
 childish over a small matter, so the 
 bovs did not really know that the bullet 
 had more than passed through my can- 
 teen till two days afterwards, when, go- 
 ing in bathing w'ith my tentmate, Cha- 
 pin, I showed him the result of the hit. 
 He prevailed upon me to go round, 
 letting the bovs know how close a call 
 I had had. They made lots of fun of 
 me, saving that I didn't know when I 
 was shot, which was partly true, as I 
 did not stop to actually find out until 
 the second day, for inunediately after 
 the fight came the march to San Juan 
 hill, the intrenching, and the night at- 
 tack, and there was not time to ex- 
 amine the condition of my body. 
 
 "Noting what the Magazine has had 
 concerning the number thirteen in the 
 annals of the Second, I may say that I 
 formed one of a sciuad of thirteen new 
 men who passed examination for enlist- 
 ment at the Armory and wound up with 
 having to share tent Xo. 13 with .\s- 
 sistant Bugler Chapin. and, by the way, 
 I have written this letter, unthinkingly, 
 on the i3tli."' 
 
 The diary of a Company C man 
 gives a very good notion of the prog- 
 ress of events during these Jul\- days : 
 
 Sunday, July 3. — Sultry (lay: sun 
 does not shine bright : continual 
 firing over our heads: heavy can- 
 nonading in the west: think it 
 nnist be Sam])son : orders to pack 
 up and be readv to move at 
 once : r.u firing now except by 
 sharpshooters; R. and I., at food, fired 
 upon by sharpshooters in a tree : or- 
 dered to move at 6 a.m. Monday. 
 
 Monday, July 4. — Up at 4.45 : break- 
 fast and ready to move at 6: started at 
 6.45 in an easterly direction towards El 
 Caney, the scene of our first battle: 
 flag of truce for twenty-four hours : the 
 silence seems strange ; reach end of 
 march on top of a hill east of Siaiitiago : 
 11.30, heavy firing in the harbor: think 
 it is Sampson trying to get in. 
 
 Tuesday, July 5. — The Company 
 turned out to defend our position at 
 2.30 a.m., false alarm; turned out again 
 at 6 a.m., but found that what we 
 
 thmiglu to be S])anish snldiers coming 
 from the city were Cuban refugees, 
 women and children, evacuating San- 
 tiago: we will have a hot time to-day; 
 General T^ando is reported to have en- 
 tered the city with 6000 reinforce- 
 ments: find that yesterday's heavy 
 firing was the destroying of the Vis- 
 caya : digging trenches nearly all day. 
 
 Wednesday, July 6. — Slept well ; fine 
 day, no firing; expect a shell, however, 
 anv minute ; the people who came out 
 of the city say that they are in a 
 wretched condition, with nothing to 
 eat or drink; four batteries planted on 
 our hill : have to go a mile for water. 
 
 Thursday, July 7, — Official report of 
 the fight with the fleet states all Span- 
 ish boats destroyed; 1300 prisoners 
 taken, together with Admiral Cervera ; 
 300 S])aniards killed, while only one 
 America-T was killed and two wounded; 
 we are within half a mile of the Spanish 
 •outpost: can see the enemy plainly; 
 trenches all finished, though it has 
 been hard digging with plates, knives 
 and forks ; we are placing bags of sand 
 on top of the intrenchments : truce pro- 
 claimed till 10 a.m. .Saturday. 
 
 Friday, July 8. — Fine day ; get a ma- 
 chete from Cuban: found a native who 
 could speak French; R. and 1. talked 
 quite a bit with him; captured a nude 
 and horse: General Miles arrived at 8 
 a.m.: guns!! lonesome on guard. 
 
 Saturday, July 9. — Truce ends at 
 noon: fine, fertile valley before me, 
 pineapples, bananas, cocoanuts, etc., 
 leiudus included; truce resumed. 
 
 Sunday, July 10. — Taft and Gleason 
 sick in hospital: moved at 4 a.m. to the 
 northwest of Santiago; dty plainly 
 seen, bu!l-rii.g, etc.: they are given till 
 4p.m. for unconditional surrender ; 4.45, 
 first gun fired at .Santiago, and then the 
 fusilade began: night put an end to 
 firing. 
 
 .Monday, July 11. — Fire opened 
 again, but we get no reply; periiaps 
 thev are reserving their fire till a 
 charge is made; 9 a.m., again ordered 
 to move ; went clear around the city to 
 the west side, so we have gone nearly 
 around the same ; nothing but the sea 
 prevents a complete encirclement ; we 
 are in a very e.xposed ])lace, not more 
 
120 
 
 WOKCESTLiK IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 than 700 yards from the ciilmhv, and I 
 don't see why we are not tiretl upon ; in 
 camp at 6 p.m. : rains all the time : 
 soaked thr(jii£;-h and thr<:)U,c:li. 
 
 Tuesdaw July 12. — ."^till raining; 
 broke camp in the midst of the pouring 
 rain ; everybody discouraged and 
 soaked ; it seems as if we were march- 
 ing right intij Santiago, so near are we: 
 rain slacked at 12 m., and then we went 
 to dio-rrino- trenches : truce still on ; we 
 
 Friday, July 15. — I'eeling fine, 
 though there is lots of sickness. 
 
 Saturday, Julj^ 16. — Word just came 
 that Fred Taft died at hospital July 14; 
 ])<ior bred! leaving wife and child; 
 rheumatism. Everything looks hopeful 
 now : expect to start home soon ; visited 
 Spanish cemetery, where artificial 
 flowers abound. 
 
 Sunday, July 17. — Fine day; 8.15 
 a.m., short memorial for poor Fred 
 
 I'" ROM El Caney Towards .Santiago. 
 San Juan Mill, with Camp and Bomb 
 
 PROOF. 
 
 Church at El Caney. 
 liRiDHE Over the Stream Where 
 Water uas Eoi'nd July ist. 
 
 are so near the Spaniards that we can 
 licar them talking. 
 
 Wednesday July 13. — More trenches 
 to be dug: Cubans are no good ; took a 
 bath, the first for three weeks; 12 m., 
 raining again : moved the camp back 
 about 75 yards. 
 
 Thursday, Jnlv 14. — Corporal Hol- 
 brook promoted Sergeant; Private El- 
 (Iridge maile Corporal: in the trenches 
 at 11.30; truce ends at 12 m. ; 2 p.m.. 
 no firing yet : 4..vO, word goes round 
 that Santiago is surrendered; 12,000 
 men here, and 8.000 east, gives practi- 
 cal ccjntrol of Cuba; home! ! ! 
 
 (Taft): speech by Lieutenant King: 
 singing by the Com]iany and pray^er by 
 Stewart ; 1; to 9.30. nn the parapet, sort 
 of formality salute; 11.45, again on the 
 parapet; 12 m., Stars and Stripes 
 lioisted over Santiago; salute of 21 
 guns: bands played; cheering; great 
 rejoicing; this is n< iw C S. soil ; rations 
 issued, which pleased every one, as we 
 ate a hungry dinner; Dean and Crocker 
 went hack and marked Taft's grave. 
 
 Mondav, Julv 18. — Fine day; ships 
 are coming into the harbor, hospital 
 shi]), etc.: the air is full of Jo-Jo ru- 
 mors. 
 
LIGHT INTAN'TRY, CdMl'AXV C. 
 
 121 
 
 Tuesdax', Jul)' 19. — Fine day; been 
 away all day to Cuban village west of 
 Spanish cemetery and down to edge of 
 Santiago, doing some trading: get a 
 belt and pouch; terribly hot; mail came 
 to-day ; nuich sickness. 
 
 Wednesday, July 20. — Terribly hot; 
 everybody trying to visit the Cuban 
 village or the lines of Santiago ; shall 
 be going home soon if there is no fever 
 in cam]:). 
 
 Thursday, July 21. — Another fine 
 day; does not act like rainy season; is- 
 sue of fresh beef rations. Hurrah ! 
 
 Friday, July '2.2. — Fine, hot day ; 
 another issue of beef. 
 
 Saturday, Jvdy 23. — Fine day ; the 
 best breakfast since we have been on 
 the Island ; the army wagons going by 
 look fairly beautiful ; Lieutenant King 
 in town. 
 
 Sunday, July 24. — Engine running 
 on the track for the first time ; fresh 
 meat for the last three days ; will prob- 
 ably liave plenty to eat now; many of 
 the boys are sick. 
 
 Monday. July'25. — Terribly hot; no 
 rain during the day, though it fell in 
 the night ; slept in a wet bed, as usual ; 
 ordered to change tents across the 
 ditches ; 35 men out of 69 sick ; the first 
 day that I have been sick s'ince leaving 
 Worcester. 
 
 Tuesday, July 26. — Hot and sultry ; 
 ordered back on hill; order cmuiter- 
 manded. 
 
 Wednesday, July ly. — Official notice ; 
 the Fifth Corps will leave for Maine as 
 soon as the Spanish soldiers dejiart ; 
 they can't go any too soon. 
 
 Thursday, July 28. — Still have that 
 terrible feeling; ache all over. 
 
 This is the last entry of the narrator 
 until August TO. Evidently his aches 
 euhninated in a trip to the hospital, 
 wdiere so uian\- of his comrades had 
 preceded him, and to which sooner or 
 later every member of the Infantry had 
 to pay tribute. However, there were 
 other diarists, and from another inter- 
 esting journal these observations and 
 reflections are gleaned ; 
 
 "A\'e are told not to eat mangroves. 
 They are yellow and look like a pear, 
 with a very large stone like a peach. 
 They have a peculiar, sweet taste. 
 
 .\fter a month they say we may eat 
 them. Many of the streams have dried 
 up dm-ing the dry season, but now it 
 rains two or three times a day and 
 everything is wet; tire grass is up to 
 one's waist, and would make fine liay, I 
 should thinly. W'lien it r;iiiis. it comes 
 down in bucketfuls. and as we have to 
 go one and a half miles for water we 
 spread rubber blankets to catch it. The 
 birds lure are good singers, and there 
 are a great many of them ; mocking- 
 birds, kingbirils, Idaekbirds, catbirds, 
 (luails, doves and guinea hens, the lat- 
 ter running wild. I took oM my clothes 
 and went out in the rain yesterday; the 
 rain was cold and lasted quite a while. 
 We wear brown canvas suits, and this 
 morning the boys have l>een turning up 
 their coats to make pockets. Envel- 
 opes are as scarce as hens' teeth ; also 
 paper ami stamps, but we do not need 
 stamps, as we can send our letters 
 without them. 
 
 "The native villages are very pretty. 
 The houses are made of bamboo split 
 sticks, about two inches in diameter, 
 and have thatched roofs made of palm 
 branches. The fences are six feet high, 
 from the same kind of sticks set close 
 together. Household furniture is very 
 scarce, with the roughest kind of im- 
 plements, such as a log set on end, with 
 a hollow in it. and a large wooden stick 
 to i)oimd cfiffee, etc. W'e find two 
 classes of people. th>e "niggers' and the 
 Cubans. All speak Spanish, and the 
 men are nearly all soldiers. Every 
 person carries around a knife about 
 eighteen inches long. 
 
 "Just in from Cossack guard. 
 When we have this duty, in- 
 stead of walking our posts we just sit 
 down under a tree or l>ehind 
 some object that will hide us and so 
 watch the movements of the enemy. I 
 had a fine po.st last night. The moon 
 was full and it was as light as day. I 
 was on a mountain and could see for 
 miles around. In the fields were grow- 
 ing banana and plantain trees, and I 
 could see fields of tall com and horses 
 grazing around. Four of the horses 
 were white, and when I saw them 
 1 thought thev were men. and 
 
122 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 it didn't take nie long to skip back to 
 the corporal of the guard and tell him 
 that I had seen some men. Me told me 
 that he had been watching the horses 
 for some time. 
 
 "In cooking we use a tin cu]), which 
 holds a (|uart, two pans that shut up 
 together, one having a handle which 
 folds over the other, one spoon, one 
 knife, one fork ; the plate is 6x8. Last 
 night I bought a knife, such as the 
 Cubans use. It is very old and has a 
 bone handle, also a leather shield or 
 case for it. It will be a souvenir to take 
 home from here. I might take one of 
 these Cul)an 'nigger' kids that run 
 
 is not hotter than some of the nearer 
 Southern states lin summer. Sands 
 wants niie to run a farm here with him 
 when the war is over ; says there would 
 be lots of money in it, and I guess he is 
 riglit, everything grows so rapidly. It 
 is funnv to hear the boys talk about 
 home, what they would eat were they 
 there, and how soon they would go to 
 work. ( )ne boy says, "I wish I had a 
 p'iece of strawberry shortcake :' the 
 most of them, however, wish for oat- 
 meal, beefsteak and something sub- 
 stantial. Almost all of the Cubans go 
 barefooted. I don't see how they can, 
 for the greater part of tbe trees have 
 
 Surgeon Gates and W'. H. Butler at Dowse's 
 Tent AS He is Dying. HisTentmate. 
 
 COI.KL-RN. AT THE I, EFT. 
 
 Cuban Women at the Eountain. 
 Santiago. 
 
 arnund here naked. It seems such a 
 pity to see the fine houses in ruins all 
 over the country. They are made <>i 
 fine brick, with tiled floors, most of 
 them of one story; none of them ex- 
 ceed two stories. Barbed wire every- 
 where. One can hardly go kjo yards 
 without running up against a fence. 
 Whietlur the S])aniards ]iut it up to 
 troublu us. or it has been n>ed by the 
 Cubans, 1 don't know, but the I'nited 
 States knew what it was about when it 
 furnished each conqjany with wire clip- 
 pers, and thev liave not been idle. 
 
 "Looking toward -Santiago, Kincaid 
 counted fifteen .Sjianish houses with 
 Red Cross flags (jn them. The weather 
 
 thorns, anil e\'er\- prick means a sore. 
 Lieutenant Warren is on the General's 
 staff; the Captain is absent, sick, hence 
 Lieutenant King is in eommanil. Last 
 night the mail came and George Far- 
 row received thirteen letters. Yester- 
 day the Cubans captured three cows 
 and five horses, and in the afternoon 
 they killed on!e of the cows. I went 
 over and managed to eet a piece of the 
 lights and bone, which I stewed this 
 morning, and so we had a good soup. 
 
 "( letting HoO and cooking grub take 
 the most of the' time. The boys can eat 
 constantlv if there is anything to eat. 
 and if there isn't they sit around and 
 Avait for it to come their way. All of 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 123 
 
 the rations come by pack trains of 
 about twenty-five mules. The leader 
 wears a bell and there are three drivers 
 mounted on other mules with whips to 
 keep them ,Lri>ing. Gus, the German 
 cook, has a small mule. It belonofed to 
 a Cuban major, and this morning we 
 saw three mien looking for him, so we 
 took him off and hid him. They have 
 moved, hence I think he is safe. I 
 took him down with fifty-four canteens 
 for water this morning." 
 
 Anient this mule. Lieutenant King 
 says the Company held on to him till 
 tlie "Wellington Coon" got his eyes on 
 him. and then he disappeared. "The 
 mule," he writes, "there was no such 
 good luck in the case of the coon." 
 There was a general complaint at the 
 filthy condition of the entire locality 
 wbere either Cubans or Spaniards had 
 encamped. The art of properly laying- 
 out camps with sinks, etc., apparently 
 had never been learned bv them. 
 
 Capt. C. a. Wagner. 33D Michigan. 
 
 Anstliing good pertaining tu a mem- 
 ber of the Light lnfanlr_\-, ])ast or pres- 
 ent, is in place in this narrative, and in 
 this connection it is fitting to mention 
 Capt. Carl .\. Wagner of the 33d Mich- 
 igan, who had served his novitiate in 
 the old Worcester company. He had 
 enhsted in the Infantry March 21, 1882, 
 then, as nnw, in the 2d Regiment; was 
 promoted Corporal Jan. 21. 1884, and 
 was discharged March 21. 1885, by 
 reason of expiration of term of service. 
 As a Light Infantryman he made a dil- 
 igent study of ritie practice, won the 
 second prize in 1883, and was on the 
 companv team which went to Framing- 
 ham in '83 and '84. On going to Mich- 
 igan he again entered the militia, 
 where his devotion to rille practice 
 soon made him instructor and inspector 
 in that branch nearly all of the inter- 
 vening vears. When the call for vol- 
 unteers came in Ajiril. i8i)8. he was 
 Second Lieutenant of liiscompany inthe 
 city of Port Huron, and. with his com- 
 pany, went to the rendezvous camp 
 April 26. The Michigan Division. Sons 
 of A'eterans, U. S. .\., tendered their 
 services to the extent of a regiment to 
 the Governor of the State, but only two 
 companies could be accepted. He was 
 conmiissioned ^May 19 Captain of the 
 first of these companies to b'e mustered 
 into service. It was known as Com- 
 panv L. 33d Mich. Vol. Infantry. The 
 regiment" left the State May 28. and ar- 
 rived at Camp Alger. \'a.. two days 
 later. The 33d and 34th Michigan 
 regiments were brigaded with the 9th 
 Mass., under the conmiand of Briga- 
 dier-general Dnffield of Michigan. 
 This brigade left for Cuba June 23. On 
 the firstdav of July, while the Second 
 Mass. Regiment was at El Caney. the 
 33d Michigan was ordered to Aguado- 
 ! es to make a demonstration against 
 the enemy at that point and to engage 
 him. thus preventing his going to the 
 assistance of Santiago. In the engage- 
 ment two men of Captain Wag- 
 ner's company were killed and tliree 
 wounded 
 
 After the surrender the Captain met 
 some of his old \\'orcester friends in 
 the Second, among them Lieutenant- 
 
124 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 colonel Sliminvay, who was Captain of 
 the City Guards in 1882. His visit to 
 tlie later "boys" of his old home was a 
 pleasure to him as well as to those 
 whom he met. every one of whom was 
 proud of the record the erstwhile Wor- 
 cester boy had made along with his 
 comrades from the Badger State. The 
 early training in the Heart of the Com- 
 monwealth evidently had borne excel- 
 lent fruit. 
 
 Nothing gives a truer picture of 
 army life than the letters wriitten home 
 by participants. They are frank, 
 outspoken recitals of just what the 
 soldier sees and thinks. The fol- 
 
 them an intimation of what we can do 
 when our Irish is up, but they never re- 
 turned a shot which amounted to any- 
 thing. Tlien another truce went on, and 
 is still on. We are right in the city. i. e., 
 aliout 150 yards from their buildings, 
 and we are intrenching to beat the band. 
 W-e shall have a great gang for the high- 
 way department when we get back. 
 
 "This business wouldn't be so bad 
 were it not for the rain. We get soaked 
 every day; the climate is pretty good, 
 and the scenery is pretty fair, when we 
 have a chance to look at it. We are 
 getting a bit more to eat now, but we 
 could dispose of more ; to-day, each man 
 
 liARTLi- TT, Lincoln. Dowse. Mayo ano 
 W H K F I- !•: R in theTrknth. 
 
 Cuban Beai'ties 
 
 lowing from ;i \\ orccster boy in the 
 Light Infantry must have given 
 his mother a deal of comfort, for 
 it seeks to tell her only the liest 
 items possible. He might ha\e un- 
 folded a tale which would have 
 stirred tliat nidiluT's heart, but even in 
 Cuba, surrounded by sickness and 
 danger, he sees, apparently, only the 
 l)right side. Our armies have e\er Ijcen 
 full of just such boys : 
 
 "130 Yards I'roni Spanish Pickets, 
 Santiago, July 13, 1S98. 
 
 "(jh, this reminds me (jf home, it's so 
 different! — sitting in the mud.tryingto 
 write, a tomato can for a desk, and ants 
 crawling up and down my back and face. 
 
 "Well, we have done nothing for the 
 past ten days but move around from 
 place to place, and build earthworks. 
 We had three days' truce last week, but 
 opened up on the Spanks fr(nn our 
 stronghold on Sunday afternoon. Gave 
 
 got one small potato and half of an 
 onion, the first frvtit that we have had. 
 We lia\'e harl only two mails since we 
 got Iktc, and rinl_\- twelve miles from 
 where they arrive. What do you think 
 of that ? This war is twenty years be- 
 hind the times. 
 
 "We have by far the most pleasant 
 camp ground of the whole trip, except 
 in case the shooting begins, it will be 
 ])rettv warm. It is the most exposed po- 
 sition that we have had. These Cubans 
 are a poor sort of a race: don't amount 
 to much. 
 
 "What do you think of m\- stationery? 
 Paper is w^orth about a dollar a sheet 
 and is awfully scarce. Did my tailor- 
 ing yesterday. Took in the seat of my 
 blue jeans about eight inches and now I 
 can't stoop. 1 nuist have lost a pound 
 or two. . . . The band is playing 
 'The Star-spangled Banner.' That's 
 our do.xolo"A'. Every man uncovers. 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, lOMTANY C. 
 
 125 
 
 That's what ins[)ircs men to ili> brave 
 deeds." 
 
 "At Santiago. Jtily 13. 1898. 
 "Dear Everybody: 
 
 "Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Have 
 yon heard the news? Santiasjo and 
 20,000 troops surrendered. Just think 
 of it ! No more fighting, for a while 
 at least. Xo doubt you are as much 
 relieved as we are. Well, yesterday 
 we crawled into our trenches, expect- 
 ing a long siege. \\'e had worked hard 
 and had made preparations for a pro- 
 longed encampment, in a hole in the 
 
 of tomatoes. A strong guard is posted 
 all around our camp, not in fear of the 
 S])aniards. but to keep our enthusiasm 
 where it can be looked after. Can't 
 write any more, am too happy! Aren't 
 you happy, too?" 
 
 The f(.>rmal surrender of Santiago has 
 had many descriptions, but this written 
 by one of the Company, Henry C. 
 Greene, who was an orderly on Gen- 
 eral Ludlow's staff, has never been 
 in print, and is presented as an ex- 
 pression of a private's notions of this 
 historic event : 
 
 UrIGHAM. IIU.MES. 15EJUNE. HaLE. DrURY. DoWSE. 
 
 AT LAKELAND. 
 
 ground. W'c sat there for about four 
 hours watching the rainwater crawl- 
 ing up our legs, for it rained all the 
 afternoon, as usual. About four 
 o'clock the sun came out and we 
 crawled out of our pits and looked 
 around to see why the shooting had 
 not beguiL Just then a mighty cheer 
 rang out from somewhere up the line, 
 and then we began to have suspicions. 
 Just then a mounted orderly bounded 
 into our line and shouted that Santiago 
 with 20,000 men had surrendered. Just 
 imagine the scene ! They wouldn't let 
 us cheer, for some unaccountable rea- 
 son, probably for fear the Spanks would 
 get mad and change their minds. 
 "Evervbodv was crazy last night. 
 
 "New America. Sunday. Julv 17. 
 "Dear T'eojile: 
 
 "T have just attended the surrender 
 of Santiago. I was one of about 150 or 
 less Americans to see the ceremony. 
 Only the generals and staff with or- 
 derlies saw 'wot was did.' I was one of 
 the orderlies that went with General 
 Ludlow. Down in the valley, aljout 
 half way between Santiago and the 
 American forces, all this happened. 
 
 "The American officers lined up 
 on one side, major-generals in the 
 front row, brigadier-generals second, 
 colonels next, etc., all mounted. 
 The orderlies were in the rear, but as 
 there were but few officers. I saw 
 
 We celebrated by eating a whole can exerything. Of course I don't know 
 
126 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 what was saiil. hut tlicrt' was a com- 
 ])anv of Spanish infantry lined np, an<l 
 thev presented arms. Then Shaftcr and 
 the Spanish commander seemed to talk 
 it over a httle. and there was a ijen- 
 eral handshaking" among the higher 
 officers, and intrtxhictions. Then the 
 Spanish infantry marched to the city, 
 the officers, Spanish and American offi- 
 cers, following. After them came two 
 
 enjoyed themselves with Spanish wine 
 inside the l)uilding. While the band 
 was playing, a woman, smoking the 
 hntt of a black cigar, wrung her hands 
 and shouted, 'Viva, ^'iva.' . . . You 
 should have seen the defenses around 
 the citv. As we came in there was 
 barbed wire galore nnining in all di- 
 rections. Piack of the \vire were the 
 trenches, and in front of some were 
 
 George E. Bennett. Edward .\. Stearns. 
 
 Royal H. Pitt.i. 
 
 HaRHY H. .NpAMS. OiilORNE .1. W. Cleason. 
 
 regimi'iits. the c)ih and the 131I1 In- 
 fantry, with tlu' b.md. We all went to 
 the city, getting in about 11.15, and the 
 flag went up above the Ciovernor's 
 palace when the cathedral clock struck 
 twelve. .Ml soldiers stood at 'present 
 arms.' .■ind the b.and played 'The Star- 
 spangled Uanner,' and 'The Stars and 
 Stripes Forever,' by Sousa. Then every 
 one gave three cheers. While we 
 waited for twelve o'clock, the officers 
 
 ditches filled with water. The Spanish 
 wear canvas shoes with leathern straps 
 on the toes like some tennis shoes ; cot- 
 ton coats and pants, having very nar- 
 now blue and white stripes; blue straw 
 hats. Everybody, Spaniards, Cubans 
 and all, seemed happy, ^^'hile in the 
 city, the people were generous of 
 cigars, cigarettes, and all the wine the 
 
 boys could drink. Tell ^tr. that I 
 
 have a large black cigar for him. but as 
 
i.Kiiri' ].\i''.\.\TK\'. ^■|)Ml■.\^^' c. 
 
 I2T 
 
 I am afraid it iiiiLilit niaki- him dizzy. T 
 will gi\T it til Tiim. tlir codk'. and sec 
 what lu' will .L;i\i.- nic for siip])cr. From 
 the camp w r can see the vessels 
 cnmiiiL;- iiitci the harlmr. and the band 
 at m\- left is |)la\ ini; 'N'ale.' having just 
 finished 'llDme. Sweet 1 lome.' '" 
 
 Following the surreiidLV there was 
 much visiting of Santiago, and a volnnn' 
 of experiences and observations might 
 be compiled, but few of them have any 
 special bearing on the war and its eon- 
 secpiences. The terrible destitution of 
 the majority of the people was a sub- 
 ject of general remark, and L'nhan 
 habits and customs were a never fail- 
 ing source of astonishment. Naked 
 children running about in search of 
 food had a (pieer look to Yankee eyes, 
 and long lines of hungry citizens wait- 
 ing their turn at the public distribution 
 were not a pleasant sight to men 
 reared in a land of plenty, but they 
 themselves in these recent weeks ha.! 
 not been unknowing to the pangs of 
 hunger. There were few nooks and 
 crannies of the quaint old Spanish city 
 that these Massachusetts boys, with 
 all of the curiosity proverbially 
 ascribed to them, did not see. 
 
 ERGEANT BaRTON AND LlEUT. E. N. BenCHLEY OF THE 6TH V. S.. 
 
 \Vho WAS Killed AT San Juan. 
 
 Xo sooner had the surrender taken 
 place than the men began to s])eeid;ite 
 on the prospects of an early retiu-n lo 
 tin- continent. The\- were not soldiers 
 l'\ Ir.idc, lliey pi-efcrriij the occu]Kl- 
 lions ol peace, and no one could sec 
 why they were not sent home at once; 
 lorgetling that so many t]if>usands 
 could not he ino\'cd iimncdiatelv. Ma- 
 laria was getting in its deadly' work, 
 the commissariat had ne\-er been anv 
 too good. and the conveniences of camp 
 lite were of a wholly negative charac- 
 ter. Hungry and discontented, there 
 were long letters of complaints sent to 
 friends at home, where there was a 
 kindred sentiment that the govern- 
 ment should exert itself to put an end 
 to the prolonged sulYering in Cuba. 
 The Re\-. L. ^L Powers, a Somerville 
 clergyman, wrote as follows of his ob- 
 servations in and about the lately be- 
 leaguered cit}' : "I arrivoil in Santiago 
 the day after the surrender. It is diffi- 
 cult for a New Englancler to imagine 
 the indescribable filth of that city and 
 its inhabitants. My first efTort was to 
 get to the 2d Massachusetts vohm- 
 teers. Fortunately for me. Inn un- 
 fortunately for them, their cam]) was 
 the one nearest the city, about a mile 
 and a half from the city limits. In try- 
 ing to find them I got lost in the dense 
 undergrowth, and wandered about for 
 three hours in the Cuban mid-day sun. 
 which melts, wilts, boils your blooil. 
 and leaves }ou with quivering muscles, 
 unwilling to act. The appearance of 
 the 2d Massachusetts was a shocking 
 revelation. Men and officers had been 
 for thirty days without a change of 
 clothing, without tents, and without 
 blankets. Most of the time they had 
 ]ia<l only liaril l)read and bacon to eat, 
 and only a tomato can to cook in. 
 .\earl\- all of them had lost from twenty 
 to thirt}- pounds in weight. The con- 
 dition of the sick was what stirred me 
 most. .Nearly 200 were on the sick list, 
 those unable to sit up lying on the 
 ground without adequate care. Of the 
 tloctors one was away at the division 
 hospital, one (^Dr. Hitchcock) was 
 very sick, and the other was without 
 medicine and apparently discouraged 
 bevond hope. The sick had no food 
 
128 
 
 WOKCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 different from ihe well. I went back 
 to the city, hired a donkey, got a bag 
 of meal from the Red Cross people and 
 whatever else they could spare, 
 bought about twenty dollars' worth of 
 jellies, wines and delicacies myself, 
 and took them out to camp." 
 
 This clergyman was a veritable good 
 Samaritan, and his well-expressed 
 opinions of the regiment each and 
 every one fully reciprocated. Towards 
 the end of the month, owing to im- 
 proved rations and the buoyant quali- 
 ties of hope, the conditions of the In- 
 fantry were possibly somewhat im- 
 proved; at any rate Lieutenant King 
 writes to this effect on the 29th of July, 
 
 of cocoa, condensed milk and breakfast 
 food on board the Knickerbocker, and, 
 as soon as he could get it from the boat, 
 he used it in helping out the sick, and 
 it was of great service. There was 
 also a private medicine kit with which 
 the Company had been provided. This 
 outfit was largely the result of the 
 thoughtfulness of Lieut. W. F. Gil- 
 man, and it was carried upon the field 
 strapped upon the back of one of the 
 men. Lieutenant King had no doubt 
 that this was the means of saving the 
 lives of a number of men. 
 
 Our Lieutenant also states he was 
 the first line officer to enter Santiago, 
 going thence aboard the Knickerbocker 
 
 KdiiERT'IMr IN Marching 
 
 < I H 1> h K . 
 
 Stating that the list of the sick is less- 
 ening and the men are improving. Only 
 three men were then in the hospital, 
 and one of them was exjiected out that 
 very afternoon. "Sergeant Barton 
 helped us wonderfully yesterday by 
 going and interviewing his aunt, Clara 
 ]'.arton, and returning with malted 
 milk, oats and condensed milk enougli 
 to feed our sickest men for a week or 
 more." (The Lieutenant was in error 
 as to the degree of kinship between 
 the Sergeant and the great philanthro- 
 pist.) The officer had a private stock 
 
 (iKORGF Martin, thk (iReek. 
 
 and thus securing a number of things 
 which contributed to the comfort of his 
 men, and he detalils somewhat the items 
 of rations already referred to in the 
 diaries of his enlisted followers. 
 
 ( )n tliis same date a private, writing 
 home, savs : "You remember, perhaps, 
 how 1 wrote last winter to a number of 
 ]ilaces for a sunuuer job. I got it and 
 1 don't seem to be abl? to shake it." 
 Describing a sick comrade he says: "I 
 helped him down to the brook and 
 washed him to-day. I thought I never 
 should get him back to camp, he was so 
 
LIGHT [Ni-.\.\TKV. COMI'AXY C. 
 
 129 
 
 weak. It is awful lo see men waste 
 away as the men are here — mere skin 
 and bones, and not strength enough to 
 walk alone. I shall go on guard to- 
 night, and though a detail of only nine 
 men is posted, it is difficult to find nine 
 in the regiment strong enough to carry 
 a gun. We expect to be paid of^f soon, 
 also to get some new clothes. This 
 will be a Godsend, as our clothes are 
 mostly filthy rags." 
 
 Friends at home will never know 
 hiiw much their letters did towards 
 
 o\er to the regimental lieadquarters, 
 about ICO yards, where I was seated 
 under a tree, and when he reached ine 
 he fell over dazed and talked wildly for 
 a while, but he came to himself soon. 
 .... So many give up when they 
 go to the hospital, just lose heart and 
 give up. \\'ood is so scarce and the 
 water so far to fetch, 1 prefer eating 
 only once a day about half a cup of 
 boiled rice, which I have to buy, as the 
 go\ernment does not supply it. In lieu 
 of better means some of the men are 
 
 .Sergt. Cieorge ]I. Hill. 
 
 t-itoKGE T. Jones. 
 
 Walter I. (iage. 
 
 keeping their boys alive during those 
 tedious da}-s of waiting in fever-haunted 
 Cuba. Xo matter when the mail- 
 pouches came they were opened at 
 once and their contents read ere any- 
 thing else was done, and hope, blessed, 
 eternal hope, ke]it the bodies going till 
 relief came at last. Says one writer, 
 "\\'e go to bed at dark and get up as 
 soon as it is light. All of our cooking 
 must be done before seven o'clock, for 
 it is so hot from that time till it rains 
 about noon, that the men cannot stand 
 the sun; the humid heat here is so dif- 
 ferent from the dry heat of the States. 
 One of the bovs walked from his tent 
 
 carrying water in bamboo tubes about 
 si.\ feet long, whence they have 
 punched all the pith excejn from the 
 last joint. They do very well." 
 
 "It is now 5.30 : we have had roll-call, 
 and it is cool, so I will write a little. 
 The guinea hens are cackling over in 
 the woods. All around us, in the dif- 
 ferent camps, I can hear the reveille 
 turning out the men for another long 
 day. The sun is just rising o\-er tlie 
 hill, and I suppose it will be a scorch- 
 er." The foregoing was for Augtist 10, 
 and for the next day or two the same 
 scribe may as well tell the story, for he 
 was ever taking notes : 
 
130 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 "Bert Kincaid was giiiiis;- to the hos- 
 pital to hel]) to-night, but he was sud- 
 denly taken with a chill, so I am going 
 to take his place. It is so hard to find 
 a well man to do any duty now. I had 
 a thousand times rather feel the way I 
 do than to be so sick that I must go to 
 the hospital and lie on the ground, for 
 the hospital is only a shed with a dirt 
 
 floor Last night and to-day 
 
 I have been working at the hospital. 
 You know what a big. strong fellow 
 Harry Wentworth was; well, he is all 
 wasted away, and it is a question of 
 only a few (lays as to how long he will 
 live. A\'hen we were paid off. Lieuten- 
 ant King took his mone}' and sent it to 
 him bv me, but he seemed to know his 
 condit'ion, for he said, 'What can I do 
 with this? Take it back to Lieutenant 
 and tell him to keep it for me." 
 
 ••.\l)()Ut three o'clock this afternoon 
 a man came into the hospital dressed 
 in citizen's clothes, and asked if this 
 was brigade hospital. \\'e told him it 
 was the regimental hospital. Then he 
 wanted to know where C Company of 
 the 2d Massachusetts was. Fred, ^lay- 
 nard was the first to recognize him. 
 and said. 'Isn't this Mr. I'.artlett?' Sure 
 enough, he was Lyman I'.artlett's 
 father. 1 told him I would go to the- 
 regiment with him. It was not long 
 before Lyman and his fatlier were 
 hugging and kissing each other. 
 
 "The bovs said that we were to start 
 for home to-morrow, and onl\- the ones 
 who were strong enough to walk over 
 to the regimental head(|uarters could 
 go. so every man who could stand alone 
 was ready to go over and pass in front 
 of the surgeon. I helped George Steb- 
 bins half way over and then he said he 
 could go alone the rest of the way. The 
 news of going home and of seeing the 
 meeting of L\nian and his father broke 
 me all up. and I have been crying for 
 joy. When 1 got back to the hospital 
 and told (iilman and Maynard that we 
 were going home to-morrow, although 
 thev had been sick, they got up and 
 walked 300 yards to the Company. Air. 
 ■ liartlett has come down with some 
 food for us, but now we won't need it." 
 
 Homeward Bound. 
 
 Sluggish indee<l must be the blood 
 that does not quicken at the thought of 
 going home. This it was that saved 
 the lives of many of the Infantry boys. 
 The sea air, inspiring as it was, did no 
 more for these fever-stricken men than 
 the certainty that at the voyage's end 
 there were home and mother. Let the 
 bovs themselves, in their own words, 
 continue the narrative: 
 
 "On a cattle steamer, the Mobile, 
 now and we have started for home. It 
 hardlv seems true, more like a dream. 
 The morning of the 12th of August was 
 full of excitement, for we were to go 
 home, but not all of us, for some of the 
 fellows were yellow-fever suspects. 
 Arthur Wintersgill was one of them. I 
 was so sorry for him; seems to me if I 
 had been kept on the Island after the 
 Company left, I should have given up. 
 Before we left the camp we were or- 
 dered to destroy all the clothing, tents, 
 haversacks and ammunition in our 
 possession. So the trenches that we 
 dug to save us from the Spanish bullets 
 we used t(i bury our ohl clothes in. The 
 most of our men were brought to the 
 boat in old army wagons, though the 
 distance was not great, the men being 
 so weak. No very sick men were sup- 
 posed to go on board. The whole bri- 
 gade of three regiments is on board. 
 
 Cam]) was broken at aliout 2 p.m. on 
 August I2th. and a small part of the 
 Companv marched to the landing in 
 Santiago' Harbor. Xo (piarters were 
 assigned that night; there was a heavy 
 rain, making everybody miserable. On 
 the 13th the Company was located be- 
 tween decks in the fore part of the ves- 
 sel with none too much room, the men 
 being taken out to the transport in 
 lighters. The distilled water furnished 
 is'" used so rapidly that it hardly has 
 time to get cool. At first ice- water was 
 had l)v the men, but the results were 
 such as to warrant its interdict. On 
 the 14th came the death of Sergeant 
 ll;irrv Wentworth. and his body was 
 conunitteil to the deep, a sorry ending 
 to a life that had iiromised so much. 
 
 ( )ther men are ill and in the hospital; 
 some are out of their heads, and their 
 
LIGHT IXFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
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 performances wouUl lie funny were 
 they not so sad. At nine p.m. of 
 the i8th, the Mobile arrived ofF Mon- 
 tauk and anchored. Possibly some of 
 the Comjjany had heard of this east- 
 ernmost extremity of Lontj Island 
 before this trip was undertaken, but 
 not man}-. Their knowledge of ge- 
 ography was increasing at a rapid rate. 
 \\'ithin an hour of her dropping anchor 
 friends from home were tr\-ing their 
 best to get into communication with 
 the 2d Regiment, a special schooner 
 having made the trip from shore, and 
 the editor of the \\'orcester Gazette 
 was conversing with Halleck Bartlett, 
 the devoted citizen who had come back 
 with his son and the latter's Company. 
 The editor also hailed Lieut. -colonel 
 Shumwav and Major Fairbanks, but a 
 long interview was prevented by the 
 arrival of a government gunlioat. which 
 orderetl the smaller craft awax, the lat- 
 
 1". C, H.ILE. 
 
 L. A. !1ru;ham. 
 
 E, F. Ukiky. 
 
 ler having evaded the c|uaranline re- 
 strictions under the guise of a fishing- 
 boat. Still the meeting was sufificient 
 to warrant many an inspiriting message 
 to the home city of the \\'<ircesler boys. 
 
 .-\fter the landing, the morning of the 
 ii)tli. came detention camp, al)out one 
 mile away, lest these returning lads 
 should bring and spread contagion, and 
 there thev were held till the morning 
 of the 22d. Only nine Company C men 
 could make this distance afoot. Mean- 
 while, the patriotic efforts of W'orces- 
 ter ])eople to alleviate the i)ain and 
 suffering of their soldier boys were 
 bearing fruit. Though only a small 
 l)art of the generous contributions 
 could be transferred to the Mobile 
 before her departure from Santiago, the 
 remainder was not lost, for it was 
 passed on to the members of the 9th, 
 which did not come away so soon, and 
 in the ijth were the Emmet Cjuards, 
 another company of Worcester boys. 
 
 The new location of the regiment was 
 very cold compared with the climate of 
 Cuba, and many took colds, w-hich long 
 served to remind them of their arrival 
 in "the States." Khaki uniforms, where 
 ]:)ossible, gave place to good old Union 
 blue. Even before the landing Sergeant 
 Hill, who had been left behind in Flor- 
 ida, made his appearance, and soon 
 afterwards Captain .\llen. who in his 
 home had rallied from the rheumatism 
 which had incapacitated him after El 
 Canev, reported also, both men in such 
 phvsical condition that they seemed to 
 be' veritable giants to their debilitated 
 comrades. Lieutenant King was com- 
 pletely used up, and the command of 
 the Company had devolved on Sergeant 
 Longley till he, too, had to give up, 
 and the landing was effected under the 
 direction of Sergeant I'letcher. 
 
 The Worcester friends of the Com- 
 \n\n\ were not long in ])utting in an 
 a|)])earance, and just as soon as they 
 were permitted to enter the camp the 
 hovs were grasping the hands of Cap- 
 lain Rider, Lieutenants Clark and Gil- 
 man, .\. -\. Rheutan, Julius Zaeder, 
 and others who were anxious to do all 
 in their power to add to the comfort 
 of the men. 
 
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 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Savs one of the hapi)}' snldiers: 
 "Surely the pei)i)le have not f<iri;otten 
 us. .siuce we ha\e all we \vant tn eat. 
 Food comes to the cam]) in cartloads, 
 and every man has a cu]i of milk each 
 dav. To-day, when some of the boys 
 were sitting in front of their tents. Gen- 
 eral Miles and Secretary Alger passed 
 through the street. .\11 of the men 
 arose tci their feet and came to atten- 
 tion as they went along, hut triage was 
 so weak he fell l)ack again. Secretary 
 Alger asked if many were in that con- 
 dition, and I think it means that we are 
 to leave here soon." 
 
 committee, and went to work. They 
 were Capt. V. L. Rider, Lieut. W. F. 
 Oilman, Julius C. Zaeder and .\.. A. 
 Rheutan. The introduction nf the sub- 
 ject to the ])uldic was in the sha])e of a 
 local item in the Gazette of August 22d. 
 ( )n the 23d the work of receiving con- 
 tri])utii Ills 1)egan. and there were busy 
 times in L'aptain Rider's store for a 
 while, since the ])roposition had struck 
 a responsive chord. An Elm Street 
 ladv was the first contributor, and she 
 called to leave ten dollars. The largest 
 gift was one of $100 from James Logan. 
 There were two of fiftv dollars each. 
 
 HaLLECK liARTLETT AN'l) RELIEF 
 (iOODS AT MONTAI'K. 
 
 \\( iiu icsricR lli-.i.i'S iiii. Ri'j.ri.AKS. 
 
 While Worcester and the pulilie gen- 
 erall\- were taking care of the vohm- 
 leer. no one ajjpeared to remember the 
 regular army soldier, though upon him 
 had come the brunt of the service. He 
 was from e\(.-ry where, ami in m me ec im- 
 munity felt that an\ niie regiiuenl was 
 its particular protege. I lence. when in 
 the |iresence of several reporters. (_iene- 
 ral ^'oung said to ex- Lieut. Gov. Haile. 
 "In ail this gener<.)us gixing no c)neha'^ 
 an\-thing for the regular, though he 
 went thruunh the hardest ( if the strife," 
 it occurred to cert.'iin \\ orcester i)eo])Ie 
 that \-ery likely their city might take an 
 interest in helping the regulars. They 
 came hnme. constituted themsehes a 
 
 NON-COMMTSSIONED StAFfCuTS 
 
 THE "Only" Watermelon. 
 
 Iiut the ci mtriliutions came in smaller 
 sums generally. II. 1). I'erky. in addi- 
 tion til a generous amount in cash, con- 
 tributed a l.-irge quantitv of the prod- 
 ucts of his factor\-. and besides sent 
 down an expert cook to aid in sharp- 
 ening the boys' appetites. 
 
 In .all there was laised the sum of 
 $i2o7.i;(). The purchases were made at 
 once, necessities and luxuries expressed 
 in a s])ecial car to Xew London, and on 
 tile -'Tth (if August the steamer .Man- 
 han->ett, Ici.adeil with \\'orcester's giv- 
 ing, was seeking the ])rivilege of un- 
 loading at Montauk. As usual, there 
 intervened the obstacle of red tape. 
 I'nrtunately. the cnnmiittee had forti- 
 tied themselves with the jn-esence of 
 .Major K. T. Raymond and Senator 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 133 
 
 Geo. F. Hoar, the former an old soldier 
 of the Rebellion and used to niilitarY 
 delays: the latter oneof the most inHu- 
 ential men in the nation. A combina- 
 tion was thus made that the obstruc- 
 tionists found exceedingly hard to beat. 
 A carriage was borrowed from a Mrs. 
 Trumbull of the New York \^:)lunteer 
 Aid Association. and then cnsuetlawild 
 chase after the officers in aulhoritv who 
 could and VYOuld break through the cor- 
 don of martinets who, though inwardly 
 desiring the offering, could see no offi- 
 cial way of letting it in. .\l last General 
 Wheeler, who was in command, was 
 found at lunch, and with him the man 
 of all others most needed at the mo- 
 ment, the SecretarY of War, R, .\. .\1- 
 
 m 
 
 (ibtain from the dock authorities what 
 had been denied him before. He wanted 
 fi\c wagdus. and he gut them, one f<ir 
 each regular organization. \'ery little 
 time was occupied in loading them. 
 anil then with Julius Zaeder, A. A. 
 Uhriit.iii, Lieutenant I iilman. Lieuten- 
 ant ('. !•'. IJigelow and (Jeorge Hub- 
 bard as driYers, the caYalcade set forth, 
 carrying comfort to liundreds of suf- 
 fering men. Grateful letters from 
 officers in these regiments tell how 
 thoroughly a|)preciated were the ef- 
 forts of Wdrcester in their behalf. 
 
 The gentlemen directly concerned 
 and the generous giYers ncYcr did a 
 better act than when they thus be- 
 friended tile boys wliose interests, in 
 
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 ger. The latter, as soon as he ascer- 
 tained the wishes of the Worcester 
 gentlemen, wrote upon two Yisiting 
 cards (.see cut aboYC), and they were 
 the "open sesame" admitting the sup- 
 plies wdiich did so much to tone up the 
 regular soldiers, whose welfare had 
 been carelessly neglected. 
 
 At the same time General Wheeler 
 telephoned a command to admit, while 
 Captain Rider, thoroughly covered 
 with Long Island mud, raced back with 
 his precious order. He could now 
 
 the general dcYOtion to particular reg- 
 iments, had been oYcrlooked. All of 
 the money contributed was expended 
 as directed, save S148.56, which, at 
 first, was turned over to the fund for 
 bringing back the bodies of those who 
 had died in Cuba, liut when the nation 
 took hold of that matter, the residue 
 was gi\'en to the local \ olunteer Aid 
 Association. 
 
 The -Stay of the 2d Regiment at 
 Montauk was brief, yet to many an 
 anxious heart it was all too long, for 
 
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 few could forcfet that home was only a 
 few hours' ride away, and the people 
 there were just as desirous of reeeiviug 
 as the soldiers were of goinsj. There 
 were two or three days of rumors and 
 expectations, and then on the 27th the 
 departure for Xew London actually 
 came. The round dozen of Company C 
 men wlm marched down to the landing' 
 to go aboard the Block Island did not 
 constitute any part of the triumphal 
 procession, yet every heart was heating 
 more raoidly at the thought of "Home. 
 Sweet Home." The ride across Long 
 Island Sound is a brief one, and at ii 
 a.m.. amid steamer whistles and the 
 cheers of thousands of onlookers, the 
 dock is reached and another stage on 
 the homeward route is passed. There 
 are Worcester friends among the peo- 
 ple, and Colonel ^\'ellington and Mayor 
 Dodge are conspicuous in the throng. 
 Here, too, is ex-Lieutenant Gov. Haile 
 from Springfield, who has run down 
 from his summer home at ^^'atch Hill 
 just to take the hands of the .soldiers. 
 
 There was to be no prolonged stay in 
 the Connecticut city, and soon, com- 
 fortably placed on a north-bound train, 
 the 2d was speeding toward the Bay 
 State. Had every man been able to 
 eat all that was provided for him. 
 there had been displays of gastronomic 
 powers unecpialed before. Every one 
 had the idea that all the boys were 
 hungry, a notion not far from the truth, 
 and acted accordingly. However, there 
 is an end to all things, and e\en a 
 famine has its limits. \\y the combined 
 efforts of Connecticut and Massachu- 
 setts, our boys reached their respective 
 cities and towns in a fairly well-tilled 
 condition. Before reaching Palmer, 
 Governor Wolcott and others were 
 greeting the returning brave, and at 
 the latter place the comrades <>f four 
 months' camjiaigning separated, only 
 the Worcester and Gardner companies 
 Continuing tn the east. 
 
 It is four o'clock in the afternoon 
 when the goal of their hearts' desire is 
 reached, and the great L'nion Depot 
 swallows up the special train. Appar- 
 ently every one in the city who had the 
 least affiliation with the soldiers was in 
 
 the station, or as near it as he could get. 
 Thev were there to receive their boys 
 with oiien arms and with the loudest 
 acclaim, but the sight of tlie homeward- 
 bound lads, so worn and wasted, so wan 
 and feeble, killed the shouts ere they 
 were uttered, but the boys got greet- 
 ings they most desired, those from the 
 hands and hearts of loved ones who had 
 not ceased to lament their absence a 
 single day of all the Cuban se])aration. 
 The band was there, and the day was 
 all that the most exacting could ask, 
 and, either afoot or in carriages, the 
 soldiers made their way to the .\rmory. 
 Thrnugh streets thronged to their ut- 
 termost, under banners proudly wav- 
 ing, "Johnny came marching home 
 again :" but the ranks were thin, and 
 the lads in hospital or. worse than that, 
 in their graves, were nut forgotten. 
 There were some whu vii'wed the re- 
 turn through eyes that w t-rc dim with 
 tears for the soldier who was sleeping 
 his dreamless, silent sleep in a far-away 
 island. Just thirty-one men of C Coni- 
 l)any came home that day. The others 
 were in hospital in .America or Cuba, or 
 for some other reason had been left 
 behind. Those who had a part in this 
 day's honors were Captain !•". L. .Allen, 
 .'Sergeants Hill. Fletcher and Barton, 
 Cor])orals Colburn and Rldridge. Musi- 
 cian .A. F. Wheeler. .Artificer E. .A. 
 Stearns. Wagoner F. B. Maynard. Cook 
 .A. Cj. Biersdorf, and Privates liartlett, 
 Bradley, Briggs, W. 11. Butler, Clark- 
 son. Grossman. Dean. Dennis, Drur\', 
 ■•'arrow, Flymi. Gage. E. J. Alartin, 
 Merrifield. Pope, Prince. Rix, Roberts, 
 Taylor, Tucker and Zaeder. 
 
 Private Roberts was taken to the 
 hospital directly from the station, 
 dying one week later. P.radlev and 
 -Martin took their last march together, 
 maintaining to the end the reputation 
 of the "Bradley-Martin" combination. 
 
 The leave-takings are brief at the 
 Armory, and then come the home 
 scenes, with which the public has no 
 l)art : in many cases weeks of prolonged 
 illness, covering much of the furlough 
 of sixty days, at whose end, November 
 7,(1, there was a final gathering in 
 Sjiringfield, and discharges were 
 
130 
 
 WliRCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 granted which iiuTj;'e(l the >cil(liiT ai;"ain 
 into the citizen. Whether for lietter or 
 worse, the campaign was ended and the 
 
 l,i,L;lU Infantry v<ihmteer of 1898 
 hipsed into the ranks of those wdio pur- 
 sued the routine of every-day Hving. 
 
 THE DEAD IX COAiPAXY C. 
 
 Fred Bahlwin Taft. a recruit who 
 came into the (ninpany for the war, 
 was the first to go, dying in Cuba, July 
 14. Having lieen in the regular army 
 and a sergeant, his comrades thought 
 him disease and bullet-proof, but the 
 Cul^an situation over-ruled all calcula- 
 tions. He was born in Charlton 
 twenty-five }ears before, was married, 
 and was in the Fire Department when 
 he enlisted. His body, on its return 
 from Culia. was burieil in (.'harltrm. 
 He died with his head on Knibbs' knee, 
 lames Woodbury Wheeler died Aug. 
 2<\ in Cuba. He was thirty-two years 
 lihl, a nati\-e of Weymouth, ami had 
 been in the Company in earlier years. 
 He was in the insurance business, was 
 married, and, standing nearly six feet 
 in height, he was a good soldier and 
 his comrades say, "'a faultless man." 
 His body rests in Lyiui. 
 
 Silas I. Mayn die<l Aug. 7 in Cuba. 
 Private Mayo had been in the Cemipany 
 about four years. By occupation he 
 was a pa|)er-lianger, and before going 
 to the front had been in the employ of 
 E. (i. Higgins Co. His twenty-sixth 
 birthday was spent, July Stli, in front 
 of Santiago. Me left many and dear 
 Worcester affiliations. A conu-ade af- 
 firms that Mayo had a ])remonition of 
 his approaching end, for, the da}' lie- 
 fcjre liis death, he re|)eatedl}- said: "1 
 am going home lo-morrow." Mis re- 
 mains wcw c;irrit'<l to I'airlield, Me., 
 for interment. 
 
 Arthur D.iwson Stewart died Aug. 
 lolh in Cuba. A boy of nineleen years, 
 he was a native of Crand Pre, Ixings 
 Countv. Xova Scotia, and when he en- 
 listed was a machinist in the t'm|ilo\()f 
 W Aman & (iordon. All that was mor- 
 tal of him w;is l)orne to Hortonsville, 
 X. S., for burial. Stewart offere 1 
 ])rayer o\-er the gra\e of 1 aft. 
 
 Harold i'.enning Went worth, ser- 
 Sieant, died and was buried at sea, Aug. 
 
 14th. He was a W'orcester boy, 
 twentv-eight }-ears old, wdTose father 
 was for man}- }ears the janitor of 
 Mechanics Hall. As a high school 
 pupil, and as a member of the gymna- 
 sium classes of the Y. M. C. A., young 
 Wentworth had been conspicuous for 
 his iih\-sical vigor, and that he, the best 
 all-round man of the Com]3any, should 
 fade so readily was not only a great 
 grief, but a surprise as well. His oc- 
 cu])ation had been athletics, having 
 held the position eif i)h}sical director 
 in the Y. M. C. A. of \'\'orcester and 
 in Holv Cross College. He left a 
 willow and one brother. 
 
 Robert Henry Dowse, corporal, died 
 at Montauk Point, August 26th. He 
 was born in Sherborn, liut had lived 
 much of his life in W'orcester. His 
 trade was that of a wood-carver. His 
 ])arents being engaged in fruit-grow- 
 ing in California, the son had repeat- 
 edl\- been across the continent to visit 
 them. His thirtieth birthday was Aug. 
 24th, just two days liefore his death. 
 His illness beginning in Cuba, he had 
 failed to rall}i)n reaching home shores. 
 Sherborn is also his burial-place. 
 
 William David Roberts died in Wor- 
 cester September y\. He had returned 
 with his fellows, but the fever was 
 u]ion him and he did not long survive 
 the sight of home, having been taken 
 in a carriage from the station to the 
 hos|iital. He was oid} nineteen years 
 old. being one of the recruits of May 
 ,Vl. His"birthi)lace was Staffordville, 
 Conn.,l>ut he had been in Worcester a 
 couple of years. Young as he was he 
 had been tw^o years married, and be- 
 sides his widow left a mother and 
 other relatives. When enlisted, he was 
 em]ilo\ed in I3arling's mill in Cherry 
 \alle}-, where he is buried. 
 
 loseph Clarence King died at divi- 
 sion hospital, Santiago, Cuba, Sept. 5. 
 P.orn m Leicester, he was eighteen 
 
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138 WORCESTER IN THE SPAXISH WAR. 
 
 years old at cnlistnu'iit, was a ])rinter ijeneral. His gjrave is in Hope Cem- 
 
 l:)y trade, and unmarried. He was one etery. 
 
 of the bovs whom necessity forced to Eugene F. Drury died in the Citv 
 
 stay in Cuba. His waking eves never Hospital of Worcester. Nov. i, igo2. 
 
 saw home again, but liis l)odv rests in He was one of the Mav recruits of the 
 
 liis (lid licime town. Comjjany. having been added to the list 
 
 I'irst Lieut, .\rthur C. King died in on the qth. He was boru in that part 
 Worcester June 30. ujoi. Though sur- of Leic-ster known as Cherrv X'alle)', 
 vi\'ing the war nearlv three vears, the but much of his time had been spent in 
 death of Lieutenant King was directh- Worcester, where he had attended the 
 traceable to the hardships of the cam- i)ul)lic schools, and his drill in the St. 
 naign. through which he bore himself John's Cadets had given him a militarv 
 in a most soldierh- manner. With de- taste. His \ocation was that of a 
 lightful unanimity, his men speak well clothing salesman. As one of the Com- 
 of his kindness of heart and his evident pan}- has said, he was a txpical soldier, 
 intenti(.)n to do all in his power for the and when the Infantry had returned 
 good of his men. He wore himself out ancl he had recovered from the illness 
 in their behalf. Lieutenant King was that every one had, sooner or later, he 
 a natix'C of ^^'orcester. thirtv-foiir vears enlisted in the regulars Jan. 9, 'qq, and 
 of age. anil had been a member of the was assigned to the 9th U. S. Infantry, 
 Light Infantry for ten \ears. He had then at Sackett"s Harbor. X. Y. On 
 long been connected with the wall- the 24th of .March following, the regi- 
 ])aper business, and his last engage- ment left for the riiilippines. and he 
 ment was with a Philadelphia house, ]iarticipated in all the campaigning of 
 where he was when seized with his his three years' term. He was at 
 fatal illness. His funeral was held on (inadaloupe Ridge, Zapote River, San 
 the third aniii\-ersar\- of his taking I'ernando, Santa Rita, Tarlac, and 
 Command of the Compan\-, when Ca])- many others in the islands, and then 
 tain .\llen was obliged to leave. He went, with the 9th to China and saw all 
 was interested in the effort to retain that the regiment did. except Tien 
 the memories of the war, and was the Tsin. his battalion being slow in lea\-- 
 i'resident of the Cuban War X'eterans. ing the boat. He was one of those 
 He was married, and in addition to a who entered the sacred city. ( )n get- 
 widow with two children, he k'ft a ting back to Manila he was detailed as 
 m<ither and two l)rothers. He is orderly and telegfaph clerk to General 
 bin'ied in Ho])e Cemeterv. .McArthnr. and later to Ceneral C'haf- 
 
 l\o_\al II. I'itts die(l in the .Massachu.- fee. This work he gave up. that he 
 
 setts (ieneral llos]>ital. I'.iistiin, Itme^, might go with his C'ompan\' to .Samar 
 
 lX()i). He was one of the May recruits. Island, for it there was active warfare 
 
 went through the camjiaign, suffered anywhere 1 )rury wanted to have a 
 
 from the fever with all his comrades, hand in it. He' was discharged Jan. i), 
 
 liut apparently diil not so thoroughly i«)02. and came back to Worcester, Init 
 
 recover. At the .Memorial 1 )a\' e.\er- disease wms alread) upon him. and 
 
 cist-s in Lynn he had been reipiested though for a time he resumed his old 
 
 by the Company to |dace a wreath on calling, it was not for long, as his ner- 
 
 the gra\"e of Wheeler; this he did, but \dns disorder, neuritis, incapacitated 
 
 in so doing became o\i'rlieated. canglu him for work. IK' was buried from 
 
 a severe cidd ;in<l died. He was much the Catholic L'hurch of Leicester, in St. 
 
 interested in the Legion of ."-Spanish Joseph's Cemetery, leaving jiarents, 
 
 W .ar X'eterans, and was its .Xdjutant- hrothers, a wi<lo\v ami two children. 
 
 I'1'.KS( )XALS. 
 
 ;\11 of the Worcester men in the .Sec- officers of the regiment. Lieut. -colonel 
 
 ond had reason to ]tv proud of the E. R. Shumway, a former Captain of 
 
 city's re])resentation among the tielil Company .\, and a veteran of the 
 
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 WORCESTER TN THE SPAXISIi WAK 
 
 \\ ar of the Rchcllidii, nuTitfcl ami acteristics from Shaftcr. Whcelur and 
 
 always rect-ivcd the very highest Lawton downward. 
 
 regard of all the soldiers. They felt It goes without saying that all of the 
 
 that he was ever one of them and with duties i)ertaining to his position were 
 
 t'lc'"- faithfully performed, and that he him- 
 
 Afajor H. P.. Fairlianks was familiar self found in their ])erformance a de- 
 
 with all the history of the Company, for .e^rt'e of exhilaration that all staff oiili- 
 
 he had long been one of its captains. '-'ers recall with pleasure. As a mem- 
 
 IJevoted to the militia from his ver\ ''^^'i" "f (General Lawton's military fam- 
 
 boyhood, there was no wonder that in i'y lit^' was near enough to that gal- 
 
 e\-ery position he proxed a perfect fit. I'lnt soldier to appreciate his magnifi- 
 
 His presence on the firing line, during ^"'-''it manhood, and later to lament his 
 
 the long and tedious marches, in the untimely death in the far-away Philip- 
 
 fever-stricken camii. was ever re- pines. Day and night, in the saddle 
 
 sourceful and a |)o\ver to encourage <i'"l afoot, he carried messages and 
 
 and inspirit. Not alone Company C, orders, saw to the placing of regiments 
 
 but all the companies owe much to a"'' companies, was present at the at- 
 
 their young and energ-etic Major. t'Tck on El Caney, helped to encircle 
 
 Second IJeut. Herbert H.Warren.— -Santiago, saw the Spanish flag come 
 
 It was the fortune or misfortune of ''"^^'" ^""^ ^he American go u]) : then 
 
 Lieutenant Warren to be detached '^^'^ ^""' .^'"?'fled to the insidious fever. 
 
 from his Companv even before leaving ''^"'' ■'"'-^' -'^o''^ "''^ furloughed home to 
 
 Florida, hence all of his Cuban expe- '^''^ "^^'"i father's house, whence he did 
 
 rience was apart from the Light Infan- ""^ emerge till well into September, 
 
 lr\-. All that he saw < .f his ,',1.1 friend- tl|"".i^"li 'h- was out in time to do a deal 
 
 was when he casuallv met some mem- "' ^^'"'''^ '" making ready the muster- 
 
 ber. or in the pursuit of dutv, he passed ""^ pai)ers of his Company, and with 
 
 the regiment. On reaching Florida he '""^ felKjws to receive the Springfield 
 
 was prostrated with illness, from ''"''' •" (October. 
 
 which he rallied slowlv, so slowlv that ^""^ '''^'^"^^ I-ieutenant Warren, but 
 
 it was deemed improbable that he '"^ inends as well, have a deal of plea.s- 
 
 would 1)e able to accompany the Sec- "'''-" ^"*' P"""'^" '" ^^'"^ ^^^t that his con- 
 
 ond on its deiwrture. At thi.i juncture, 'i"^""^ before El Caney was such that by 
 
 lune ^th, there came an or<ler for the <'eneral Lawton he was recommended 
 
 detaching of several connnissi, nied for the brevet rank of captain. 
 
 officers for dutv at the .livision head- ,. ^.'''"^'^ ^^ Dean.— The experience of 
 
 r,,,.,,-t„,-o (,-11 ,-.',.,,1,,. Ill ,■ 1 I rnate Dean, after the war. m helpmg 
 
 (uaiters till legulars could l)e lound , , , , ■ o i ,■ r r 
 
 , » I ,, • , , , , t" U-turn to America the boihes of the 
 
 to take their places, but as the supply ,,,,,|„,, .kj,,,. ;„ f,„^.i„.„ i^„,^i,^ ^.^^j,,^,^ 
 
 ol regulars was never ecpial to the de- i„,„ to m,',re than pa.ssing mention. In 
 
 mand. the <Iet;iil became permanent. c,,m],an\ with Sergeant Barton, he had 
 
 .Also, as I he health of the Lieutenant foiin<l and located the grave of Lieu- 
 
 improveil he was able to g , along with tcn.inl I'.enchley. after the San Juan 
 
 tlu- i-xi)editioii. llill eiig.igement, and, naturallv, when 
 
 \\ hile lacking iIiun ili.- spirit ,if fel- l^''e return ,,f that bra\e }oung officer's 
 
 lowship which comes from tenting on 'i,,d\ to his native land was contem- 
 
 the v.-ime cimp-ground he did have a P''"^'''- attention was turned to Dean 
 
 far wider experience, ,fm,_-n and events ''^' V''' l"''V '" ''"■'''■' ^'''^ 'f^''- A^'^" 
 
 ,|,.,,, I,; .,,;., r-i^ , eordmglv he was mustered out Oct. 
 
 than his associate otticers who were . no' , ■ i i ,- ,i w 
 
 •,, ,, • ^. ■ , ,, ^d. kS()iS. hv special order ot the War 
 
 Mill their respective companies. .Ml Department. However, he ha<l n,,t 
 
 the distinguished officers who.. „,•,„„,. ,,.,„t,,, f,,^ the arrival of the onler, but 
 
 are indelibly impresse<l upon ilie p.-iges accompanied bv l-ndertaker Frank 
 
 <levoted to the .-^p,•^nl>h War were fre- Sessions, he had' sailed for Porto Rico, 
 
 • luently met, ;iii<l he is able t.i give an , „, the first day of the month. It shouh! 
 
 estimate of their appearance and char- be stated that under Colonel Clark's 
 
LIGHT INrANTRV, COMPANY C. 
 
 141 
 
 I.IEVT. E. N. Benchley. 
 
 direction. l'ri\ate Dean had locateil and 
 marked e\ery 2d Regiment grave in 
 Cidia. The identification of the grave 
 1)_\' means of the wire-woven horseshoe 
 which Dean and Carton had placed at 
 the foot of the improvised cross erected 
 a1io\'e the remains of the Lieutenant, 
 was a happy outcome of the thought- 
 fuhiess which prompted the act. The 
 body of Lieutenant Benchley came 
 back to \\'orcester in November, and 
 after the funeral in the First Univer- 
 salist Church, it was buried in the 
 National Cemetery at ^^'est Point. 
 The horseshoe with its barbed wire ac- 
 companiment is one of the precious 
 relics in the Light Infantry's collection. 
 The return i)f all American bodies 
 linried abniad became a necessity, and 
 manv communities took up the matter 
 in behalf nf themselves. Worcester 
 being the first to act. Each regimental 
 commander had the privilege of rec- 
 ommending a man from his command 
 to accompany the government burial 
 corps. Colonel Clark of the 2d Mas- 
 sachusetts, in the spring of 1899. named 
 Private Dean, and expenses were to be 
 borne by the city of Worcester, Mr. 
 Dean not caring to join the corps at 
 that time. The first landing was in 
 
 I'orto Kico, where it was fuund that all 
 the stenciling appliances for the proper 
 libelling of the caskets were at the 
 bottom of the vessel's hold, with a large 
 cargo of matter above the same. Hap- 
 pily at this moment the deftness of 
 l)ean'> hands became known, and jiis 
 ii>e of ihc brush rendered it unneces- 
 s.iiy to miload the entire cargo to get 
 ;it the hidden mechanism. So well did 
 be do his work that on the way to 
 t'ub;i it was pro|)Osed to him that he 
 join the corps and continue the work 
 begun in Porto Rico and thus ])e on the 
 ])a_\-roll of the government. To this he 
 consented, and before he returned to 
 Worcester he had lettered the name, 
 rank, company and regiment upon the 
 recci)tacles of no less than 1278 poor 
 fellows who had perished afar from 
 their homes. .Also he made and turned 
 into the government plans of all the 
 places whence the bodies had been 
 taken. 
 
 The expertncss of our pri\-ate had 
 become so well understootl that in the 
 fall of 1899, he was ofifered further em- 
 plovnient in the same line in the Pliil- 
 i])])ines. Tie received his appointment 
 
 Fred I'. Dean in the Field. 
 
142 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 from the Quartermaster-general, ami 
 started mi what proved to be an ab- 
 sence I if nine nmnths. His second tri]>. 
 under the same auspices antl for the 
 same purpose, was made in 1900. start- 
 ing in ( )ctol)er and covering about the 
 same inter\-al as his first. Again lu- 
 was called upim in iy02, leaving Sep- 
 tember 14th, and was gone fifteen 
 months, getting back just in time for a 
 Thanksgiving dinner, lyo^. During 
 these three expeditions he saile<l en- 
 tirely around the Philippine Archipel- 
 ago and went in and out am<_ing the 
 islands themselves till the indicated 
 lines of his travel look vcrv much like 
 
 In 1899 there seemed to be a chance 
 for Mr. Dean to secure a permanent 
 situation in the F\e<l Cross service, a 
 ]}ositirin fur which he was specially 
 fitted. Init it was filled before his rec- 
 ommendations could be filed, but the 
 following letter from Lieutenant King 
 of Company C is held by him as a 
 precious souvenir of the regard in which 
 his commanding officer held him ; 
 
 I feel that I nwe you. in person, a great 
 debt of gratitude for the whole-souled, self- 
 denying manner in which you devoted your- 
 self to your sick comrades. I have hoped 
 for an opportunity to express publicly the 
 
 l.IIifTE.VAXT IlKXCllI.EVS CUBAN CR.WE. 
 
 a ba/ar dress pattern. rAer_\- accessible 
 bii(!\' was disinterred and by our skill- 
 ful ietterer the rece^jtacle was directed 
 \i<v the long return trip across the Pa- 
 cific. In this way. in the West Indies 
 and the l'hilip|)ines. he lettered caskets 
 containing the reniaiuN nf m< ire than 
 i;ooo men who had died away from 
 their nati\'e land. 
 
 Mr. Dean recalls with pardonal)le 
 pride tlie fact that he \\;is called to the 
 presence of Cnlonel Patten (d the 
 Ouartermaster's Department, ami was 
 b\- him thanked for the character of 
 his --erxices. including the plans he had 
 turned in. thus making it possible tn 
 answer all (|uesti(ins as to the relialde- 
 ness id' n;ime> and ri'Curds. 
 
 a )preciation I felt lor your efforts so freely 
 given at that distressing time, tlie month 
 succeeding the surrender of Santiago, when 
 in the entire 2n<l Regiment there was not a 
 well man. and when those who were least 
 sick had to devote themselves to the care of 
 otliers. I recall with jileasure the fact that not 
 only did you do cheerfully and willingly all that 
 you' were' detailed to do. ijut that you were ever 
 on the alert to render others timely assistance, 
 ^uch as the preparation of dainty dishes from 
 Innnble materials. How well I remember the 
 ■lilanc-mange," served on a mess-tin, but cun- 
 ningly tricked out with green leaves, wdiich 
 made it look like a delicacy from Dclmonico's, 
 that you brought me one night when I was 
 far from well: and the tender care with which 
 you tended the sick in hospital, bathing them 
 and ministering to their comforts as a mother 
 would have done, and continuing to give to 
 them out of our limited resources as great a 
 variety of nutritious dishes as even so skilled a 
 cook as you proved to be. could devise. 
 
LIGHT IN'F.WTKV. fO.Ml'ANY C. 
 
 143 
 
 The many ways in which you rendered most 
 valuable aid to the then commanding officer of 
 "C" Company (myself! I shall never forget, 
 and only trust that as long as you live you may 
 be the recipient of as good treatment from 
 those with whom you come in contact as you 
 have given to your comrades in distress. Be- 
 
 lieving that in such a wish I am wishing you 
 all tlie good that is likely to come to any man. 
 I am. 
 
 Most sincerely vours. 
 
 ARTHUR C. KING. 
 Late I St Lieut., "C"Co.. jnd Mass., U.S. V. 
 July 8, 1899. 
 
 CAPT.XIX WIXSLOW S. LIN'COLX. 
 
 \\'ith his own experience in niilitary 
 affairs, and with a knowledge of the 
 parts borne by his father and brother 
 in the War of the Rebellion, it was not 
 at all strange that our ex-Light Infan- 
 try officer should early volunteer in 
 his services in the struggle with Spain. 
 
 June 4, 1898, he was oitered an ap- 
 pointment as Captain of immunes. 
 with the choice of white or colored 
 troops, but yielding to the wishes of 
 his family and friends, he accepted 
 the position of Captain and Assistant 
 Commissary of Subsistence, etc. 
 
 In June, i8(j8. an order was issued l)y 
 the ^^'ar Department directing him as 
 Captain and Assistant Commissary of 
 Subsistence. U. S. \'.,to report to Major 
 General J. J. Cop]3inger, commanding 
 the Fourth Army Corps, for assign- 
 ment to dut\- in that command, and on 
 June 26th he reached headc|uarters at 
 Tampa, Florida, and rejiorted to the 
 Adjutant-general. The following day 
 he was assigned as Chief Commissary 
 of the Third Division, Fourth Army 
 Corps, Brigadier-general Jacob Kline 
 commanding, and subsequently was 
 transferred to the Second Brigade of 
 that same division. Brigadier-general 
 James Rush Lincoln in command. 
 This brigade consisted of the 69th 
 New York, 3d Ohio, and 2d Cieorgia 
 regiments of volunteer infantry. 
 
 The camp was at what was known 
 as Palmetto Beach, about three miles 
 from Tampa, and near the beach. 
 Sanitarv conditions were abominable, 
 and during the latter part of his stay 
 here, after the rainy season had set in. 
 life was almost intolerable. 
 
 After the Protocol had been signed 
 and all hope of active service removed, 
 the patriotism of every volunteer offi- 
 cer was sorelv tried. 
 
 Early in July the Fourth .\rmy 
 Corps was ordered to Fernandina. 
 Florida. But twn regiments of his 
 brigade joined in this movement, the 
 2d Georgia being detached and ordered 
 to remain in Tampa. The camp at 
 Fernandina was laid otU about two 
 miles from the sea beach in sand almost 
 knee deep, infested with, it seemed, 
 every known insect, the air fever- 
 laden, the hospitals full and the duties 
 arduous and trying, in spite of a strong 
 fight against conditions Captain 
 Linccdn's health became so im])aired 
 that by order of General Lincoln, the 
 brigade commander, he was conveyed 
 to a small hotel t>n the beacli and 
 ])laced under the care i)f Hospital 
 Steward Wood of the 69th New York. 
 He was desperately ill. but a deter- 
 mined will and the excellent care of 
 \\'ood pulled him through, and after 
 four weeks he returned to (juarters. 
 
 .\fter five weeks at Fernandina the 
 third movement of the I'ourth Corps 
 was made, this time to Huntsville. 
 Ala., where the Third Division was 
 given a most beautiful location, and, 
 for the first time, the camp was a 
 com])aratively comforta1)le habitation. 
 
 The long siege with fever and dys- 
 entery had told severely on Cai)tain 
 Lincoln's strength, and at last, by the 
 advice of the surgeons, but much 
 against his wishes, he was sent home 
 on sick leave. Th;f 3d Ohio Regiment 
 had been mustered out and sent home, 
 and only the 69th Xew York remained. 
 so that the duties of Brigade Commis- 
 sary were minimized. He returned 
 from sick leave on Xovember 2d. soon 
 after the order had been issued reor- 
 ganizing the Fourth .Vrmy Corps, 
 and assigning Major-general Joseph 
 Wheeler to its command. Cai)tain Lin- 
 
144 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPAXISM WAR. 
 
 coin's new assignment was to the -First 
 Brigade, Second Division, Brigadier- 
 general Gilbert S. Carpenter command- 
 ing, and stationed at Anniston, Ala. 
 This brigade consisted of the 1st U.S. 
 Regular Infantry, the 4tli Kentuck}-, 
 \\ I., and the 3d Alabama, \'. I., and 
 tile ilivision was under the command 
 (jf Major-general Royal Frank. 
 
 Winter quarters were now estab- 
 lished and the division settled down to 
 routine duty. ( )n January ist, 1899. 
 
 tributing depot at Ouemados, nine 
 miles from Havana, the base of sup- 
 plies for the Seventh Army Corps, 
 Major-general Fitzhugh Lee, the 2d 
 X'olunteer Engineers and the beef 
 su])])l\- plant of Swift & Co. furnishing 
 fresh beef for Camp Columbia and the 
 troops in the city of Havana and its 
 suburbs. This was a most important 
 and responsiljle assignment. Aliout 
 13,000 troops were rationed from this 
 depi.it, and cash sales of stores to offi- 
 
 LAI'IAI.X WIXSI.OW 
 
 came this welcome order: "('.-iiitam 
 Winslow S. Lincoln. C. S. ['. S. \'., is 
 reHe\ed fi'om duly with the I'irst Bri- 
 gade, Second iJivision. b'ourth .\rmy 
 Corps, and will proceed \o Ha\'ana, 
 Cuba, and re|iorl lo Cidonel A. L. 
 Smith, Chief Commissar}- of the Ilivi- 
 sion of Cuba, for duly as assistant iu 
 his office." and on the \(Ah of tlie same 
 inoiilh he reached ll;i\ana and re- 
 ported in accordance with iliis order. 
 He was at once assigned to the dis- 
 
 cers and men ran froui $8000 to 
 $l2,oou per month. The beef contract 
 of the Swifts provided that transpor- 
 tation from tide water in the United 
 States to L'uba be furnished by the 
 War De])artment, and transports were 
 not at all times available. In conse- 
 (|uence of this arrangement the con- 
 tractors were unable to keep a supply 
 of refrigerated beef on hand, and it 
 liecame necessary to inirchase beef on 
 the hoof from the supply in the hands 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 145 
 
 of native o\vnors and tin- dealers frcnn 
 the "States" wlin hail invaded the 
 market. 
 
 Ca])tain I.inenln's knowleds^e <>f cat- 
 tle values made him a valuable officer 
 for this duty, and the Chief Commis- 
 sary. Colonel Smith, recognized this 
 at once and assigned him as beef 
 purchasing and inspection officer, and 
 as such he did good service for the <le- 
 partment. 
 
 Captain Lincoln was a strict disci- 
 plinarian, not only for those under his 
 orders, but for himself as well, and the 
 depot at Ouemados was a model one, 
 not alone in its arrangement, but in 
 the economy of its management. One 
 clerk, one commissarv sergeant, one 
 sales clerk and eight Cuban laborers 
 sufficed to perform the labors of its ad- 
 ministration, and that the work was 
 well done was attested by Major-gen- 
 eral John C. Breckenridge, Inspectoi; 
 General U. S. A., who pronounced the 
 depot an excellent one. 
 
 In March, 1899, came the general 
 order honorably discharging the vol- 
 unteer staff, and on April 10th Cap- 
 tain Lincoln left Cuba for h<ime via 
 the steamer "City of Llavana." to 
 Savannah. (Georgia. 
 
 After five days' quarantine cm I )e 
 Fuskie Island, Savannah Harbor, he 
 went north, homeward bcnmd. His 
 official connection with the I'nitod 
 States service terminated jiuic i.--l. 
 
 1899- 
 
 \\'hile his was not a serx'ice of bril- 
 liant achievement, it was one nf dtUy 
 well and faithfully done under condi- 
 tions of discouragement, and witii an 
 absence of that exhilarating intluence 
 which comes with active service in bat- 
 tle. It was a record Xo be proud of, 
 fremi the very fact that there were 
 none of the spectacular elements which 
 
 make such duty easy and light. It 
 may be said with all truth that his ser- 
 vices were held in high esteem by 
 every officer under win mi he served, 
 and the noljle traditions of the family 
 lost none of their lustre through him. 
 
 Captain Lincoln joined the IJght In- 
 fantry first in 1865, and served his en- 
 listment period in the ranks and was 
 duly mustered out; beginning June. 
 1875. he was Aide-de-camp, with rank 
 of Cajnain, for nearly a year: in Se])- 
 tember. 1876. he enlisted again, and 
 thence onward was rapidly promoted. 
 Through the various gradations he 
 was thoroughly drilled in the school of 
 the soldier, holding the important po- 
 sition of first sergeant, jjassed through 
 the lieiUenancies, and finally reached 
 the infantryman's .goal, the captaincv, 
 heading the Companv from Xovember 
 23. 1880, to October 3, 1883. For 
 this soldierly experience he had re- 
 ceived a boyhood's pre])aration in the 
 Highland Military Academy. 
 
 Possessed of a competence, having a 
 delightful home with wife and chil- 
 dren, maintaining one nf the finest es- 
 tates in Worcester, the Willow Farm 
 on Chandler Street, corner of May, 
 what reason was tltere for him to leave 
 sii much comfort for the rough life in 
 the field? The old French motto, 
 nohlcssc oNigc. found here a fitting aj)- 
 plication. Name and heredity would 
 not i:)ermit him to stay when others 
 were going, hence the commission, 
 the service, the impaired health, the 
 two invalid years at the dear old home, 
 and last of all the final muster out, 
 .May 3d, 1902. Though the bugle has 
 blown for him the last tattoi), his com- 
 rades and friends do not forget, and in 
 Light Infantry annals they write in 
 bright, large letters on their scroll of 
 fame the name of the latest Lincoln. 
 
146 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 AT PRESENT. 
 
 H<j\v WL'll thu khaki wt-arers have 
 borne their i)arts in the intervening 
 years may be gathered in the following 
 roster of names, residences and occu- 
 pations, as far as the same can be ob- 
 tained. Unless otherwise indicated in 
 the list, the state is Massachusetts and 
 the city Worcester : 
 
 Captain Frank L. Allen, contractor and 
 
 liuildcr. 
 Lieutenant Herbert H. Warren, dentist. 
 Sergeant Arthnr S. I.ongiey, bookkeeper. 
 Sergeant George W. Stebhins, custoilian. 
 
 Art Museum. 
 Sergeant George H. Hill, broker. 
 Sergeant Cbarles T. Fletcher, U. S. .'\. 
 Sergeant William E. Barton, business, Xew 
 
 York. N. V. 
 Sergeant J. Warren Holbrook, salesman. 
 Corporal Charles H. Colburn. foreman. 
 Corporal John L. Wilmot, trucking. 
 Corporal Charles H. Vauglian. Jr., carpenter 
 
 and builder, .Minneapolis. Minn. 
 Corporal Pclliam W. Lincohi, manager, .Man- 
 chester Depot. \'t. 
 Corporal Clifford T. HIdridge. bookkeeper. 
 Corporal George E. Rix, bookkeeper. 
 Cook August G. Biersdorf. chef, Boston. 
 Musician .Xurelius F. Wlieeler, dentist. 
 Musician Harry T. Chai)in. U. S. .\rmy. 
 
 Boston. 
 .Artificer Edward A. Stearns. Higliuay De- 
 
 I)artment. 
 Wagoner Fred. B. .\Iaynard, insurance Pitts- 
 field. 
 Privates: 
 Harry f-f . .Adams. V. S. .Army. 
 Ohiey T. .Aldricli, Fire Department. 
 John H. Allen, .salesman. St. Louis. Mo. 
 Lyman Bartletl. bookkeeper. 
 George H. Bejune, bookkeeper. 
 George E. Bennett. L'. S. .Army. 
 James F. Bradley, clerk, Boston. 
 Emory A. Briggs. electrician. Navy Yard. 
 
 Charlestown. 
 Irving A. Brigham. foreman, Westljoro. 
 Cliarles A. Browne, L'. S. .Army. 
 
 Claren ce E. Butler, salesman. 
 George C. Butler. U. S.-Army. 
 William H. Butler, with Natural Food Co.. 
 
 Niagara Falls. N. Y. 
 Fred .A. Clarkson. salesman. 
 Leonard E. Crooker, Fire Department: has 
 
 served in U. S. .Army. 
 Forrest E. Grossman, advertising agent New 
 
 York. N. Y. 
 Fred P. Dean, sign-painter, Ijut the most of 
 his time since the war has been given to 
 returning to America the Ixidies of de- 
 ceased soldiers. 
 William G. Dennis, clerk. 
 William W. Eddy. Buttrick Co., New York 
 
 N. Y. 
 George S. Farrow, salesman. 
 James H. Flynn, LT. S. Army. 
 Walter L Gage, bookkeeper. Boston. 
 O. J. W. Gleason. letter-carrier. 
 Louis B. Glixman. clerk and Ccmimon Council- 
 man. 
 Henry J. Greene, insurance. 
 Fred C. Hale, draughtsman, Norwich, Ct. 
 Ralph E. Henderson, machinist. 
 Willard J. Humes, court clerk, Grafton. 
 Roland Johnson, carpet-tinisher. 
 George T. Jones, bookkeeper. 
 Herbert W. Kincaid, manager, New York 
 
 N. Y. 
 Charles H. Knibbs, trucking. 
 Edward J. .Martin, shipper. 
 George Martin. U. S. .Army. 
 Waldo .A. Merrifield. shipper. 
 -Alonzo J. Pembleton. Fire Department. 
 James E. Pope, optician, Newark, N.J. 
 Burton A. Prince, foreman. 
 Winfield D. Rheutan, clerk, Richmond, Va. 
 Charles M. Sands, livery, .Montpelier, Vt.: 
 
 has been in U. S. Army. 
 Robert Taft. Police Department. 
 James H. Taylor, machinist. 
 James E. 1.. Todd, manufacturer. 
 Fred. J. Tucker, farmer, Rutland. 
 .Arthur T. Wintersgill. machinist. San Fran- 
 cisco, Cal. 
 Edwin D. Wooldridge. electrician. Lynn. 
 Emil Zaeder. lawyer. 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMl'ANY C. 
 
 147 
 
 Muster-in Roll of Company C. zd Rkchmknt of INFANlu^', Massa- 
 chusetts \'0LUNTEERS, IN THE SeRN'ICE OF THE I'nITED StATES, FOR Two 
 
 Years, from May io, i8g8, unless Sooner Discharged. 
 
 [Tlie data, in order, cover rank. name, age, liirtliplace and occupation.] 
 
 CAPTAIN. 
 
 AIM' I l-'ICI'.R 
 
 iM-ank L. Allen. 35, \V,,rccstcT, civil Ed.ly .\. Slcarns, 25, W. .rccsUT. black- 
 
 smith. 
 
 eng-ineer. 
 
 FIRST LIEUTEN.WT. 
 
 WAGO.NEU 
 
 .Vrtliur C. Kiiiir. 31. \\'orcestcr. mcr- I'rcil. !'.. Maynard. 22. Worcester, 
 chant. ' ' salesman. 
 
 SECOND LIEUTENANT. 
 
 Herbert H. Warren. 34. Clinton, 
 dentist. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 .\rthur S. Lonn-lcy, 26. Millbury, book- 
 keeper. 
 
 Cieorge ^^'. Stebbins, 2ij. Worcester, 
 engTa\er. 
 
 Cieorge H. Hill,* 30, Worcester, man- 
 ufacturer. 
 
 Charles T. Fletcher, 2-. Worcester, 
 draughtsman. 
 
 William K. ISarton, 24, \\'orcester, 
 publisher. 
 
 Joseph W. Holbrook, 24, liarre, sales- 
 man. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Charles H. Colburn. 26. Orono, Me., 
 envelope cutter. 
 
 John I.. Wilniot. 2;},. Boston, clerk. 
 
 "Charles .\. \aughan. Jr., 26, Worces- 
 ter, carpenter. 
 
 Pelham W. Lincoln. 23. Worcester, 
 salesman. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 .■\dams. Harry H.. 20, I.ndlow, \'t.. 
 
 florist. 
 Aldricli, ( )lney 1"., 23, Sutton, elec- 
 trician. 
 .Mien. l..bn II.. 22. I'anton, \'t., clerk, 
 llartletl, l.yman. 20, Worcester, clerk, 
 liejune, (leorge 11.. 20, Springfield, 
 
 bookkeeper, 
 liennett, Ceorge E., 2Ji. Worcester, 
 
 contractor. 
 I'liersdorf, Augustus (i.. 23, Coburg, 
 
 .Saxony, cook. 
 Bradley, James F., 25, I'tUnauL Conn., 
 
 bookkeeper. 
 Firiggs, F'.mory .\., 20, .\thol. clerk, 
 llrig'ham, Irving .\.. 2J. Westboro, 
 
 shoemaker. 
 Browne, Charles A.. 42. Xew I'.edford, 
 
 gasfitter. 
 I'.utler, Clarence E., 2y, Sanford, Me., 
 
 clerk, 
 I'.utler, Cicorge C, 18, Hartford, Conn., 
 
 machinist. 
 Butler, William H., 30, Providence, 
 
 R. I., accountant. 
 Clarkson, b^ed H.. 18. Worcester, en- 
 
 CliffonlT. Eldri.lge. 2,^. Worcester, choker, Leonard M.. 30, Shrewsbury, 
 
 clerk 
 George Rdninnd Kix, 28, Menijihis, 
 Tenn.. clerk. 
 
 MUSICIANS. 
 
 carpenter, 
 Crossman, Forrest E., 22. \\\)rcester, 
 
 theatrical. 
 Dean, Fred P., 40. Worcester, sign 
 |)ainter. 
 Aurelius F. Wheeler, 25, North Fen- Dennis, William G., 24, Worcester, 
 
 ton, N. Y.. dentist. ' salesman. 
 
 Harry T. Chapin. 23, Worcester, elec- Dowse, Robert H., 29, Sherborn, 
 trician. woodcarver. 
 
 *Owing to illness Sergeant Hill did not go with his company to Cuba, but was detailed lor 
 duty in the .■\djutant-generars Department, 4th Army Corps, rejoining the Infantry at Montauk. 
 
148 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Drury. Eug-ene F.. 2-. LeicL-ster, sales- Mcrrifield, Waldo A., 23, Worcester, 
 
 nian. bucikkeeper. 
 
 Eddy, William W.. 29. Fitchhuro-, re- T'einhleton, Alonzo J., 27, Bandalier, 
 
 porter. Mich., electrician. 
 
 Farrow. (ieort;e S.. 23, T.otsford Fort- I'itts, Royal H., 2},. Sudlmry, \'t., im- 
 age, X. r... clerk." dertaker. 
 
 Flvnn, Tames H., Jr.. 21. Sprin.i^itield. I'ope, James E., 26, Laconia, X. H., 
 
 laborer, " optician. 
 
 Gage, Walter 1., 21. Hyde I'ark, man- I'rince, P.urton A., 21, Worcester, 
 
 ufactiirer. student. 
 
 Gleason, Odiorne J. W.. 2(;, Holden, Kheulan, W infield D.. 21. Worcester, 
 
 letter carrier. clerk. 
 
 Glixman. Louis 1!.. 20. Rvissia, painter. Roberts. William 1).. 18, Statiord, 
 Greene, Henrv F, \<). Woodstock, Conn., salesman. 
 
 Conn., student. Stewart, Arthur 1)., 19, Grand Pre, 
 Hale, Fred C, 21, Xorth Dana, X^ S.. machinist. 
 
 draughtsman. Sands, Charles AF. 10. Parisville, X. Y., 
 Henderson. Ralph E.. 25, P.elfast, .Me., farmer. 
 
 machinist. ' Taft, Fredk. P., 30, Hingham, sales- 
 
 Humes, Willard F. ^5- Millbury, man. 
 
 lawyer. " Tal't. Robert. 22. Charlton, shoecutter. 
 
 bihnson, Roland, 26, Lancashire. Fng., Taylor, James IF, 32, Manchester, 
 
 finisher. N'- H., clerk, 
 
 lones, (Jeorge T.. 23. Worcester, clerk. Todd, James E. L.. 25, Turks Island, 
 kincaid, Herbert \V., 27, Lewiston, West Indies, salesman. 
 
 Me., salesman. Tucker, I'red ].. 24, .\uburn, farmer. 
 
 King, Joseph C. 2-^. Leicester, i^rinter. Wentworth. Harold 1'... 28, Worcester, 
 Knibbs, Charles IL, 10. Worcester, teacher. 
 
 manager. W heeler, James W.. 12. \\"eymouth, 
 Martin, p::dward 1., 24. Wilton, X. B., insurance. 
 
 clerk. Wintersgill, Artluir T., 20. W oixester, 
 Martin, (iecirtie. 21. Constantinople. machinist. 
 
 Turkey, clerk. W o, ijilridge, Edwin I )., 21, Cornwall, 
 Mayo. Silas 1.. 23. Fairfield, paper- I'^ng., clerk. 
 
 "hano-er. Zaeder. Fmil. 22. Worcester, lawyer. 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 149 
 
 CENTENNIAL ()E THE LIGHT INFAN'|-KV WITIT 
 HISTORY— JUNE 6, kx),!- 
 
 Not since Worcester celebrated its 
 hi-centennial has the city seen a more 
 enthusiastic occasion than that which 
 brought to an end the one hundred 
 years of the Light Infantry's existence. 
 For many a long day the event had 
 been talked over and hundreds of 
 members have regretted that their 
 active connection with the Com- 
 pany could not be at this particular 
 time. For a century young men have 
 practiced the drill peculiar to' their day 
 and generation : have had their taste of 
 camp life, possibly of real soldiering, 
 and then have taken their places in the 
 veteran ranks, to be thereafter recog- 
 nized as the "has beens"; valuable re- 
 serves, however, for times when num- 
 l)ers count and contributions are neces- 
 sar}' for the proper observance of cer- 
 tain days. 
 
 Such an occasion was that just past, 
 and it is safe to state that very few 
 men who ever wore the uniform of the 
 Light Infantry were not in hearty 
 symjiathy with each and every plan to 
 make the event memorable. Fully five 
 )'ears ago, the veteran organization 
 began to prejjare for the celebration, 
 and, when the time was ripe, was able 
 to turn over a considerable sum of 
 monev to the general fund. In addi- 
 tiiin, the citizens, who have a justifia- 
 ble ])ride in their oldest military com- 
 pany, were ready to lend a hand, so 
 that the bills, though heavy, were 
 readily met. 
 
 The cam]iaign, which liegan \\ ed- 
 nesday evening, June 3d, and termi- 
 nated early in the morning of the 7th, 
 though not so bloody, was quite as try- 
 ing as any ever passed through by the 
 Company. If the bD}s obtained any 
 sleep at all it was by snatches, and even 
 those they thought wasted. There was 
 •SO much to see, and so many things to 
 be done, that sleep, though so blessed 
 by Sancho Panza. was passed by till 
 some more convenient season. 
 
 The Company left Worcester for 
 Boston late in the afternoon of the 3d, 
 
 en route to Portland, to assist in the 
 observance of the same birthday by the 
 twin company of that city. Though 
 sleeping places were assigned on board 
 the steamer which conveyed them to 
 the lovely city on the Casco, such as- 
 signments were quite suiierfluous. The 
 best of weather pre\aileil. not a drop of 
 rain falling throughout the entire 
 l)eriod. though it began the very next 
 tia}' after. Even the fires and smoke of 
 Maine were not amiss, since they 
 served to cloud the otherwise burning 
 rays of the solstitial sun. Maine's chief 
 cit}- did her very best in entertaining 
 the buys in blue from the mother 
 .State, and no time was wasted. 
 
 It was a very generous thing for the 
 Portland bo\-s to do, \iz., to volunteer 
 to antici]5ate their own day and to yield 
 the auspicious 6th to the Massachu- 
 setts com])any. If old Governor Strong 
 a century since had only reflected on 
 the possible mi.x-ui) in the future, he 
 might have prevented the coincident 
 dates by holding one charter for just 
 twenty-four hours, but he did nothing 
 of the kind, and the dates of birth are 
 the same, and for all time the com- 
 panies are twins. 
 
 That special train home from Maine 
 bore a happy array of young men, all 
 intent on getting the most possible out 
 of the trip. Never was the old Latin 
 motto, ' Carpc dictn." or "Seize the 
 day," more literally obeyed ; indeed, 
 the bovs seized the night also. Their 
 arri\al in Worcester, though late, was 
 enthusiastic, and from L^nion Station 
 to the Hay State, red fire marked the 
 march of the returning and visiting cit- 
 izen soldiers. 
 
 Then when the 6th, the long ex- 
 I)ected, the dreamed-of day, dawned, 
 the city was agog to see her own boys 
 and those of other states. It is true 
 that a coincident circus may have added 
 to the throngs : it is pretty certain that 
 the mass of the people were out to see 
 their militia company and those who 
 
150 
 
 WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
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LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 151 
 
 were to parade with them. ()wing' to 
 faulty railroad connections, some of the 
 Connecticut soldiers were late, hence 
 the start from the Armory was a little 
 more than one hour late, but when the 
 lines did appear they were most heartily 
 greeted. While, on occasion, Worces- 
 ter has entertained more soldiers, she 
 never had on one day a greater variety. 
 In addition to the Light Infantry, in 
 their new uniforms, and their twin 
 brothers from Portland, were all of the 
 city's five organizations, with the 
 Fitchburg Fusiliers, the United Train 
 from Providence, a company from the 
 ist Heavy Artillery of Boston, and two 
 companies from Hartford, Conn. : and 
 what attention their bright uniforms 
 excited! There was the brilliant red 
 of the Governor's Foot Guard, along 
 with the white of the City Guards, that 
 followed close behind. 
 
 Somewhere along Main Street it 
 would seem that nearly every \\'orces- 
 ter citizen took a glance at the men 
 with the guns. By no means incon- 
 spicuous were the lads from the High- 
 land Military Academy with their natty 
 suits of gray. \\'hen at last the lines 
 returned to the Armory and there 
 stacked their rifles, preparatory to the 
 day's outing at the Lake, there were 
 few if any who were not glad that they 
 had had a chance to see just how lively 
 and reliable men could be on their one 
 hundredth birthday. 
 
 Over the variety and pleasures of the 
 day at Edgemere it is unnecessary to 
 linger, for when did youth and vigor 
 ever fail to find amusement in the pass- 
 ing hour? The games, jokes and songs, 
 will their memory ever fade? A sus- 
 picious hoarseness for days afterwards 
 told how zealously many tried to add 
 their voices to the general hilarity. 
 While the sttspension of electrical con- 
 nection delayed the return from the 
 Lake and compelled the soldiers to 
 march, their armless passage through 
 Front Street was not the least inter- 
 esting of the many episodes of that 
 eventful day. 
 
 Meanwhile, hungry hundreds were 
 waiting, with more or less patience, in 
 the vestibule of Washburn Hall, won- 
 dering where their uniformed compat- 
 
 riots were. Half past six p.m. extended 
 to some time past eight before the ar- 
 rival of the most imjiortant jiart of the 
 Company, and the lines were formed 
 for the hall above. Mechanics Hall has 
 seated many a gathering. l)ut never a 
 jollier one than that which filled every 
 seat, and some overflowed into Wash- 
 burn Hall below. Caterer Brigham has 
 no reason to apologize for the appetiz- 
 ing menu which claimed the time and 
 attention of every one till past nine 
 o'clock. The music of the bands, along 
 with the singing of all between 
 courses, made the time pass rapidly. 
 
 Finally, when Captain Rider indi- 
 cated a change from a feast of viands 
 to that of thought and reason, no one 
 would blame him if through his frame 
 there ran a thrill of pride atthehai)i)y 
 progress of the celebration. In a few 
 and fitting words he passed the further 
 exercises into the hands of James Lo- 
 gan. a veteran member of the Company. 
 It was a lucky day for the Infantry 
 when this same boy of Scottish birth 
 took into his head to play soldier for a 
 while, since to no single individual is 
 due more of the success of the observ- 
 ances than to him. He was only a clerk 
 in one of Worcester's business estab- 
 lishments when he first essayed his mil- 
 itary role, but he played his part well, 
 as he has every other one that he has 
 undertaken since. Whenever the boys 
 want something done they are likely to 
 turn to their veteran. Logan, who is 
 e\er ready, both to raise money and to 
 talk. He took both parts in the cen- 
 tennial play, and took them finely. His 
 introductions and his own response to 
 the toast. "The Ladies." were excellent. 
 
 It would be a pleasure to reproduce 
 every word spoken here, but it must 
 suflice to state that whether it was 
 Mavor Fletcher, Lieutenant-governor 
 Guild, or Alderman Chapman of Port- 
 land, all were enthusiastically received. 
 Si>ace. however, is found for the com- 
 ])reheiisive story of the Company as 
 told by Major Frederick G. Stiles, who, 
 bearing his weight of almost seventy- 
 eight years, with clear, ringing voice 
 recited' the tale of a century. He was 
 greeted with enthusiasm by his audi- 
 ence, which rose to receive him. every 
 
152 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 (jiie reflecting on the Providence which 
 liail preserved for this duty a man 
 who, more than sixty years ago, had 
 signed his first enlistment pa])er, had 
 won his golden laurel leaf in the ^^'ar 
 of the Rebellion, and now, the oldest 
 survi\-ing member of the Companv, 
 could tell its story in a manner tn in- 
 terest and delight e\-erv listener: 
 
 In the year 1803 there was but one 
 uniformed military company in the 
 town of Worcester, an artillerv com- 
 pany, founded and commanded by 
 Major William Treadwell (of Revo- 
 lutionary fame) in 1783. 
 
 But there were two companies of 
 State militia, that met once each year 
 for inspection and enrollment. No two 
 persons were dressed alike, and their 
 guns were of every conceivable pat- 
 tern and make, and their parades were 
 looked uijon as a burlesque bv the peo- 
 ple of the town. 
 
 So much for the military of this 
 Commonwealth previous to the form- 
 ation of the Company whose birth and 
 one hundredth anniversary we are here 
 to-night to celebrate. 
 
 It has been said that it was at the 
 suggestion of Rev. Dr. Aaron Bancroft, 
 the founder of the Second Parish 
 Church in Worcester, and who carried 
 a gun at Concord — and also at Bunker 
 Hill in 1795 (then a student at Harvard 
 College) — that an application was 
 made to the Legislature for a charter 
 to form an independent military in- 
 fantry com])an\- in the town of Wor- 
 cester. The peiitido f(ir the same was 
 written by Levi Lincoln, Jr. .and signed 
 by several leading citizens of the town, 
 and sent to the Adjutant-general of the 
 .State at lioston. And it is a singular 
 coincident that one hundred years ago 
 to-day permission was granted by the 
 Legislature of the Province of Massa- 
 chusetts for the formation of two in- 
 dependent military companies, one at 
 Portland, the other at Worcester; both 
 at that time being within the .State of 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 On June 6th, 1803, the charters were 
 signed by Caleb Strong, then (Governor 
 
 of the State. They were designated as 
 the Portland Light Infantry and the 
 ^^'orcester Light Infantry; both these 
 organizations are on active duty to- 
 day, with all the strength and vigor of 
 the first parade, but of those who made 
 u]i their rank and file not one remains. 
 
 The last survivor of the original 
 Wc)rcester Light Infantrv was Charles 
 Tappan. He was born in Northampton, 
 Mass., in 1784. He came to Worcester 
 as an apprentice to Dr. Isaiah Thomas, 
 and served his apprenticeship in the 
 office of the Massachusetts Spy. He 
 was one of the charter members of the 
 Worcester Light Infantry (in 1803), 
 and for ten years was identified with it. 
 
 In 1813 he removed to Portsmouth, 
 N. H., and soon after went with others 
 in the Swedish Iirig Margaretta to St. 
 John, N. B.. and filled her with British 
 godds, intending to take them to Bath, 
 
 James Logan. 
 
LTGIIT IXKAXTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 153 
 
 Me., to dispose of. All they liacl to 
 fear were American privateers, and they 
 hired Captain Samuel Blythe of H. B. 
 M. brig- Boxer to convey them to the 
 Kenneijec River. It was agreed that 
 when the}- were about to enter the 
 mouth of the river, two or three guns 
 should be fired over them, to have the 
 appearance of trying to stop them 
 should any idle people be looking on. 
 
 Lieutenant A\'illiam Burroughs of 
 the U. S. brig Enterprise lay in Port- 
 land Harbor, and hearing the guns, got 
 under way, and, as is well known, cap- 
 tured the Boxer after a severe engage- 
 ment which lasted forty minutes, in 
 which both commanders were killed, 
 and three days later, Sept. 8th (1813). 
 were buried at Portland in the same 
 grave with military honors. Tappan, 
 after disjiosing of the cargo of the 
 Margaretta, went to Boston, and after 
 a few years removed to Washington, 
 D, C, where, in 1874, he died, aged go 
 vears and 8 niuntlis, the last of the 
 
 Major F. G. Stiles. 
 
 original members of the Worcester 
 Light infantry. 
 
 l-"or one hundred years, the 6th day 
 of June when it did not fall upon Sun- 
 day, or when the com])anics were not 
 engaged in actual service, has been set 
 apart by hnth organizations to cele- 
 brate the anniversary of their birth. 
 .And it is most fitting that after the 
 la])se of one hundred years these twin 
 companies, the Portland and the Wor- 
 cester Light Infantry, should celebrate 
 their natal day together. 
 
 We are here for that purpose to- 
 night, to keep the record unbroken, 
 and give inspiration tn those who, in 
 the years to come, shall comprise their 
 nieiiibership. Lor we feel assured that 
 these Iwii organizations, that have sur- 
 mounted all obstacles for one hundred 
 years, are too deeply imbedded in the 
 hearts of the people of Portland and 
 \\'orcester to ever die out. Their ex- 
 istence must be perennial. 
 
 When the Worcester Light Infantry 
 was organized in the town of Worces- 
 ter in 1803, it was the aim of the citi- 
 zens tt) elevate to a higher standard 
 the militia of the State, to bring about 
 unifiirmity of idress, e(|uii)nient and 
 efficiency of discipline, and to establish 
 an iii(K-])endent x'olunteer militia. 
 
 This was accomplished, and soon 
 after a ritfe company and a cavalry one 
 were added to Worcester's military 
 force. These conmiands flourished 
 until a change in the laws in relation to 
 the militia was brought about by 
 ])ublic sentiment being adverse to the 
 expense (which was considered a use- 
 less one), and as a result, about 1834. a 
 majority of the State militia were dis- 
 banded i)y general orders. 
 
 But the Worcester Light Infantry 
 escaped annihilation, and held on 
 through all the opposition that was 
 lirought to bear upon it. .\nd it is a 
 matter of pride to us that to-day — with 
 a record of one hundred years behind it 
 — it stands among the first who in every 
 emergencv have entered the field of 
 active service whenever and wherever 
 the need came, and has been either as a 
 company or by representation in every 
 war of the L'nited States since its for- 
 mation. 
 
154 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 On Ausjust 4th, 1807. the Company, 
 under the command of Captain Enoch 
 Flag-g, voted its services at a moment's 
 notice to James Sulhvan, then Gov- 
 ernor of Massachusetts, l)ut were not 
 needed at that time. War with Eng- 
 land, however, was only postponed, 
 not averted, and on September 14th, 
 1814, the Worcester Light Infantry 
 was ordered by Governor Caleb Strong 
 to Boston to repel British invasion. 
 
 In 1846 the Company voted its ser- 
 vices to Governor George N. Briggs 
 for the Mexican W^ar, but the quota of 
 troops from Massachusetts being full, 
 it was not ordered to report. 
 
 On the evening of .\pril idth. 1861, 
 the members of the Worcester Light 
 Infantry had assembled for drill at 
 their Armory in Horticultural Hall, 
 when, between ten and ele\en o'clock. 
 Colonel John W. Wetherell of Gov- 
 ernor Andrew's staff appeared with 
 verbal orders (for Carptain Harrison W. 
 Pratt) calling out the Company for 
 active duty, and in report at the State 
 House. Boston, forthwith. 
 
 The order was received with cheers. 
 Absent members were notified, and in 
 six hours every member had assembled 
 for duty. It was the first company to 
 leave the city, and a part of the "Old 
 Sixth" Regiment, the first to leave the 
 State, and in passing through Balti- 
 more, Md.. April loth, 1861, on its way 
 tn WashingtMU, I). C. the first blood 
 (if the Ci\il W ar was shed. 
 
 Never can I forget the enthusiasm 
 of the ]jeoi)le of our cit}' when upon 
 Saturday, August 3, 1861. the Light 
 Infantry had returned to its home, 
 with honor untarnished, and the proud 
 assurance thai bad its response to i>ur 
 country's call been less ready, or the 
 arrival nf the 6th Regiment (of which 
 it formed a part) been delayed twelve 
 hours, the cajjital W(.iuld have been in 
 the hands (.)f the enemy. 
 
 Right well ilid the Comjxiny deserve 
 the royal welcome given it in behalf of 
 the city by its honored Mayor, Col. 
 Isaac Davis, who, at one time, was an 
 active member of the Worcester Light 
 Infantry, and always its friend. 
 
 After the return to Massachusetts 
 and muster-out of the "Old Sixth," 
 
 other companies were recruited by offi- 
 cers and privates of the Light Infantry 
 who had recei\eil commissions to raise 
 them : (;)ne comjiany for the 25th 
 Mass. \'ols. in 1861 : one company for 
 the 34th Regt.. 1861 : one company for 
 the 42d Regt. in 1862: one company 
 for the 51st Reg-t. in 1862; and one for 
 the 42(1 Regt. in 1864. 
 
 All these companies, until mustered 
 out bv expiration of term of service, 
 gave the Worcester Light Infantry a 
 record of furnishing more than 600 
 officers and men for the armies of the 
 LTnited States in the Civil War. 
 
 On May 3d, i8(j8, the entire State 
 militia of our cit}- was again called into 
 acti\-e service in the Spanish-American 
 War: the Emmet (iuards being as- 
 signed to the gth Regiment (after- 
 wards called the rd(jody Xinth), Bat- 
 ter\^ 1') for coast defenses, and the City 
 Guards, Wellington Rifles and Wor- 
 cester Light Infantry as a part of the 
 3(1 P.attalion, 2d Regiment, Mass. \'ol. 
 
 Levi Tha.xter. First Captain. Light Infantry. 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY 
 
 155 
 
 ^[ilitia. commanded by Major H. P.. 
 Fairbanks, a former captain of tbe 
 Worcester Lifjht Infantry. 
 
 The prosperity of the W'orcester 
 Light Infantry has depended npon not 
 onlv its founders, but upon every ofifi- 
 cer and member that has been enrolled 
 since its organization, but especially 
 upon the first three commissioned offi- 
 cers : Levi Thaxter. captain ; Enoch 
 Flagg, first lieutenant, and Levi Lin- 
 coln, ensign. These officers were all 
 living more than half a century after 
 the Company was formed. 
 
 Captain George F. Peck, who is with 
 us to-night, commanded the Company 
 in 1835, and sent invitations to these 
 officers to attend the fifty-second an- 
 niversary. Neither of them was able 
 to accept, but all sent acknowledg- 
 ment and regrets. 
 
 Ensign Levi Lincoln lived sixty-five 
 vears after the Comijanv was formed, 
 
 Captain V, L. Rider. 
 
 never losing his interest in it, but al- 
 ways having a word of cheer, and an 
 o|)en house, for all who comprised its 
 membership. 
 
 Ensign Lincoln had a nntalsle career. 
 He was Governor of the Common- 
 wealth nine years, from 1825 to 1834, 
 and it was his distinguished honor to 
 jjreside when. June i6th. 1825, the 
 Legislature received General Lafay- 
 ette, and also to represent the State on 
 the following' day, when the corner- 
 stone was laid of the monument on 
 Bunker Hill. He was six years in 
 Congress, collector of the port of Bos- 
 ton, President of the State Senate, and 
 in 1848 the first Mayor of our city. 
 .And the name of Lincoln has been on 
 the Company roll from its inception to 
 the present time. 
 
 Three brothers were enrolled in it: 
 Enoch Lincoln, who was afterwards 
 Governor of Maine; \\ illiani Lincoln, 
 the historian, and John W. Lincoln, 
 who commanded the Com])any from 
 1812 to 1816. during the last war with 
 I'.nglanil. He held several town offices, 
 and was high sheriff of the county. 
 
 William S. Lincoln, a son of Levi, 
 commanded the Company from 1832 
 to 1834. He was Colonel of the 34th 
 Regiment, Ma.ss. Vols., in the Civil 
 War, and was breveted general. 
 
 Daniel Waldo Lincoln, a brother of 
 William S., commanded the Company 
 from 1838 to 1841. He was Mayor of 
 our city in 1863 and '64. 
 
 .Another brother. George Lincoln. 
 was a memlier at one time, and after- 
 wards ranked as captain in the regular 
 army. He was killed at the Battle of 
 Bueiia ^'ista in Mexico while rallying 
 an Indiana regiment tiial had stam- 
 peded. His body was brought to Wor- 
 cester, and buried with military honors 
 bv the Worcester Light Infantry, who 
 volunteered for that duty. 
 
 William Lincoln, a son of William 
 S., was a member of the Company in 
 1861, and served with it in the Old 
 •Sixth Regiment. 
 
 Levi Lincoln, Jr.. also a son of Wil- 
 liam S.. commanded the Company from 
 T875 to 1877. 
 
 \Vinslow S. Lincoln, youngest son 
 of William S.. commanded the Com- 
 
156 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 ]iany frdin 1880 tn 1883. He served in 
 the Siianisli-American War of i8cjS as 
 a captain in the re.sfular army. He was 
 a member of our \'eteran Association, 
 and was with us two years ag'o at our 
 ninety-eighth anniversary. 
 
 Pelham W. Lincohi, a grandson of 
 Ensign Levi, is an active member to- 
 day, and served with the Company as 
 corporal in the campaign of 1898. 
 
 We are proud of the Lincoln record, 
 and doubt if it can be equaled by any 
 (jther military company where so many 
 members of one family, even to the 
 fourth generation, have been enrolled 
 in its ranks. 
 
 All told, there have been forty-fmir 
 commanders of the Worcester Light 
 Infantry from 1803 to the present 
 time, all but four of win mi I have |)er- 
 sonally known. 
 
 I well remember the Company in 
 my boyhood days. It was the banner 
 company then. It had one rival in the 
 Holden Grenadiers. The annual mus- 
 ter always ended with a sham battle, 
 and when the two comjianies were on 
 the same side they invariably carried 
 all before them; but when, as some- 
 times happened, they opposed each 
 other, it was actual war. 
 
 If time ])ermitted. many other 
 events in the history of the Comiiany 
 since my dav might be related, but it 
 needs no eulogy other than the record 
 it has made for itself in the jiast. and 
 is still making to-<la}-. as a military 
 organization. 
 
 All honor to thcjse who first nuule 
 u]) the rank and file of the Worcester 
 Light Infantry. .\nd to-night my 
 heart goes out to those members with 
 whom I was associated sixty and more 
 years ago. of whom but few are living, 
 'i'he nu-morv of the old days and the 
 friendships formed then ha\'e not 
 faded, but grown brighter with the 
 tlight of years. In this Inisy life of 
 ours where ordinarily one's own affairs 
 make n]i its circuit, is it ne>t well that 
 there are da_\s so imbedded in our 
 hearts, so marked by great events, 
 that they seem a part of ourselves? 
 .Such a line is the birthday of the Port- 
 land and the Worcester Light In- 
 fantrv. 
 
 "If stores of dry and learned love we gain. 
 We keep them in the memory of the brain; 
 Names, things and facts, whate'er we knowl- 
 edge call — 
 There is the common ledger for them all. 
 ,^nd images on this cold surface traced 
 Make slight impression and are soon effaced. 
 But we've a page, more glowing and more 
 
 bright, 
 On which our friendship and our love we 
 
 write; 
 That these may never from the soul depart, 
 We trust them to the metiiory of the heart — 
 There is no dinniiing, no effacement there; 
 Each new pulsation keeps the record clear, 
 Warm golden letters all the tablet fill. 
 Nor lose their lustre till the heart stands still."' 
 
 I'iRST Lieut. \- . .M. Clark. Jr. 
 
LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 
 
 157 
 
 Roster ok 
 Infantr\' 
 
 TENNIAL. 
 
 THE Worcester Liciit 
 AT the Company's Cen- 
 
 Captain, Phineas L. Rider. 
 First Lieut., Frederick M. Clark. Jr. 
 Second Lieut., Herbert H. Warren. 
 First Sergt., William Stevenson. 
 Q. M. Sergt., Lewis M. McCalliun. 
 Sergt., George W. Stebbins. 
 Sergt., James C. Stevenson. 
 Sergt., Frank .\. Springer. 
 Sergt.. Roland Johnson. 
 Corp., George S. Farrow. 
 Corp., Harry L. Hastings. 
 Corp.. Edward J. Martin. 
 Corp., Leonard W. Russell. 
 Corp., Howard K. Hobbs. 
 Corp., Charles .\. Peterson. 
 Musician, William L Whiting. 
 
 John !■ . Anderson. 
 Pcrcival R. Bowers, 
 Charles T. Buckman. 
 Harris M. Crandall. 
 Clarence T. Davis, 
 Frank E. Dodge, 
 Karl H. Dodge. 
 William C. Deacon, 
 George J. Dr.ihhle, 
 Henry .\. Falardoau. 
 Leo C. Falardeau, 
 Frank L. Fisher, 
 Leroy J. Flint. 
 George W. Grant. 
 Harrv H. Greene. 
 John Hall. 
 Fred'k A. Harford. 
 Mahlon E. Havener. 
 Melvin .\. Hcnson. 
 Walter R. Hewett. 
 Charles E. Holton. 
 John L Hoyt. 
 Gilbert S. Jackson. 
 
 Fred Kingilon, 
 Wni. H. McCormick, 
 Win, K. McKenzie, 
 .\rlhur S. Morse. 
 Charles E. Merrill, 
 (leorge W. Munger. 
 Wm. 1. Necdhani, 
 Kli F. Nichols, 
 (iiles S. Pease, 
 lulniund J. Power, 
 Herbert C. PiUnam, 
 Howard W. Robbins, 
 Robert I. Rose. 
 W in. H. Sampson, 
 Henri .A. Scott. 
 Koscoe H. Shedd, 
 Thomas S. Shedd, 
 Eugene 1.. Tinkhani. 
 .•\rtluir J. Wallace. 
 Ralph W. Ward, 
 James C. Whittle, 
 llenrv F.. Wheeler. 
 
 Second Lieut. H. IL Warren. 
 
168 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Captain Chaklks S. Holden. 
 
 First Liei't. Edward V>. I-'ish. 
 
 Second Lieut. Harry T. c;rav. 
 
 WELLIN-C.TO.N KIFI.KS I ( ).MM ISSIONED OFFICERS. 
 
LIGHT INFAXTRV, COMPANY C. 
 
 169 
 
 Worcester in the Spanish War. 
 
 WELLINGTON RIFLKS, COMPANY H, 2D RKGT., M.V.M. 
 
 ORCESTER'S third Com- 
 panv in the Second Regi- 
 ment was the WeHington 
 Rifles, scheduled as "H" in 
 the regimental list. In 1894, 
 owing to the disl.iandment 
 of certain organizations 
 elsewhere and the growth 
 of the city, it became evi- 
 dent that \\'orcester was en- 
 titled to one more company 
 of infantry. Receiving the 
 hearty approval of the militia officers 
 in Worcester, measures were taken to 
 realize the advantage thus offered. 
 The first move was made April 17th: 
 the next day recruiting began, and. on 
 the 24th, a roll of fifty-eight names was 
 submitted to the Mayor and Aldermen 
 for approval, and after receiving their 
 endorsement was, on the 25th, filed 
 with Governor F. T. Greenhalge. On 
 Sunday, the 29th of the month. Ed- 
 ward B. Fish, whose name headed the 
 list, was notified by the Adjutant-gen- 
 eral that all the petitioners should be 
 at the Armory for inspection the fol- 
 lowing evening. Colonel Fred. W . 
 Wellington, a member of the Govern- 
 or's staff, was the officer assigned to 
 the duty of examining the would-be 
 soldiers. His report being favorable, 
 company formation proceeded, and the 
 evening of May 2d saw its official be- 
 ginning, for then, in the presence of 
 ColoneY E. P. Clark and others, fifty- 
 six men were mustered into the ser- 
 vice of the Commonwealth. The same 
 evening officers were elected as fol- 
 lows: Captain. Charles E. Burbank : 
 First Lieutenant, Walter E. Hassam ; 
 Second Lieutenant, Wright S. Prior. 
 This was an excellent beginning, for 
 all these men had received more or less 
 
 military instruction, the Captain hav- 
 ing been one year at W' est Point, while 
 the lieutenants were graduates of Ver- 
 mont's Norwich Universitx-, a military 
 institution, whence .Admiral George 
 Dewev went to the Naval Academy at 
 Annapolis. Two days later came the 
 first drill of the Company. The organ- 
 ization was very near its fourth anni- 
 versary when the alarm of war added 
 zest to the hitherto peaceful career of 
 men who u]) to that time had experi- 
 enced nothing more severe than their 
 initiation into camp life at Framing- 
 ham. The name by which the Com- 
 IKinv is known is a tribute to (icneral 
 Fred. W. Wellington, long and favor- 
 alilv known for his services in the mili- 
 tia of .Massachusetts. 
 
 .\s with the other coni])anies, the 
 first meeting after the issuing of the 
 Governor's proclamation was at the 
 Armory on the evening of the 29th, 
 and it proved a crucial moment in the 
 lives of these young men. Soldiering 
 for jilay and soldiering for business 
 were so very different that an earnest 
 and vigorous presentation of the situa- 
 tion was made by several of the mem- 
 bers; particularly. Lieutenant Fish as- 
 sured them that they were entering on 
 no picnic excursion : this to contra- 
 dict an impression which in some way 
 had received credence that the affair 
 would result in a few months' sojourn 
 at Niantic or some other seaside lo- 
 cality, thus proving a red-letter holi- 
 day season, a prolonged outing, as it 
 were. The Armory itself was crowded 
 with a throng of visitors, all anxious 
 to further the cause or to satisfy a nat- 
 ural curiosity to see how the men en- 
 dured the ordeal. 
 
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 161 
 
 Captain Holdcn carK- pre iclainie(l his 
 desire to recruit men, nut "liovs," for 
 the exactions made demanded settled 
 convictions and firm determination. 
 Had the question been one of the Com- 
 pany's goinjj; as a whole, there would 
 have been no hanging- back, but the in- 
 dividual examination and the possible 
 rejection of man}' put a new \-iew n|)on 
 the entire matter. Out of a nuMuber- 
 ship of sixty, forty-one voted, two were 
 out of the city, and one was unac- 
 cotmted fur; the others were present 
 and did not vote, evidently requiring 
 more time for deliberation. Saturdav 
 and Sunday were busy days, particu- 
 larly the latter, for the Armory was a 
 market-place for patriotic young men 
 who desired to serve their countrv in 
 the field. They came in great num- 
 bers to talk the matter over, and many 
 of them enlisted. Moivday was an an- 
 niversary in a triple sense to Company 
 H. for not only was it "H's" birthday, 
 but it was that of Captain Holden,and 
 the anni\-ersary of his wedding-day as 
 well : yet so enrapt were all in the 
 passing trial, it was deemed best to 
 omit entirely all recognition of these 
 events. It was, however, a day of 
 preparation, for on the morrow there 
 was to be the transferral to Framing- 
 ham as the first step in the campaign. 
 
 It was under rainy skies that the 
 men gathered at the Armory on the 
 3d for their final assembly, and, with 
 their comrades of the otiier companies, 
 heard the words of prayer and farewell 
 by clergyman and Mayor. For an 
 hour Major Fairbanks had been put- 
 ting the recruits through a course of 
 facings and step which brought about 
 something of order in their march to 
 the station, for the majority of them 
 had come into the Company wholly 
 ignorant of the military art, having, 
 however, youth and patriotism, with- 
 out which good soldiers cannot be 
 made. In the formation of the line for 
 marching to the station, the "Welling- 
 tons" were second, being preceded by 
 Company A, the City Guards. 
 Wherever "A" and "C" went there 
 also marched "H," and the route of the 
 (hiards and the Light Infantry is 
 already in print. There was, how- 
 
 ever. In the individual his personal 
 part. Among the thousands who 
 thmnged the sidewalks some face, 
 some w. ird were for him alone. Till 
 that moment he had never realized the 
 real meaning of marching in luiiform. 
 with his feet keeping time to the music 
 so often heard before, but never sound- 
 ing as it did then. Sombre skies and 
 saddened strains were not calculated 
 to l)ring joy to his heart nor smiles to 
 his face. 
 
 Xor were the beholders an\- more 
 jubilant than the participants, for their 
 sons and brothers were in the ranks. 
 As the line files into Front Street from 
 .Main, after the review l)y the Mavor, 
 one mother, unable to longer control 
 luT feelings, rushes through the 
 crnw<ls of people standing bv and 
 grasping the liand of her boy ex- 
 claims: "(lod bless 3-ou and all the 
 boys," a prayer quite in keeping with 
 the wishes of every one. \\'hen the 
 companies were entering the station, 
 passing through the lines of the Grand 
 -Vrmy, a lady prayeil audibly, "May 
 the blessings of God rest upon you all 
 the time you are away from your 
 homes, and may He bring you back 
 safely to your friends and families." 
 Some inconsiderate persons tried to 
 stop her, but she still prayed on ; the 
 boys passed by her with uncovered 
 heads, and a fervent "amen" followed 
 the close of her petition. Such scenes 
 and words accompanied the soldiers 
 right up to and into the cars, and even 
 when seated therein, through an oi)en 
 window a mother passed her ten 
 months' old boy, that he might receive 
 his father's farewell kiss, and as the 
 latter passed the precious burden back 
 he exclaimed, "May God care for both 
 of you." Such scenes as these make 
 one wontler whether soldiering ought 
 not to be confined to those who have 
 not assumed the duties of husband and 
 father. 
 
 These men who took the train for 
 Framingham as would-be soldiers in 
 Company H were those whose names 
 follow, apparently in the order of 
 their signatures in the enlistment 
 book : 
 
162 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SI'AXISH WAR. 
 
 Captain. Charles S. Holden, 
 First Lieut., Edward B. Fish. 
 Second Lieut., Harry T. Gray, 
 First Sergt., Charles E. Monroe. 
 Sergeant, Harry C. Young, 
 Sergeant, Clarence E. Smith. 
 Sergeant, Dexter E. Brighani. 
 Sergeant, Fred. B. Jordan, 
 Corporal. Frank L. Vaughn, 
 Corporal, Marvin F. .\nies. 
 Corporal, Joseph L. King. 
 
 Harry C. Amell, 
 Herbert A. Coates. 
 Arthur \V. Gould. 
 Everett H. Green, 
 Charles M. Haye, 
 Fabian H. Hakanson, 
 Walter F. Hooker, 
 Louie S. Jones. 
 William H. King. 
 .Albert F. Love. 
 Harvey N. Mills. 
 Edgar H. Norton, 
 Fred W. Taft, 
 John C. Ware, 
 Leaver Whittaker. 
 Willard O. BacheL.r. 
 
 Dana A. Bryant. 
 Henry W. Mirick. 
 Chas. F. Parker, Jr. 
 Wm. S. Smith. Jr.. 
 Harry Walsh, 
 Charles Smith, 
 George Mills, 
 Walter G. Adams. 
 Albert B. Scott. 
 Archie L. Purinton, 
 Albert W. Pratt. 
 F. E. Colesworthy. 
 Joseph T. Lindsey, 
 Wilfred .\. Baudett. 
 .Albert E. Newton. 
 Charles J. Flint. 
 
 RKCRUITS. 
 
 Willis Gleason, 
 Wilson Allen, 
 Earle E. Clark. 
 Charles P. Hubbard. 
 Herbert J. McCutcheon, 
 Arthur F. Paradis, 
 G. Warren Hodgins, 
 Silas Undergrave, 
 Charles E. Loveioy, 
 Jeremiah W. King, 
 Alston D. Kimball, 
 Everett W. Lawrence. 
 Fred. R. llinckel, 
 Herbert E. Lego, 
 George .'\. Reed. 
 Harvev Randall. 
 
 Charles W. Sleeper. 
 William Green, 
 Franz H. Krebs. Jr., 
 William H. Stiles, 
 George L. Shedd. 
 Clarence E. Cook, 
 Harry H. Devlin. 
 Abel E. Whitaker, 
 Henry .•\. IMower, 
 Joseph S. Gendron. 
 C. W. Thompson. 
 William MacC. Bond. 
 Charles E. Buck. 
 Allie L. Farmer. 
 Frank M. Flill. 
 
 ( )l' the >e\ enly-fmir in number, 
 tliirt\-(nK' are recruits, while iu the 
 Couipauv jjroper marched fifteen nun 
 who were orig-uial charter member.s. 
 viz.. Captain Holden, Lieutenants Fish 
 anil ( Irav, Ser,Li\-;inls Minnie. Smith. 
 Voun.i;. Ilrigham. Jurdau and \ auL;hn. 
 Corjieirals Ames and jiise])h L. Ivin.L;". 
 Pri\ates I'tn-intcm. Jones. Hill and 
 Miiwer. 
 
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WELLINGTON KIKLES, cnMI'ANN' H, 
 
 1(53 
 
 Franiinqhani presented niily a cnn- 
 tinuation of the iinfa\-(iral)le weather 
 through which the inarch tn Cani|) 
 Dewey was made and where tent-life 
 began. It was a cohl greeting that the 
 lioys had. and their patriotic ini]nilses 
 had a severe wrench, but the}' proved 
 equal to the strain. \\'e(hies(Iay, the 
 4th, saw the arrival of the (;th Regi- 
 ment, including the Emmet Guards 
 from Worcester, and great quantities 
 of wood were brought into the caiu]) 
 for the purpose of building fires in the 
 several Company streets for the com- 
 fort of the men. Thus early were thev 
 introduced to real caiiipfires, about 
 which, up t(i that time, they had re- 
 ceived only the glowing impressions 
 from stories tt)ld by relatives who had 
 passed through the trying times dur- 
 ing the Rebellion, and in whose narra- 
 tions there were none of the shi\ers 
 which now coursed up and dn\\n the 
 spinal columns of these late recruits 
 to Uncle Sam's defenders. Thursday' 
 took Captain Holden to ^^"orcester for 
 recruits, since the medical examina- 
 tion had made sad havoc in the ranks 
 of the "Wellingtons," and general won- 
 derment set in over the unhealthy 
 state in which the\' had been doing 
 business up t(i the date of their fall- 
 ing uniler the observation of these 
 argus-eved surgeons. Xot (>nl\- re- 
 cruits but also men who had served a 
 long time were dropped, twenty-five in 
 all being thus rejected. 
 
 Evidently the government was not 
 intending to take on possible additions 
 to the pension rolls, if weeding out 
 weaklings could prevent. However, on 
 subsequent examinations many of the 
 men at first rejected were aece|iled. 
 Regular police duty starts this day, 
 the 8th Regiment arrives, and a rainy 
 evening renders the big camp-fire all 
 the more agreeable to those who seek 
 its consolations. The daily or nightly 
 fire in the Company streets became a 
 ])riiininent feature of camp life and, 
 naturallv, rivalrv arose as to wlm 
 should ha\e the highest pile and the 
 most brilliant flame. It was through 
 ambition in this direction that a lad in 
 another company fell from his tnwer- 
 ing cobpile of four-foot wood, and on 
 
 acenunt (if hi> conse(|uenl broken leg 
 tailed to accomiianx' his comrades to 
 Cid)a. 
 
 Till' first detail fur guard dul\' from 
 the "Wellingtons" comes on the 6tll, 
 and includes II. .A. Coates, C. M. Have, 
 I". H. Hakanson, A. W. Pratt, .A.. 'E. 
 Xewton and W. ( ). I'.achelor, the last 
 three being for brigade duty. The 
 number of men in the Company is 
 fifty-eight, and drills arc in evidence; 
 also the rain, which, like the ])oor. 
 Seems ever ]M-esent. The 6tli Regiment 
 ap]5ears in camp for the first time. 
 Queer items crop out at the examina- 
 tions and enlistments. When ( 1. W. 
 Hodgins was asked the name of his 
 nearest friend or that of the person to 
 be notified of his death or illness, he 
 replied that that was a very reasonable 
 (luestion, for he had no expectation of 
 returning. Of course light was made 
 nf his apprehensions, but the soldier's 
 premonitions were correct, since he 
 died (in his way home and his l)ody re- 
 cei\e(l ocean burial. The week ended 
 with the reception of twenty-two re- 
 cruits, of whom twenty ])assed the 
 ])hysical examination, so closelv had 
 the Captain looked over the arrav of 
 militant humanity in his cpiest for ad- 
 ditiiins 1(1 his ComiJany. 
 
 ."Sunday, the 8th, beheld the first re- 
 ligious services, these being held in the 
 mess-hall, and Chaplain Welhvood 
 preached. It was a cold, blustering 
 day, and e\ery one had a hard time to 
 maintain anvthing like bodily comfort, 
 Com])any K was the first to be mus- 
 tered into the United States service, 
 and the other companies are anxiously 
 awaiting their turn. Captain Holden 
 of the "Wellingtons" is ()fficer-of-the- 
 day. The 9th day of May was the 
 one (111 which, just in the edge of the 
 e\'ening, Com]5any H took the oath of 
 fidelity to the government, no one ac- 
 cepting Lieutenant Weaver's ])roft'ered 
 (ipportunity to step out, if he preferred 
 that course to taking the oljligations. 
 The bovs had tra\eled too far to back 
 (lut then. There is very little glamour 
 in this camp-fire, for, aside from the 
 bugles and a single drum corps, there 
 is no nnisic. .All the melo(lious ac- 
 com])animents of annual weeks in camp 
 
164 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE STAXISH WAR. 
 
 Cai'Tain Charles E. I!t-rrank. 
 First I.ihut. W. E. Hassam. Seconii Lieut. W. S. Prior. 
 
 I (l.M.MI.-^.SIO.XEl) (IFI'KEK.-^. COMI'W^' II. iSgj. 
 
 arc iiniilU-(l in this asscniblag'c for 
 at'tnal war. Therr are \isit.s from 
 frii'inls. aiul the iiieii tlicniSL'K'Cs ulitain 
 pas.Sfs liMim-. liiit, for the most part, 
 there is lit! K- In interfere wit1i drill and 
 guard dnt\. .\ u;in)c1 half inch df ice 
 greets the earl\- risers i m the loth, 
 rather a s<irr\ prelude to their early de- 
 ]iartnre for |-'loridian heat, and ( iov- 
 erno]- Wdlcott, with a portion of his 
 staff, visits the camp. As an offset to 
 the cold, the tent of Captain Pierce of 
 
 ( Ircenheld catches fire, through the ex- 
 plosion of a lamp, and for a time ex- 
 citement reigns, though no great dam- 
 age was done, except to the Captain's 
 mattress. A fire will always gather a 
 crowd in peace or war. The iith 
 liiings Worcester's .Mayor and a large 
 array of visitors from the Heart of the 
 Commonwealth. .\lso the day is sig- 
 nitieant in that government rations are 
 gi\-en out for the first time. To many, 
 the dav was memorable on account of 
 
WELLINGTON lUFLKS, CO.Ml'AW 
 
 i(ir> 
 
 certain li(|inM and niculinc i^ifts made 
 to tlu' (, nnii);ui\' 1)\' a llostun frirml. 
 liberal in f|uantity and quality. 'I'lu' 
 air is fnll of rumors of departinx'. ami 
 one exeeeding'ly nervous individual, "a 
 reg;ular holv jumper." one Cdniradc 
 calls him, actually fainted when he 
 learned that the regiment was ordered 
 away. It was in one of the waiting 
 evenings that a bright kid from South 
 Framingham made his appearance and 
 sang so melodiously that when the 
 hat was passed, he secured nearly 
 seven dollars from the generous listen- 
 ers. A light heart and a free hand 
 were ever soldierly characteristics. 
 
 The nth of May burned itself deep 
 into the minds of the men, for during 
 its hours they had seen the Governor of 
 the Commonwealth as the central fig- 
 ure in a hollow square, formed by the 
 regiment, whence he delivered to the 
 officers their respective commissions, 
 and gave to all the men a word of fare- 
 well. Always inspiring and impressive, 
 Roger Wolcott was never more so than 
 when he said "good bve" to the Second 
 Massachusetts Infantry, U. S. Vol- 
 unteers, for that is the name devoted 
 to the erstwhile Second M. V. M. It 
 is after 5 p.m. when the line of march 
 is taken for the station in South I'ra- 
 mingham, and every step of the short 
 trip is watched by thousands of spec- 
 tators. By the side of a smooth-faced 
 private of "H" Company marches a 
 middle-aged man wearing the bronze 
 button of the Grand .\rmy. He is the 
 father of the newly enlisted soldier. 
 and his heart is sore at the emergency 
 which takes his only child from him. 
 The proud young soldier had come 
 back to Worcester from a good situa- 
 tion in New York city, when the dec- 
 laration of war was heard, and almost 
 paralyzed his ]5arents by the statement 
 that he had come home to enlist. 
 ''Why, Allie," says the father, "we can't 
 let you go. You are all we have : you 
 know that your brother Frank is in 
 his grave, and it isn't fair to take all 
 that your mother and I have." But 
 to this the boy replies, "How many 
 times ha\'e you told me of your enlist- 
 ing when you were a boy of si.xteen 
 and vour mother was a widow. How 
 
 \(iu teased your mother till slu-. in her 
 loneliness, consented, and when \-ou 
 marched ;i\vay in the i,(nh Massachu- 
 setts X'ohmteers grandma walked all 
 the \va\- from camp to the station keep- 
 ing her eye on you only. Slie gave her 
 consent, and it is only fair for vou to 
 do the same now." "( )li. well." and the 
 reply is wrung from the father's heart, 
 "if you |)ui it that way 1 su])pose I 
 shall iKn'e to Consent." So .\llie en- 
 listed and his father is keeping step 
 with him to-day for the last time in 
 their lives, since, when next the\- meet 
 it will be in the fever-stricken wards of 
 Montauk. where the glazed eyes of the 
 dying boy hardly recognize the loving 
 father as he, in his agony, sees his only 
 son going out into the unknown, an- 
 other victim to the perils of war. But 
 to-day they heed very little the com- 
 ments of beholders, who cannot help 
 seeing the unusual sight, and the luncli 
 prepared by the mother in her WUr- 
 cesterhome is carried away b_\- her boy ; 
 and, as the section bearing the Com- 
 pany moves off, some one remarks a 
 soldier's hand extended from a car- 
 window and upon it a father's lips 
 linger as they ])ress a farewell kiss. 
 The lighted torch was thus passed 
 along. Everywhere the stories of deeds 
 in 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 the 
 Sound on their way to .New York, 
 where they find themselves at 8 o'clock 
 on the morning of the 13th. Many in 
 the party are getting eye-openers as 
 to the magnitude of the world and 
 the possibilities of sound, for steam 
 whistles salute them as they round into 
 the steamer's station. They are soon 
 transferred to the Saratoga, a steamer 
 said to have been the very last Amer- 
 ican craft to leave the harbor of Ha- 
 vana, and it is expected that the trip 
 southward will be made in her. not en- 
 tirely a pleasing ])rosi)ect. for the 
 depths of lier hold are not only hot. 
 they are filthy. However, there are good 
 times for some of the party, since Major 
 I-'airljanks is speedily taken away by 
 
166 
 
 WORCESTER 1\ THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Cati AiN W. !■'. Hassan!. 
 El RSI I.iECT. W. S. I'RioK. Second Lieut. E. B. Fish. 
 
 ( I ).M.MlSSIl)\l-:i) ( 1FI"ICI".KS. (il\ri',\X\' H. 1896. 
 
 bis jiaiHiits til lirt-akfast. ami I'aplaiii 
 Holilc-n. with I'rivati's J. W. and J. 1.. 
 Kiiiij. ari.- carrinl oti fcir a similar imr- 
 I)()sc 1)\' relatives ami ^cl)cii)lniatc-s. 
 When I.ientenant-cnlonel Shuniway 
 and twii of his captains went ashore, 
 thev weri- met by W. ( ). Cltiys, a (1. 
 ■A. R. man. whu in^i^ted 1 >n dining 
 them; ncir were the men ahuard the 
 tr;msp(irt whully ne!.,dected. fur the 
 crowds ashore in their enthusiasm 
 
 threw til them all sorts of fruit and. by 
 means of an impro\'ise<l trolley, man- 
 ,is;e(l t(i ven<l o\-er tlasks of fire-water, 
 thus enal:)lin,L;' thirsty soldiers to more 
 easily while away the hours. Water is 
 scarce, making other li(|uids all the 
 more acceptable. < )ne side of an epi- 
 Mide is told by "11" men with great 
 i;lee, to the eii'ect that in the afternoon 
 a man came near the Saratoga in a 
 riiwboat askmsj- f(ir Lietitenant ("ireen 
 
\vi:i.i.im;to.\ kiflks, comtaxv h. 
 
 16T 
 
 of the 71st Xew ^'ork, sayinij that he 
 had a package for him. To these rogu- 
 ish fellows it seemed nothing amiss 
 to proclaim themselves friends of the 
 Lieutenant and their willingness to de- 
 li\-er the package as directed. They 
 took good care of the package, which 
 abounded in the best of cigars and to- 
 bacco, but just how Lieutenant Green 
 regarded the ruse no chronicler has 
 told. At nightfall the transport moved 
 u]) the stream to the vicinity of the 
 statue of Liberty Enlightening the 
 \\'orUl and there awaited the morning. 
 There was no regret when it was 
 learned that the trip southward was to 
 lie continued by rail, and there was joy 
 instead of grief when from Jersey City, 
 in three sections, each man having a 
 seat to himself, the Second L'. S. Vol- 
 unteers starter for Dixie, leaving, it 
 is said, disconsolate two self-styled 
 Massachusetts girls, who proclaimed 
 their willingness to kiss the whole 
 regiment. Dur boys never knew how 
 it iiappened, but they steamed away, 
 leaving the 71st Xew York in their 
 cars, where they had been for a large 
 part of the day. The Secontl came to 
 the landing late, boarded the cars at 
 once and started. Again the last were 
 first. 
 
 As often hajipens when armies 
 move, there is lacking of food, and 
 stomachs are calling loudly long before 
 sandwiches and coffee appear, and one 
 clamorous fellow shouts : "Do they 
 think cigarettes and newspajiers proper 
 food for starving .soldiers?" The vei^- 
 satilitv of the men of the Second is evi- 
 dent in the pulling of an aching tooth 
 bv a dentist officer, the painting of a 
 It-tter box and the lettering of the car 
 by a private with deftness of brush. 
 The eyes of the soldiers are sealed as 
 they pass through historic scenes, and 
 it is earlv morning when their trains 
 draw into Washington and they have 
 a chance to stretch their legs and. 
 in the hardby troughs prepared for 
 watering stock, perform their ablu- 
 tions, an opportunity that they are not 
 slow to improve. It is a merry hour 
 for the boys and a busy one for huck- 
 sters of ail kinds, for these travelers 
 are hungrv; it is near breakfast time. 
 
 and if Yankee tricks are occasionally 
 ])la}ed on the people who have goods 
 to sell, it is simplv doing just as the 
 fathers did more than a generation 
 before. 
 
 Ever\' mile of the trip on the 15111 
 was over and through classic territory, 
 for from the Long Bridge in Washing- 
 ton till the night absori)ed them in the 
 Carolinas, they were passing over soil 
 on whicli soldiers of the Revolution 
 liail struggled and later ones of Re- 
 ])ellion days had fought for four years, 
 testing whether the reiniblic should 
 live. Fortunately folonel Clark. Lieu- 
 tenant-colonel .shumway and Major 
 \\'hi])ple had been participants in the 
 later war, and they were able and will- 
 ing to point out the interesting ]ioints 
 as the trains sped along. Xaturally 
 thev had most interested auditors 
 whenexer tliey chose to instruct. Still 
 it must be rememliered that these 
 voung men were not out on a strictly 
 historical excursion exce])t as they 
 were themselves makers of history, so 
 it must not be wondered at if the fun 
 and frnlic incident to the congregating 
 of sexeral hundred men with the 
 major ])an nf their lives before them 
 had their full course. For instance, 
 wlun a lieaw grade developed the fact 
 that the train was too much for one 
 engine and, through the doubling up 
 necessary, the .vl Ilattalion's train was 
 stalled for an hour, what more natural 
 than that the boys should go swim- 
 ming, particularly as the day was 
 warm and Old Potomac close at hand? 
 Then, was there ever a boy who could 
 forego the opportunity to make uncom- 
 fortable the fellow whom they caught 
 disrobed? In this case, though C, — r 
 did lint find his uniform on the banks 
 where he deposited it, he did find it 
 nicely preserved for him on the train, 
 while the "bare" show of which he 
 was the principal performer was ex- 
 tremely edifying to the beholders, and 
 when, later, the same active fellow had 
 a side-hill skirmish line all to hini.self, 
 he drew applause that was deafening. 
 
 The stops for engine needs were oc- 
 casions of great enjoyment to all the 
 men, who were on hand to greet the 
 ])opulace, which seemed able to rally 
 
lt)8 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SI'ANISII WAR. 
 
 in great miiiihcrs from the most 
 sparsely settleil regions, and, l)lack or 
 white, particularly if of the gentler 
 sex, they were the objects of cavalier 
 attention by the lads in blue. Flowers 
 of e\ery description were la\ished 
 U])cin the lioys. roses by the barrel 
 fiiund their wa\' im lioard the train, and 
 some of the soldiers for weeks after- 
 ward had their hands full answering 
 letters that came pouring in through 
 the souvenir hardtack which, bearing 
 their names and addresses, they had 
 given to the girls along the way. Again 
 these bovs of a later date were only 
 repeating what their fathers <lid nearly 
 forty years before. As the jnurney 
 progresses southward, the soldiers 
 note a gradual increase in temperature 
 and a decided lengthening nf the 
 snouts of swine, which everywhere in 
 the South a])parently run at large, till 
 they, with that sense of the fitness of 
 things characteristic of .Massachusetts 
 
 peo])le, denoniinate them "ant-eaters," 
 a name whose appropriateness no one 
 who has seen a southern "razor-back" 
 will i|uestion for one moment. Some 
 specimens were caught and taken 
 along, and it is on record that Ca])tain 
 n, of the "Wellingtons" ran down 
 one of the swiftest of the porcine 
 racers and carried him aboard, but his 
 tender 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 of 
 twelve summers, who in a graceful 
 manner ])rcsented the headtjuarters 
 officers with a beautiful bouquet of 
 flowers, with her best wishes for the 
 success of "the soldiers of Massachu- 
 setts." ( )utside there was a large dele- 
 gation of citizens carrying a flag and 
 making the welkin ring with cheers 
 for the ( )Id Bay State and the Second 
 Regiment. Howe\'er, the cheers of the 
 
 Sergt. C. II. Sii.irrc-11. Corp-,. (1. N. Jcppson, 
 
 Seruts. E. L. I'icrce. C. H. Claflin. C. H. Holden, 
 
 II. (. . ^■^llll^i, \\'. E. Earle. 
 
 C. E. Monroe. Samuel Slocomis, 
 
 H. T. Gray. 
 H. H. Ames. 
 
 NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. COMPANY H, 1896. 
 
\VI-;i,LI\GTO\ RIKI.ES, COMPANY H. 
 
 169 
 
 natives were not so much of tlic 
 "hurrah" variety as they were of tliat 
 old-fashioned rebel yell that many 
 a veteran recalls, and Colonels Clark 
 and Shumway were not slow to indi- 
 cate their recollection of times when 
 they heard it in combats fierce. One 
 tall, lank fellow with a big, gray 
 mustache and an imperial, giving an 
 expressive look, asked if any one there 
 had any remembrance of hearing that 
 sort of a cheer before. "I believe I 
 have," said Colonel Shumway, ''and if 
 I am not mistaken you are one of the 
 fellows we were looking for then." "I 
 think you speak the truth, friend." said 
 the ex-Johnny, '"and if my memory 
 serves me right I belie\-e we captured 
 you." And that is just what happened, 
 for Colonel Shumway was taken pris- 
 oner during the Civil War and was 
 locked up at Florence, not so very far 
 from wdiere this collociuy took place. 
 The younger men cheered heartilv as 
 the two veterans grasped hands across 
 the chasm which the events of the 
 Spanish ^^'ar were doing much to 
 close. 
 
 The verdaiicv of sharp Xew Eng- 
 landers i. e., a few of them, was well 
 exemplified when at one of the stations 
 Captain Holden secured five crisp, 
 new, unfolded one-dollar bills for his 
 fiver, which had proven too large for 
 use along the way. \\'hen he exhibited 
 them he was greeted with a simul- 
 taneous exclamation, "\\ here did you 
 get them?" and when he replied that 
 a fellow around the corner was giving 
 them away there was a hegira of im- 
 pecunious ■■^^'ellingtons" that well- 
 nigh empted the car. How much they 
 got when they found the "fellow" they 
 never told. It was while riding 
 through this land, not over-attractive 
 to northern eyes, that a. lady of south- 
 ern blood and uncertain age expatiated 
 on the beauties of the country and in 
 stilted terms wanted the young men to 
 note how "beautiful" e\'erything was, 
 a word wdiich caused the lads to think 
 that appreciation must have been left 
 out of their composition, or their 
 standard of beauty differed essentially 
 from that in \'ogue in the "Calinas." 
 
 Savannah. Georgia, dawn> ujiou the 
 lired travelers early on the i6th, and 
 one reliable chronicler records the sight 
 of an alligator eight feet long, and 
 there was no suspicion of alcoholic ex- 
 pansion about the writer either. The 
 day's experiences did not \ary es- 
 sentially from those of the i.Sih: more 
 jiigs were stolen, pies of nondescri]jt 
 \ariety were bought or appropriated, 
 and in a spirit of mischief certain 
 ])ranks were played wliich, under other 
 circumstances, would have brought 
 out some of the shooting-irons still 
 preserved in the fiery land. For in- 
 stance, in one place horses were un- 
 hitched from the vehicles, bells were 
 rung, and as one writer expressed it, 
 "The d — 1 was raised generally." 
 
 In another case, where the boys had 
 run oi¥ with two boxes of cigars and 
 the saloon-keeper complained. Major 
 Fairbanks settled for the damages, 
 unwilling that his command shouldlie 
 under the imputation of taking what 
 did not belong to it. Never was there 
 a better illustration of the truth of the 
 old maxim: "Satan finds i>lenty of 
 mischief for idle hands to do." 
 
 This journey southward of nearly 
 five davs' duration had its ending very 
 early on the 17th, when the train was 
 left on a siding at Lakeland, Florida. 
 The arrival was of no consequence to 
 the passengers till, after sunrise, there 
 came the march through dee]) sand to 
 the borders of Lake Morton, where 
 camp was pitched, the 3d liatlalion 
 finding itself at the left of the line. Ap- 
 ])arcntlv the place chosen w^as that used 
 for picnic occasions and was as good 
 as the entire region afforded. Evident- 
 Iv the troops had been sent to Florida, 
 that they might, in a measure, become 
 acclimatized before essaying the Cuban 
 campaign in the very height of sum- 
 mer's heat. The pine trees with their 
 trunks branchless for thirty or forty 
 feet, excited the admiration of the men, 
 and long streamers of moss pendant, 
 in no way lessened their appreciation. 
 While Captain Barrett of the Cjuards 
 is the first Ofificer-of-the-day, Lieuten- 
 ant Grav of the "Wellingtons" is the 
 
170 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 first ( )fficer-(if-the-g'uar(l in tlie new 
 cam]), to l)t.' known as Camp Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 Alen of the Second found the vicinity 
 considerably stirred up on account of a 
 shooting affair which had just ha]>- 
 pened. The loih I'. S. Cavah-} . a 
 colored organization, had arri\e(l the 
 <la\" l)ef<ire, and a member had asked 
 to be serx'ed with a drink of si xla-water 
 in the town. To this request came the 
 reply: "We lUin't sell anything to 
 
 learned by observation that the colored 
 troops were nut. on the whole, anv 
 worse citizens than the white and that 
 they were just as good customers. They 
 commenced to treat them accordingly."' 
 The nearly two weeks' stay in this 
 place was productive of improvement 
 in drill and, ab<i\e all. of that indefin- 
 al)le siiniething which distinguishes 
 woi'k from play, (in the i8th came 
 the first distribution of government 
 rations, and with the same came the 
 
 ( ). I-. Facerstrom. 
 F. .\I. Hill. 
 
 H. A. Mow !■ R. 
 
 W. I". Hooker. 
 !•'. II. Krebs. Jr. 
 
 damned niggers." \\'hereu])on the sol- 
 dier drew a pistol and in the alterca- 
 tion which followed an unoff'ending by- 
 stander was shot. .\t any other time 
 than when armed black men were in 
 the majority, there woidd ha\'e l)een a 
 lynching, but the conditions were not 
 favorable just there and then. Captain 
 r.igelow of the loth, himself a \\'est- 
 Pointer, conunenting on the affair, 
 says; "Little by little the people 
 
 natural cra\ing for the good things of 
 home, never so thomughly ap])reciated 
 as at this moment, all being certain 
 that on reaching home again there 
 would be ni> more complaints about 
 food and conking. We never know 
 h(i\\ we really look till others see us, 
 anil Hums' wish, expressed in verse: 
 
 "O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us 
 To see oursels as others see us!" 
 
WELT.INCTOX RIFI.ES, COMPANY II. 
 
 171 
 
 had a readv fultillm:nt in tlie case of 
 the Second, for Captain Kii^^elow of the 
 loth Cavalry writes: "We were 
 joined by the "ist New York and the 
 Second Massachusetts. Tlic men 
 looked, and doubtless were, ynunser 
 than the regulars. The}- were of light- 
 er weight, and comparatively pale look- 
 ing. Thev took hold of their drill with 
 a will, and I believe attained a high 
 degree of oroficiency in it, but the\- did 
 not seem to know or learn niuch alxait 
 laving out and taking care of a camp. 
 \Mien I rode through their camp I was 
 struck by the closeness of their tents 
 to one another, the company streets 
 seemed narrow, and the officers' tents 
 not far enough from the men's. In 
 every direction I saw old newspapers, 
 tin cans, cast-ofif clothing, and other 
 rubbish. It is hardly an exaggeration 
 to say that there was more dirt in one 
 of their cunipany tents than in mir 
 whole camp. 1 understand that the 
 commanding officers of thesi- regi- 
 ments were allowed to choose the sites 
 for their camps. If that was the case, 
 they might perhaps have done well to 
 have fixed their choice upon jjoints 
 close t(.) the camps of the regulars, 
 which would have served as object 
 lessons to them." 
 
 The foregoing criticism expresses 
 most excellently the great difference 
 between men to whom soldiering is bus- 
 iness and those to whom it comes as a 
 variation in their course of life. The 
 bovs of the Second were anxious to get 
 all they could in the way of drill, that 
 they might the better assail the Sjian- 
 iard, and they gave the least thought 
 possible to mere "slicking up," which, 
 at the best, the most of them had 
 always thought to be women's work. 
 However, there were observers who 
 said that our Massachusetts men ap- 
 proached nearest the regulars in their 
 drill and general proficiency, and Cap- 
 tain Arthur H. Lee. a representative 
 British officer, considered the men the 
 largest soldiers he had ever seen. It 
 is just possible, also, that Captain Bige- 
 low was not in the Second's camp 
 when he made his observations. The 
 boys themselves say that the comment 
 is unjust, so far as their regiment is 
 
 concerned, for their lives were made 
 weary tlirough the eternal "picking 
 up," ever in order. There was another 
 organization in his list. Then, too, 
 the Massachusetts lads say that the 
 regulars were not immactdate: their 
 camps were littereil. and their men, 
 too. often drunken. 
 
 As to comparisons bet ween branches 
 of the service and regiments from dif- 
 ferent states, the following, condensed 
 from observations of Richard I larding 
 Davis, will doubtless interest man}': 
 "The first two regiments of volunteers 
 to arrive at Lakeland, which lies an 
 hour's ride farther back from Tamjia, 
 were the 71st New York and the Sec- 
 ond Massachusetts. They made an 
 interesting contrast. The New York 
 men were city-bred; they had the 
 cockney's puzzled contempt for the 
 country. Their nerves had been edged 
 1>\ the incessant jangle of cable cars 
 and the rush and strain of elevated 
 trains. Their palates liad been fed on 
 Sunday papers and \N'all Street tick- 
 ers ; their joys were those of the roof- 
 garilens. Coney Islaml and the polo 
 grounds. The Massachusetts men, on 
 the other hand, were from the small 
 towns in the western half of Massa- 
 chusetts: they were farmers' sons and 
 salesiuen in country stores, some of 
 them were country lawyers, and many 
 of them worked in the mills. They 
 took to the trees and lakes contented- 
 ly; their nerves did not jerk and twitch 
 at the enforced waiting; they had not 
 been so highly fed with excitement as 
 the XewYorli boys: they did not miss 
 the rush and hurry of Broadway. Their 
 desires were curiously in character. 
 ( )ne of them wanted to see a stone 
 fence again "before he was sht>t.' and 
 another "wanted to drink water from 
 a well again out of a bucket.' He shut 
 his eves and sucked in his lips at the 
 recollection. The others all nodded 
 gravelv : they all knew they had drunk 
 i)Ut of wooden buckets. The Xew York 
 men knew nothing of stone walls. 
 Thev made jokes of their discomforts, 
 and added others from Weber and 
 iMclds. and their similes sliowed that 
 thev had worked, when at home, in the 
 law courts, the city hospitals and in 
 
172 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR 
 
 the clepartnicnt stores. They were 
 more nervous, restless and arg'umen- 
 tative than the Xew England men, and 
 they, at that distanee, held tlu' Span- 
 iard in fine contempt. TIka 'wnuldn't 
 do a thing' to him,' thev said. And 
 later they certainU- kept their word. 
 'J'he Massachusetts men were more 
 modest. 1 t(dd them that the New 
 York men were getting up athletic 
 sjiorts, ami running races between the 
 athletes of the different companies. 
 '( >h, well,' said ime of the .\e\v luig- 
 land men, 'when the\' find uul who is 
 their fastest runner, I'll challenge him 
 to run awa_\' from the first Spaniard we 
 
 for heans,' shouted a ^Massachusetts 
 warrior, "they don't gi\e }'ou enough 
 to fill a tablespoon.'" 
 
 In the definite arrangements for 
 cani]iing, H. A. Mower was put in as 
 conk, with AA'. H. \N'ood and W. G. 
 .\dams assistants, and, with the ex- 
 ce])tion of a lack of variety, the fare 
 was good; as one man wrote home 
 they had two pieces of bacon, a potato 
 and coft'ee for breakfast ; for dinner the 
 same, less the potato, while for sup- 
 per they had beans and coffee, al- 
 ways accompanied by all the hardtack 
 that an\- one cared for. By common 
 consent, l~irst .Sergeant Charles E. 
 
 I'iRST Lieut. ]-'ish. 
 
 C.^PT. HoLDEN. .Second Lieit. Okay. 
 
 vni:>R nrv. 
 
 see. I'll bet 1 beat him by a mile." It 
 is a good sign when a regiment makes 
 jokes at the ex|)enst' of its eoiu'age. It 
 is likely to l)e most uni)leasant when 
 the lighting begins, it seemed a fact 
 almost too good to be true that the 
 great complaint nf the Xew N'ork men 
 was the >upcr;diundaiuA- of beans 
 served out to them, ami thai the tirst 
 complaint of the sons i)f Massachusetts 
 was that they had not recei\(.-(l l)eans 
 enough, 'Ueausfor l.)reakfast, beans 
 for lunch. In-ans for dinner — t 'ell 1' 
 growleil the Xew Yorkers, '.Vnd as 
 
 Monrcic was made the weather re- 
 corder, and sometimes the mercury in 
 his lent rose prett_\- high, though he 
 finds no difficult}- in dining there with 
 the record of 107 degrees as he eats 
 his dinner. ( )ne (if the other sergeants 
 had great difficulty in getting enough 
 to satisfy his ajipetite, but once at least 
 he was com|ielled to cr}', "Hold, 
 euiiughl" oil the sixth helping of beef 
 and pdtatoes. 
 
 ( )u the 20th Sergeant F. E. \'aughn 
 was made regimental commissary ser- 
 geant. Nor were the boys in their 
 
WELLIXCTllX KIFLES, COMI'.WV IT. 
 
 173 
 
 Lakeland life forootten by the fulks at 
 home and. while nearly every one was 
 remembered, perhaps the most nota- 
 ble gifts were those sent down liy the 
 employees of the Barnard, Sumner & 
 Putnam Company to their old associ- 
 ates, Hakanson and Pratt. Tt was a 
 large receptacle filled with one hun- 
 dred pounds of canned goods in great 
 variety : tobacco in all its alluring 
 phases, and other things calculated to 
 remind the recipients of home and the 
 good old times. 
 
 It would be a sorry place that afford- 
 ed no diversion whatever, and Lake- 
 land is by no means destitute of ways 
 of whiling away the time, aside from 
 the drills which form a part of every- 
 day business. Baby alligators are 
 twenty-five cents each, and the boys 
 take particular pleasure in sending 
 them as presents to their homes, laugh- 
 ing to themselves as they fancy the ex- 
 pressions there wdien the ugly rep- 
 tiles arrive. Sergeant Young sent two 
 scaly fellows, seven inches long, to his 
 wife, and for some time they were on 
 exhibition in the window of Captain 
 Barrett's shoe store. One of them 
 lived nearly a year, and both of them, 
 after passing through the hands of the 
 taxidermist, are retained in the home of 
 Sergeant, now Captain, Young. Lieu- 
 tenant Grav cheered his folks at home 
 liy sending there a rattlesnake's skin, 
 seven feet long, and having fourteen 
 rattles. One boy in his letter home 
 complains of the number and variety 
 of bugs and all sorts of creeping things. 
 He says: "I had not been in camp an 
 hour before I had killed two scorpions ;" 
 and he is confident that when the old 
 home is again reached there will be 
 much less complaining than in the 
 former times. It was here that four 
 prominent Company H men acquired 
 the well-earned name of "Weary 
 \\'illies." Work for them had few at- 
 tractions. The "Wellingtons" are all 
 sociable and, in learning their surround- 
 ings, Ouilty, George C. Gilmore and 
 Reynolds called on a family which had 
 moved down from Xorth Carolina. The 
 father, now a staunch Union man, had 
 been a Confederate soldier. The boys 
 got a hearty welcome, including cake, 
 
 milk and whatever good things the 
 house afforded. The old-time Gray 
 and the later Blue harmoniously 
 blended. 
 
 In Company annals, it is worlliv of 
 mention that on the 26th came the 
 first dress parade, and <<n the 27th a 
 letter was received from James Logan 
 of \\'orcester containing a check for 
 $50, an act quite characteristic of that 
 liberal gentleman. This day also 
 there came from the \\'orcester Snjjply 
 Company a 4 x 5 camera, which, with 
 its set of 100 films, was placed in the 
 care and keeping of Sergeant Young 
 as the one best calculated to use it in 
 taking snap-shots on Company proceed- 
 ings. The 28th of Mav lirought a 
 check for $5 from City Clerk Towne of 
 Worcester, the same being some sort 
 of arrearage due the Comjiany. On 
 Sunday, the 29th, Cha])lain W'cllwood 
 c<)n<lucted religious services and sing- 
 ing was furnished by Captain Holden 
 of the "\\'ellingtons," Captain Allen, 
 Sergeant \\'\\l Barton and R. H. Pitts 
 of the Light Infantry. At the services 
 Colonel Clark improved the ojiportu- 
 nity to give his boys some excellent 
 a(l\ice. L;ite in the evening of the same 
 day the Colonel called his officers to- 
 gether for a conference. Five men 
 in "H" Companv were reported sick, 
 and one of them. J. L. Kin.g. did not 
 return 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 that 
 some of the supposed southern natives 
 are really from Connecticut. One ob- 
 serving youth wrote home that if he 
 were to characterize central Florida, 
 he would say it consisted in "niggers, 
 log cabins, hogs, swam])s and pine 
 trees." It was at Lakeland that the 
 great military question as to whether a 
 cow should be challenged by a senti- 
 nel arose. The guards had been duly 
 placed and the orders were to challenge 
 anything that attempted to pass, so 
 when a poor innocent bovine beast, in 
 pursuit of better fare, essayed to pass 
 the vigilant guard, he vociferously 
 challenged and only failed to fire at the 
 advancing animal through the oppor- 
 tune arrival of the corporal. To what 
 
174 
 
 WORCESTER IN' THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 FDl'R SCENES IN ];RE.\K1N(; CAMI'. LAKELAND. 
 
 extent the man was comnicnilalilc or 
 censurable, the annals dn ndt re\eal. 
 Of the senlinel himself, it mi.nht l)e 
 said that, when he was present, his 
 Company was nut without its llond, 
 and thai, later, as a reg-ular. he was 
 one of the men who accompanied 
 Funste)n on the meiiinraMe ad\-entin'e 
 resultin- m the c;iplure of .\,i;-ninaldo. 
 TIil; ritmors of dei)arlnre liore real 
 fruit on the 30th. for then the re\eille 
 sounded at threi- a.m., and breakfast 
 was eaten by the " \\ellin.L;lons" at four 
 o'clock, vet all this niidne haste did 
 not secure their l;i liiiL; before afternoon. 
 After taking- ij.iwn their tents there 
 was i)lenlv (if time tn diseiiss the i)rob- 
 abililies of this reL^imenl of infantry 
 beinii chaiiLjed into one of heavy ar- 
 tillerv. with wliicli the air for some 
 days' had been hea\y. Dame Unmor 
 never has so mnch to <lo. is ikact so 
 Inisy, as when a iiarcel of men in uni- 
 form find almost nothin.i;- to do. Had 
 some ingenious fellow sup't^ested in 
 
 {\\: mornin.u- that there was a possibil- 
 itv of the Second .Massachusetts being 
 eh;m.peil into cavalry for rapid service 
 in ('uba.it would ha\e de\A-lo]>ed into 
 an order from the War 1 )epavtment he- 
 fore iii-hl. The hot. moist atmos- 
 ]iliere was conduci\e to rajnd growth. 
 ( hi reaching Ybor City, the ])lacing(jf 
 the cam|i near that of a heavy artillery 
 ciri^anization ga\'e more weight to the 
 abo\e mentioned rumor. Meanwhile 
 regular infantry ilrills progressed as 
 u.snal. While not so well situated as 
 the Lakeland camp in the way of 
 .shade, thenew place had the advantage 
 of a line sujiplv of water, coming as it 
 did from a large spring near by, and 
 in great al)undance. The departure of 
 tin' regiment from f.akeland was made 
 not.alile bv the adoiuiou of resolutions 
 of respect by the citizens, and the go- 
 ing was amid the enthusiastic cheering 
 of thf i>eo]>le. The liay State boys 
 had made a good impression. 
 
 The se\ent\-se\ en men and l)oys 
 
WELLINGTON RIFLES. COMPANY II. 
 
 who made un the W elUnyton Rifles 
 were representatives of man} walks of 
 hfe and of several nationalities. There 
 were men whose ancestors came to 
 America in the Mayflower, who were 
 justly proud that later forbears fought 
 in the Revolution and whose immedi- 
 ate fathers were soldiers in the War of 
 the Rebellion. Others could go no 
 further back in American lineage than 
 their parents, who had come to this 
 land as a refuge from oppression in 
 their own countries. Indeed, some ni 
 these young soldiers were not born in 
 America. There were lads whose ex- 
 traction was ])urely Irish : several hail 
 the names and language that pro- 
 claimed a French origin. .\t least one 
 was a child of that far North which 
 had sent to these western shores th'> 
 first explorers, far before the day of 
 Columbus and his adventurous vessels, 
 and the only Italian in the regiment 
 hailed from Worcester and Company 
 H. So suspicious was every one at 
 the onset, the report gained credence 
 that De.Marco was a Spanish si)y who 
 as an American soldier was ])laying a 
 deep part for the enemy. Even Colonel 
 Clark admonished Captain Ilolden to 
 "watch him closely." The fellow coun- 
 tryman of .\merica's discoverer was 
 no spy ; cm the contrary he was a val- 
 uable member of the Compan\'. 
 
 There were just as man\' individ- 
 ualities as there were men in theCom- 
 ]}any. Thfiugh there might be a 
 marked similarity in protests and ajt- 
 l)roval. there were varieties in their ex- 
 ])ression and, as the days went by, the 
 wonderful versatility of the Yankee 
 soldier became apparent. These men 
 had come from the shop, the store, the 
 farm and the professions. Many were 
 skilled workmen. There Avere several 
 men who could have wired a house for 
 electric connections, could make any- 
 thing capable of manufacture from 
 wood, and others were salesmen of ap- 
 proved ability. One boy set himself 
 up as regimental barber and did a 
 thriving business in camp. His tariti 
 was not high — officers free and only J^ 
 cents per month for enlisted, men. In 
 Cuba it was a matterof pride with him 
 that he shaved CTcneral Ludlow one 
 
 day. and the officer, in his gratitude 
 for the gentle yet thorough manner 
 of his work. |)resented the soldier with 
 a Krag rifle witli all the appurte- 
 nances. DeMarco was inter])reter for 
 the regiment, his Italian serving to 
 make known the words of the Spanish 
 foe. There was a Boston lawyer who 
 had thrown up his briefs that he might 
 have a hand in what he considered a 
 righteous war. Lindsey was an ex- 
 pert cabinet-maker, though by trade 
 lie made patterns. He was the fabrica- 
 tor of the fielil desks that became great 
 conxenienccs in subsci|uent weeks. 
 The great majoritv of these soldiers 
 were wage-earners who had given up 
 their respecti\e occupations that they 
 might ha\e a [lart in what they deemed 
 a nation's eftori to right a great wrong. 
 Their pay was small comjiared to what 
 they had earned, but for a time they 
 were soldiers from choice, willing to 
 bear and endure if thereby they might 
 helji humanity. 
 
 The last day of the month saw an 
 acti\e lot of soldier lads getting their 
 new camp in shape and in ex])loring 
 their surroundings. The orbicular 
 oyster, which every one at some time 
 confronts, was undergoing a gradual 
 ojiening. June ist introduced the men 
 of the .Second to a real Fkjrida rain 
 storm, where three inches of water fell 
 in an hour. Soldiers waded around in 
 water and sand to their ankles, though 
 like ever}thing in that porous soil, all 
 traces of the storm soon disai)])eared. 
 The "Wellingtons" had to omit morn- 
 ing drill on account of a late l)reakfast. 
 and at this date no one seems to know 
 w hy the cook failed to get his ])ots and 
 kettles around on time. .\» afternoon 
 battalion drill had to l)e adjourned on 
 account of the rain. On the 2tl. there 
 were company and squad drills in the 
 forenoon, also the school of the sol- 
 dier, and at 4 p.m. came battalion drill. 
 From the hospital, men retm-n to duty. 
 The next day all were oliliged to re- 
 niain in camji. and drill advanced as 
 usual, said drill, in some men's esti- 
 mation, being the real end of a sol- 
 dier's life. The fourth day i)njught 
 the paymaster, and the boys got what 
 was coming to them, aljout fifteen dol- 
 
176 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 lars for each private, and how that 
 money burned in every man's pocket. 
 Passes were granted and French leave 
 was taken till at one time. lo p.m., 
 onlv seventeen men remained in 
 camp. It is hardly to be expected that 
 all of the pay was sent home : a more 
 reasonable conclusion is that a larg-e 
 part of it found its way into the tills 
 of Tampa traders, who would_ have 
 been glad to see pay-day come oftener. 
 Genei-al Nelson A. 'Miles, commander 
 of the U. S. A., rode into camp on 
 this day and gave fully ten minutes to 
 asking'questions as to the oultit of the 
 men, their condition, etc. < )ne of the 
 pleasant recollections of this camp 
 was the ajipearance, one superlatively 
 hot day, of "ISill" Rice, of the Guards, 
 having" in tow a wash-tub half full 
 of water, in wdiich sailed unrestrained 
 four or five half lemons, from which 
 he essaved to sell first-class "ade." He 
 was strong, if his drink wasn't, and 
 
 the scene itself was better than any 
 potable. It was from this camp also 
 that the Lieutenant, whose name is 
 suggestive of watery depths, with a 
 comrade of atpiatic proclivities, with- 
 drew and undertook a quiet swim in 
 a neighboring pool, but whose natural 
 modesty was terribly shocked at see- 
 ing a man and two women, all in con- 
 ditions iiatiiri'llc. likewise bathing 
 across the pontl. However, as the op- 
 posite parties seemed to be in mi way 
 disturbed at the presence of the 
 Yankees, and as the latter thought re- 
 treat no part of a true soldier's outfit, 
 all continued to swim in the most ami- 
 cable manner. Iiut Lieutenant • 
 
 never heard the last of his mermaid 
 ad^•enture. 
 
 ( )n the 5th. "H" Company had a 
 chance to do hea\y duty through be- 
 ing calleil out to help load certain 
 liieces of artillery ; this, too, though 
 
 J. T. LiNDSEY. 
 
 John D. .Allen. 
 
 t^oRPORAi- .\. F. Love. 
 
 H. .\. COATES. 
 
 H. C. .\mell. 
 
WKI.I.IXtn'dX RIFI.KS, CnMl'AW n. 
 
 177 
 
 it was Sinulax . hul the army kimws 
 very little (litTcrcncc in daxs. TIuto 
 was the celebration of mass for sol- 
 diers of the Catholic faith, but no other 
 service. Alonday there were com- 
 pany drills and the school, while Cap- 
 tain Holden finds time to send hume 
 a cheerful reminder in the shape nf a 
 small alli,y;ator. In the evenins;- came 
 orders to break camp, and at nine ]>.m. 
 tents were struck. tliouL;h there was 
 nothing to folk)\v but waiting. In the 
 evening cartridges had been gi\in out. 
 as though there were danger of an ir- 
 ruption of the enemy. Tuesdav, the 
 /th, sees the regiment at Tam])a Citv. 
 but still fated to wait, a condition to 
 which soldiers, sooner or later, have 
 to become used. There is no camp. 
 there is no transport ready, ancl no 
 hotel awaits tiredi mortality, hence rest 
 must be sought where it may be found. 
 Some find it on Mother Earth. Captain 
 Holden and Adjutant Hawkins enjoy 
 the hospitality of a lawyer friend, who 
 gives them the use of his yacht, which 
 lies hard by, and the Springfield luan, 
 with the reckless adandon bred of war, 
 wraps himself in the tablecloth be- 
 fore he lies down to pleasant dreams. 
 Two "Wellingtons" find themselves 
 close by a box of lemons as they seek 
 repose upon the dock, and if on the 8th 
 there is any suspicious prevalence of 
 this citric fruit among their fellow sol- 
 diers, it must have come from the af- 
 finity that the aforesaid box manifested 
 for those lying near it. Does any ©ne 
 know just why the 2d Massachusetts 
 was chosen with the 71st New York 
 for service in this campaign along with 
 the regulars ? Every one expected 
 that Roosevelt's regiment would go, 
 but our Bay State boys had no such 
 powerful sponsor. Perhaps the repu- 
 tation of the Old Sixth in the Rebel- 
 lion davs held over and the quota from 
 Massachusetts in this case was soonest 
 ready. However, after the affair was 
 all (Tver a soldier who was near Gen- 
 eral Joe Wheeler when the selection of 
 volunteer regiments was in hand says 
 he heard the (General say: "The 2d 
 Massachusetts is the finest and manli- 
 est regiment of volunteers ever seen, 
 and they shall go anyway." Be all 
 
 this as it may, ihey were chosen and 
 possibly the good opinion of the ex- 
 Confederate settled the question, and 
 the boys are glad to know that the gal- 
 lant officer thought so well of them. 
 
 Alter all, in spile of long waits, 
 things were really progressing, and 
 finally the Company finds itself on 
 the Concho, a vessel in no wa\- re- 
 markable for comeliness nor comfort. 
 IJetore lung, these patriotic young 
 men who had thought themselves un- 
 comfortable on land began to think 
 that almost any spot ashore would be 
 felicity itself compared to the crowded 
 condition of the transport, which al- 
 ready had aboard the 25th Colored In- 
 fantry and a portion of the 41I1. There 
 were stores to be loaded, and of this 
 work the Company did its part, and 
 they had a chance to study the ship- 
 ping by which they were surrounded. 
 The heat was intense: they had worked 
 hard, they had breakfasted early, l)ut 
 not till nearly 7 p.m. did thev get 
 anything in the way of food, save what 
 the>' could buy of the shij/s crew. 
 When rations did, come, though of the 
 same old canned beef, coffee and h.ird- 
 tack. they tasted good, for there is no 
 sauce like" downright hunger. The sun 
 sets blood red, and at nightfall the 
 boat nio\es out into the bay for an- 
 chorage, perhaps for greater certainty 
 of keeping the men on lioard. Some- 
 where between night and morning 
 came the alarm described in the story 
 of the other companies, and the "Wel- 
 lingtons" had to take their portion of 
 discomfort in the hold. In this hor- 
 ril)le plight the vessel returns to the 
 pier and men gasp for breath. All 
 night the search-light beams over the 
 bay. and glad are the soldiers when 
 morning dawns. There had been little 
 opportunity for washing for two days, 
 and some of these cleanly fellows were 
 anxitius for a chance to rid themselves 
 of superfluous Florida matter. One 
 innocent landsman, reared among the 
 hills of Worcester County, undertook 
 to free himself by the application of 
 sea water along with a plentiful use of 
 common hard soap. The trouble he 
 had in ridding himself of his sapona- 
 ceous coating, those can appreciate who 
 
178 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 have ever undertaken such a task. So 
 uncertain was everything wliile the 
 transports were receiving their loads, 
 many of the boys pkmged into the 
 "briny" for a cooling dip. ( )ne of 
 "H"s" sergeants was thus disporting 
 himself when, quite a way out, he saw 
 the Concho in motion. He had no lik- 
 ing for being left. It was a clear case 
 of "the other side." i. e., outside of 
 "Jordan." and the way he pawed the 
 waves was a cautii m, and ti i the intinitc 
 
 loth there is a distribution of Bibles 
 to such as need them, and on the nth 
 occurs the memorable inspection of 
 feet, not to see if they are webbed, but 
 for reasons never satisfactorily ren- 
 dered. One jocose fellow averred that 
 all who had corns or bunions had to 
 take salts, and those who had ingrow- 
 ing nails were put down for a dose of 
 quinine. Few escaped one or the other. 
 The 1 2th brought the transferral to 
 the l\nickerl)i)cker, a low. black craft 
 
 Skkot. C. K. Smith. . „ ,, 
 
 (Now First Lieut,) Imust Serct. C. K. iMonriie. 
 
 Artificer .\. I.. IV-rinton, 
 
 Sehgt. H. C. Young. 
 
 ( .\ow Captain.) 
 Sergt. F. L. \'aughn. 
 
 amusement of his comrades. Through 
 the indcscril)able filth n{ the -.Ik ire, he 
 swam up t<i the duck, only in see the 
 trans])ort (piietl_\- returning. Had he 
 taken time to examine the linal coating 
 imparted by the sea, he wnuld luue 
 found a little of everything. 
 
 Tlie next Iwn 'lays see little varia- 
 tion in tran^p(ln life, tin nigh on the 
 
 lieliinging to the Cromwell Line, run- 
 ning between New York and New Or- 
 leans, of possiblv 1800 tons burden, 
 built for passengers and freight. She 
 had recently been devoted to the carry- 
 ing of Italian laborers. The story of 
 her thirteen staterooms and other co- 
 incidences have already been stated, 
 and Private Dean of the Light In- 
 
\VELLI\C,T()\ UIFLES. ((IMI'AW II. 
 
 179 
 
 fantry adds a painted "13" to the sit^- 
 nificant array. The next day furni.shed 
 more work in the way of exchanging 
 stores, and the ist P>attahon of the 
 Second came on hoard. 
 
 Sxo\vr,.\LL. 
 
 Prohably there is no meml^er of the 
 Second who does not recall the coal 
 black face of "Snowljall."' who through 
 the vicissitudes of war had become a 
 ])opular member of the organization, 
 although his enlistment was bv no 
 means regular. The story as told in 
 the Boston Herald is as follows, though 
 the writer e\-id;eiitl\' drew consider- 
 ably on his imagination : "It was here 
 (Washington) the little black face of 
 'Snowball' appeared in his rags and 
 tatters and said to a member of Com- 
 pany H, 'Say, Ijoss, yo' doan wanter 
 tak' 'er small cullud boy to Cuba wid 
 yo', does yo"?' His large mouth and 
 black eyes won him a place in the ranks 
 of Company Jf, ;ind a nondescript uni- 
 form, furnishetl by popular sidiscrip- 
 tion. soon changed the tattered urchin 
 into a comical looking soldier. Snow- 
 ball did go to Cuba and stuck tt) the 
 Second through thick and thin, lead- 
 ing a checkered life. He had his good 
 traits as well as bad." 
 
 Ca])tain Holden says his introduc- 
 tidii to the regiment was when lhe_\' 
 were getting aboard the transport, and 
 attracted bv his wistful look and evi- 
 dent desire to go with the men. the 
 Captain exclaimed "jumj) on," and 
 jump he did, just as the gang i)lank 
 was drawn on. He had come from 
 Washington in company with a bat- 
 tery of artillery, but for some reason 
 his affections for the big guns had 
 cooled and he was quite fancy free 
 when he fixed his attentions on the 
 boys from Massachusetts, and there- 
 after there was no division of his re- 
 gard. He was as true, as he could be 
 to anything, to the soldiers from the 
 Bay State. He had a name reserved 
 for special occasions, viz.. James Den- 
 nis Sargent, but for ordinary occasions 
 he was just "Snowball," of course thus 
 yclept through the law of contraries. 
 He thought he was al)out sixteen vears 
 
 old. and that was doubtless verv near 
 the truth. His appearance was artlcss- 
 ness itself: he looked the very picture 
 of innocence, and his worse detractor 
 wnuid a\er that he ne\er stole any- 
 thing that was nailed down, but nature 
 made him with such a way of looking 
 out fnr himsi.-lf he seldom went hun- 
 
 gry, and il hi' wanted ;inylhiiig he hail 
 a remarkal)Ie manner of reaching for 
 it. He was as brave as Toussaint and 
 as tireless as Sisypinis. He was thor- 
 oughly immune, so far as any of the 
 Culjaii ailments were concerned, and 
 his cheerful face was a source of much 
 comfort to the boys themselves, 
 though his habits of appropriation and 
 other peculiarities sometimes drew 
 upon himself merited and condign 
 punishment. He came home with the 
 regiment, but by that time he had be- 
 come as much a child of the Second as 
 of the Company : he had his career 
 written up in many papers of the State, 
 and "Snowball" divided honors with 
 commissioned officers in his popular- 
 ity. Since those days he has sampled 
 reformatories and the regular army, 
 each, it is hoped, contriliuting to his 
 Sfood. 
 
ISO 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 II. M. MiRICK. 
 
 F. W. Taft. 
 
 John J. Moore. 
 
 The I4tli lia.s a pruniineiit place in 
 the liistcir\- (if the Company and Regi- 
 ment, for on this day, after assidnons 
 lal)or in getting suppHes aboard, after 
 just failing to crush the sides of a com- 
 panion steamer, and after many starts 
 an<l stops, at last the vessel moved 
 diiwn the bay and anchored near Eg- 
 ninnt Ke\-. Though the sea is wide as 
 compared with the space occupied by 
 ships, yet they manage to collide at 
 times, and some of the men have not 
 entirely gotten over laughing at the 
 evident fright of one of their field of- 
 ficers when there v.'as danger of coUi- 
 sicm with a nearby vessel, though it 
 must l)e remembered that John. Duke 
 of Marll:)orough, doughty soldier that 
 he was, woukl flee in terror from the 
 crv of a cat. It is barely possible that 
 our officer did not like deC]) water; he 
 was not a Baptist. 
 
 ( )f the scarcity of rations, of the sea- 
 sickness, drills, inspections, l)alhs and 
 the principal incidents of this expedi- 
 tion, the story has been told in the re- 
 citals of the "Ciuards" and the " Light 
 infanlry." though the ■'Wellingtons" 
 tell of the (juairelb among tlu' black 
 soldiers and of tlie commotion on the 
 17th. when the shi])'s crew dro\e over- 
 board, after a prolonged chase, a black 
 cat which some of the soldiers had 
 brought aboard as their mascot. As 
 long as superstition holds sway among 
 sailors, and it seems interminaiole, 
 there will be no tolerance among them 
 of a black cat. They may never have 
 heard of I'oe's story of the animal of 
 that color, nor yet have dwelt on the 
 Scriptural story of Jonah when betook 
 
 his romidabout way to Nineveh, yet 
 all the same to them black cats will 
 always be Jonahs. As to their coin- 
 pagiifliis lie "c'oyagc. the colored 25th 
 Regulars, the "Wellingtons" coidd not 
 say too much in their praise. Though 
 they gambled for high stakes and 
 sometimes quarreled fiercely among 
 themselves, they were the soul of 
 jioliteness to their wdiite comrades, 
 |)aragons of jiersonal neatness and 
 cleanliness, and so honest that the boys 
 of the Second had no fear of leaving 
 exposed their choicest possessions. 
 Nothing was ever disturbed. To the 
 eml of the trip it was a daily delight 
 to see the orderly sergeants of the 
 25th line up their men for roll-call and 
 to note the precision with which the 
 names were called, though there was 
 not a scrap of paper in sight. The Or- 
 derly had his names in his head. 
 
 As the trip advances iiial dc iiicr 
 lessens and an increascfl demand for 
 food is heard, and it is loud at times. 
 On the 1 8th a careful Yankee observes 
 that he sets his watch ahead one hour, 
 f(.)r again he is within the limits of the 
 seventy-fifth degree range, and Tampa 
 must have been just west of it. The 
 sight of land, with speculations as to 
 just what part of Cuba is seen, excites 
 the keenest interest, and when at last 
 the eastern end of the Island is rounded 
 and far-famed Santiago is neared. there 
 is as much desire to leave the vessel 
 as there was a week before to embark. 
 They hear the cannonading and, obe- 
 dient to orders, they stand out to sea 
 at nightfall, seeing on the 22d the land- 
 ing of a part of the regiment, all the 
 
WELLINCTOX RIFLES, COMPANY H. 
 
 ISl 
 
 time growing more and more lnmgr\- 
 and less and less resigned to the ])rlson 
 ship. During the last night aboard 
 there was a raid made on the vessel's 
 ice-box, and the officers of the ship 
 were vociferous in their expressions of 
 rage thereat. It was stated that every 
 man was to be searched as he went off, 
 but seemingly all this was forgotten 
 when the men finally disembarked, and 
 soldiers marched by red-handed: at 
 least, they bore off their plunder oi)en- 
 ly and no notice was taken of them. 
 Justice always did have a reputation 
 for blindness. Yet even at this late 
 date all cannot land, for Sergeant 
 Vaughn with Privates Jones and Shedd 
 are detailed to remain on board 
 and see to the proper care of the knap- 
 sacks, which are not carried oft', the 
 expectation being that the vessel woidd 
 move along the coast and render the 
 remainder of the cargo at another land- 
 ing, but weeks really passed before 
 the baggage was seen again. 
 
 The "Wellingtons" joined in the ac- 
 claim of all who beheld when, late on 
 the afternoon of the 22d. the Starry 
 Flag went up on Mount Lcisiltires, 
 west of the landing ]ilacc. It is ten 
 o'clock a.m. nf the 23d when the 
 "Wellingtons" reach land, and start at 
 once to catch up with those who have 
 gone before. The blue uniforms of the 
 men are left on the Knickerbocker, 
 along with their knapsacks, from whicii 
 they were to be ]5arted a number of 
 weeks, their garb during the actual 
 service on the Island consisting of the 
 
 brown canvas, not unlike the "but- 
 ternut" clothes worn liy the Confed- 
 erates in Rebellion days. Not onlv 
 was it more comfortable, it was also 
 almost an ideal color for assimilation 
 with the surroundings. With his usual 
 
 luck, r, d retained his blue clothes. 
 
 and was a marked man. 
 
 The planting of the American flag 
 on the summit of a liill to the eastward 
 of the landing has l)een imentioned 
 before. .\ condensed account of the 
 affair as given by a jiarticipant is not 
 amiss here. The story is told by Ed- 
 ward Marshall, corresixmdent of the 
 New York Journal, in his "ITistorv of 
 the Rough Riders" : 
 
 ■'Over at the right of Daicpiiri a 
 sugar-loaf mountain rose sheer a thou- 
 sand feet. It was called Mount Losil- 
 tires. t)n the very summit of this 
 i|ueerly shaped hill was a block-house. 
 Huring the morning bombardment, it 
 had been a shining mark, but appar- 
 ently had escaped unscathed. There 
 nc\or was a harder climb than tlio one 
 by which I reached the summit of 
 Mount Losiltires. Finally, however, I 
 reached the top. The sun was blister- 
 ing hot and the climb had exhausted 
 me. T sat down to get my wind. While 
 I was sitting there. Surgeon La Motte, 
 Color-sergeant Wright and Trumpeter 
 Piatt of the Rough Riders came up by 
 another and an easier route. They had 
 with them the flag whicii had been 
 ])resented to Captain McClintock's 
 troop by the ladies of Phoenix, Ari- 
 zona. It was a beautiful silk flag, and 
 
 CO.MPA.NY n IN THL TrEXCHES. 
 
 DeMarco and the Cuban. 
 
182 
 
 WDKCESTER IN THE SrANISII WAR. 
 
 it is now a flag" with a historv. A con- 
 sultation followed as to how to raise 
 the flag. There were no lanyards on the 
 weather-beaten pole left by the Sjian- 
 iards. Just at this moment a sailor 
 came climbing over the edge of the hill. 
 I have forgotten his name. I wish I 
 had it. The Rough Riders, after in- 
 vestigating the interior of the block- 
 house, fomid a ladder long enough to 
 reach up to the tiny cupola above the 
 structure. Wrijrht and Piatt had found 
 
 Rough Riders, staff and all, to the lit- 
 tle timfier which stuck from the peak 
 of the block-house. The little bay in 
 which the transports were anchored 
 lay like' a sheet of silver in front of us. 
 The ships looked like toy shijis from 
 our point of vantage, and our soldiers 
 looked like toy soldiers. The flag had 
 been waving in the breeze perhaps a 
 minute before these toy soldiers and 
 the niL-n nn those toy ships got sight 
 of it. And when they did, bedlam 
 
 C. M. 1'lM.l.ER. 
 ,[. 1'". Oil 1-TY. 
 
 GeORHF. C. (ilLMORF. 
 
 HeXTER illNER. 
 
 .\. E. Xewtox. 
 
 this ladder and prcsenlly l'l;itt ;i|)- 
 ])care<l on his knees i m llic hnl, sli|i- 
 ])ery tin mni. lie remained on his 
 knees not uKire than five conseculi\e 
 seconds. The roof was too steep and 
 I Matt came to grief with great rapidity. 
 Jl was here that the sailor came to dur 
 relief. Like a cat he crept out on the 
 slippery roof. .\ moment later he rose 
 and securely lashed the flag of the 
 
 Ijroke loose. E\'erv steam whistle on 
 the warships screamed its loudest, 
 every soldier in the invading thousands 
 }'elled his hciarsest, and the Cubans, 
 ]iroud lit the new Lee rifles which had 
 l)een distributed among them by the 
 navy, fired them off in greeting vol- 
 leys to the Red. White and Blue which 
 lluttered Ijrightly at the top of Mount 
 Losiltires." 
 
WELLINCITOX RIFLES, COMPANY II. 
 
 183 
 
 It was on 'this first day's march that 
 the soldiers discovered how delicious 
 were the contents of a green cocoanut. 
 \\'ith its muzzle nicely sliced off and 
 the interior stirred, each nut afforded 
 Tiectar fit for the gods. The mango 
 had been proclaimed harmful to Amer- 
 icans, but even while the admonition 
 was ringing in his ears. I! — d was seen 
 shaking the branches for his favorite 
 fruit, and strange to tell mangoes 
 didn't seem to harm him. Captain 
 Bigelow of the loth Cavalry pro- 
 claimed green limes as the choicest of 
 all Cuba's jiroducts in the fruit line, 
 and that he aimed to keep his knap- 
 sack well sup])lied with them all the 
 time he was there. Sergeant Monroe 
 had been detailed to remain behind 
 with a squad of men to look after cer- 
 tain belongings <if the Company, hence 
 he was able to see the country for him- 
 self and at his own pace, as he writes 
 to his mother weeks afterwards, .\fter 
 a march of about five miles he and his 
 party went into camp near the ist U. 
 S. Cavalry, though a short quarter of 
 a mile farther would have taken tluni 
 to their own regiment, but they did 
 nut kiidw this till the ne.xt morning. 
 "The first day we went through cocoa- 
 nut groves and we had milk and nuts 
 to burn." All the bovs had their first 
 night of getting acquainted with land- 
 crabs, and so disturbing an element 
 were they that many found very little 
 sleep. The hmches of that first day 
 were made almost luxurious bv the re- 
 
 CuBANS Taking '1'heir Ease. 
 
 suits of the icebo.x-raid of the night 
 before, and it was a good thing to get 
 these comforts when possible, for 
 there were straits of hunger before 
 them. 
 
 The morning of Friday, the 24th, 
 was utilized by the "boys" in finding 
 out just where tliey were, in beholding 
 the landing of the cavalry horses, in 
 delightful bathing in the ocean, and in 
 getting their share of enjoyment from 
 the wine so thoughtfully left l)y the 
 enemy. Perhaps to their unacclima- 
 tized systems the latter find had I)et- 
 ter remained unfound. I'rixate Mower, 
 that he might the more easily hasten 
 his mission, wore down to the landing 
 Lieutenant Fish's coat, with its straps. 
 Evidently he made the most of his op- 
 l)ortunity, for it was not long before 
 some of the regulars were making in- 
 (|uiries about "Fieutenant" Mower. 
 Clothing that had been worn during 
 the voyage had a little wash and each 
 lad had to set up his own cooksho]). 
 I'onr (lays' rations were given out, and, 
 had the men been more experienced, 
 they had combined to get more com- 
 fort from them than they really did. 
 W hen the alarm for Las Guasimas 
 hglu called them from llieir bivouac. 
 the\- marched away carrying their 
 l)rovisions in all sorts of ways. Pri- 
 vate TTodgins had the most of his 
 hardtack strung on a string, and the 
 streamer of 'tack was suspended from 
 his bavonet as he threaded the Cuban 
 mazes. Private Gleason. very likely 
 with nianv others as well, carried his 
 gallon can of tomatoes under his arm 
 until, w(iiiried of the task, he was 
 obhged to throw it away. With no 
 bail for holding, the can was not de- 
 signed for transportation thus, and the 
 absurditv of the plan should have oc- 
 curred to the authorities who origi- 
 nated the idea. .-Ks a s])ecific for too 
 much bacon or salt pork tlic fresh 
 ration of canned tomatoes was excel- 
 lent, init the application of the provi- 
 sion, that was quite another matter. 
 .\'or was it food for the stomach alone 
 tiiat .some of the boys carried. Brain 
 sustainers also were borne. It was 
 here that Gendron indicated liis liter- 
 arv i)romptings by sweating under the 
 
184 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 bunk-n uf a hit;- Spanish dictiunaiA' 
 which lie had found in Sihonex'. He 
 aimed to make his Spanish first-class. 
 
 .\s to the merits or demerits of the 
 eng^agement at Las Guasimas on Fri- 
 day, the 24th. it is no ])art of this story 
 to dilate. War critics are yet wrans:;- 
 ling as to who ordered the attack. l)ul 
 all that is definitely known is that the 
 Rough Riders, with certain ])ortinnsoi 
 regular troops, suffered severely in 
 trying to dri\-e the enem\- from his 
 
 of their time, when the' "assembly" 
 called the men to action. The alacritv 
 with which the negro soldiers grabbed 
 their clothes and rushed naked from 
 the bath to their camps will ever be re- 
 membered by those who saw the move- 
 ment, and the same call, sounded by 
 Randall of the "Wellingtons," pro- 
 duced a similar though perhaps not so 
 immediate an efl:ect. Of what the 
 Company saw and did, let the men 
 tliemselves discourse. Allie Kimball. 
 
 .\. D. K IM ItAI.L. 
 Georgf L. Sh tDD. 
 
 C. E. C-noK. 
 
 M. W . .\lAtXlVtN. 
 .SerGT. n. E. ItRIGHAM. 
 
 position on what (iencral Wheeler 
 chose to consider ihe road tow.ird .San- 
 tiago. The Second Massachusetts hap- 
 pened to be near, and with others went 
 to the rescue. It was well towards the 
 middle of the afternoon when the hur- 
 ried arriwil of a nies.senger from the 
 fight foinid the soldiers in all sorts of 
 occu])ations. They were bathing, cook- 
 ing, washing, and making the best 
 
 writing on the 29th, says: "You can 
 bet we had a good, heavy load (refer- 
 ring to the burdens each man had to 
 carr_\- ) : it was a very pleasant march 
 at first. By the way, the country 
 through wdiich we lune had to march 
 has been fine. It is rather hilly, but 
 there is ]dent\- of shade and fairly good 
 walking. We p.as.sed the 1st and loth 
 (.'a\alr\- as the\ were holding burial 
 
WELUXCTfiX KIFLES,- C■OMI'A^"^■ H. 
 
 185 
 
 services. Did mit hear exactly Imw 
 many were killed. As it hej^an to get 
 dark we heard that the Spaniards were 
 behind us. so we had to put in and 
 march through the dark and the wnrst 
 part of the road. It was rather tough 
 work. We reached our camp aliout 
 nine p.m. and pitched tents. I was 
 detailed on guard duty from two a.m. 
 to five. It was rather hard wnrk after 
 that march." 
 
 Xo pen has \-et done adecpiate justice 
 to the filthy condition of the canijiing 
 places where Cubans or Spaniards had 
 lieen. Nor would it be proper to 
 lirint the same were it written. The 
 inborn sense of neatness characteris- 
 tic of the Yankee was constantlv of- 
 fended beyond all description. Evi- 
 dentlv the natives had not the slight- 
 est notion of sanitation. The Ameri- 
 can went to Cuba none too soon. 
 While snakes were not common in 
 Cuba. Sergeants Young and \'aughn 
 aver that an immense black one went 
 through their tent, while lying here, 
 and from his speed they fancy he may 
 be going yet. 
 
 The arniy is in the enemv's count r\- 
 and long snells in the same camp are 
 not to lie the rule. It is perhaps eight 
 o'clock a.m. <in Saturday when the 
 lines are formed again and the\' march 
 about two miles toward the mirth. 
 There are manv waits, everytliing 
 bearing the appearance of a cautious 
 feeling of the vvav through a strange 
 land. ' It is onlv on the third attempt 
 
 AzeTTE Hunting for Land Crabs and Tarantulas. 
 
 that camp is finally pitched. Here a 
 halt is made over Sunday and the 
 weary travelers have a genuine and 
 needed rest, though a most vigilant 
 (lutlonk is had for the foe. supposed to 
 lie lurking somewhere in the vicinity. 
 
 I'A-en in war, luan's liking for pets 
 has illustrations. Thus early Captain 
 llohlen won the undivided affections 
 111' an owl and. perched near liy on a 
 convenient bough, this bird of wisdom 
 blinked on the Company proceedings. 
 F.\en •' Snowball" fnrliore stealing 
 him, but his nightly and thus un- 
 timelv screechings luade it necessary 
 to banish what luight have become an 
 owlish "Old .\be." \'igilance on the 
 ]iart of officers as to the habits of their 
 men is always commendable, and the 
 
 care that Major . not the one from 
 
 \\'orcestcr. manifested lest G p 
 
 should htn-t himself bv drinking his 
 caiUeeii of wine obtained in Siboney, 
 was truly noble. He evidently felt 
 that if it all found lodgment in his 
 own stomach, one private at least 
 would be safe from the hosi)ital. Thus 
 was total abstinence for the other fel- 
 low enforced. 
 
 Monday, the 27th, sees a fresh start 
 of the Second, though it is not a very 
 long one. The bugle rouses the men 
 at 4.,^o and a cpiickly i)re])ared break- 
 fast is eaten, so that they are ready for 
 the advance long before the order 
 comes. After all, the march is not 
 longer than two or three miles and 
 once more a halt is made for caiuping. 
 The regiment is encaiuped here till the 
 afternoon of Thursday, the last day of 
 lune. On the 28th they were wet down 
 with showers, and rations are becom- 
 ing scarce, though in the evening small 
 ones of bacon and beans arc issued. 
 Perhaps it was here that Corporal 
 Scott won fame for himself through 
 the accuracy of his division of bacon 
 to be given out to his mess. .As he and 
 nearlv all other men in the Company 
 had concluded to allow their hair to 
 grow on face as well as head, he had 
 no immediate use for his razor, and the 
 latter sharp tool he called into use as 
 he ecpiably and justly sliced up the 
 scantv portion which had to suffice for 
 him and all his messmen. Company 
 
186 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 H's only representati\-c of the Legis- 
 lature made a doleful outcry because 
 one of his "tack had been bereft of a 
 corner. The strait was suggestive of 
 '"Give me three grains of corn" in the 
 Irish famine of 1846. The camp is 
 only six miles or thereabouts from 
 Santiago, and all sorts of suppositions 
 fill the minds of the men as they 
 linger, concerning when and how thev 
 are to attack the Spaniard. It is on 
 this day that Sergeant Jordan is ap- 
 pointed Chief of Pioneers and gets his 
 
 gi\en out t(:> the men. On this day 
 notice is given that mail will be sent 
 home to Massachusetts, and as one 
 writer remarks, 'T have only three 
 minutes in which to write and you 
 must excuse some things." In the same 
 letter he complains of a lack of en- 
 velopes and asks to have some sent 
 him ; also states that through this lack- 
 ing he can write to his home only. 
 The writer is never a complainer, for 
 he sa}s, "I am feeling fine and am en- 
 joying the trip." 
 
 C. W. TnoM [*.S().\. 
 
 I.. W'll I I I AK fck. 
 
 JoH.N C. Ware. 
 
 Charles J. Flint. 
 William II. King. 
 
 orders fnun ('■ilnnel ('lark. Wednes- 
 day brings nmre rain. fi)ll()\ved bv 1)laz- 
 ing hot sunshine, though mie of the 
 nu-n in his letter says he rather enjux-s 
 tile rain, since it cc mis off the earth. In- 
 spection conies at ten a.m. and ajjpa- 
 ratus for an armv balloon goes by dur- 
 ing the day; also amnnniition for the 
 artillery, and eight}- rounds extra are 
 
 Thursday is the last day of June and 
 it sees the end of the camp, the ascent, 
 several times, of the war balloon and 
 the orders to pack up. The location, as 
 the men find weeks later when they 
 have access to maps, is southwest of 
 Santiago, which in a general way they 
 understand to be the olijective of the 
 campaign, but of the struggle neces- 
 
WELLIXGTOX RIFLES, COM I'AX V 11. 
 
 187 
 
 sary to compass her surrender they are 
 as yet ignorant. The silent, close and 
 darkened march of Company H dif- 
 fered in no way from that of their as- 
 sociate companies, though each man 
 had his indiA-idual thoughts as he 
 picked his \va\- through glade and 
 bushes, going he had not the least 
 notion where, yet no one was averse 
 to hearing the order to halt, which af- 
 forded an opportunity for the men to 
 wrap their blankets about them and to 
 lie to such slumber as the night could 
 give. The darkest night and the great- 
 est danger could not suppress the 
 spirit of mischief innate in some. 
 K — — s had discovered that the only 
 clerical member of the regiment was 
 extremely nervous and apprehensive, 
 hence the Boston boy would whisper 
 to his neighbor, but loudly enough for 
 ministerial ears, "Whist! Don't you 
 see that right through there?" mean- 
 wdiile keeping an eye on the celerity 
 with wdiich clericus reached for his 
 revolver. Tom Hood died punning. 
 
 El Canev is only an additional name 
 in the long list of battles in which 
 Americans have been engaged, but it 
 looms up more conspicuously in the 
 shorter list of those fought by the same 
 people on foreign soil. The start for it 
 was made the night before and men 
 "in place rest" are easily roused. They 
 were up and off soon after. These 
 Massachusetts men knew very little of 
 what was in store for them, but they 
 must have had a])prehensions that this 
 
 The Second Digging Trenches. 
 
 1st of July might mark an ei)och in 
 their li\es, and when in their advance 
 they came upon a battery of artillery 
 I>lanted directly across their way, 
 thereby cutting ofT the last five com- 
 jianics as thev were marching, they had 
 reasnii to believe that the fi.ght had be- 
 gun, since right over yonder were the 
 Spanish block-house and indications of 
 Spanish fortifications. The first shot 
 from Capron's Battery was music to 
 the ears of men to war inclined, and 
 one enthusiast counted the successive 
 discharges and says there were just 
 forty-seven. That first gun, some sol- 
 diers say, was fired at 6.25 a.m., and 
 different moments might arise from dif- 
 ferences in watches. The private sol- 
 dier sees little but what happens in his 
 immediate vicinity. Says one boy to 
 his parents, "I can't tell you much 
 about the battle, as 1 hardly know my- 
 self. \\'e were there about eight hours, 
 and how those repeaters did sing! Our 
 Springfield rifles with the smoky pow- 
 der are no good. I have got a fine car- 
 bine which one of the loth Cavalry 
 gave me. It is a dandy. That night 
 we marched all around. I couldn't tell 
 how far ; as it was so dark, you almost 
 had to feel your way. We reached the 
 main part of the army on the morning 
 of the 2d, and were placed in position, 
 but did not have any firing to do. al- 
 though the bullets were flying around 
 in great style." There were those to 
 whose appreciation distance would 
 have lent enchantment. One such, 
 who had been a great boaster, was dis- 
 covered beating a hasty retreat, when 
 he was halted" by the Captain with 
 •Where are you going?" "I am going 
 back to help Sergeant Smith look out 
 for the rolls," is the reply, and positive 
 commands are necessary to keep him 
 in place. Not so with "Snowball," the 
 Company's African protege. The Cap- 
 tain had to repeatedly order him to 
 keep his head down or he would lose it, 
 but all sense of fear was lost in his 
 anxiety to see what was going on. 
 
 Sergeant Monroe writes of his ob- 
 servations thus : "That night (June 30) 
 we started on, just as they were rais- 
 incr their war balloon, and lay down 
 
188 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 H 
 
WI'LLIXC.ToX RIFLES, COMPANY H. 
 
 189 
 
 and slept on tlu cop cif a hill, with the 
 lig^hts of Santiago in the distance. 
 Early the ne.xt forenoon \vc resumed 
 inarch, and after a short time halted 
 behind a battery which had opened fire. 
 Here the ist Battalion and part of the 
 2(1 went on and did not notifj- us ; hence 
 we were left behind. They sent back a 
 message, and we started on again. As 
 we neared the battle, which had begun 
 about 6.45, our battalion waited for a 
 regiment of regulars to ]jass. and be- 
 fore we could connect again the ist and 
 2(1 battalions had gone into the fight. 
 When we came up finally there was no 
 one to show where the rest had gone, 
 so we started along towards the firing. 
 Meanwhile our loss had been quite 
 heavy on account of our powder, which 
 made lots of smoke and so afforded a 
 good mark for the Spaniards. Accord- 
 ingly we were directed to a sunken 
 road, -where we were to remain as sup- 
 port, and here we continued the entire 
 day. The bullets whistled above our 
 heads to beat the band. I fell asleep in 
 the midst of it, I was so tired, and so 
 did lots of the boys. At last, the bat- 
 tery moved nearer, reinforcements 
 came up and the enemy was driven out 
 of his strong position ;" and El Caney, 
 which was to have fallen in an hour, 
 really held out for a good long day, one 
 of the longest in the year. Richard 
 Harding Davis's remarks on this event 
 are entertaining at this time and dis- 
 tance: "The plan for the day is inter- 
 esting chiefly because it is so dift'erent 
 
 Kesting on March to El Caney. 
 
 from what happened. . . . Incidentally, 
 General Lawton's division was to pick 
 uj) El Caney, and when El Caney was 
 eliminated, his division was to continue 
 forward and join hands on the right 
 ( Lawton's left) with the divisions of 
 Cienerals Sumner and Kent. The army 
 was to rest for that night in the woods 
 half a mile from San Juan." Thus 
 nicely was the advance on Julj^ ist 
 planned by those in the lead, but as 
 with mice and men, plans "gang aft 
 aglae." That long day in the blistering 
 sun, the stubborn resistance of the 
 Spaniards, all attest how much easier 
 it is to ]ilan than to execute. July's 
 entering day had had its record writ- 
 ten in blood and, ere the sun of the 
 following had set. thousands of 
 friends in the Old Bay State were won- 
 dering how the boys of the Second 
 fared, and hearts along the banks of 
 the Connecticut are bleeding yet for 
 valiant souls that on that day went out 
 into the unknown, doing what they 
 thought their dtity in following the flag 
 as it led them to the defense of an op- 
 pressed people ; but the enemy has re- 
 tired and he must be followed up. The 
 march which was to have been taken 
 much earlier in the day, now comes 
 after a short halt, and again recourse 
 is had to Sergeant Monroe's letter : 
 "That night we marched a long way 
 through the darkness, and at last by a 
 roadside lay down and waited till three 
 o'clock in the morning, when we ad- 
 vanced again till we came where 
 another fight seemed to be on. We 
 threw off our loads and prepared to get 
 to the front. Captain Holden ap- 
 pointed me to take charge of the 2n 
 l)latoon. which was part of the firing 
 line (Lieutenant Fish having been left 
 behind sick). The entire Company then 
 went forward to the crest of a hill, and 
 after an hour's wait we were ordered 
 into camp, having a hill between us and 
 the enemy." There was an ineffectual 
 attempt of the Spaniards to break 
 through the lines at a late hour of the 
 night, occasioning considerable loss of 
 sleep to the Massachusetts boys and 
 others. During this halt. Captain Hol- 
 den is Officer-of-the-day (or night), 
 
190 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE Sl'AXISII WAR. 
 
 and he finds his duties exceedingly tr}-- 
 ing, the situation heing entirely 
 strange and the ])rospects of an attack 
 believed to be great. It was here that 
 he found Cuba possessing some sort 
 of a poisonous plant, which ga\e him 
 an exceedingly sore hand. The camp 
 itself was on a hillside, so steep that 
 the men vowed that they had to sleep 
 with their heels dug into the soil, and 
 on the alarm some rolled to the foot 
 of the hill before recoverv. 
 
 side. Heedless of his own imminent 
 danger, he orders the men to keep out 
 of range while he discusses the distance 
 with the man who has the gunl. ' "Don't 
 vfiu think it about looo yards?" is the 
 i|uer\ of the pri\-ate ; and on the agree- 
 ment of the officer, he raises his sight 
 as coolly as though another pound of 
 steam and not the life of a man were 
 the issue. That the council was effect- 
 ual was seen soon in the hitting of the 
 olmoxious foe. The lesson was a good 
 
 I.ni'iE S. Jones. 
 Willis Gleason. 
 
 .\i-iu-;ht W. I'katt. 
 
 e- ii. \'0shurc. 
 Joseph De .Marco. 
 
 When war becomes a l)usmess to 
 men. their co(dness in times of danger 
 seems wonderful to the novice. ( )n the 
 2d of Juh-. when the air is heaxy with 
 indications of strife, our In lys are inter- 
 ested in seeing an officer of liigli de- 
 gree, sitting his horse where bullets are 
 flying, and conferring with a regular 
 sharpshooter who was trying tf) bring 
 down a like character on the Spanish 
 
 one for the WOrcester observers. Of 
 the conduct of Colonels Clark and 
 Shumway at FA Caney. the Boston 
 llerald corres])on(lent s|3oke in the 
 highest terms, and upon I^rivate K^rebs 
 of the "'Wellingtons." who was serv- 
 ing as an orderly for Colonel Clark, 
 he bestowed equal praise. 
 
 .^undav comes around again and, 
 nuich to the ease and comfort of tired 
 
WF.r.I.lXCTOX UIFLES, COMI'.WV 
 
 H. 
 
 191 
 
 boys, a truce is prDclainK'il fpr t\vciU\- 
 four hours, and much needed sleep is 
 sought wliilc waking ears catch the 
 sound of heavy firing off towards the 
 sea, firing which they are soon to 
 know was really the death-knell of 
 Spanish power in the New World, for 
 it is the destruction of Cervera's fleet 
 as the Admiral seeks to escape from his 
 long embottling in Santiago Harbor: 
 and somewhere, as a sweet refrain of 
 the dav's noise and turmoil, a brass 
 band plays and the soldiers remark that 
 it is the first sound of the kind the\- 
 have heard since reaching the Island, 
 and some of thv.'m think the end has 
 surely conic. l"he ctmiing da}s, how- 
 e\'er. are to liring the digging of 
 trenches and occasional removals till 
 finally the city has been circumvented 
 and the Second finds itself on the other 
 side of the bay. The 4th of July is 
 signalized by a continuance of the 
 truce, a sharp lookout for the enemy, 
 and finally a march to a new camp 
 on the top of a hill, whence the Span- 
 iards may be seen very plainly "walk- 
 ing backward and forth." The sol- 
 diers strongly suspect that negotia- 
 tions are afoot to end the conflict, and 
 already they are reckoning the days tt) 
 intervene between them and home. 
 Really, their hardest trials are in stor.\ 
 but fortunately the)' do not know it. 
 
 A letter from Allie Kimball, dated 
 the 5th, gives a ver}- good picture of the 
 situation as it applied to him and very 
 likelv to the most of his comrades: "1 
 
 Fort Number i on Santiago Road. 
 
 iiojie these letters that 1 have written 
 will reacli yon ( ). K. Please tell the rest 
 of the folks that I can't write to them, 
 fnr paper here is as scarce as food. All 
 we have had for the last week or two is 
 hardtack and bacon, and not anv too 
 much (if them. Have been feeling fine, 
 and, as long as 1 can dodge the Span- 
 iards' bullets, I do not mind the rest 
 very much, although I would like a 
 'piart of cold milk, a good l)ath and 
 some clean clothes. We have not re- 
 ceived any news from home yet, but I 
 suppose it is on the way." There was 
 nothing lor dinner this day and but lit- 
 tle more for supper. .Mucli of the time 
 of the .soldiers is spent in the trenches. 
 either adding to their strength or con- 
 sidering the bombardment, which is 
 more or less frequent. So poor is the 
 aim of the enemy that the boys think 
 it fun to sit on the edge of the ditch 
 and speculate on the direction and 
 striking place of the missile. That no 
 one of them was hurt or touched should 
 be sufficient comment on the (|ualitv of 
 the S]xinish marksmanshijj. .\nv vet- 
 eran of the war of the Rebellion who 
 had a i)art in the long strain at Cold 
 Harbor and the games of chance played 
 there mider fire, can appreciate the 
 rubbers of whist that Caiilain Holden 
 and Sergeant Young played against 
 Sergeant Monroe and Private Pratt, 
 in which the Captain ami his partner 
 were sadly worsted, though their de- 
 leat they ascribe, in large part, to their 
 watching of the firing. 
 
 In spite of the abundance of land- 
 crabs and tarantulas, the boys never 
 got used to them, especially the latter. 
 ihey do say that J — s camped on the 
 safe altitude of a cracker-i)o.\ rather 
 than undergo the possible touch of the 
 creature, and one night, when dark and 
 <lrizzly. it was time for the midnight 
 
 detail to go into the trendies, P n 
 
 was so sleepy that even the Captain's 
 \oice could not rouse him. till by the 
 introduction of a lantern a full-sized 
 tarantula was disclosed hard by. He 
 came out at once, glad to exchange 
 such proximity for pick and shovel. 
 
 Rain is a regular happening and the 
 camps become veritable steam-chests. 
 The 7th of July brings the first mail 
 
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WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMI'AW II. 
 
 193 
 
 frniii luinic. hearing date of June 13th. 
 and a small supply of food. During 
 these days. Lieutenant Hobson, the 
 hero of the ]\Ierrimac. is exchanged 
 and Lieutenant Fish returns to his 
 company. The size and brilliancy of 
 Cuban lightning-bugs may be inferred 
 from the fact that l!ond actually mis- 
 took them for Spaniards with lanterns 
 and gave a quick alarm accordingly. 
 Great shouting inside the Spanish lines 
 on the 9th indicates some unusual ex- 
 citement there. The tendency to see 
 things "big" is often seen among sol- 
 diers. When M r and D n 
 
 came in from an exploration of their 
 own, the former saw siege-guns by 
 the score, while the latter, by his side, 
 said. "I didn't see any such guns." 
 .•\gain while ^L averred that both of 
 them had been in great personal danger 
 from sharpshooters, D. claimed to 
 have been unaware of any such peril. 
 
 The scarcity of writing material is 
 well shown in a letter which about this 
 time is sent bv Sergeant Monroe to his 
 mother. It is written ui)on a small 
 memorandum pad and the envelope is 
 one that had been sent to him. but by 
 reversing it, i. e., directing it uiion the 
 back, erasing his own name and with 
 black thread sewing up the opened 
 end, he furnishes his mother with a 
 relic of special value. Though the men 
 grew used to constant rain, they never 
 grew to really like .getting wet. Says 
 one victim of interminable dripping, 
 "I had not got my tent pitched, so I 
 
 Santiago as .Seen from the Trenches. 
 
 lay dnwii between two rubber blank- 
 ets. I was all right during the first 
 shower, but T fell asleep, and the 
 blanket, slipping down, I awoke with it 
 raining guns and a stream of water 
 running under me. T was disgusted. 
 but J covered the best I could and went 
 to sleep and let the water go it. I 
 awoke in the morning with one side 
 soaked through, but I dried by the fire, 
 and late in the afternoon the sun came 
 out enough to dry partially my blanket, 
 I have made up my mind that if I ever 
 go to another war, nothing less than 
 the rank of Major will do for me," 
 
 "Snowball," the Company's mascot, 
 had little realization of the import of 
 a truce, and the boys had hard work in 
 preventing his opening fire on the en- 
 emy on the I ith when became into the 
 trenches, having stolen Krel)s' Krag. 
 cartridge belt and all. if he was ready 
 fiir a fight, why shouldn't the Spaniard 
 be in similar condition? This same 
 Ethiope was thrifty at times, and his 
 military friends do not forget how, hav- 
 ing been sent by them to fill their can- 
 teens, he did his best to trade or sell 
 them. He needed constant su])ervi- 
 sion, and let it be said ior the Wor- 
 cester boys that he usually got it. 
 
 To make light of difficulties is a test 
 of a good soldier, and one writer says 
 that he has fifteen distinct dishes made 
 from hardtack, and when he gets home 
 he is going to get up a "tack dinner and 
 iiniic all of his relatives. However, 
 he is of the opinion that a whole month 
 of 'tack and l)acon with "prime" roast 
 beef chasers is likely to lessen some- 
 what the appetite. Owing to the near- 
 ness of the Spanish lines it is possible 
 to see plainly and almost to hear the 
 enemy. Knowing the value of a Red- 
 cross banner, the Spaniards have pro- 
 tected a large part of the exposed por- 
 tion of the city with that emblem, and 
 .\merican gunners are much disgusted, 
 wishing that they might knock down 
 some of the crosses and thereby have a 
 chance to drop a few shells among 
 "those shacks." Even Mark Tapley 
 might have fallen into melancholy had 
 he found himself encamped with the 
 
194 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Second Massachusetts in their final lo- 
 cation, down in the swam]), alternately 
 drenched and steamed till colds and 
 malaria began to g-et in their deadly 
 work. There is little or no quinine in 
 the hospitals, and the fever has its own 
 nefarious way. There need be no won- 
 der that they were glad ears on which 
 fell the welcome news. Ji'ly 14th, that 
 Santiago and the eastern end of Cuba 
 had surrendered. The pent-up yells 
 that ought 111 lia\'e had expression cm 
 
 been known as the mo.st unhealthfnl 
 locality in the Antilles. 
 
 If immediately after the taking of 
 Santiago our Ijoys could have come 
 home, the story of Cuban mortality 
 had l)een very different, but the au- 
 thorities at home hatl become fearful 
 of the introduction of yellow fever, so 
 the soldiers who had bravely held up 
 through the days and weeks of siege 
 must now remain to dispel all signs of 
 the dreaded pestilence. It was hope 
 
 Charles II. I )i i><)N, 
 John C. .Mai Kay. 
 
 .Sergt. I- . J{. Jorhan. 
 
 \\ ILL < I. r.ACHLLOR. 
 
 l'^. \\'. Lawrence. 
 
 tlial day were su])]jressed to please 
 (ieneral Shafter, \\\vi seemed to 1)e 
 ])articularly careful nf tlie feelings nf 
 the Dons. 
 
 it was an unhappy fate that chose 
 the vicinity of .Santiago as the theatre 
 of land operations in Cuba. Shut in by 
 high hills, thus cut off from northern 
 breezes, suliject to miasmic effluvia 
 irom the adjacent marshes, it had h mg 
 
 deferred, making not only the heart 
 sick. l)Ut the liody as well. I']) io the 
 14th. 443 men in the .Sccund had lieen 
 reported ill. 
 
 .\fter the end. there is a growing ci- 
 \'ility lietween the former opponents, 
 and Spaniards make glad certain .\mer- 
 ican hearts by the gift of cigars, while 
 rations find their wav into Cuban and 
 .Spanish iiands. Xatix'e cleanliness is 
 
WELMXGTOX RIFLES, COMI'A.W H. 
 
 196 
 
 exemplified hy the efforts of the men 
 to clean up and to wash their garments 
 after so many days of rain and mud. 
 On the i6th, the next day hut one after 
 the surrender, eighty-seven men are 
 arrested for running the guard, that 
 they may visit the city. 
 
 How the formalities of the surrender 
 appeared to one boy is shown in his 
 words concerning that crowning event 
 of the Sunday, the 17th: "At noon we 
 had to get out on the top of the 
 trenches and stand like fools while 
 some one about a mile off did some old 
 thing." ()f course there were salutes 
 and the flag was raised above the 
 palace of the Governor General. In the 
 afternoon, the regiment paraded before 
 Colonel Clark, who read the message 
 from President McKinley, thanking 
 the men for their bravery and persist- 
 ence, and the Colonel himself made an 
 impressive speech. During the follow- 
 ing days there are many interchanges 
 of courtesies, but "camp life is slow," 
 and a detail to the city for provisions, 
 is eagerly sought. They would like to 
 go to Porto Rico, or "any old place" 
 if only there may be a change. On the 
 i8th of July ships enter the harbor and 
 more rife than ever are the rumors of 
 going home. 
 
 Our boys found their Cuban allies 
 quite as alert as themselves in the mat- 
 ter of food. .Anything left exposed or 
 uncovered was in immediate danger 
 of confiscation. One day. Corporal 
 .Scott rushed into the cami). saving. 
 
 Camp OF THE Second Regiment .\bout July 8. 
 
 '■^or G — d's sake, boys, come this 
 way," and obeying his behest, they 
 found a large party of natives doing 
 their best to carry off a quantitv of 
 canned tomatoes, all in great gallon re- 
 ceptacles. It would never do to suffer 
 such provisions to disappear in that 
 way. so with a rush the boys bore 
 down (in the raiders, making them 
 think that the Sj^aniards were coming. 
 The cans were drop])ed and the Yan- 
 kees had tomatoes galore. Once in 
 their lives, the "Wellingtons" had for 
 fuel what under other circumstances 
 would ha\-e been sufficient for a king's 
 ransiuii. The Captain had <irdered 
 them to tear down an old shack hard 
 by, and the fuel thus secured they pro- 
 ceeded to burn, though it c<insisted in 
 a large part of the most valuable ma- 
 hogany. They were not, just then, in 
 the cabinet business. 
 
 That an army moves upon its l)ellv. 
 as General Sherman was wont to say, 
 has proof in almost every letter writ- 
 ten by a soldier, and on everv page of 
 his diary there is sure to be some word 
 which confirms the statement. Xor is 
 the truth confined to the private sol- 
 dier. Officers and privates are alike 
 hungry, and alike welcome a chance to 
 fill their stomachs with something bet- 
 ter than the\- have been having. In 
 this line. Privates Gleason and Mower 
 tnovcd on the 19th, when they went over 
 to a neighboring Cuban village and pre- 
 pared a supper for ten men, includ- 
 ing Colonel Clark, Lieutenant-colonel 
 .Shumway, Major \\"hi])ple, .\djutant 
 Hawkins, Cajilain Holden. Sergeants 
 \oung, Jordan and Xewton and the 
 cooks themselves. The menu, though 
 not printed on gilt-edged paper, was 
 attractive, and consisted in "Rice a la 
 bacon fat & sugar. Green tomatoes, 
 & oil. Sardines, Yams. Cocoanut cakes. 
 Coffee, Rum." One officer commenting 
 on the event and menu says: "Don't 
 1 'axe nut the ice water, for that was 
 really llie best item in the whole bill 
 of fare. ' The room which the boys had 
 taken for the meal was a characteristic 
 Cuban home, without floor and with 
 very little furniture. Their table was a 
 door which they had placed upon two 
 
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 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
WELI.IXCTOX RIFLES. COMPANY H. 
 
 197 
 
 barrels, and their seats were iiii])ro- 
 vised from small boxes. Interest was 
 added to the occasion by the woman of 
 the house telling; of her little sjirl being: 
 bitten in that very room that day bv a 
 scorpion. The \\'orcester members of 
 the party aver that the Spring-fielders, 
 casting wary glances in all directions, 
 drew in their heads lest a poisonous 
 "varmint" should fall on them. 
 
 Food was an ever present and press- 
 ing theme. At home, amid the manv 
 distractions and division of labor, it 
 comes most prominently into view at 
 meal time, but when a man has to be 
 his own purveyor and cook as well, his 
 stomach assumes unprecedented im- 
 portance. In Cuba, men found them- 
 selves doing things undreamed of a few 
 weeks before. Thus when certain 
 "Wellingtons" were cooking beans one 
 morning, they were admonished of the 
 nearness of a sitting guinea hen. To 
 kill the bird was the work of a mo- 
 ment, and her flesh made a savory 
 feast for the partakers. Her eggs, far 
 too near parturition or hatching for 
 Yankee use, were traded with the Cu- 
 bans for good, ripe mangoes, while 
 the wings, sent back to Worcester, 
 adorned for the season the summer hat 
 of an officer's wife. Trading was ever 
 a New Englander's prerogative, and 
 what he could not eat himself was 
 readily exchanged with the natives for 
 something they were delighted to get 
 rid of. The bacon, which had become 
 too rank for northern nostrils, not to 
 
 The Only Pickaxe in the Regiment. 
 
 mention stomachs, found reach- market 
 among those to the manor born. Real 
 shower-baths were possible here, for it 
 rained every day, and any one could 
 see when the clouds would drop their 
 contents. There was nothing to pre- 
 vent, so the men were wont to soap 
 their bodies and let the cooling rain 
 wash them clean ; but one day their 
 Captain reckoned without his host, for 
 though he had plentifully lathered his 
 person in ex])ectations of the shower 
 which once in his exjierience failed to 
 come, from his oleaginous covering. 
 he liad to rid himself in some other 
 and less convenient manner, all the 
 time of course running the gauntlet of 
 his comrades' gibes and jokes. 
 
 Some of the soldiers are wondering 
 yet whether they laid themselves open 
 to prosecution by any statute through 
 tlteir [jaln-iing otT nickels upon the cit- 
 izens of Santiago for quarters and tak- 
 ing twenty cents change for five-cent 
 purchases, or whether the trick, jilayed 
 upon them by the apparently guileless 
 .^^paniard. was not a fair offset. Thus, 
 many of them were .glad to get their 
 I)ills changed, and the natives were 
 e(|ually ready to accommodate them 
 with their own debased silver cur- 
 rency, a condition not at first under- 
 stood by the N'ankees. In the supper 
 or dinner described above, coffee was 
 served after the Cuban manner, and 
 those who partook declare that an or- 
 dinary cup of it would intoxicate. For 
 the party, there had been used two 
 pounds of the best berry, which was 
 burned twice as much as is the .Ameri- 
 can practice, and then through this 
 mass, boiling water was poured, thus 
 securing a decoction so strong that 
 only the habituated could enjoy it. 
 
 So well was this meal awaj' from 
 camp thought of, the very next day 
 eighteen of the Company repeated the 
 affair of the igth and made merry over 
 the same menu, and on their return 
 brought back a supply of sugar and 
 rum. 
 
 Shii)ping is becoming common in the 
 harbor and considerable washing up is 
 accomplished, and there was need of it, 
 for working in the trenches had pretty 
 
198 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 nearly demonstrated the trnth nf tlie 
 words in the Inirial service. "Dust thou 
 art and to (hist shalt thou return." 
 Only in this case it was mud instead of 
 dust. Evidently too high living was 
 not in accordance with headtjuarters 
 notions of camp propriety, and on this 
 day the boys were ordered to remain in 
 camp. \\'ith the issuing- of the- first 
 beefsteak ration on the 2ist of Jul}-, 
 the long reign of liacim came to an end. 
 
 There is son-ie drilling, but the chief 
 incentive is past, fur there is to be no 
 more fighting, and officers, no more 
 than enlisted men, care to take over- 
 much exercise in the hot, humid cli- 
 mate. Foot-gear has become very 
 much down at the heels, and a certain 
 Sergeant in his home letter says that 
 his pair of shoes is really the only de- 
 cent pair in the Company. One ingen- 
 ious fellow, notha\'ing his mending kit 
 
 Joseph L. King. 
 W. G. .-\dams. 
 
 Corp. .\lbert II. .Scott. 
 
 Charles l-'. Sleeper. 
 .\. J. Paradis. 
 
 It was received \vith grateful stumachs, 
 and as never before the soldiers appre- 
 ciated the comforts left behind when 
 they enlisted. Of these fresh meat ra- 
 tions it must be said that the first 
 dav"s sending from the ships' coolers 
 were the best. Cuba's heat soon made 
 the meat unbearable and more was 
 buried than eaten. 
 
 with him.re])airs his l.)adly worn shoes 
 with wire, certain to hold as long as the 
 leather does. ( )n the 22d not half of 
 the Con-i])anv responded to the call for 
 drill, so n-iany of the same being sick. 
 Some of the boys move their camping- 
 place down to the side of the stream 
 whence they had already derived about 
 all the comfort that their surroundings 
 
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 199 
 
 afforded. Tlie 23d brouo-ht rations of 
 fresh bread, and with fresh meat life 
 seemed a little more worth living. The 
 camp was moved over the trenches. 
 
 One day during' the post-surrender 
 wait, certain '"Welling-tons" started out 
 to find the commissary department, 
 doubtless in search of food, and an ad- 
 venture of theirs well illustrates how a 
 \\'est Point education sometimes makes 
 a wretched prig of a man. L'nable to 
 find the object of their [|uest. thev 
 made bold to ask their way of a young 
 regular lieutenant whom they met, re- 
 splendent in all the refulgence of a 
 beautiful new uniform. Saluting him 
 with all the deference that was his due. 
 they made known their want, but great 
 was their astonishment when, without 
 a word, he turned his back upon them. 
 In their amazement at such usage, they 
 stood speechless, but fortunately at 
 this very moment, who should a])pear 
 but General Lawton, mounted, and his 
 quick eye detected something wrong. 
 Accosting the voung men, he asked 
 them what the trouble was, to which 
 they replied as above. The General 
 immediately called the \\'est Pointer 
 to him and asked if he had l^een duly 
 saluted by the men and if there was 
 anything out of the ordinary in their 
 request, to which he was obliged to re- 
 ply that they had done nothing wrong. 
 "Well, then,'" said the officer, "do you 
 tell these soldiers where the commis- 
 sary is, and if I ever hear of any more 
 conduct of this character, Pll rip those 
 straps oiT your shoulders d — d cpiick." 
 The boys went their way with height- 
 ened respect for a man who knew men 
 when he saw them and to whom a pri- 
 vate was as good as any one if he be- 
 haved himself. 
 
 Sunday, the J4th. came with mail 
 from the States, letters from home and 
 the Worcester Telegram of the 7th inst. 
 One of the boys wrote answers right 
 away, and in one of them he says, 
 "You can sleep good and sound every 
 night, as I am as safe as though in a 
 cage and hung up in the parlor, and 
 have felt the same all the time." He 
 proclaims his regrets that he cannot 
 
 have a good swim, since he is not any 
 too clean, and his unchangeable disgust 
 that the regiment did not get a chance 
 at the enemy on account of the powder 
 they were obliged to use. Knowing as 
 the government did the (piality of the 
 arms and ammunition ])ossessed by the 
 Second, it is an ever growing wonder 
 that it was sent away with such an 
 outfit. Xo wonder that Roosevelt re- 
 ferred to the weapons of the volunteers 
 as "archaic." Some of the Company 
 tried to asstmie a religious air by going 
 into the city and attending the cathe- 
 dral, the largest in Cuba, though it 
 would not be strange if curiosity was 
 the ruling motive in the act. 
 
 Letters and newspapers were not al- 
 ways sources of imalloyed pleasure, 
 for on one occasion there came, in the 
 Telegram, the news of the death of 
 Lieutenant Gray's mother. His symjia- 
 thetic comrades, an.xious to spare him 
 the sorrow incident to the announce- 
 ment, carefully destroyed every paper 
 so thai he might not see them, but 
 Major I-", came along and told the I^ieu- 
 tenant. so all the care of the boys was 
 ineffectual. His comrades felt for him 
 in his bereavement, and he had the 
 consolation that comes frcmi tlie feel- 
 ing of touching elbows in the presence 
 of a common danger. 
 
 Life in Cuba during these days is not 
 especiallv varied. Men improve every 
 o])portunity to get into the city, and 
 thev study with the keen eyes of 
 Yankees the dift'erences between what 
 they see and what they are used to 
 at home. They secure relics and sou- 
 venirs from the natives, and many a 
 curio, now highly prized in Worcester, 
 was obtained in these waiting hours. 
 lUittons. machetes, and objects of per- 
 manent interest are brought away with 
 them, while tobacco in various forms 
 finds immediate consumption. 
 
 Among the places of interest in or 
 near the city was the so-called Vir- 
 ginius Wall, against which Captain 
 Joseph Fry and thirty-six of his men 
 were placed when they were shot by 
 the Spanish authorities, Xov. ". 1873, 
 
200 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 for allcg-ed conspiracy, their vessel 
 having- l)een seized by the Spaniards 
 on the charge of contemplating an at- 
 tack upon the Island. At the time, the 
 incident aroused public feeling to a 
 high pitch, second only to that of the 
 destruction of the Maine. 
 
 As the rations increase in liberality, 
 the numl:)er nf sick grows larger, not 
 as a result but as a reminder that when 
 there might l)e a measure of enjoyment 
 the men are inca|)able of appreciation. 
 On the 25th. the Quartermaster took 
 orders for new suits of clothes, and 
 two days later only fourteen men re- 
 sponded to roll-call, and on the last 
 one in Cuba, only six men appeared. 
 Each day sees more men going to the 
 hospital. The introduction of ice into 
 the camp, the 28th, was a luxury in- 
 deed, and iced cofTee was a reminder 
 of days at home. For those who re- 
 main <in duty there is an abundance of 
 work, for the camp must be kept in 
 order and jirovisions must be obtained 
 from the city. The first death in the 
 Company occurred on the 30th, that 
 of Charles E. Iluck, who succumbed to 
 the prevailing ailment. His body was 
 buried at mxin. Captain Holden, 
 writing the next day to his wife, said: 
 "We had a sad thing to do yesterday. 
 Charles Buck died in the morning in 
 the hospital. They sent me word and 
 wanted him buried at once. So I took 
 about a dozen men and we dug his 
 grave under some trees and buried him 
 with his blanket and his haversack 
 under his head. It was a sad thing for 
 the boys. I read a few verses, in the 
 al^sence of the cha]ilain, and the bu- 
 gler played taps, and that was the ser- 
 vice. We marked his grave so that if 
 they wish to remove him. the}- can." 
 The last day of the month was note- 
 worthy in that all the commissioned 
 officers were sick, and of the non-com- 
 missioned officers, only Corporal Scott 
 was read}' for guard duty. He was 
 also acting as Battalion .Adjutant. The 
 men were mustered for ])ay. 
 
 'J"he advent of August saw no im- 
 provement in the li ical situation : in- 
 deed at 3.30 a.m. Silas Undergra\e 
 
 died, and at sunrise his bod\- was laid 
 near that of Buck. The arrival of hos- 
 pital supplies renders it possible for 
 men to obtain quinine, and to some ex- 
 tent the progress of fever is stayed. 
 Near eight o'clock in the afternoon, 
 loud cheering is heard in the distance 
 and speedily works nearer. Every one 
 sallies out to learn what it is all about, 
 and the report comes that Porto Rico 
 has surrendered and that Spain has 
 sued for peace. August 2d beheld the 
 arrival of a boat load of immunes who 
 were to work such a revolution in the 
 Cuban campaign, iDut after their ar- 
 rival very little was heard of them, 
 though the idea seemed a feasible one. 
 After all it was not yellow fever that 
 the men were suttering from. The hos- 
 pital was made a little more habitable 
 by the coming of some cot-beds. The 
 knapsacks which had been left on tlie 
 Knickerbocker when the Company de- 
 barked, came up on the 3d, and the 
 men had the privilege of donning their 
 blue uniforms again. The same day. 
 Captain Holden went to the hospital 
 and Lieutenant Gray was left in com- 
 mand. Also on this day came large 
 tents and some oi the chroniclers 
 mention luxuries such as Indian meal, 
 pear sauce, pickles and tea. 
 
 Those boys inclined to observe 
 things, and there were man\- such, 
 could not help remarking the won- 
 drous rapidity with which nature re- 
 newed herself. The moist and heated 
 air made the surface of the earth a veri- 
 table hot-house, and the marvelous veg- 
 etation of the land, wlien it was laying 
 up stdres of coal fur later generations, 
 seemed repeatedt When Lieutenant 
 Fish and his party came in after El 
 Cane}', they had much to sa}" about the 
 de\'elopment of certain corn-planting 
 experiences of theirs, claiming that 
 Jonah's gourd was hardly more speedy 
 in its growth. The natives said that 
 forty days after (li-iip|)ing a seed sweet 
 ]nitato in the ground they could dig 
 rii)ened tul)ers. When the regiment 
 came awa}'. grass was growing from 
 the clay-filled bags ]ilaced upon the 
 Ijreastworks, making them look like 
 
WELLIXr,T(l\ RIFLES, COMrA.VY 11. 
 
 201 
 
 emerald porcupines, and the grass, 
 scarcely two weeks old, stood knee 
 high over the graves of , Buck and 
 Undergrave. Later, in September, 
 when Armorer Hubbard visited tlie 
 place, the vegetation was so rank that, 
 tall as he is, he could scarcely see out 
 or over the grass which covered those 
 same tombs. Cuba has no twilight. 
 Darkness follows daylight like a jiall. 
 and Worcester boys thought that 
 courting there would lack a charm to 
 which they had been accustomed. 
 "The dark-eved maid with the sweet 
 guitar," they failed to see. 
 
 The 4th of .\ugust saw the coming 
 of large arrearages of mail, and letters 
 from home were read with eager eyes, 
 though it was after dark when the pre- 
 cious matter arrived. Towards night 
 of the 5th. two of the Company. Ran- 
 dall and Hakanson, passed out into the 
 infinite and were with P.uck and I'ndcr- 
 grave. In a letter written this day, 
 Allie Kimball mentions the coming to 
 him, the night before, of a revolver 
 with a box of writing paper and en- 
 \elopes. He says he has not much use 
 for the revolver now, but can use it 
 another 4tli. Poor boy, long before 
 that time he was to be where there is 
 no shooting nor other mortal care. His 
 own words graphically describe the sit- 
 uation : "Ha\-e not a great deal to write 
 about : most every one has been 
 knocked out with malaria. Have been 
 very lucky myself ; have not had it bad 
 myself at all. The only trouljle is there 
 are so many sick that those who are half 
 well get all the work and get knocked 
 out again. ... I understand we 
 are to move at almost any moment 
 towards the L'nited States, and you may 
 bet that l'nited States is good enough 
 for any one. . . . Our usual after- 
 noon shower is coming off, and I am 
 trying to keep dry and write at the 
 same time. One of the men went to 
 town and brought up a lot of stuff to 
 eat, and I have a can of Franco-Ameri- 
 can sou]i. mutton broth, which 1 im- 
 agine will taste first class for supper. 
 
 This nocin I had jjotatoes and onions 
 boiled; for l)reakfast, coft'ee and some 
 l)um bread. We have had bread lately ; 
 they exchange tlour for bread in Santi- 
 ago, but I would just as leave have 
 'tack. There is plenty of bacon, but 
 no one seems to want any to eat. . . . 
 I don't believe you could hire one out 
 of fiftv to remain here at ten dollars a 
 day if they had a chance to get back." 
 ( )n this day, too, certain patients were 
 thought by the surgeons to have yel- 
 low fc\ er, the most dreaded of ail- 
 ments, and if their diagnosis were cor- 
 rect, it meant the detention of the reg- 
 iment and many more deaths. How- 
 ever, they gave the boys the Ijenefit of 
 a doubt, wherein they were justified by 
 results, and did not report the cases. 
 
 On the 6th of the month began the 
 departure of the troops, and on this day 
 the 1st Cavalry went on board the 
 trans]}ort, to be followed by other regi- 
 ments as the time advanced. Private 
 Mower made a trip to town, and re- 
 turning brought a quantity of canned 
 stuff', much to the gratification of his 
 comrades. Some of the Comiiany put 
 up their large tents. The next day 
 went the Rough Riders and the loth 
 Cavalrv. ( in the 8th Private Green 
 died, and the men received two 
 months' pay, though few are able to 
 walk to headcjuarters for the same. 
 .\flairs are nearing a windup now, and 
 on the loth came the official announce- 
 ment for home-going. Diary-keepers 
 record "plenty to eat," though one 
 lover of the weed chronicles his giving 
 fiftv cents for a cigar. The new khaki 
 uniforms were given but the next day, 
 and those of the Company able to do so 
 were marched to heatlquarters for ex- 
 amination, and several were ordered 
 to remain. At the seven a.m. inspec- 
 tion thirty-two men w^ere present, less 
 than one-half of the Company. 
 
 The 1 2th was a joyous day to the 
 men who were able to pack up and get 
 ready for the departure. Lieutenant 
 Grav commands the Company as it 
 goes on board the Mobile, reaching the 
 same bv means of the tug Laura. 
 
202 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPAXTSTI WAR. 
 
 NDN£SS OF COL. F. E. PIERCI 
 
 THE MOIUI.E. WHICH I'.KorCHT THE .SECO.VD RE(;iME.\T FRn.M CCIIA TU .MO.XTAUK. 
 
 Though the imii who slept on t1ie 
 upper deck witc wet throui;!! l)y the 
 rain which came as usual, they were 
 hapjiy in the change from mud to 
 boards. The ne.xt day the effects are all 
 stored away, and the men of the Sec- 
 ond Massachusetts, with the 8th and 
 22d Regidars. are ;dl on hoard. Early 
 in the afternoon the transjjort sails 
 away and she carries a load of happy 
 hearts, rejoicing that having accom- 
 l)lished what tliey came for they are 
 now on their way homeward. All are 
 alert to see the traces of the Merrimac, 
 Reina Afercedes and the grim Moro 
 Castle, so long the guardian of the en- 
 trance to the bay. Two hours later the 
 vessel passes Daiipiiri. where the land- 
 ing was made in June, and then with 
 her prow directecl homeward, the Mo- 
 bile steams onward into the night. 
 The Second Kegiment had had fifty 
 
 davs of Cuban campaigning, an experi- 
 ence which would furnish the men with 
 stock themes for the remainder of their 
 respective lives. They had been under 
 fire : they had been through the vicis- 
 situdes of the siege ; they had dug 
 trenches till they considered them- 
 selves adepts with ].)ick and shovel, 
 voung men the most of whom would 
 hardly have imdertaken such work of 
 their own will at home: they had suf- 
 fered the pangs of hunger and the pains 
 of thirst; they had shivered with chills 
 and had burned in the emlirace of fever, 
 and now they were going home, i. e., all 
 who were alive; but some of those on 
 board the transport were not to see 
 their homes, a few not even theirnative 
 shores, yet the majority of them were 
 glad that they had been a part of the 
 .American army in its humane mission. 
 This jiart of the story might fitly end 
 
WELLINH'.TOX KITLES, l( ).\1 1'AN Y II. 
 
 203 
 
 with some remarks upon the climate of 
 the Island and some of the hardships 
 which were peculiar to the resjiment. 
 To begin with, the Massachusetts boys 
 were marching, fighting and camping 
 very near the 20th degree of north lati- 
 tude. Hence they were well within 
 the torrid zone during the summer 
 solstice. They encountered the very 
 hottest weather of the tropical region 
 and during the rainy season. That they 
 came out as well as they did is highly 
 creditable to their constitutions and 
 their care of themselves. 
 
 The location of the camp for the reg- 
 iment was unfortunate, since the men 
 were therebv constantly exposed to the 
 malarial influences, there at their very 
 acme. Armorer George W. Hubbard of 
 \\'orcester, who a month later was in 
 and about Santiago looking after the 
 bodies of Worcester dead, for the pur- 
 pose of returning them to Massachu- 
 setts, says that he had a summer's ex- 
 perience in Andersonville during the 
 Civil \\'ar, but nothing encotmtered 
 there in the way of malarial surround- 
 ings began to equal those of the place 
 where the regiment was encamped. He 
 says: "The site was almost at the 
 water's edge, and from it there was a 
 constant rising of vapor that could be 
 dispelled only by the sun's rays. The 
 moment the sun disappeared behind 
 the hills, the vapor could be seen ris- 
 ing till it en\eloped the entire locality 
 and it remained till the next day's sun 
 drove it away." It was cold and heavy 
 and as penetrating as a New England 
 northeaster. When the morning 
 dawned, the men would shake ofif great 
 drops of dew that had gathercvl upon 
 their blankets, and some had not cov- 
 ering enough to keep their bodies 
 warm, and as a last resort they would 
 walk the long night away, while their 
 teeth like castanets told of their suf- 
 ferings. With such experience mala- 
 rial fever was inevitable. 
 
 Now, however, all this was in the 
 retrospect, and years later these men, 
 so gflad to get awav from Cuba with its 
 
 sorry memories, will recount to their 
 children's children what they saw, 
 heard and did there. All could not go 
 home with the Company, some being 
 too ill to undertake the journey then. 
 Those left behind were Lieutenant 
 Fish and Privates Cook, Hodgins and 
 Wood. As a care-taker for others. Pri- 
 vate Coates also was left, and on this 
 verv day of leaving, so long and so ar- 
 dentlv wished for, Corjjoral Marvin F. 
 .Ames joined the chosen few who had 
 been finally mustered out. It is a sum- 
 mer sea upon which they are sailing, 
 hence as smooth as glass, a condition 
 entirelv to the tastes of these wau and 
 worn mortals, fever and famine wasted. 
 If they had encountered tem])ests on 
 tluir was liomeward. no one knows 
 how much worse might have been 
 their sufferings. The Mobile was by 
 no means an ideal craft for excursion 
 p\n-poses. lia\ing been used as a cattle 
 transi)ort and exceedingly capacious 
 for that purpose, but there were too 
 many indications of her recent occupa- 
 tion to make her exactly agreeable to 
 human i)assengers. However, endur- 
 ance was the badge of all soldiers in 
 those days, and, swung in hammocks, 
 thev made the best of their plight, 
 anxiously looking for the end of the 
 trip. There is employment for some of 
 the stronger ones in the hold as they 
 look up and identify the knapsacks 
 which are tumbled in helter-skelter. 
 
 'i"he saddest sound of the return trip 
 is that of two bells for slowing down, 
 that the body of some deceased com- 
 rade might receive burial. No signal 
 was dreaded as that. Eleven times was 
 there the lessened speed, that the dead 
 might be committed to the deep, and 
 eight of the number were from the 
 Second Massachusetts. One. Private 
 Earle E. Clark, was from the "Welling- 
 tons," and his body received ocean 
 burial at 4.30 p.m. of the 17th, the day 
 of his death. Though impressive, there 
 were circumstances attendant on some 
 of the burials which left creepy sensa- 
 tions among those beholding. Thus in 
 one case the head-covering separated 
 
204 
 
 VVOKCESTEK IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
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WELLINGTON' RIFLES, COMPANY H. 
 
 206 
 
 as the body was committed, and the 
 ghastly face of the dead seemed to look 
 imploringly upon the vessel and Com- 
 pany. A major of the regulars had died 
 before leaving the Island, and an ef- 
 fort was made to carry his encoffined 
 body home, but decomposition became 
 so apparent and, withal, so otYcnsive 
 that burial was necessary. That the 
 coffin might sink the more readily a 
 large quantity of iron was added to the 
 same, but the formation of gases had 
 rendered the casket so buoyant that it 
 would not down and, as far as the eye 
 could follow it, there remained a large 
 portion of the object projecting above 
 the wave, as though its occupant would 
 follow^ his comrades home again. Xor 
 did that one of the ship's crew to whom 
 fell the duty of encasing the dead, 
 view his task with complacency. In- 
 deed, he received his orders each time 
 with manifest disapproval, and using 
 language far more forcible than ijolite, 
 he sewed u]) the poor forms that 
 mothers afar were even then straining 
 their eyes to see. Possibly it was his 
 way of keeping his courage up as he 
 performed his unwelcome labor. 
 
 There were variations in the voyage, 
 even though the sea was glass-like in 
 its smoothness. \\'hen a man went 
 crazy in his illness there was excite- 
 ment enough. A member of Company 
 H lost his reason thus, and he made 
 things lively as he undertook to jump 
 overboard. His comrades pursued him 
 in his mad race, hardly etiualing his 
 unnatural speed, and only the suddenly 
 outstretched arm of an able seaman 
 saved him fmni immersion and ])er- 
 haps death. Those who saw the mis- 
 hap of the chief musician of the 22d 
 Regulars always tell the story with 
 many a laugh. The man was ver_\- 
 nuicii of a dude in his manners and 
 dress, and on the I'lth he had arrayed 
 himself in his whitest raiment, and 
 under the impression that not even 
 King Solomon was thus bedecked, and 
 with a plentiful stock of novels, he en- 
 sconced himself within the easy em- 
 brace of a hammock, (piiic oblivious tn 
 
 the trtnijjles uf the poor ordinarv mor- 
 tals about him. But it has ever been 
 that pride at its topmost notch is near- 
 est a fall, so when a sailor, in his duty 
 of trying to change the dull gray of the 
 Mobile to her former jetty hue, as he 
 climbed over the bulwarks to the out- 
 side staging, accidentally gave his pail 
 of black paint a tip, the black mass 
 spilled and, as it went out of the dish, 
 was caught b\- the wind and com- 
 pletely deluged the white-clad musi- 
 cian lolling near. He was a sight never 
 seen befare, and once beheld could 
 never be forgotten. His sui)ercilious 
 ways prevented his receiving the sym- 
 pathies which usually lielp to salve 
 over such sore places, and h<.- had to 
 cleanse liis garments alone. 
 
 "Home again, home again, from a 
 foreign shore," has been the song of 
 many a weary wanderer as he reaches 
 the land that gave him birth. Places 
 all along the .Atlantic coast had been 
 named as probable spots \vhere the 
 soldiers would spend some time in re- 
 cruiting their wearied bodies, but the 
 eastern end of Long Island was that 
 finally settled upon as liest adapted to 
 their needs, and, well on in tlu- e\ening 
 of .\ugust i8th, the ^lobiie anchored 
 off Montauk Point. To the unskilled 
 mind, it were a simple matter to land 
 the returning brave and allow them to 
 seek their liomes. but many a stick of 
 red ta])C must be unrolled before those 
 homes are seen, for jirotection to those 
 \erv iiomes is in the minds of those 
 who direct the delay. They must re- 
 main aboar<l until assurance is had 
 that no ])cstilence abides with them, 
 and even then they must be isolated 
 till all danger of its dread appearance 
 is ])ast. In this way. Friday, the 19th. 
 was ]jassed. all companies being lined 
 u]) and examined, and first the actu- 
 ally sick went off, "a God-forsaken 
 crowd," one onlooker calls them. 
 
 It is noon of the 20th wlien the 
 "Wellingtons" touch the shore and 
 make their way either by conveyance 
 or afoot to the detention camp, a mile 
 and a half from the landing. "Where 
 
206 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 is your company?" asks Major Fair- 
 banks of Sergfeant Young, who had led 
 his chininished line into camp. "Right 
 here," is the reply. "But where?" again 
 says the Major, "I don't see any com- 
 pany." "Well," exclaims the Sergeant, 
 here's all I've got," as he points to the 
 three or four men who accompanied 
 him. Food, such as they have not seen 
 for many a day. awaits them, and once 
 more thev realize how good are old- 
 fashioned bread, sandwiches, green 
 peas and soup, but survivors have not 
 ceased even yet their reproaches 
 against the physician who advised 
 them to eat heartily of the Bartlett 
 pears which injudicious friends had 
 sent into the camp. It is claimed by 
 some that boys are now in their graves 
 through that well-meant Init win illy 
 improper direction. 
 
 Then came Sunday, and it seemed 
 truly God's day as the men ate food 
 prepared in the good nld wa\' and 
 looked upon scenes something like 
 those among which they were reared. 
 Milk and eggs are decided to be the 
 best items in their bill of fare, and 
 these are dealt out to them as they 
 need. Monday there comes to the 
 "\\'ellingtons" as their cook a colored 
 man who has filled a similar p(3sition 
 in "1!" Compan\-. Tuesday, the boys 
 from the western part nf the couuty 
 were gladdened by a visit from W. J. 
 X'izard of \orth P.rookfield. and a se- 
 vere thunder-storm convinces them 
 that Cul)a has nn monopoly of that 
 kind of tem])est. 
 
 It is noteworthy that the first li<ime 
 contrii)Ution came to the "Welling- 
 tons" this (lay, owing to the thought- 
 fuhu'ss of ( ieo. ]). Barber, an original 
 member of the Company and the treas- 
 urer of the X'eteran .\ssociation. He 
 was spending Sunday at Watch 1 1 ill, 
 and learning of the arrival of his old 
 friends, he at once set aboiU doing 
 something for their relief and ccjmforl. 
 He packed into a barrel forty d(jllars" 
 worth of butter, l)read and cheese with 
 other edibles, l)esides towels, pails and 
 basins, and sent the wIkjIc lot alont;' 
 
 without any formal order from his as- 
 sociates, "He helps twice who helps 
 early." and this aid was most oppor- 
 tune, considerably forestalling the 
 later gifts to the \\\ircester com])anies 
 b}- the citizens. 
 
 The next day, or Wednesday the 
 24th. their period of detention ended 
 ancl they change camps, moving about 
 two miles away from the first stopping 
 place and leaving a detail to sweep up 
 and remove all rubbish. Thursday 
 brought visitors in the shape of Cap- 
 tain W. E. Hassam and Geo. Barber, 
 both gladly welcomed by their old as- 
 sociates. If the men had possessed the 
 ])ower to eat. there was food enough 
 ]iresented to them to enable them to 
 make up for lost time, but nature ar- 
 ranges that only about so much can be 
 eaten, no matter what the inducement. 
 The end is gradually approaching, for 
 on the 26th orders are given t(T be 
 ready to move on fifteen minutes' 
 notice, and in the afternoon, guns and 
 belts are turned in. 
 
 August 27th is the day to be remem- 
 bered by all who had a part in its glad 
 memories. There is little need to 
 sound the bugle, for are they not going 
 liome. and what sound is needed to 
 arouse men whose onlv thought for 
 manv a dav has been just what this day 
 i> to bring about? They start hom 
 their camp at six o'clock a.m., and once 
 in their army-life there is no complaint 
 at the early hour. They g<i aboard the 
 steamer Block Island, an<l at 7.40 
 steam awav for New London. They 
 land on Connecticut soil at 9.45, and 
 whate\'er their former li\es, all are 
 ]ileased to be in the Land of Steady 
 Habits. With their comrades of .A 
 and C. the\- share the dainties provided 
 b\- the good people along their way 
 through Connecticut, and again with 
 tlnin rejoice at the sight of Governor 
 1\( iger Wolcott, who greets them at the 
 borders of their own home State and, 
 with other Worcester boys, get a fore- 
 taste of Heaven as they reach the Heart 
 of the Commonwealth at 3.45 in the 
 afternoon. How the crowds cheered 
 
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20S 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 and how the fla£,'s waved and how the 
 tears started when the people saw 
 what war was rendering; back to them, 
 is it not already written ? 
 
 Some rode in hacks to their homes 
 directly, others went through the 
 streets to the Armory and thence made 
 their way homeward, but to all came, 
 as never before, the truth of the poet's 
 words, "There's no place like home." 
 To them who survived the ordeal of 
 Cuba and Long Island came the same 
 
 orders that were given to the other 
 companies of the Second, and eventu- 
 ally they, too, repaired to Springfield, 
 there to receive their muster-out and 
 to become, what they formerly were, 
 just common every-day citizens of the 
 Commonwealth ; yet not cjuite the 
 same, for in every mind there was a 
 consciousness of duty done that comes 
 only to him who has sworn to per- 
 form faithfully his part as a soldier 
 true. 
 
 THE WELLINGTON DEAD. 
 
 "All present or accounted for" is an 
 expression heard every day of a sol- 
 dier's service, if he were present at 
 roll-call. "Accounted for," like charity, 
 covers multitudes of, if not sins, at 
 least a wide range of possibilities. Had 
 the roll been called when the few mem- 
 bers rode to the Armory, Aug. 27th, 
 the expression would ha\-e covered the 
 commissioned officers as sick in hos- 
 ])ital and all others not present as 
 buried beneath the sod in Cuba, the 
 waves l.ietween the Island and 'Slon- 
 t:uik I'dint, in hospital somewhere, or 
 in their res])ective homes, unable to re- 
 port with their comrades for the final 
 act of breaking ranks. Moist skies at- 
 tended their departure and moist eyes 
 greeted their return; ntir was the story 
 of suffering and death to end with the 
 return <if tlu- soldiers, for on the very 
 (la\' when Worcester was extending a 
 welcome home to her sons, another 
 "Wellington" was dxing at Abnilauk, 
 and on the nuirrow still another 
 passed; and tlie death line grew, till, 
 in October, thirteen h.'nl answered the 
 final roll-call. Since then two more 
 have res])onded. and to-day. six years 
 after, there are invalids who date their 
 illness from C nb;in privations. 
 
 in the battle's lull at Chickamauga, 
 during the niglit of Sei)tember Kjth, 
 l8()_5. onl\ ,1 lew hour> liefore he re- 
 ceived his death shot. General W illiam 
 H. Lytle, commanding a brigade of 
 L'nion troops, b\- the meagre light of a 
 
 tallow candle penned certain lines that 
 nuist tcnich responsive chords in the 
 hearts of men, as long as humanity con- 
 tinues to render up its life for home, 
 for friends and for the oppressed of all 
 nati(^ns. His theme was "A Soldier's 
 Cap." and the words are as applical^le 
 in this the beginning of a new century 
 as they were when written more than 
 forty years ago, although the Ohio 
 (len'eral had no thought of the possi- 
 1)ilities of a war with Spain for the sal- 
 vation of Cuba. The last stanza reads 
 as follows, and it is a fitting refrain for 
 all the dead of this fair city in the 
 struggle for the overthrow of oppres- 
 sii Ml in the new world : 
 
 "Though my daihiig is sleeping 
 
 To-day with tlie ik-ad. 
 And daisies and clover 
 
 Bloom over his head, 
 I smile through my tears 
 
 .As I lay it away. 
 That battie-worn cap 
 
 Lettered 'Cumi)any K.' 
 
 Charles Edmund I'.uek. the first to 
 die in Cuba, was a Worcester boy, not 
 vet twenty years old when death 
 claimed him. He was born in this city 
 Xo\. ijth, 1878, the son of Charles P. 
 and ,\niie ( Coonan ) I'.uek, and was re- 
 siding on Pleasant Street at the time of 
 his enlistment. He was one of I'rinci- 
 ]i.il |. C. l,\ford's boys at the Winslow 
 Street grammar school, and thence en- 
 tered the English High in 1895, leav- 
 intr the same in his second year to go to 
 
WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMPANY H. 
 
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 work. In the employ of Goddard tS: 
 Sons, boot manufacturers, when the 
 war began, he was a recruit to the 
 "Wellingtons," but he kept up with the 
 best till the malarial influences of the 
 siege came on, when, after a period of 
 suffering, he yielded up his spirit. His 
 body remained in Cuban soil till it was 
 taken up and returned to Worcester in 
 the month of November, '98, and was 
 finally afforded rest in Hope Cemetery. 
 As no portrait of him had been taken 
 since he was twelve years old, no sem- 
 blance is given here. 
 
 Aloysius Lincoln Farmer was born 
 in Worcester, Dec. 4, 1880, and was one 
 of the smallest and youngest members 
 of the Company. As a lad he was a 
 pupil in Ledge Street, and was a special 
 student at the Holy Cross College 
 when he enlisted. Prominent in ath- 
 letics, his father a soldier in the \\'ar 
 of the Reliellion. it was natural for him 
 to go into this strife if he could. His 
 parents were William L. and Mary T. 
 (jMcNulty) Farmer, and the former, 
 who died when Allie was four years 
 old, had been a member of the First 
 Massachusetts Cavalry. The home of 
 the family was No. ^j Washington 
 Street. He had preceded his comrades 
 in getting away from Montauk, and he 
 lived till some time later, but his weak- 
 ness was such that he could not recu- 
 perate, and he passed on October 1st, 
 his burial being from St. John's 
 Church, in St. John's Cemetery. 
 
 Earle Eugene Clarke. — Private Clarke 
 was a native of Uxbridge, the son of Ev- 
 erett Eugene and Harriet Abbie (Olds) 
 Clarke. His education was had in the 
 ]niblic schools. As he was born De- 
 cember 17, 1878, he had not attained the 
 age of twenty years wdien he was called 
 home, another of the youthful sacri- 
 fices made by the nation in behalf of 
 Cuba. He had chosen the vocation of a 
 butcher, at least that is the business as- 
 signed in his enlistment paper. He was 
 one of the boys given by the town of 
 Brookfield to the cause. Though lie 
 passed through the privations of the 
 campaign in the Island, he was unable 
 to reach the continent with his com- 
 
 rades. Like so many others of the reg- 
 iment, his illness increased till on the 
 i-th of August it terminated in his un- 
 timely death, and his bodv received 
 ocean burial. No floral wreaths can be 
 placed above the grave of Clarke, but in 
 fancy many such are entwined by those 
 who loved him. His mother says that 
 history was his favorite studv, and it is 
 fitting that the final weeks of his brief 
 life should have been given in making 
 a bright page in the annals of his coun- 
 try, one devoted to making Cuba free. 
 John Michael Moran, who died at 
 Alontauk the very day of the Com- 
 pany's return, was born in West 
 Brookfield. Aug. 9. 1879. tlie son of 
 Patrick J. Moran, the latter having 
 served throughout the A\'ar of the Re- 
 bellion, in the 226 Connecticut, and in 
 Company K of the 4th U. S. Artillery. 
 His school life was had at Woodlan'.l 
 Street, whence he went from the eighth 
 grade to work. He had been a member 
 of the Worcester Drum Corps, and his 
 portrait, as given in this volume, is an 
 enlarged copy of his face as it apjjears 
 in a Cori)s group. His brother ^^■illiam 
 had gone to California, and when the 
 war came on. enlisting in the ist Cali- 
 fornia, he went to the Philippines. 
 Coming back to the I'nited States, 
 John did not rally as did some of his 
 fellows, .ind when the Companv left 
 Montauk. he remained, though his peo- 
 ple did not know that he was not 
 coming. The mother had prepared a 
 supper for her boy and his sisters were 
 at the station to greet him. but no 
 brother came, nor did they receive anv 
 word as to whv he failed them, .-\gain 
 at the midnight train a faithful sister 
 watched for the alighting of the soldier 
 boy. but not till the papers of Sunday 
 morning came did the anxious house- 
 hold know why the son and brother 
 w-as not there. He died Aug. 27th. His 
 body rests in St. John's Cemetery. The 
 home of the family is on Parker Street. 
 Fabian Hakanson, wdio died August 
 6th. was born in Sweden, ;\Iay 17th, 
 1878, the son of Charles A. Hakanson 
 and wife. His boyhood home on Ward 
 Street was near Millbury Street, and 
 
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 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 from the fashioning care of Principal 
 F. P. McKeon he went to a business 
 college and thence to the employment 
 of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Com- 
 pany. The same sterling blood which 
 had prompted Swedes of years ago to 
 follow (iustavus \''asa and Adolphus 
 and Charles the Twelfth, stirred that 
 of the erstwhile clerk to fight for the 
 
 comrades, rode with them to the Ar- 
 mory, but the eiYort was cjuite too 
 much for him. Soon after leaving the 
 train he had a chill, and later was con- 
 \-eyed to his home on North Street. 
 He was born in Worcester, Nov. 14th, 
 1876, the son of Martin and Josie (Hay- 
 den) Moore. He was by trade a vvire- 
 worker, and his first essav to enlist 
 
 John M. .Moran. 
 Karle E. Clarke. 
 
 Silas Undergrave. 
 
 j. J. Mcl-AUGHLIN. 
 
 Allie L. I'arm er. 
 
 oppressed and. having passeil a suc- 
 cessful examination, he was proud to 
 march away with the "Wellingtons," 
 but he was one (jf those who were not 
 to return with his comrades. Pater 
 his body was rendered hack and it 
 now sleeps in the Swetlish Cemetery 
 at New Worcester, the burial lieing 
 from Cnion Church. 
 
 John J. Moore came home with his 
 
 was with the Enunets, but. unsuccess- 
 ful there, he afterwards entered Com- 
 pany H. The very next day after the 
 return, having another chill, he was 
 ordered to St. \'incent's Hospital, 
 where he died on the 31st of August, 
 just three days later. 
 
 .\Iston Dwight Kiml)all, the son of 
 Herbert A. and Sarah C. (Morse) 
 Kimball, was born in Southbridge, 
 
WKLLIXGTON RIFLES, COMPANY H. 
 
 211 
 
 November 2, 1872. A large part of his 
 boyhood was spent on Dix Street, 
 W orcester. and his early schooling- was 
 had on that street also, a pupil of Prin- 
 cipal Win. H. Bartlett.and later he en- 
 tered the Classical High School. Sub- 
 sequently he became a salesman, and 
 was thus employed when the war be- 
 gan. Returning to Worcester he so- 
 licited and secured the consent of his 
 parents to enlist. His first choice was 
 the navy, but his father dissuaded him 
 from that plan, and being an intimate 
 friend of Captain Holden, persuaded 
 him to risk his fortunes with the 
 "Wellingtons." Frequent extracts 
 from his home letters in this volume 
 attest how well he endured the cam- 
 paign till he reached Montauk. There 
 the tale was soon told, and on the 28th, 
 the day after his comrades had their 
 reception in Worcester, he was re- 
 ceived into a higher realm, where 
 there would be no more going out 
 forever. By the side of the body of 
 his younger brother, Frank, in Hope 
 Cemetery, all that is mortal of AUie 
 awaits the resurrection. 
 
 John James McLaughlin was a native 
 of Worcester, born April 22d, 1874. 
 His parents were John and Margaret 
 (Scanlon) McLaughlin, and his earlv 
 home on Dorrance Street made him a 
 pupil in the neighboring Cambridge 
 Street school, where he grew up under 
 the tutelage of that admirable director 
 of youth. Miss Carrie S. George. From 
 school he became an iron-worker and 
 in that capacity the war found him. .\s 
 a member of the "Wellingtons" he 
 !)ore his part till the return of the Com- 
 pany, when, going to the hospital, he 
 was unable to make the trip home with 
 the regiment, but was brought back 
 some days later by his aunt, .\fter 
 his recovery he gained in flesh, becom- 
 ing, as his ])ortrait shows. c[uite stout. 
 During this time he was married to 
 Miss ^lary 0"Day of this city, who. 
 with a daughter, survives him. Though 
 apparently well, he was subject to pe- 
 riods of illness, evidently the result of 
 his Cuban experience, and finalK". 
 
 October 2d, 1902, death ended his suf- 
 ferings. His burial, from the Church 
 of the Sacred Heart, was in St. hihn's 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Win. Capen Green. — Though born 
 in Worcester, Dec. 12, 1877, the son of 
 Ellis and Ellen M. (Capen) Green, 
 this member of the "Wellingtons" 
 hailed from Spencer, in which sterling 
 hill township the larger |)art of his short 
 life was spent. He had the advantages of 
 the excellent schools of Si)eiicer and 
 was graduated from the David Prouty 
 High School in 1897, having a part in 
 the graduating exercises. During his 
 school life he was cons])icuous in ath- 
 letics, carrying the pennon of his class 
 and school well to the front on many 
 occasions. His active, strenuous nature 
 led him to join a local hose company, 
 and none were more interested than he. 
 From the school to wage earning was 
 a short step, and he was in the employ 
 of the Isaac Prouty P.oot and Shoe 
 Company when the standard of war 
 was erected. Dexoted though he was 
 to his home, to his vigorous tempera- 
 ment enlistment seemed the only 
 proper thing, and he was among the 
 early recruits to the Company. How 
 he did his duty in camp, on the march, 
 and in the field — are not the items writ- 
 ten on the memories of all his com- 
 rades? He was one of the victims of 
 fever, Aug. 9th, the scourge which 
 slew so many more of our boys than 
 the bullet or the bayonet. His body 
 lay in Cuban soil till late in the year, 
 w lull with so many others it was 
 brought back to his home town and 
 there reburied. The Sjiencer Leader of 
 Sejjt. 3d gives a whole page to a me- 
 morial of the young man, ami from a 
 ])oem by Mrs. Nellie Thayer Bemis, 
 the following stanza is selected : 
 
 "Hang tlic Hags at half masti 
 
 For our hero brave and true. 
 Who gave liis life in our Country's cause 
 
 'Neath the red. the white, the blue." • 
 
 Marvin Fisher Ames. — Corporal 
 Ames was a gift of the Empire State 
 to Massachusetts, being a native of 
 \\'alti)n, a township among the moun- 
 
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 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 tains of Delaware County, and was the 
 son of John Fislier and Mary Anne 
 (Beach)" Ames. He was born Nov. 
 28th, 1868. The father was a veteran 
 of the Civil War, having served his 
 country in Company A of the 144th 
 New York Infantry. Having; had the 
 advantages of the pulilic schools of 
 New York State, he came to \\'orcester 
 and here took a course in Hinman's 
 Business College, and after that 
 studied law with Charles Frank Ste- 
 vens. Esq., taking the place formerly 
 held by his brother. He had been here 
 about six years when the war began. 
 Commenting on his death, Mr. Ste- 
 vens says: "Marvin Ames was worth 
 more than the whole island of Cuba." 
 Always interested in military matters, 
 he was a charter member of Willie 
 Grout Camp, Sons of Veterans, where 
 to this day his memory is fondly cher- 
 ished, and' he was also one of the or- 
 ganizers of the "Wellingtons." He was 
 ever found in the path of duty till 
 stricken down with the malady com- 
 mon to those who sought Cuba during 
 these superheated days. He died Aug. 
 13th, 1898, and, being a yellow fever 
 suspect, his body was not returned 
 with those of hi's comrades, but re- 
 mained in the land he had given his life 
 to save, till the spring of 1900. It was 
 March 2d of that year that the closely 
 sealed casket, itself enclosed in a 
 heavy iron-bound box, was received by 
 Sessions & Sons. The latter covered 
 the box with black broadcloth, and two 
 days later it was borne to the Church 
 of the Unity, where a great assembly 
 of the bodies represented by him was 
 gathered to i)av their last tribute to his 
 im-mory. The' Rev. F. L. Phalen, pa.-^- 
 t(,r of the Church and Chaplain of the 
 2(1 .M. \'. M-. conducted the services, 
 while the L-ulogy was pronounced bv 
 l-rank 1'. Goulding, Esq., of the Wor- 
 cester County Bar, of which the de- 
 ceased had been a member. By the 
 .side of the flag-covered bier, the elo- 
 quent speaker was at his best. \\'illie 
 Grout Camp, under the command of 
 Cajitain .\. R. Mc.Adam, held the right 
 
 of the line; the "\\'ellingtons," under 
 Ca|)tain Charles S. Holden, turned out 
 fifty-five men : twenty-five veterans 
 from Post ID, G. A. R., were present : 
 of the Camp of Spanish War Veterans 
 there were ten representatives, and of 
 the "Wellington" veteran organization, 
 under command of George D. Barber, 
 there were twenty. Also there were 
 delegations from the General Charles 
 Devens Chapter of American Mechan- 
 ics and from the Worcester County 
 Bar. The next day, March 5th. the 
 body was taken to Corporal Ames' old 
 home in the Empire State, under the 
 care of Lieutenant H. C. Young, Ser- 
 geants F. P. Jordan, A. F. Love, Cor- 
 poral George E. Burr. Privates E. W^ 
 Lawrence and J. B. Nault, with Cap- 
 tain McAdam of the Sons of Veterans. 
 (.)n arriving in Walton, final funeral 
 exercises were held in the boyhood 
 home of Corporal Ames, and there his 
 body now reposes. The expenses in- 
 cident to his burial were borne by the 
 diti'erent organizations in which he 
 was interested, under the direction 
 and instance of the Willie Grout Camp, 
 S. O. V. Many generous gifts were 
 made, perhaps none more so than that 
 of Sessions & Sons, undertakers, who 
 donated their services. 
 
 Thomas Francis Keevan.— Westboro 
 did not send many representatives into 
 the Cuban strife, but of the few one 
 was Private Keevan. a native of the 
 town and a son of Thomas and Ellen 
 (P.urns) Keevan. born May 17, 1873. 
 The father had been a soldier in the 
 Rebellion days, being a member of 
 Company I of the 50th, the company 
 which has been known for many ' 
 year as the "Emmets." Thomas Fran- 
 cis had his schooling in his birth town 
 and became, in due time, a machinist. 
 It was in this capacity that the war 
 found him. and the services of the 
 father so long before prompted the 
 son to go and ilo likewise; thus we 
 find him in the ranks of the "Welling- 
 tons." \Vith his fellows he did his 
 dutv to the end, and when he reached 
 Westboro on his return, he met a re- 
 
WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMPANY H. 
 
 213 
 
 ception whose memories linger vet 
 among those who had a part, or beheld 
 the enthusiasm which greeted the 
 home-coming of the young man. But 
 the inevitable illness which accom- 
 panied the Cuban campaigners seized 
 him, and for five months he languished, 
 a victim of the fever so fatal to many. 
 Though he partially recovered, it was 
 only to linger weak in body and de- 
 ranged in mind till April 12, 1901, when. 
 
 George Warren Hodgins. — One of 
 the older men of the Company, seem- 
 ingly Hodgins should have endured 
 the hardships of war better than the 
 majority, but he succumbed earlier than 
 many and was among those left on the 
 Island when the regiment returned. 
 The son of William and Eliza (Xason ) 
 Hodgins, he was born on a farm in 
 Calais, .Maine, March 17th, 1864, dur- 
 ing that battle summer which sealed the 
 
 Corp. M. F. .Ames. 
 F. H. Hakanson. 
 
 William C. Cree.v. 
 
 Corp. C. M. Have. 
 (1. W. Hodgins. 
 
 by his own hand, he hastened his de- 
 parture from this world. Though the 
 word suicide is applied to his giving, 
 there was no responsibility on his ])art : 
 the blame goes further back, to the ])ri- 
 vations of his stay in Cuba. His bodv 
 rests in St. John's Cemetery, Worces- 
 ter, where the grave is annually vis- 
 ited bv his surviving comrades. 
 
 fate of the Confederacy, though he was 
 not the son of a veteran, since a defect 
 in his fatlier's right eye prevented his 
 enlistment, lioyhood was given to 
 farm work and the public schools, with 
 a short time in a shop in Calais, till 
 the winter of i883-"84, when he took a 
 course in Eastman's Business College 
 of Poughkeepsie, X. Y. The fall of 
 
214 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 1885 fi 11111(1 him in Worcester, wherein 
 the shop of F. E. Reed Co. he learned 
 the trade of machinist. He remained 
 here four years, going then to the em- 
 ploy of L. Robljins, wliere he had 
 charge of the planing work till late in 
 1896. He was a call member of the Fire 
 Department and was considered a most 
 efficient man. His name is recalled 
 with fervor to this day at the Beacon 
 Street engine house. Then for a year 
 and a half he was with his father in 
 Maine, coming back to F. E. Reed's 
 shop, March ist, 1898, where the war 
 found him. He died Sept. 12th, aboard 
 the transport Missouri, when on his 
 way home, his body receiving ocean 
 burial. It is remembered by an officer 
 of the Company that when, on enlist- 
 ing, the recruit was asked the name of 
 a friend to whom his name and data 
 should be sent in case of death, Hodg- 
 ins said : "That is a good idea, for I have 
 no expectations of coming home alive." 
 A member of Salem Square Congre- 
 gational Church, now merged with 
 Uniciii, he was a most exemplary sol- 
 dier. His mother died in 1887. His 
 father survives at the age of seventy- 
 
 IIarvey Randall. 
 
 six vears, and a brother and sister live 
 in this city. 
 
 Harvey Randall was born in Mont- 
 pellier, France. Xov. 28th, 1877. the son 
 of American parents, then in this foreign 
 land, said parents being Dr. Mer- 
 ton Orlando and Myra (Hubbard^ 
 Randall. Dr. Randall is a resident of 
 Pasadena, California, and there his son 
 received his education, graduating 
 from the high school of that city in 
 1897. He came east that he might learn 
 the trade of machinist, being in the 
 employ of F. E. Reed Co. Dr. Ran- 
 dall was not of military age during the 
 Rebellion, but our young soldier had 
 martial relatives in that he was related 
 to the late Dr. J. Oramel Alartin of 
 Worcester, an army surgeon in 1861. 
 
 Randall was the Company musician, 
 and his was the bugle call which sum- 
 moned the men when the alarm from 
 Las Guasimas startled the bathers at 
 Siboney. The rigors of Cuban life 
 quickly told on Private Randall, and 
 his was one of the early deaths in the 
 Companv,his body remaining in Cuban 
 soil till the return of soldierly remains 
 later in the season. Its final burial is 
 in the family lot at Norwich, Chenango 
 County, New York. That a bright, 
 hoiiefiil voung life should be thus sum- 
 marily ended, is deeply distressing, 
 and doubly so when we reflect that 
 more adequate care and attention on 
 the part of the government might have 
 ]H-evente(l this and many similar trag- 
 edies. 
 
 Charles Maxwell Haye was another 
 gift of the Empire State to Massachu 
 setts and the nation. The son of Chas 
 Alaxwell and Matilda M. (Rider) 
 Have, he was born in Chazy, Clinton 
 County, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1877. His ed- 
 ucation was that of the i)ublic schools 
 of his native State, terminating, as far 
 as the schools were concerned, in thj 
 high school of Plattsburg. His occupa- 
 tidii was that of a machinist, and lat- 
 terlv had worked as an electrician, 
 though at the time of his enlistment he 
 was in the emijloy of liraman, Dow & 
 Co.. steam fitters. He was well knowr 
 
WELLINGTON KIFLES, COMPANY H. 
 
 215 
 
 among cyclists, and at one time had 
 worked for the Speirs jManiifacturinp; 
 Co. He had been a member of H 
 Company for some time, and was 
 known as an athlete, being- one of the 
 largest men, ph\-sically, in the organi- 
 zation, and in its basketball contests 
 he was a star player. At one time he 
 was a reporter on the Worcester Tel- 
 egram, and that journal ascribes to 
 him an excellent degree of industry and 
 faithfulness. He was ill when the Mo- 
 bile reached Montauk, and was taken 
 to the hospital, where he steadily grew 
 worse, no efforts on the part of the 
 physicians being able to stay his dis- 
 ease. He died Sept. 3d, and his body 
 was taken for burial to the National 
 Cemetery of Cypress Hills. Rrookh-n, 
 N. Y. Though afar from the scenes 
 of active life, his comrades do not for- 
 get him, and each Memorial Day. at 
 their expense, flowers are laid upon his 
 grave. His mother resides in Lowell. 
 Silas Undergrave. — W hen the call 
 for enlistments came, among the many 
 responding were two brothers from 
 Millburv. Though of French extrac- 
 tion, thev were American born and had 
 
 jjassed through the usual routine of 
 jjublic school life. They were pleased 
 enough at being accei)ted by the offi- 
 cers of the "Wellingtons." and with 
 high hopes they marched away from 
 the city on that morning in early Maj'. 
 However, when they came to face the 
 examination in Camp Dewey, as in 
 Bible days, one was taken and the 
 other left. Silas was. as he thought, 
 the lucky one, while Fred returned to 
 \\'orcester. Tiotli were sons of Silas 
 L'ndergrave of Milllniry. where Silas 
 was born, Feb. 14th, 1872. When the 
 war began he was working as a baker 
 on Xorwich Street. With his fellows, 
 he had the ups and downs of Camp 
 Dewey, l^akeland. Tampa and the 
 Cuban campaign, but was one of the 
 first to yield to the attack of fever, and 
 was the very first \\'orcester volunteer 
 to die on the far-oft' Island. A victim 
 of typhoid, he passed away August 
 Lst. almost before the real trials of the 
 Cuban stay had begun, .-\fter its re- 
 pose for months in Cuba, his ])ody was 
 returned to his country and now rests 
 in the Callmlic Cemeterv of Millburv. 
 
 AT PRESENT. 
 
 The following is a list of the surviv- 
 ing members of the Company during 
 the war, and, so far as possible, the 
 present residence and occupation of 
 each man. Unless otherwise stated, 
 the state is Massachusetts, the place 
 Worcester. 
 
 Captain Charles S. Holden. manufac- 
 turer. Common Council. 
 
 First Lieutenant Edward I!. Fish, man- 
 ufacturer. Rochester. X. H. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Harry T. Cray, 
 merchant. 
 
 Sergeant Charles E. Monroe, electri- 
 cian, Xew York city. 
 
 Sergeant Clarence E. Smith, assistant 
 superintendent. 
 
 Sergeant Harry C. Young, bookkeeper. 
 
 Sergeant Dexter E. Brigham. i)roducc 
 dealer. 
 
 Sergeant Frederick B. Jordan, mer- 
 chant. 
 
 Sergeant Frank L. \'aughn, book- 
 keeper. 
 
 Corporal Joseph L. King, 25 Merrick. 
 
 Corporal ^^'illianl IT. King, electrician, 
 Boston. 
 
 Corporal Albert R. Scott, entertain- 
 ment bureau. 
 
 Corporal Albert F. Love, regulator. 
 
 Musician \\'illiani H. Wood, Jr., clerk, 
 Boston. 
 
 Artificer Archie L. Purinton. locksmith. 
 
 \\ agoner Louie S. Jones, salesman, 
 Rochester, X. Y. 
 
 PRIV.XTES. 
 
 Walter G. Adams, foreman. 
 
 John D. Allen, piano-maker. Spring- 
 field. Real name, Ahlin. 
 
 Harry C. Amell, Fire Department. 
 
 Will O. Bachelor, draughtsman, Har- 
 vey, 111. 
 
 Joseph A. Barrett, barber. 
 
216 
 
 WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 William MacC. Bond. U. S. A. 
 Herbert A. Coates, engineer. 
 Clarence E. Cook, laundryman. 
 Joseph DeMarco. hanker and notary 
 
 public. 
 Charles H. Ditson, carj^enter, Sutton. 
 Otto L. Fagerstrom, U. S. A. 
 Charles J. Flint, machinist. 
 Chester M. Fuller, piano-tuner, Boston. 
 Thomas H. Gagnon, collector. 
 Joseph S. Gendron, reporter. 
 George C. Gilmore, foreman. 
 John H. Gilmore, wool-sorter. 
 Willis Gleason, real estate. 
 Frank M. Hill, painter. 
 \\'alter F. Hooker, belt-maker. 
 Frederick R. Jefferson, clerk. 
 Jeremiah W. King, fireman. 
 Franz H. Krebs, Jr., lawyer, Boston. 
 Everett W. Lawrence, laundryman. 
 Joseph T. Lindsay, pattern-maker. 
 John C. MacKay, clerk, Spencer. 
 
 Alalcom W. MacXiven. cook, Boston. 
 
 Dexter Miner, buffer. 
 
 Henry M. Mirick, fireman, 
 
 Henry A. Mower, foreman. 
 
 John B. Nault, machinist, Boston. 
 
 Albert E. Newton, draughtsman. 
 
 Arthur J- Paradis, last-maker. 
 
 Albert W. Pratt. U. S. A. 
 
 James F. Quilty, clerk, 
 
 Charles P. Re}-nolds, mill hand. 
 
 Geo. L. Shedd, clerk. New York city. 
 
 Charles F. Sleeper, 'conductor. 
 
 ^\'illiam H. Stiles, woodworker, New- 
 castle, Ind. 
 
 Fred W. Taft, agent, Webster. 
 
 Clarence W. Thompson, bookkeeper. 
 
 Albert H. Tourtelotte, shoe-cutter, 
 Lynn. 
 
 <7ieorge L. Trudcl, i)ressman. 
 
 Edgar H. Vosburg, machinist. 
 
 John C. ^Vare, bookkeeper. 
 
 Leaver Whittaker, expressman. 
 
 MusTER-iN Roll of Company H, 2d Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
 teers, IN THE Service of the United States for Two Years from May 
 9, 1898, Unless Sooner Discharged. 
 
 [The data, in order, cover rank, name, age, birthplace and occupation.] 
 
 captain. corporals. 
 
 Marvin F. Ames, 29, Walton, N. Y., 
 lawyer. 
 
 Joseph L. King, 22, Worcester, book- 
 keeper. 
 
 \\'illiam H. King, 19, Worcester, elec- 
 trician. 
 
 Charles M. Haye, 21, Chazy, N. Y., 
 steam fitter. 
 
 Albert B. Scott, 31, ^Vorcester, organ- 
 maker. 
 
 Albert F. Love, 22, Worcester, piano- 
 maker. 
 
 .MUSICIANS. 
 
 Harvey Randall, 20, Montpellier, 
 
 France, machinist. 
 William H. Wood, Jr. ,25, Boston, clerk. 
 
 artificer. 
 
 jeweler. 
 Dexter E. Brigham, 38, Shrewsburv, Archie L. Purinton, 25, Shrewsbury, 
 
 merchant. " " ' locksmith. 
 
 Frederick B. Jordan, 22, Worcester, wagoner 
 
 bookkeeper. 
 Frank L. X'aughn, 2y, Waitsfield, Vt., Louie S. Jones, 23, East Douglas, 
 
 bookkeeper. salesman. 
 
 Charles S. Holdeii. 41, Holden, manu- 
 facturer. 
 
 FIRST lieutenant. 
 
 Edward B. I^"ish, 2"/, W'orcester, mer- 
 chant, 
 
 second lieutenant. 
 
 Harry T. Gray, 22, Ayer, bookkeeper. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Charles E. Monroe, 26, Shrewsbury, 
 
 electrician. 
 Clarence E. Smith, 24, Worcester, clerk. 
 Harrv C. Young, 26, Providence, R. L, 
 
WELLIXGTOX RIFLES, CO.MI'A.VY H. 217 
 
 PRi\ATES. King. Jeremiah \\'., kj, Worcester, 
 
 gardener. 
 
 Adams, Walter G., 24, Worcester. Krebs, Franz H.. Jr.. 29. Boston, stii- 
 
 butcher. dent. 
 
 Allen. John D.. n). Worcester, plui- Lawrence, Everett W.. k), Worcester, 
 
 tographer. Real name, .-lliliit. jirinter. 
 
 Amell, Harry C, 20, Montpelier, \'t., l.inilsey, Joseph 1'., \(). Prospect, Me., 
 
 clerk. carpenter. 
 
 Bachelor, Will ()., iq. 1 lupkintun. .MacKay. John C 20. London. Eng- 
 
 draughtsman. land, farmer. 
 
 Barrett, Jos. .-\.. 32, Si)rini;t"ield, barlier. .McLauijhHn, John }.. 21,. Worcester, 
 Bond, \\'illiam .\IacC., 18, Worcester, hra/er. 
 
 insurance. Mac.\i\en, .Malconi W.. 24, Cijhoes, 
 Buck. Chas. E., 20, W'orcester, student. N. Y., printer. 
 
 Clarke, Earle E., 21, L^xbridge, butcher. Miner. Dexter, 20, ^^'orcester, nickel 
 Coates, Herbert A,, 21, St. Andrews. plater. 
 
 N. B,. housesmith. Mirick. Henry M.. 29. Priticeton. in- 
 Cook, Clarence E., 29, \\'oonsocket. spector. 
 
 R. L, laundryman. Moore, John J.. 22. AX'orcester. wire- 
 DeMarco, Joseph. 25, Potenza. Italy. worker. 
 
 notary public. ]\Ioraii. jnhn M., 20. Brooktield, shoe- 
 Ditson, Charles H., 20, Somerset, Me.. maker. 
 
 carpenter. Mower, Henry A., 38. West r.rook- 
 Fagerstrom, Otto L., 21, \\'erland. field, manufacturer. 
 
 Sweden, plater. Xanlt. Jrdm B.. 22. Woodstock, Conn., 
 Farmer, .\llie L., 19, \\'orcester. stu- machinist. 
 
 dent. Xewton, .\lbert E.. 20. Worcester. ma- 
 Flint, Charles J., 22. Worcester, ship- chinist. 
 
 ping clerk. Paradis. .\rthur J.. 2^. Montreal, Can- 
 P^dler. Chester M.. 22, Worcester, atla, last-maker. 
 
 salesman. Pratt, Albert \\'.. 24, Worcester, clerk. 
 
 Gagnon, Thomas H., 25, Hopedale, Ouilty. James F.. 19. Worcester, clerk. 
 
 collector. Reynolds. Charles "P., 18, Montville, 
 Gendron, Joseph S., 21, Baltic, Conn., Conn., mill hand. 
 
 salesman. .'^hedd, (leo. L., 24, Boston, collector. 
 
 Gilmore, George C, 22. Hamilton, Sleeper, Charles F., 21, Warren, ma- 
 Iowa, clerk. chinist. 
 
 Gilmore, John H., 25, Worcester, wool- Stiles, William PL, 33, Bridgewater, 
 
 sorter. \-l _ cabinet-maker. 
 
 Gleason, Willis, 26, Brookfield, engineer. ^aft. Fred W., 30, Hingham, salesman. 
 
 Green. William C, 20. Worcester, Thompson, Clarence W.. 20. Worces- 
 
 bootmaker, , , ^ . ■ 
 
 TT , I' 1 ■ TLj w * tcr, electrician. 
 
 Hakanson, I'abian H.. 20, Worcester. „, , , ,, ,, _ 
 
 [^,j.y. lourtelotte. Albert H., 25. Spencer, 
 
 Hill. Frank M.. 26. Winchendon. clerk. shoe-cutter. 
 
 Hodgins. George W.. 34. Calais, Me., Trudel, George L.. 26. .\lbany, X. \ .. 
 machinist. printer. 
 
 Hooker, Walter F., 22, Worcester, clerk. I'ndergrave. Silas. 25. Millbury. baker. 
 
 Jefferson, Frederick R.. 26. Hamiltmi, \'osburg. Edgar H., 28, Ellenburg, 
 Canada, clerk. X. Y.. machinist. 
 
 Keevan. Thomas F.. 25, Westboro, Ware, John C, 22. Holliston, book- 
 machinist, keeper. 
 
 Kimball, .\lston D., 25. Southbridge. Whittaker. Leaver, 19, Worcester, 
 salesman. wood-worker. 
 
218 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Captain Jekkmiah J. Mo vmh an. 
 First I.itfT. John I-". Hurley. Second Lieut. William E. McCann. 
 
 EMMET GUARDS CUMMISSIONED OEFICEKS. 
 
EMMKT GUARDS, COiMPANY G. 
 
 219 
 
 Worcester in the Spanish W^ar. 
 
 EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G, 9TH REGIMENT, M. V. M. 
 
 E\'OTEDLY, enthusiastic- 
 ally American, tlie "Em- 
 mets" ne\er fnrget their 
 Irish oriL::in nor the patriot 
 whose name they bear, but 
 the Company, with all its 
 history, was not the first 
 A\'orcester military orjjani- 
 zation that, in donning the 
 blue, did not forget the 
 green. There were heroes 
 before Hercules. As early 
 as 1852, Worcester Hibernians, in or- 
 ganizing the Jackson Guards, really 
 became the first martially arraved 
 Irishmen in .Massachusetts. 
 
 In battling for himself, or, as is more 
 often the case, for another, a true son 
 of Erin ever did enjoy the din of arms. 
 A\'ith the Household Troops in French 
 arra\- at Fontenoy, or with Sarsfield at 
 Boyne Water, he fought no more val- 
 iantly than with ^^'ellington at Water- 
 loo, and in the Irish Xinth at Freder- 
 icksburg. Fifty-two years ago, people 
 of Irish birth in Wnrcesler were not 
 so numerous as in later times, but 
 racial traits were just as strong then 
 as ncnv ; many a lad from the Evergreen 
 Isle was reaily In be the Minstrel Boy 
 in fact as well as fancy, and, ere 
 another decade had sped away, the 
 local bard might truly sing that his 
 Worcester boy . 
 
 "to tlie war has gone, 
 In the ranks of death, you'll find him:" 
 
 for, among the would-lie soldiers who, 
 in the heated nights of August, 1852, 
 met in Fenwick Hall to organize a 
 military conijjany, were men and boys 
 who ten years later were to seal with 
 their life's blood their devotion to this 
 their newlv made home. 
 
 1852. 
 
 Fortunately for history's sake, Wor- 
 cester has not been lacking in those 
 disposed to note the passing event, and 
 Richard O'Flynn has long been her 
 Irish Old .Mortality, ready to keep legi- 
 ble the ancient inscription and to re- 
 cord the happenings of each recurring 
 day. Equally cpiick to recognize the 
 merit of records already made and tire- 
 less in their transcription, he has be- 
 come a thesaurus of Irish fact in and 
 for the Heart of the Commonwealth. 
 It was a lucky thing that the records 
 of tile early meetings of the Jackson 
 • luards fell into the hands of the late 
 .Andrew .\tliy. and of equal good for- 
 tune was it that Mr. O'Flynn was 
 ready and able to copy each and every 
 word for the sake of posterity. It was 
 August the 9th, 1852, that the first 
 gathering was had in Fenwick Hall, 
 and among those who signed the roll, 
 on that o])ening night, was .-\ndrew 
 .\thy himself, and he was a member 
 when the Guards were summarily dis- 
 banded less than three vears later. 
 
 The opening sentence <if these rec- 
 ords is : "The adopted citizens of Wor- 
 cester held a meeting at Fenwick Hall 
 to take into consideration the pro]jrietj' 
 cif forming a militia company." Then 
 or later the memliers voted that the ob- 
 ject of the organization was to uphold 
 and advance the Constitution of the 
 United States, that the standard stature 
 for members be five feet and seven 
 inches, that no man should be proposed 
 for membership unless of good charac- 
 ter and position, and that any one be- 
 longing to the Guards seen publicly 
 drunk "shall be dealt with by his com- 
 rades." .Vt the third meeting, August 
 
220 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 i6, it was voted that the Company be 
 called the Jackson Guards, a tribute to 
 Old Hickory, whose Irish antecedents 
 evidently had impressed these later ar- 
 rivals from Hibernia. At the same 
 meeting a committee of three was ap- 
 pointed to wait upon General George 
 Hcifibs, the l(;)cal representati\'e of the 
 
 cer Colonel W. A. Williams, who 
 promised to present it to the Governor, 
 then George S. Boutwell. and to give 
 the project his support. 
 
 But the military ambitions of our 
 young Irishmen were not to be easily 
 realized, for at the eleventh meeting, 
 September lo. in the presence of a large 
 
 -Andrew .Xthy. 
 January i. 1832— May 15. iSgS. 
 
 militia, and present to him their peti- 
 tion for recognition. ()wing to a lack- 
 ing in the proi)er number of signatures, 
 the General declined to receive the 
 document. The necessary names were 
 soon secured and the precious paper 
 was intrusted to the care of Staff Offi- 
 
 nimiber of [leople, it was announced 
 that the Governor had refused to grant 
 the petition, on the grounds that the 
 expression "adopted citizens" was ob- 
 jectionable. Eloquence was not want- 
 ing at this stage of proceedings and 
 many proclaimed their determination 
 
EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 
 
 221' 
 
 to never, no never, support the Demo- 
 cratic party a.s;ain. the Governor then 
 being of that political strain, a result 
 of the famous first coalition, but wise 
 counsels prevailed, a committee was 
 appointed to present to the Governor 
 an amended petition, and, from subse- 
 quent events, it may be supposed that 
 rancor against the Democratic party 
 gradually cooled. \\'ith the amended 
 document, signed by fifty members, 
 another effort was made to join the 
 militia, and this entry for September 
 2ist tells the story of success: 
 
 The deputation waited on Governor Bout- 
 well, the 2ist Sept.: were introduced by W. F. 
 Kelly, Esq., of Boston. The Governor received 
 the deputation kindly, told them that tliere was 
 no action taken on the former petition, and 
 that our request should be attended to. We 
 got the charter at last. It was sent the same 
 evening to General Hobbs. 
 
 Hence the 21st of September may 
 be taken as the birthday of Irish mili- 
 tarism in Massachusetts, and the date 
 is significant, for the same numerals 
 indicate a freeman's majority. 
 
 The earliest drill room was in the 
 stone edifice on Front Street, now 
 numbered 236. and occupied by James 
 F. (iuerin, druggist : later the Companv 
 drilled in what was known as Warren 
 Hall on Pearl Street, now a billiard 
 room. The first drillmaster was Major 
 F. G. Stiles, then an active member of 
 the Light Infantry, now President of 
 its Veterans. Permanent officers were 
 elected October 15th. and Michael 
 O'Driscoll was the first Captain. Of the 
 career of the Guards in subsequent 
 months, how they were drilled by Ad- 
 jutant, afterwards Lieut. -colonel, J. M. 
 Studley of the 51st, how they purged 
 themselves of unworthy members and 
 of their general progress, it would be 
 interesting to write, but it is rather of 
 their successors that this sketch is to 
 treat. However, space must be taken 
 to state that their contemporaries and 
 associates in the militia did not receive 
 them kindly, and they had no end of 
 the fiercest prejudice to encounter. 
 There was no attempt to impugn their 
 military bearing, nor their worthiness 
 as soldiers, but the\' were a later im- 
 
 portation than their critics, hence the 
 objectionable epithets applied to them 
 when tlicy appeared upon the muster 
 field. "Paddies" was a word fre(|uenlly 
 in the moutlis of their traducers, and 
 certain companies even refused to ap- 
 pear in line with the Jacksons, but the 
 j)roper officers speedily took that spirit 
 out (.f ilio objectors, and in the matter 
 'if excellence in drill, the honors bv no 
 means lay with the "earlier here."' 
 
 In 1S53 the annual muster was at 
 Leominster, and was marked by certain 
 discourtesies disagreeable to experi- 
 ence, but the culmination of prejudice 
 and hatred came at the Longmeadow 
 muster of 1854. This was the year of 
 "Xati\e .\merican" bitterness and cer- 
 tain companies of the 8th Regiment 
 proclaimed their intention to drive the 
 "Paddies" from the field. The Colonel 
 of the 8th very kindly informed Cap- 
 tain O'Driscoll of the plot, and the lat- 
 ter prepared his "boys" for the scrim- 
 mage by giving to each one twenty 
 rounds of jjall cartridges, to be carried 
 on the person, not in their regulation 
 bo.xcs. Somehow knowledge of this 
 fact became known to the bucolic com- 
 panies, and their anxiety for a scrap 
 with the Irish lessened rapidly and had 
 no actual manifestation. After fifty 
 years, we can sympathize with the 
 words of a contemporary when hesaiil, 
 "It was indeed a matter of thanksgiv- 
 ing that no attack was made." for the 
 men who subsequently fought for the 
 flag on so many fiercely contested 
 fields would not have yielded a single 
 inch. The discretion of their detract- 
 ors was commendable. 
 
 L'nfortunately, the lines of the Jack- 
 son Guards had fallen on the evil days 
 leading up to the famous Know-Xoth- 
 ing spasm in national life. In 1854 this 
 party, proclaiming its determination to 
 exclude all foreigners from political 
 privileges, triumphed at the polls and 
 sent a practically unanimous Legisla- 
 ture to Boston and elected as Governor 
 Henry J. Gardner. One of the refrains 
 of the campaign was the disbandment 
 of the Irish companies in the militia, 
 and in due time the ])roinise was kept. 
 
222 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Early in Januarv, 1853. Governor (Gard- 
 ner, with the consent of the Council, 
 issued the order disbanding Irish com- 
 panies in Boston, Lawrence, Lowell and 
 Worcester, seven in all. Great was the 
 indignation of the parties chiefly af- 
 fected, and other people blushed that 
 race and/ creed should form barriers to 
 the performance of military duty. Of 
 course the "Jacksons" met and pro- 
 
 K 1 L 1 1 A K r> ( ) ■ !■" L Y N N , 
 
 .\ilti«-iiKiri.in and "Kniniet" [Iistori;in. 
 
 tested, but as Colonel John Hay has 
 said in verses of a later day, 
 
 "You may resolute till the cows come home," 
 
 they could not overcome the stubborn 
 fact that as militiamen they no longer 
 existed. The Adjutant-general of the 
 Commonwealth, Ebenezer Stone, came 
 to the city February 17th, and, having 
 broken into the Company's armory, re- 
 moved all of the public property and 
 carried it to the railroad station for 
 transportation to Boston. It should be 
 stated that the men had refused to give 
 
 up their arms and equipments. The 
 s])oliation of the .Armory having been 
 learned by Captain O'Driscoll, he has- 
 tened to secure a warrant for the arrest 
 of General Stone, but the oiificer was 
 speedily released on bail by Mayor Geo. 
 W.- Richardson. February 20th, there 
 was an indignation meeting in Fenwick 
 Hall, the very place where the Company 
 was organized, and speech was rife and 
 earnest over the untimely end, though 
 the outcome was the conclusion to let 
 the matter drop, a committee having 
 already waited upon Benjamin F. But- 
 ler of Lowell, subsequently the famous 
 officer and statesman, who advised 
 them thus, since the Governor had the 
 power t(i do as he had done. Here the 
 matter ended, but the memory rankled 
 for many a long day. In the light of 
 later history, when so large a number of 
 these despised Irishmen gave their lives 
 for their adopted country, such a story 
 as that outlined seems almost incredi- 
 ble. .\t least ten of the names borne 
 on the rolls of the "Jacksons" reap- 
 ])eare<l on that of the "Emmets'" when 
 the latter Company, under Major 
 Chas. Devens, in April, 1861, marched 
 away for Baltimore. .V large propor- 
 tion of the men served in some capac- 
 ity between Fort Sumter and Appo- 
 mattox. 
 
 The following is the executive action 
 ci)\"ering the disbandment of the sev- 
 eral Companies: 
 
 Co.MMONWEALTH OI- MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 E.xECUTivE Department, 
 Council Chamber, Jan. 12th, 1855. 
 
 The Committee on the Militia to whom vvas 
 referred by His Excellency the Commander-in- 
 chief the report made to him by the .Adjutant- 
 general in regard to the composition of certain 
 miUtary companies mentioned in said report, tlie 
 communication of Thomas Cass, Captain of Co. 
 B, of the 5th Regiment of ,\rtillery, and also 
 a comnuuiication from B. F. Edmands, Major- 
 general of the ist Division of the miHtia of tlie 
 Commonvvealtli. with other accompanying doc- 
 uments, have considered the matter referred to 
 them, and report that, from the evidence fur- 
 nished them, they believe the several compa- 
 nies named in the report of the .Adjutant-gen- 
 eral are composed of persons "foreigners or of 
 foreign extraction:" that His Excellency as 
 Commander-in-chief has the power legal and 
 constitutional to disband any military company, 
 
EMMET GUARDS, (OMPANV G. 
 
 223 
 
 with the advice and consent of the Council, 
 and tliat for tlie reasons so strongly set forth in 
 the inaugural address of His Kxcellency. it is 
 expedient that all of said companies be dis- 
 banded. 
 
 ALBERT H. NELSON. 
 
 Chairman of the Committee. 
 
 The order of (lishamliiient is as 
 follows : 
 
 Commonwealth of ^^^ss.•^CHUSETTS, 
 He.mjuuartkrs. 
 Boston, Jan. I2th, 1855. 
 
 General Order No. 2. 
 
 The Commander-in-chief having approved 
 tlie above advice of Council, orders: That Com- 
 panies B, F and H of the 5tli Regiment of 
 .■\rtillery, Company C of 3d Battalion of Light 
 Infantry, Comjiany A of 5th Regiment of 
 Light Infantry. Company G of 7th Regiment 
 of Light Infantry, and Company D. 8th Regi- 
 ment of Light Infantry, be, and the same are 
 hereby disbanded; and that the commissioned 
 ofticers, by reason of such disbanding, be honor- 
 ably discharged after the return of such arms, 
 equipments or other property in their possession 
 as belong to tlie Commonwealth, to the Adju- 
 tant-general, or such officer as he shall authorize 
 to receive the same. Major-generals William 
 Sutton. George Hobbs and B. F. Edmands are 
 charged with the execution of this order, so far 
 as it relates to the companies under their 
 respective commands. 
 
 Bv the order of His Excellcncv 
 
 HENRY J. GARDNER. 
 Governor and Commander-in-chief. 
 EBENEZER \V. STONE. 
 
 Adjutant-general . 
 
 The work of time in ris^jhtiiig- the 
 wrongs of yesterday is well illustrated 
 in the fact that a statue in bronze of 
 Thomas Cass now stands in the Public 
 Clardens of Boston, not so far from the 
 spot where his Company last paraded. 
 He (lied at the head of his regiment, 
 the Xinth, on bloody Malvern Hill. 
 July i2th, 1862. Somehow there is in 
 all this a reminder of the builders and 
 the rejected stone. Worcester's Jack- 
 son Guards were Company D of the 
 8th Regiment. 
 
 1859. 
 
 Though temporarily suppressed. 
 Irish love of the bugle call with the 
 answering quickened step could not be 
 held in abeyance always, so four and a 
 half years afterwards we find the sons 
 of Erin again organizing a military 
 
 company. Had the ncws])apers of the 
 day a small part of the enterpri.se of 
 the present, we should not be lacking 
 the exact date and place of meeting, 
 but "June. 1859." is as near as the word 
 of tradition has it. However, that 
 painstaking annalist. Richard ( )'Flynn, 
 has picked up somewhere a leaf from 
 records of the Company and dulv filed 
 it away, and upon the same we mav 
 read: "Worcester. July 8. i860. First 
 Annual Meeting of the Mmmet 
 (iuards." Either the organization in 
 June, so stated, is wrong or the men 
 arbitrarily took the foregoing date as 
 their natal day. Only two leaves, ap- 
 l)arently. of the original records are in 
 existence and these ha])])ily Mr. 
 O'Flynn has secured. Thev are of 
 dates in i860 and "61. On organizing, 
 ^fatthew J. McCafTerty. subsequently 
 a prominent figure in Worcester and 
 Massachusetts affairs, was made cap- 
 tain. Evidently the new soldiers got 
 to work at once, and we find them 
 marching, drilling, parading and trip- 
 ping the "li.ght fantastic" as men in 
 uniform ha\-e done from time imme- 
 morial. They took the name of the 
 Irish leader who. tried and executed 
 for his participation in rebellion to 
 Ilritish rule in Ireland, gave before his 
 judges, ere sentence of death was pro- 
 nounced, one of the most eloquent 
 speeches ever uttered. For more than 
 a century school boys have spoken 
 the dying words of Robert Emmet, 
 and to-day they are just as eloquent as 
 when they fell from the lijis of that 
 orator and patriot. 
 
 Though in 1859 Know-Xothings 
 rode on their raids no more and. under 
 the lead of Governor X. P. lianks. 
 Massachusetts was putting herself in 
 excellent shai)e for the coming trial of 
 war. the "Emmets" did not become a 
 l)art of the State's military arm till 
 1861. Their industry in the drill-room 
 had not been in vain, and when trou- 
 bles in Charleston Harbor began to 
 foreshadow open hostilities, and the 
 militia of the Commonwealth was ar- 
 raying itself for the struggle, this ex- 
 cellently efpiijiped \\orcester Com- 
 
22i 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 pany, not in the militia, volunteered its 
 services to Governor John A. Andrew. 
 Such action was all the more credita- 
 ble since these young men had grown 
 to honiir one jiolitical party, and to 
 heartily dislike another. Though the 
 latter was in power, when it came to 
 an issue between union and disunion, 
 with them there was not one moment 
 of hesitation, and they readily offered 
 all that they had, saying that they 
 were read}' ti i march at an iKjur's 
 notice. M. S. AlcConville was the 
 Captain, his First Lieutenant was 
 
 Dwight Foster, tendered to the "Em- 
 mets" a place in the militia with im- 
 mediate service, under the National 
 Government. The Company was at 
 once called together, the proffer was 
 unanimously accepted, and the very 
 next night, after the election of offi- 
 cers, or the 20th of April, as Company 
 C of the 3d Battalion of Rifles, the 
 "boys" were on their way to the seat of 
 impending war, having as their asso- 
 ciate companies the City Guards of 
 \\'orcester and the Holden Rifles, bet- 
 ter known among their friends as the 
 
 U4 ^ - j,, wr , • „,,,;, <- . ,' ;i'- .i 
 
 *>• 
 
 , ■■' i 
 
 I] 
 
 r-^ 
 
 
 
 "iCM.MiC'i" hi-:k()i;s kii.i.i-;i) at kh.i) hakiiok jink .i. 
 
 Michael ( )'l )risci)Il of the "Jacksons," 
 and the Second Lieutenant was M. j. 
 McCafferty, recently Captain, and who 
 years before had been offered the com- 
 mand of the "Jacksons." Thos. O'Neill, 
 later to fall at the head of a company 
 in ihe 25th, was Third Lieutenant, and 
 Maurice Melaven was Fourth. Ac- 
 cording to the story as told by the late 
 Major McCafferty himself. Governor 
 Andrew, through Attorney-general 
 
 "Rare Ripes," and it is worthy of men- 
 tion that the "Emmets" and "Hol- 
 dens," now marching to meet a com- 
 mon foe, were old-time rivals when 
 the men from the hills objected to the 
 ])resence of the men with a brogue. 
 
 Were the whole story of the "Em- 
 mets" in the War of the Rebellion to be 
 told here, there would be no space left 
 for the recital of later deeds. It must 
 suffice to state that their three months' 
 
EM.MICI' r.lAlvDS, (.UMl'ANV G. 
 
 225 
 
 services were followed by years of stub- 
 born figluint;' throughout the war. They 
 formed the nucleus of Company E in 
 the 25th, of Company I in the 50th, and, 
 as individuals, they enlisted in all 
 liranches of the service and in almost 
 every State organization. Wherever 
 they went, whether as officers or en- 
 listed men. they gave good accounts of 
 themselves, and efifectiially dis])roved 
 every aspersion of those wretched days 
 in the Know-Xothing fifties. How well 
 they fouglit let the stories of O'Neill. 
 Daly and AfcConville tell. Captain 
 "Tom" (^'Xeill, with his dying message 
 to his mother of devotion to countrv. 
 and with the folds of the flag pressed to 
 his lips as he passed, will long remain 
 an object lesson for .Americans, whether 
 of native or foreign birth. "Three of 
 them," said Ccneral Josiah Pickett, 
 "went down in the single battle of Culd 
 Harbor, and when T asked McConville 
 if he knew mo. as he lay there, his life 
 blood fast ebbing away, he cvidentlv 
 recognized me. for he touched uijon a 
 theme often discussed among the offi- 
 cers, as he slowly and finallv exclaimed, 
 '.'^even conscripts and a man," appar- 
 ently recalling in his dying fancy some 
 of our talk over our common dislike of 
 conscripted recruits." All of the "Jack- 
 sons" have gone where there is no dis- 
 tinction of race nor creed, and. of the 
 older generation of the '"Emmets." only 
 a few remain to enjoy the later honors 
 which have been won by their sons. 
 
 The war period put an end tn active 
 home work imder the name of "Em- 
 mets," but wlien the strife was over and 
 the veterans came home once more, 
 ihev and like-minded friends organ- 
 ized a military company which they 
 called "the Sarsfield Guards." after that 
 soldier of fortune who had served under 
 Erench colors at Neerwinden and else- 
 where in the Low Countries, losing his 
 life finally at the battle of the Boyne in 
 i<i<)o. but. wherever fighting, always 
 steadfast in his hatred of the British 
 foeman. Joseph H. Corbett was their 
 Captain, and, though under another 
 name, thev still aimed to carry along 
 
 the older memories of the "Jacksons" 
 and "Emmets." They were frequently 
 seen in parade and they maintained all 
 of their traditional pride in everything 
 military. 
 
 1881. 
 
 Thus matters progressed till Monday, 
 Xov. 2 1 St, 1881, when in response to a 
 call there assembled in Integrity Hall 
 fifteen young men of Irish descent, who 
 proceeded to organize a new company 
 for military purposes and named it, 
 like the one of twent)' years before, the 
 "Emmet Guards." These originators 
 were among the representative men of 
 their people in the city and they made 
 an excellent start. Their first Captain 
 was Joseph H. Corbett, late of the 
 "Sarsfields," now merged or lost in the 
 later Company. The I'lrst Lieutenant 
 was John J. Hughes; the Second, Wil- 
 liam Regan, both of whom will be rec- 
 ognized as subsequent captains, and 
 Thomas F. McGauley was treasurer. 
 .\s an independent company they won 
 laurels from their superb discipline and 
 drill, but it was not till 1887 that the 
 Com])any liecame a part of the active 
 militia of .Massachusetts. A companv 
 knnwn as the Jackson Guards of another 
 city in the Commonwealth had been 
 disbanded by the Governor for ineffi- 
 ciency, so on May loth, 1887, after 
 more than thirty years, our Worcester 
 successors of the original "Jacksons" 
 came at last into their own. "Time at 
 last makes all things even." etc. The 
 situation was largely brought about by 
 Colonel Fred W. Wellington, so long 
 a prominent figure in the military affairs 
 of Massachusetts. Tiie first ajipearance 
 of the "Emmets" in camp was at Frani- 
 ingham, July 19th. 1887, and they have 
 been regular in their attendance since. 
 (^n their return from this first camp, 
 they paid a complimentary visit to 
 Colonel Wellington to express their ap- 
 preciation of his interest in their behalf. 
 An honorary association was formed 
 June 9th, 1887, just between the absorp- 
 tion into the State's forces and the 
 journey to the first camp. Jeremiah 
 
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 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
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EMMICT GUARDS, CO.Ml'ANV 
 
 227 
 
 Murphy was chairman, Richard O'Flynii 
 was secretary, and he was sul)se(nicntly 
 elected historian, a position wliich lie 
 has filled with credit to himself and 
 honor to the Company. 
 
 \Mth the "Emmets" in the pi|)in<;- 
 times of peace, this narrative I'as little 
 to do. The careful amialist keeps 
 record of all yames, contests, dances, 
 excursions and episodes of whatever 
 nature, Ijut the printed story deals 
 chiefly with the Company's experience 
 when, in battle array, it stood for the 
 flag' and the rights of a people long o]i- 
 pressed and long struggling to free 
 themselves from foreign rule. 
 
 189S. 
 
 Though the wreck of the Maine was 
 lying beneath the waters of Havana 
 Harbor and distant baying nf the ilogs 
 of war was distinctly heard, the annn;il 
 observance of the liirthday of Robert 
 Emmet was held in March, as of yore. 
 On the 3d, or the eve of the day itself 
 which chances to coincide with that of 
 America's Presidential inaugural. I lie 
 actives heard an eloquent address in 
 Mechanics Hall, wherein the Rev. Cieo. 
 \\'. Pepper of Cleveland, Ohio, set forth 
 the merits of the patriot and the wrongs 
 of his country while tin- vi-ter;uis on 
 the 4th, around the festive l)oar(l. did 
 equal justice to his memory. Perhajjs 
 the imminence of war gave added zest 
 to the drills of March and April : cer- 
 tainly there was no falling off in the 
 ardor of the citizen-soldier. When, on 
 the 29th of March, they had their an- 
 nual visit from the Inspector (ieneral, 
 J. L. Carter, he accorded to the "V.m- 
 mets" the very highest praise in that, to 
 express his sentiments most mildly, 
 there was not in Massachusetts a better 
 companv. Arrangements were made 
 for the observance of the anniversary of 
 the Company just as if there was no 
 possibility of the intervention of grim- 
 visaged war. At their Easter ball, given 
 on the nth of April, when one hundred 
 and fifty couples joined in the festive oc- 
 casion, that a distant cloud was in the 
 sky appeared only in the refrain of cer- 
 
 tain stanzas which graced a page i>f the 
 evening's programme, the final verse 
 running thus : 
 
 "l!ul il uc must go Uj meet tlic foe. 
 
 .And leave our dearest homes: 
 Then God liavc mercy on tliose Dons — 
 
 Sajiastas or Delomes — 
 They will drop before our soli<l lines 
 
 Like brown leaves in the fall: 
 So make that countersign, 'rejoice' 
 
 At the EiTimets' liaster Ball." 
 
 As April progressed, various rumors 
 reached the cit\' as to what the luimber 
 oi men in the companies wotild be in 
 case of war and. iinot'lici;ill\-. Captain 
 Moynihan was advised to be ready to 
 make his maximtim one hundred men, 
 btit he did not deem it necessarv to act 
 ui)on this, for his waiting list .gave token 
 of no trouble in that direction. .At a 
 Comijany meeting. Ajiril iith, it was 
 voted unanimously to lender the ser- 
 vices of Company C in case of war, and 
 to notify Colonel Bogan, thus ]nitting 
 I lie "I'jumets" first among Worcester 
 \i)luntcers. Sunday, April 24th, the 
 Rev. Daniel F. McGillicuddy. at St. 
 Stephen's Church, spoke with special 
 reference to the impending duties l)Ciore 
 the iCmmet CJuards. and promised them 
 the prayers of tlie faithful during all 
 their service and jierils. 
 
 The action of Congress looking to a 
 w;ir with .'^jiain over the wrongs of 
 (.'nba was taken .\])ril iQth, a day 
 laden with Massachusetts memories; 
 President McKinley issued In's procla- 
 mation calling for troojjs on the 23d, 
 and Governor Wolcott followed with Irs 
 call to the State troops on the 28th. 
 All this time the .\rmorv in Worcester 
 was a scene of al)otit all tlie excitement 
 that any one edifice could hold. When 
 not employed in their respective vo- 
 cations, everv actual anil every would- 
 be militiaman was ;it the .\rmory, 
 either drilling, disctissing the chances 
 of war or trying to insure an oppor- 
 tunity for enrollment. When the "Em- 
 mets" came together. Monday the 25th, 
 for their weekly drill, the crowd of in- 
 terested people filled all the approaches 
 to the slied. and that immense room 
 they surrounded to the (le]itli of many 
 rows, thereby cutting down, iriaterially, 
 
22S 
 
 WORCESTER TN THE SrANIPTI WAR. 
 
 (AIT. I. I. MiiVMMAN. 
 
 Fmsr I.IHT. M. I-'.. Hints. Skionii [.ie-ut. .1. I-'. llrKLtv. 
 
 foMMIS.SKi.NKI) niq-ICERS. ii<g(>. 
 
 the space rc(|uiri'(l for drill and evolu- 
 tions. At last Cajitain Moynihan was 
 compelled toi forcibly regulate the pres- 
 sure of the crcnvd ; at the same time 
 there was a lartje force of the police 
 present to assist in the maintenance of 
 order. Durini; the entire evening 
 Corporal Corliss was in the Company 
 room taking the names of those who 
 wished to ha\-e a chance for service. 
 
 Though married men were discouraged 
 from enrollment, some insisted on their 
 rights to go if they\ chose, and in sorne 
 cases their names were written. 
 
 The evening of I'riday, the 29th, 
 brought out a great attendance at the 
 Company room and the matter of vol- 
 unteering was fully discussed. Lieuten- 
 ant Hurley presided and spoke, setting 
 forth till' nature of the work before the 
 
F.MMICT GUARDS, COMPANY 
 
 229 
 
 men and desiring; to know liow nianv 
 would be willing- to subscribe their 
 names. Every member of the C^impany, 
 except two, was present, am! the absent 
 ones sent word of their dcterniinaiion to 
 volunteer. Not a man failed to sign his 
 name, and the newly enrolled brought 
 the number up to ninety-four, including 
 the commissioned officers. Such was 
 the enthusiasm that a good start 
 towards a regiment could have been 
 made there and then. While the Com- 
 pany had all along thought that the 
 i>th Regiment woulil be the first called 
 out. it soon appeared that the 2nd 
 would report in cam]) earlier, but the 
 "Enmiets" were practically ready, and 
 though each day and night. they re- 
 paired to the familiar .\rniory, it was 
 not so much for pre])aration as for talk 
 and the comparison of notes. Thus 
 Sunday, May ist, while the other com- 
 panies were in the midst of Inistle and 
 liurry, the "Emmets" rather made it a 
 day of rest, and their ([uarters were less 
 thronged than on any day since the 
 interest began. The same was |)rac- 
 tically true of Mondav. 
 
 Tuesday, the 3d of May, beheld tlu' 
 departure of the Worcester members of 
 the 2d Regiment, and Comjiany 
 "G" had the pleasure of lookin.g on and 
 seeing how departure for actual war a])- 
 peared. Man\- .-i time they had seen 
 their fellows in the militia depart for the 
 muster field and had ';iven little thought 
 to the sight, luu this time they saw a 
 cite, as it were, let loose just because a 
 few scores of men in uniforms were 
 marching away with the idea of seeing 
 actual service. Fully a generation of 
 nominal soldiers had been marching 
 and drilling without an oppeirtunity to 
 see what war was like, and now the time 
 has come. As the dei)artii,ig '"boys" 
 with their escort went by. and the im- 
 mensity of the throng disclosed itself, it 
 would not be strange if some of the 
 "Emmets" wondered if the turnout on 
 the following day could equal that of 
 the 3d. There was a throng at the 
 Armory Tuesday evening which tested 
 the capacity of the room. Captain 
 
 .Moynihan was constantly importuned 
 for an op])ortnnity to enlist; those who 
 were sure of going were making the 
 1in;il .'irrangement for the morrow's de- 
 parture, .Meanwhile, in a banquet 
 room, the honoraries of the Company 
 were having a meeting, in which neces- 
 sary preparation for tlu' ])ar;ide of the 
 4th was furthered. John J. Riordan 
 presided and set forth the objects of the 
 meeting. John I'". O'Connor and John 
 F. H. Moonev spoke with earnestness 
 and eloquence, as also did Jeremiah 
 Mur]ihy, who had been one of the "Em- 
 mets" in tlu' days of civil strife. John 
 J. Coan, an honorary, presented each 
 member of the Company a i^ocket 
 ])rayer book, 
 
 Tuesday had been rainy in the ex- 
 treme and all the night rain had fallen, 
 but at daybreak the skies cleared uj) and 
 the "Fnnnets" had the pleasure of leav- 
 ing home in drv attire and in view of 
 nearly every man. woman and child in 
 Worcester. The enthusiasm which had 
 started the day before, on Wednesday 
 reached its acme. If the disagreeable 
 weather had kept any one at home 
 then, there was no sucli reason this day, 
 and all were out. Before 8 a.m. the 
 C'ompany was at the .Armory, every man 
 tinding something to do at this the final 
 moment The assembly was sounded 
 by Xiclmlas J. Skerrctt, the newly en- 
 rolled nnisician, and the response was 
 immediate. Into the drill-shed marched 
 the soldiers and formed on the east 
 side. Opnosite them were the honora- 
 ries. whi'e the veterans were drawn up 
 at the north end. When thus formed 
 in a hollow square with the Company at 
 "l)arade rest." one of its number ap- 
 peared with the flag of Erin. the private 
 property of the men. all joining in vocif- 
 erous a])])lause : but this was only a be- 
 ginning of what followed wlien the Stars 
 and Stripes appeared. .A little later 
 Mayor Rufus B. Dodge. Jr.. entered, ac- 
 conqianied by the Rev. Mgr. Thoinas 
 Criflin. Rev. D. E. McCillicuddy, Gen- 
 eral Josiah Pickett, General A. B. R. 
 Sprague, Colonel R. II, Chamberlain 
 and Colonel E. H. Russell, all of whom 
 
230 
 
 WCTIU |-.SM:k IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
rcMMirr guards, company g. 
 
 2St 
 
 were rt-cciwil witli clu'ers. Al a coiii- 
 niand from Captain Moynihaii. the Com- 
 pany knelt when tiie Rev. Father 
 McCiilhenddy nfferecl prayer, every one 
 uncovering-. Then at "attention" the 
 men stood and heard Father McCJilli- 
 cuddy in a l:>rief address, and he was 
 followed by IMayor Dodsje and AFfjr. 
 <_lriffin. 
 
 With the management in the hands of 
 Colonel Fred W. ^^'elling■ton. it might 
 be expected that the line would I)e 
 fonned on time. The Colonel had an 
 efficient staff consisting of Chief, Lieu- 
 tenant James Early ; Surgeon, Dr. 
 George W. McAleer; aids. Captain 
 XMlliam Hickey, John J. Rogers, Wil- 
 liam J. Tansey. Patrick J. Bradshaw, J. 
 Frank Ouinn and John J. Riordan ; 
 Bugler. Peter !■'. Sulli\an. Promptly at 
 Q o'clock a.m. the right of the line was 
 taken by Post to, G. A. R., under the 
 command of Daniel E. Burl)ank. having 
 one hundred and fifty men. Fifty Sons 
 of Veterans came ne.xt, and after them 
 three hundred Holy Cross students 
 marched, they having secured a holiday 
 for the occasion : they bore the college 
 colors, viz.. innple, and small national 
 flags and all along the route they gave 
 their college yells : there were ninety 
 members of the Catholic Young Men"s 
 Lyceum, and sixty boys from St. John's 
 Parochial School, while thirty boys of 
 the Classical High School followed 
 after: then came uniformed men of the 
 Consolidated Street Railway. Kniglits 
 of Columbus. St. Paul's Lyceum, three 
 companies of the A.O.TL. Father Matli- 
 ew and St. John's Cadets, St. Anne's 
 Temperance Society, seventy-five men of 
 St. John's Guild; nearly one htmdred 
 members of the LTonorary Company 
 marched under the direction of John J. 
 Riordan. Daniel Downey, William H. 
 Toner, Francis P. McKeon and T. J. 
 McAulifife. The Emmet veterans were 
 in command of Captain William J. Re- 
 gan. After several carriages bearing 
 citizens, was a barge having aboard 
 fortv children of St. John's Parochial 
 School, who made themselves heard by 
 their songs and cheers. 
 
 The Conijjany was filled to its max- 
 innim, having seventy-four enlisted- 
 men and three connnissioned officers. 
 l'".\erywhere along the route was a surg' 
 ing mass of humanity. Few people in" 
 Worcester let the day pass without a 
 glance at the departing soldiers, and as 
 for the families re])resenled in the 
 marching line, evidently no one had 
 been left al home. As the "Emmets" 
 passed the high wall in front of the 
 Court House, they encountered the 
 older pupils of theThonias Street School, 
 who saluted them with — 
 
 •'Tlu' F.nnncts arc brave, 
 'ilu- luninets arc true. 
 Tlu- F.innicts are all rifilU. 
 And the Red. White and Rlne." 
 
 Then changing into the strainsof "Amer- 
 ica" they continued till the soldiers were 
 out of hearing. The buildings along the 
 rotne were elaborately decorated, and 
 from man\- a window came words 
 of cheer' as the line moved 
 swiftly by. When passing the 
 Citv TTall. on the southward way, 
 the Company was presented a beautiful 
 stand of colors by a conmiittee of the 
 Knights of Robert Emmet, consisting 
 of Dr. John T. McGillicnddy. James 
 Cunningham and Patrick O'P.rien. This 
 was done without formality. Cainain 
 Movnihan receiving the flag for the 
 Comi)any. At City ILall there was a 
 large ]mrty of officials and friends who 
 greeted the men with heartiest cheers. It 
 was here that the liand struck up an air 
 dear to every Irish heart, and listeners 
 went wild with delight as they caught 
 the strains of "The Wearing of the 
 ( ireen." Soon the line wheeled into 
 I'ront Street, always a diflicu't tli'ng to 
 do when excitement runs high. This 
 time it required a deal of persuasion 
 and some force on the part of the police 
 to make the way clear for the departing 
 Company, but it was done and the street 
 liccame a gauntlet, not of foes, but of 
 friends who wanted to say "good-by" to 
 associates who were on their way it 
 might be to battle and death. It is safe 
 to state that the street never held more 
 
232 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE Sl'ANlSH WAR. 
 
 people than when tlie "I'.minets" 
 riiarcheil through on the 4th nf May, 
 1898. Throiigliout the progress "Cou- 
 chee," the canine mascot nf the Com- 
 pany, kept his place, evidently jirnud nf 
 tlie distinction accorded him, though no 
 blandishment from the outside throng 
 could draw him from tlie line, lie |)li:)d- 
 ded along as proud as any ])ipeil. wear- 
 ing his blanket of green on which were 
 the words, "I am going to ('u!)a ; where 
 are you going?" 
 
 Long before Union Statimi was 
 reached, it had become a crowding, 
 seething mass of humanity, every one 
 intent on having a parting wiird or 
 hand-shake with the "boys" as they em- 
 barked. Even car roofs and ihdse of 
 offices in the train shed had been ])re- 
 empted and e\-ery inch (:>f space wa> oc- 
 cupied. Tt reipiired the combined ef- 
 forts of the police anil certain well- 
 placed and well-meaning fri(.'nds In kee]) 
 the crowds where a wa\' might bi' made 
 for the soldiers tri clamber .ilmard the 
 train. Personal partings had been bad 
 elsewhere, so there was no ck-lay fnr 
 last farew'ells. but now and then :i Irind- 
 some bouqtiet proclaimed lh;it friends 
 were determined that the recipients 
 slioidd not go away unrememberfd 
 While this scene is enacted, the bands, 
 tnindful of the ]iroprieties, are p1a\ ing 
 ".\uld I.ang S\ne" and " The ( iirl I 
 T.eft T'.ehind Mr," .-mkI it w;i- under the 
 spell of ~nch smnids tint llu- train 
 I'loved out. lca\in'_; the iimltiliide satis- 
 fied that W'orec-sler h.ad gi\en the 
 "boys" a send-off that all conct'rned 
 might well be proud of. 
 
 On reaching South I'ramin.gham, the 
 march lo ('amp l)e\\e\', alread\ estab- 
 lished b\- the 2(1 Regiment, was (|uickly 
 made and cordial greetings wi're ex- 
 changed with the other Worcester boys 
 who had ])receded the "Emniels" by a 
 single dav. Tents were spi'edih occu- 
 pied and ver\' soon the chief >ubiect of 
 conversation became the im](ending e.\- 
 aminatinns ami lite pn ibabilitic-s of an 
 early deijarture for the scenes of con- 
 flict. In the evening came the first 
 camp-fire, ;ind it \va^ a|)preci:itcd, nnt 
 
 
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 !■; \i .\i i-:t oc.M'tDS i\ (A.\ir lllA\l^^^ 
 
i-.mmi;t gl'arus, company g. 
 
 233 
 
 <inl\- for its cheerful lij^lu, l)Ul 
 for its luat. (|iiite comforting in 
 this night of early May. Fifteen fires 
 were lighted throughout the camp, each 
 one using a cord of wood, the same be- 
 ing a gift from Colonel H. E. Converse 
 of the Governor's StafT. Each day 
 brings this contril)ution from the large- 
 hearted officer, and the builders of each 
 pile try to make theirs the highest. A 
 topmost object they designate as Jack, 
 and, as the fire blazes xiyi, the men watch 
 to see Jack fall and Jill come tumbling 
 after. 
 
 Company (i. as it mailc the trip from 
 Worcester to camp, had the full nuiuher 
 of men required, though several mem- 
 bers of the Company liad been dis- 
 couraged from going on account of fam- 
 ilies and other cogent reasons. Follow- 
 ing are the names of those who were in 
 line and drew the merited niijilause of 
 patriotic Worcester : 
 
 Captain. Jercniiali J. Mciyiiilian. 
 First Lieut.. Matlhcw II. liines, 
 Second Lieut., John F. Hurley, 
 Sergcanl. William E. McCann. 
 " .MicliacI J. Horan, 
 
 William F. Casey. 
 " Patrick J. Moynilian. 
 
 Corporal. Jolui J. Corliss. 
 
 Charles Degnan, 
 " Michael McCartin, 
 
 John D. .McSweeney. 
 
 Tlios. F. l.avin. 
 
 James !•". Kini;, 
 Musici.in, Peter F. .Sullivjui, 
 
 Nicholas J. SUerrell. 
 
 Patrick J. Prendi\ille. 
 John G. Green. 
 John Larkin, 
 Thos. F. Kelliher, 
 John E. Casey. 
 Henry W. Baldwin. 
 Patrick T. Sullivan. 
 Michael J. Flynn, 
 Michael C. Brophy, 
 James A. Casey. 
 James F. Earner, 
 Frank H. Doran. 
 Thos. F. Wiseman, 
 James P. Holmes, 
 Henry Sullivan, 
 
 Timothy Lcary, 
 Daniel W. O'Connor, 
 Edward R. Barker. 
 Bernard F. Campbell. 
 Chas. E. Kcnney. 
 John F. Murpliy, 
 James F. Sullivan, 
 James F. McTiernan. 
 Hugh McGuire. 
 John E. Sullivan. 
 Robert H. Rooney, 
 John J. Creaven. 
 Henry Grit'tin. 
 Frank P. Doyle, 
 Edw'ard Bradv. 
 
 Thos. F. Foley, 
 Frank E. Joyce, 
 John H. Sweeney. 
 John H. Horan. 
 Geo. W. Brosnan, 
 John I'arrell, 
 
 James G. .McGrath, 
 James ^L Barrett, 
 Frank Forrest, 
 Daniel Gardner, 
 David J. Burke. 
 
 RFXRLITS. 
 
 Patrick 1). O'Keefe, 
 Tiiimthy j. Burns, 
 Michael I^elaney, 
 Patrick Dolan, 
 John J. I'"itzgerald, 
 James Connelly, 
 F.ihvard 1 1 . Ryan, 
 Edward Sullivan, 
 Michael Garrett. 
 John .1. Kennedy. 
 Edwaril 1 1 . l.vons. 
 
 John O'Callalian. 
 Frank J. Gilchrist, 
 Frank Callahan, 
 Thomas O'Brien. 
 William H. Mur])hy. 
 Charles G. Corcoran. 
 F'rank C. Leonard, 
 Henry J. Martin, 
 John J. Loftus. 
 Dennis Dovle. 
 
 Thursday inducted the re':ruits into 
 the pleasures of drill at the hands of the 
 non-commissioned officers, and all were 
 put through a setting-up exercise for 
 the sake of the physical examinations 
 which were pending. Though many 
 times there, camp did not seem to the 
 old timers as it had done in former 
 years when all was jollity and fun. The 
 Company street is adorned with a ten- 
 inch mortar shel!. the gift to Privates 
 John E. Casey and P. J. S^illivan by 
 John O'Brien of South Framingham. 
 the same having lieen ]iicked up by him 
 on Marye's Heights, I'redericksbin-g, in 
 iSr)2, he being at that time a member of 
 the "Emmets." Conmiissioned officers 
 had to appear first before the cxann'na- 
 tion board. and when the Captain and his 
 Eieutenants were seen returning they 
 were objects of the most careful scru- 
 tiny by all the men. It soon appeared 
 that Captain Moynilian and IJentcnant 
 Htndey had passed the ordeal, but 
 T,icutcnant Hines had gone down, much 
 to the regret of himself and all his 
 friends. Me had been in the Com])any 
 from its reorganization in i88i, and he 
 had movcfl up, step by step, to his Lieu- 
 tenancv by force of merit. It seemed 
 too bad that he should be thrown out. 
 but the rules were inexorable and he 
 would not apply for re-examination. 
 Dr. J. T. McGillicuddy of Worcester 
 \isited the camp and looked over his 
 
234 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Mai.W.II IIms.hw. I. nil, Ml. L. J. L,i,,AX. (Ji-abtermas r i-i; }-<'.. 
 
 Si Ki.tciN W. II. Devine. Major I'. J. (iuAUV, Ann. .1. J. Keli.v. 
 
 I'-|KI.I) .\M) STAFF 0FFKI':RS. N'INTII K I'J ; I M F.XT, 1I.\SS.. p. S. V. 
 
 "EniiiK'l" I'rirnds, pronriuiicinL; tlKiii 
 souml, ill liis (ipiniim. Rain ami the fail- 
 ure of tlu'ir l''irsl Lieutenant to ]iass the 
 cxaniitiati" 111, maik- the ni^iit in eanip a 
 dull one. 
 
 I'Viflax- and .Satiirda\-, the 'ith and Jth, 
 are nieiih irahle in that linn tlie en- 
 listed men I if ( iiin|)anv "( i" had their 
 trial at the hands of Lieutenant Weaver 
 and Svu-i^eon .Mai^urn. and that all the 
 nrif^inal Com])any ])assed e.xeept fenir. 
 Kvcrv non-commissioned officer went 
 throu,<jh and naturally the men felt not 
 a little exalted, es])ecially when they re- 
 called the eoin])limentary words of 
 Lieuti'iiant \\ea\-er of the regular army. 
 To make camp life a little easier. John J. 
 Griffin of Worcester sent down twenty 
 mattresses, and, to savi- the hoys from 
 e.xcessive dampness, it is hinted that 
 each one contained a sovereign s].)eciiic 
 against chilk. In tlu' distrihni i' in nf tjifts 
 
 "(_ouchee" was not foi-ocitten, for there 
 was a bed, too, for him; and why not? 
 He was already the best known party in 
 Camp Dewey. There is a gradual 
 strais'htening up in the matter of disci- 
 I-iline and the regiment improves accord- 
 ingly. That the vacant places may be 
 tilled at once, Lieutenant Hurley and 
 Sergeant McCann go to Worcester for 
 recruits. Lieutenant 1 lines went also, 
 but he was not to return, and his old as- 
 sociates very properly gave him part- 
 ing cheers and sang, "The \Aacant 
 Chair." It was hard work for the officer 
 lo command his feelings sufficiently to 
 res|ioiul. 
 
 Tiie first Sunday in caniii for ihe 
 "Enmiets" was noi an ideal mie. as the 
 wind blew a Inuricane and, owing to 
 sonic misunderstanding at home, the ex- 
 pected visitors did not materialize. 
 Somehow, the impressinu had gone 
 
EMMET Gl'ARDS, COM PAW C. 
 
 235 
 
 abroad in Worcester thai citizens woukl 
 not lie admitted to the camp, so they 
 .stayed away, but the soldiers liad their 
 religions service, andtheWorcester men 
 of the Ninth were conspicuous for their 
 white gloves, overcoats and the prayer 
 books so recently presented to them. The 
 service was conducted in the mess-house, 
 and Rev. Fr. J. D.Colbert of Hopkinton 
 officiated in the absence of the Chaplain. 
 An altar had been improvised at one end 
 of the room and fully 1200 men were 
 present, many attending from other reg- 
 iments. 
 
 From this time forward till the lasl 
 dav of May. the Xinth was to he in a 
 ferment of excitement as to when it was 
 to depart, and what its destination. 
 Hope deferred made many a heart sick, 
 and the would-be fighters of S]5ain at 
 times thought their lives in camp any- 
 thing but what they had pictured real 
 army life to be. However, there is 
 something doing every day and very 
 small items will create a deal of conver- 
 sation. Many a time the regiment was 
 on tlie point of leaving, but the next day 
 found it still in Camp Dewey. On the 
 loth, Tuesday, (lOvernor W'olcott made 
 his appearance, was cordially greeted as 
 he deserved, and every soldier wondered 
 what his mission was. \\'hatevcr his 
 errand, it did not seem to es])ecially af- 
 fect tlie status of the Xinth. 
 
 The formal celebration of the Coni- 
 pan^■ anniversary, due this day. and for 
 which a conmiittee had been aiipointed. 
 was not li.id. more important business 
 being in hand, but many of the boys 
 thought of it just the same. However, 
 Captain Moynihan was not allowed to 
 forget it. since his fellow members of the 
 Worcester police force sent down to 
 him a brierwood pipe and a ([uantity of 
 tobacco. 
 
 The next day, or the nth. the "Em- 
 mets" were sworn into the U. S. service 
 at 1 1 o'clock a.m. Many familiar faces 
 were missed from the ranks and corre- 
 sponding new ones appear. The failure 
 of First Lieutenant Hines to pass the 
 phvsical requirements resulted in the 
 promotion of Second Lieutenant Hur- 
 
 ley and the advancement of J'"irst Ser- 
 geant William E. McCann to the vacant 
 place. Through these changes. Second 
 Sergeant M. C. Horan became the or- 
 derly, and he made an excellent one. 
 His comr;ules recite witli pride the fact 
 that, having connnitted to memory the 
 names of all the "Emmets," from first to 
 last, he never used a book, but at roll- 
 call went through the entire list me- 
 moriter. In this respect, "G" Com- 
 ]3an_\- was (piite the e(|ti;il of the reg- 
 ulars. 
 
 Had the Governor any power as an 
 intercessor for the deposed officers, it 
 was evident that he failed to use it. 
 I^rivate 15rosnan is postmaster at the 
 regimental headquarters, and Peter F. 
 Sullivan becomes a member of the non- 
 conunissioned regimental staff, he being 
 one of the two principal musicians. 
 Fifty Knights of Robert Emmet came 
 down from Worcester with a large silk 
 national flag, which J. IT. TTalpin pre- 
 sented to the Company, wishing every 
 one a successful campaign. Captain 
 Afoynihan happily accepted in an ap- 
 propriate speech. The flag, however, had 
 to be earrii'd back to the "Emmet" 
 rooms in the .\rmory, since it could not 
 be l)orne by the Company. 
 
 The muster-in of tlie Xinth was ac- 
 complished five minutes before that of 
 the I-j'ghth. so it stood next to the Second 
 in I'oint of senioritv. vet the rivalrv was 
 intense as to wliieh should leave Camp 
 Dewev first. TIad our l)oys any way of 
 influencing the War Department, they 
 would have been off. with or without 
 their full com|)lement of men, and, as for 
 eciuipments. they would liave trusted to 
 Providence for them. When they did 
 get away, they found that some states 
 had very little notion of what regiments 
 should possess when they reported for 
 dutv. Happily, the leadership was not 
 in the hands of the boys and they had to 
 wait till the proper time came. During 
 these days the "Ennnets" heard the .Ar- 
 ticles of War read and explained, and the 
 transition from Caterer James E. Mc- 
 Xeil of Xatick to Company cooks was 
 effected. M breakfast. May 12th, be- 
 
23e 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
EM MET GUAKDS, COMPANY G. 
 
 237 
 
 gan regular army rations and. thougli 
 the caterer's dislirs were used, absti- 
 nence from liultcr and milk was ex])en- 
 enced. Timotli\ 11. r.urus, who had 
 been in the regulars, was made ehiel 
 cook, and I'Yank Doyle became his as- 
 sistant. \'isitors from the home city are 
 numerous, and many of them do not 
 forget to bring along items which 
 cheer the hearts and minds of the sol- 
 diers. 
 
 The departure of the 2d Regiment on 
 the 1 2th left a large vacuum on the camp 
 ground and the Worcester boys were 
 lonesome, for visiting had been a 
 popular diversion among the companies 
 from the Heart of the Commonwealth. 
 Then came additional anxiety lest thi- 
 Eighth should precede the X'inth in 
 getting ofi. and when on the morning oi 
 the 13th, Colonel I'ew's boys were seen 
 striking their tents, those of the Xinth 
 were nearly frantic, but when the move- 
 ment developed into a simiile exercise 
 of striking and pitching tents, the over- 
 anxious lads cooled down a bit. Quar- 
 termaster Sergeant J. F- Corliss, who 
 was promoted from the corporalcy, is be- 
 coming a very useful official, and, owing 
 to his thoughtful services, the men are 
 faring as to rations considerably better 
 than those in some of the other com- 
 panies. Evidently the Sergeant has 
 talents in the hotel running line. At 
 about 10 o'clock, in the evening of the 
 13th, a large part of the 8th Regiment, 
 apparently, went wild in their expecta- 
 tion that they were to get away first, and 
 were to go to Chickamauga. In their 
 mad delight they tore through the 
 streets of the Nintli. doing their best, in 
 the language of the day. "to rub it in" 
 to the bovs who were to be left. Some 
 of them packed up their superlluous ef- 
 fects and sent them ofif, so certain were 
 thev that the auspicious day for them 
 had come. Perhaps there was no con- 
 nection' betw-een this irruption of the 
 Eighth and the desire of the "Emmets" 
 to visit home, but many of them, with 
 their friends of other companies, having 
 left camp other than by the "straight 
 gate," had to return under escort and to 
 
 learn that I'niteil States soldiering is 
 not fun, hut downright business. 
 
 .'Saturday, the two regiments were re- 
 viewed by the Covernor, and he was 
 ple.ised tn sav pleasant words in behalf 
 of the Xinth, to which Colonel liogan 
 replied. 
 
 The 15th i)rought another Sunday in 
 camp and religious services were held in 
 the open air, an altar having been ar- 
 ranged at Colonel Bogan's tent. Tiie 
 officiating clergyman was the Rev. Fr. 
 Michael Delaney of SoutJi Framing- 
 ham. .\gain fully 1200 men were sin- 
 cere worsIii|)pers. glad of an oi)])Ortunity 
 to testify of their obligations to (iod, 
 i)ut uni)ropitious rain cut out the parade 
 which the Colonel w^as anxious to Jiave 
 in the afternoon. However, the visitors 
 came and the dampness gave the boys 
 a chance to loan hats and ca])cs to the 
 fair ones who otherwise might get dan- 
 gerously wet. and many a lad laughed to 
 see hoW' \'enus appeared when appareled 
 in the armor of ^^ars. To Captain 
 ]\Ioynihan, some thoughtful friend sent 
 a box of Si)anisli cigars with the cheer- 
 ful injunction. "Burn the Spaniards 
 while waiting to eat them." 
 
 Once more it is the lot of the Ninth 
 to sav "good-bv" to departing friends, 
 since the Eighth really gets away on the 
 iC){h. and a larger vacancv than ever is 
 evident on the "old canij) ground." 0\ir 
 boys did the polite and gracious act in 
 seeing their friends off, yet they could 
 not su])])ress a wonder as to just what 
 so much energy as they knew' they pos- 
 sessed was held back for. However. 
 there are less rivals on the field now and, 
 in their new brown uniforms, they have 
 oceans of space to gaml)oI in. Worces- 
 ter friends are not oblivious of the 
 gnawing appetites of the men in camp, 
 and accordingly, through Michael L. 
 Russell, they send down a goodly quan- 
 titv of pies and puddings. Possibly 
 some of the people at home remembered 
 the old ballad, and, knowing how- badly 
 the bovs fell over being left, they 
 thought they would give them a chance 
 to sing: 
 
238 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 "Hunks of cold pudding and pieces of pie, 
 My mamma gave to me it I would not cry." 
 
 To further relieve the iiielauclioly of 
 the hour, a tin pan concert or confusion 
 is had and the ear detects amidst the din 
 the words, "Remember the Maine, re- 
 member the Maine, the Irish Ninth, to 
 h — 1 with Spain." the Sixth introducini; 
 such variation in the tiiird line a^ then 
 name and number suggest. 
 
 Tuesday is a dull day, there are ru- 
 mors of going to Long Island and to the 
 Philippines, and the Colonel declares his 
 
 l.AWHhNt !■ J. l.or.AN. 
 
 l.if'vilcnanl-cohjncl .\intli Kci^imtnt. ,\Ia-^s.. L'. -S. \ . 
 
 readiness to go anywhere, but the ncc- 
 essarv summons is not heard. Mean- 
 time there is drill for all and the sol- 
 diers make the best of it. ( )rders come 
 for the going of the .Sixth, and it 
 looks as though the Xinth would be 
 "the last rose of summer, left 
 blooming alone." In the even- 
 
 ing, led bv the reginu-ntal band under 
 the direction of Chief P.ugler James V.. 
 
 Sullivan, the whole regiment marched to 
 the head(|uarters of the Sixth, and with 
 that body appeared at Colonel Wood- 
 ward's (|uarters, where they cheered him 
 and the band played "Auld Lang Syne" 
 and "Farewell." but from Colonel W. 
 thev got only a bow instead of a speech, 
 for which they clamored. This sort of 
 fun was kept up till long after "taps," 
 and it took about all the authority the 
 officers had to restore the ([uiet befitting 
 a well-ordered camp. 
 
 Still continues the period of expect- 
 ancv. The Sixth is packed ready for the 
 final orders and the Ninth is as ever on 
 the anxious scat. Their friends have 
 come down from Worcester and re- 
 turned so many times that "good-bys" 
 have been worn almost threadbare. It 
 is pleasatit to meet them and to use the 
 nice things which they bring, but it is 
 a prettv" dull kind of war. There is 
 another last night of frolic with the 
 l,o\s of the Sixth, and poetic talent is 
 drawn upon for rhymes like these: 
 
 ••Ob Blanco, Blanco— Bunco rare. 
 Oh. you're an awful bluff: 
 
 But when the gth will go down there 
 Tbey'll make yon cry. enough. 
 
 As usual, rutnors are rife and in their 
 minds the men are ordered to all parts 
 of the habitable globe, and whatever the 
 state of depression they never lack for 
 subjects of conversation. Governor W ol- 
 cott makes his accustomed visit, giving 
 connnissions and advice to the regiment 
 ab..nl to depart. It was late in the 
 evening of the iQth that a man at- 
 tempted to run the guard and a deal of 
 excitement was the result. To the bnl- 
 lianl imagination he was a spy or em- 
 issary of Sp:uti. bent on doing some 
 mi^ciiief to the honest c:impcrs waiting 
 for Ihe word "go." Whatever he was, 
 the episode was a boon to the camp, 
 since it served for an offset to the tedium 
 of waiting. To the heated imagination 
 of ^ome "of the boys, a large slice of 
 Cuba hail bv some hocus pocus been 
 ni.ived close i>v the guard line of Camp 
 1 )ewev. Friday, the 20th, witnessed the 
 ..•oing' of the Sixth, and now the Ninth 
 has the field all to itself, yet it is not 
 proud thereat. 
 
E^r.Mr■;T ci'akds. vumvasv c. 
 
 239 
 
 In the evening", to drivj a\va\- dull care 
 and to change the siibjecl from Spanisli 
 spies et al., a dance is improvised, a real 
 old-fasiiioned stag dance, and with 
 music and the whirl nf feet tlie Iic;"r.s 
 pass from 7 to 10.30 p.m. .'-lalurda\-. tlu' 
 2ist, comes Congressman I'itzger.nld 
 from lioston, and he is always enter- 
 taining. The spy fracas resolves itself 
 into a hrickdayer from Charlestown. 
 somewhat off his "lay"' through tarrying 
 too long with the ruby. Sunday brought 
 10,000 visitors who enjoyed the dress 
 parade of the regiment. Thi crowd 
 was the largest of any since the opening 
 of the camp, Worcester sending down a 
 well-laden contingent to make ha])]iy 
 the boys and to show the estimation in 
 which they are held at hnnie. The 
 morning religious services were con- 
 ducted by Chaplain Alurphy, and in the 
 improvised choir sang Daniel W. 
 O'Connor, P. J. O'Keefe, Henry M.niin 
 and Sergeant 1'. J. Moynihan. all mem- 
 bers of Company G. On Monday, the 
 procuring of ten days" rations seemed to 
 the men like anything but an immediate 
 departure. The rules of camp are be- 
 coming more and more rigorous and 
 everv dav the men are reminded that 
 this' is not an old-fashioned week's tour 
 of dut^•. The regiment receives the 
 gift of one thousand prayer-books from 
 the Rev. P. AT. O'Connor of .Arlington, 
 a brother of Afajor AI. J. O'Connor of 
 the Ninth. \\'ith those presented before 
 leaving ^^'orcestcr, the "Emmets" have 
 a double portion. At liattalion drill, 
 owing to the absence of Major Dono- 
 van, Captain Moynihan has command 
 and does his part handsomely. 
 
 On or about tlie 24th a large gang of 
 camp followers or, better, hangers-on, 
 are expelled and their room i- nnich 
 better than their company. Py trading 
 flour with a Natick baker for bread. 
 Company G is well served, but frequent 
 rains tenil to make camp life too damp 
 for comfort. Hearts were cast down, 
 on the 25th, by the reception of orders 
 directing the separation of the regi- 
 ment and the locating of its several 
 parts on the Rhode Island coast. For- 
 
 tunately before such knowledge could se- 
 riously impair the average Xinth Regi- 
 ment appetite, the disagreeable order 
 was countermanded and men again 
 breathed more freely, having found that 
 scinie kinds of going were worse than 
 sl;iyiiig. Incessant rains reduce the 
 coiu])any street to the conditions told 
 of by the fathers when they sampled 
 \ irginia mud in the sixties, l)ut there is 
 a chance f<ir relief near by the sons, for 
 they proceed to tlie vacated camp of thr 
 iMgiith and, taking up the floors where 
 tents had been, ]3roceed to lay a wooden 
 pavenunt for the good of the [lublic : 
 ;ind this is all the more necessary, since 
 rough weather has put many a foot 
 through its slioe almost on tlie ground. 
 The reception of a check for $30 by the 
 Ca]itain from James Pogan of Worces- 
 ter came most opportunely, and two 
 liii.xes of shoes and some rul)bers go far 
 towards relieving immediate wants. .\ 
 1 ■Iter recei\-ed from a friend in the 
 Eighth, now in camp in Ciiickamauga, 
 Ga., assures the boys of the Xinth that 
 there are conditions worse than remain- 
 ing in Camp Dewey. 
 
 Thursday, the 26th, brought an inci- 
 dent liable to ha])]5en when men are long 
 in camp. A man, having a horse and 
 wagon heavily loaded with what seemed 
 to be army supplies, is discovered near 
 the main entrance, and when an examin- 
 ation is made suspicions prove to be 
 well founded. When the establishment 
 is taken to headipiarlcrs and the entire 
 contents inventoried, above half a ton of 
 articles is fotmd which clearly belong 
 to the camp. They are ]>laced in the 
 care of Sergeant J. J. Corliss of the 
 '•Enmiets" and the driver of the wagon 
 is imt into the guard house. The man 
 claimed to have bought his load from 
 different quartermasters of the regi- 
 ment, but was unable to identify any of 
 them. When brought before the civil 
 court in South Framingham, he was 
 fined $25 for his theft and his goods 
 were confiscated. 
 
 The 27th, Friday, had contradictory 
 orders, at first to proceed to Rhode 
 Island, in half an hour to be coun- 
 
240 
 
 WORCESTER IN' THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 
 t» 
 
 /»• 
 
 KiRST Sergeant -M. .1. IIoran. 
 
 teniianikMl. ami more agreeable di- 
 rections were given to make ready to gr) 
 to Dunn-Loring, on the Virginia side of 
 the Potomac, near Washington. Xot- 
 withstandintj; ilu- rain, there is a dr'.ss 
 parade at 5 p.m. (..'aptain Moynihan is 
 Officer-of-the-day. and during its hours 
 he received fr-un Worcester friends, for 
 the benefit nf the Company, a box of 
 mending material, which is a gift in the 
 right direction. 
 
 Now that nrders have really come td 
 send the regiment away, there is a 
 dearth of cars and a wait is inevitable 
 while conveyance is looked up. Mean- 
 while the l)ovs arc shining up each ami 
 cverv article' of wearing apparel ami 
 their equipment-, that the going forth 
 may be up to the standard. A dense fog 
 overspreads the cani]) in the evetiing of 
 ihc 2Sth, but it dors not i)revent Pat- 
 rick Powers, the boy ser\-ant of the 
 Company, fimling in the toe of one of 
 the socks given iiim bv the Captain, the 
 same having been sent from Worces- 
 ter, a crisp one-dollar bill. That the 
 circle niav be comiilete, a letter is re- 
 ceived bv the Captain asking who the 
 lucky finder is. The 20th is Sunday, 
 and all records of attendance of visitors 
 arc broken. The average of estimates 
 of the number present is 20,000, and the 
 last Sunday in camp is memorable. The 
 afternoon incident was the presentation 
 to the Ninth bv the A. O. H., of Boston. 
 
 of a set of colors through the Hon. 
 John F. Fitzgerald, and their reception 
 "bv Colonel Bogan. The "Emmets" are 
 enjoying a quantity of light underwear 
 and socks sent down by the \'olunteer 
 Aid Association, seventy-five sets, the box 
 arriving in the care of Police Inspector 
 Patrick O'Day and William J. Tansey, 
 secretarv of' the ^'Emmets" honorary 
 corps. Monday, the 30th, saw little 
 doing, save the reception of visitors, 
 who pour in to have just one more 
 handshake before the breaking ui). It 
 is .Memorial Day elsewhere, but the 
 ]irescnt rather than the past holds the 
 attention of soldiers in Camp Dewey. 
 
 Tuesday brings the last day of May, 
 and also the very last day in camp. 
 Smiling skies ushered in the 31st, and 
 at 9.30 the tents went down, knapsacks 
 were packed, and a "get ready" air per- 
 vaded everything. Noon gave the lie 
 to the promise of the morn, since then 
 rain began to fall, but at 2.30 p.m. a hol- 
 low square was formed and the regi- 
 ment saw in its own behalf what it had 
 witnessed for the Second, Eighth and 
 Sixth, viz., the C.overnor in the act of 
 presenting commissions and .giving the 
 men a hearty send-off. Long weeks of 
 waiting an<l preparation had their effect 
 in making the Ninth easily the equal, 
 some said the best, appearing lot of men 
 who had marched awav from the camp. 
 There is the usual line of interested 
 people to see the trip to the station at 
 South Fraiiiingham. and as the way to 
 Dunn-Loring leads through Worcester, 
 the "Emmets" arc to have, what was 
 denied to the other companies, a fare- 
 well in the very Heart of the Common- 
 wealth. Before getting away, Mr. M. B, 
 Lamb and P. J. ^fcManus of Worces- 
 ter, representing the honoraries of the 
 "Eminets," presented to Captain ^loyni- 
 han for the Comi)any, a purse of $230, 
 and a like amount is to be given to the 
 families of the soldiers as need arises. 
 Speeches were short, but both that of 
 the giver and the receiver were to the 
 |ioiin. There were three sections of the 
 train conveying the regiment, and the 
 Worcester Company was in the second. 
 
KMMKT C.rAKDS, Cl i.\l I'AN V C. 
 
 241 
 
 The first part passoil tlirdusjh Union 
 Station at 5.10 p.m., and tlic immense 
 tlirong gave it a cordial greeting, but 
 its effusions were rather for the next 
 section, which rcjlled in at 5.20. 
 
 The police had roped off certain por- 
 tions of space and intended to have all 
 the greetings and partings done accord- 
 ing to regulations, but who ever heard 
 of such ]5lans working as projected? 
 W'iien the cars were in the station and 
 \\'orcester friends saw Worcester bovs, 
 the ropes w^ere of no more account than 
 tow strings, and the crowds of humaniiy 
 surged up to the platforms and windows, 
 wild in their anxiety for one more word 
 with the loved soldier boy. .\n old 
 man who had been helped to the sta- 
 tion, under the mad impulse of the 
 hour, pushed his wav tlu'ough the 
 throng and reaching the hand of his 
 son, exclaimed. "I am proud of vou, mv 
 son, and may ( !od ha\e mercy on you 
 and save you from all harm." Xot- 
 W'ithstanding the tumult there were 
 those to sa\' "amen" tn this fervent 
 prayer. There was rajjid talking dur- 
 ing the moments of the halt, and even 
 '"Couchee" had his share of applause, 
 clad in his green lilanket antl hat. So 
 charmed was he with his reception that 
 he escaped from his friends, but some 
 thoughtful friends cajitured him and 
 put him aboard the last section with an 
 injunction to return him to his owners, 
 though a telegram was received from the 
 Company directing that the mascot be 
 sent on bv express. A sad cloud fol- 
 lowed the passing of the second divi- 
 sion of the train, for from the third sec- 
 tion was taken the unconscious form of 
 Private Charles I. Doherty of Company 
 I, a South Boston boy who was struck 
 by a watering spout as the train passed 
 tlirough W'estboro, and lie was leaning 
 far out of the car window. The minis- 
 trations of the Catholic Church were 
 given him in the station and thence he 
 was carried to the City Hospital, but 
 death came a little before 7 o'clock, a 
 sad ending for a day that had begun so 
 joyously. When the Worcester people, 
 on and off the trains, were exchanging 
 
 greetings, nothing of this calamity was 
 known. 
 
 It would be thought that all the people 
 in Worcester who cared to see the sol- 
 diers en route were at the station, but 
 as the train went over tlie bridge at 
 .\ew Worcester, fully three hundred 
 people were stationed there to wave 
 with handkercliiefs a last "good-by." 
 Xow the boys are really off. This is 
 the way tliey long have sought and 
 their hearts are glad at the fervencv of 
 the demonstrations all along the line. 
 .Vpparently every one knew of their 
 coming, and the evening afforded an oji- 
 portunity for all to throng the stations 
 as the cars swept through". .\t Chester, 
 there are a brass band and a Iwnfire, 
 but the climax to local disi)lay is had in 
 Fittsfield. I'.ooming cannon announce 
 the approach of the train, and central 
 Berkshire gives up its thousands to 
 swell the chorus of happy greetings for 
 the soldiers southward bent. While the 
 bands play the "Star-spangled lianner," 
 every officer and man is presented with 
 a paper box by the girls in the a.ssemblv 
 and, when opened, each box revealeil 
 n(n only an appetizing array of eatables, 
 but a large assortment of religious de- 
 vices and emblems. The donor's name 
 was also contained, with a recpiest for a 
 word from the recipient when the vi- 
 cinity of the Spanisli lines is reached. 
 I'y way of immediate compensation, the 
 girls .sought button souvenirs, thus rob- 
 bing every coat sleeve they could reach, 
 and one handsome fellow lost a part of 
 the sleeve itself. Whenever feminine 
 fingers closed over the coveted brass, 
 something had to give. Still no 
 
 soldier-boy was heard complaining. 
 To them it was a fair exchange. To 
 crown all, a tank containing sixty gal- 
 lons of coffee was placed on each sec- 
 tion, and on the covers were the words, 
 "This is hot coffee and Pittsfield wants 
 the 9th Massachusetts to make the 
 temperature for the .'Spaniards twice as 
 Inn when they meet them." This was 
 signed by David Evans. Marrv \'an 
 Dusen, John McOuaid, J. I). Murphv, 
 
242 
 
 WdKCESTliR IN THE STAXISII WAR. 
 
 1*. J. MnVNIHAN. 
 
 1. I-. King. 
 
 
 T. F. I.AVIS. 
 
 Wm. 1-". Casey. 
 
 
 
 M iX-fllM M ISSIl )XKI) ( 11 FIC K 
 
 US 
 
 J . j. t"OKL ISS. 
 C. j. l)Et;NAN. 
 
 ■■f:.mmi:is.' 
 
 O. C. FiMi. II. I). Sisson. Georoc Hal^ 
 loran, Roscuc J. Smith. 
 
 Among- the many nnte.^; fomul in the 
 provision boxes, was the following-, 
 signed by the name of W. H. Chamber- 
 lain, who had lieen a soldier in the 3'ith 
 Illinois. It speaks the sentiments of all 
 the citizens of the Ray .'~'tate as the reg- 
 iments were leaving for the seat of war: 
 
 I'ittstU-ld. M.\y ,M. i8oS. 
 'I'd tlic soldier wlio .trcts this box of luncli. 
 
 God bless and briiit; yon lionic safe and 
 sonnd is the prayer and wish of an old vete- 
 ran, who knows wliat war is, to be wonnded 
 and left on the battle-field, eaptnred, etc., 
 etc. Will be pleased to hear if you enjoyed 
 the Innch. You are Koing down into Tenn. 
 I 1 snpiiose] onto s:i.n\c ground 1 marched 
 and fought over. 
 
 Your friend. 
 
 If the "iMmnet-" replied to all the re- 
 qncsts for letters had on this occasion, 
 thev must have materially added to 
 Uncle Sam's postofifice business, for not 
 onl\- were there names in the boxes, but 
 those written in autograph books were 
 liable to lead to correspondence. Thus 
 at the request of a small boy one of the 
 gallant lieutenants of the Company in- 
 scribed his name and title in an allnim, 
 giving little attention to the matter, but 
 when later he received a number of Alas- 
 sachusetts papers, describing this en- 
 thusiastic reception, he began to wonder 
 who the donor could be and, finding the 
 name of a ladv on one of them, he made 
 bold to write and ask how she had come 
 to know of hiiu and his address. In re- 
 plv he had a pleasant note in which he 
 
KMMICT CrAKDS. COMl'AW G 
 
 243 
 
 was onjoiiRHl to ljiicss, ami guess and 
 then think a little, and his conclusion 
 was that the knowledge must have come 
 from the casual favor to the lad in 
 I'ittsfield. Many postage stamps have 
 been devoted in this way to the enhanc- 
 ing of the nation's revenues. 
 
 It is 12.30 a.m. of the first day of 
 June when the Hudson River is crossed 
 and the train stops in .Mbany, and here, 
 for the first time, the "F.mmets" heard 
 the melancholy news of Doherly's 
 death. W'liile this is n<.)t a sleeping 
 train, it is reasonable to suppose that 
 some sleeping was done both before 
 and after leaving New York's capital, 
 but night shut out all the scenery of the 
 Hudson, and 6 o'clock in the morning 
 found the boys in Jersey City, having 
 run down on the West Shore. \Mien 
 section three runs alongside of two, 
 "Couchee" is returned to his guardians 
 and once more the dog star is in the as- 
 cendant. The stay is short, and in fif- 
 teen minutes Massachusetts men are 
 rushing through New Jersey. They 
 take the rhiladel|)hia & Reading 
 route and are the observed of all Jersey- 
 men as the train bears them along. They 
 note the Delaware in crossing, and soon 
 tliey pause in Philadelphia. At 10 
 o'clock the\' are in ^\'ilmington and at 
 12.30 thev are in Baltimore. While the 
 reception here was nothing like that ac- 
 corded the Sixth on the 21st of ^lay. it 
 was not wanting in many indications of 
 interest. Washington is entered at 2.30 
 and the halt is the briefest possible. 
 .\nother half hour and Dunn-Loring, 
 the destination, is reached. The hours 
 are for the first section of the train. 
 The "Emmets" and their section did not 
 arrive till 6 o'clock. 
 
 Dunn-Loring! "What's in a name?" 
 is the query of the great dramatist. So 
 far as the foregoing station is concerned, 
 the answer would be, "Very little. asi''e 
 from the letters which make up the 
 words.'' When or why Loring was 
 "done" no one can tell, but there are 
 only five or six houses to attest the 
 doing. From the point of debarkation 
 to the camp intervene three hot. dusty 
 
 miles, and under the heavy marching 
 burdens dI the Ninth they are long 
 ones, but to the credit of the men it 
 must be stated that every one kept his 
 place, and neither stragglers nor hos- 
 pital had any tales to tell of failures and 
 human weakness, thougji if each man 
 were to sjieak his real feelings, there 
 were many moments when the ordeal 
 suggested unc|ualified rest. Canij) Rus- 
 sell .\. .\lger is located on the old l-"air- 
 fax estate- and is three miles from I-'air- 
 fax Court House, so identified with the 
 War of the Rebellion. It is almost as 
 large as the District of Columliia and 
 has thirty-two regiinents in camp, and 
 two more are expected. It is said to be 
 seven miles square. .\t any rate, it is 
 so large th;u the Tnli Massachusetts, 
 which jjreeeded the .\intli to this point, 
 is camped two miles awa\-. 
 
 The arrival of the regiment is a sig- 
 nal for the jolliest kind of a reception 
 l'\- the organizations already there. Es- 
 pecially was this the case with the /Ih 
 Illinois, which was just a day old in 
 camp, and when the men saw the green 
 flag of Erin, they shouted with delight, 
 for they had been denied the privilege 
 of unfurling theirs. Rock-ribbed New 
 England thus showed her more liberal 
 principles. The band of tiu- 33(1 Michi- 
 gan won the everlasting regard of the 
 Ninth througb playing "The Wearing 
 of the Creen" a> the Massachusetts 
 "boys" came into camp. 
 
 Rations for the Ninth were still on the 
 way. so the invitation of the Chicago 
 boys to come over and sup with them 
 was gratefully accepted and the pressed 
 ham sandwich with a cup of cofTec filled 
 a long-felt want. 
 
 .\ temporary site for the regiment is 
 t.'iken on what proves to be the parade 
 ground, hence thoughts are early turned 
 towards where the regular lodgment 
 shall be. Nothing Ix?tter than rubber 
 blankets keep sleepers ofif the ground 
 during the first night. It is announced 
 that each company will have to clear 
 space for itself in the nearby forest, and 
 Company B, backwoodsmen from Bos- 
 ton, get onto their job at once. The 
 
244 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 newcomers are natural explorers and 
 they speedily hnd in the woods ancient 
 breastworks and ruins which clearly in- 
 dicate the Civil War of the sixties. 
 Water is a scarce article, thoug^h arte- 
 sian wells somewhat relieve the trouble, 
 but for a bath the bath'cV must go two 
 miles, not altogether encouraging to 
 cleanliness. l*>uits and vegetaijles are 
 to be had from hucksters, who are in 
 constant evidence. Ice water is a lux- 
 ury not supplied by the government. 
 
 Thursday, June jd. Iirings the wel- 
 come information that the regiment 
 will remain where it is for the ])resent. 
 
 takes with him Peter V. Sullivan, one of 
 the principal musicians, to purchase 
 bugles, that the outfit may be correct. 
 A large delegation from the Sixth comes 
 over to give the Ninth a serenade. Later 
 in the night, one of the flood-abounding 
 storms for which the region is noted, 
 swept over the cam]:i. Those who had 
 not taken the precaution to dig trenches 
 around their respective tents, had occa- 
 sion to realize that the water famine, 
 hitherto deplored, was thoroughly 
 broken. The morning of the 3d re- 
 vealed a ]irospect, where there were 
 drains, not unlike an irrigation field in 
 
 '.KIl-HN.r I. I.AVIW JriHN StEVKNSON. IIaKRV I'll I. E V , ' ' T " m " K E 1. L K H I- K . T K 1 .\ . 
 
 M Ai uic E Carey and John Mi Svveenev are in the liruup: pick them out. 
 
 I'K KN UI\ 1 l.l.E. 
 
 A kua.\ii.\(;h.\m mk.morv. 
 
 hence the cronkcd ways are made 
 straight and .-iii air of pcrnianenc\- is at 
 once assrmud ; dicnralions in the line 
 of tree l)ranches being found in the 
 woods which abound hai-<l by. (aptani 
 Carl Wagner, a fnrnur Worcester \)'>\ 
 and man, now at the lu'ad of 
 Company I., 331I .Michigan, ."-^ons of 
 \'eterans, gives Captain .\b)ynihan 
 a call. ;md |)leasure at the meeting 
 is nnitual. Congressman b'itzgerald, 
 who still maintains a sort of guardian- 
 ship of the regiment, comes over from 
 Washington and speaks 'pleasant words 
 to tile bo\s. When he gt.ies away, he 
 
 C'.iloradci, while efforts to dry the con- 
 tents ui the tents, under the burning sun, 
 suggested Chinese laundries. Somehow, 
 rations do not ajijiear in c|uantities to 
 satisfy the boys, but their purses enable 
 them to help out with items, such as 
 eggs, berries and milk, bought from the 
 farmers. 
 
 ( )n its second day in canij), the Ninth 
 stu'iirisrd its neighbors by a ftdl dress 
 ])arade and passage. .\s yet, no other 
 body had ventured more than a battalion 
 exhibit. Of course the band was missed 
 and the regiment could not step to the 
 music of the voluntcred liand of the 
 
EMMICT caARUS, Ct).\ir.\.\V G. 
 
 •245 
 
 /th Illinois, so the buo'lcrs were de- 
 pended upon entirely and thereby 
 g^reatly impressed the Westerners. 
 
 While coniiilaints both loud and deep 
 were heard at Camp Dewey on aeeoiuU 
 of delay there, the l:)oys are sjlad enous^li 
 that they are fully equipped, for the 33d 
 Michigan is not armed and the Tennes- 
 seeans are not even uniformed. They 
 realize that delays are not alwa_\s the 
 worst policy, .\fterwards, wlu'u it ap- 
 |)eared that the Massachusetts nun had 
 two suits of uniforms, then Tennessee 
 neighbors clubbed them "dudes." and it 
 was said that tliey were coming nver. 
 some dark night, and even u]) their pov- 
 erty with the Hay State wi'altli. Wlietlu-r 
 thev ever reall\ contemplated thi> or 
 not. thcv certainly |)racticed the better 
 part of valor and k-t the welbsuited 
 boys alone. 
 
 A large bundle of Worcester Tele- 
 grams puts the "Emmets" in line with 
 Worcester matters anil they feel to bless 
 the man who invented printing. 
 
 ,Saturda\- finds the "Emmets" getting 
 used to their camp, securing floors for 
 their tents froni the forest resources, 
 and making the actpiaintance of men 
 from other states. A noteworthy call is 
 had from Chaplain Hoyt of a Pennsyl- 
 vania regiment, and he tell> (,'ai)tain 
 Movnihan that he enlisted in the "Imu- 
 mets" in Rebellion days and served as a 
 drummer boy thoughout the war. 
 Though a man seventy years of age, he 
 surprises all b\' jiuuping into his saddle 
 when he rode away. He had tried to 
 enlist in the Cit\ ( luards when a boy. 
 but had been rejected on accoimt of his 
 lack of stature. Another visitor, re- 
 ceived most gladly for his familiar face, 
 is Peter iNFcLoughlin, a Worcester boy 
 now in the Law School of (ieorgetown 
 College. The serenade of the Massa- 
 chusetts .Sixth is repaid this evening by 
 fullv one-half of the regiment going 
 over to the cam]) of their old friends 
 and giving them a musical reminder, 
 and by way of refreshments they had all 
 the water they wanted. In the daily 
 routine of camp there is no mess-house, 
 each man getting his sujiply from the 
 
 cooks and improvises his own table and 
 chair. He is his own dishwasher also. 
 rite culinary duties, at present, are per- 
 formed by cook McCarten, assisted by 
 l''arrell and Piurke, who have been 
 ilubbed"l )elia" and" M chit able" rcspect- 
 i\ely. Water is scarce and the i)oys 
 have to bring it from a distance, each 
 taking his turn, the same coming around 
 \ery often, apparently. Also every man 
 has to take his part with tlie axe in i)re- 
 p;iring wood for the cooks. The axe is 
 a wea])on (|uite strange to some of these 
 cit\- lads. When later the Tennesseeans 
 had to move their camp they were oh- 
 ligi'd to K',-i\c a large (ptantity of wood 
 which, witli frontier providence, they 
 h;id ])iled up. ( )ur Worcester boys found 
 it nnich easier to carry tliis to their 
 camp in ;irnu'nls. especially when re- 
 turning fi'om drill ;nid the school of the 
 soldier, than to cut it fresh from the 
 standing timber. Thev exbibilcd thus 
 real New England thrift. 
 
 The Stli of June is Sunday, and the 
 first reliiiious services in Cam]) .\lger 
 for the X'inth are had. an altar having 
 b'cn constructed at the extreme end of 
 tl"- parade ground. Chaplain Miu-i)lt\- 
 ofticiated and afterwards preached ati ex- 
 C(-"ent sermon. Soldiers from other reg- 
 imrnts and other states were ])vesent. 
 The members of the X'inth could not 
 h.ive lookeil better had they been on 
 dress parade. Time is telling on the 
 adaptability of the "Enmiets." Tliey are 
 le.-nninu- how to keep house, or ratlier 
 "tert." If there is a better tent lloor 
 in c;imp than Lieutenant McCann's. it 
 is not generally known. Sergeant 
 Casey's squad has so l)edecked its quar- 
 ters that they are known as the "P>ay 
 State House." Corporal McSweeney 
 ojjtiis a barber shop and Private Tracey 
 wields the razor. T. J. Aiiearn goes 
 water-hunting and comes back with the 
 declaration that he has found two 
 wells, but subsecpient searcliing fails to 
 confirm his find. His friends put it 
 down as the first case on record of a 
 man's seeing double on water. Old-time 
 relics arc found in the shape of a long- 
 b.iried canteen covering a ]iair of shoes; 
 
246 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Hiirke. Do 
 
 J.eary, Corliss. Sweeney. Delaney. . 
 
 l-"o]ey. McCartin, , J. A. Casey, 
 
 J. F. Horan. I'rendiville, M. J. lloran. 
 
 .\ REMINDER OK FRAM I NCIIAM. 
 
 Connolly. Degnan. I). J. Mojnihan. 
 
 the latter drop to pieces, Init the canteen 
 goes home as a precious reHc of the Re- 
 Ix-llion. Miss liertha Kelley, a \\'(ir- 
 cester girl eiiiplr)yed in the government 
 jjrinting oiificc in Washingti m, with hrr 
 friend, Aliss T'aimie I'.nicw called on 
 Captain Ali.iynilian ami lift a large 
 basket of fruit, thereby winiii-ig the grat- 
 itude of the bfn's, whose stijmachs are 
 always susceptible. 
 
 A variatinn in the life of the "F.m- 
 mets" is h;i(l nii the iitli, when in li.ghl 
 marching or<ler they are taken by Cap- 
 tain Aloynihan in a cross-country spin 
 to inure them to what marching really 
 is. Tliey ste]) off at a rattling pace and 
 four miles away strike the Warrenton 
 turnpike, where there are mementoes of 
 Relielliou days, imt the least interesting 
 being an old citizen wht)se tales of long 
 ago arc especiallv relished l)y the l)oys, 
 coupled as they are with recollections of 
 Mnsbv and his men. Sergeant J. J. Cor- 
 liss is detailed td return to Worcester 
 and there recruit the Company to the 
 maximum, viz.. 106 men. The next da\, 
 or Tuesday, a re])etition of the marching 
 experience of Monday is had, with the 
 
 mercin-y ranging up in the 90's both 
 days. The distance covered is estimated 
 at twelve miles, with only one stop, a 
 pretty severe test of the endurance of 
 Worcester lads, but they are equal to it 
 andsccure theconimendation of General 
 \\'. .M. ('■rahani. division commander, 
 wild meets them on their return. Colonel 
 P.ogan of the Xinth is honored with the 
 Cdimnand of the provisional bri.gade just 
 formed. That the "Emmets" may know 
 what iligging for Ijreastworks means, 
 thev get a little experience in this line, 
 too. The camp is pleased to see within 
 its limits the Rev, Father Sherman, a 
 son df William Tecumseh Sherman of 
 Rebcllidii fame, udw the Chaplain df a 
 Missduri regiment, the 4th. All the 
 \arietv the l)0)-s get in the food line, 
 which is confined generally to bacon, 
 potatoes, hardtack and coffee, is had by 
 chan.gin.g the order of serving these 
 items, yet every day is making better 
 soldiers of these men used, hitherto, 
 onlv to the indifferent exactions of city 
 life' As they tan dr burn under the 
 southern sky, they are gaining strength 
 for coming ordeals. Captain Moyni- 
 
EMMET GUAKDS, COMPANY G. 
 
 in 
 
 hail is the first representative of his 
 regiment to be Officer-of-the-Day in 
 Camp Alger, a distinction also lield by 
 liim in Cam]) Dewey. 
 
 Wednesday, June 8th, a party of fif- 
 teen, inchulinq- Sergeant Corliss of C 
 Companw set (jut fnr the nortli for re- 
 cruiting purposes. Thirty-two men are 
 wanted by the "Emmets" to ccjmjjlete 
 theirnumbers. ITeleaves the camp about 
 as happy as usual, which means that 
 there are good natured folks there, and 
 some who kick at this or that and who 
 would find something to complain about 
 if they had been located in the garden of 
 Eden. For two days fresh meat has 
 been served, which Icss.-ns somewhat 
 the horrors of continuous fat bacon, but 
 it still takes a mile walk for a drink of 
 good water. The distribution on the 
 9th of the per capita portion, amounting 
 to $3.40 each, of the $250 gift of the 
 honoraries, comes to the boys as a God- 
 send, and they lose no time in trans- 
 ferring a goodly ]5art thereof to the 
 keeping of the hucksters, whose goods 
 are passed out in exchange, though it 
 should be said that the ingredients of 
 some of the \'irginia pies are of such 
 unhealthful character that, by the Colo- 
 nel's order, they are excluded thereafter 
 from the camp, a severe deprivation for 
 New England boys, to whom ]iie is a 
 necessitv, something more than a mere 
 luxury. On this day, !Mayor Dodge of 
 \\'orcester, accompanied by Policeman 
 John Legasey, honors the camp with a 
 visit. He comes at an early hour, for it 
 is only between 7 and 8 a.m. that he ap- 
 pears and receives the enthusiastic 
 greetings of his Worcester citizens afar 
 from home. In the afternoon comes the 
 Rev. Rector Thomas Conaty, of tlie 
 National University, and he receives a 
 glad hand from the many young men 
 whom he had known in his Worcester 
 days. They were recalled from drill, 
 that they might greet their former 
 frienil, and they gave the reverend gen- 
 tleman three hearty cheers. 
 
 "It never rains, but it pours," an 
 adage verified on the loth when State 
 Pavmaster Henrv E. Dobbins of Boston 
 
 visits Camp Alger to see about tli<5 
 nionev <lue the men for llieir service in 
 Camp Dewey before their muster-in to 
 that of the I'nited States. A like officer 
 from the national government is also ex- 
 pected soon. Already appetites are 
 whetted in expectation of good things 
 coming. "General" Charles IT. Taylor 
 of the P>oston Globe brings to cam]) a 
 garrison flag which is to float over 
 brigade headquarters, and Congressman 
 |. V. Fitzgerald, with his accustomed 
 elo(|uencc, presents the same. The heat 
 is intense, the mercury ranging trom 
 (JO to 100 degrees, and the duck suits 
 given out at Camp Dewey arc tlie envy 
 .>f regiments not so well equipped, 
 riie ])r(iximity of \\'ashington sug- 
 gests t(i the men of Com])any <i the 
 (lesira])lcness of a trip there, and they 
 arc ])romised by their Ca])tain that every 
 one shall have the pleasure of a visit to 
 the nation's capital, the men to go in 
 squads. One day, so many "Emmets" 
 are absent from dress ])arade that 
 Lieutenant-colonel Logan remarks ujion 
 the fact, and. when told that it is the 
 Worcester Company, he smilingly says, 
 "Great Company that, fourteen men and 
 a dog." The approach of June 17th 
 prninpts the irrepressible soldiers from 
 P.nston and vicinity to make nre]iara- 
 tions for a Bunker Hill dav. Saturday, 
 the iitli, has a place in memory's cal- 
 endar, for then, at 5 p.m.. Pavmaster H. 
 E. Dobbins I>cgan paying the Ninth the 
 money, sixteen dollars each, due them 
 for the earlier part of their Camj) Dewey 
 stay. Worcester does not forget her 
 bovs and John Casey receives a locket 
 fi-oni his sister Katherine. and Daniel 
 ( iardner is made happy by a revolver 
 from his brother John, with the .some- 
 what gruesome hope that it may kill its 
 share of .Spaniards. Ca])tain Moynihan, 
 as Officer-of-the-day, makes things lively 
 fur all concerned. 
 
 June I2th brings Sunday again and 
 mass is celebrated in the shady woods 
 from 6 to Q a.m., the altar having l)een 
 erected by a detail from each Company, 
 and nicely decorated with ferns. 
 Through practice the choir is improv- 
 
248 
 
 WORCESTER rX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 \STS HORAN AM' CORI.ISS 
 
 in.^, and sacred music sounding among 
 the trees recalls the line from Uryant ; 
 
 -The firovcs were Gi.il'> fir~.t tcmiiles." 
 
 Chaplain Muri)h\ 's talk was a practical 
 one on the best use of money, the same 
 occasioned by the recent visit of the pay- 
 master. So intense is the heat, all drill 
 is off and tin- men find needed rest. 
 Lieutenant Hurley and John Murphy, 
 however, take a sight-seeing triji to Hull 
 Run. thirteen miles away, while Ser- 
 geant Ibiran and a si|uad "f men visit 
 the Sixth. When they return they wear, 
 in addition to their smiles, a consider- 
 able u\unber of medals which thev have 
 wiiu in contests i)rcdiminar\ tn ihe com- 
 ing Hmds'cr Hill celebration, both the 
 Sergeant and I'rivale bihn L.irncr be- 
 ing among the witmers. i >n .\loud,T> 
 the surgeon started the we^-k with a 
 careful visitation of the standi about the 
 camp whence are sold soft driid<s. in- 
 duced tlui-eto b\ the number of stomach 
 cases in tin- Imspital. and as a result, 
 !nan\ of tlu- entrriiriscs are urdered oil 
 ;uid a drink dirt ol milk is urgenll_\ rec- 
 onnnendi-d. Considering the cheap price 
 at which this beverage can be jirocured 
 it would seem w(dl f^ ir thr men to take 
 
 WITH "CoeCHEE" IK CaMP .\Lr.ER. 
 
 the physician's advice. Tuesday. Sur- 
 geon Devine followed up his work with 
 a lecture to the "Emmets" on the hy- 
 giene of camp life, giving the best of 
 practical advice as to food and hab- 
 its. .\s a matter of fact the percentage 
 nf "Enmicts"' on the sick list is the 
 smallest in the regiment. 
 
 ^\■ednesday, June 15, has its full coui- 
 |)lement of rumors, and "the regiment is 
 sure to move"" in several directions on 
 the same dav. The heat is so intense 
 that drill is out of the cpiestion, more 
 time being spent in the woods than on 
 the drill ground. Even dress parade is 
 ])ostponed till ^,.45. Through care in 
 this direction ])rostrations on account of 
 heat do not occur. The time seems fa- 
 vorable for visits to the capital, and the 
 bnvs are taking their turns. Miss Eliza- 
 beth r.rosnan, sister of George W.. 
 .•I Worcester lady who is to be chief of a 
 nurse corps, calls on. Captain Moynihan 
 and leaves a generous gift of provisions 
 f(ir the men. while Thomas McDermott 
 and I )aniel Murph\-. students in Balti- 
 more Seminary, also good Worcester 
 natives, call on the Company. If possible 
 the welcome extended to a note from 
 Thomas II. P.ucklev of Worcester was 
 
i:M.\n:T guards, iompanv g. 
 
 249 
 
 wanner still, since it contained a check 
 fur twenty-five dollars. Tliis stauncli 
 citizen was away fnini home when the 
 "Ennnets" went throu.c'h the city and 
 this gift is sent as a reminder ihal he 
 does not forget. He receives thiee 
 cheers and a tiger almost loud enough 
 to be heard over the interval between 
 his home and the cam]). The amount 
 goes into the Comj^any mess fund. 
 "Couchee." "( i" Company's mascot, has 
 a trial liy battle with a similar character 
 in the Xatick company and. much to 
 the regret of his sponsors, comes out 
 worsted and is taken to the hospital for 
 repairs. Plastered and poulticed he is 
 still considered lucky for the C'omiiany 
 if not for himself. That tlie Worcester 
 men delight in jihysical ])ro\vess is evi- 
 dent in that thev endure a fifteen min- 
 utes' delav of dinner, while the cooks, 
 Farrell and llurke. decide which is the 
 better wrestler. L'nfortunatcly. the re- 
 sult is a draw. "Patsey" Powers, the 
 headf|uarters caretaker, develops som- 
 nambidistic tendencies and in his sleep 
 walks into another tent carrying his 
 blanket and lies down between the two 
 occu])ants. much to tlieir astonishment. 
 He also intr<i(luees as a rival to 
 "Couchee" a Iirindle i)U]) and puts the 
 two dogs on good terms. Tt is claimed 
 that from their state pay the "l'"muu-t~" 
 sent lioine fullv $700. 
 
 T<i Charlestown boys tlie m'ght be- 
 fore the 17th of June is nnich like the 
 eve of July 4t]i to the rest of the nati<in. 
 The Piunkcr Hill contingent in the Xin h 
 decided to keep up their home habit-; in 
 orthodo.x manner and they succcedt'd, 
 along with the help of the "Ennnets" 
 an<l other companies. There were illu- 
 minations, and the bugle brigade was 
 supplemented be a large innnber of fish 
 horns, whicli b\- some means made their 
 appearance in camj). Though the men 
 were in the national service and the 
 rules were supposed to be very strict, 
 there was a most decided letting <lown 
 of all restraint. Men are returning from 
 Washington frequently, and when Lieu- 
 tenant McCann and party returned they 
 lirought with them the largest lead pen- 
 
 cil ever seen in camp, the same being 
 for a recording instrument in the hands 
 I'i the Captain. When Sergeant Horaii 
 presents the formidable lUensil, said to 
 be mightier than the sword, he says, 
 "Captain, this is for you to use in keep- 
 ing tab on the men." To which pleas- 
 antry the Captain replies in similar vein, 
 "I'll jirobaljlv use it u]i in keeping tab 
 on the l-'irst Sergeant." Tlie men are 
 finding some work to do in cutting down 
 trees and removing underbrusli. as 
 thougli a change in camping place 
 might be under way. 'i"he l/th of 
 June was marked by the celebration so 
 long contemplated. Congressman I'itz- 
 gerald. always active, was the soid of the 
 whole affair, arranging for the prize.-, 
 and giving the project an impetus fron! 
 the start. The first act in the drama 
 was a game of baseball on the Sixth's 
 groimds between the rival nines of this 
 regiment and of the Si.xtli. Tt ended at 
 seven innings with a score of 3 to 4 in 
 favor of the Sixth, though if the other 
 two innings liad been played the bovs 
 of the Xinth were confident of winning. 
 T'ogarty and Gilmore of "G" Comoany 
 |dayed second base and right field, re- 
 spectively. George A\'. P.rosnan of the 
 "Ennnets" scored for the Xinth. and 
 T,ieutcnant PTubert Jackson.* a Wor- 
 cester boy, did the same for the Sixth. 
 The game was stopped on account of 
 the jiresencc of the Ignited States ]>ay- 
 master in the camp of the victors, and 
 his attractions no one could resist. The 
 afternoon contests were on the grounds 
 of the Xinth and resulted in favor of the 
 home contestants, the chief honors go- 
 ing to James McGrath, ^Michael Flynn. 
 William Murphy and Daniel W. O'Con- 
 nor. To give a home-like look to the 
 Comi)an\- street, the boys have init up 
 .1 bird house in front of the Captain's 
 
 *WiMiani Hubert J.icksnn was graduated 
 frum tlu- Classical High School in 1889: 
 Pioston L'liivcrsity, iiSo.^; later from the 
 n. U. Law School. Was First Lieutenant. 
 I'ompany 1. (the colored company) of the 
 Sixth; conimaiidcd his company in Porto 
 Rico; afterwards had a commission in the 
 riiilippines, and is now practicing law -in 
 Pittsburg. Penn. He got his military start 
 from Lii'iitoiiant McCann. 
 
250 
 
 WORCESTER ]\ THE SPANISH WAK. 
 
 OONAHOE'S MAGAZINE 
 
 ,1 . S U L I, I \' A N . 
 
 Dr. Ln 
 
 M A]<IR .M Ar.T-R.N. 
 
 lA.MI' AL(,|.;R 
 
 tciit just for a ])air of martins, and cacli 
 man is a committee to see that no harm 
 ccinies to the featliered housekeepers. 
 ( )\vin.q- to a generous ^ift of $500 by 
 r.oston's superintendent of streets. B. 
 ^\'. Wells, the I)o\s had chicken for 
 supper, and Mayor Ouincy's check for 
 $i.nO paid for eveuinq- fireworks. 
 
 Saturday, June iSth. is filled with 
 nuiiors of departure, and the fact that 
 General H. M. DufTield, brisjade com- 
 mander, with his stafT inspects the re,s;i- 
 ment sjoes far to substantiate the be- 
 lief thai the stay in rani|) .Mi^er will not 
 be Ioul;-. I'rivate Fit/.oerahl. who has 
 been in W'or'-ester, returns to c-inip 
 laden down witli appreciative ,s;ifts from 
 home friends. The Ladies' .Auxiliarv (.)f 
 the "T'jumets" sends sponges, lead |)en- 
 cils and shoe laces, all being badl\' 
 needed, and man\ of the men are re- 
 uiembereil pers(]nally. .Sunda\- witnessed 
 a decidt'd innovation in that the long 
 contenip'ated triu to the Potomac was 
 begun. The X'inth is a regiment in the 
 1st Brigade. 2,'] 1 )i\ision. _'d -\rnn- (/orps. 
 and its associate^ are the 33d and 
 the 34th Michigan. I".\i(kntly those 
 ill authority wislu-il to see just what 
 the men could do under "hurr\- up" 
 orders, since not e\'en the officers of the 
 
 regiment knew its destination. At 9 
 a.m. came the conunand from brigade 
 lieadipiarters for the men to be ready 
 in an hour for a trip, no one knew 
 where, but shelter tents were given out 
 and two days' rations were consigned to 
 each man's haversack. His tent and 
 l)lankets were rolled into a "horse col- 
 lar" and before tlie assigned time the 
 regiment was ready. It soon became 
 l-iiowii that the Potomac was the ob- 
 jective point, but what the distance was 
 lew, if any, knew. The march to Dunn- 
 Poring was dusty, as all midsummer 
 iri|)s ill \'irginia are, and soon tlie way 
 stretches lift' to the eastward. The two 
 -Michigan regiments are pushing along 
 also; Xearlv five hours were occupied 
 in the march and many a plan was made 
 as to what would be done when "( )ld 
 Potomac's Shore" was reached. The 
 river is historic, and those who had read 
 their books to any ])uri)0se conjured ui> 
 many a vision as thev cauglit the first 
 glimpse of its waters. Shelter tents are 
 ])itclieil on the banks of the stream and 
 every man promises himself a di]) in 
 its cooling waters ere "taps" are 
 S( lundeil, 
 
 ( )nl\ tin- unexpected hap]:)ens, for 
 Iiarilh had the "Enuuets" got their tents 
 up in good shaiie and were making prep- 
 arations for the evening's fun when 
 there came an order for the 2d Bat- 
 talion, to which the Worcester Com- 
 panv belongs, to break camp and to 
 march two miles away for outpost duty. 
 Having traxeled liftcen miles already, 
 this is not exactly inspiriting, but it is 
 a soldier's part to obey orders, however 
 disagreeable, so tlie tents come down 
 and, with viviil pictures of the good 
 times the other fellows are having, the 
 "Rmmets" and their fellows push out to 
 their respective stations, just as their 
 fathers were doing in this verv section 
 nearly forty years before. There is no 
 pitching of tents and the boys rest un- 
 der the blue canopy, though some of the 
 active lads, when off fluty, improved the 
 opportunity to scour the nei.ghborhood, 
 thus making some interesting acquaint- 
 ances. If in these rambles they sampled 
 
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 other food than tliat carried in their 
 haversacks and if, occasionallv, thi\ had 
 a drink of something' stronger than 
 a(ina pnra, the blame must be hiid on 
 those who sent them away from tlu- 
 river's banks. XotwithstancUng the 
 untimely ending of plans for a swim in 
 the classic stream, the boys were dream- 
 ing of carrying ihem out the next day, 
 when lo, at 4 a.m., they were roused to 
 make ready for their return to Camp 
 Alger, and at 8 o'clock they were headed 
 west for their former station. Tlu' way 
 was dusty as usual, 
 
 ".\iid tile broad Min .'ilmve l;iii,i;lu'il .'i jiili- 
 less laiigli. ' 
 
 trying the mettle of every num in the 
 brigade. It was clearly a trial of en- 
 durance and the eastern soldiers came 
 through with shining colors. .\t the 
 end of the trip, there were only four men 
 of the Xinth in the ambulance, while 
 more than five times that number from 
 the western regiments had wilted. In 
 the retrospect the men viewed the ex- 
 perience as a valuable one, still they had 
 no desire to repeat it at once. 
 
 Tuesday, the 21st, came "Major F. II. 
 Hammond, originally a Clinton man. 
 with pay due for one month's service 
 to the United States. Three days' pay 
 was kept back, so that each private re- 
 ceived only S14.04 for his labor din-ing 
 twenty-seven days. Xo man would ever 
 enter his country's service with money- 
 getting as his principal object. Chap- 
 lain ]\Iurphy receives an immense num- 
 ber, said to be 30,000, of jiatriotic songs, 
 the gift of Brookline Knights of Colum- 
 bus, which he is to distribute among the 
 men, and Peter F. Stullivan of the 
 "Emmets" is the man to pass them 
 around. Tliere should be no lack of 
 singing in the inunediate future. Per- 
 haps the bugler did his distribution act 
 on the 22d, otherwise there is nothing to 
 record for the day. 
 
 The evening of the 23d was made 
 memorable and interesting by a visit 
 from the /th Illinois, the regiment that 
 had extended such cordial greetings 
 when the Ninth arrived. Now si.x hun- 
 dred Chicago lads come over and help 
 
 make the welkin ring, for somehow the 
 impression is gaining ground that the 
 ])arting nuist be near. For manv a 
 young soldier the "Cead mille failthc" 
 of that joyous evening was his last, since, 
 ere the next month is ended, many 
 scores 111 tluni will be sleeping 'neath 
 the soil of Cuba or the waters of the sea. 
 Hap])ily no vision of im])ending gloom 
 overshadows the pleasures of the night. 
 
 Friday, June 24th, reputed to be an 
 unlucky day, but to the Xinth Regiment 
 it means another move, tliis time nearer 
 the foe. .After Ijreakfast, each man re- 
 ceives an abdominal band, sent down by 
 the Massachusetts Soldiers' .Aid Society, 
 also from the government a package 
 containing a number of items for use in 
 case of wounds. There are antiseptic 
 compresses, bandages and safety ])ins, 
 with printed flirections as to their appli- 
 cation. .Ml the things sent to the camp 
 in the way of presents tliat cannot be 
 easilv carried along have been returned 
 to the homes of the boys, and heavy 
 wearing a])])arcl, including knapsacks, 
 have been sent back to Massachusetts. 
 Only a light outfit is to be taken to 
 tropical Cuba. Though much was sent 
 home, more was left and neighboring 
 colored families fell heirs to a vast quan- 
 tity of camp accumulations, including 
 in one case no less than twenty-three 
 dogs. This ]iarticular family had long 
 wanted a dog. and the canine posses- 
 sions of the camp were able to supply 
 the demand. 
 
 The regiment is to leave only one man 
 in the hospital, a case of heat prostra- 
 tion. It is 5 o'clock p.m.w-hen the Xinth 
 Massachusetts A'olunteers turn their 
 backs upon Camp .Alger and start for 
 Dunn-Loring. The clouds of dust rise 
 like smoke, and were there the roll of 
 thunder one might think a battle in 
 progress, but, notwithstan<ling the dis- 
 comfort, not a man falls out of the ranks 
 and without a halt the station is reached 
 in an hour. In camp are left the large 
 tents hitherto in use, now to be de- 
 voted to covering the recruits who are 
 soon to come down from the North. To 
 look after the new arrivals, a non-com- 
 
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 W nl<( i:srKK IN' THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 missioned officer is detailed from each 
 compan\- and the representative from 
 "i'j" is Corporal jNFcSweenev. .\s Cap- 
 tain Movnihan was the first, so he is the 
 last ( )fficer-of-the-dav in Camp Als;er. 
 The hi^'tiai,,^' which each man is sup- 
 posed tn carr\'. for his present and fu- 
 ture comfort, ci insists of a half shelter 
 tent, a rubber blanket, a woolen ditto, 
 blue fatigue blouse and trousers and one 
 change of underwear, all rolled to- 
 gether and, when tied at the ends, sus- 
 pended like a collar from the left shoul- 
 der under the right arm. Of this array, 
 soldiers in the Rebellion wonhl discard 
 all but the tent anil ruliber blanket. 
 
 "I'atsey" Powers anil his dog "Alger" 
 were left in the camp, both boy and dog 
 most melancholv objects, the boy in 
 tears and ".Vlger" manifestly in sympa- 
 thy. Clad in his semi-regimentals "I'at- 
 sey" forms a vivi<l picture in this day"s 
 record. "Couchee," howevei , came 
 along, and right here is a good place to 
 ljrieli\- sketch the career of the "Em- 
 mets' " favorite. 
 
 "CoiciiKi:." 
 
 He is a bull terrier of thoroughbred 
 stock, and as a pup in i8qi was the prop- 
 erty of Michael ^fcCartln- of Worcester. 
 
 Thoui;h the men are on time, the 
 trains are not and some lime is con- 
 sumed in waiting. There are two sec- 
 tions of the train and the "lunmets" ride 
 in Xo. 2. It is late in the evening 
 when the train starts, and Alexandria is 
 reached in something less than an hoiu-. 
 Not nuich time was given to sleej) on 
 this trip, which, from .\lexandria, was 
 about four hours long, since all the fun 
 that lively Noiiths could crowd into the 
 time was had. ( )n the \va\ down to the 
 city that ne\t-r failing friiMid, C'ongress- 
 man Fitzgerald, had |)nt aboard the train 
 a fiuantit\ of eatables and drinkables 
 which he knew would l)e aiijireciated be- 
 fore there was a chance to get more. 
 He has made himself solid with the men 
 of the Ninth fo|- ;dl their natural lives. 
 
 \\'hen the Company decided that a mas- 
 cot was necessary the eyes of Sergeant 
 Horan fell on the lively form of McCar- 
 thy's dog, and the owner gallatuly 
 proffered the services of his canine to 
 the .State. Thcv were accejited. and from 
 that time onward the animal has been 
 conspicuous on all military occasions. 
 He always went to camp at Framing- 
 ham and was an invariable feature ini 
 parade, his first apjiearance being in 
 i8q2. Though each member of the Com- 
 jiauv constituted himself a part own- 
 er of "Couchee," his name and fame 
 spread throughout the entire regiment 
 anil brigade. .So well did he know his 
 pl.-ice that no restraiiU was put upon 
 liiin in camp and he had free run i-.f the 
 field. Once. howc\er. he came to grief 
 
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 253 
 
 ami that was when, in spurt, a member 
 of the 8th Regiment clapped the visitor 
 into a mess-chest anil then tnrg:ot him 
 for a number of hours, or imtil the poor 
 dog was almost suffocateil. < )n taking 
 him out of his box he was limp and ap- 
 parently lifeless, but he responded to 
 efforts to resuscitate and, when his wits 
 came back, he hustled over to his Com- 
 pany street in a lively manner, hence- 
 forth to remain nearer home, at all 
 events giving the 8th Regiment a 
 wide berth. In 1897. when Massachu- 
 setts sent her soldiery to .\ew York to 
 bear a part in the dedication of (ieneral 
 Grant's tomb, the "Enmiets" carried 
 "Couchee" and, under the care of J. J. 
 Corliss, he made the march up Broad- 
 way, enlisting the attention of the popu- 
 lace and also that of many animals of 
 his own kind, with which he was not un- 
 willing to fight on very slight provoca- 
 tion. Indeed, so numerous were his 
 scraps that his ne.xt friend had to at- 
 tach a chain to his collar, thus restrain- 
 ing his martial spirit. He could not 
 realize that time had undone some of 
 his fighting (pialities. and though his 
 native fire was unquenched. his teeth, his 
 only weapons, were too badly broken 
 for efficient use on the battlefield, hence 
 the necessit\' of oversight on the part 
 of the "Emmets." who loved him dearly, 
 and were determined that wherever they 
 went there should go "Couchee" also, 
 hence his presence as the Xinth leaves 
 Camp Alger. His experience with tiic 
 Company in Xew ^'ork extended his 
 fame beyond r)ay .State limits so that 
 when the Xinth marched into Camp 
 Alger the Illinois .'^eventh recognized 
 the dog before they did the men. 
 
 The morning of the 25th brings the 
 second section of the regiment to New- 
 port News and a union with the first, 
 which was already there. This place, 
 dating from the days of Captain John 
 Smith, is one of \'irginia"s tip ends and 
 is immediately opposite Fortress Mon- 
 roe. In Rebellion days Ceneral Butler 
 gave considerable attention to its forti- 
 fication. Now it is an important rail- 
 
 road terminus. .\n entluisiastic recep- 
 tion awaited them from the citizens, 
 who ajjparently were all out to see and 
 api)laud. There was a splendid lunch 
 in readiness, and a regular army officer, 
 in tine time, escorted the men to a mag- 
 nificent lawn which fronted Hampton 
 Roads, where hot coflfee wa.s served by 
 the government. The first installment of 
 the regiment got in ahead, but erelong 
 Captain .Moynihan led his boys into 
 touch with the good things provided. 
 The waters before the ])lace of feasting, 
 nearly forty years before, had borne tlic 
 rebel ram Merrimac when she de- 
 stroyed that ])ortion of the national 
 fleet stationed there, and there, too, had 
 come the little Monitor, not alone to 
 punish the .Merrimac. but to revohition- 
 ize all naval architecture. The bovs, 
 however, are not so much intent on the 
 |)ast as they are as to when thev are 
 to get off to sea. .\t y a.m. comes an 
 orderly from the Captain of the Harvard 
 telling Colonel Bogan to have his men 
 ready at 1.30 to embark. Eeave was 
 then given for the boys to take a bath in 
 the inviting waters, a permission that it 
 did not take them long to profit bv. and 
 soon the briny had in its embrace fully 
 one thou.sand Massachu.setts bovs, en- 
 joying to the utmost its cooling, invig- 
 orating touch. One or two favored 
 "lunmets " had the honor of bathing in 
 the house of a Lee, a relative of the 
 famous Confederate. There were visible 
 many reminders of \"irginia's favorite 
 son. and the Old Dominion was the soul 
 of hospitality to the Bay .State, accept- 
 ing Ijy way of compensation, for favors 
 rendered, only Massachusetts button'^. 
 The "assembly." sounded at ti o'clock, 
 recalled the men to their uniforms and 
 ]ilaces, and a half hour later they were 
 taking their hmciies from their iiaver- 
 sacks on the Casino grounds, where 
 their gims were stacked on arrival. 
 
 TiiKV RxTER 'TIarv.xkd." 
 
 Xot many of tliese young soldiers in 
 their school days liad entertained any 
 notion of becoming students in Amer- 
 ica's oldest college, yet at 12.30 every 
 
254 
 
 WOKCICSTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 r. I.. Mai£iirn, ist Lieut. Will. J. Casey. .Maj. Wm. II. Devino. Div. Surgeon. Adjt. Jos. J. Kelley. 
 .Surtreon. Henry Dohbins. Paymaster. Col. V. U. l5ogan. P. B. Murphy. Chai:ilain. 
 
 Capt. John J. Sullivan. Lieut. -C"ol. L. J. Logan. 
 
 I'lici.i) ()I'1'ici-:rs. nmxtii m.\ss.. v. s. 
 
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 iiU'iiil)fr III" the .Viiitli fminil liiniM.-lf ilnl\ 
 cnti-'rcd in ;in institution nf that name, 
 in other wurds lie was almard the Ilar- 
 \ar(1, the new name < >f tliat LCreat ocean 
 liner, the \ew ^'ork. wliich is now in 
 the hands nf tlie s^i i\ermnenl for the pni"- 
 pose of transportinij soldiers to tlie scat 
 of war. Tile men are taken from the 
 dock to the ■^ri.'at vessel I)\ the ferr\- 
 boat l.iinise of the Chcsapcak-e & ( )hii) 
 Railroad. T^vcry ticw move in this de- 
 ligfhffiil day is accompanied li\' inke. 
 laughter and simo-, and well it is that we 
 lanjjh while we may. "fur anotlu'r da\' 
 will hrini;' ciion^h snrrnw." .\11 this is 
 hap])cnin,£;" on Satin'd;i\ ;ind there is still 
 much to do in h lading llie threat vessel 
 with su])plies, hnth fur the men and fur 
 her own .threat Imilers and eiiLjines. 
 There is am])le time to study and ex- 
 amine the ap])ointmcnts of the craft 
 She is reccivin';- a half dozen six-inch 
 guns to replace as many smaller ones. 
 
 In :i<ldilinii In tlu' Xinth. she is carry- 
 ing;- two battalions of the 34th Michigan. 
 The decks are scenes of mirth, nut much 
 like a war partw ;ind to the strains of 
 the "Red. White and Jjlue," in which 
 these voices join, some patriotic fellows 
 add, "and the Green." But even this 
 comming-ling of colors cannot gn on in- 
 defiiiitely, and the early hour of 8.30 p.tiL 
 beholds the soldiers safe in the arms of 
 Morpheus, dreaming of Siianiards, glory 
 and home. 
 
 ( )nc mure Sunday is begun, June 
 2rith, in the Old Dominion, and the early 
 bugle call meets a quick response from 
 the nu'ii will I h.ive rested well in their 
 new i|uarters. .\ large force of men has 
 worked all night to coal the Harvard, 
 .•ind even then their task is not com- 
 plete. Xotwithstanding the changed sit- 
 natiiin. mass is celebrated in the ship's 
 liiiw. where an altar had been provided, 
 ]H'rmissi(ni having been secured from 
 
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 the captain of the llarvard. Miuli to 
 Chaplain Murphy's surjjrisc he was ac- 
 costed by the second otticer of the ves- 
 sel, before his services began, with the 
 statement that he couKl not liave his 
 exercises there, but a httle decided talk 
 on the Chaplain's part, with a direction 
 to Sergeant Horan of the "Emmets" to 
 detad a scpiad of men for guard duly, 
 cleared the air and the devotion^ i)ro- 
 gressed. At J.^op.ni. anchor is \\rit;heil 
 and the Harvard, laden with nu-ii, 
 ammunition and suljsistence, is nFl for 
 Cuba. She departs accompanied by the 
 good wishes of the thousands who see 
 her turn her prow to the sea. F.very 
 whistle where steam was up let go a 
 mighty sound in testimony of ai)])recia- 
 tion and, convoying the repair ship \'ul- 
 can, the Harvard with her rcjiresenta- 
 tives of Alassachnsetts and Micliigan is 
 ofif for Santiago. 
 
 This is before the days of Marconi 
 wireless telegraphy, so for several days 
 the vessel and her occupants are a world 
 to themselves, except as the Harvard 
 may be sighted by some passing craft. 
 The letters, so regularly sent to the pa- 
 pers of Worcester and Boston, are want- 
 ing and "The Ninth" as a glaring head- 
 line disappears for a season. Still there 
 is something doing every day on board 
 the ship, and though, as a rule, not good 
 sailors the men gradually develop sea 
 legs, at least sufficiently to appreciate 
 the historic trip they are taking. Ajipar- 
 ently the fare on shipboard is l)etter than 
 that provided when the Second sailed 
 from Tampa, or the kickers would have 
 been heard from. There are i ,400 miles 
 of sea journey before the men, and there 
 is much time to be killed ere they can 
 begin the Spanish destruction on which 
 thev are supposed to be bent. So calm 
 is the sea and so devoid of incident the 
 trip, the careful annalist had hard work 
 to write up his "line a day." Monday 
 night the Harvard sighted a craft on her 
 starboard and as she had no light burn- 
 ing she was overhauled, arousing sen- 
 sations of interest among the landsmen 
 looking on. However, as her papers 
 proved to be in order the bo>-s had to 
 
 resign themselves to sleep without suf- 
 ficient excitement to inlluence their 
 dreams. Tuesday, 28th, the rej^air shij) 
 \'ulc;in signalized the day by getting 
 lost. In mythology X'ulcan was a lame 
 god and his ii.amesake verified the i)ro- 
 ])riety of its ;ippeIlation by moving in a 
 halting manner, so nuicli so that she 
 sensibly impeded the ])rogress of the 
 Harvard, It took fully two hours for 
 I Ik- larger \e>si'l to overhaul the miss- 
 ing lloating loolshop.a consum])tion of 
 linu' that under some circumstances 
 might ])rove highly disastrous. Though 
 not far from land at any lime, it is not 
 till W'ednesdav that points of inieresl are 
 pointed out. I'. J. Sullivan of the "luii- 
 mets" was a sailor of experience, having 
 been on the Chicago, once the flag-ship 
 of the while s(|uadron, and lias repeated- 
 ly passed through these waters. His 
 knowledge is in ]ilace and he has inter- 
 ested listeners as he points out localities 
 famed in earl\- American history. Some 
 of the r.ah;ini;i group are noted and lie 
 shows his credulous comrades SanSal- 
 \;i(lor. first sighted by the great Cenoese 
 in 14<)2: but the boys draw the line of 
 lielief when he tries to tell them just 
 where Columbus landed. On Thurs- 
 day comes the last day of June, and in 
 the afternoon at about 3 ii.m. while still 
 on the north side of Cuba, on the port 
 si(k' a \essel is sighted whose strange 
 behavior excites some wonder on the 
 Harvard. She docs not resjiond to the 
 latter's signals and through a glass has 
 the appearance of a torpedo boat. The 
 guns of the vessel were trained on the 
 stranger and twenty-|)ound projectiles 
 were placed within the cannon ready for 
 use. The interrogated craft turns about 
 and heading for the Harvard, immedi- 
 ately the word goes out that a Spanish 
 destroyer is coming. The Xinth is or- 
 dered to "fall in" and things begin to be 
 really exciting, but once more a "flash- 
 in-the-pan" i-, recorded, since it is only 
 a collier, the Alexandria, on her way to 
 Xorfolk, which had failed to answer the 
 signals of the Harvard through having 
 forgotten the code. Just a little before 
 midnight the vessel reaches a i)oint off 
 
256 
 
 WOKCESTEK IN THE SPANISH WAK. 
 
 Santiago harbor and her journey is 
 done. 
 
 P'riday is July ist and a great day for 
 Cuba. During the preceding night 
 search-hghts have played upon the new- 
 ly arrived and they have been duly an- 
 swered. The Newark was the first ves- 
 sel spoken, ami from her a knowledge of 
 the Santiago situation was obtained. So 
 well lighted is the entrance to the har- 
 bor, where Cervera and his fleet are 
 "bottled up," that the men on board the 
 Harvard have a good view of the Morro 
 and the sunken Merrimac, about which 
 every one had read so much. .\ close 
 watch is kept upon the harbor entrance 
 ;md if the Spanish rat does undertake 
 an exit he will find his hole well guard- 
 ed. A speedv landing is expected and 
 desired. P.all cartridges are distributed 
 to the men and their guns are thorough- 
 
 ly inspected, with the idea of immediate 
 action on getting ashore. The execu- 
 tive officer of the New York, which is 
 Admiral Sampson's flag-ship, through 
 his megaphone, directs the Harvard to 
 kee]:) well a-starboard, to land the troops 
 first and to keep out of range of the 
 .Morro's batteries, to all of which the 
 Harvard's officer responds, "Aye, aye, 
 sir." The soldiers enthusiastically cheer 
 everything in sight and are ready for any 
 emergency, every one having endured 
 the vovage well and the sick list is nil. 
 Siboney is the place of debarking and 
 at 5. .SO all are ofif. the Harvard discharg- 
 ing iter burden alxnit half a mile from 
 shore bv means of her smaller boats. 
 There are many vessels in the vicinity, 
 among them the hospital ship State of 
 Texas, flying the Red Cross flag, and 
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 sight of the W'nrcestcr nurse said to l)e 
 aboard of her, Init their watchftdness is 
 not rewarded. It is a busy, noisy world 
 into wliieh the men are ushered, fi u" 
 there is the sound of bonibardnient and 
 the whistles of steamers of all sorts, 
 joined to the nearer confusion of land- 
 ing. The twenty or more huts consti- 
 tuting the settlement of Siboney are not 
 very impressive, but the pressure of 
 feet upon a foreign shore gives every 
 man a sensation never experienced be- 
 fore. Immediately they note the lux- 
 uriance of vegetation and the (|uantity 
 of inviting fruit, against whose use, 
 however, they have been warned liy the 
 surgeons. 
 
 Four hours after landing, while many 
 were enjoving bathing in the surf, the 
 Ninth was ordered forward, and it took 
 substantially the same trail followed by 
 the Rough Riders and others in the af- 
 fair at Las Guasimas. The "front." 
 always a movable locality, was said to 
 be twelve miles away and over a route 
 trodden by the \\'orcester boys of the 
 Second several days before; the Ninth 
 having laid ofif all surplus burdens takes 
 its first march in Cuba. All this day 
 on the extreme American right has been 
 raging the tight at El Caney, but the 
 news comes slowly here. At the left, 
 towards which the Ninth is marching, 
 the Rough Riders and others are .giving 
 a name to El Poso in connection with 
 the famed fight of San Juan. All along 
 the route wounded men are met making 
 their way back to the hospital accom- 
 modations of the coast. It is hardly fair 
 to call the paths followed in Cuba roads. 
 
 Even the Western idea of a trail is much 
 better than the tracks pursued in Cuban 
 marches. The mud is deep, hills steep 
 and tb.e vegetation rank. There are 
 halts to ])ermit the passage of mule 
 trains laden with anniumition and pro- 
 visions for those already in the fray, and 
 there is waiting while regiments of regu- 
 lars change tlieir positions. M the same 
 time the new men are greeted heartily 
 hv those ahead of them in e.xperience, 
 who cheer the new comers. Some- 
 where in this effort to reach the scene 
 of conflict the ist of July gave place to 
 the 2d, but there was no perceptilile 
 change in what was required of the men. 
 P>efore the regiment moved it was given 
 out that Colonel Bogan had been sent 
 to the hos]ntal, a victim of fever, though 
 he was a sick man when he left Massa- 
 chusetts. .-Xs they made their way for- 
 ward, news gradually filtered into the 
 lines that the Second had met the enemy 
 at El Caney, and the praises of the Mas- 
 sachusetts boys were sung by the regu- 
 lars, though the black, smoky powder 
 used by them had compelled their early 
 withdrawal from the fight, a condition 
 that seems to be not altogether reas- 
 suring' to the Ninth, whose guns and am- 
 munition were of the same arcliaic char- 
 acter. They were glad, however, to 
 know that their ^^'orccster friends had 
 given a good account of themselves. 
 While not wounded in the din of battle. 
 blood is drawn when Sergeant M. J. 
 McCartin. in cleaning his gun. explodes 
 a shell and thereby loses the first finger 
 of his right hand, while John E. Casey, 
 the Company wagoner. being hit in the 
 
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 WORCESTER IX THE Sl'AXISII WAR 
 
 ear by a spent hall, is the (inly ■' Emmet" 
 to sense Spanish lead. When near the 
 place where the Ronsjh Riders received 
 their punishment, the whiz of Alauser 
 bullets drew from our men a return vol- 
 ley. Whatever the result as to life or 
 death, it had the efTect nf ending the 
 Spanish music. It is 5 a.m. when the 
 men are roused from a brief rest by all 
 the din and confusion of battle. It is 
 a pretty rough introduction to young- 
 men who hitherto have unly read of 
 what war is like. 
 
 At 7 o'clock a.m. the Ninth start.- 
 again, and in the afternoon reaches a 
 point where the Springfield rifle and 
 smoky powder develop the fact that the 
 regiment is better in reserve than in ac- 
 tion. It is no part of this story to crit- 
 icise the authorities which sent the 
 Massachusetts men furward with such 
 inadequate e(|uii)nient, liut it dues seem 
 strange that a natimi so advanced as 
 the American should be so far behind 
 the Spaniards in the essential feature of 
 firearms. 
 
 Tust liefiire reaching San Juan Hill 
 the road furki'd, and the Ninth biire tn 
 the left. In dning so, skirteil the base 
 of the hill and halted, .\fter a dinner 
 of hardtack and water the regiment, late 
 in the afternoon, was range<l nn the ex- 
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 really face the sea, but in positi(^n to 
 prevent a flank movement, which was 
 considered probable. Un the right was 
 the 20th Regulars, ready to deliver a 
 cross fire should the enemy advance. 
 The "Emmets"" found themselves in a 
 natural ravine or gully. The men, weary 
 from their long march, went to sleep 
 quickly. At 9.30 the Spaniards began 
 firing and several volleys were given in 
 reply, there being no trouble about 
 black powder in the night. The firing 
 episode was fast and furious for a time. 
 To the inexperienced ears of some of 
 the "Emmets"' the noise seemed unnec- 
 essarilv loud. \\\ sorts of remarks were 
 current and the laugh was loud over the 
 vocalized reflections of Private !■'., who 
 remarked that if "them Spaniards didn"t 
 look out they would hit somebody yet,'" 
 and "If God has any respect ftir the Irish 
 I hope He's praying- for us now." An- 
 other lad, referring to his lady love, in 
 anxious voice says, "'I wonder what my 
 clav pigeon is doing now?" Again the 
 men sleep, but before this there had 
 come a conunand for two companies to 
 report to Colonel E. P. Pearson, com- 
 mander of the brigade. ( Hir Worces- 
 ter men, "("i," and the Clinton company, 
 '"K," were designated, but it was not 
 so easv to locate the Colonel's posi- 
 tion, hence Private Steele of the "Em- 
 mets'" and Smith of the Clintons were 
 sent out to find the waw ( >n reporting to 
 iho coniniamler he ordered them to re- 
 main where they were for the present, 
 since the firing was then on .along the 
 entire line. When the messengers re- 
 turned at 1.30 a.m. of the 3d, they found 
 I lie men asleei). but they were speed- 
 ilv roused, and at 2 o"clock, having 
 tilled their canteens from the \ ellow 
 w;iters of the San Juan River, under the 
 guiil.ance of Steele an<l Smith, pushing 
 and dragging themselves through 
 sw:nnps and underbrush, the compa- 
 nies reported to LieutenaiU-colonel E. 
 R. Kellogg of the loth U. S. Infantry 
 at 3.15 in the morning. He said that 
 his men were exhausted and ought to be 
 relieved, but the fact of black jiowder 
 prevented his sending the men of the 
 
F.MMK.T CrAKIlS, COMl'ANY (1. 
 
 25it 
 
 Hugh McCiuiRE. 
 
 J. E. Casey. 
 
 E. II. Lyons 
 
 .1. II. .Sweeney. 
 
 Xinth to tluir immediate relief. 1 low- 
 ever, they coiilil cHl;' traverse trendies to 
 the firing: 'i"'^'- where the men of 
 the loth were on duty. This wa,- 
 done mider the direction of Lieu- 
 tenant Eh Ilehnie. of the regulars, 
 he warning the luen to work lively, 
 since the enemy would fire at daybreak. 
 The distance to the Spanish lines is i')5 
 vards and the position is an exposed 
 one, subject to a cross fire h\' the enrm\ . 
 a long:, low hill on which Captain John 
 Drum of the loth Infantry was killed. 
 The Spaniards do open fire at daybreak, 
 as expected, and digg'ing- ceases, Init the 
 men of the Xinth take their ])ositions 
 under a heavy fire, retaining: them till 
 the flag of truce went up on the 3d. hor 
 their coolness under fire they were coni- 
 plimentc'd by Lieutenant-colduel Kel- 
 logg, and the men of the loth were 
 very generous in sharing their rations, 
 since the relieving comrades had been 
 almost rationless and sleepless since the 
 1st. When Lieutenant Helniic learned 
 of the condition hi this fespect, he and 
 Lieutenant Hurley of the "Emmets" 
 went for rations and secured coffee, 
 sugar and hardtack for the hungry men. 
 After smidown of the 4th. with the flat- _ 
 tering remark by Lieutenant-colonel 
 Kellogg that they were a credit to 
 Massachusetts, the detached companies 
 returned to the regiment. 
 
 The "Emmets" are now' a part of the 
 3d Brigade, 3d Division, of the 5th 
 
 .\rmy Corps. Colonel E. P. Pear- 
 son commands the brigade, Cieneral J. 
 1". Kent the division. The men are 
 not slow to note the advantage of the 
 Krag-Jorgensen rifle, and no weapon 
 of that kind k'ft around loose is long 
 without a fuider. Rain storms, such as 
 .\mericans never saw at home, are a daily 
 occurrence, and when they conie the 
 men are learning that they mav be taken 
 as one of nature's shower baths. The 
 boys of the Xinth were astonished on 
 this day when, for the first time, they 
 saw a whole regiment of regulars strip 
 of¥ their clothing and take a most invig- 
 orating bath in statu uaturtr, with all 
 out-of-doors as a bath house: then giv- 
 ing their clothing a scrub they resumed 
 it and it was quickly dried by the return- 
 ing sun. ()thers could and did catch 
 in their rubber blankets rain water, with 
 which they filled their canteens. 
 
 On the 4th, Musician P. E. .Sullivan 
 goes on a visit to the 2d Massachusetts, 
 and hardly recognizes his old friends 
 there, since they, during the interval fol- 
 lowing Camp Dewey, have practically 
 given up using the razor, and through a 
 full beard he has to look closely to find 
 his Worcester acquaintances. There he 
 first heard of the death of Lieutenant E. 
 X. Pienchley of \\'orcester, and later he 
 visited the fith Regulars and conversed 
 with fellow officers and men who had 
 known P>enchley so well. At this very 
 time W'orcester was hoping against 
 
260 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 !■", 1'. DOYI.E. 
 
 T. r,. Kn.iEv. 
 
 1'. J. Scv 
 j Sri,l-I\-AN (in 
 
 LLY. 
 
 his sailor days). 
 
 Hknrv Criffin. 
 
 yi. J. McC'.ARTI.N. 
 
 hopu that subsL-cjiiPiif rcpiirt> wmild ren- 
 der back the yoiiiii; man whose future 
 had promised so much. Also he found 
 the I2th Regulars and a hirge repre- 
 sentation of Worcester friends who liad 
 enhsted under Lieutenant Anghmi. 
 
 While "(i" Company was away from 
 the regiment, the same had a visit from 
 Lieutenant rrowU-y of the -'oth L'nited 
 States. a West J'oint classmate of j-iench- 
 ley, who expressed great regret at not 
 seeing I'.encldey's fellow Worcester 
 men. Lie was entertained by Captain 
 Dunn of Company I. Later Captain 
 Moynihan, with Lieutenants Hurley 
 and' McCann, went over to the 20th 
 and were told in detail the sad story of 
 the voung hero's death. 
 
 Late in the evening of the 4th, certain 
 Companv "G" men were mixed up in an 
 affair on the Harvard, which, for several 
 
 days, had been the hal>itation of the 
 regiment. When the disembarking 
 came, five men from each company were 
 left to assist in unloading the vessel, and 
 in its general care ; this to relieve the ma- 
 rines, who were hardl}' equal to the task. 
 The "Emmets" thus left behind were 
 Sergeant P. J. Moynihan, Corporal J. F. 
 Koran. Privates J. J. Creaven, Edward 
 Sullivan and P. J. Prendiville. For 
 safe keeping, a large number of prison- 
 ers, captured by the fleet on the 3d, had 
 been placed aboard the vessel. During 
 the night these men, either to relieve 
 their crowded condition or to seize the 
 arms of the guard, which were stacked 
 upon the deck, roused the apprehension 
 of those on duty. The sergeant of the 
 guard was Moynihan of the "Emmets." 
 and. on the failure of the Spaniards to 
 heed the commands of the guard (most 
 
EM.MICT GUAKUS, CUMl'ANY G. 
 
 2(il 
 
 M. I., lie 
 
 J. H. O'tAi.r., 
 
 J. A. G. I Asi v. 
 
 likely none of them iniilerstODd). they 
 were fired upon and a large number 
 dropped in their ])laees : six dead out- 
 right and the cithers badly wounded. 
 Their blood flowed freely upon the dec!; 
 and their comprehension of orders, eve i 
 though given in an unkmiwn tongue, 
 seemed to grow amazing] v. 
 
 During the next three d;iys there is 
 no firing and the men have a chance to 
 compare Cuban climate with that of 
 their homes, and few nf them would 
 care to make the Island, wonderfully 
 fertile though it be, their ]jermaneni 
 abode. The health of the men continues 
 good and the rations tolerable, though 
 some begin to find fat bacon rather too 
 constant in its daily a])pearance. ( )n 
 the 8th, Jvlusician Sullivan sends to the 
 Worcester Gazette a letter, in which he 
 ingeniously depicts the assault on San 
 Juan Hill b\- picturing Worcester's 
 \'ewton Hill as the scene, capping it 
 
 The "Emmets" at Santiago. 
 
 I-;. l\ StU I.K. 11. \\ . 1 l'( ..VN,,K. 
 
 with a blcickhouse, stationing twn thou- 
 sand Spaniards, determined to hold it, 
 and clothing the hillside with trees, 
 whose tops conceal sharpshooters, and 
 dense undergrowth, threaded with in- 
 terminable lines (if barbed wire, up 
 against all of which the .\mericans, on 
 the 1st day of July, were hurled. That 
 the\' shiiuld gain the top wa-; the won- 
 der cif every one. 
 
 Tt was in this period that a Spanish 
 sharpshooter, found in a tree, where he 
 had Iieen for several days, not daring to 
 Clime (Inwn. was brought in so nearly 
 famished that when carried before 
 Lieutenant-colonel Logan, he actually 
 snatched from the latter's hand a 
 cracker which he was eating. When 
 the guard would punish the captive for 
 his incivility, the good-natured officer 
 said. ".\ii. no! Tf he is as hungry as 
 that, let him go." Though General 
 Hates had declared that Spaniards thus 
 fdU'.iil should not be brought before 
 him, in this case the man was sent to 
 the rear as a prisoner. It was held that 
 sharpshooters in trees within the 
 .Xmeric.in lines were not within 
 the pale of civilized warfare. \\'itli this 
 idea in mind, men of the 24th and 25tli 
 U. S, regiments went gunning for them, 
 calling the diversion "coon hunting." 
 
 At this time the Xinth is on the ex- 
 treme left of the line encircling Santi- 
 ago. The other regiments near are tlie 
 3d. 20th, 2d and loth Regulars, who are 
 entrenched within 500 yards of the city 
 itself. The novices in the art of war 
 are not slow to improve their opportu- 
 
262 
 
 WDRCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAI 
 
 NONESS OF COL. F. 
 
 I!akbi:i)-wikk Defense. 
 
 Sl-ANISH liLrJCK-HtH'SE. 
 
 liit\' t'l learn fnim tlic uld soldirrs, 
 wlmsc cxiteriiMU'f cnvrrs many yrars ni' 
 Indian tiijhtinj;'. There In little in the 
 ratine nf .\int-riean niililary life that 
 tliey have nut sampled, and tliey are the 
 kindest of teachers {<' these beginners. 
 Tobacco is becomint;' a scarce article, 
 and devotees of ihe weed are pnt to 
 their wits' ends to secure their favorite 
 stimulant, offering fabulous sums for 
 
 small i|iiaiUilies of it. ( )ne man i.•^ saul 
 to lia\'e ])aid aliove .$25 for a single 
 |ii)nnd iM smnking tobacco, and an ofl!- 
 cer. Mil the _>d. was reported offering his 
 gold watch for just one chew. Writing 
 material, too. is entirely out, and tomato 
 can labels are at a premium, for on them 
 the btixs can write their letters, and, 
 when tied with a string, in lieu of en- 
 velope, they are sent homeward. 
 
EMMKT CTAKIIS, C(i.\l I'A \ Y G. 
 
 2(i:i 
 
 The week's cessation of tiriiitj is im- 
 proved to make stronger the position ^ 
 of the American forces, and the "Em- 
 mets" learn how efficient pick and 
 shovel may he in securing- protection 
 from the enemy's missiles. It would he 
 absurd to imply that they altogether en- 
 joyed the enforced inactivity, but the 
 week went to swell the aggregate of 
 their war experience. Their fellow regi- 
 ment^ in General Bates' brigade are 
 the 3d and 20th Regulars, and their loca- 
 tion is in the ravine between two hills 
 overlooking tlie beleaguered city. On 
 .'-Sunday, the loth. they were told that at 
 4 i>.m., unless ordered to the contrary, 
 they were to be in the trenches, and 
 once again "the fires of hell were to 
 rain on the Spanish quarters." Every 
 man was at his post at the apjiointed 
 time, but the signal from General Law- 
 ton's gun did not come till 4.45 : the de- 
 lay arising from the coming of one of 
 those terrible thunder-storms which del- 
 uge everything, and so heavy was the 
 thunder, no signal gun could have been 
 heard. Every man was as thoroughly 
 drenched as if he had been dipped in the 
 sea. It was when there came a cessa- 
 tion of heaven's artillery that that of 
 man began. Eor two Imurs there was a 
 constant rain of bullets from the men m 
 line, while from the hillside cannon 
 hurled shot and shell within the S])anisii 
 intrenchments. efifectually silencing such 
 artillery as the enemy possessed. When 
 darkness settled down (and it comes 
 without twilight in the tropics), the fir- 
 ing ceased for the night, to be resumed 
 in the morning of the 11th. though as 
 orders had been given to waste no shots, 
 and hostile heads were scarce, the shoot- 
 ing was not so vigorous as on the pre- 
 ceding day. The cannon, however, bel- 
 lowed away at the city, for apparently 
 there was nothing else for them to aim 
 at. At 4 p.m. firing of all kinds ceases, 
 and the men concluile that the game is 
 won. 
 
 In the days of noise and confusion, 
 the Company's pride. "Couchee." hav- 
 ing no use for gunpowder, retired to the 
 
 com])arati\e (piiel of ."-^iboney, waiting 
 fi>r more peaceful times. 
 
 The 14th of July is a red-letter day in 
 Cuban-.\mcrican annals, for then came 
 the ann.ouncenient that Santiago had 
 yielded, and that there would be no more 
 fighting for her possession. However 
 delightful the tidings were to the men. 
 they were not to exult, as would be nat- 
 ural, lest the refrain thereof might be a 
 change of mind on the part of the crafty 
 Spaniard. Truly, there were some queer 
 things in ilie management of the Span- 
 ish war. When Lee was i)resse(l to his 
 surrender at .\]>pomattox, the Union 
 soldiers were recpiested not to cheer on 
 account of the heroic defense made by 
 the Confederates, and Captain Philli])s 
 told the men of the Texas not to hurraii. 
 
 for. "Don't you see the poor d s are 
 
 dying;" but there was not hingof the sort 
 at Santiago. The Si)aniards were not 
 dying, neither had their defense been 
 particularly notable, but the liot weather 
 had evidently its effect on .the weighty 
 figure of the conmiander and he did not 
 wish any resumj^tion of hostilities nor 
 any excuse for such. l"p to this time, 
 though the Ninth had been witiiout 
 tents of any kind, the liealtji of the men 
 has been rcmarkal)ly good. Of tlic "Em- 
 mets." four only are reported ailing 
 viz.. Sergeant McCartin. gunsiiot wound 
 in the hand: Privates Tames McGrath 
 
 OOKAMOE'5 UAQAZiNE 
 
 Block-house. SA.vTi.^no Harbor. 
 
264 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 T. J. Kelleher. 
 
 V ('. [.EiiNARD. 
 
 L. A. O'S 
 ,1. E. Fit 
 
 ULLIVAN. 
 ZrATRUK. 
 
 J. F. Larner. 
 
 F'. K. P.ARKER. 
 
 and Jnlm Larkiii, the lornu-r ddwn with 
 malarial fever, the latter injinrd nii the 
 nig-ht inarch from Sibnney, all three heiui;' 
 now in hos])ital at Key West, I'rivate 
 deorije \\ . lirosnan was taken sick at 
 Newport News, before the sailing of the 
 Harvard, but he managed to stave ofT a 
 complete collajjse till the middle of the 
 month, when at last he yields to what 
 the surgeon pronounces a light case of 
 measles. Private John t'ascy, who got 
 the clip on the head on his way up to 
 San Juan, has recovered and came back 
 for duty on the 13th : on the 14th comes 
 a discharge for him. and Captain Moyni- 
 han hands it to the soldier, all this the 
 result of the efforts of Worcester 
 friends who think Private Casey better 
 em]>lo\eil at home, caring for his six 
 children, than in stopping possible Spa'^- 
 
 ish balls in the C'uban held. His dis- 
 charge papers are dated at Washington, 
 July 1st. 
 
 It was on the 14th that certain duties 
 were assigned to "G" Company, in the 
 guarding of the colors. To Private S. 
 was given the special care of the pre- 
 cious emblem. During the night Lieu- 
 tenant .M. was astonished to find his 
 guardsman in a state of high excitement, 
 dashing about his beat, evidently trying 
 to tind some hated object, "What's the 
 matter with you?" is the officer's query, 
 •■f'm trying to find the villain that's hiss- 
 ing me: tton't you hear him? Let me 
 set eves on him and I'll break his nose," 
 etc. It appears that a certain Cuban 
 night bird utters a cry not unlike the 
 hiss of a goose, .A.s S. was not up on 
 his bird-lore, his confusion was not 
 
EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 
 
 265 
 
 D. Gakdnek. 
 
 F. E. Joyce. K.I'. Duvlf. J. J. Mci;r.\tii. I'. .1. I'kendiville. .\I. J. Gkocan. 
 
 Strange, hut it took his Lieutenant some 
 time to convince him tliat no disrespect 
 was intended. 
 
 "After the ball is over," has been snni;- 
 by manv a light-hearted i^leasure 
 lover, and the thought is in many an 
 "Emmet"mind,evcn though it may not 
 find vocal expression. This is the situ- 
 ation : rain every day and no tents ; to 
 put it most mildly, only indifferent fare ; 
 nn writing material, nothing to do, at 
 least nothing that the men think worth 
 doing. If, under such circumstances, 
 the innate disposition to kick did no' 
 develop itself, it would 1)e a wonder. The 
 men do not wax fat, the scriptural ac- 
 companiment of kicking, for ob\nous 
 reasons, yet all things considered, thev 
 do maintain a remarkable condition <^f 
 health. Not a man in the entire regi- 
 ment as yet has died, except Private 
 Doherty, killed in Westboro, on the de- 
 parture of the Ninth from Camp Dewey. 
 Assistant Surgeon Shea is doing excel- 
 lent ser^'ice in the hospital at Siboney. 
 and the whole work for the regiment de- 
 volves upon Surgeon Magurn. He also 
 has to look after the other regiments in 
 the brigade, since their medical men are 
 all at Siboney. Incpiiries have been 
 sent around to all the companies asking 
 for men who have had any sort of med- 
 ical experience. In this way drug clerks 
 and embryonic doctors are at a pre- 
 mium. On the i6th came the tents, 
 hitherto held at the landing place in 
 Siboney, and visions of some degree of 
 comfort are had by the drenched and 
 sun-burned men. The 17th of Julv has 
 
 bright memories in the nunds of all sur- 
 vivors of the Cuban camjjaign. for then 
 came the formal, irrevocable surrender 
 of Santiago, and thereby the end of 
 Spanish rule in .Vmerica. 
 
 All the details had been carefully ar- 
 ranged, and were carried out with true 
 military ])recision. All of the troops as- 
 sembled I in the outer breastworks at 
 10.30 a.m. Only the higher officers 
 could have an immediate part in the his- 
 toric scene : ordinary mortals, like the 
 war-liorse. must snuff the battle from 
 afar. At t 1.45, the boom of cannon told 
 the soldiers that the ausjiicious moment 
 had come, and that misrule, extending 
 over more than four hundred years, was 
 ])assin^. Fortunately forthepent-upen- 
 thusias'm of the Americans, all l)arriers 
 against cheering are iMMken down, and 
 men can yell till they are hoarse, and th;s 
 they proceed to do; while hats go so 
 high into the air that they get almost 
 lx"\ond the reach of gravity. There is 
 the national salute of twenty-one guns, 
 and at noon precisely, the Star-spangled 
 Banner rises over the government build- 
 ing of the captured city to the bugle ac- 
 companiment along the lines of. "To 
 the colors." If the situation had only 
 permitted the inmiediate departure of 
 the volunteer soldiers for their far-away 
 homes, what a difference there might 
 have been in the mortality record of the 
 regiment. The real troubles were only 
 beginning. There is a deal of talk as to 
 what will be done, and quite as much 
 concerning what ought to be done, but. 
 meanwhile, there is the unpleasant real- 
 
266 
 
 \\(>RCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 SAX JIAX 1111. 1, . 
 
 ity of Still hriiiL;- in the imi(lil\ intrciich- 
 nicnts aljuiit the surrendered city. 
 
 Whether it was in honor of the capitu- 
 lation <iv nut. llie cook of the "Emiiiets" 
 did liiinsilf pinud at the eveiiintj's meal 
 of the l^tli. In Mime way C'hef John 
 Creaven had 1)eeome the possessor of a 
 wash-boiler, of whose existence, up to 
 this moment, in the entire islanil no one 
 had dreamed, and in ^onie fashimi, 
 known mdv tn him, he had mana,L;ed to 
 brew a beef stew; ]ierha|is under the cir- 
 cumstances it would be proper to call it 
 an "Irish stew,'" thous;h lacking some of 
 the ingredients considered essential t" 
 the ])ro])er iirodticlion of that national 
 dish. W'hatexi'r its constituents and 
 whate\er the omissions, it louched the 
 palates of the jiartakers {o that degree 
 that they wanted nothing else, and after 
 supper thev were ready for song, always 
 the recom-se of the welf-fed soldiei". The 
 "Emmets"' have singers galore, and ."Ser- 
 
 geants Alovnihan an<l I.a\in. with Pri- 
 vate 0"lxeefe, Alusician Skerrett and 
 others, make Cuban air resound with 
 notes ne"er heard before on Cuban soil. 
 Wdiy should they not spend the hours in 
 singing? The work for which the\' caiue 
 had been accom])lished and did they not, 
 in fancw see the ]'ovou> home returning 
 and the welcomes to be had in \\ orces- 
 ter bright ? What a blessing that heaven 
 does from all creatures hide the book ot 
 fate! All the woes of the pres- 
 ent disappear when the stomach is 
 full and youthful vigor and valor 
 carr\ their possessors beyond im- 
 mediate surroundings, and, 1)}- very 
 contrast, the soldiers grow mellow in 
 thinking of the ]ilea->ures sure to come 
 in the sweet by and by. Tater times have 
 revealed the fact that the boiler was one 
 of the acquisitions made l)y Lieutenant 
 Met "ami. who discovered it on the dock 
 in Santiatjd resting on two coffins. l"or 
 
i:m.\ii;i (.iards, (iimi'a.w c, 
 
 2ti: 
 
 F. II. DORAN. 
 
 A. T. Prendergast. 
 
 John Lar 
 
 II. .1. .Martin. 
 
 i;. !■■. 11/ 
 
 the latter he had no u.se, hut lie could 
 see boundless utility in the hoilcr. Ac- 
 cordiuo-ly. by a process of appropriation, 
 readily excused because of his com- 
 pany's great need, he fastened to it, and 
 the incident just given was one of the 
 happy results of his thoughtfulnes.s. 
 
 On the 1 8th, the "Emmets" moved 
 away from their former station, slopping 
 finally nearer the centre of the lines, 
 making their camp near the headipiar- 
 ters of General "Joe" Wheeler. The 
 regimental neighbors are the 1st Dis- 
 trict of Columbia and the ist Illinois 
 Volunteers, and the site is about one 
 mile from the old locality. The de[)riva- 
 tions suiifered in the recent camj) are 
 now bearing expected fruit, .\lternate 
 drenching and parboiling, with insuffi- 
 cient nourishment, along with the want 
 of proper medical attention, are making- 
 many men respond to the sick call who 
 otherwise would he up and doing. The 
 camp complaints, known to old cam- 
 paigners, viz., dysentery and fever, make 
 their appearance, and misery is the rule. 
 The shelter tents given out after the 
 surrender are not a jirotection in se- 
 vere rain, and even the jionchos leak. 
 Patients who show marks of im])rove- 
 ment are going aboard the transports 
 for a homeward trip, with the ho|)e that 
 an ocean voyage may completely restore 
 them. Lieutenant-colonel Logan of the 
 Xinth, having succumbed to illness, 
 started for the North on the 24th. The 
 first death in the Company is recorded 
 on the 23d. Private Henry Sullivan, hav- 
 ing been out of sorts for a few days, had 
 
 been sent to the hospital for better 
 treatment, but the lack of physicians 
 rendered that almost impossible. Xei- 
 ther he ni ir his comrades appreciated 
 the innninence of his danger, for misled 
 by ai)parent improvement, assisted l)v 
 two companions, at 2.30 p.m. Saturdav 
 he undertook to walk a little ways. Oii 
 tlieir route they encountered another 
 poor fellow un,-uTom])anied, who could 
 scarcely drag his body along. On see- 
 ing him, Sullivan called out, and they 
 were said to be his last words, "That's 
 right, boy : hold right uj) and keep on 
 your feet. That's the only way to get 
 well," I'ive minutes later, or at 3 o'clock, 
 he to])pled <i\-er into his comrades' arms 
 and was dead. The doctors called it 
 "heart failure." It seemed strange, for, 
 really, the last thing to fail was the sol- 
 dier's heart. 
 
 I'letween death and burial, only a brief 
 period intervenes in the tropics. At 5 
 p.m., clad in his full dress uniform, laid 
 upon a stretcher and borne by liis com- 
 rades, Joyce, Leonard. Martin, Grady. 
 Gilmore and Edward Sullivan, his body 
 is carried to its resting place, where it 
 is to sleep till his country disinters it 
 for removal to his home city. All of the 
 officers and men of the "Emmets" who 
 are in camp, march Ijeside the bier, and 
 listen to the words of Cliaplain Murphy 
 as he pronounces the solemn words of 
 the church over the grave. Then fol- 
 low three volleys from the men of the 
 Company, and "taps," sounded by Musi- 
 cian Skerrett, eloquently breathe a sad 
 farewell to the fallen comrade. This was 
 
268 
 
 \V()RCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 NDNESS OF COL. F E. PIERCE 
 
 SCENE OF IIOIISON'S EXCII.\N(;E AND THE 
 
 the only mililary funeral observed in 
 Cuba, the effect by way of melancholy 
 being too much for the rank and file. 
 IMajor Grady marched willi his men in 
 honor of Sullivan, and two days later he 
 wa.s laid beside the private. 
 
 Time drags slowly along in their 
 Cuban camps and the average mind can 
 find no g()(ul reason why the "recall" 
 is not soimded in Washington. To be 
 surj. there is an occasional visit to the 
 city of Santiago, and the traveler com- 
 pares the Spanish place with those he 
 has known at home, and every day 
 thanks his stars he was not born a .Span- 
 ianl; but even this palls after awhile. 
 It is too hot for drilling, and the men 
 are not well enough for the exercise 
 evenifthe weather permittt-(l. Reading- 
 matter is scarce and letters from home 
 come infrequently, and when they do 
 there is no writing material for replies. 
 Still, thoueh the march of Time is slow, 
 
 SICXIXO ol- THE I'REI.I.MIX.\KY TREATY. 
 
 he linall\' reaches .Vugust, and home is 
 nearer tlian it was. The last month of 
 the Cuban stav finds the men encamiied 
 on the verv hill up which the heroes of 
 July 1st and 2d charged to victory and 
 immortality. The situation is a great 
 inipro\cnient over the low-lying loca- 
 tion of the 2d Massachusetts, where 
 other Worcester boys are dving all too 
 rai)idly. The former rulers call the 
 height "Tableau Hill," but to the Amer- 
 icans it is "Bloody Hill," a fitting ap- 
 pellation for the scene of so much 
 liraverv and loss of life. While only one 
 of the "Emmets" has died, the mortal- 
 itv in the regiment, particularly among 
 the field officers, is great. Colonel Bogan 
 and the Lieutenant-colonel have gone 
 home ill, while Majors Grady and 
 D'Connor have both crossed over, and 
 the coinniand rests on Major Donovan. 
 Adventures are not numerous, but oc- 
 casionally there is a happening worthy 
 
EMMKT C-.IAKDS, COMPANY Ci. 
 
 269 
 
 D. J. T'URKE. 
 
 \. J. Skerrett. p. F. Sullivan 
 
 E. F. .\U 
 
 of mention. '"Prince" P. and friends 
 had been down to Siboney and there 
 had secured a cofTee-grinder. deeming 
 the same a handy item for camp use. Re- 
 turning, they encountered a party of 
 Cubans, who had in their possession a 
 very fine parrot. The "Prince" wanted 
 the bird badly, but the natives would not 
 agree as to terms, but they were quick- 
 ly brought to time by the quick-witted 
 soldier, who. bringing his coffee mill to 
 his face, began to turn the crank. The 
 sound was so suggestive of a Catling 
 gun that the Cubans surrendered at 
 once and passed over the parrot without 
 further parley. Afterwards, in token 
 of his appreciation of his services to the 
 Company, it was presented to Dr. T. J. 
 Foley of Worcester. 
 
 Saturday, the 6th of August, the 3d 
 and 6th Regulars went aboard the 
 transport, and the volunteers, beholding, 
 took heart, feeling that their own em- 
 barking could not be so very far away. 
 One of the Company on this day takes 
 a trip to Santiago, and en route calls on 
 his acquaintances in the 2d Regiment. 
 He finds Colonel Clark and Lieuten- 
 ant-colonel Shumway asleep in their 
 tents and forbears awaking them, but 
 with Captain Barrett of the City Guards 
 he exchanges words of greeting, think- 
 
 ing the latter quite comfortable as he 
 occupies his hammock beneath his tent, 
 sure to stay there while it rained. Major 
 Fairbanks also is alert as usual, though 
 somewhat worn and wasted, but tanned 
 to a turn and evidently seeing all that 
 is visible in the campaign. In Santiago 
 he finds the saloons not so well pat- 
 ronized as they might be had the pax- 
 master been around recently. Milwau- 
 kee beer at forty cents a !)oitle. fifty 
 with ice. is quite beyond the resources 
 of his purse, hence he contents himself 
 with four glasses of alleged lemonade, 
 though just where the lemon is the 
 drinker failed to discover. He drank 
 for the ice, and considered it cheap at 
 ten cents a glass. It took five to quench 
 the thirst of his comrade. Tiie U. S. 
 Post Office he found the busiest place 
 in the city, and, volunteers having been 
 called for, he is pleased to find here, hard 
 at work. P. J. O'Keefe of the "Emmets," 
 who had left the Worcester office 
 when his country called, and is espe- 
 cially efficient in sorting out the mail 
 that is to go to tlic men of his own Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Till the regiment leaves the Island the 
 record is little else than one of illness 
 and subseciuent weakness, the few who 
 are at all equal to duty finding a double 
 portion, owing to the enfeebled condi- 
 
270 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANrSII WAR. 
 
 .AXriACO 1)E CV\\.\ ERDM I 1 1 1'. IIAUr.nR 
 
 tion (if the (itliLTS. As one iiieiiiher of 
 the "Emmets" writes, "The fever attacks 
 a person with pains in the head and 
 back, and generally lasts Inim five to 
 tweht- days, during whicli time a man 
 goes through a series of chills and 
 fever which leaves him so' weak that he 
 is imable to w'alk about for at least two 
 weeks." The inade(itiate hospital ac- 
 commodations render the mortality very 
 great, and even if the patient recovers 
 lie is subjected to so much dis- 
 comfort afterwards that his suf- 
 ferings are inuuea^urably increased. 
 August i-'th. the hospital ship 
 lireakwater appeared off the Island, 
 and one of lier passengers, Halleck 
 Bartlett, of Worcester, who has a son in 
 the Light Infantry, gladdens the hearts 
 of the men by presenting himself in 
 cam]). lie is in charge of the volunteer 
 relief fund, contributed bv Worcester 
 people, ;uid delicacies and necessities are 
 expected from him. ( )n this day, too, 
 comes a set of underwear for each inem- 
 
 ])er of the Coniiian\-, a boiju of the 
 choicest character. 
 
 Right here it should be stated that 
 whatever the citizens of Worcester in- 
 tended to du for the "Emmets," the fore- 
 going" gifts of underwear and a huge 
 l)ox of cigarettes and tobacco, with a 
 certain amount in cash, were all the boys 
 received. What the gifts were and 
 where they went, to this day no man 
 knows, or if he does know he is a mas- 
 ter of silence. There have been all sorts 
 ol conjectures, but they have solved 
 nothing. They never doubted the good 
 intentions of Worcester nor the integ- 
 rit\- of the city's representatives, but 
 the\' had to recognize a failure to con- 
 nect. However, "heaven helps them 
 who help themselves." In this case, it 
 wa- that sleepless, tireless Lieutenant 
 McCann who discovered heaps and 
 heaps of good things down near the 
 Santiago docks. On assuring the keeper 
 that nianv of those things belonged to 
 hi:^ Comiuiny. he was told to go through 
 
K.M.MF.r (,r.\KI)S 
 
 Cii.MI'ANV G 
 
 !71 
 
 the same and (lick out whatcx-cr was liis 
 So keen was his eye and so long his arm 
 thatittooka six-mule team to carry the 
 result to camp. The contents of that 
 covered wagon actually stuck out aljove 
 the hoops — malted milk, canned goods, 
 food and supplies of all sorts— till the 
 boys proclaimed their Lieutenant a gen- 
 uine successor of Sherman's Rummers, 
 and if they had lost at the Worcester 
 spigot they had surely gained at the 
 providential Inmghole. How lucky it is 
 that "all's fair in war." 
 
 Sunday, the I4tli. Chaplain Murphy 
 at mass made feeling reference to the 
 death of Colonel Bogan, whose decease, 
 announced in a cable message from Con- 
 gressman Fitzgerald, is keenly felt by 
 all his men, with whom he was a great 
 favorite. Worcester boys are learning 
 the difference between the Cuban and 
 the Spaniard. For the Cuban he has 
 no use whatever, considering him lazy, 
 andalwaysso,nnwillingtowork as long 
 as a crust even can be begged ; while m 
 the Spaniard he detects some remnants 
 of that high-bred courtesy which gave a 
 reputation to the natives of Castile. 
 Those who visit Santiago note the en- 
 terprise of .American beer manufactur- 
 ers, who arc well nigh omnipresent and 
 are exceedingly anxious to push the sale 
 of their wares. Some of the soldiers 
 imbibe to excess, but this can hardly 
 apply to the men of the Ninth, since the 
 long" absence of the paymaster has re- 
 duced nearly every man to a "dead- 
 broke" condition. There are certain 
 clubs where officers can get .\nierican 
 dishes, and certain Massachusetts men 
 remark that, if they had the money, they 
 would certainly borrow an officer's coat 
 long enough to buy and eat a dish of 
 baked beans. 
 
 The fact that the ITarvanl and Vale 
 were lying off the harbor of Santiago 
 inspired the Ninth Regiment with the 
 hope that it might take the homeward 
 trip in one of them, but the men had the 
 mortification of seeing regiments which 
 had arrived later and had seen very lit- 
 tle hardship, go aboard these finely ap- 
 pointed ves,sels, while they were detained 
 for what proved to be a floating horror. 
 
 Private and Postman (J'Keefe, who had 
 been away from his Company for some 
 days in the Post Office of Santiago, re- 
 ceived, in connnon with his comrades, 
 a notification that the regiment was 
 about to embark for the States. Not 
 caring to take any uimecessary steps, he 
 met his Companv in the city rather than 
 retiu-n to camp. The latter had been 
 Ijroken on the 23d, and weak, weary 
 and halting the men had reached the 
 wharf in tliat far-famed ])lace. Let his 
 own words tell what he saw after a sc])- 
 aration of three weeks: "The meeting 
 of the Company and myself at the wharf 
 I shall never forget. .Such emaciated 
 specimens of men I had never met. I 
 realized in a moment what havoc the 
 dread disease had wrought in three 
 weeks. Half the Company had not 
 strength tn rise, and many were 
 so ill that they failed to recognize 
 me. Those who could not walk had to 
 be carried on board the lighter which 
 conveyed the troops to the transi)Ort, 
 which was anchored out in the iiay. 
 This 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 so 
 were all huddled together." He furtlier 
 remarks that at least two hundred of 
 these men were fit subjects for a hos- 
 
 Santi.\go Whakf. 
 
272 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 William J. Riley. 
 
 1). J. DOVLE. 
 
 C'l. F. MC( ilLLlCUDDY. 
 
 J. J. Fjtzgerald. 
 M. J. Elynn. 
 
 pitalslii|),liulllic Ray State was already 
 crowded, so ]:ierforce the invalids are 
 taken alon.e; with the others, and, worse 
 still, companies that were not assigned 
 to the Allegheny have sent some of their 
 sick alxianl. in the hope that a breath 
 of sea air may help them to recover. 
 The regiment broke camj) at 8 a.m. of 
 the 23d, and marched the three miles 
 distance into Santiago. The sick and 
 those getting better were taken in 
 springless mule wagons, which jolted 
 them so badly that some essayed walk- 
 ing. Those who rode all the way were 
 worse off than those who walked. From 
 8 of the morning till 5 p.m. there was 
 a tedious wait till, by the sinaller boat, 
 the eight companies were conveyed to 
 the Allegheny. All were glad to shake 
 off the last trace of Cuban soil, confident 
 that any change would be an improve- 
 ment. 
 
 The transport steams away from 
 Cuba, Wednesday, the 24th, and our 
 last Worcester Company bids good-by 
 to the liberated Island, though it must 
 be suspected that some of the loyal 
 hearts are wondering if the price has not 
 been a heavy one. Only two days later 
 came the first burial at sea, but in the 
 following hours the scene was frequently 
 repeated. Sunday no less than four 
 found an ocean grave, and one of them 
 was a ^^■orcester boy. Edward Sulli- 
 van had been one of the strong men of 
 the Company an<l had not been sick 
 while on the Island, Init the very day of 
 departure he began to complain of ill 
 feelings, a circumstance so odd that 
 some of his comrades jollied him, think- 
 ing he must be shamming, so vigorous 
 had he been ; but as the hours went by, 
 his fever, said to be typhoid, grew 
 worse till he became deliricius, and Sun- 
 
KM MET GUARDS, COM TAN V G 
 
 ::i 
 
 Camp of the Ninth in Cuba. 
 
 day, the 28th, at 7.30 p.m., his hammock 
 swinging- near an open port hole, in the 
 absence of a guard, he threw himself 
 thence into the sea. By a singular fortune 
 it was his own Lieutenant, McCann, who 
 was standing in the vessel's stern and 
 suddenly saw the form of a man rise 
 from the waves and apparently turn his 
 face towards the ship. His immediate 
 cry of "man overboard" was answered 
 at' once by the lowering of a boat, the 
 stopping of the transport, and a diligent 
 search, lasting fully half an hour, tailed 
 to reveal anv trace of the unfortunate 
 soldier. Private Charles J. McMann 
 died on the 30th. and the next morning 
 his bodv was consigned to the deep, 
 Chaplain JMurphy reading the prayers 
 for the dead, and Bugler Skerrctt sound- 
 ing "talis." ?\IcMann had been ill for 
 some time, but had been discharged 
 from the hospital as recovered, though 
 his recovery was fancied rather than 
 real, and before his death he had entirely 
 lost his reason. Early the next day, the 
 31st, Private Michael Healy died. He 
 had been sick for a fortnight before the 
 sailing of the transport, had failed rap- 
 idlv after the start, and died of exhaus- 
 tion incident to the campaign. Two 
 other men from other com])anies had 
 died during the same night, and that 
 their buriarmight be in deep water, the 
 
 Allegheny stoppetl and went ijack some 
 miles, anil at 6.15 a.m. the four bodies 
 were given to the waves with full mili- 
 tary honors, the flag flying at half mast, 
 and with the officers and men of the 
 "Emmets" standing by. in all, fourteen 
 men of the Xinth died on this tortuous 
 trip to Jilonlauk, and each body was of- 
 fered as a tribute to the ocean, there to 
 repose till I he seas give up their dead. 
 
 Many reasons have been advanced 
 ' ir the mortality aboard the.Mlegheny : 
 lack of hospital acconuuodations, ine 
 enfeebled condition of the men, etc., 
 but all agree as to the horribly unsani- 
 uir\ state of the transport itself. Hav- 
 ing recently carried cattle, no effort at 
 cleansing had been made, only the divi- 
 sions had been removed, and into such 
 filthy space human beings like "dumb 
 driven cattle" were herded. The won- 
 der is that so many lived, not that four- 
 teen died. 
 
 The body of Captain Uuun of the 
 loth r. S., killed before Santiago, was 
 carried homeward in an imperfectly 
 sealed casket. The stench therefrom was 
 horrible. Only the Allwise knows how 
 many living, were sacrificed through this 
 mistaken sentiment for the dead. 
 
 It is Wednesday, the 31st, and last 
 (lav of .\ugusi. that the .Mlegheny 
 
 Grave of Major CiRAdv in Cuba. 
 
274 
 
 WORCESTER IN" THE STAXtSH WAR. 
 
 reaches ^^lontauk Point at <) o'clock 
 a.m. So far as the weather was con- 
 cerned, the voyage had l)een a smooth 
 one, and a dav's time had been saved in 
 the passage, perhaps the only fact con- 
 nected with the vessel for which the pas- 
 sengers were thankfid. The constant 
 presence of death had a depressing influ- 
 ence on the passengers and enthusiasm 
 seemed to be a forgotten trait. Only 
 when the shores of the continent ap- 
 peared, as the vessel neared Hatteras, 
 did the men seem to appreciate the fact 
 that home was the locality sought. At 
 
 At 8.30 of the 31st, they were met by 
 the government tug, with orders to pro- 
 ceed up the Sound. Xext came the 
 health boat, the Louise Pulver, and at 
 g.30 anchor was cast and the health offi- 
 cer came aboard. Then followed the 
 lining uj) and the inspection, which was 
 very rigid. The verdict of the officer 
 was that, with the possible exception of 
 the 71st New York, the Xinth presented 
 the worst condition of any returning 
 regiment. Lieutenant McCann and Ser- 
 geant William Casey are the only men 
 in the Conipanv who have not beeti sick, 
 
 >k ( ITiinnok's ( 1 ha 
 
 I. IN CL'HA. 
 
 9 a.m., Tuesday, the 30th, the steamer 
 Gloucester was spoken and the .\lleghe- 
 nv's company were attracted by the ap- 
 pearanceof we'1-dressed men and women 
 who crowded the former's decks. When 
 they learned that the transport was car- 
 lying the major part of the. Ninth Mas- 
 sachusetts Regiment, they rent the air 
 with their enthusiastic cheering, while 
 the vessel's horn added to the din, all 
 coml)ining to tone up the spirits of the 
 boys amazingly. The ofificers of tlie 
 Gloucester kindly megaphoned to find if 
 they could be of any service. 
 
 afloat or ashore. Through their inunu- 
 nity they have been of inestimable ser- 
 vice to their suiifering comrades. The 
 otilicers of the Ninth did not take their 
 meals with the men, but had a mess of 
 their own. using the ship's dining room 
 at a cost of $1.50 per day. The long ab- 
 sence of the paymaster was evident 
 when, at the close of the first day, an at- 
 tempt was made to collect the assess- 
 ment. Only three officers were able to 
 projierlv respond. However, a check 
 bncik was developed so that food was en- 
 joyed, though the pay therefor was to 
 
EMMET GUARDS, COMI'A.W G. 
 
 27r) 
 
 come later. The "luiiniets" have nnly 
 pleasant words tor the officers of the 
 Allegheny. Captain Xickerson doing 
 many favors to the sick and hungry, and 
 Chief Engineer E. J. Cummer was 
 specially serviceable to the boys home- 
 ward bound. 
 
 There may be said of the "luiiniets" 
 what would not be true of any other 
 companv in the regiment, that the com- 
 missioned officers were never absent 
 and were ever alive to the needs of their 
 men. With projier inlluence. du this 
 homeward trip, they secured fniiii ilu- 
 
 who ga\e the lunniet address just be- 
 fore the Company volunteered. 
 
 Meantime, on the shore ol Montauk 
 I'liint. there is a gathering of Worces- 
 ter ]X'ople exceedingly anxious to greet 
 their returning friends. The X'eteran 
 Association of the "lunmets" are in 
 evidence on the morning of tiic 30'1^' 
 but the expected vessel is still on the 
 wav. Dr. Peter O. Shea, an .Assistant 
 Surgeon of the Xinth, and a Worcester 
 bov, who had been invalided home, and 
 now convalescent, had cnine down from 
 Worcester to receive the boys as they 
 
 DO\*''OE'& 
 
 I'oRwARii Dkck of the .\llechen-y. 
 
 ship's steward the material for a mil<l 
 milk punch, of which Lieutenant Mc- 
 Cann was the dispenser. He says that 
 his pleasure at relieving some of his 
 own men was robbed of half its efifect 
 through seeing the longing eyes of other 
 sufiferers to whom he could not minister, 
 he believing that his charity should be- 
 gin at home. Then he was truly a min- 
 istering angel and blessings many were 
 called "down upon his head. The stew- 
 ard of the AUeghenv was a brother of 
 the Rev. Georg'e W.' Pepper of Ohio, 
 
 landed, but he had overrated liis strength 
 and was obliged to return home again. 
 Dr. Timothv J. Foley is anotiier doctor 
 from the Heart of the Connnonwealth. 
 and he awaits the Allegheny. There 
 are newspaper men and other citizens, 
 all anxiously looking for the coming of 
 the vessel. There is a large cpiantity of 
 supplies, either here or coming, which 
 shall aid in restoring the soldiers to their 
 normal condition, all contributed by 
 Worcester people. General "Joe" 
 Wheeler is in command at Camp WikofT, 
 
276 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE Si'ANISM WAR. 
 
 The Sunkkk Merrimal 
 Wrkk ()i Tin 
 
 and to him 1 )r. I-'olcy had gone whc-n he 
 found hinisrU' unattended 1).\ the UDta- 
 bles of tln' hnuie committee, related his 
 story and tehl the Alahamian what he 
 wanted to do. The scheme .seemed to 
 please the veteran and he save the phy- 
 sician a pass which would admit him to 
 the detention camp when the boys 
 should reach it, and to them innnediately 
 
 Kmna Mercedes. 
 
 when they came, he also gave directions 
 for the use of a wagon to transport the 
 sujjplies as soon as they were unloaded. 
 I'or the General, Dr. Foley had only the 
 highest praises. 
 
 '"There's many a sli]) 'iwixt cup and 
 li|i." is a time-worn saw and never better 
 applied than when a soldier-bearing ves- 
 sel nears the shores, so wistfully sought 
 
EMMICT Gl'ARnS, TOMPANY G. 
 
 during weary days and nights, yet d<.-- 
 barred from landing her Hving burden 
 because o^ the rule intervening. "Si> 
 near and yet so far," was in the mind of 
 more than one gazer from the decks of 
 the Allegheny as he looked off tn the 
 promised land where he knew almiKkince 
 awaited him. At i p.m. the quarantine 
 boat returned bringing six cases of eggs, 
 two hundred quarts of milk and more 
 than four hundred sandwiches. Red 
 Cross supplies. Never was relief more 
 opportune. b^t^^''s and milk mingled 
 make a wonderfully invigorating drink 
 for the almost famished men. Two hours 
 later comes the hospital ship, \"igilant, 
 and upon her decks are borne the sick, 
 who to the number of one hundred and 
 fifty are taken ofif. It is just before 
 noon, Septemberist, that abargc bearing 
 the eight companies of the Ninth is 
 towed up to a dock and the fever- 
 stricken men once more stand on Amer- 
 ican soil. Perhaps the coming was a 
 bit earlier than was expected, since 
 guards were not posted, and for a few 
 minutes there was an unrestricted greet- 
 ing of soldiers and friends who had 
 crowded down to the landing fi>r this 
 verv purpose. "Tis said that I'eter F. 
 Sullivan, one of the regimental buglers 
 and the Gazette correspondent, wis the 
 first man ashore, and was near'y omni- 
 present in his hand-shaking mission. 
 Either in ambulance or afoot the men 
 take up their march to the camp, ac- 
 companied by Drs. Foley and James F.. 
 McGourty, both Worcester men who 
 are to remain with the ''Emmets" till 
 they are freed from quarantine. 
 
 On this progress campward, "Cou- 
 chee" is again in evidence. Though 
 sleek in flesh, he is susceptible to ex- 
 treme heat. In Santiago he had yielded 
 to the sun's rays, and had been dipped 
 into a swamp for resuscitation. To-day 
 he turned over on his back and his four 
 feet seemed to supplicate help. Lieu- 
 tenant McCann bore him in his arms tiU. 
 reaching the camp of the Rough Riders, 
 and finding a barrel of drinking water, 
 he dumped him in. Thereupon the ten- 
 der-hearted officer was in clanger of his 
 
 life;it the hands of the iralehustlers.but 
 wild relented at once when they learned 
 the situation. Though revived by his 
 plunge, tile mascot staggered some, see- 
 ing which an amiable surgeon directed 
 that lie be carried in an ambulance to 
 detention camp. \\'as ever otiier dog 
 thus honored? 
 
 .\s is often the case when op])(M-tunity 
 ofTers, our men in detention camp, hav- 
 ing a chance to partake liberally of the 
 good things offered in the way of food, 
 ate too freely and, as a consec|ueiice, 
 suffered from deranged stomachs and 
 again had to go upon short rations, this 
 time not for the lack of food, but be- 
 cause of its superabundance. Men are 
 only children of larger growth, and the 
 mothers represented were not near to 
 advise their progeny as to the ])roper 
 time and quantity. Beef tea and malted 
 milk become the somewhat limited fare 
 of the ailing lads, and they begin to 
 wonder what their stomachs were made 
 for. Drs. Foley and Mc( iourty are in at- 
 tendance, and to them must Ije added the 
 name of Dr. John Ronayne, another 
 Worcester boy, who has come to the 
 cam]) to help take care of his old-time 
 friends. The principal subjects of con- 
 versation arc the end of their stay in 
 quarantine and the date of the start for 
 home, which for this occasion will come 
 nearer heaven than anything as yet ex- 
 |)erienced by these young men. A Jong- 
 looked-for and anxiously expected event 
 was recorded on Wednesday, Sept. "th, 
 viz., the visit of the paymaster. Not 
 since the days of Camp Alger had such 
 a personage revealed himself to the regi- 
 ment, and for many a long week the 
 pockets of the men had been conspicu- 
 ous for their emptiness. Congressman 
 Fitzgerald is extremely active, trying to 
 devise some means of securing better uni- 
 forms for the regiment on its return to 
 .Massachusetts. \'isitors from the Bay 
 State are numerous, and among those 
 from Worcester are the Rev. D. F. Mc- 
 Gillicuddy, Richard Healy and Mark 
 Skerrett, brother of the Comi)any Musi- 
 cian. During all these days, "Couchee," 
 the Company mascot, has no complaint 
 
278 
 
 WORCESTER IX THE SI'AXISH WAR. 
 
 NONESSOF COL 
 
 . E. PIERCE 
 
 SAX 11 Ai'.i )'S MdRRII CASTLE. 
 
 to make of his usaLjc, ami uiickT the care 
 of "IVince" I'rendiville is as fat as ever, 
 in this resjiect setting; an exanijile fur 
 the other nK-nihers of the "luiiniets.' 
 The period of detention ended Sunda\ . 
 the 4tli, and nominally the hoys conld 
 receive visitors, luit there was all the 
 time some reason why imrestricted in 
 tcrviewin^ was impossihle 
 
 The route to be taken <in the liome- 
 wanl way was a prominent theme, and 
 I hjn. John F. l^'itzt^erald and Senator 
 George F. Hoar were doin.Lj' all in 
 their power to have the Worcester men 
 sent thither hy the shortest and quickest 
 wa\- p(is^il)lr. Init red ta|ie and military 
 delav are more potent than statesmen, 
 and when thr time really arrives, our 
 boys s;o the longest way round. .\t lo 
 a.m., Wednesday, it was given out thp.t 
 the departure would be on the following 
 (lav. but as the new suits of blue had not 
 arrived, the men ci mid hardl;,- believe 
 thai thev were really to go. Tlien came 
 
 on a severe rain storm, with a conse- 
 ipient li)wering of the temperature that 
 chilled these fe\-er-racked frames to the 
 marrow, and lights went inU early m 
 the hope of securing blanket warmth 
 not possilile in any other nrinner. It 
 was "Five < )'Cl(ick in the Morning," 
 Thursday, that the boys were routed 
 from their tents and told to make ready 
 fnr the leaving of Camp Wikoff. ( )nce 
 mnre comes the contradiction of rumors 
 and reports : the only certain thing is 
 that the regiment does not move. Xow 
 comes the Hon. John h". l-'itzgerald 
 again, and cm galloping steed he seeks 
 the side and ear of (General Shafter and 
 ])leads, nay demands, that the men be 
 allnwed to g<i. with or without uni- 
 fcirms. What is the difference to dying 
 men whether they be clad in blue or 
 brown? .\t lo o'clock, the Representa- 
 tive comes into camp whirling, bearing 
 the gk'ul intelligence that the boys are 
 to Jill at once. Every one must be ready 
 
EMMET GUAKDS, COMl'AN'Y 
 
 279 
 
 to march in an hour, but imt tiU i p.m. 
 does the regiment reach the floating 
 dock below the railroad station. Just 
 eleven "Emmets" are alile to walk to 
 the wharf. Again it is the \'igilant 
 which is to convey the men to Xew Lon- 
 don. The crowd is a dense one that 
 fills all of the steamer's space, and be- 
 sides the soldiers, are many Worcester 
 citizens, as Drs. Folev, ]\IcGourty, 
 Joseph H. Kelley. M. F. Fallon, T. -\. 
 O'Callaghan, William |. Delahanty, J. 
 W. McKoan. the Rev. D. F. McGilli- 
 cttddy, INIichael L. Russell and Frank J. 
 Moynihan. 
 
 Loading and transit take so much 
 time that not till 5 o'clock in the after- 
 noon does the steamer enter Xew Lon- 
 don Harbor. By shrill whistles and sa- 
 lutes from cannon, the coming of the 
 regiment is .•inniumccd to the people of 
 the Connecticut city, and they come 
 crowding down to the wharf to see the 
 soldiers "land. The first to meet the 
 "Emmets" are the members of the 
 reception committee from Worcester, 
 who, with Robert Kessell as director, 
 serve refreshments to the boys. The 
 latter are in a wonderfully receptive 
 mood, since their breakfast had been 
 taken hours before among the sand 
 dunes of Alontauk. .Another disap- 
 pointment awaits the men. for instead 
 of following the Thames River north- 
 ward, as so many Worcester people 
 have been doing for fully fifty years, 
 the train takes them to Providence. 
 just why, no man can tell, unless to 
 swell the receipts of the railroad, to 
 whose mercies they are committed. 
 Nine o'clock in the evening finds the 
 regiment in Rhode Island's principal 
 city, and about as far from home as 
 when they left New London. Owing 
 to their enfeebled condition sleeping- 
 cars had been provided for the men, 
 and some of them, including Captain 
 Moynihan. were compelled to retire at 
 once. 
 
 Though the ride from Providence to 
 Worcester is not a long one, to the 
 anxious passengers it is long enough, 
 and their arrival at 10.45 P-™- '* "O"^ 
 too soon. The public parade and recep- 
 tion so dear to the hearts of all re- 
 
 turning soldiers had in be gi\en U|) on 
 account df the weakened state of the 
 men themselves, and the throngs 
 which filled Union Station soon had 
 ocular evidence that for such emaci- 
 ated figures, home, mother and the best 
 of care are the things most desirable 
 now. A force of above fifty policemen 
 had ro])ed off the entire train shed and 
 a considerable portion of Washington 
 Square, in anticipation of the hosts that 
 would press in upon the return- 
 ing "Fmmets." Within the inclosed 
 limits only those wearing badges, giv 
 en iiut l)y the honorary corps, were 
 t.i l)e admitted. ( )f this organization 
 there were jiresent one hundred mem- 
 bers, headed by the President. John J. 
 Riordan, \'ice-presideftt (leorge Mc- 
 Aleer, Secretary William J. Tansey 
 and M. 1'.. Lamb, .\lso there were 
 seventy-five of the ladies belonging to 
 the .Auxiliary, some of the "lunmet" 
 veterans of the Rebellion, Colonel 
 Fred. W. Wellington, Colonel E. J. 
 Russell. .Mderman T. J. Barrett. Coun- 
 cilmen Philip j. O'Ctinnell and P.. H. 
 McMahon. C.eneral A, P.. R, Sprague, 
 .M. J. Whittall and the Rev. Roland A. 
 Nichols. 1 he preparations were good 
 and, under ordinary circumstances, 
 could have been carried out as de- 
 signed, but this is no ordinary occa- 
 sion. Scarcely is the train of Pullman 
 coaches in the shed than the crowd 
 broke all barriers and made a mad rush 
 for the last car, in which are their 
 friends the "Emmets," Hands bv the 
 thousand are reached uj) in a vain ef- 
 fort to grasp those of dear ones seen 
 through the car windows. There are wom- 
 en who, having near and dear relatives 
 in the Company, fight their way to the 
 side of the car, that they may first greet 
 the returning soldier. For a moment 
 it looked as though all order and re- 
 straint had succumbed to the one mad 
 attempt to reach the loved one. At the 
 best, of G Company there are less than 
 half the number that, four months 
 before, had ridden away so bravely; 
 the others are hovering between life 
 and death in the hospital, are already 
 convalescing at home, or sleeping the 
 dreamless sleep that knows no waking. 
 
280 
 
 \V(1RCI-:STER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 ->IK.\I-. Ill- IINAI. SIK R ICMIICI':, SAMIAI.u, 
 
 Onl}' a Salvatnr Rijsa cimlil iln jus- 
 tice in (le])icting sucli a scene, hut, for- 
 tunately, there were men in the throng 
 who never flinch for one minute. The 
 men of the honorary corps join liands 
 and, by sheer strength, force the 
 masses back from the side of the car. 
 The old train shed had beheld many 
 a sad scene in the long years nf uccu- 
 pancy, but never one more pathetic 
 than th;it which fnllows. Dr. Joseph 
 H. Kellcy appears upon the jjlatform 
 and shouts to the swaying throng, 
 "There is a guard at either end 
 of this ear. and no man or woman will 
 be ])ermiltiil tn enter, and nn man will 
 be alliiwed tn leave, till this cniwd has 
 fallen back so that these men can be 
 taken out. 'i'liere is not a man in this 
 car who is able to walk ten feet, and 
 we will keep them in the car all night 
 imless room is made so that they can 
 be taken tu the carriages." Like the 
 words (jf Webster on lUud^er Hill, 
 spoken to the thronging multituile at 
 
 the corner-stone layint;'. I )r. Kelley's had 
 the desired effect, and in spite of 
 the number and almost insane in- 
 terest, a passage-way wide enough 
 for three persons to walk abreast 
 was cleared to a place in front 
 I if the station, where the carriages were 
 stationed. Then come the men, one at 
 a timi'. to be escorted by two of the 
 hiiiKiraries to the provided carriage, 
 b'irst comes Lieutenant William E. 
 AlcCann, and in his arms is the mas- 
 cot, "Couchee," which is speedily given 
 to his whilom owner, Michael l\TcCar- 
 thv, and the- Lieutenant then returns 
 tu his cnnirades. I'lven cheering, the 
 \ent of pent-u]i American enthusiasm, 
 is frowned upon, for at a feeble at- 
 tem])t to shout. Dr. Kellcy exclaims, 
 "l''or God's sake. ])co])le. do not begin 
 tu cheer: these men are sick and must 
 nut be excited; in their condition ex- 
 cilrment is death." Xo matter how 
 lung their lives, to few men is given 
 such a gaimtlet of loving, pitying 
 
ICMMI-n' GUARDS, Cd.MrAXV G. 
 
 281 
 
 Corp. F. H. Doran. 
 
 X. J. Sk krrktt. 
 
 glances as that througli which the sur- 
 viving members of Company "(;" pass, 
 on their way to the carriages which are 
 to bear them home, where is waiting — 
 
 "A happy 'welcome — welcome home' for 
 each." 
 
 \Vhile the order of General "Joe" 
 Wheeler as the Ninth was leaving 
 Montauk was for the regiment, one- 
 twelfth of it belongs to the Worcester 
 boys, and it should ha\-c place in these 
 pages : 
 
 Camp Wikoff, Moxt.\ck Point. 1.. I., 
 
 Sept. 8, 1S98. 
 
 M.SJOR DoNOV.\N, 
 
 Commanding gth Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Dear Sir: I cannot allow your gallant coin- 
 mand to leave Camp Wikoff without express- 
 ing my admiration for the gallant services 
 rendered in Cuba. .Mthough your reginieiU 
 did not arrive on the Island in time to he par- 
 ticipants in the first engagement, it came upon 
 the scene of action at a time when its services 
 were most necessary. 
 
 The chivalrous devotion to duty displayed by 
 your men in marching immediately to the front 
 in the face of the hre of the enemy, and the 
 hardships endured in being compelled to remain 
 in the hot sun and driving rain without shelter 
 and without food, will mark a new era in the 
 history of American bravery. 
 
 The people of the United States have reason 
 to be grateful to the grand old Commowealth 
 of Massachusetts for the luagnificent part she 
 has taken in the present struggle, and amongst 
 the galaxy of sons she has sent to the front 
 none have won their honors with greater credit 
 than the men of the Qth. 
 
 Wishing you and your command a safe jour- 
 ney home. 
 
 JOSEPH WHEEI.ER, 
 Major General of U. S. Volunteers. 
 
 Every member of the Company who 
 bore his part is entitled to his 
 portion of this praise Irom the 
 
 J. v.. I-"(JGERTY. Robert Roonev. 
 
 gallant ex-Confederate who, in his 
 deecls in Cuba, endeared himself 
 and did much to cflface any blame at- 
 taching for his former devotion to the 
 T^ost Cause. His words should be a 
 heritage fur the generations to come, 
 attesting the heroism of the fathers 
 who risked health and life to right the 
 wrongs of a long-oppressed and down- 
 trodden i)Coi)le. 
 
 The^• were trying tlays which suc- 
 cecclcd the home-coming, for were 
 there nut hundreds of loving friends 
 who. in tJieir efforts to feed and fondle 
 the boys, wotild ha\'e undone all tlv.- 
 work of the jihysicians in trying lo 
 bring llieir charges back again to 
 health and streuylh? i'"ew of the sol- 
 diers were seen in the street on the 
 day after, and only as normal vigor 
 began to return, did the men a])|3ear 
 in their accustomed haunts. Then fol- 
 lowed an exhibition of the devotion of 
 those who had only heard of the Cuban 
 vicissitudes. To a call for volunteer 
 nurses. Misses Rand, Hartwell, Farley, 
 (VConnan. Delaney, McCourty and 
 l\(ni;i\ne sjieedily responded. Stable- 
 man John r. McDonald and Callahan 
 llros. otifered the free use of f<uir hacks 
 each, that these nurses might have easy 
 and ready carriage to their respective 
 patients. With the city divided into 
 sections it was possible to give to thi 
 men the care and attention from the 
 lack of which tiiev had so long suf- 
 fered. ( )n the 9th. or the day follow- 
 ing the return, two more of the Com- 
 pany, Corporal John F. Horan and 
 John F. Keegan, passed awa}' in the 
 "hospital at Montauk. and on the ^th 
 
282 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE STAMSII WAR. 
 
 Joseph N. Coffee, one of the recruits, 
 died at Camp Meade, in Pennsylvania. 
 Thus of the full Company which went 
 aw'ay from the city, eisjht are in the 
 other world, while certain of the sur- 
 vivors are endeavoring to regain their 
 strength in their respective homes. 
 
 On the 14th of .September, Michael 
 J. Russell left for ]\Iontauk, under the 
 direction of the honoraries. to look af- 
 ter the "Emmets" still in the hos- 
 ]iital there, ami for twci weeks he faith- 
 fully discharged his duty. He was for- 
 tunate in finding the Worcester doctor, 
 y. A. Rona-s'ne, who, like himself, had 
 
 died on the 15th nf .September, and 
 John J. Creaven cm the 25th. For all 
 the men there was an extended sick 
 lea\e. during which time they had the 
 prixilege of recuperating as best they 
 cciuld. It should be stated that every 
 man had his fever sooner or later. If 
 he came off the Island well, he was 
 stricken after reaching home, if not be- 
 fore. ( )ne of the very last to yield was 
 Lieutenant AlcCann, whose sinewy 
 frame resisted all attacks into the 
 month of November, when he went 
 down all at once, and for the ensuing 
 two \-ears <lid n<it know a well day. 
 
 Dr. Jos. F1. Kkllkv. 
 .\ "Montaiik" \'uUinteer. 
 
 Patrick J. O'Keefe. 
 
 a j)ersoii;il iiiterr.st in the sick men 
 from this cilw ( )n his return he 
 brought wilh him as far as Providence 
 the boy (le<irge Corbin. who insisted 
 on going with the "Emmets," whether 
 enlisted or not. ( )n reaching Provi- 
 dence the lad, very weak, was trans- 
 ferred to .St. Peter's Hospital. This 
 y(nmg man. whom no hardshi]) nor re- 
 buff could (l.-nmt in his determination 
 to go with the Cdmpany to C'uba, had 
 managed to gi'l aboard the Harvard 
 contrary to the orders of the officers, 
 but once on l>o;ir(l it was thought best 
 to give him all tlu- chance possible. 
 \\'hen old enough he enlisted, and 
 now, 1904, he is a Corporal in the "]i.m- 
 mets." ( >f tlu- men left in hospital at 
 Montaid<, I'rivate j. !•'. .McTiernan 
 
 Recri'its. 
 
 The services of Sergeant J. J. Corliss 
 in bringing the ranks of the "Emmets" 
 up to the iiewl}- adopted standaril 
 should be treated under a special head- 
 ing. We have already seen him com- 
 ing or going back to Worcester from 
 Camp .\lger on the 8th day of June, 
 thereby debarring himself from the ex- 
 periences of the life in Cuba. It is the 
 duty of a soldier to obey orders, and 
 this a good one does uncomplainingly. 
 Though he reached home the next day 
 and was ready for work, he awaited 
 orders till the 13th, when, in conformity 
 with direction then received, he opened 
 his station at the .\rmorv. and before 10 
 
EMMET r.rAUnS, COMPAW ("i. 
 
 '283 
 
 I. M. Carherry. I). J. Kinnc-ily. S. t'. HaEBcrty. T. J. Ahcrn. 
 
 J. .1. Larkir, T. J. KclUher. M. C. lirophy. William II. Murphy. J. V. Carey. 
 
 p.m. had liis thirty-twn names enrolldl 
 The ne.xt day he took twenty more, and 
 on Wednesday, the 15th, his numl)LT 
 ran up to eighty-seven. Thursday be- 
 gan the physical examinations under 
 Dr. J. T. McGilHcuddy, who passed 
 twenty men out of thirty-seven exa;n- 
 ined. At 6 p.m. came orders to suspend 
 operations, and they were in suspense 
 till Saturday, the 25th, when he was 
 ordered to resume. .Monday, the Jjlh, 
 he took ten more names ; twenty-eight 
 men were examined, of whom seventeen 
 passed. There was no difficulty in se- 
 curing men, and seemingly a regiment 
 might have been raised. July ist. Lieu- 
 tenant Healey of Clinton mustered into 
 the U. S. service twenty men, and only 
 failed to muster the other twelve on ac- 
 count of lack of blank papers, and not 
 till the I2th did the necessary documents 
 arrive. It was lucky that nothing im- 
 minent hinged on the coming of these 
 same papers. Meanwhile, the industri- 
 ous Sergeant put his recruits through a 
 course of drill and marching, gradually 
 inuring them to the duties of coming 
 days. 
 
 On the 1 2th of July, the remaining 
 twelve men were mustered in, and. hav- 
 
 ing their unifdrms, tlu-\- were readv for 
 their de])arture. Thursday, the I4tli, 
 witnessed the geiing of the recruits. .-\t 
 7 p.m. they assembled at ilie .Armory, 
 and with nuisic by lUickley's Drum 
 Corps, they marched to I'nion Station. 
 The men wlio were anxious to help 
 swell the ranks of the "Enunets" were 
 as follows, viz.: D. J. Kennedy, James 
 M. Carlierry. Thomas Foley, Maurice 
 A. Ke.-ine, Thnmas I". L'asey, John J. 
 Martin, L. .\. tVSullivan. James F. 
 Power, Stephen 1'". Haggerty. Charles 
 F. Rice, Patrick F. Shea, Thomas F. 
 Kellaher, William J. Riley, Thomas Pi. 
 Kelley, Patrick J. Fleming, John F. 
 Carroll, Michael H. Conroy, Peter H. 
 Piennett, Walter Allen, Gerald F. Mc- 
 Gillicuddy, J. J. Larkin, W. M. Leon- 
 ard, Daniel Cronin, M. V. P.radshaw, 
 James V. Carey, Thomas J. Kelleher, 
 Richard IL Powers, Arthur L. Desau- 
 telle, V. H. Connelly, .\rioul .A. Shcp- 
 ardson, Joseph X. Coffee, Timothy J. 
 Hurley. Though the "Emmets" are 
 suffering in Cuba, these are recruits for 
 their ranks, and the public, appreciating 
 their patriotism, turns out to give them 
 a cheerful parting. Ixd by Lieutenant 
 AI. J. Ilealey of Clinton's Company K, 
 
284 
 
 WORCESTER I.\ THE SPAXISll WAK. 
 
 II. IlA<u;tR:v. 
 
 T. V. K 
 
 •■WE ARE COMKAIlK 
 
 and SertTcant Corliss, they march 
 through Alain Street to Front Street 
 and along the same to Union Station, 
 everywhere cheered by the people, who 
 are ever alive to anything military. A 
 great thrdng fills the station itself, so 
 that it is impossible for the men to 
 board the car assigned to them. \-iz., the 
 last on the Fitchljurg train. it is en- 
 tered tinall\- unly by boardini^- one of 
 the forward cars, ;ni(l by passing 
 through the train, the i)roi)er ipiartcrs 
 are reached. Caterer Yeaw places on 
 the car a hamper holding tliirty-tw(.i 
 boxes, supposed to contain cooked pro- 
 visions for three meals, and, besides, he 
 gives to each man twenty-one cents for 
 the purchase of coffee on the way. l-'ol- 
 lowrd by the plaudits of the multitude, 
 the ir.-iin drew otu at ".55, leaving the 
 people to disperse .-il their pleasure. 
 Overcome by excitement, one lady, the 
 sister of a recruit, faints, thus adding 
 to llic excilenient. .\l Lincoln Square 
 there is more ;ippl;iusc. and liere the 
 drum corps alight ^ and gi\-es a final 
 serenade. The men went awav in 
 charge of acting Sergeants Thomas V. 
 Kclley and Maurice .\. Keane. it being- 
 necessary for St-rgeant Corliss to re- 
 main and finish up his papers. 
 
 By way of the Fitchburg and West 
 Sluire lines, the men went directly 
 through to their destination, reaching; 
 Dnnn-Foriiig early Friday night, ever\ 
 man in place, the first party to arrive in- 
 
 tact and on time. They were immedi- 
 ately assigned to quarters and the rou- 
 tine of cam]) life began in earnest. The 
 Sergeant, who had given so much time 
 togettingthis party of recruits together, 
 did not join them till Saturday, July 30, 
 at 7 ]).m. August Tst, he is made Quar- 
 termaster-sergeant of the provisional 
 company, composed of recruits for sev- 
 eral of the Xinth's companies. Thurs- 
 day, the 4th, the troops move away 
 from Camp Alger, on account of the 
 jjrevalence there of typhoid fever, to 
 I'lurk's Station. After remaining one 
 day at this jioint, a march is made to 
 liull Run. a ]ilace full of interest to the 
 men who remember the Civil War. 
 Sundaw the 7tli. the march was re- 
 sumed for Manassas and camp is pitched 
 at llristow Station, a name full of Re- 
 bellion memories. Relics of those 
 troublous times are frequently found. 
 Monday and Tuesday they are at Chapel 
 Springs, and Wednesday, the Toth, they 
 go through to Thoroughfare (la|i, still 
 in historic regions, but continuous rains 
 tend to dam]X'n their interest. On ac- 
 count of the high water in some of the 
 creeks to be passed, the men strip them- 
 selves to avoid thorough soaking. The 
 men who were there nearly forty years 
 before had no time for such care. 
 
 Mere the men remained till the 27th, 
 there being little variety save as thev 
 lind Rebellion relics or get ]iasses to 
 near-by places of interest. The Com- 
 
K.M.MliT CTARDS, C■().MI•.\^■^■ G. 
 
 285 
 
 J. .M. Larljcrrv. T. V. Kcll.ilur. 1'. .1 
 T. II. Kelley. T. J. Hurley. 
 
 pany is detailed for duty at the head- 
 quarters of General Davis, and do not 
 find their duties particularly arduous. 
 There is a bit of excitement on account 
 of the court-martialing of Captain Dun- 
 can of a Kansas regiment through his 
 alleged digging up of the body of a 
 Confederate of^cer at P.ull Run. On 
 the 27th. trains are lioarded for Middle- 
 town, Penn., via \\'ashington. When 
 in the Capital, the soldiers were be- 
 friended by the Red Cross Society with 
 food and drink, and their hearts are 
 quite won thereby. Sunday, the 28th. 
 finds the men in their new station, near 
 Middletown. or, as it is called. Camp 
 Meade, at about 7 a.m., and n<ito is im- 
 mediately made of the improved ap- 
 pearance of the vicinity. As Sergeant 
 Corliss expresses it, "folks live, not 
 merely exist." However, the stay in 
 this camp is so brief, it seems strange 
 that the move should have been made 
 at all. b^ach day has siime sort of an 
 order, to be countermanded on the next, 
 with reference to the disposition of the 
 soldiers. 
 
 August 31st, came orders to report at 
 Montauk and to prepare proper papers at 
 once. These were in preparation Sep- 
 
 I'UminL'. .\l. .\. Kianc. \\ . M. I.coiKir,!. 
 W. .1. Kilry. I.. .\. O'Sullivan. 
 
 tember 1st, 2d and 3d, through ex- 
 tremelv hot weather, the mercin-y re- 
 cording above 100 degrees in the shade. 
 ( )n the last named date came direc- 
 tions tn repair to Camp Dalton in 
 South b'ramingham, which, to the wan- 
 derers, had an almost home-like sound. 
 They start on the 4th, going through 
 jersey City and New York, taking 
 from the latter place a train for home, 
 via Xevv Haven, Springfield, through 
 Worcester, reaching South Framing- 
 ham at 4.30 a.m., Monday, the 5th of 
 September. 
 
 Here they found the 5th Regiment in 
 eani]) and were hospitably received by 
 the men. who helped the "Emmets" not 
 onlv to refreshments, but towards find- 
 ing their ]>roper lodgment, wheie for a 
 time they were in nominal <|uaranline, 
 theri' being an impression that they 
 might have brought home witii them 
 contagious ailments. However, as no 
 disease made its appearance, furloughs 
 were given to individuals, till finally all 
 were sent to Worcester on the loth of 
 .Se])tember. the general furlough cover- 
 ing sixtv (lavs. The home-coming was 
 on Saturday, and it came at a time 
 when depression reigned on account of 
 the manv deaths among the Cuban sol- 
 
286 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 (Hers, hence no demonstration tjreeted 
 the advent of the young men who had 
 shown their wiUingness to do and to 
 suffer, if necessary. Of the thirty-two 
 who had enhsted, twenty-four were in 
 line; one. Coffee, had died, and others 
 were in hospital From this point, the 
 story of the recruits coincides with that 
 of tile other members of the Company. 
 
 After the return of so many men, tlie 
 war being over, the city determined to 
 give the new veterans a reception wor- 
 thy of their services. The day set for 
 the affair was the hist day of October, 
 [n li(in<ir nf tlie occasion, the schools 
 stopped early and the Mayor requested 
 that places of business be closed 
 during the parade. It seemed that 
 the same spirit which sent the men 
 away was still ali\e, if anything a lit- 
 tle more intense than on those rainy 
 Wiix da\s, and surel\- the homeward 
 coming ought to Ije brighter than the 
 departure. The sur\i\-ing men who 
 were well enough for the march were 
 in line, but there were heavy hearts 
 among the cinlimkers, who saw rather 
 the vacant places than the men who 
 marched. ( )nee more Cnlinul Wel- 
 lington is Chief Alarshal, and the right 
 of the line is given to Battery B, the 
 hearts of wdiose members were con- 
 sumed with envy liecause of their en- 
 forced remaining at lionie while these, 
 their fellow niemljers of the militia, 
 were gaining renown and glory on the 
 battlefield. Then follow the ulder vet- 
 erans of I'ost lO, (i. A. R., iirouder 
 than ever of the boys wdujm they had 
 reared anil had sent into the i)at'hway 
 of duty. Major b'airbanks heads the 
 battalion, and then come the Lity 
 Guards, under Captain I'.arrett, with 
 his lieutenants, Tisdale and Flunmier. 
 and sixty men. The "Wellingtons" fol- 
 low, led'bv Captain Holden, with Lieu- 
 tenant Harry T. Gray and forty-four 
 men. .Vext in line are the "Emmets, 
 Captain Moynihan leading, with both 
 of his lieutenants, Hurley and Mc- 
 Cann, and seventy-one men. Last 
 of all marches the Light Infantry, com- 
 manded by Captain Frank L. Allen, 
 with Lieutenant Herbert H. Warren 
 
 and forty-seven men. With each coin- 
 panv were men representing other 
 companies, but, as Worcester citizens, 
 had borne a part in the contest. The 
 march was not a long one, but it was 
 sufficient to try the strength of the 
 latelv fever-stricken soldiers. At City 
 Hall, they were reviewed bx.the Mayor 
 and the city government, and the 
 school children were there in force, 
 just as they were six months before. 
 ( )n the Common, Battery B fired a sa- 
 lute in honor of the soldiers' return, 
 and at 5 p.m. the parade was dismissed 
 at the Armory. "Couchee," the mas- 
 cot, also was in line with his fellow vet- 
 erans, and his blanket bears the words, 
 "I've been to Cuba. How about a pen- 
 sion ?" 
 
 In the evening came the last scene, 
 in tlu- rece]5tion, when Mechanics Hall 
 was filled to repletion with a vast ar- 
 rav of soldiers and citizens, all intent 
 on making the day and the hour mem- 
 i]ral>le. The galleries were filled with 
 people, who had paid fifty cents apiece 
 for the privilege of seeing the veterans 
 served and to hear the speeches. The 
 numbers present were so much greater 
 than expected that the city gov- 
 ernment had t(i retire without a i>art 
 
 Chari.es I'. West. Co. H. 
 
 'Ihomas I- . Casey. 
 
 James F. Power. 
 
EM.Mirr Gr.\Ki)S, company 
 
 287 
 
 in the programme. In the confusion 
 incident to the seating, the "Emmets" 
 were left outside on the stairs, and 
 were not present wlien grace was 
 said liy Dr. A. Z. Conrad. Charles [I. 
 Pinkham, that veteran chairman of 
 reception committees, efficiently sup- 
 ported by his aids, saw to the proiser 
 placing of the guests, antl then fol- 
 lowed the repast. When the feast was 
 over, as toastmaster, Colonel h'red. \\ . 
 Wellington took charge and happily 
 introduced his several speakers. All 
 rose equal to the occasion, and their 
 oratory was enthusiastically received. 
 The speakers, in order, were Mayor 
 R. B. Dodge, Jr., Congressman Tosei^h 
 H. Walker; the Hon. Alfred S. Pinker- 
 ton, the Rev. D. F. McGillicuddy. Col- 
 onel W. S. B. Hopkins and William H. 
 Bartlett, commanding the department 
 of Massachusetts, G. A. R. In con- 
 clusion, all arose while the Rev. Fr. 
 McGillicuddy repeated the prayer fur 
 the dead, ending with, '•Rcqiticscaiit in 
 pace." 
 
 For the "lunniets" there is yet some- 
 thing to he (Inne. for they must 
 serve their tour of duty at the Armory. 
 Accordingly they rejiort <>n Sunday, 
 Nov. 6th. at ID a.m. and pmceed to 
 set their (luarters in order. Their meals 
 
 I'! 
 
 / 
 
 4 
 
 Thos. 1". Casey Shaves Jos. F. Kellev of Company H. 
 
 are to be ser\ed by Caterer Yeaw in 
 the banquet h.ill. and the work before 
 them will not be very arduous. Xot 
 all are here, for, aside from those in 
 their graves, there are many who can- 
 not res|)on(l on account of illness. Ow- 
 ing to the recruiting to the ma.ximum 
 number, there had been io6 men in the 
 Company. Of this number, eighty en- 
 listed men and three officers are pres- 
 ent. .\lso George Corbin puts in an ap- 
 I)earance and dines with his old friends, 
 'llie duties of these twenty days are 
 not much like those of the Cuban cam- 
 paign, nor do rations, served by Ca- 
 terer Yeaw, resemble those given by 
 L'ncle Sam on the Island. So far as 
 mere work is concerned, each lad coidd 
 sing with Watts— 
 
 " .My willing soul would stay 
 
 In such a frame as this. 
 And sit and sinj; itself away. 
 
 To everlasting bliss." 
 
 The officers and their clerks had be- 
 fore them the jireparation of their mus- 
 ter-otit rolls, and as the thirtv-two 
 recruits had l)een pretty well scattered 
 around the country, it was something 
 to get together all the threads in the 
 skein. With very few rifts in their lute, 
 the tour continued till the 26th day 
 of Xovember, when they were mus- 
 tered out of the U. S. service and jjaid 
 ofif at the Armory. Including twenty- 
 eight recruits, there were ninety-four 
 men to rejoice at the offices of Lieu- 
 tenant 1). W. Kitchner of the 2d U. 
 S. Artillery atul Major M. R. Dyon, 
 paytnasters in the regular army. Some 
 who were too ill to be present or were 
 absent for any reason, received tJieir 
 pay and discharge from Washington. 
 At 10.45 ^-'ii- tlie task was done and 
 the regular officers at once departed 
 for Boston. 
 
 Immediately following the muster- 
 out, there was a meeting of the veter- 
 ,ins. which Captain Moynihan, with 
 Lieutenants Hurley and McCann, ad- 
 dressed, speaking in general terms of 
 the character of the services of the men 
 and of the conduct that should be 
 theirs in following years. Thanks were 
 given all the organizations and indi- 
 viduals that had contributed to the 
 comfort and happiness of the men, and 
 
288 
 
 WOKCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 M. F. Garrett. 
 
 the meeting closed with three rousing 
 cheers for the \\'(ircester press. Cater- 
 er Yeaw served for the veterans a 
 turkey dinner, u]) tn his well-lvnown 
 standard. The men tlieniselx'es made 
 up a hlieral purse for Georg^e J. Corliin. 
 the persistent lad who would go with 
 them through the Cuhan campaign 
 and who never flincluMJ any trial. 
 ■'Couchee" continued to he the Com- 
 pany's favorite till his death, a long 
 Hfe, considering the vicissitudes 
 thr(.>ugh which lie had passed. For 
 several years the city remitted the an- 
 nual ta.x in recognition of his merit. 
 
 J, 11. ( fCALLAOHAN. 
 
 His stuffed figure, glass encased, is one 
 cif the most highly prized souvenirs 
 in the "limmets'" quarters.* 
 
 And here the chapter ends, though 
 there are many items that might be 
 iiUrdduceil of subse(|uent service in the 
 regular army of men whose experience, 
 se\'ere as it was, had only intensified 
 their liking fur a military career, and 
 nf ihc larger array of men who, return- 
 ing t(i the paths of peace, demonstrated 
 the truth of Whittier's words when he 
 said — 
 
 "Peace hath higher tests of manhood 
 tliaii battles ever knew." 
 
 l.\ .M1:M( )R1AM, COMPANY G. 
 
 The list (if "JMiiniels" de.id is an ex- 
 tended line. The men wIim h,id l)een so 
 active and vigilant in the prejiara- 
 tory days were not imperviuus to the 
 attacks of fever, and thus some of tlic 
 very strongest yielded. Their graves 
 in Worcester are objects nf tenderest 
 regard to llieir many Cdinrades and 
 friends, bin ihe bodies beneath the sea 
 receive \\'< .Memnrial I )ay tributes. 
 There, unlettered biitiini unsung, they 
 await the day when the he.avens shall 
 be rolled together as a scrnll ;ind the 
 great waters sliall give ii]i their dead. 
 Each succeeding year ailds td the in- 
 terest which the public has fnr the men 
 who S(i \\illiiigl\- devilled Iheniselves 
 
 til a cause which the\ deemed just and 
 uiirth ihe risk that they assumed. 
 
 Henry .Sullixan. — Till the camp was 
 saddened bv the announcement of Pri- 
 vate Sullivan's death, the men of the 
 Xintb had begun tn think the>- led 
 charmed lives and that they were to 
 be exempt frimi the penalties paid by 
 other bodies; but they were speedily 
 undeceived, ami befnre the tale was 
 
 *"Couchcc." on account of his age and con- 
 sei|nent infirniities, was mercifully chloroformed 
 liy his friends, Horan and O'Keefe. April n, 
 ii)Oi. The taxidermy work was done by E. R. 
 (.'rii^sniaii. Perhaps it were better to state 
 th.il ihe dog-ot¥icer "failed to see" the mascot 
 than Ihat the city forgave his tax. 
 
EMMT-T GUARDS, COMPANV G. 
 
 289 
 
 For ^^ '>^^^^~^^ ^^sr>\=: 
 
 
 iHLiR uvrs. "v.:r..v 
 
 
 
 •,-.^/ 
 
 -■'*'»>; suu.>l!?' 
 
 
 tiild thu niorlality rccnrd of the Xintli 
 exceeded that of the other Massachu- 
 setts regiments. Sullivan was born in 
 Winchendon, Mass., Oct. 24, 1872. lii> 
 parents being Henry and Dora S. The 
 family early removed to Gardner, so 
 that his school days were spent in the 
 latter town. Removing to Worcester, 
 he learned the business of mattress 
 making, and was working for J. J. 
 Griffin, Shrewsbury Street, when the 
 war began. October 2. 1895, he was 
 
 married to Miss .Mary Mnynihan. who, 
 with her widowed mother, survives. 
 The [lartieulars of his death. July 23. 
 have been given in the narrative of the 
 Company. He sleeps now in St. John's 
 Cemetery, his body having been re- 
 turned later in the year. As one of the 
 regimental postmen, his face and fig- 
 ure were familiar to all the members 
 of the Ninth. His aged father is still 
 living, but his mother is dead. A sis- 
 ter is the wife of his comrade, John 
 
290 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 
 
 291 
 
 r.arkiii. ( )ii its return tn this cniiiitrv, 
 the bt)dy was Ijiirinl in St. [nhn's Cem- 
 eter}-. 
 
 George Washington i^>rc)snan, who 
 died at Egmont Key, h'lorida, August 
 20, was the second member of the Com- 
 pany to (he. He was a native of 
 Xcw York City, a son of John and 
 Bridget (Leonard) Brosnan. The date 
 of his birth was Nov. 6th, 1877. His 
 school days were spent principally in 
 Saybrook, Conn. Later, coming to 
 \\"orcester, he undertook the printer's 
 trade and was employed as a pressman 
 on the Evening Post of ^Vorcester 
 when he enlisted. As a soldier he was 
 conspicuous for his alertness and faith- 
 fulness, qualities which secured for 
 him the position of mail-carrier for the 
 regiment. The death of no man in the 
 Com])anv was more regretted than 
 his. A\'hen in Camp Alger, he suf- 
 fered from an attack of measles, and 
 thougji he accompanied his regiment 
 to Cuba, he had not altogether recov- 
 ered. Early in August he was sent 
 back to the States. His father was a 
 soldier in the Hritish army and served 
 in India. Besides his parents, he left 
 a sister. Elizabeth, already mentioned 
 in this story. The remains of the young 
 soldier at last foinicl rest in St. John s 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Corporal John l)aniel McSweeney. — 
 A\'hen the "Emmets'" \vent from Camp 
 Alger, they left in charge of the tents 
 they had occupied Corporal Mc- 
 Sweenew who was to take charge of 
 them in liehalf of the recruits expected 
 from \\'orcester. Here he was taken 
 sick with tvphoid fever, and when Ser- 
 geant Corliss came down he found the 
 young officer delirious and very mucli 
 needing medical attention. For this 
 purpose, he was sent to the hos])ital at 
 Fort JMeyer, and here he remained, his 
 disease becoming finally tyjihoid jineu- 
 monia, from which h.^ died. August 21. 
 Just before his passing, though he had 
 long been unconscious, his young wife 
 arrived with their baby, hoping to 
 glad<len his eyes with a sight of the 
 infant, named for him and the camp. 
 John Alger, but there was no recog- 
 nition in his dying sight. With his 
 
 liaml cl.isped in that of his wife, whom 
 he had wedded only the Thanksgiving 
 betore. he received his final muster- 
 out. He was born in Countv Kerrv, 
 Ireland. Feb. 27. 1874. the son of Dan- 
 iel and Elizabeth (Sullivan) Mc- 
 Sweeney. and they arc still living in 
 the old country. .Kt the age of eight- 
 een, in company with an aunt, he came 
 to America, stojjping first in Xevv 
 York city. He very soon came to 
 Worcester, and for five years had been 
 a member of the "Emmets." His voca- 
 tion was that of meat cutting, being 
 emi)loyed by Fred M. Clark, on Foster 
 Street. Hoping to secure an appoint- 
 ment on the ])olice force of the city, he 
 had been a i)upil in the .Shrewsbury 
 Street evening school during the win- 
 ter. His body, being the first soldier's 
 remains to be brought home, it re- 
 ceived all the attention and honor that 
 friends and citizens could bestow. .A. 
 Nast array of people viewed the bodj' 
 as it lay in its casket, at 37 Eastern 
 .V\enue, and on the 24th it was buried 
 with military honors from St. Anne's 
 Chiuxh. The burial was in St. John's 
 Cemetery. His widow, nee Nellie J. 
 .Sulli\an. anil the son. John .Mger Mc- 
 Sweeney. now reside on Gage Street. 
 Edward Francis Sullivan. — Not till 
 the Company was on its way home did 
 death attain invade the ranks of the 
 
 HOE-S MAGAZINE 
 
 The Transport .\llegheny. 
 
292 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 "Emmets." As already stated, Sullivan 
 had l.)efn one of the strongest men 
 in the regiment, seemingly immune to 
 the ailments whieh had so weakened 
 his comrades, but his turn came when 
 he went aboard the Allegheny. "What 
 might have been" has been the refrain 
 in uKnu- a recital of the sad incident 
 on that vessel when the delirious sol- 
 dier leaped to his watery grave.* Had 
 there been greater care given to his 
 "heat oppressed brain," very likely he 
 might have come home with his fel- 
 lows. ^\s it is, there is nothing left 
 but his (ibituar\'. whicli follows : He 
 was born in I^^hrewslniry, Aug. 29, 1874, 
 his parents l)i.-ing I'atrick and juanna 
 (Xagle) Sulli\au. To him was im- 
 parted some nf the i)hysical vigor 
 which enalded his father for years to 
 walk daily from and to that hill town, 
 that he mit*iit earn his stipend at the 
 Ouinsigamond wire mills. The son 
 had his schooling on Shrewsbury and 
 Grafton streets, in this city. He grew 
 to be a stationary engineer, and was 
 thus employed when the call came for 
 volunteers. I'or several years his home 
 had been with his atmt. Mrs. Margaret 
 Sullivan, No. 14 liage Street, and by 
 whom his untimely death is still 
 mournrd. Mis father is living in 
 Molden. 
 
 Charles iM-.aucis McMaim. — Wlu-n 
 the war call came there was \isiling in 
 Worcester ;i yoimg ni;in from \ er- 
 mont. He had come here to see his 
 younger sister, and though almost 
 twenty-one years old it was onlv the 
 second meeting in their recollection. 
 r.olli the yonng people were children 
 of Michael and .Mary (Reynolds) (laf- 
 ney, who died when Cli.irhs w.ns a lit- 
 tU' more th;in three years old. There 
 were loiu' oilier children. ;ill of whom 
 were disptrsed in Ihe great misfortune 
 which had come upon them, t'harles 
 was adojned liy Tliomas .Me.M.uiii, of 
 Kast h'airfield. \ermont. though ihe 
 lad's l)irth])lace was I'mleiiiill in that 
 State. The sister, .Vgnes, was adopted 
 i\v John M. Cunningham, later of Wor- 
 cester. Thus the\ were reared a lono- 
 
 *See page 27,^ 
 
 ways from each other. Charles had the 
 l)enefit of A'ermont schools, graduat- 
 ing in '97 at llrigham Academy, 
 LJakersfield, an all-round athlete. Fully 
 six feet in height, weighing 180 pounds, 
 the examining surgeon said he was 
 the best man he had ever seen. He 
 was a star football player and was to 
 enter the University of Vermont in the 
 fall of 1898. It was when he gradu- 
 ated from the Academy that his sister 
 first met him after infancy. Having 
 taught school during the winter of 
 iS97-'98, he had come down to Wor- 
 cester to repay the visit and to 
 strengthen the tics so recently made. 
 The call to war, however, proved 
 stronger than that of college, and he 
 was one of the gallant boys who 
 marched away with the "Emmets," 
 regularlv doing his duty till laid low 
 bv fe\er, from which he died. .Vugust 
 30. when on his w.l\ home in the Alle- 
 gheny, and, it will be remembered, the 
 vessL-1 was turned back that his body 
 might rest beneath the deep waters. 
 
 j\Iichael Joseph Healey. — The third of 
 the "Emmets" to receive ocean burial. 
 He died just as the vessel was nearing 
 the long-desired shores. Ikying on the 
 31st of August, there was only a brief 
 interval between his death and the 
 committing of his body to the waves. 
 He was born in Castle Island, County 
 Kerry, Ireland, in 1S75, hence was only 
 twenty-three years old when he died. 
 His father, Edward, is still living in 
 the old home. In this country he is 
 sur\-ived by se\-eral sisters and luTith- 
 ers. He came to New York city when 
 sixteen years old and worked there for 
 a while, coming to \\'orcester after 
 ;i])ont two years. 1 U're he worked as 
 ;i moulder and, at the time of his en- 
 list meul. was employed at E. B. 
 i'ierce's foundrw His home was with 
 his sister, Mrs. P. ]■". Lawler, on Sham- 
 rock Street, and during his last winter 
 he had been a pn|)il in the Shrewsbury 
 Street evening school, tmder the care 
 of llial veteran teacher. William J. 
 l',-illon. 
 
 Joseph .M . Cdftee. — ( H this m;m. who 
 was a recruit to the Company, there are 
 \'erv few data extant. It would 
 
K.MMI'.T GUARDS, COMTANY G. 
 
 293 
 
 appear that he was hcirn in W'w I la- 
 \en, Conn., apparently of Irish parent- 
 age, and that he had worked in Wor- 
 cester for several years before his en- 
 listment. His family affiliation, how- 
 oxer, seemed In la\' li(ild on Xew llrit- 
 ain. Conn., for there his body was 
 taken for liurial. Me boarded on Thom- 
 as Street for some time, and, on hav- 
 ing his life insnred. he had the pol- 
 icv made payalde to his l)o,-irding mis- 
 tress rather than to his immediate rel- 
 atives. Indeed, it is el.-nmed after his 
 death, a brother-in-law came to Wor- 
 cester endeavoring to sectire the re- 
 sults of the insurance, but (hd not suc- 
 
 L'or|)oral John h'rancis Iloran was 
 born in Abbeyfeale, Comity Limerick. 
 Ireland, son of Michael and Catherine 
 (Wright) Koran, who arc stilj living 
 in the old home. He came to America 
 in iXSo. ami was a brother of First Ser- 
 geant M. J. Iloran. He never attended 
 an\- of the schools in this country. He 
 was a single man. and by trade was a 
 mason, an occu|jation which was 
 shared by his three brothers. He had 
 l)cen a foreman in the employ of Con- 
 tractor Henry Mellen for a number of 
 years: he was prominent in the I'rick- 
 iavers' Cnion and had represented his 
 loc.-d bod\- as ,-i dek-gale in Chicago and 
 
 1>K. J. A. RoNAY.Nt.. 
 
 ••MONTAUK' 
 
 ceed. Coffee was employed as a wire 
 goods maker at the time Sergeant Cor- 
 liss returned home for recruits, and he 
 became one of those who were to raise 
 the Company to the maximum. Re- 
 turning witli the Sergeant, when the 
 new men went down to Camp Alger, 
 he partook of the experience of the re- 
 cruits, going with them to Camp 
 Meade in Pennsylvania, where, at- 
 tacked by typhoid fever, he died Sept. 
 5, just after the return of the "Em- 
 mets" to Worcester. At the expense 
 of the Commonwealth, assisted by the 
 honorarv corps of the "Enrmets," the 
 body of' Private Coffee was carried to 
 New Britain for burial, and it lies now 
 in St. ^[arv's Cemetery. 
 
 I >R. .M. F. 1-Al.LON. 
 
 \'()Lr\'TEEKS. 
 
 Peoria. He was also a member oi 
 the A. ( ). II., everywhere conspicuous 
 for his readiness and faithfulness. He 
 was one of the oldest and most faithful 
 members of the "Emmets." He had 
 l)elonged more than ten years, joining 
 about the time the Company went into 
 the militia. He had. on a i)revious en- 
 listment, worked himself up to the first 
 sergeancy. On going in again, he 
 had given the same care and interest 
 as of old. He had a hard exjjerience in 
 Cuba, going to the hospital there, and 
 the trip home on the Allegheny was 
 anvthing but helpful. At Montauk he 
 failed till death came to his release, 
 Sept. 9. though the announcement of 
 his departure was a surprise to his im- 
 
294 
 
 WURCKSTER IX THE SI'ANISH WAR. 
 
 mediate friends. Hi.s l)ody is buried 
 in .St. John's Cemetery. 
 
 John Francis Keegan was a Wor- 
 cester boy, born in this city Nov. 2, 
 1872, .son of John an<l Alary ((j'Cori- 
 nor) Keegan. His father, a veteran of 
 the L'i\il W ar, having served in the 
 na\'_\-, is a member of Post 10, and 
 resides on Water Street. As a school 
 boy, he attended the institutions on 
 Ash and I^edge streets, in the lattei 
 place lieing under the care of Master 
 E. E. Th(.imi)s(in. He left school after 
 completing the ninth grade. His father 
 was a moulder by trade and the boy 
 took up the same occupation, and 
 worked with the father in Colvin's 
 foundry on Assonet Street. He was an 
 active member in Father Mathew's 
 Temperance Sciciet}- and, in the best 
 days of the .St. Jdhn's Cadets, he was 
 one of the most active and interested 
 members. Naturally, when the call to 
 arms came he was ready to respond, 
 and, with the other bo}'s, he marched 
 away. His brother, Thomas, also en- 
 listed, going into the 2d U. .S. .\rtillerv, 
 being one nf tlie first recruits for 
 the regular army sent away from 
 the city. .\s a scjldier, in camp and 
 field, lij did his dut}' uncom])lainingly, 
 and wrote cheerful letters to his \\'or- 
 cester home. Throughout the Cuban 
 campaign he was alert and well, Init he 
 succumbed to the rigors nf ilie trans- 
 port and Camp W'ikoft, Al the last 
 moment, liis father went dtjwn tn the 
 camp, ciiily to receive the de;id bndy 
 of his son. he having died on the 9th 
 of September, of tvphoid pneumonia. 
 T'.oth Hor.-in ;ind Keegan were Iniried 
 trom St. Joliu's Church on the same 
 day, the 13th, Keegan at 9 o'clock and 
 Horan at 10, and the bodies of both 
 rest in St. John's Cemeterw 
 
 James l-Vancis McTiernan. — .Septem- 
 ber's death record for the "Fmniets" 
 was a he;i\ y one, since no less than 
 fi\e of the mill passed on between the 
 5lh and the 25th of the month, ;ind all 
 of them, except Coffee, .it .Moutatik. 
 The f(]in-th ill Septemlier's list, the 
 iSth, was McTiernan, a young man of 
 Worcester l)irth, the son of James and 
 Margaret ( .McDerniott ) .McTiernan. 
 
 of whom the father survives. As a 
 school boy he went with his fellows 
 to Ledge Street, and was another pupil 
 of Master Thompson to don the blue 
 and follow the flag. At the time of his 
 enlistment, he was a mason's appren- 
 tice. When his body was brought back 
 to Worcester, the friends of the 
 family had an opportunity to view the 
 same at the home on Coral Street, 
 whence it was taken to St. Stephen's 
 for the last rites of the church, ac- 
 coni]5anied liy a representation of "Em- 
 mets," active and honorarv. The 
 eulogv' of the Rev. D. F. McGillicuddy 
 was specially touching and impressive. 
 ( )ver the grave, three volleys were 
 fired in honor of the departed soldier, 
 and, after "taps" by the bugler, the 
 friends turned homeward, leaving in 
 his gra\'e one more memorial of man's 
 sacrifice for man. 
 
 John James Creaven. — The eleventh 
 death in the Company was that of 
 Creaven, whose earthly journey ended 
 at Montauk on the 25th. The soldier 
 was a native of Ireland and was about 
 thirty \-ears of age. His parents were 
 John and Ellen (King), of whom the 
 mother is vet living in Ireland. 
 In 1885 Creaven came to this country, 
 landing in Portland, Me., but he soon 
 found his way to Worcester, where he 
 entered the employ of \\'ashburn & 
 M()en as wire-drawer, and, as such. 
 Continued till he went to Camp Dewey. 
 Of his immediate family only his 
 brother Patrick lived in this city, 
 though a cousin, Patrick bT'cney, lived 
 (ill Millbury Street, from whose home 
 the l)urial was had. h'.arl}- after his 
 Coming to Worcester he associated 
 himself with several of the Irish Catho- 
 lic organizations, and was prominent 
 in the A. ( 1. If. and the Catholic Asso- 
 ciates. He had been a member of the 
 "Emmets" three years, and was one of 
 the first tri indicate his readiness to 
 \ohinteer for the campaign. His army 
 life was all right till about three weeks 
 ijefore the leaving of Cuba, when he 
 was stricken with malaria and had to 
 go to tlie hos])ital. Recovering some- 
 what, he boarded the Allegheny with 
 his comrades, but on reaching Mon- 
 
EMMET r,r.\RDS, (OMI'AXV G. 
 
 295 
 
 tank he asjaiii went to the hdspital. 
 which he did not leave in Hfe. Over 
 his remains impressive services were 
 held in St. John's Church, the words of 
 the Rev. .Mgr. Griffin being particular- 
 ly fitting. At. St. John's Cemetery the 
 last chapter in this life history was had 
 with the flag, volleys of musketry and 
 "taps" in the presence of many hun- 
 dreds of interested spectators. 
 
 John Edward Casev. — Though he 
 was the first member of the Company to 
 receive his discharge, Private Casey did 
 not come home to become a liealthy. 
 
 vicissitudes of the Cuban service wore 
 upon him so much that his friends 
 solicited and secured for him a dis- 
 charge, thinking him better employed at 
 homo than in a foreign land. The burial, 
 in St. John's Cemetery, was from the 
 Church of the Sacred Heart, Wednes- 
 (hn-. Ian. 3d. 1900. at nine o'clock a.m. 
 Over the gra\ e his comrades fired three 
 volleys and the bugles sounded "taps." 
 
 Walter Allen. — One of the recruits 
 secured by Sergeant Corliss was a 
 young wire- worker from South Wor- 
 cester, though in his earlier days he had 
 
 Dr. James E. McCiOitrtv. 
 Asst. Surg.. 9th M. \'. M. 
 r.OTII 
 
 ■M(l.\' lATK' 
 
 robust worker, for the hardships of 
 the campaign wore upon him till, bereft 
 of his reason, he was taken to the Lu- 
 natic Hospital, where, Dec. 31. 1899. he 
 died. He was born in County Kerry. 
 Ireland, Nov. 18. 1866. the son of 
 Michael and Catherine (Brosnihan) 
 Casey. r5y occupation he was a team- 
 ster, but he threw up his employment 
 that he might go with younger men to 
 the war. though in doing so he left si.x 
 children and their mother, who before 
 her marriage was Catherine Gleeson. 
 He was the" first and only man hit by a 
 hostile missile in the company, and the 
 
 Dr. Peter O. Shea. 
 I.,Ttc .Xssit. Surg.. <)th M. \'. M. 
 
 \I)HX lEKRS. 
 
 worked in the carpet mills, for which 
 this locality is noted. He was a native 
 of England, born in Twerton-on-Avon, 
 near Bath. October 28. 1877. How- 
 ever. on!\- his earliest boyhood was 
 spent there, for in 1881 he came to 
 America, where the father had already 
 come with an older Ijrother. He was 
 the voungest child of George and Em- 
 ma (Schofield) Allen, the last of a nu- 
 merous group of sons and only one 
 daughter. Mrs. Edward Lever of South- 
 gate Street. After a residence in 
 Thompsonville. Conn., the family came 
 to Worcester, and Walter's schooling 
 
296 
 
 WORfKSTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 was had in Cambridge Street, principal- 
 ly under the care of ^Hss Ellen M. Hoy- 
 den. He was employeil at the Grove 
 Street mills when the war fever struck 
 him, and his experience in the "Em- 
 mets" only served to increase its 
 strength. After his discharge he worked 
 for a short time in the Grove Street 
 works, but after a few months re-enlisted 
 in the yth U. S. Infantry and was with 
 his regiment when it went to Pekin, 
 though before that he had had his expe- 
 rience in the Philippines. He died of 
 chronic dysentery Nov. 5,1900,10 Pekin, 
 and his body was brought home for 
 burial May 29th, 1901. With funeral 
 services from Hope Church, it was 
 buried in Hope Cemeter}'. It was a 
 sad accompaninuiit of his body's return 
 that, on the very day of its coming, his 
 mother was stricken with paralysis, and 
 from the stroke she never rallied. 
 
 Peter H. Bennett. — Another recruit 
 who did not see Cuba, yet was willing to 
 enlist for that nurpose, was Bennett, 
 who, the son "f Patrick and Elizabeth 
 (Heraldl Bennett, w-as born in Worces- 
 ter, and here his life was spent, except 
 for that portion passed in the armv. He 
 died of consumption June 24, 1902, and 
 was buried in St. John's Cemetery. By 
 trade he was a metal polisher and was 
 a member of the union of that occupa- 
 tion. A sister, Susan, is ^Irs. Theodore 
 St. George of Brooks Station, town of 
 Princeton. At his death he w::s aged 
 20 vears, 6 months and 26 days. 
 
 David James Kennedy. — The third 
 among the "Emmet" recruits to get his 
 final muster-out was the subject of this 
 sketch. He w^as liorn in Hardwick, 
 Mass., a son of David and Catherine 
 (Cronin)Kenned\ ..indin that township 
 passed his earlier days. In Worcester 
 ills empln\nu-nt was that of ;i shipper, 
 and in that capacity he was with Clark, 
 Sa\v\er ("11. when he enlisted. He, too, 
 did not gel army enough in his brief 
 experience of 1898, so like Allen he 
 went into the 9th U. S. Infantry, enlist- 
 ing Jan. 14, 1899, and there gained a 
 wide knowledge of what real war is. In 
 the Philippines he iDUght in many 
 battles and, when the war in China 
 Ijroke out, he accompanied his regiment. 
 
 At Tien Tsin, July 13, 1900, where his 
 colonel was killed, he received a severe 
 wound in the groin. Through conse- 
 quent disability he was discharged Oct. 
 22, 1900. His death was on July 2, 1903, 
 and his body lies in St. John's Ceme- 
 tery. A brother of the deceased soldier 
 is Patrick Kennedy, foreman in O. B. 
 Wood's printing establishment on Fos- 
 ter Street. 
 
 William H. Murphy.— The latest 
 "Emmet" to receive final muster-out 
 was young Murphy, than whom there 
 was no stronger, more athletic soldier 
 when the Company marched away, but 
 the seeds of disease were sown during 
 the campaign, and. though he survived 
 the return fullv six years, it was only 
 to fall at last. The record in Worces- 
 ter's City Hall says that he died of tu- 
 berculosis, but malaria, acquired in 
 Cul)a. was the provoking cause. On 
 his return, he became a conductor on 
 the street railway, and there continued 
 till illness compelled him to go to Col- 
 orado, where he remained something 
 more than a year and a half. On his 
 return, still ailing, he was unable to 
 work, and finally went to Rutland for 
 the benefits of 'its altitude and clear 
 air; but it was in vain, for October 12, 
 1904, he died at the Highland View 
 House. He was born in Worcester, 
 April 19, i87(j, the son of John and 
 Ellen (()'nrien) Murphy. His school 
 davs were spent at the Thomas Street 
 building, supplemented by a course in 
 a business college. About the time he 
 had finished the latter, the Spanish 
 A\'ar began, and an Irish boy, born on 
 the anniversary of Lexington's great 
 day, could do no less than enlist. His 
 brother Frank also was a soldier, now 
 serving a second term in the regulars. 
 Our subject was a member of E. R. 
 Shumway Camp, Spanish War Veter- 
 ans, and! with delegations from the 
 Camp and from the "Emmets," mili- 
 tary honors were accorded his remains, 
 wh'ich were buried from St. Peter's 
 Church, October 14, in St. John's Cem- 
 eterv. 
 
 Timothy J. .\hern.— "The latestto 
 die" has already been written of Wil- 
 liam H. ^lurphy, but delay in publish- 
 ing the book admits of a repetition of 
 
E.M.MKT CfARDS, COMI'ANV G. 
 
 297 
 
 the expression, since Alarch 9.1905, the 
 first name on the roll of the "Enmiels" 
 was starred. On that day the soldier 
 who had warred a.tjainst disease ever 
 since his return from the service, 
 passed over to rest on tlic uthcr side 
 of the river at the age of 31 years, i 
 month and 3 days. His residence was 
 at a \\'ard Street, where his widow 
 and two children, a boy and .girl, are 
 left to lament the .going of hnshand 
 and father. He was born in Ireland. 
 
 I'.uttertiii, Connty (nrk. wlu-re his 
 parents and two brothers survive him 
 with three sisters in this country. He 
 came to America in 1896, and was a 
 machinist by trade. 'i"he maiden name 
 lit his widow was lirid.get Devine. 
 The funeral, from St. John's Church, 
 Saturday, the nth, was attended by 
 many of his comrades, and the body 
 was buried in St. John's Cemeterv. 
 where so nianv of the "Emmets" lie. 
 
 .\T I'RHSEXT. 
 
 The following list contains the 
 names of all survivors of Company G, 
 their present addresses and vocations 
 as far as the same have been foimd. 
 Unless otherwise stated, the State is 
 Massachusetts, the place Worcester : 
 
 Captain Jeremiah J. Moynihan, jiolice- 
 man. 
 
 First Lieutenant John F. Hurley, 
 Health Department. 
 
 Second Lieutenant \\'illiam E. Mc- 
 Cann, clerk. 
 
 Sergeant Michael J. Horan. mason. 
 
 Sergeant John J. Corliss, druggist. 
 
 Sergeant William F. Casey, plumber. 
 
 Sergeant Patrick J. Moynihan, insur- 
 ance, councilman. 
 
 Sergeant Charles J. Degnan. mattress- 
 maker. 
 
 Sergeant Michael J. McCartin, con- 
 ductor. 
 
 Corporal Thomas F. Lavin, machinist. 
 
 Corporal James F. King, wire-drawer. 
 
 Corporal John T. Green, coremaker. 
 
 Corporal Frank H. Doran. moulder. 
 
 Musician Nicholas J. Skerrett. re- 
 jjorter. 
 
 Musician James A. G. Casey, moulder. 
 
 Musician Peter F. Sullivan, ticket 
 agent. 
 
 Artificer Patrick J. Sullivan, fireman. 
 
 Edward R. Barker, draughtsman. 
 
 James M. Barrett, plumber. 
 
 Michael C. Brophy, clerk. 
 
 David J. Burke, shipper, Holyoke. 
 
 Timothy J. Burns, U. S. Army. 
 
 James F. Connolly, shoemaker. 
 
 Charles S. Corcoran, engineer. St. 
 John, N. B. 
 
 Michael J. Delaney, insurance. 
 
 Dennis J. Doyle, electrician. 
 
 Frank P. Doyle, motorman. 
 
 John Farrell. coachman. 
 
 jiihn J. Fitzgerald, letter-carrier. 
 
 |nhn E. Fitzpatrick. conductor. Wel- 
 
 lesley Hills. 
 Michael J. I'lymi. brewer. 
 John E. Fogerty, moulder. 
 Frank Forrest, U. S. Army. 
 Daniel Gardner, machinist. 
 Michael F. Garrett, helper. 
 John J. (ulchrist, \J. S. .\rmy. 
 \\ illiam I'". ( ulmore, wireworker. 
 John T. (ireen. coremaker. 
 Henry (iriffin, barber. 
 Michael J. Grogan, driver. 
 Michael J. Gully, brakeman. 
 Edward F. Hackett, policeman. 
 Michael L. Hoar, janitor. 
 Frank E. Joyce, motorman. 
 Charles E. Keiuiey, mason. 
 John Larkin, motorman. 
 James F. Earner, steamfitter. 
 Frank C. Leonard, moulder. 
 John J. Liiftus. mason. 
 Edward H. Lyons, driver. 
 James J. McGrath. moulder. 
 Hu,gh McGuirc, mason. 
 Henry J. ^Fartin, machinist. 
 I*~dwar(l Murphy, driver. 
 John F. Murphy. re]3orter, Chica.go, 111. 
 Timothy J. O'Brien, mason. 
 John H. O'Calla.ghan, steamfitter. 
 Daniel \\'. O'Connor, U. S. Army. 
 Patrick J. O'Keefe, letter carrier. 
 .Anthony J. Prendergast. moulder. 
 Patrick J. Prendiville. steamfitter. 
 Robert H. Roone\-, moulder, .\'. J. 
 Patrick J. Scully, clerk, 
 lidward F. Steele, roofer. 
 
298 \\'<iKCI-:STER IN THE SPAXISII WAR. 
 
 John II. Sweeney, electrician. TlKimas ]•". Kellaher, steamfitter ; has 
 
 Henr\ 1'. Tracy, Ijarher, Llintim. been in U.S.A. 
 
 Michael I'". 1 Irailshaw, lahi.)rer. Thomas J. Kelleher, policeman. 
 
 James AI. L'arherrv. electrician. Thomas P). Kelley. salesman. 
 
 James F. Carey, beltmaker. John J. Larkin. pressman. 
 
 John H. Carroll, U.S.A. William Al. Leonard, springmaker. 
 
 Thomas F. Casey, waiter. jnhn J. .Martin, motorman. 
 
 P>ank H. Connolly, niasim; has lieen ( ierald F. McGillicnddy, buffer. 
 
 in U. S. Marines. Laurence A. ( )'Sulli\an, wond 
 Michael H. Conroy. machinist. worker. 
 
 Daniel F. Cronin, plumber, \'irginia. James F. Power, lithographer. 
 
 Arthur L. Desautelle, cook, Poston. Richard H. Powers, teamster. 
 
 Thomas T'oley, plumber. Charles F. Rice, woodworker. 
 
 Patrick J. Fleming, U.S.A. ^\'illiam J. Ixile}', clerk, TSoston. 
 
 Stephen l". Flaggertv, U..S.A. Arioul A. Shepardson, wireworker, 
 Timoth}- J. Flnrley, machinist. Clinton. 
 
 Maurice A. Keane. brewer. Patrick ¥. Shea, waiter. 
 
 Mt"STF.R-TX Roll of Comp.wv d, otii Rei-.imext of Infantry, AL\ss.\- 
 
 CHfSETTS \'ii|.r\TEERS, I.\ THE SeKNII'I-, i i I' I 1 1 ]•: L'XITEI) SrATES, FOR Two 
 
 Years fro.m ALw it, i8g8, i/nless Sdo.xer Uisch.vkckd. 
 
 [The (lata, in onk-r, cover rank, name, a,<;i.'. liirtbplaL-o and occupatinn.] 
 
 CAi'T.vrx. Ltuics V. King. 33, Montreal, Canada, 
 
 screw-cutter, 
 iilin F. Tloran, 35. Limerick, Ire., 
 mason. 
 
 first EiEUTEXAXT. John 'T. Crecu, 23, Worcester, core- 
 
 maker. 
 Frank LI. T)i)ran,2f). Worcester, moulder. 
 
 Jeremiaii J. Mnynihaii. 33, Kil'.arne_\ 
 Ire., policeman. 
 
 John ¥. Hurley, 37, Worcester, health 
 inspector. 
 
 SECOXn LiEUPEX.VXT 
 
 MliSIClAXS. 
 
 latlier. 
 
 SERCE.VNTS. 
 
 ARTIFICER. 
 
 Williatn !■;. .McCann. 42, Worcester, J^i""-^^ A. G. Casey. 24. Worcester, 
 
 moulder, 
 N'icholas J. ."^kerrett. 21. Worcester, re- 
 porter. 
 
 Michael I. Ilnran. 27. Limerick, Ire,, Peter F Sullivan. 27, Kerry, Ire., news- 
 ' dealer, 
 
 mason. 
 
 John I. Corliss. 2S. Worcester, con- 
 tractor. 
 
 William F. Casey, Jj. Worcester. Patrick J. Sullivan. 31. Kerry. Ire., fire- 
 pluml}er. man. 
 
 Patrick J. .\lo\ iiilian. t,j. Killarney, Ire., 
 
 clerk. WAGONER, 
 
 Charles J. I )egn:.n. 24, Jidinliurgh, Sc it- 
 land, mat iress-maker. 
 
 Michael J. .McCartin. 26, Lethrem 
 Ire., polisher. 
 
 John E. Casey, 31, Kerry, Ire., team- 
 ster, .M.'( ). July 14, 1S98. 
 
 l'RI\.\l ES. 
 
 coi^pi )i;.\i.s. 
 
 .Xhern. Timothy J.. 24, Cork, Ire., ma- 
 John I). .Mc.^weeney, 24, Kerry, Ire., chinist. 
 
 teamster. Darker, lulward R.. 21, iM-amingham, 
 
 Thus. I'". Lavin. 26, Worcester, spinner. draughtsman. 
 
EMMET CPARDS, COMI'ANY G. 
 
 299 
 
 Barrett. James Al., 2:1, Worcester, 
 plumber. 
 
 JSrupliy, Alichael C, 2(), Killarney, Ire., 
 teamster. 
 
 rirnsnaii. Oeorge W., 20. Xew York, 
 X. ^'.. pressman. 
 
 Burke, David ).. 2_^, Worcester, team- 
 ster. 
 
 lUirns, Timothy J., 23, Worcester, 
 grocer, 
 
 Connell)-, James I".. 34, Lowell, shoe- 
 maker. 
 
 Keimey, Charles E., 21, Worcester, 
 mason. 
 
 Larkin, John, jj. l-'itchhnrg, stage man- 
 ager. 
 
 Larner, James I-'., 2i. Worcester, steam- 
 fitter. 
 
 Leonard, iM-ank C, 23, Leicester. 
 moulder. 
 
 I.otlns. John ].. 2J:,. M.iyo. Ire., wire- 
 worker. 
 
 Lyons. Edward H.. 21. 'rii)]H-rarv. Ire., 
 pinmher. 
 
 Corcoran, Charles S., 20. Kings Co., .McCr:uh. James J.. 23. W ateriord. 
 
 No\'a Scotia, engineer 
 Creaven. John J., 30, ( ialway. Ire., wire 
 
 worker. 
 Delaney, Michael 
 
 bookkee])er. 
 Doyle. Dennis J., 24, Kerr\-. ]vv., team 
 
 ster. 
 
 machnnst. 
 .\IcCiiire, Hush, 26. Laterim, Ire., 
 
 mason. 
 I. W'orces'.cr. Mc]\I;inn, Charles, 2r, Cnderhill, \'t,, 
 
 .-chool teacher, 
 McTiernan, James F,, 22, Worcester, 
 
 lamr)-Ii''Iner. 
 
 Doyle, Frank P., 26, Kerry, Ire., mat- .Martin, llenry J,, 28, Worcester, pol- 
 tress-maker. ish-.r. 
 
 Farrell, John, 24, Rosconnnon. Ire.. .Mtn-ph\-, l-".d\\ard I-"., 2). .S|)encer, shoe- 
 moulder, cutter. 
 
 Fitzgerald, John J., 2t,. Worcester. Murphy. John F.. 22. Worcester, re- 
 plumber, porter. 
 
 Fitzpatrick, John I'].. 21, Milford, pho- Murphy, William IT.. 20. Worcester, 
 tographer. teamster. 
 
 Flynn. Michael J.. 24, Kerry, Ire., clerk. ( )'F.rien. Timolh\- J.. i<i. Worcester. 
 
 Fogerty, John F.. 22, Holyoke, moulder. wood- worker. 
 
 Forrest, Frank. 2^. Worcester, laborer. O'Callaghan. John II.. 3(1. Troy. X. V., 
 
 Ciardner, Daniel, 26. Killarnev. Ire.. steamfitter. 
 
 laborer. 
 
 Garrett, Michael F., 22. Wati'rford. Ire. 
 steam-fitter. 
 
 Gilchrist, John J., 2^. Worcester, laborer, 
 
 Gilmore, William I"., 26. Worcester, 
 laborer. 
 
 Griffin, Henry, 30, Limericls. Ire., ma- 
 chinist. 
 
 Grogan. Michael T., 2S, Worcester, 
 'buffer. 
 
 Gully, Michael J.. 24. Worcester, jiol- 
 isher. 
 
 Hackett. Edward F.. 20, \\'orcester, 
 painter. 
 
 Healy, Michael J.. 24, Kerry, Ire., 
 laborer. 
 
 Hoar, Michael L,, 31, Worcester, in- 
 spector. 
 
 Joyce, Frank E., 22. Worcester, motor- 
 man. 
 
 Keegan. John F., 2^. Worcester, 
 moulder. 
 
 O'Connor, Daniel \\'., 23, Grafton, 
 wire-worker. 
 
 O'Kcefe. Patrick J., 33. flrafton. letter 
 carrier. 
 
 Prendercfast. .\ti:lionv T.. 2^^. Mayo. Ire., 
 moulder. 
 
 Prendiville. Patrick J., 2-,. Palmer. 
 steamfitter. 
 
 i\oone\, Robert H.. 2r,. Worcester, 
 moulder. 
 
 Scully. Patrick ].. 2^. Worcester, drug- 
 gist. 
 
 Steele. lulward I-".. 2^. Worcester, roole . 
 
 Sullivan, Edward I'., 24. Shrewsbury, 
 thread-winder. 
 
 Sullivan, Henry. 2-,. Wiiichendon, mar- 
 tress-maker. 
 
 Sullivan, Peter F. 
 
 Sweeney. John H.. 20. Worcester, con- 
 ductor. 
 
 Tracv, Henrv P., 26, Bovlston. barber. 
 
300 
 
 WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Recruits to Company "G" who were Haggerty, Stephen F., 20, Worcester. 
 
 mustered in July 1st and I2th, 1898, for 
 three years, etc., and were mustered ou: 
 with the Cumpan)- in Xovcniljer follow- 
 ing: 
 
 Allen, Walter, 21, Thompsonville, Conn., 
 wire-worker. 
 
 Bennett, Peter H., 24, Worcester, bult'er. 
 
 Bradshaw, ^lichael F., 26, Worcester, 
 machinist. 
 
 Carbcrry, James Al., 2~,, Worcester, ma- 
 chinist. 
 
 waiter. 
 Hurley, Timothy J., 24, Worcester, 
 
 teamster. 
 Keane, Maurice A., 21, Kerry, Ire., 
 
 laborer. 
 Kellev, Thos. B., 29, ^^'orcester. clerk. 
 Kellaher, Thomas F., 21, Worcester, 
 
 spoke-maker. 
 Kelleher, Thomas J., 2S. Kerry, Ire., 
 
 painter. 
 Kennedy, David J., 33, Hardwick, ship- 
 ping clerlv. 
 „ ^ „ ,,- r , T Larkin, John 1.. 2:;, Worcester, armorer. 
 
 Carey, James F., 21, U aterford. Ire., Leonard, Willian; Ai., 2S. Worcester, 
 
 belt-maker. . ^^,^^i^^ 
 
 Carroll, John H., 21, Worcester, laborer. MeGiUicuddv, Gerald F., 23, Worcester, 
 Casey, lh..mas h., 23, Ashton, R. I., skate-maker 
 
 barber 
 
 Alartin, John ]., 28, Taxton, laborer. 
 
 Coftey, Joseph -M.. 24, New Haven, Q'Sullivan, Laurence A., 2S, Worcester, 
 Conn., japanner. I,i_.^,„-, polisher. 
 
 Connolly, Frank II., 38, Lowell, stone- p,-,^^.^,^ j.^„,,,^ p_^ ,rj, Worcester, case 
 mason. har<rer.er. 
 
 Conroy, Michael II., 22. Worcester, ma- Po^^-crs. Richard H., 27, Detroit, Alich., 
 chinist. cool, 
 
 Cronin, Daniel E., 24, Worcester, j^^^ Charles F.. 23, ^^'orcester, wood- 
 plumber, worker. 
 
 Desautelle, Arthur L., 32, St. John, rj],,,.^ William T-. 25, Worcester, bonk- 
 Canada, cook. keeper 
 
 Flemin-, Patrick J., 21, Waterford, Ire., s^ea. Patrick F., 21, Kerry, Ire., buffer, 
 
 spinner. Shepardsun, Arioul A., 25, Worcester. 
 
 I'"olcy, Thnmas, 23, W(ircester, plumber. mechanic. 
 
h'.MMKI' CUARDS, C().M1'AN\' C. 
 
 301 
 
 THE EMMET HOXoRARl I'.S. 
 
 Almost coincident with the sound of 
 war's alarms, came the increased activ- 
 ity of the band of men who for years 
 had acted as friends in need of the cit- 
 izen soldiers. They had aided in the 
 payment of extra bills when necessary, 
 they had helped out on anniversary 
 and public occasions, but now the time 
 was approaching when they nnist 
 stand in the breaches develojied by the 
 departure of the active conijiany fur 
 the front. 
 
 The honorary records for this ]k'- 
 riod, in the handwriting of the Sec- 
 retary, William J. Tansey, give a 
 graphic picture of the disposition of 
 these friends of the soldier when he 
 was called to leave his home and re- 
 sponsibilities. The first date in the 
 volume is that of March 31, wlun at 
 9 p.m., apparently in the Armory, the 
 assembly was called to order by 
 Captain Moynihan : John J. Riordan 
 was made temporarA- chairman, and 
 William J- Tansey secretary pro loin. 
 Later tlic same officers were made 
 ]icrnianenl with the addition of Dr. 
 Cieorge McAleer, vice-president: Lieu- 
 tenant James Early, treasurer. Di- 
 rectors were also appointed in the per- 
 sons of Richard O'Flynn, J. F. iMtz- 
 gerald. Paul Henry. J- Frank Ouinn, 
 and Philip J. O'Conncll. An assess- 
 ment of five dollars on each member 
 gave an air of earnestness to the occa- 
 sion. 
 
 The next meeting was on the eve of 
 departure, viz., May 3d, when it was 
 voted that the honoraries should turn 
 out to do escort duty on the Com- 
 pan\"'s going to Framingham, the next 
 day. A tribute to the services of Col. 
 F.'W. Wellington, in the addition 
 of the "Emmets" to the State militia. 
 was paid in the proposition that ho 
 should be the chief marshal in the 
 parade. This proposition on the part 
 of Lieutenant Early met the the ap- 
 proval of all. Captain Moynihan was 
 received and spoke on the coming 
 ordeal, as also did Lieutenant Hurley. 
 
 Jeremiah Murphy told of the Civil 
 War days and of the probable demands 
 to be made on the health ;ind energy- 
 of the men. 
 
 Later in the evening, Colonel Wel- 
 lington came in and sjjoke of the in- 
 terest he had ever had in the '"Em- 
 mets." On the motion of Mr. David 
 Goggin a Relief Committee to look 
 out for the families of departing sol- 
 diers was appointed, consisting of M. 
 n. Lamb, David Goggin. J. IL Mur- 
 |)hy. W. H. Toner and \\ . j. Tansey. 
 The i)resident of the honoraries, Mr. 
 Riordan, was added as chairman ex- 
 officio of the coinmittee. 
 
 The honoraries did escort duty as 
 contemplated, but they did not meet 
 again till the very last morning in the 
 mouth, when they came together in 
 the Council chamber of the City Hall, 
 their mission to determine in what 
 maimer the passage of the Company 
 through the city should be observed, 
 ami it was voted to give the boys 
 money rather than a lunch. On the 
 motion of Dr. George Mc.-Meer, sec- 
 onded by Mr. Richard Healy, it was 
 voted that a subscription |)aper be cir- 
 culated then and there, with the result 
 that $250 was raised at once, the list 
 being headed by the name of Mr. 
 Heaiy with the sum of one hundred 
 dollars affixed: nor did generosity end 
 here, for, through the passing of a hat, 
 twelve dollars was secured for the 
 procuring of pipes and tobacco for the 
 "boys." Then, beyond all this, the or- 
 ganization assessed itself five dollars 
 per ca])ita for the good of the soldiers 
 and their dependencies. 
 
 Thenceforward the records of the 
 honoraries are really those of the Re- 
 lief Committee, which for the most 
 part met in the music store of Mr. 'SI. 
 r<. Lamb, and at frequent intervals. 
 .\n\ one contributing five dollars or 
 more to the relief fund was voted an 
 honorary member of the corps. As a 
 starter in the matter of giving, one 
 hundred dollars was voted to the Vol- 
 
302 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Wm 
 
 Wm 
 J. '1'ansey. 
 
 H. Toner. Johk H. M urphv. I)av id Coggin. 
 
 Tatruk J. McManus. J. J. Kiordan. M. H.r.AMii. 
 
 THE ■•MONL'AI'K" COMMITTEE, "KMMET" HI ).\( )KA Kl ES. 
 
 iinteer Aid Sucicty: at the same tinu-.a 
 vigilant eye was kept npnw tiie wants 
 and needs <if the "Emmet" famiHes, 
 such action l)einf;; taken on June 1st. 
 One week from that date, contribu- 
 tions toward the fund amounted to 
 $714, in which were not iuchuled the 
 loans of carriatjes, etc.. in the raisiuL;' 
 of the foret^oinp: sum. thanks for the 
 same goinf;^ to ."^Ir. Ji>hn 1'. McDonnell 
 for his "generosity in this direction. 
 The records for several weeks wert' for 
 the most ])art statements of relii-f af- 
 forded to different families. 
 
 hi Jiil\ the committee aidvd in the 
 success of the famous l.awu ])arty 
 i,nven 1)\ the Ladies' .\u\iliar\', and in 
 main \\a\s contriluited to the well- 
 hein^- of people who .itherwise had 
 suffered. Ill .\u.mist came the services 
 of the corps in securing i)roper ob- 
 servance of soldiers' funerals, thence- 
 forward to be entirely too fre(|uent. 
 Tile arri\al of the "I''mmets" at .\Ion- 
 tauk broU!.;lH coiiiparatixely near the 
 committee the chief cause of its exist- 
 
 ence, and iie\er for a moment was 
 there an\' abatement of effort to help 
 and forward their interests. .\rran,s;e- 
 ments for the jirojier reception of the 
 (.'oiupany. the disposal of territory for 
 \olunteer physicians and nurses, and 
 m.iuv other items were all considered 
 and acted upon bv this same commit- 
 tee. The visit of the committee to 
 .Mouta.uk gave to it for war annals the 
 ap|iellation of the "Montauk Commit- 
 tee." September 1st, Katharine John- 
 s, ,11 li:id volunteered to act as a nurse, 
 ,iii<l hers is the first name on the list. 
 
 .\t suliseqnent meetings there were 
 conferences with the physicians who 
 had volunteered to help the soldiers on 
 their arrival in Worcester, and the 
 names of additional nurses were re- 
 cei\ed. Later there were votes to send 
 lloral tributes to the funerals of de- 
 ci'ased soldiers and to designate rep- 
 resentati\es of the corps to attend in 
 person. .\s time advanced, after the 
 return of the men, meetings assumed 
 rathertheforinofapi)roving and paying 
 
EMMKT (U'AUDS, t'tlMI'ANV G 
 
 .■?o;{ 
 
 ^^ih 
 
 Dr. Thos. a. O'Callaghan. 
 Dr. \Vm. J. Delahanty. 
 
 Dr. John W. .McKoa.n*. 
 Dr. Timothy J. Foley. 
 
 \T)LrXTEER PITVSICI.WS AT MOXT.M'K. 
 
 bills, which were numerous, for whose 
 defrayal there always seemed to be 
 enough. November 25 was nearin.q 
 the end of the many assemblages ni 
 the committee. .\t this one Presi- 
 dent Riordan stated that they had met 
 once a week ever since their organiza- 
 tion, and during the stay of the Com- 
 panv at Alontauk, every night, and 
 that to the best of their ability they 
 had discharged the duties laid' upon 
 them. At this time gratitude was ex- 
 pressed to the many persons and or- 
 ganizations that had contributed to 
 the success of their work. In this list 
 were included the names of Senator 
 George F. Hoar, Rev. Father D. F. 
 
 .McCillicuddy. Colonel !•'. W. W'eliing- 
 tcin. Martin I!. Russell, who went to 
 ■Mnniauk to represent the committee, 
 .-md finally to all who had in anv way 
 contributed to the good work. Messrs. 
 T. J. Mc.Vulifte. J." J. Moynihan. J. J. 
 Riordan and William J. Tansey were 
 appointed a sul)-conimittee to see 
 aI)out ])lacing in the .\rmory a tablet 
 bearing the names of those who liad 
 died during the war. a consummation 
 not as yet attained. The memorial 
 services, held in St. John's Church. 
 Februarv 22(\. iSik), were under the 
 aus])ices of the committee and were of 
 a fitting character. The last meeting 
 recorded in the annals bears date Jime 
 
304 
 
 WOIU l-:SIER I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 12. 1901). anil therein we learn that 
 from all sources the honoraries had 
 collected $1427.65, and that there was 
 a balance remaining of $191.76, which 
 sum it was voted to turn into the treas- 
 ury of the Honorary Corps. The final 
 act in this chapter was the readino- of 
 a highly eulogistic story of the ser- 
 vices to the cause of John J. Riordan, 
 whij had recently died. No one can 
 tell how much his services during the 
 trying pt-riod of the war may have con- 
 
 lril)uted to his untimely death. Dr. 
 ( ieorge McAleer, the memorialist, ac- 
 quitted himself most admirably, and 
 never had reader a better subject. As 
 a singular appendix to the foregoing, 
 the secretarj' of the committee, W'il- 
 liam J. Tansey, has also joined the 
 great majority, and, with the "Em- 
 mets" bevond, contemplates the lives 
 and deeds of those still this side of the 
 divide. 
 
 LADIES' AUXILIARY TO THE EMMET GUARDS. 
 
 True to their womanly natures, the 
 lady friends of the "Emmets" early 
 united in an effort to make happier the 
 lives of the men themselves, and, where 
 necessary, the homes that they had 
 left. While manv of the auxiliary were 
 related to the soldiers, there were 
 others whose sole interest in the cause 
 arose from their innate desire to work 
 for the cause of God and humanity. 
 The work that these young women ac- 
 complished in the few months of their 
 organization was remarkable, and 
 they fully merited the gratitude which 
 every soldier felt towards them. Erom 
 the records of the secretary, it is pos- 
 sible to glean certain interesting facts 
 concerning their work in this summer 
 of anxiety and grief. 
 
 .Starting in June, 1898, it is stated 
 that the jM-iniary object of the organi- 
 zation was to make comfort bags and 
 abdominal bands for the men at the 
 front, furnishings for the hospital 
 ships and necessities for sick and 
 wounded soldiers. Meetings were 
 lu-ld two rwuings in the week at 98 
 I'ront .'-Street, in the Knights of Robert 
 E.nunet 1 lall. Three members, Mrs. 
 r. II. .Murphy, .Mrs. J. F. Hurley and 
 Mrs. r. J. Moynilian, were designated 
 to represent the auxiliary in the Sol- 
 diers' Aid .Association, whose o])ject 
 was the help of the soldier, irres|)ective 
 of race or creed. These ladies spent 
 a part of each day at the rooms of the 
 .Soldiers' .\id. cutting, sewing, etc., 
 until the work in hancl was accom- 
 plisherl. The gi'eater p;irt of the mate- 
 rial used li\' the auxiliar\- was fur- 
 
 nished b}- the Soldiers' .\id, but the 
 former gave thread, binding, buttons, 
 tape and labor for the articles made. 
 The accomplishments of the organiza- 
 tion in this line were seventy-seven 
 abdominal bands, just the number of 
 the original "Emmets;" eighty com- 
 fort liags, for the same company ; 
 twenty dozen sheets, for the hospital 
 ships, twenty dozen pillow cases, and 
 twentv-five mosquito nettings, also 
 for the ships. 
 
 ^^'ith this record of lal>or behind 
 them, the auxiliary set aljout raising 
 money for the soldiers and their fami- 
 lies, for which purpose properly ar- 
 ranged small books were given certain 
 members for the entry of the names of 
 givers. This was soon found to be a 
 \ erv slow and humiliating; system, 
 since so many causes were afield that 
 the returns in no way were equal to 
 the effort, though something more 
 than eighty dollars was thus secured. 
 That greater results might be at- 
 tained, feminine effort was directed 
 towards entertainments wdTich might 
 attract the public, and, under the guise 
 of rendering an equivalent for funds 
 received, gather larger sums of money 
 for the cause. 
 
 .\o military campaign was ever more 
 cari'fully planned than that which re- 
 snltt'd in the lawn party given on the 
 grounds of St. Stephen's Church, July 
 27111. AMth perfect weather and a 
 generous, [)atriotic company, one even- 
 ing's harvest garnered more than an 
 all summer's canvass would have pro- 
 duced. There was entertainment for 
 
KMMKT C.rAUns. CdMl'ANV G. 
 
 305 
 
 Miss Abbie I. Heffren. 
 Secretary. 
 
 Mary E. Fitzgerald. 
 President. 
 
 Mrs. William (ioodwin. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 all. Both sexes and all ages were 
 equally cared for. There was food for 
 the mind and for the body, with di- 
 versions for the eyes. ears, hands and 
 feet. Evidently all had come to the 
 festivities with the longest purses in 
 their possessions, since the summing 
 up of money received made a large 
 average for all present. 
 
 From 8 to 9.30 o'clock p.m.. there 
 was a literary and musical entertain- 
 ment in the church hall, wdierein the 
 musical parts were taken by Miss 
 Madge Feehan. Mr. Jnhn Roberts. 
 Miss ^lary Lynch. Miss May I'.utler, 
 Miss Mary Cove. Mrs. William Hef- 
 fren. and Mr. hihn Reardon. Mr. Wil- 
 liam Collins played the banjo, while 
 Miss Margaret Sullivan and Harry 
 Foley gave readings, every eftort se- 
 curing deserved applause. Then fol- 
 lowed the terpsichorean diversion 
 upon a platform under a i)avilion, 
 where, to the music of Coburn's or- 
 chestra, the "light fantastic'" was 
 tripped till after 12.30 of the following 
 morning; for did feet ever weary when 
 
 "Music arose with its voluptuous swell"? 
 
 There were some who did not care 
 for the dancing, and for them there was 
 prepared a hurdy-gurdy entertainment 
 by certain misses in the guise of Ital- 
 ian flower girls, as remote from the 
 strains of the dance music as the 
 grounds would permit. Then there 
 
 was the White House Cafe Drum 
 Cor|>s, which pounded out most fitting 
 martial music from their sheepskin 
 covered instnmients. Everywhere and 
 al all times there were tn be ha<l, f'>r 
 comi)ensalion. most excellent refresh- 
 ments consisting of ice cream, cake, 
 candy, lemonade, popcorn, all sorts of 
 non-intoxicating beverages, souvenirs 
 and flowers to the limit of every ])urse, 
 as was evident in the grand summing 
 up, which netted $608.48. Seldom has 
 labor been better rewarded than on 
 this occasion. The result indicated 
 not onlv the best of planning and ex- 
 ecution, but also the most |)atriotic 
 imptilses on the part of those who at- 
 tended and so swelled the receipts. 
 
 In the list of sub-committees might 
 be found nearly every name in the 
 auxiliary, for it was evidently an as- 
 sociation of workers, each one vying 
 with her neighbor to do her utmost. 
 The society's -President was Miss 
 Mary E. Fitzgerald: the Secretary, 
 Miss Abbie 1. Hetfren. and the Treas- 
 urer. Mrs. William Cioodwin. Thus 
 excellently officered, the record of the 
 organization was a proud one. The 
 funds secured at the lawn ])arty were 
 disbursed as follows : to the Soldiers' 
 Aid Society. $125: to the "Emmets" 
 in Cuba, Sioo: to the recruits in Camp 
 Alger, $50: to needy families, S56: the 
 remainder w-as passed over to the 
 Honorary Corps for work among the 
 
306 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Miss Ella A. Monahan. 
 Miss May E. Delanev. 
 
 Miss Ansa M. Delanev. 
 Miss Minnie O'Ciokm an. 
 
 \'( )LUNTEER NI'RSES. 
 
 needy ami < itlici'wise. accnrdiiin- to the 
 corps' jlul.Ljmeiit. After tlle return ni 
 the soldiers fnini their t."uhan eam- 
 paiijn. eerlain ladies of the nienilier- 
 ship joined in xisiting- the invalids and 
 rcportinj; their eon<lition to the Sol- 
 diers' Aid and to the Jlonorary Corps. 
 For masses in behalf of the men who 
 died, the auxiliary assumed the ex- 
 pense and also attended the services. 
 
 In their rt-cords the society names 
 the parties who were conspicuous for 
 their t^nvint,' to the cause, and among 
 them should he mentioned the Rev. 
 Father Mc(iillicuddy of St. Stephen's 
 Church, who donated the use of the 
 grounds for the lawn ])arty, as well as 
 
 tables, church hall, dishes, etc.; Clark, 
 Savvver Co.. for the loan of drinking 
 glasses: Coburn's orchestra, for music; 
 William J. Tansey, who gave the bev- 
 erages for the occasion ; Washington 
 Social Club, for decorations, and tlie 
 Consolidated Street Railway, for ac- 
 commodations. Nor should the devo- 
 tion of Afessrs. John Foley and Timo- 
 tliy Sullivan be forgotten, since, on the 
 night of the jiarty, they hired a hurdy- 
 gurdv and perambulated the streets 
 till nearly midnight, thereby being 
 able to turn over to the hands of the 
 fair ]iatriots abo\'e fort}-tive dollars 
 to help swell the net proceeds. From 
 Jerome Alarble & Co. they received a 
 
i:mmi-;i' c.uards, comi'anv g 
 
 .'507 
 
 Miss UuopA I.. KNArr. 
 
 \()LUNTEER 
 
 large number of sponges to be sent to 
 the boys in Camp Alger, P. J. Judge 
 donated the printing incident to their 
 canvassing books, while the Robert 
 Emmet Hall was given by its 
 Knightly occupants. Its work ac- 
 complished, the auxiliary disbaudcd 
 February 9th, 1899. 
 
 For the sake of history and the in- 
 terest in the story which must ever be 
 fresh, the names of the members of the 
 auxiliary are appended: Misses Lizzie 
 Brosnaii, Bridie and Katie Cahill. 
 Minnie Carney, Mrs. Casavan, Misses 
 Mamie Casey, Teresa Clafi'ey, Katie 
 Clemens. Jane Coligan. Jennie Connol- 
 ly, Mrs. "j. J. Corliss. Misses Katie 
 Crowe, Mary" CuUinane, Eunice Bar- 
 ney, Mamie Deedy.Mary Degnan.Mrs. 
 Jas. Degnan. Mrs. Frank Doyle, Mrs. 
 N. Earle, :\Iisses Mary E. Fitzgerald, 
 
 Miss .-Vlick G. McCioURTY. 
 NURSKS. 
 
 Josie Flynn, Kate. Margaret and Sarah 
 I'lilan, .Statia Garrett, Teresa Gilmore, 
 Mrs. William Goodwin, Misses Mary 
 Greene, Julia Hackett, Josephine 
 Hartnette, Abbie I. Hctifrcn. Mrs. Wil- 
 liam llettren, Mrs. J. !•". Hurley, 
 Misses Margaret Kiley, Xora Larkin, 
 Katie and 5lary A. Leonard. Mrs. 
 James McGrath, Misses Sarah Mc- 
 Tartland, Ellen McTiernan, Anna and 
 .Mary Mahony, Margaret and Teresa 
 Martin, Margaret Millea. Kate and 
 Mary Monahan, Mrs. I'. J. Moynihan, 
 Misses Julia. Kate and Margaret 
 Murphy. Mrs. P. H. Muriihy. Misses 
 Xellic O'Toole. Mamie and Nellie 
 Russell. Margaret Scannell, Nellie 
 SluTJdan, Mary Sullivan. Margaret 
 Sweeney, Josie. }^Iaggie and Minnie 
 Powers, Minnie Thompson, Mrs. B. 
 L. Tromblev and Miss Alarv Walsh. 
 
308 
 
 \\i)K(i;STEK IX THE SrANISH WAR. 
 
 VOLUNTEERS' AID ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Major E. T. Kavmond, I'lc^ident. 
 
 'J"hc departure of Wnrcester soldiers 
 for the South, and the passasje of those 
 from other states through Worcester, 
 earlv aroused her citizens to tlie neces- 
 sity of raising funds for meeting ex- 
 penses sure to arise in many ways not 
 imnie(Hately provide<l for by the State 
 and nation. In com])Hance with a call, 
 the first meeting of citizens for organ- 
 ization was in the Board of Trade 
 Hall, at S p.m.. May 27tli, 1898- I"i''>"i 
 this inception grew the association 
 known as above, whose ministrations, 
 extending over more than five months, 
 resulted in the collecting and expend- 
 ing of above nine thousand dollars, 
 thus conferring unnund)ered blessings 
 on homes and in<li\iduals otherwise 
 left to sutl'er. 
 
 The association was officered as fol- 
 lows: President, Major I-'.. T. Ray- 
 mond; Vice-president. Kew .\. S.(iar- 
 ver; Secretarv, Carl llonuey; Treas- 
 urer, Halleck' I'.artlett, all of whom 
 with the lion. Sleiihen Salisbury, Gen- 
 eral A. 1'.. R. Sprague and Dr. T. J. 
 
 Barrett, constituted an Executive Com- 
 mittee. A Finance Committee was ap- 
 pointed having a single representative 
 from each ward, as follows: Ward I, 
 Frank 1.. Dean: Ward 2. John J. Rior- 
 dan ; Ward v William I. McLoughlin ; 
 Ward 4, Phdiii J. ( )'Connell: Ward 5, 
 Matthew P.. Paml); Ward 6, Colonel 
 F. 1. Russell ; Ward 7, Mayor Rufus R. 
 Dodge. Jr. ; Ward 8, R. James Tatman. 
 The .\uditing Committee of three 
 memliers comprised Alessrs. Edwin 
 I'.rown. lames P. Hamilton and 
 Samuel E." Winslow. The Relief Com- 
 mittee had four members from each 
 ward and the people thus designated 
 were: \\'aid I, Cajitain A. A. White, 
 Charles E. Grant, Mrs. James Logan, 
 Mrs. Marv H. Purr: Ward 2. Captain 
 P. L. Rider, |. P. Shattuck, Mrs. Chas. 
 if. Piukham." Mrs. V. W. Wellington: 
 Ward 3, Julius C. Zaeder, James F. 
 (iuerin,' Aliss FTances M. Athy. Miss 
 Evelvn Munroe; Ward 4, A. .\. Rheu- 
 lan. 'Patrick ( )'Dav, Mrs. P. IP Mur- 
 phv, Mrs. T. F. Boyle; Ward 5. J. B. 
 Stone, F, O. Dahlquist, Mrs. Charles 
 H. Hall, ]\Iiss I. M. Cromi)ton ; Ward 
 (), 1. Swan Brown, David Goggin, Mrs. 
 William L. Rol)inson, Mrs, E. I. Co- 
 mins; Ward 7. Richard Healy, Capt. 
 Horace Hobbs, Mrs. H. .\. Knowles, 
 Mrs. R. B. Dodge, Jr. : Ward 8, Lieu- 
 tenant H. .\. |(ihnsou. General Josiah 
 Pickett, Mrs.' .\. M. Parker, Miss 
 Frances M, Linccdn. 
 
 The regular meetings of the associ- 
 ation were held in the hall of the 
 Board of Traile, such use having been 
 generouslv donated through the Pres- 
 ident, Mr' I. E. Comins, who was also 
 the "at large" mend)er of the Relief 
 Committee. .\t the very hrst meeting 
 after organization. June y\. letters of- 
 fering services and aid were received 
 from several bodies, while the first 
 o-ift in the way of material assistance 
 came in the shape of a check for $100 
 from the "Flmmet" honoraries. 
 
VOLIINTEKKS AID ASSOCI ATIDX. 
 
 309 
 
 June 7th the Relief Committee met 
 and organized with AFiss Frances M. 
 Lincoln as president, and Mrs. Charles 
 H. Pinkham, secretary. The rooms of 
 the A\'orcester Employment Society 
 were offered for the use of the commit- 
 tee in its labors. As the committee 
 had the power of adding names to its 
 list, at a subsequent meeting these 
 were voted in. viz. : Ward i. Mrs. I.. A. 
 Ely, Mrs. Helen DeCamp : Ward 2. 
 Mr. Geo. F. Tdake, Mrs. H. .'^. I'ratt: 
 Ward 3, Dr. J. H. Kelley. Miss .\ora 
 Ready; Ward 4, Hon. F. A. Harring- 
 ton, Mrs. O'Toole : Ward 5, Richard 
 H. Moonev. Mrs. Willard^F. Fond; 
 Ward 6, Theodore P. Frown, Mrs. 
 George H. \\'ard ; \\'ar(l 7, ( )sgood 
 Plummer, ]Mrs. John Legg; Ward 8, 
 F. M. Clark, Jr", Mrs. ■" George E. 
 Francis. 
 
 At this time it would be difficult to 
 state just who were the i)rime movers 
 in the plan of an association for the 
 purpose of looking after the interests 
 of all the volunteers and their fami- 
 lies, but the expected passage of a 
 Maine regiiuent through the city on 
 the 27th may have brought matters to 
 a focus, since it was on the vi'ry night 
 of said incident that the meeting for 
 organization came. The \\ oman's 
 Relief Corps of Worcester, in their 
 efiforts to properly receive the Maine 
 boys, had taken the south store in the 
 State Mutual building, and with ac- 
 customed zeal were working luost vig- 
 orouslv. There were above thirty of 
 these patri(3tic women who were see- 
 ing to it that the proverbial hospital- 
 ity of the Heart of the Commonwealth 
 should sutter no disparagement if in 
 their power to prevent. The)- were an 
 already organized body and for many a 
 day it had been theirs to look out for 
 the creature wants of the "Boys in 
 Blue." Under the efficient direction 
 of their President, the late Mrs. Mary H. 
 Burr, they presented a scene of earnest 
 activity delightful to contem])late. 
 From some sources always open to 
 them, they had developed the means 
 to secure large quantities of food and 
 now they were preparing it for "hand- 
 outs." In the midst of the hurly- 
 burly. Captain Charles H. Pinkham, 
 the husband of one of the hardest 
 
 workers in the corps, noticing the 
 bustle in the hitherto unoccui)icd 
 space, made bold to enter and to ask 
 the cause thereof. To his susceptible 
 mind the answer was sufficient, for he 
 proceeded at once to lend a hand, in 
 that he stationed himself near the door 
 on the street, and all parties fortu- 
 nate in his intimate acfpiaintance were 
 held up for a contribution to the merit- 
 orious object: and so well did he ply 
 his avocation that in a very short in- 
 terval he was able to turn over to the 
 ladies more than forty dollars. The 
 ]>ractical character of the Pinkham 
 famih' is e\-ident in the fact that a 
 little later Mrs. Pinkham, who had 
 been on a similar quest, was able to 
 add five dollars to the masculine gifts. 
 For the lads froiu the Pine Tree Slate 
 tlirrr were made ready 300 loaves of 
 l)read, -'500 doughnuts, several cheeses, 
 with hams, butter and mustard neces- 
 sary to reduce the mass to the shajie 
 of toothsome sandwiches. h'rom lite 
 Creaiuerie restaurant on Pleasant 
 Street had been ordered no gallons of 
 priiue coffee, and before 6 p.m. the 
 work was all in shai)e for the travel- 
 ers. Then a]i])eared the wagniis of 
 C'aK'in Farnsworth, and the loi>d was 
 transported gratuitously to the Cnion 
 Station. 
 
 It was not till one o'clock in the 
 luorning of the next day, on the 28lh, 
 that the first section of the northern 
 train drew into the station, hence the 
 wait had been long, but all was in 
 readiness for a quick exchange. An 
 engine and a baggage car were in com- 
 mission and the goods, ready for pass- 
 ing over, were there, and by running 
 alongside the waiting train it was 
 easy to pass over the needful. Mayor 
 Dodge and Halleck Barlletl were in 
 control of the affair and everything 
 worked admirably. Xotwithstanding 
 the unseasonable hour, more than a 
 thousand people were in waiting and 
 a large part of them remained till the 
 last section was entertained, and this 
 was not till after two o'clock. Hardly 
 had the first section had its fill when 
 the second appeared, to be followed, as 
 above, by the third, when all the Maine 
 bovs were happily speeded on their 
 wav to Chickamauga. Xor was all the 
 
310 
 
 WORCESTER I\ THE SPAMSH WAR 
 
 feeding' done hy the orjjanized relief. 
 since there were many friends and rel- 
 atives in the city who came down to 
 find and remember their own: among 
 them a mother with a box and can of 
 cofifee for her son, her sixty-five years 
 being no barrier to late hours. Captain 
 P. L. Rider of the Light Infantry also 
 came along to find if Portland had not 
 sent some of her boys, flight Infantry- 
 men, and so kindred to the Worcester 
 soldiers. It was a wide-awake com- 
 panv. even though the hour was "wee 
 and sma\" and it was quite natural 
 that some one shiiuld shout, as the 
 train was drawing out, "Remember the 
 jMaine," and the gallant boys from the 
 Dirigo State answered merrily. "You 
 bet we will." What a pity that the 
 fortunes of war did nut carry these 
 soldiers to the scenes of hostility. 
 
 Realizing that the raising of funds 
 was the chief object of existence, the 
 aid association lost no time in getting 
 to work, and all Imnorable nietlnjds 
 were resorteil to. Ministers jjreached 
 in their respective pul])its on the needs 
 of the hour. and collections were taken ; 
 money came frmii xnhuiteers and from 
 the solicited, and all surts of entertain- 
 ments were gi\-en to help along the 
 cause. Among the latter especially 
 notable was the concert in ^lechanics 
 Hall, June Kith, when the I'estival 
 chorus bore the majtir ])art in one of 
 the finest outbursts nf song that even 
 that music-laden ])lace ever experi- 
 enced. The Worcester Pirass Band 
 was there and Charles H. Crout drew 
 on the idlini;ilc resources of the great 
 organ, while .\rthur J. Bassett and 
 Walter B. Paton were the pianists. 
 The programme was patriotic through- 
 out, the excellent solo ])arts being ren- 
 dered l)y J.imes H. Cafferty. Mrs. 
 Daniel Pownev, Mrs. Henrv V. Har- 
 ris, Dr. Paul' C. W. Dufault. .Mrs. 
 Dorathy McTaggart- Miller, and Miss 
 Flora Provan. It was when the mighty 
 chorus began "Americn." and the audi- 
 ence forgot 1(] rise, that a woman rose 
 in her place and with a wave of her 
 handkerchief, as it were, bade the peo- 
 ple stand. .She w;is obeyed with an 
 alacrity that s]ioke \-olunies for the ap- 
 preciation of the listeners. The Festi- 
 val chorus at other times mav ha\-e 
 
 rendered more classic music than that 
 sung on this occasion, but never did 
 song touch more responsive chords. 
 The "music in the air" was that of 
 the nation's "mighty, faithful heart." 
 The next money-getting ])lan was 
 that of a tableau evening in Salis- 
 bury's Hall, under the direction of 
 John C. Heywood, Charles S. Hale 
 and Halleck Bartlett. The date was 
 June 23d. and the audience all that the 
 most sanguine could ask. Eager, in- 
 tent and appreciative, the people con- 
 tributed not a little to increasing the 
 relief fund. The tablcuii.r z'ivants and 
 the living pictures made an evening of 
 pleasure to this day recalled by many. 
 The displav of each scene, i. e., the 
 parting of the curtains, was most ef- 
 fecti\-elv accomplished by two diminu- 
 tive lads in white page costumes. Mas- 
 ters Henshaw Dewey and Thomas 
 (ireene. while the real dramatis pcr- 
 xoiiac of the charming evening were 
 Misses Dorothy and Rose Lincoln, 
 Edith and Nancy Barton, Mildred 
 Sargent, Florence Heywood, Ethel 
 Bartlett, Helen White, Rosamond 
 Mitchell, Mary Brooks, Helen Gould- 
 ing. Catherine Bent. Clive Mason. 
 Maude Arms))}'. Mary Morgan. Amy 
 P)ro\vn. Mary and Katharine lUitler, 
 Edith Baldwin, Emily Eaton, Edith 
 Hamilton, Edgeworth Whittall. Emily 
 Richardson. Mrs. Saiiuiel 1',. W inslow, 
 Mrs. Homer Gage. Mr. Richard Mitch- 
 ell, Masters Chester and Philip Hey- 
 wood. 
 
 I'dsewhere in this \olume mention 
 has l)een made of the innnense box of 
 g(_iod things which the citizens brought 
 together at the Armor\- and which 
 .\rmorer (ieorge tlubbard packed for 
 the boys, the same going to Florida, 
 and on whose nearly one ton's weight 
 the express was above $135. There- 
 after it was thought best to send 
 monev direct rather than use so much 
 in paving transportation. 
 
 Well along in July, Mrs. T. B. F. 
 Boland inaugurated a hai>py move- 
 ment in enlisting the fingers and en- 
 ergies of the Lamartine vacation 
 school children in the making or fold- 
 ing of surgical sponges, Alan)' of the 
 children had relatives in the service 
 and their assistance was all the more 
 
VOI.UXTEERS AID ASSOCIATION. 
 
 311 
 
 readily secured, and with song and rec- 
 itation of the leading' events of the 
 strife, they made the work speed right 
 merrily. 
 
 Perhaps the event of all. during the 
 war period, for raising cash and at the 
 same time interesting a large number 
 of people, was the baseball game 
 played at the Oval, July 22d, between 
 the doctors and the lawyers. The 
 teams as they were ranged against 
 each other were as follows: for the 
 ^sculapians, F. H. liaker. 11. S. 
 Knight, E. H. Trowbridge, H. W. 
 Cronin, T. J. Foley, R. d! Small. C. B. 
 Stevens, F. A. L'nderwc" id. T- I- Raf- 
 ferty, J. H. Kelley, j. \V. \McKoan, 
 eleven in all, for the situation de- 
 manded two first basemen and two 
 pitchers. The legal lights were J. E. 
 Sullivan. \\'ebster Thaver, R. A. Stew- 
 art, W. E. Sibley, H. L. Parker. J. F. 
 Jandron. Rol)ert \\'ashburn. Rock- 
 wood Hoar. H. S. Haskell. In both 
 professions can lie recognized some of 
 the leading names in the city, an in- 
 dication of the public interest, not so 
 much in the game as for what it stood. 
 ^\'llile the score, 24 to 14 in seven in- 
 nings in favor of the barristers, would 
 not indicate the verv highest kind of 
 skill in the great American game, yet 
 it did give the beholders a deal of fim 
 for their money. It was \-ery odd to 
 see men of note acting the part of 
 hucksters, but they did their stunts ad- 
 miral)ly. As peanut venders. Colonel 
 Horace A'erry, Judge Geo. ^I. Wood- 
 ward, Dr. W. "T. Clark and Lawyer 
 James McGovern were stars. I'rank 
 B. Hall found cocoanut cakes a source 
 of re\-enue. John R. Thayer and Her- 
 bert Parker dispensed lemonade to a 
 thirsty crowd. Arthur P. Rugg sold 
 the finest bunches of sweet peas of his 
 own raising. Dr. L. F. \A'oodward 
 found ready purchasers of his ginger 
 pop and other mild be\-erages. while 
 Frank H. Kelley matle even non- 
 smokers smoke by the eloquent way 
 he presented his cigars. The hit of the 
 day, aside from those on the field, was 
 made when the hurdy-gurdy of an 
 Italian was captured and with Colonel 
 W. A. Gile in place of the steed be- 
 tween the thills, John R. Thayer 
 grinding and Frank P. Hall pushing 
 
 behind, a march was made in front of 
 the grandstand. For jnire, un(|ualified 
 mischief, nothing could be more funny, 
 antl the resjionses as the hats went 
 round were free and full. It is said 
 that so completely did the company 
 exhaust its change supply that the 
 trij) home, by wav of the trolley, oc- 
 casioned the conductors lots of trou- 
 ble in the breaking of bills. Few men. 
 guilty or otherwise, escaped some kind 
 of a demand upon their jiocketbooks. 
 If the visitor got off easily from the 
 score card sellers. P. J. ()"Connell. 
 Henry Y. Simpson, Chandler lUdlock. 
 George S. Taft. Dr. \\'. R. Gilman. Dr. 
 R. W. Greene. Dr. G. A. Tripp and Dr. 
 
 D. r.. Lovell, he was sure to fall a 
 victim to one of the ticket sellers, F. 
 
 E. Gunnison, Dr. E. D. Fitch, E. A. D. 
 Moss and W. J. Peacock. Ushering 
 for the memorable day was by E. F. 
 Thompson. M. M. Ta\lor. C. E. Mc- 
 ( iillicuddy. T. C. Carrigan. C. W. 
 Saunders, J. P. Morrissey. all disciples 
 of Coke and lUackstone. while Doc- 
 tors Lamson .Allen. M. I. (VMeara, 
 G. O. Ward, J. M. W . Farnham, A. M. 
 Shattuck and George H. Hill did the 
 honors for the followers of Hijipoc- 
 rates. I'rank L. Dean. Esq., headed 
 the grand entree of all the |)erformers, 
 while Samuel E. Winslow and Rufus 
 Woodward, well seasoned baseball 
 ])lavers. armed respectively with re- 
 \olver and rifle, undertook the arduous 
 duties of umpire. The ball was started 
 bv the first citizen of Massacluisetts. 
 Cnited States Senator George I". Hoar, 
 rising in his place and deftly tossing 
 the sphere into the midst of the con- 
 testants. That more than $2000 was 
 netted for the relief fund was some 
 token of the success of the ])rofessionaI 
 men's efforts. 
 
 The many entertainments during 
 the summer, concerts, tableaux, lawn 
 parties and every possible device, 
 served not onlv to raise money for a 
 good cause. but also relieved the minds 
 of many anxious friends too much dis- 
 posed to dwell on the tribulations of 
 the men in Cuba. \\'hile a recital of 
 all the incidents of the summer might 
 afford pleasant reading, space forbids 
 further reference. 
 
 As the season advanced it occurred 
 
312 
 
 WORCESTER I\ THE SPAXISH WAR. 
 
 to the officers of the association that 
 the best way to get their gifts to the 
 men afield was to send them in charge 
 of one of theirownnumlier.andHalleck 
 Bartlett was designated for that mir- 
 pose. Ahox'C one thousand dollars' 
 worth of necessities was collected, 
 and the packages, large and small, 
 were transported to the Red Cross 
 headquarters in Xew N'ork. It was a 
 motley arra\ , though a useful one. 
 that was thus .sent nn. There were 
 medicine cases from llrevver & Co.. in- 
 cluding 15,000 quinine pills, a keg of 
 Jamaica ginger, lenum tablets, mus- 
 tard plasters, etc. ; cases of stimu- 
 lants from 1'^ S. Pierce & Co., and 
 from George F. Hewett, for hos]3ital 
 use; Ouinsitramoud Liid<'i_- with Raw- 
 son & Simpson sent tobacco and 
 ])i]ies enough for a regiment, let alone 
 four com|):inies. Literary wants were 
 looked nut for by James Lngan. who 
 sent a quire of ])aper with en\elopes 
 for ever\- man in the Worcester rep- 
 resentatii m : I'utnam. l)a\is & Co., in- 
 delible ])encils. and b". .\. luiston sent 
 reading matter; Duncan iK; (iooclell 
 furnished pocket knives to sharpen the 
 pencils with ; E. T. Smith Company, 
 wholesale grocers. ga\e a long list of 
 items in their line, as condensed milk, 
 pickles, soap, extract of beef, cereals, 
 preserved fish, and candies. The enu- 
 meration of articles of underwear fur- 
 nished 1)\' a generous public wouM 
 lill colnnnis of this book. Imt e\er\- 
 thing was securelv jiacked and s;nt to 
 Xew York for shipment to the field. 
 
 Then came a phase of the situation 
 licit ajjpreciateil till the gifts were 
 readv to be sent. Red la])e obstacles 
 inter]iosed of the most obstructive 
 kin.l. Thongli .Mr. llartletl visited 
 Washington and hail at his back so 
 stron,g a supjuirter as Senator ( leorge 
 1-". Hoar. ;ind all his requests were 
 granted, il was well nigh impossible 
 
 for him to get awa}' on the same ves- 
 sel with his charge. At last, howe\-cr, 
 the seemingly impossiljle was sur- 
 mounted and, on the P'reakwater with 
 Worcester's token.s of love and a])pre- 
 ciatiou. he left Xew York, .\ugust 3d, 
 for the regions of fever and war. 
 Though the gifts did not I'each the 
 scenes of need just as their gi\ers had 
 hoped, vet e\'entnall\ they were de- 
 viiti'd to the goofl of the soldiers. 
 
 r~rom the final statement of the as- 
 sociation it ai>]iears that there passed 
 through its hands the sum of $0^684.89. 
 of which large amount all was dis- 
 ])ensed for the good of the soldiers and 
 their families, except $1247, which was 
 eipialh- divided at the closing up of 
 the accoimt among the A'eteran Asso- 
 ciations of the City Guards, the Ri.ght 
 Infantrv, and the Wellington Rifies; 
 the "Emmet" honoraries and the 
 Woman's Relief Corps. No community 
 e\'er did itself greater credit than di<I 
 Worcester in her devotion to the 
 cause of sutfering humanity. While in- 
 dixidual reference is often in\idious, 
 and while e\ery (jne interested did his 
 ]iart in the hajjpiest manner ])ossible, 
 \et there would be no hesitation on the 
 |)art of an\- one in the parting state- 
 ment that a large i)art of the success 
 of the work was the direct result of 
 the devotion and constant application 
 of Mr. llalleck I'.artlett, to whom the 
 period of the war was one of cam- 
 ])aigning almost as arduous as that in 
 which the Worcester \(iung men were 
 engaging heueatli the troiiical sun. 
 Xoi for man\- hom^s at a time were the 
 sons of Worcester out of the minds 
 and hearts of the citizens who had 
 speeded their going, had watched with 
 bi-ealhless interest their progress, and 
 with o])en arms greeted their return. 
 Citizens and soldiers were alike 
 \vorlh.\- (it each ( ither. 
 
 THE RELIEF COMMITTEE. 
 
 ( )ne ]diase of ihe work of th- \dlun- 
 teer Aid Association demands s])ecial 
 mention. \i/... tliat of tlu' connnittee 
 whose members were named earlier in 
 this article. Theirs was a direct and 
 
 pi'rson.il lalior, inqiossible of adecpiate 
 descri|itinn, \et one of the most valua- 
 ble e\'er performed by any body of 
 |)eople. Thev saw and lessened suf- 
 fering. They compensated for the 
 
■;i.iEF l■()^tM^n■l•:I•:. 
 
 .■5i;{ 
 
 .Mrs. .\ngie A. R 
 
 OBINSO.N. 
 
 thoujjjlitlessness of liiishands anil fa- 
 thers who.se jilacc was with their fam- 
 ilies rather than in the ranks, for 
 America has nnniarrieil men ennns^h to 
 fight all her battles: hnt no sneh 
 thoughts were in the minds nf the 
 committee when the\- nnilerti n ik to 
 supply what others had omitted. 
 Extra rooms were opened in the same 
 quarters with the Employment Soci- 
 ety, and the same were put in charge 
 of Mrs. .\ngie .\. Rohinsini, the wife 
 of William L. Robinson, each actively 
 and for a long time connected witli 
 the (irand Army and Relief Corps re- 
 spectively. 
 
 By no means could the duties of the 
 position ha\e fallen on more trust- 
 worthy shoulders. X'igilant, active, 
 sympathetic and discriminating. Airs. 
 Robinson brought to her place just 
 what the situation demanded, and most 
 nobly did she work, early and late, day 
 and night, in season and out, till the 
 word "finis" was written, after the sol- 
 diers were mustered out and jjeace 
 again had resumed her happy sway. 
 
 x\s the vote of the Executive Com- 
 mittee to thus open rooms was taken 
 June 20th, it must have been about 
 this tiiue that the active campaigning 
 began, and by the direction of the same 
 
 body they were closed Xovember 3d 
 of i8y8, so for (ive months there was 
 an open door through which immedi- 
 ate want might be supjilied, a slight 
 compensation for the evils following 
 the failure of humanity, thus far, to 
 beat its swords into jdowshares. For- 
 tunately for the convenience of the an- 
 nalist, the main features of Mrs. Rob- 
 inson's work have been collated by her 
 anil it is possible to summarize them 
 in the following lines. In addition to 
 the care of the helpless, there was the 
 jjreparation of all sorts of articles for 
 hospital use. as sheets, pajamas, can- 
 opy nettings and scores of other 
 items, all imder the direction of Chair- 
 man Lincoln, but it is with the relief 
 work that we are chietly interested 
 now. 
 
 The official designation of Mrs. Rob- 
 inson in her labors was Chairman of 
 the "Local Relief." and she had au- 
 thority to draft from outside sources 
 such ])eople as she chose to call to her 
 assistance. .'\p]dications for help frc- 
 ipuntly went directly to Treasurer 
 I'.artlett, and where it was possible for 
 him to supply at once, he comjilied, 
 otherwise the recpiest was turned over 
 to Mrs. R. with instructions to inves- 
 tigate. Considering the size of the 
 city and the number of applicants, this 
 was no small task. Much of the diffi- 
 culty of the work arose from an exag- 
 gerated notion in the minds of some 
 families as to what the public duties 
 were, as in the case of one little 
 woman who thought that the govern- 
 ment or some parties were going to 
 take herself and family at once into 
 complete care and keeping, instead of 
 being a sort of supplementary aid to 
 her own efforts. From a letter froin 
 the Mayor's Clerk, Charles H. Bench- 
 ley, it is possible to secure a fair idea 
 of the kind of requests that w'ere daily 
 received : 
 
 The bearer, Mrs, 
 
 filed her appli- 
 
 cation lor State aid several days ago, but on 
 account of tlie red tape to be gone through 
 with, .she can draw nothing till about the 25th 
 ot this month, when she will get relief for her- 
 self and nine chihlren. for July and .August. In 
 the meantime. I understand she is suffering 
 for the necessities of life. Can you help her? 
 She will state her case. 
 
314 
 
 WORCESTER I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 It was for just such cases that the 
 committee came into existence, but 
 just think of the heedlessness of the 
 soldier and culpableness of the enlist- 
 ing officer who would take a father 
 away from such a responsibility when 
 able-bodied young men were anxious 
 to go. Sometime men and recruiting 
 officers will be more sensible. A 
 woman writes to the treasurer to ask 
 if a mother must be sick before she can 
 get aid from the association. .\n en- 
 listed man writes the President of the 
 association from Franiingham re- 
 questing the same to look after his 
 wife while he tries to place the flag on 
 the Cuban breastworks. Evidently his 
 patriotism should have been tempered 
 with some discretion. 
 
 In very carefully kept books, Mrs. 
 Robinson entered the names of those 
 helped, with such remarks on the cases 
 as the circumstances warranted, a col- 
 lection that will be of infinite interest 
 to the antiquarian of the twenty-first 
 century. Help was given to the fam- 
 ilies of those in the regular armv as 
 well as to those of the Worcester com- 
 panies, all being equally meritorious. 
 The help rendered was usually in the 
 shape of provisions and clothing, the 
 same based on the ajjparent needs and 
 income of the family. Personal obser- 
 vation was had in all cases to decide 
 ujion their merits. There were dis- 
 trict nurses whose duties carried them 
 where they crmld see for themselves 
 the wants of the destitute. Many 
 babies were born in these days, and the 
 place of the supporting father was sup- 
 plied by these good women who 
 helped the mi;thers thnnigh their 
 hours of peril and suffering. 
 
 Human nature, in all its varieties, 
 could be studied from the viewpoint 
 of the committee. Some people 
 would accept only the barest necessi- 
 ties, while others were ready to take 
 all that was offered and still stand with 
 outstretched hand, (jne woman, ex- 
 pecting to bi-cnnie a ninther i-rc long. 
 is fearful lest she Ijc ejected lr(jni her 
 home for non-payment of rent, liut the 
 committee's helji saves her ; in all cases 
 the giving was done in a way to con- 
 vince the recipients that it was the 
 public's appreciation of the situation, 
 
 not alms nor charity. When a call for 
 cast-off clothing was made, the re- 
 sponse was immediate and sufficient, 
 especially from All Saints' parish, 
 whose generosity drew from the com- 
 mittee a vote of thanks. The sudden 
 departure of the men upon whom so 
 many were dependent and the limited 
 supplies on hand, soon rendered out- 
 side aid necessary. 
 
 At times the duties of our Chairman 
 became almost judicial, as when she 
 had to act between a woman and the 
 latter's friends, who wished her to 
 send her children to Canada, to be 
 boarded there at the public expense, 
 wdiile she, the mother, went out to 
 work. To Mrs. R.'s judgment, the bet- 
 ter wav w-as to move the family into 
 cheaper quarters and with association 
 aid keep her children with her. The 
 latter counsel happily prevailed and a 
 home was ready for the husband and 
 father when his release came. There 
 was no danger of pauperizing the peo- 
 ple helped, except certain cases al- 
 read}- upoti the city's list. The habit- 
 ual l)eggar was easily detected. C)f 
 course there were frauds, but they 
 were in a very small minority, and in 
 the words of the Chairman, it was 
 much better to be deceived at times 
 than that a single meritorious case 
 should be neglected. 
 
 The following instance did not dis- 
 courage the good people who looked 
 into it: the help was needed, even if 
 it were given on false representations : 
 The story was told of a mother and 
 fi\e children being in the most abject 
 want, their home little better than a 
 kennel; that the father, a drunken fel- 
 low at best, had left his abode to seek 
 for work, and had ended his seeking by 
 enlisting, and that he was then in the 
 arniw The want was so obvious and 
 pressing, help was granted and inves- 
 tigations as to truth were made later ; 
 then it appeared that the man's name 
 did not occur in the lists of Worces- 
 ter's soldiers, but inquiry at the police 
 station did reveal the fact that the so- 
 called soldier Avas doing service for 
 the county in the jail, having been 
 sent there duly from the Central Dis- 
 trict Court, and that his wife, herself, 
 appeared against him. The poor 
 
THE KEI.IEF COMMITTEE. 
 
 315 
 
 woman injc-ded all that she goi, but 
 she was not an army widow. 
 
 The return of the volunteers and 
 their subsequent illness broui^ht on a 
 new phase of work. Niu^ses had to be 
 supplied and physicians furnisheil, but 
 nowhere did the conmiittee falter. 
 Prescriptions were filled at the ex- 
 pense of the association, and every 
 possible convenience was given where 
 the want was known. If the govern- 
 ment was lacking in certain directions, 
 and there seemed to be gro\uids for 
 the accusation, the remissness was 
 wonderfully supplemented by the 
 folks at home. ^Irs. Robinson finally 
 found herself acting the part of quar- 
 termaster and commissary to full- 
 grown men, trying to fit them with 
 garments in the place of the frayed and 
 soiled regimentals in which they had 
 come home. Indeed she was wont to 
 remark, save in the matter of uniform, 
 she began to feel as though she were a 
 soldier herself and that she had reall\- 
 
 been discharged from the Second Keg- 
 iment. Through all these months she 
 says she received only one expression 
 of disrespect, and that was from a 
 young man too badly inebriated to 
 realize what he was saying. When he 
 returned to his senses he had the man- 
 liness to come back and most con- 
 tritely ajjologize for his unseemly be- 
 havior. Back of the rum demon, 
 almost every one "is a man for a' 
 that and a* that." Transportation 
 was sometimes furnished regulars and 
 sailors l)ack to their respective sta- 
 tions, and a word of thanks from the 
 recipient on his safe arrival was an 
 oasis in the midst of so great a waste 
 of sutYering. Thus in a thousand ways 
 did the men and women of U'orces- 
 ter. through their re])resentatives, re- 
 meml)er the .^crijnural injunction: 
 
 Inasiinicli as ye have done it unto one of 
 the least of these my brethren, ye have done it 
 
 until nio. 
 
 SDNESSOFCOL.f.E. PiER^E 
 
 LA 1111- 
 
 liRAI, IX S.\NTI.\r.O. ONE OF THE OLDEST IX .\MERIC.\. 
 
316 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 DoNK IN W'aIKK t"< 
 
 )Rs i!Y Frfd p. Dkan. Company C. and 1'resented to Post io. Eebruary i6. igo5. 
 
SPANISH WAR \irrt:KA.\s. 
 
 317 
 
 Legion Spanish W ar \'eterans. 
 
 COLONKL K. R. SlILMWA^ CAMP, NO. :,o. 
 
 [Instituted May 28, ig02, with hily-one cliarter mcmliers. The name 01 J. J. Corliss is 
 number one on the hst, that of Lieut. U'm. E. McCann, number two.] 
 
 Commander, Arthur S. Lonijley ; Senior \'ice Connnander. J. j. Corliss: Jiniior 
 \'ice Commander. Etlward R. llarker: I'aymaster. .Michael llogan: (Jtiartermaster. 
 Louis B. Glixman ; .\djutant. Dr. .A. F. Wheeler: Surfjeon. Dr. I'eter ( ). Shea : 
 Officer of the Day, W'm. E. McCann; Officer of the (hiard, S. K. Clapp : Officer 
 of Watch, J. J. Quirk: Sergeant Major. James E. L. Todd: Quartermaster Ser- 
 geant, P. Brule: Color Sergeants. J. F. Quilty. C. L. Humphrey. 
 
 Past Commander, Capt. Edwin (I. Barrett. 
 
 Meetings, third Wednesday of each month in Sons of X'etcrans' Hall. No. 418 Main Street. 
 
 Adams, W. G., 277 W. Bovlston : Co. 
 
 H, 2d Mass.. U.S. \'. 
 .\hern. Timothy J.. ,^0 Ward; Co. G, 
 
 9th ]Mass.. L'"S.\'.; died March <>. 
 
 1905. 
 .\ldrich, Ohiev T., 141 Beacon ; Co. 
 
 C, 2d Mass.. IT.S.V. 
 Allen, Frank L.. 8 I'orest ; Captain. Co. 
 
 C. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 .-\llen (Ahlin), John D.. 22 Grecndalc 
 
 Ave.; Co. H. 2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
 Allison. R. L., s6 Front: Corporal, Co. 
 
 A, 2d Mass'., r.SA'. 
 Allison, Walter H.. 4 Dn<lley I Mace: 
 
 First Sergeant, Co. .\, 2d Mass.. 
 
 U.S.V. 
 Alton William R.. Worcester; Co. K. 
 
 6th Mass., U.S.V. 
 Amell, Harry C, i8i Woodland: Co. 
 
 H, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Andresen. Lucas, 180 Canterbtirv ; Co. 
 
 F, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 P.allou, Herbert A.. 24 Lee; Co. A. 2d 
 
 Mass., U.S.\'. 
 Baril, H. \'.. S9 Pleasant: ist Maine. 
 
 U.S.V. 
 Barker, Edward R., 32 Crystal ; Co. G, 
 
 9th Mass.. U.S.V. 
 Barrett, Edwin G., 128 Paine: Captain, 
 
 Co. A. 9th Mass.. U.S.\'. 
 Benson, Nils, U. S. Army; Corporal. 
 
 U. S. Marine Corps. 
 Bergstrom. John F.. 20 Laurel : .\rti- 
 "ficer, Co. B. 12th U. S. Infantry. ^ 
 Bjorkman, William, 6 Rodnev; Co. C, 
 
 46th P'.S.V. 
 
 lUair. l-rank K., 58 Orange; Battery 
 
 1;. 2(1 U. S. Artillery. 
 Boyd. Morris C, 2 Green Lane; ist 
 
 Xaval P.attalion, U.S.X. 
 Brett. Dennis, 15 Pink; Co. I. 12th 
 
 U. S. Infantry. 
 Brigham, De.xter E., 107 Commercial; 
 ' Sergeant, Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 P.rtile. Piiilemon. 59 Grand ;' Co. A, 2d 
 
 Mass., U.S.V. 
 Burke. Ulysses M., 126 Green; Co. K, 
 
 9th U. S. Infantry. 
 Butler, Clarence E., 8 Davton ; Co. C, 
 
 2d Mass., U.S.W 
 Butler, George C, Portland, Me.: 
 
 Fort Mckinlev, U. S. H. Artillerv; 
 
 Co. C, 2(1 Mass., U.S.V. 
 Butler, William H.. 10 Brittan ; U. S. 
 
 Xavy. 
 Casey. James .\. G., 25 Trunil)ull : Mu- 
 sician. Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.\'. 
 Cavanaugli. John F.. 10 Warren; Co. 
 
 M. i2lh U.S. Infantry; died March 
 
 13, 1(^5. 
 Champnev, Peter, 20 Mechanic: Co. K. 
 
 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 Checver. Fred W.. the Aurora: Co. B. 
 
 1 2th U. S. Infantry. 
 Cheever. Herbert M., 4 Fern : Co. B. 
 
 I iih l". S. Infantry. 
 Christenson. Elmer L, 4 Sherbniok 
 
 .\v.; Co. A. 2d Mass.. U.S.V. 
 Clapp. S. E.. 12 XewDort ; .Artificer. Co. 
 
 A. 2d Ma.>^s.. U.S.V. 
 Clossen. Herbert I., West Boylston : 
 
 Corporal, 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 
318 WDRCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Coaklev, Tiniothv, lo E. Shelbv; Co. Farrow, George S.. 327 Main; Co. C, 
 
 A.'gth Alass!, U.S.V. ' 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Colburn, Charles H.. i Hampden; Co. Fav, Peter T-. 7,2 Prescott ; Troop F, 
 
 C. 2(1 Mass.. U.S.V. 5th U. S. Cavalry. 
 
 Cole, Tames A.. 18 Canal; Co. A. 2d Feeney, Patrick J.. 9 Belknap; 108th 
 
 Mass., U.S.V. Coast Artillery, U.S.A. 
 
 Colev. Hcnrv G.. 21 Crompton ; Co. A, Feltv. George H., 17 Catharine; First 
 
 2d Mass., U.S.V. Lieutenant, Co. C. 9th 111., IT.S.V. 
 
 Colvin, Christopher, 57 Harrison; Co. Fischer, Charles A., 672 ]\Iain ; Co. A, 
 
 K, 1 2th I'. S. Infantry. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Connors, William, 49 Endicott ; Cox- Fitzpatrick, John E., 43 Ward; Co. G, 
 
 swain, U. S. Navv. 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Cook, Clarence E., 74 Ru.ssell : Co. H, Fitzpatrick, Patrick J.. 2 Foyle ; Cor- 
 
 2d Mass., U.S.V. poral, Co, L, 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Cook, Fred .V, [r., 40 Lincoln; Co. D, Mint, Charles J., 11 Elizalieth ; Co. H, 
 
 1st N. PL, U.S.V. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Cooper, Benjamin, 15 Crompton; Co. Fogerty, John E., 195 Alillbury ; Co. 
 
 A, 2d Mass., U.SA'. G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Corliss, John T- 6 Clarcmlon; O. M. Forsberg, Charles, i Kosta ; Cori)oral, 
 
 Sergeant, Co. G, 9th -Mass., U.S.V. Battery C, 2d V. S. .\rtillery; 
 
 Cronin, Dennis J., police station; Ser- Troop H, 'itli U. S. Cavalry. 
 
 geant, LT. S." Marine Corps. Foss, Rodney, Springfield; T2th U. S. 
 Crooker, Leonard M.,22 Belmont ; Ser- Infantry. 
 
 geant, Co. C, 2d ]\lass., U.S.V., Freeman, Harry E., 6 Fox; Battery B, 
 
 26th U. S. Infantrv. 2d U, S. Artillery. 
 
 Cross, John L, 28 Orchard; Battery C, Fyrberg, Charles, West Boylston St.; 
 
 2d"L'. S." Artillerv. ' 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Cruikshank, James T., 22 W'o.KJland; Gardner, Octave E., 9 College; 12th 
 
 Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Cummings, Matthew, 6 Scott; Corpo- Garrett, Michael F., 140 Bebimnt ; Co. 
 
 ral, C'o. 1, 26th U.SA'. Infantry. G, 9th :\Iass., U.S.V. 
 
 Davis, Orlo W., 48 lacpies Av.;'Co. Gilligan, Edward, 109 Summer ; Co. F, 
 
 A, 2d Mass., LT,S!V. 2d ]\Iass., U.S.V. 
 
 Dean, Fred P., 5 Newdnirv ; Co. C. 2d Gilmore, George C, 7 Vine; Co. H, 
 
 Mass., U.S.V. ' -2(1 Alass., U.S.V. 
 
 Degnan, C. T., 59 Prescott; Sergeant, Gleason, Odiorne J. W., Post Office; 
 
 " Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. ' Co. C, 2d Mass., LT.S.A'. 
 
 Delanev, Michael T-, -^4 \'ernon ; Co. (ileason, Willis, 18 Hawdey ; Co. H, 
 
 G.'c^ih Mass., U,S.V. 2d Mass., U.S.\^ 
 
 Dennis, William H., 259 Park .\v.; Glixnian, L-.uis B., 38 Lamartme ; Co. 
 
 Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. C 2d Mass.. U.S.\'. 
 
 DeMarco, loseph, 130 Shrewsburv; Goddard, George N., 660 Grafton ; 12th 
 
 Co. H,"2d Mass., U.S.V. U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Ditson, Charles H., 44 Fales ; Co. H, Gould, Lubertia M., 30 Mendon ; Co, 
 
 2,1 Mass., U.S.A^ F, 12th V. S. Infantry. 
 
 Doran. iM-ank H., 00 lacpies Ave. ; Cor- Gowans. John G., 11 Austin; Ser- 
 
 pnral C... G. otli" -Mass., U.S.V. geant, Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Dovle, IXnnis ].. 17 Lunelle; Co. G, Green, John T., 618 Main; Corporal, 
 
 ■ 9th Mass., U.S.V. Co. G, 9th Mass., L .SA . 
 
 Doyle Frank P., r^ Temple; Co. G, Green, Ralph C. 10 Preston ; Co. A, 2d 
 
 ■ 9th Mass., U.S.\'. Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Dumas, .^delard !„ i8i Canterbury; Griffin, Henry, t,t, Pond; Co. G, 9th 
 
 Co. B. 4^d Li.'S. Infantrv. Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Fldrid<'e Clifford T.. 469 Grove; Cor- ( iriswold. Charles E., 20 Mulberry; 
 
 ].oral, Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. Artificer, Co. K. 12th I'. S. In- 
 
 Fairbanks, Harrv B., 27 Richanls ; fantry ; Battery E, ist I . S. Artd- 
 
 Major, 2d Alass., U.S.V. lery. 
 
SPANISH WAR \i:ti:kaxs. 
 
 ;il9 
 
 Guilliam, William A., I College; Troo]) 
 
 D, 6th U. S. Cavalry. 
 Gully, Michael, 85 Salem ; Co. G, 9th 
 
 'Mass., U.S.V.' 
 Hackett, Edward F., 84 Providence; 
 
 Co. G. 9th Mass., U.S.A. 
 Hagberg, John G., Worcester; Cor- 
 poral, Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Hagertv, Stephen F., 315 Grafton; Co. 
 
 "G.'gth Mass., U.S.V. 
 Hall, Ernest B., Milford; Co. A, 2d 
 
 Mass., U.S.V. 
 Hays, Fred R., 1 5 Mendon ; Co. A, 2d 
 
 ' Mass., U.S.\\ 
 Havward, Arthur L., t Preston ; Co. 
 
 ■ A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Healv, Patrick E., 123 West Covlston ; 
 
 F Battery, 3d U. S. Artille'ry. 
 Helm Oscar, 4 Everard ; Corporal. Co. 
 
 L, I2th U. S. Infantry. 
 Hicks, R. C. 140 Beacon: Co. A. Bat- 
 talion of Engineers, U.S.A. 
 Hill, George H., ^ Ferdinand: Co. C, 
 
 2d Mass., U.S'.\'. 
 Hoar, George F., 3 Merrificld ; Cor- 
 poral, Co. H, 9th U. S. Infantry. 
 Hoar, Michael L., 4 \'ernon ; Co. G, 
 
 9th Mass., U.S.^■. 
 Hobbs, Howard K., Court IIouso; 
 
 Corporal, Co. A, 2d Ma.ss.. U.S.\'. 
 Hogan, Michael, 2- Gardner: Co. M. 
 
 6th Mass., U.S.W 
 Holden, Charles S., 40 \"ine; CajUain, 
 
 Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.W 
 Hooker, Walter F., 29 Inglcside .\ve. ; 
 
 Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.\' , 
 Horan, Michael J., 48 Barclay; First 
 
 Sergeant. Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.\'. 
 Humphrev, Charles L., iio Sumnu-r: 
 
 Co. H, 9th U. S. Infantry. 
 Hurd, Herbert E.. >}, Charlotte; 3d 
 
 U. S. Cavalry. 
 Hurd, Joel B., 23 Charlotte; Troop L, 
 
 6th U. S. Cavalrv. 
 Jenkins, M. P., 161 Highland; Co. B. 
 
 I2th U. S. Infantry. 
 Johnson, Albert S., 10 Lancaster; Co. 
 
 A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Johnson, Roland, i"/ Russell: Co. C, 
 
 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Johnston, Joseph H., 523 Park .\ve. ; 
 
 Corporal, Batteries B and I, U. S. 
 
 Heavy Coast Artillery. 
 Tones, George T., 276 Grafton; Co. C, 
 
 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Jones, Willard F.. 19 Piedmont ; Co. 
 
 ^I, I2th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Jordan, Frederick B., 2 Isabella; Ser- 
 geant, Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Keane, Maurice A., 7 Sigel ; Co, G, 
 
 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 Kellahor. Thomas F., 109 Highland; 
 
 Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 Kelleher, Thomas J., 96 \'ernon ; Co. 
 
 ti, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 Kellev, Thomas B., 247 Main : Co. G, 
 
 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 Kellev, Timothv, 50 Green ; Cor])oral, 
 
 Co. A, 3d Xeb., U.S.V. 
 Kennew Charles E., 13 Clifton; Co. G, 
 
 (>th Mass., U.S.V. 
 Kidder, Lyman W., 6 Charlotte; Co. 
 
 M, i-'th U. S. Infantry. 
 Killeka, Charles, 66 Belmont; Oiler, 
 
 U. S. Xavv ; was on the Boston in 
 
 Manilla Harbor, May i, 1898. 
 Killian.IIenrv. 70 Lafavette ; Corporal, 
 
 Co. E, 202 N. Y., U.S.V. 
 King, Tames F., rear 71 Madison; Cor- 
 poral, Co. G, 9th Ma.ss., U.S.V. 
 King. Toseph L.. 2S Merrick: Corporal, 
 
 Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.\". 
 Knibbs, Charles H., 6 Barton Place; 
 
 Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Korosci Stany. 16 Foyle; Co. I, 9th 
 
 I". S. Inlanlrv. 
 Lachapelle. Ralph, 4 Wall; Co. G, ist 
 
 R. 1., U.S.\'. 
 Lallamme, Toseph T., 4 C'linton : Co..-\, 
 
 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Lambert, Stephen A., 34 Grove ; Bat- 
 tery G, 2d U. S. Artillery. 
 Lamberton, Charles F., 9 Preston ; Co. 
 
 .\, 2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
 Larkin, Edward F., 171 Washington: 
 
 I'. S. Marine Corps. 
 Larkin, lohn. 24 Coral: Co. G, 9th 
 
 Mass!, U.S.\'. 
 Larkin, John J.. 171 Washington; Co. 
 
 G. 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 Lawrence. Cyrus H., 26 Bradley : Co. 
 
 E, 26th U. S. Infantry. 
 Lawson, Albert, 2^ Maple Terrace; Co. 
 
 C, 43^1 1-'S.\-.' 
 Leonard, William M., ^6 Fox; Co. G, 
 
 9th Mass.. U.S.W ■ 
 Linehan. John J., 12 Austin ; Battery 
 
 I. 2d U. S. Artillery. 
 Long, Luman B.; Hospital Corps, 
 
 U.S.A. 
 Longley. Arthur S., 82 Piedmont; 
 
 First Sergeant, Co. C, 2d Mass., 
 
 U.S.V. 
 
.S20 WORCESTER IN' THE Sr'AXISM WAR. 
 
 Love. Albert F., i Kintjsl)ury; C'nr- Aluynihan, ['. j., ()4 Mulhcrrv: Ser- 
 
 poral. Co. H, 2(1 Mass., U.S.\'. '-eaiit, L'n. ('i. 9th .Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Lowe, William L., 34 Prescott ; Co. L .Murpln', W illiani H., died Oct. 12, 
 
 Cith -Mass., r.S.\'. 11)04: Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.\'. 
 
 lamdherg-, Carl A., 18 Laurel; Co. H, .Murra\-. Archie F., 8 Cutler; Corporal, 
 
 yth U. S. Infantry. C(V A, 2d Alass., L'.S.V. 
 
 Lundstroni, Charles L., 240 \\'ebster: Murraw John E., 5(1 L'nion A\'e. ; 2d 
 
 Co. A. 2,vl U. S. Infantry. I'.'S.Heavy Artillery. 
 
 McCann. William E.. J'j Harrison; Newton, Alljert E., 2 Freeland; Co. H, 
 
 Second Lieutenant, Co. (j, 9th 2d ^Mass., L'.S.A'. 
 
 Mass., L'.S.\'. Northride;e, Charles, k) TlKjmas ; Co. 
 McCann, William F., Jr.. 79 Harrison; I, 9th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Serjjeant, 1st Div., 3d Corjis. I'ield ( )'Callaghan, J. H.. 5 Silver; Co. G, 
 
 Hospital. i)th .Mass.", CS.\'". 
 
 McCartin, Michael T- 107 Main; Ser- O'l-hnn. Michael L. 12 F. Shelhv ; Co. 
 
 g-eant, Co. G, 9th Mass., l\S.V. G, 9th Mass., "I'.S.X'. 
 
 McCullous,di, E. A., 93 Chandler; As- O'Hara, Peter J., Hotel Adams; Cor- 
 
 sistant .Surg-eon, 41st l\ S. In- poral, V. S. Marine Corps. 
 
 fantry. O'Keefe, Patrick J., 604 Main; Co. G. 
 McDonald, Thomas B., 20 Providence; 9th Mass., l"."S.\\ 
 
 Co. H. 9th Alass.. U.S.V. O'Leary. Cornelius. i,jj ."Shrewsbury; 
 McDowell, \\'illiam J., 13 \\'aldo; Co, Sera:eant, Co. K, 12th I'. S. In- 
 
 K, I2th U. S. Infantry. fantry. 
 
 Mc(iillicuddy. Gerald I""., 77 Gage; Co. O'Leary. Jeremiah. 61 Wanl ; Co. B, 
 
 G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. ijth L'". S. Infantry. 
 
 McGuire, Hugh. (>0 \A'rnon ; Co. G. ( )li\er, Ernest G., 126 Canterbury ; Co. 
 
 9th Mass., U.S.W 1'., 43d U. S. Infantry. 
 
 MacKaw Lihn C, .Spencer; Co. H. 2d Osterberg, Gus I., 147 \'ernon ; Cor- 
 
 Mass., l'.S.\'. l>oral, ist I'. S. Cavalrw 
 
 AlcLoughtin, Hugh. 18 .Vssonet ; 12th Payne, William F., 10 Oliver; Co. B, 
 
 U. S. Infantrv. ' U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Magee, Arthur C, 616 Main; Co. .\, Pembleton, .\lonzi;i L, ^o Fountain; 
 
 '2d Mass., L'.S.V. Co. C, 2<\ Mass.. I'.SA'. 
 
 Malm, Alexander, Hotel Carlvle; 43d Perkins, IMark .V., 26 Pearl; Musician, 
 
 LT. S. Infantrv. ' Ath Mass., L'.S.W 
 
 Malm. ( )liver W.^ 31 1 Main ; U.S.X. Peterson, C. H., 2 Maxwell Court ; 15th 
 Martin, lulward |.. .^7 Mason; Co. C, I'. S. Infantr\-. 
 
 2(1 Mass,, CS-V'! Porter, X\'alter M"., 58 Harrison: Cor- 
 Martin, Godfrey, 46 Orient; 12th L'. S. poral, Co. F, 20th L'. S. Infantry. 
 
 Infa^tr^■. Potter, ClarenC-' F.. 9 Clifton Terrace; 
 Marim, |. j., 109 (irafton ; Co. G, (jth Co. G, ist N. H,. U.S.\'. 
 
 Mass.,"Li.S.V. Power, William T., 88 Pn^spect ; Co, 
 Merrifield, Waldo A.. I E', Shelbv; Co. I, 20th and 2d V. S. Infantrv. 
 
 C. 2(1 Mass.. U.S.\'. Powers, Edward P.. 18 Ingalls:'Co. K, 
 Miller. James W. J., <> Ilernion ; Co. C, 12th L'. S. Infantry. 
 
 I'. .S. Infantry. Preble. Campbell C. 40 Cutler; Co. C. 
 .Miner, Dexter, Grafton: Co. H. 2(1 9th Alass., US.N". 
 
 Mass.. LT_s_\', I 'rendergast, .\nthony, 4() Park; Co. G. 
 Mitchell. Patrick. 18 Worth; Sergeant. (jth'.Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Co. I". 17th L'. S. Infantry. I'rendiville, Patrick J., Hotel N'ernon ; 
 Moodw \\ illiam E.. ()4 ( irove ; Co. A, Co. G, 9th Mass,. L',S.\'. 
 
 2(1 .Mass., L'.S.X'. Purinton. A. L.. Olive .\ve. ; Artificer, 
 Morse, William It.. 13 WinsL.w: Co. C'o. 11.2.1 Mass.. U.S.W 
 
 .\, jt\ Mass.. L'.S.V. y^'lt.^' James F.. 17 Bancroft; Co. H, 
 .\Io\nihan, Jeremiah J., 1 Wabash 2(1 Alass. \'olunteers. 
 
 Ave.; t aptain. C(j. Ci. olh Mass.. Ouirk. lames J., 15 Thomas; Co. C, 
 
 U.S.V. ~ 9th 'l'. S. Infantry. 
 
SPANISH WAR \eti:ka.\s. 
 
 321 
 
 Reinbold, Albert T-. 15 Newlmrv; Co. 
 A. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Renaud. Louis A., Ware; i2lh U. S. 
 Infantry. 
 
 Rice. William W., Charlton Citv : Co. 
 A, 2d Alass., U.S.V. 
 
 Reidy, Dennis D., 684 Canibridije ; Co. 
 G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Rix, George E., 7 Sturg-is ; Co. C, 2d 
 Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Rogers, S. Walter, Holden ; Co. I\ 6tli 
 Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Russell, Walter M.,,?7 Catharine: Hos- 
 pital Steward, U. S. Navy. 
 
 Ryan, Paul J., 64 Parker; Battery C, 
 2d U. S. Artillery. 
 
 Sawyer, Elbridge B., 63 King; Ser- 
 geant, Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Scott, Albert B., 515 Main; Corporal, 
 Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Seibert, John W.; Co. G, 8th U. S. In- 
 fantry. 
 
 Shea, Michael j.. 8 Harrison; Co. I, 
 I2th U S. Infantry. 
 
 Shea, Dr. P. O., 183 Green ; First Lieu- 
 tenant and Asst. Surgeon, 9th 
 Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Shumway, Edwin R., 10 Hollywood ; 
 Lieut. -colonel, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Skerrett, Nicholas J., 10 Meade ; Musi- 
 cian, Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Sleeper, Charles P., 15 Svlvan ; Co. PI, 
 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Smith, Clarence E., 243 Stafford; Q.M. 
 Sergeant, Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Smith, Dr. J. A., 476 Main ; Co. K, 21st 
 U. S. Infantr}-. 
 
 Spenser, John J., 130 Washington ; Co. 
 L, I2th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Standish, Lewis O., 29 Wintield; Co. 
 A, 2d Mass., U.S.V'. 
 
 Standish, William G., Belmont-Locust 
 Ave. ; Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Stearns, E. A., 1381 Alain ; Co. C, 2d 
 Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Stebbins, George \V'., 10 Lancaster ; 
 Q. M. Sergeant, Co. C, 2d Ma.ss., 
 U.S.V. 
 
 Stevenson, John, 19 Jefferson; 2d L'. S. 
 Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Sullivan, David J., 151 Summer; Cor- 
 poral, Battery K, 3d U. S. Artil- 
 lery. 
 
 Sullivan, Michael J., 25 Assonet ; 12th 
 U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Sullivan, Patrick J., 6 Merrifield ; 
 Artificer, Co. G, 9th Mass , U.S.V. 
 
 Sullivan, Peter P., 279 Grafton ; Musi- 
 cian, 9th Mass.. U.S.V. 
 
 Sweeney, Thomas M., 18 Assonet; 
 
 i2th U. S. Infantrv. 
 Taft, Robert, 36 Irving; Co. C, 2d 
 .Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Tisdell, Moses H.. 2,7 Vernon; Pirst 
 Lieutenant, Co. .\, 2d Mass., 
 U.S.V. 
 
 Todd. James E. L.. 17 \'ine; Co. C, 2d 
 Ma.ss.. U.S.W 
 
 Tolson. Ilarrv \\ .. 182 Russell; Co. L, 
 6th .Ma.s.s'., U. S. V. 
 
 Traver, W. A., i .\shton ; Musician, 
 Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Turner, William T., 4 Chelsea; Co. A, 
 2(1 Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Vaughn, Prank L., 148 Highland; Ser- 
 geant. Co. H. 2(1 Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 X'inton, Fred V.., rear 2y W. Boylston ; 
 Corporal, Co. L. 131!! U. S. In- 
 fantry. 
 
 Vosburg, Edgar IL, si I'.elmont; Co. 
 H, 2d Mass.. U.S.\\ 
 
 Walker, I'red C, 96 Maywood ; Bat- 
 tery li, 2d U. S. Artillery. 
 
 Wallace, Samuel A,, 53 Pleasant ; Co. 
 A. 2d Mass.. U.S.V. 
 
 Ware. lohn C, 21 Florence; Co. H, 
 2d "Ma,ss., U.S.V. 
 
 Warren, Herbert H., 12 Columbus; 
 Second Lieutenant, Co. C, 2d 
 xMass., U.S.V. 
 
 Wheeler, Dr. Aurelius P., Knowles 
 Building; Co. C, 2d Mass.. U.S.V. 
 
 While. Peter N.. 608 Park Ave.; Co. 
 A, 2d Ma,ss., U.S.A. 
 
 Whitman, Albert P.. Chester, corner 
 Grove; Co. H, 12th L^. S. Infantry. 
 
 Wilmot, J. L., 40 Dewev ; Corjioral, 
 Co. C. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 \\'itham. Charles L.. Boston Journal; 
 Co. L, 26th U.S.\'. Infantry. 
 
 Wood, Arthur, 4 Orchard ; ist Conn., 
 U.S.V. 
 
 Young, Harrv C, 195 Park Ave. ; Ser- 
 geant. Co. H. 2d\Arass., U.S.V. 
 
 Young, William S.. 2^ Lincoln; Co. .\. 
 2(1 Alass.. U.S.\'." 
 
 Zaeder, Emil. 176 Lincoui ; Co. C. 2d 
 Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 \''eterans voted in hut not mustered: 
 
 Bartlett. Lvman H.. ^5 Elm ; Co. C, 
 
 2d Ma.ss., U.S.V. 
 Barton. Charles A.. 6 Shawmut; Co. 
 
 A. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
322 
 
 W iilUl£STER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Chatelaiii. Edmond C. Worcester: Co. 
 
 I, 26th U.S.V. 
 Coates, Herbert A., Hotel Alhanv; Co. 
 
 H. 2d Mass.. U.S.V. 
 Cornwell, William G., Norwich, Ct. ; 
 
 Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 DeMuth, John, Hotel Kenmore ; Co. 
 
 K, 1st So. Dakota, U.S.V.; 44th 
 
 Corapany, Coast Artillery. 
 Gray, Harry T., 28 Oxford; Second 
 
 Lieutenant, Co. H,2d Mass., U. S.\'. 
 Hisfginliotham. Charles S., Ansonia; 
 
 ■"Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 Holbrook, J. AA'^arren, 18 Burncoat ; 
 
 Ser<:r<--ant. Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Lindsev, Joseph T., 18 Summer; Co. 
 H,'2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Porter, Leverett W., U.S.A., Wor- 
 cester; 5th Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 i'owers, Richard H., 140 Exchange; 
 Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Rheutan, Wintield D., Richmond, Va. ; 
 Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
 
 Riordan, Martin, 6 lierkley ; First Ser- 
 geant, Co. K, 1 2th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Vezina, Alex, 53 Lamartine ; Co. L, 
 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Williams, C. G., 18 ( )rient ; Sergeant, 
 iSth U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Early in the command of Daniel E. Denny 
 of Post 10. lie set about trying to secure for 
 memorial purposes one of the Spanish guns de- 
 livered into American hands at the surrender 
 of Santiago. Assisted in this direction by the 
 late Senator George F. f^oar and by Gov. John 
 L. Bates, lie succeeded, and in the early autunui 
 of 1904 the gun arrived. 
 
 It is of bronze. ii4 feet long, bore 6} inches, 
 and was cast in Sevilla, Spain, May 5, 1798. 
 Conspicuous u|)on the gun, near the breech, is 
 an elaborate monogram, surmounted by a 
 royal crown; the letters C. A. R. O. evidently 
 
 indicate Charles IV, who was King of Spain 
 in I"9S. 
 
 It stands in the triangular plot of land in front 
 of the Armory, given by the Hon. Stephen 
 Salisbury: the granite carriage, given by Geo. 
 D. Webb, is from designs by Stephen C. Earle 
 and George T. Tribe: the trucking essential to 
 its placing was donated by Horace F. Ball: the 
 wire fence about the plot was given by the 
 Spencer Wire Company. 
 
 It was given in the care and keeping of the 
 city, December 9, 1904, with a great camp-fire 
 in the .Armorv. 
 
 In Commemoration of the .Soldiers and Sailors ok 1898, this (Iun, Surrendered at Santiago. Cuba. 
 IS Here Erected by Citizens of Worcester Under the Auspices of 
 (-JEORGE H. Ward Post 10, G..-\.R.. 1904. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 323 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 (This index includes all names in the text, except the alphabetical list of Spanish War Veterans, 
 those of members (if the Emmet Auxiliary and of the participants in the Oval hall Kaine.) 
 
 Abbott, H. B. 71, ji^. 80. 
 
 Adams, H. H. 87, IJ6, 46. 47. 
 
 Adams, W. G. 162, 72, 98, 204, 15. 17. 
 
 Ahern, T. J. 245, 83. 97, 99. 
 
 Ahlin, J. D. vide Allen. 
 
 Aldrich, O. T. 109, 46, 47. 
 
 Alexandria, 20. 
 
 Alger, Camp R. .\. 243. 
 
 Alger. Secretary, 132; liis card, 133. 
 
 Allegheny, Transport, 272, 73, 75, gi. 
 
 Allen, Capt. F. L. 5, 34, 38, 70,82,87,92, 100, 
 
 01, 08, 17, 24, 35, ,^7, 46, 47. 73. 
 Allen (Ahlin), J. D. 176, 215, 17. 
 Allen, J. H. 87, 137, 46, 47, 60. 
 Allen, Walter, 283, 95, 300. 
 Allen, Wilson, 162. 
 Alligators, 173, 77. 
 Allison, G. E. 12, 47, 60, 78, 80. 
 Allison, R. L. 10, 12, 14, 46, 60. 78, 80. 
 Allison. W. H. 12, 34, 60, 71, 78, 80. 
 Ainell, H. C. 162. 76, 2It, 17. 
 Ames, H. H. 160, 68. 
 .A.nies, M. F. 160. 62, 203. ir, 13, 16. 
 Anderson, J. F. 157. 
 .\ndrew, Geo. J. A. 224. 
 Angliim. Capt. D. F. 4. 260. 
 Armory, State, 8. 
 Articles of War read, 15. 
 Athv, .\ndrew, 219, 20. 
 At Present, Co. A. 78: Co. C, 146; Co. H. 215; 
 
 Co. G. 297. 
 Austin, H. E. 12. 13. 
 Bachelor, W. (). 162, 63, 94, 215, 17. 
 Baker, David J. 7. 
 Baldwin, H. W. 23.^. 
 Ball, H. F. 3-'^- 
 Ballou, H. A. 12, 51, 78, 80. 
 Baltimore, 20, 92. 
 Band, Battery B, 11, 74. 
 Bankbill Joke, 169. 
 Banks. Geo. N. P. 223. 
 Barbed-wire defense, 262. 
 Barber. The Company, 175. 
 Barber, G. D. 160, 206. 
 Barker, E. R. 6. 2.U. 64, 97, 99. 
 Barnard, E. M. 87. 
 Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Co. 173. 
 Barrett, Capt. Edwin G. 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 
 
 18, 19, 21, 2i. 26, 34, 36, 41, 43. 45- 4('. 5.?. 
 
 58, 59, 60. 65, 67, 68. 70, 7-J, 78, 80, 134. 
 
 69, 269. 
 Barrett, J. .\. 215. 17. 
 Barrett, Jas. M. 233. 90, 97, 99- 
 Barrett, T. J. 279, 308. 
 Barrett, Telegram to Mrs. 68. 
 Bartlett, Chas. W. 5. 
 Bartlett, Halleck, 6, 62, loi, 30, 31. 32. 270. 308. 
 
 09, 10, 12. 
 
 Bartlett, I.vman, 124, 30, 35, 37, 46, 47. 
 
 Bartlett. Wm. H. 287. 
 
 Barton, Clara, 58, 128. 
 
 Barton, Chas. A. 12, 51, 78, 80. 
 
 Barton, Wm. E. 5, 87, 112, 17, 27. 28, 35, 46. 
 
 47. 7.?- 
 Baseball at the Oval. 311. 
 Bassett. .\. J. 310. 
 Bathing by rubber blanket, 41. 
 Bathing incident, 167. 
 Bates. Geo. J. L. 322. 
 Battery B, 4, 286. 
 Baudett, W. A. 162. 
 Beans counted, 41. 
 Beaudoin, vide Boardman. 
 Bedloe's Island. 18. 
 Beiune, G. II. 87, 125, 46, 47. 
 Bencliley, Lieut. E. N. 5, 105, 17. 27. 40. 42. 
 
 ^.iQ. .?'3. 
 Bennett, Geo. E. 126, 46, 47. 
 Bennett, P. H. 283. 96, 300. 
 Berger, A. A. 160. 
 Bergeron. Jos. A. 12. 
 Bieberbach, Jacob. 12. 
 Biersdorf. A. G. 135. 37, 46, 47. 
 Bigelow. Lieut. C. F. 133. 
 Bigelow. Opinions of Capt. John, Jr. 40. 170. 
 
 71.83. 
 Birthday of the "Wellingtons," 161. 
 Black powder, 46. 
 Blockhouse. Santiago Harbor, 263. 
 Bloody Bend, 48, 117- 
 Blouse, The Captain's. 59. 
 Blue and Gray blend. 173. 
 Boardman, J. H. 12. 43, 75, 76, 77.80. 
 Began. Col. F. B. 237, 40, 54, 57. 
 Boland, Mrs. T. B. F. 310. 
 Bond. Wm. M. 162, 216, 17. 
 Bonney, Carl, 6, 308. 
 Bonsai. Stephen, on night march of the Second 
 
 Regiment, 113. 
 Booden, W. J. 226. 
 Boutwell. Gov. Geo. S. 220. 
 Bowen, Capt. Geo. 7. 
 Bowen. Surgeon, 63. 
 Bowers. P. R. 157. 
 Boxes. Coming of Worcester. 100. 
 Bovd. H. E. 160. 
 Bradley, J. F. 87, 135. 37. 46. 47- 
 Bradv. Edward. 233. 
 Br.adshaw, M. F. 283. 98, 300. 
 Bradshaw, P. J. 231. 
 Brass, Wesley S. 23. 
 Breakfast in Washington, 20, 93, 167. 
 Brewer & Co. 312. 
 Briggs, E. A. 87. 135, 46, 47- 
 Briggs, Gov. Geo. N. 85. 
 Brigham. D. E. 160, 62, 84. 204, 15. 16. 
 
324 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Brigliam, I. A. 88. in. J5. ji, 46, 47. 
 Brigham. R. H. 73. 78, 80. 
 Brophy. M. C. 233, 83. 97, 99. 
 Brosnaii. Elizabetli, 24S. 
 Brosnan, Geo. W. 2^^. ?s. 49. 64, 89. gi. 
 Brown. C. A. 88, 146. 4y. 
 Brule Philemon. 51. 78. 80. 
 Brusky. J. T. 42. 78. 80. 
 Bruso, Wm. T. ^0, ",4. ii. 78. 80. 
 Bryan, R. B. 5. 
 Bryant, Dana A. i6j. 
 Bryson, G. S. 160. 
 Buck, Clias. E. 162. gg, 20S. 17. 
 Buckley. Tlios. H. 248. 
 Buckman. C. T. 157. 
 "Bug Chaser." 35. 
 Burbank. Chas. E. 159, 64. 
 Burbank, D. E. 231. 
 Burkhardt, Walter. 12. 
 Burial of Rough Riders. 3g. 
 Burke, D. J. 21,:^, 45. 46, 69, 97, gg. 
 Burns. R. M. 226. 
 Burns. T. J. 233. 37, 97, gg. 
 Burr, Geo. E. 212. 
 Burr, Mrs. Mary H. 3og. 
 "Busy Bees," 100. 
 Butler. Gen. B. F. 222. 
 Butler, C. E. 87, 106. 46, 47. 
 Butler, Geo. C. 146, 47. 
 Butler, Mav, 305. 
 
 Butler, W.'H. 88. 122. 35. 37, 46. 47. 
 Buzzacott Outfit, 6g. 
 Cafferty. Jas. H. 310. 
 Calf and hound incident, g8. 
 Call for troops. 9. 
 Callahan. Frank. 233. 
 Callahan Bros. 281. 
 Camp (Co. A) before Santiago. 59. 
 Camp of the Ninth in Cuba, 273. 
 Camp of the Second, 195. 
 Camp Massachusetts, 21. 
 Campbell. B. F. 233. 
 Canteens filled, 47. 
 Capron. Body of Capt. 40. 
 Capron's Battery, 44, 47. 113, 15, 87. 
 Carberry, J. M. 283, 85, g8. 300. 
 Cardin, Wm. E. 12. 76. 78. 80. 
 Carey. J. F. 283, 98, 300. 
 Carey. M. 226. 44. 
 Carroll. J. F. 28?. g8, 100. 
 Carroll, M. VV. 226. 
 Carrying rations, 183. 
 Casey, J. A. G. 233, 61, go, 97. 98. 
 Casey, J. E. 233, 46, 47, 57, 59, 64, gs, g8. 
 Casey, J. J. 226. 
 
 Casey, Thos. F. 283. 86, 98. 300. 
 Casey, Wm. F. 233, 42, 74, go, g7, 98. 
 Casey, Lieut. Wm. J. 254. 
 Cat overboard. 180. 
 Cathedral in Santiago, 315. 
 Chamberlain, Gen. R. H. 7, 229. 
 Chamberlain, W. H. 242. 
 Chapman. Alderman, 151. 
 Cherry Hill. 20. 
 Chapin, H. T. 119, 46, 47. 
 Christenson, E. A. 22, 74, 78, 80. 
 Citv Guards, 7, f;. 
 Clatlin. C. H. 160, 168. 
 Clapp, S. E. 5, 12, 34, 42, 52, 74, 78, 80. 
 Clark, Earle E. 162. 203, og, 10. 17. 
 Clark. Col. E. P. 18, 20. 21, 33, 38, 41, 51, 62, 
 85, log, 15. 40. 5g. 67. 69, 73, 86, 90, 95. 
 
 Clark. Lieut. F. ^L Jr. 87. 131. 56, 57. 
 
 Clarke, Julius L. 7. 
 
 Clarkson. F. H. 135. 37. 46, 47. 
 
 Cleveland. Capt. Geo. H. 7. 
 
 Cloys. W. O. 166. 
 
 Coan. John J. 229. 
 
 Coat incident. 183. 
 
 Coates. H. A. 162. 63, 76, 203. 16, 17. 
 
 Cobb. Corp. Edward, 34. 
 
 Coburn, J. J. 87. 
 
 Cocoanuts, 183. 
 
 CofYee, J. M. 282, 83, 8g, g2, 300. 
 
 CofTee grinder incident, 26g. 
 
 Coi¥ee story, 1 10. 
 
 Colbert. Rev. J. D. 235. 
 
 Colburn, C. H. 87, iii, 22, 35. 37, 46, 47. 
 
 Cole, James A. 12. 73, 78, 81. 
 
 Colesworthy, F. E. 160, 162. 
 
 Coley, H. G. 14, 78. 81, 
 
 Collins, Wm. 305. 
 
 Colored soldier shoots. 170. 
 
 Colored soldiers. 46. 180. 
 
 Comins. L E. 308. 
 
 Conaty, Rev. Thos. 247. 
 
 Concho, 25, 26, 2g, 102, 77. 
 
 Condy. Capt. Wm. A. 7. 
 
 Conklin, Capt. Geo. B. 7. 
 
 Connelly, F. H. 283, 8g, 98, 300. 
 
 Connelly, Jas. 233, 36, 46. 
 
 Connolly, J. F. 226. 97, gg. 
 
 Conrad, Dr. A. Z. 287. 
 
 Conroy, M. H. 283. g8, 300. 
 
 Converse, Col. H. E. 233, 52. 
 
 Cook. C. E. 162, 84, 203, 16, 17. 
 
 Coolness under fire, 190. 
 
 Cooper, Benj. 12, 14, 78, 81. 
 
 Corbett. Capt. Jas. 225. 
 
 Corbett. P. J. 226. 
 
 Corbin, George, 282, 87. 
 
 Corcoran, C. S. 233, 36, 89, 97, gg. 
 
 Corliss, J. J. 6, 228, .S3, .s6, 37, 39, 4^, 46, 47. 
 
 48, 82. 84, g7, g8. 
 Cornwell, Wm. G. 12, 14, 49, 54, 78, 81. 
 "Couchee," 232. 34, 36, 41. 48, 49, 63, 77, 80. 
 Cove, Mary, 305. 
 Cow and sentinel, 173. 
 "Crab Hollow." 35. 36. 
 Crabs and tarantulas, 185, igi. 
 Crab stories, 108. 
 Crandall, H. M. 157. 
 Crazy man at sea. 205. 
 
 Creaven. J. J. 233, 36, 60, 66, 82, 8g, 94, gg. 
 Cronin, D. E. 283. 98. 300. 
 Cronin, Marcus D. 5. 
 Crooker, L. E. 118, 20, 37, 46. 47. 
 Grossman, F. E. 88, 135, 37. 46, 47. 
 Cruikshank, J. T. 12. 51, 78, 80. 
 Commissions given, Co. A, 16: Co. C. gi; Co. 
 
 H. 165: Co. G, 240. 
 Cuban beauties, 124; camps. 185; fruit, 35; 
 
 patriots, 3g; rains, 121: sufifering, 35; 
 
 vegetation, 200; war views, 56; woman 
 
 at fountain, 122. 
 Cubans and the tomatoes. 195. 
 Cubans at ease, 183. 
 Cummings, W. B. 160. 
 Cunningham. James, 231. 
 Curtis, Albert, 83. 
 Daicjuiri. 33, 106. 181. 
 Dalton. .Adiutant-general, gi. 
 Daly, D. C. 226. 
 Daly. Capt. Wm. 224, 225. 
 
i.\i)i;.\. 
 
 325 
 
 Daly. Win. \V. J26. 
 
 Dand, Thomas R. 12. 
 
 Darling, F. W. 160. 
 
 Davis, C. T. 157. 
 
 Davis, Luke, 71. 
 
 Davis, O. W. 22. 24, 78, 81. 
 
 Davis, Richard Harding, 171, 89. 
 
 Deacon, Wni. C. 157. 
 
 Dead in Co. A, 77; Co. C, 136: Co. 11, 208: 
 
 Co. G, 288. 
 Dean. F. P. 6. 88, 103, 14, 16, 18, 20. ,?5. 40, 
 
 41, 46. 47. 7><- 
 Deaths at sea. 67. 20,^. 
 Death begins, 58. 
 
 Degnan, C. J. 233, 36, 42, 46, 89, 97, 98. 
 Delahanty, Dr. W. J. 279. 303. 
 Delaney, Anna M. 281, 306. 
 Delaney, May E. 306. 
 Delaney, Rev. M. 237. 
 Delaney, M. J. 2:i3, 36, 46, 97, 99. 
 DeMarco. Jos. 175, 81, 90, 204, 16, 17. 
 Dennis, W. G. 87, 13S. 37. 46, 47- 
 Denny, Daniel E. 316. 22. 
 Departure of Co. A, 10, 17, 29: Co. C. 87. 105: 
 
 Co. G, 231; Co. H, 161. 
 Desautelle. A. L. 283, 98, 300. 
 Devens. Gen. Chas. 222. 
 Devil, Raising the, 169. 
 Devine, Surg. W. H. 234. 48. 54. 
 Devlin, H. H. 160, 162. 
 Diary, Co. C man, 119. 
 Ditson. Chas. H. 194. 204, i6. 17. 
 Dividing rations, 185. 
 Dobbins, Paymaster H. E. 247. 54. 
 Dodge, F. E'. 157. 
 Dodge. Karl H. 157. 
 
 Dodge. Hon. R. B. 11. 15. 135,229.47,87,309. 
 Dogs in camp, 251 . 
 Doherty, Chas. I. 241. 
 Doherty, F. W. 226. 
 Dolan, Patrick, 233. 
 Donnelly, 246. 
 
 Donovan, Mai. \V. H. 234. 68. 
 Don Quixote and his Rosinante, 64. 
 Doran, F. H. 2^,3. 67. 81, 90, 97, 98. 
 Dorman, P. 226. 
 Downey, Daniel, 231. 
 Downey, Mrs. Daniel, 310. 
 Dowse, R. H. 87, 122, 24, 25, 36, 39, 47. 
 Doyle, A. F. 226. 
 Doyle, D, J. 233, 72, 97, 99. 
 Doyle, F. P. 233, 36, 37. 60, 65, 97. 99. 
 Drabble. Geo. J. 157. 
 Drill-shed at Armory, 84. 
 Drum, Capt. John, 259, 73. 
 Drury, E. F. 125. 31. 35. .^8, 47. 
 Dry Tortugas, 3[. 
 Dutault, Dr. P. C. W. 310. 
 Dutlicld, Gen, H. M. 250. 
 Duggan. J. F. 226. 
 Duncan & Goodell, 312. 
 Duncan incident. Capt. 285. 
 Dunn-Loring. 240, 43, 84. 
 Dyon. Maj. M. R. 2S7. 
 Earle, Ralph, 5. 
 Earle, S, C. 322. 
 Earle, W. H. 160, 68. 
 Early, Lieut. James. 231, 301. 
 Easton, F. A. 312. 
 Eaton, Capt. Edwin, 7. 
 Eaton. \V. B. 310. 
 Eddv. VV. W. 88. 118, 46. 47- 
 
 lulmoiids. Lieut. 75. 
 
 Eighth Regiment departs. 237. 
 
 El Caney. 44- 45. 53. 115, 19, 87, 89. 
 
 El Cancy to Santiago, 196. 
 
 El Caney Views, 56. 120, 88, 92. 
 
 Eldridge, C. T. 5. 87, 90, 120, 35, 46. 47. 
 
 El Poso, 43, 57, 116. 
 
 Emmet Guards, 54; story of. 219: volunteer, 227; 
 leave Worcester, 229. 30: in Cam]) Dewey, 
 232; leave South Framingliam. 240: pass 
 through Worcester. 241 : in Pillslield. 241 : 
 reach Washington, 243: take a spin. 246; 
 receive pay, 247: march to the Potomac, 
 250; receive gifts, 251 : leave Camp Alger. 
 251; Sunday episode. 255; reach Cuba. 
 256; at Santiago. 265: secure supplies. 270; 
 leave Cuba, 272; leave Montauk, 279: 
 home coming, 279; mustered out, 287. 
 
 "Emmet" .Vu.xiliary. 250: members of, 307. 
 
 "Emmet" Honoraries, 240, 301. 
 
 "Emmet" recruits, 282. 
 
 English. John. 34. 
 
 Entrenching. 50. 
 
 Fagerstrom. O. L. 170. 216, 17. 
 
 Fan-banks, F. L. 12. .30, 44. 66, 74. 78, 81. 
 
 Fairbanks, Maj. H. B. 11. 20. 37. 47,86,92, 
 95. 100, 14, ^i. ^4. 40, 61, 65, 69, 206. 
 69, 86. 
 
 Fairbanks, W, E. C. 87. 
 
 Falardeau. Henry A. 157. 
 
 Falardeau. Leo C. 157. 
 
 Fallon. Dr. M. F. 179, 293. 
 
 Farewells and furloughs, 74. 
 
 Farley, .•\nnic. 281. 
 
 Farmer, .\llie L. 162, 209, 210. 217. 
 
 Farnsworth. Calvin, 309. 
 
 Farrell, John. 233. 45. 97- 99- 
 
 Farrow, G. S. 87, 90, 122, 35, 37, 46, 47. 57- 
 
 Father and son incident, 165. 
 
 Fay, H. R. 4.3. 76. "8. 80. 
 
 Fay, L. M. 76- 77. 81. 
 
 Fayetteville. 20. 
 
 Feehan. Madge, 305. 
 
 Feet inspection, 178. 
 
 Fennesy, J. G'. 234. 
 
 Fenwick Hall, 219. 222. 
 
 Fischer, Chas. A. i2, 23. 42, 45, 50, 66, 74, 
 78, 81. 
 
 Fish, Lieut. E. B. 29. 158, 59, 60. 62, 65, 72, 
 83. 93, 200. 03. 15, 16. 
 
 Fish. Body of Hamilton. 40. 
 
 Fisher. Frank L. 157. 
 
 Fishing incident. Lake Parker, 96. 
 
 Fitzgerald. Father, 62. 
 
 Fitzgerald. Hon. J. F. 239. 40, 44. 47. 49. 5°. 
 
 5-;. 77. 78. 
 
 Fitzgerald. John P. ,wi. 
 
 Fitzgerald, J. J. 2M, 36. 72. 97. 90. 
 
 Fitzgerald. Mary K. iO$. 
 
 Fitzpatrick. J. E. 264. 97. 99. 
 
 Flag incident, Daiquiri, 33, 181. 
 
 Flag of truce. 50. 
 
 Fleming, P. J. 283. 84, 98, 300. 
 
 Fletcher. C. T. 87. 114. 3i. 35. 37. 46. 47- 
 
 Fletcher. Mavor E. F. 151. 
 
 Flint. Chas. j. 162, 86, 216. 17. 
 
 Flint. Lcroy J. 157. 
 
 Florence. 20. 
 
 Florida nights, 97: rains, 175. 
 
 Flynn, J. H. 135. 37. 46, 47. 
 
 Flynn, M. J. 233. 49. 72. 97. 99. 
 
 Fogerty, J. E. 281. 97, 99. 
 
326 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Foley. Harry, 305. 
 
 Foley, H. P. 226, 44. 
 
 Foley. T. F. 233. 46. 
 
 Foley, Dr. T. J. 269. 75, 76, 77, 79, 303. 
 
 Foley, Thos. 283, 98. .300, 
 
 "Fool Captain," 105. 
 
 Forest, Geo. L. 12, 74, 75. 76, 77. 81. 
 
 Forrest, Frank, 23;^, 97, 99. 
 
 Fort on Santiago road, 191. 
 
 Fortier. Q. E. 67, 78, Si. 
 
 Fredericksburg, 20. 
 
 Fresh beef, 58, 198. 
 
 Fresh bread, 58. 
 
 Fruit, not healthful, 121. 
 
 Fry, Capt. Jos. 199. 
 
 Fuller, C. M. 182, 216, 17. 
 
 Gage, A. C. 88. 
 
 Gage. W. I. 88. 129, _^2. 46, 47. 
 
 Gagniin. V. C. 30, 78, 80. 
 
 Gagnon. T. H. 216. 17. 
 
 Gale, F, E, 51, 78, 81. 
 
 Gale, G. H. G. 5. 
 
 Gale, L. H. 160. 
 
 Gallagher, M. M. 226. 
 
 Gardner. Daniel, 2;^;}, 47, 65, 97, 99. 
 
 Gardner. Geo. H. J. 221. 2;^,. 
 
 Gardner. R. F. 5. 
 
 Garrett, Michael F. 2;i,;i,. 97, 99. 
 
 Garon, Rev. A. S. 308. 
 
 Gates, .^sst. Sec, 63, 122. 
 
 Gazette, Worcester, 6, 132, 261. 
 
 Gendron, Jos, S, 162, 83, 216, 17. 
 
 Gilchrist, J, J. 233, 97, 99. 
 
 Gilman. Lieut. W. F. 86, 128, 31, ,^2. 33. 
 
 Gilmore, Geo. C. 173. 82. 216, 17, 89, 
 
 Gilniore, John H. 216. 17. 
 
 Gilmore. Wm. F. 297, 99. 
 
 Gleason. O. J. VV. 88, 119, 26. 46, 47, 
 
 Gleason, Willis, 6, 162, 83, 90, 204, 16, i~. 
 
 Gleason and Mower prei^are supper, 195. 
 
 Glixman. L. B. 102, 46, 47, 
 
 Goggin, David, 301, 02. 
 
 Going home, 62. 
 
 Goodhue. Capt. John M. 7. 
 
 Goodnow, G. A. 160. 
 
 Goodwin, Mrs. Wm. ^os. 
 
 Gould, A. W. 162. 
 
 Gowans, J. G. 14, 47, 78, 8n. 
 
 Grady, J. J. 226. 
 
 Grady, Maj. F. J, 2.^4, 68, 73. 
 
 Graham, Gen'l W. M. 246. 
 
 Gray, Lieut. H. T. 158. 60. 62. 68. 69, 72, 73, 
 
 200, 01, 15, 1(1. 
 Green, E. H. 1O2, 201 . 
 Green. John T. 23,^, ijS, 
 Green, R. C. 15. 30. 7.S. 81. 
 Green. R. M. 160. 
 Green, Wm. 162. 
 Green. Wm. C. 211. 13, 17. 
 Greene, Harry 11. 157. 
 Greene. H. J. 5, 87, [09, 25, 46, 47. 
 Greenhalge, Gov. F. T. 159. 
 Grittin, Henry, 2;^;^, 44, 60, 97, 99. 
 Gritlin. John J. 234. 
 (jriftin. Rev. Thos. 229. 
 Grime's Battery, 117. 
 Grogan, J, A, 226. 
 Grogan. M. J. 265, 97, 99. 
 Grout, Chas, H. 310. 
 Grover, H. C. 6. 36, 73. 79, 81, 167. 
 Guild, Lt. Gov. Curtis. 151. 
 Guinea hen incident, 197. 
 
 Gully. M.J. 297. 99. 
 Gunnison, Rev. Almon, 11. 
 "Gus's" mule, 123, 
 Hackett, E. F. 267, 97, 99. 
 Hackett, M. A. 226. 
 Hagberg, J. G. 30, 49, 78, 80. 
 Haggerty, S. F. 283, 84, 98, 300. 
 Haile, Lieut. Gov. 132, 35, 
 Hakanson, F. H. 162, 63, 73, 201, eg, 13, 17. 
 Hale, Chas. S. 310. 
 Hale. F. C. in, 25, 31, 46, 47. 
 Hall. Ernest B. 12, 22. 45. 52, 60, 79, 81. 
 Hall. John. 157. 
 Halpin J. H. 235. 
 Ham. H. H. 87. 
 Hammond. Maj. F. H. 251. 
 Hammond. J. H. 49, 69, 79, 81. 
 Hamilton Roads, 253. 
 Harford, Fred'k A. 157. 
 Harris, Mrs. H. F. 310. 
 Harrison. W. H. 7. 
 Hartwell, Hattie, 281. 
 "Harvard" entered, 253; incident, 260. 
 Hassam, Lieut, W, E. 159, 60, 64, 65, 66, 206. 
 Hastings, H. L. 87. 157. 
 Hats at the surrender, 63. 
 Havener. Mahlon E. 157. 
 Hawkins, Paul R. 86. 129, 77, 95. 
 Haye. C. M. 160, 62, 63, 213, 14, 16. 
 Hays. Fred. R. 12, 15, 22, 40, 79, 81. 
 Hayward, A. L, 12, 49, 57, 71, 79, 81, 
 Healy, M, J. 273, 89, 92, 99. 
 Healy, Lieut. M. J. 283. 
 Healy. Richard. 277. 301. 
 Hefifern, .Abbie L 305. 
 Heffern, Mrs. Mary, 305. 
 Hclmie. Lt. Eli, 259. 
 Help wanted, 38. 
 Henderson, R. E. in. 46. 47. 
 Henry, Paul, 301 , 
 Henson, Melvin A. 157. 
 Hewett, Geo. F. 312. 
 Hevvett. Walter R. 157. 
 Heywood, John G. 3T0, 
 Hickey, Capt. Wm. 231. 
 Higginbotham, C, S. 58, y^, 79, 81. 
 Hill, F. M. 160, 62, 70', 216, 17, 
 Hill, G. E. 160. 
 
 Hill. Geo. H. 85. Sy. 91. 98, 131, 35, 37, 46, 47. 
 Hinchley, Wm. .\. 12. 
 Hinckley. L. C. 12. 
 Hines M. E. 226. 28. 1,^, 34. 
 Hinkel, F. R. 162. 
 Hissing incident, 264. 
 Hitchcock. Asst. Surg. 63, 127, 
 Hoar, Hon. Geo. F. 132, 278, 303, 12, 22. 
 Hoar, M. L. 261, 97. 99. 
 Hobbs, Capt. Geo. 7. 220. 
 
 Hobbs, Horace K, 12, 42. 45, 47. 78, 80, 151. 
 Hobson, Lieut. 67, 193. 
 Hobson's exchange. Scene of, 268. 
 Hodgins, G, W. 162, 63, 83, 203, 13, 17. 
 Holbrook. J. W. 87. 114, 20, 46, 47. 
 Holden, Capt. Chas. S. 5. 158, 60, 61, 62, 63, 
 68, 69, 72. 77, 85, 89, 91, 95, 200, 05, 16. 
 Holden RiHes, 224. 
 Holmes, Jas. P. 2,^3. 
 Holton, Chas. E. 157. 
 Homesickness. 58. 
 Homeland sighted. 68. J30. 
 Hooker. Walter F. 162. 70. 204. 16, 17. 
 Hopkins. Col. W. S. B. 287. 
 
IXDKX. 
 
 327 
 
 Horan, J. F. 233, ,;6, 46, 60. 81, 89. 93, 98. 
 
 Horan, M. J. 2ii, 35, 36. 40. 46, 48, 97. 98. 
 
 Horan. '"Tim," 236. 
 
 Horses unloaded, 37. 
 
 Hospital, 58, 63, T08. 
 
 Houlihan, P. F. 226. 
 
 Hoyt. Chaplain, 245. 
 
 Hoyt. John I. 157. 
 
 Hubbard, Chas. P. 162. 
 
 Hubbard, Geo. W. 71, 133, 201. 03. 310. 
 
 Hughs, John J. 225. 
 
 Humes, W. J. 125, 46, 47. 
 
 Hurley, Lieut. J. F. 6. 218. 26, 28. 33, .^4, 48, 
 
 59, 97, 98, .?oi. 
 Hurley, Mrs. J. F. 304. 
 Hurley, T. J. 283, 85. 98, 300. 
 Illinois. The 7th, 243, 45, 51. 
 Irish stew, 266. 
 "Iron bells," 43. 
 Israel, Simon, 58. 69, 74, 79. 81. 
 Jackson, Gilbert S. 157. 
 Jackson, W. Hubert 249. 
 Jackson Guards, 219, 20, 2^. 
 Jefferson, F. R. 204, 16, 17. 
 Jefferson, G, N. 160. 68. 
 "Jennie," the burro, 64. 
 Jersey City, 18. 
 
 "Johnny" marching home, 74. 135. 
 Johnson, .Albert, 51, 79, 81. 
 Johnson, Roland, 87, 94, 146, 47, 57. 
 Johnson, W. R. 22. 79, 81. 
 Jones, C. A. 160. 
 Jones, George, 12. 
 Jones, Geo. T. 87, 129, 46, 47. 
 Jones, L. S. 160. 62, 81, 90, 204, 15, 16. 
 Jordan, F. B. 6, 45, 160, 62, 78.86.94.95. 215. 
 
 16. 
 Joyce. F. E. 233. 97, 99, 
 Judge, P. J. 307. 
 June 17 in Camp Alger, 249. 
 Keane, M. A. 257, 83, 84. 8.S. 9«. 300. 
 Keegan, J. F. 281, 89, 94, 99. 
 Keevan, T. F. 212, 17. 
 
 Kellaher, T. F. 233, 44, 83, 84. 85. 98, 300. 
 Kelleher, T. J. 264. 83, .^00. 
 Kelley. Bertha. 246. 
 Kelley. Dr. J. H. 279, 80, 82. 
 Kellev, Adjt. J. J. 234. 54. 
 Kelle'v. Jos. P. 287. 
 KelleV, T. B. 260. 83. 85. g». 300. 
 Kelley. T. F. 284. 
 Kellogg. Lt. Col. E. R. 258. 
 Kennedy, John A. 233. 
 Kennev, Chas. E. 233. 97. 99. 
 Kennedy. D. J. 283. 96. 300. 
 Kent. Gen'l J. F. 259. 
 Kessell, Robert, 75, 279. 
 Kimball. A. D. 6. 162, 84. 91. 201, 10, 17. 
 Kincaid, R. W. 87. 90. 122. 30. 46. 47. 
 King, Lieut. A. C. 5, 82. 87, 91, 99. 103- 08, 09. 
 
 20. 22, 23, 28, 30. 31. 38, 4^- 47- 
 King, J. C. 88. 136, 39. 47- 
 King. Jas. F. 233. 36. 42. 97. 98. 
 King. J. L. 160, 62. 66, 73. 98. 21s. 16. 
 King. J. W. 162. 2t6. 17. 
 King. Capt. \V. H. 7. 
 King. \Vm. H. 162. 86. 215. 16. 
 Kingdon, Fred. 160. 
 Kinney. C. F. 160. 
 Kissing girls. 167. 
 Kitchner, Lt. D. W. 287. 
 Khaki measurements, 60, 
 
 Knapp, Rlioda L, 307. 
 
 Knibbs. C. H. 87, 118. 46. 47. 
 
 Knickerbocker. 29. 31, 32, 33, 103. 05, 78. 
 
 Knight, .Austin M. 5. 
 
 Krebs, F, H.. Jr. 162, 70, 90, 93, 216. 17. 
 
 Ladies' .Auxiliary to the Emmets. 304. 
 
 Latlamme. Jos. T. 5. 12. 43. 47, 52, 60, 79. 81. 
 
 Lakeland, 21, 95. 97, 169. 
 
 Lakeland \'io\vs. 19. 27, 28. 104, 174. 
 
 Lakeland woman with a gun, 100. 
 
 Lamb. M. B. 6. 240. 79, 301, 02. 
 
 I,amberton, Chas. F. 12. 15, 23.43. A7- 5ii 79. 
 
 81. 
 Lamothe. Major. 33. 
 Landing at Daiquiri. 33. 34. 106. 
 LaPoint. .A. C. 160. 
 Larkin. John. 233. 36, 64. 67. 97. 99. 
 Larkin. J. J. 257, 83. 98, 300. 
 Earner. J. F. 233, 48. 64, 97, 99. 
 Las Guasamas. 36. no. 84, 257. 
 "Laura and Bessie," 66. 
 I.avin. T. F. 233. 42. 44. 66. 97, 98. 
 Lawrence. E. \V. 162. 94. 216. 17. 
 Lawton. General. 113, 99. 
 Leary. Tim. 233. 246. 
 Leaving Cuba. 65. 
 Lee. Capt. .Arthur H. 171. 
 Lega.scy. John. 247. 
 Legion Spanish \\'ar \'cterans, 317. 
 Lego, H. E. 162. 
 Lemonade weak. 176. 
 Lemons near. 177. 
 I.eonard. F. C. 233. 64. 97. 99. 
 Leonard. W. M. 283. 85. 98. 300. 
 Letter from a private, 128. 
 Letter from a Worcester boy. 124. 
 Lincoln. Capt. D. Waldo. 155. 
 Lincoln. Francis M. 30g. 
 Lincoln. Capt. Geo. 85. 
 Lincoln. Capt. John W. 83. 
 Lincoln. Gov. Levi, 83. 
 Lincoln. P. W. 87. 102, 24. 46, 47. 
 Lincoln, Capt. W. S. 143 et seci. 
 Lindscy, Jos. T. 162, 75. 76, 204. 16. 17. 
 Lindsey makes desks. 175. 
 Light Infantry. 7. 83: in Camp Dewey, 88; 
 
 Centennial. 149; marching to camp, 150: 
 
 History. 152. 
 Lightning bugs. 183. 
 Locomotive fixed. 38. 
 Loitus, J. J. 233. 97. 99. 
 Logan. James, 132, 51. 52. 73, 239. 
 Logan. Lt. Col. L. J. 234. 38, 47. 54. (57. 
 Lohnes. R. .A. 12. 
 Long. Dr. 250. 
 Long Bridge, 20, 167. 
 Long Island Sound. 135. 
 Longley. .A. S. 87. 114, 31, 46, 47, 
 Losiltires, Mount, 181. 
 Love, .Albert F. 162, 76, 204. 15, 16. 
 Loveioy, Chas. E. 162. 
 Lowell. J. H. 12. 76. 79, 81. 
 Lowell, Jas. Russell. 85. 
 Lucke. Lieut. F. H. 12. 13. 16. 7'- 73- 
 Ludlow. General. 55, 57, 62. 70, ini). 15. -5. 
 Lvnch, Mary, 305. 
 I.vons. E. H. 233. 59. 97. 99. 
 Mc.Adam. .A. R. 212. 
 Mc.Aleer. Dr. Geo. 6, 231, 79, 301, 04. 
 McAuliflfe, T. J. 231. 303. 
 McCafTerty. M. J. 223. 24. 
 McCallum. L. M. 157. 
 
328 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 McCann, J. E. 226. 
 
 McCann, Lieut. Wm. E. 6, SV ^18. 77,80,82, 
 
 90, 97, g8. 
 McCartin, M. J. 2.y, 45, s". 60, 6j, 97, 98. 
 McCarthy. Michael, Sr. 252. 
 McCarthy. Michael. Jr. 236. 
 McConville. M. S. 224. 25. 
 McCormick. Wni. H. is7. 
 McCurdv. A. 226. 
 McCutcheon, H. J. 162. 
 McDermott. Tho.s. 24S. 
 McDonald, John P. 281. 302. 
 McGauley, Thos. F. 22^. 
 McGillicuddy, Rev. D.' F. 227, 29, 77, 79. 87, 
 
 .^03. 06. 
 McGillicuddv, G. F. 272.8?. 98, ?oo. 
 McGillicnddy. Dr. J. T. 2.{i, 33, 83. 
 AIcGourty. .\lice G. 281, 307. 
 McGourty, Dr. J. E. 277. 95. 
 McGrath, J. J. 233, 49, 63, 65, 97, 99. 
 McGuire, Hugh, 2;^^. 36, 59, 97. 99. 
 MacKay, John C. 194, 204. 16, 17. 
 McKeon, F. P. 2?i. 
 McKenzie, Wm. R. 157. 
 McKiniey. President, 57. 
 McKoan, Dr. J. W. 279, 303. 
 McLaughlin, J.. J. 210, 11, 17. 
 McLoughlin, Peter, 245. 
 McMahon, B. H. 279. 
 McMahon, E. J. 5. 
 McMann, Chas. F. 273, 89, 92. 99. 
 McManus, P. J. 240, ?02, 
 McNeil, Jas. E. 2^5. ' 
 MacNevin, M. W.'i84, 216, 17. 
 McSweency. J. D. 2,^s. M-^- 44. .S2. 80, 91. 98. 
 McTaggart. D. D. 12, 71. 
 McTiernan, J. F. 233. 36, 82, 89, 94, gg. 
 Magee, Arthur C. 12, 47, 51, 69, 79. 81. 
 Magurn, Surg. F. T. L. 2^4, ^o. S4. 
 Maher, M. J. 226. 
 Maine, Ironclad, 9. 
 Manhansett, steamer, 132. 
 Map El Caney field. 45. 
 ALarhle, Jerome & Co. 306. 
 Marlow, M. F. 226. 
 Marsh, John F. 62. 
 Martin, E. J. 88, T17, 35, 37, 46, 47, 57. 
 Martin, Geo. 128, 46, 47. 
 Martin. II. J. 2X^. 39, 6"- 97. 99- 
 Martin, John J. 283, 98, 300. 
 Martin, R. J. 51, 79, ,Si. 
 Mascot. Co A, 64. 
 Mayo, S. I. 87, 124, 36, 31), 47. 
 Mayers. I-". R. 160. 
 
 Maynard. l". P). 88, 117, 30, 35, 37, 4(1. 47. 
 Mechanics Hall, Rece|)tion in, 286. 
 Melaven, Maurice, 224. 
 Mermaid adventure, 176. 
 Merrifield, W. .\. 87, 114, 35, _-iy. 46, 47. 
 Mcrrimac, .Steamer, 67, 276. 
 Merritt, Chas. E. 157. 
 Mcrritt. Harry, 18, "73. 
 Michigan, The 33d, 243. 
 Middlesex Post, No. 163, 17. 
 Miles, General, 55, 132. 76, 
 Milford priest, 93. 
 Miller. Colonel. 103. 
 Miller, .Mrs. D. McT. 310. 
 Mills, A. G. 15, 22, 23. 43. 47, 64. 79, 81. 
 Mills, Geo. 162. 
 Mills, H. N. 162. 
 
 Miner. Dexter. 182. 204, 16, 17. 
 
 Mirick, H. W. 162, 80, 216, 17. 
 
 Mobile transport, 66, 67, 130, 202. 
 
 Monahan, Ella A. 306. 
 
 Monroe, C. E. 6, 160, 62, 68, 72, 78, 83, 87, 91, 
 
 93. 200, 15, 16. 
 Montauk, Co. A at. 79, 131: Co. C, 137: Co. 
 
 H, 204; Co. G, 290. 
 Montauk committee, 302. 
 Montauk Point. 68. 
 Moody, Wm. E. 12, 14. 70. 81. 
 Mooney. J. F. H. 220. 
 Moore, John J. 180, 204, 10. 17. 
 Moran, John M. 209, 10. 17. 
 Morro Castle. Santiago, 278. 
 Morse, .\rthur S. T37. 
 .Morse. Wm. H. 12, 22. 59. 60. 79, 81. 
 Morton, Lake, 21. 
 Moss beds, 97. 
 
 INIower, H. A. 160, 62, 70, 72, 83, 204, 16. 17. 
 Moynihan. D. J. 226, 46. 
 Moynihan, F. j. 279. 
 .Moynihan, Capt. J. J. 6, 53. 21S. 26, 28, ??, 
 
 35. 40. 44. 97. 98, 303" 
 Moynihan, C. J. 233. 30, 30. 42, S2, 60. 66, 97, 
 
 98, 301, 
 Moynihan, Mrs. P. J. 304. 
 Murray, A. F. 42, 78, 80. 
 Munger, Geo. W. 137. 
 
 .Murphy, Chap. P. P>. 239, 45, 48, 51. 54. 67. 
 Murphy, Daniel, 24S. 
 Murphy, E. F. 269, 97, 99. 
 Murphy, J. F. 233, 36, 48, 98. 99. 
 ,Mur|)hy, J. H. 30T, 02. 
 Murphv, Jeremiah, 226, ?oi. 
 -Murphy, Mrs. P. H. 304,' 
 .Murphy, Wm. H. 233. 40, 57, 83. 96, 99. 
 Musician's mishap, 205. 
 .Muster-in, Co. A. 15; Co. C. 91; Co. H, 163; 
 
 Co. G. 235. 
 Muster-in Rnll Co. A. 80; Co. C, 147; Co 
 
 11, 216; Co. G, 298. 
 Muster-out. Co. .\, 7s; Co. C, I3S; Co. H, 
 
 208: C... G, 287. 
 Nault. J. P. 216. IT. 
 Needhani, Wm. I. 157. 
 Nelson, .\. H. 22-^. 
 Newell, F. G. 4-'. 79. 81. 
 New London, 72. 
 Newport, 17, 91, 165. 
 Newiiort News, 253. 
 
 Newton, .\. E. 162, 63. 82, 93, 204, 16, 17. 
 Newton, Capt. L. 7. 
 Newton, O. J. 87. 
 New York, i6.t. 
 Nichols, Eli F. 157. 
 Nichols, Rev. R. 279. 
 Night march from El Caney, 47. 
 Non-com. officers, Co. C, 98. 
 Norcross, J. O. 160. 
 Norton, Edgar H. 162. 
 Nugent, yi. 226. 
 O'Brien, M. J. 226. 
 O'Brien, Patrick. 231. 
 O'Brien, Thos. 23?, 98, 99. 
 O'Brien. T. f. 2??. 
 O'Callaghan, J. H. 261, 98, 99. 
 O'Callaghan, Dr. T. A. 279, 303. 
 O'Connell, P. J. 279, 301. 
 O'Connor, D. W. 233. 39, 49, 61, 98, 99. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 329 
 
 O'Connor, John F. 229. 
 
 O'Connor, Maj. M. J. 239, 68, 74. 
 
 O'Connor, Rev. P. M. 2,39. 
 
 O'Day, Patrick. 240. 
 
 O'Driscoll, Micliacl. 221, 22, 24. 
 
 O'Fljnn, Richard, 6, 2ig. 22. 23, 26, 301. 
 
 O'Gorman, Minnie, 2S1, 306. 
 
 O'Keefe, P. D. 2;!,^. 36, 39, 66, 6g, 71, 82, 90, 
 
 98, 99- 
 O'Leary. F. A. 226. 
 O'Leary. T. S. 5. 
 Oliver, E. G. 88. 
 O'Neill, Captain, 34. 
 O'Neill, Thos. 224, 25. 
 Orizaba, 29, loi, 03. 
 Osceola, ^^i- 
 
 O'Sullivan, L. .\. 26.1, S3, 85, 98, 300. 
 Out artist afield, 61. 
 Owen, F. S. 88. 
 Owl and the captain, 1S5. 
 Pando, General, 119. 
 Paradis, .\. J. 162. 98, 216, 17. 
 Parker, Chas. F. Jr. 162. 
 Patten, Colonel, 142. 
 Pay-day, 24, 175, 277. 
 Pearson, Col. E. P. 258, 59. 
 Pease, Giles S. 157. 
 Pembleton, A. J. 88, in, 46, 47. 
 Pepper. Rev. George W. 227. 75. 
 Perky, H. D. 132. 
 Personals, n8. 
 Pettet, F. W. 88. 
 Petersen, Dr. A. C. N. 73. 
 Peterson. Chas. .\. 157. 
 Philadelphia, 20, 92. 
 Physical examinations, 89, 163. 
 Plunkett, F. T. 226. 
 Plummer. Lieut. W. H. 10, 12. 13, 25, 34, 49. 
 
 64. 65, 73, 78, 80. 
 Plymouth, Steamer. 17, 18, 92, 165. 
 Pickett, Gen'l Josiah, 225, 29. 
 Pig chasing, 94, 168. 
 Pickaxe. The only. 197. 
 Pierce. E. L. 160. 68. 
 Pierce & Co.. E. S. 312. 
 Pierce. Col. F. E. 6. 164. 
 Pierce. F. H. 160. 
 Pinkertoii. Hon. .\. S. 2S7. 
 Pinkham. Chas. H. 287. 309. 
 Pinkham. Mrs. Chas. H. 309. 
 Pitts. R. H. 88. 126, 38. 47- 60. 7.r 
 Point Mulas. 31. 
 Poisonous plant, igo. 
 Poland. Chas. A. 12. 15, 41, 60, 73, 78, 80. 
 Pool, Capt. Leonard. 7. 
 Pope. J. E. 88. 118, 2S, 37. 4^. 47- 
 Portico, 20. 
 
 Post 10, G. .-v. R. II. 74- 
 Power, E. J. 12. 157. 
 Power, J. F. 2^.^. 86. 87, 98, 300. 
 Powers, "Patsey." 236; finds a bill, 249: 49, 
 
 52. 
 Powers, R. H. 283. 08. 300. 
 Powers. Letter of Rev. L. M. 127. 
 Pratt. A. W. 162, 63, 73. 90. 91, 216. 17- 
 Preble, A. W. 160. 
 Prendergast. A. T. 267, 98. 99- 
 Prendiville, P. J. 233. 44, 46, 60, 65, 98, 99- 
 Prentiss, H. C. 160. 
 
 Preston, Capt. Win. D. 7. 
 
 Prior. Lieut. W. S. 159, 60, 64, 65. 
 
 Prince, B. .\. 88. 102. 35, 37, 46, 47. 
 
 I'rovan, Mrs. I'lora. 310. 
 
 I'nrinton, .\. L. 160, 62, 78, 215, 16. 
 
 Putnam. Herbert C. 157. 
 
 Putnam, Davis & Co. 312. 
 
 Putiiani, Harry S. 5. 
 
 Quarantine. 70. 
 
 Quilty, J. F. 173, 82, 216, 17. 
 
 Quinn, J. ■•"rank, 231, 301. 
 
 Rand, .'\nnie E. 281. 
 
 Randall, Harvey, 162, 201. 14, 16. 
 
 Randall, R. C. 87. 
 
 Rations carried, 38. 
 
 Ravvson & Simpson. 312. 
 
 Raymond. Maj. E. T. 5. 132, 308. 
 
 Reardon, John. 305. 
 
 Rcbboli. A. F. 87. 91, loi. 
 
 Rebel yell. 169. 
 
 Recruits for "Emmets," 246, 47. 
 
 Red Cross tlags, 122. 
 
 Red Cross supplies, 5, 277, 85. 
 
 Reed, Geo. \. 162. 
 
 Regan. VVm. 225, 31. 
 
 Reina Mercedes. 67, 276. 
 
 Reinbold. A. J. 71, 79, 81. 
 
 Relief Committee. 312. 
 
 Resting on March to El Caney, 189. ^ 
 
 Reynolds, C. P. 173, 204. 16, 17. 
 
 Rheutan, .\. .\. 131. 32. 33. 
 
 Rheutan, W. D. 88. log. 46. 47- 
 
 Rice. Chas. F. 283. 98, 300. 
 
 Rice. P. J. 226. 
 
 Rice. Wm. W. 12. 30. 46. 78, 81. 176. 
 
 Richardson, Chief .\Iusician, 23. 
 
 Richardson, Mayor Geo. W. 222. 
 
 Rider. Capt. P. L. 6, 85. 86. 87. 92. 100. 31. 
 
 32. i3, 51. 55. 57. 310. 
 Riedl. E. R. 12, 69, 77. 80. 
 Riley, Wm. J. 272, 83, 98, 300. 
 Riordan, John J. 226, 29, 31, 79. 301, 02, 03, 
 
 14. 
 Rix, Geo. E. 87, 94, 135, 37. 46, 47. 
 "Roast beef," 31. 
 Robbins, Howard W. 157. 
 Roberts, John, 305. 
 Roberts, W. D. 88. 135. 36, 39, 47. 
 Robinson. Mrs. Wm. L. 6, 313. 
 Rocky Mount. 168. 
 Roe. .\lfred S. 5- 
 Rogers. John J. 231. 
 Rooney. R. H. 2ii. 36, 81, 98, 99. 
 Ronayne. Dr. J. .\. 277, 82, 93. 
 Ronayne. Margaret L. 281. 
 Roosevelt, Col. 199. 
 Roosevelt's horse. 37. 
 Rose. Robert I. 157. 
 Rough Riders. 36. ,39, laS, 10. 
 Round Robin. 64. 
 Russell, Col. E. H. 229, 79. 
 Russell. M. L. 237. 79, 82, 303. 
 Russell. R. W. 157. 
 Ryan, E. H. 233. 
 Salisbury. Stephen. 308, 22. 
 Samjjson, Wm. H. 157- 
 Sands. Chas. M. 116, 46. 47. 
 San Juan Hill, 120. 258, 66. 
 San juan River. 43, 47. 
 Santiago Harbor, 32, 130. 
 
330 
 
 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 
 
 Santiago surrenders, uo. 25, 04. 95. 265. 
 
 Santiago visited, 268, 69: view of, 270. 
 
 Santiago wharf, 271. 
 
 Santiago, Scene of final surrender in, 280. 
 
 Saratoga, Transport, 18, 19, 165. 
 
 Sarsfield Guards. 225. 
 
 Savage, G. A. 160. 
 
 Savannah, 20. 95, 169. 
 
 Sawyer. E. B. 12. 42. 74. 78, 80. 
 
 Sawyer, H. N. 160. 
 
 Schofield, W. E. 12, 14, 15, 49, 79, 81. 
 
 Scott. Albert B. 6, 160, 62, 85, 98, 200, 04, 
 
 15, 16. 
 Scott, flenry A. 157. 
 Scully, P. J. 260, 90, 98, 99. 
 Second Alass. and "ist N. V. contrasted, 
 
 171. 77- 
 Second Regiment, 11. 23, 3,^. 
 Serenade to the Sixth, 238. 
 Sessions, Frank, 140. 
 Seventy-First New York, 18, 20, 22, 50, 92, 
 
 167. 
 Severy. Wni. M. 71, 79. 81. 
 Shea, P. F. 283, 98, 300. 
 Shea, Asst. Surg. P. O. 26^. 7=;, 9S. 
 Shedd, Geo. L. 162, 81. 84. 216. 17. 
 Shedd, Roscoc H. 157. 
 Shedd. Thomas S. 157. 
 Shepardson. .\. A. 283, 98. 300. 
 Sherman, Rev. Fr. 246. 
 Sherman, Wm. E. 12, 14. 79, 81. 
 Shoe mending, 198. 
 Shooting affray, Lakeland, 93, 170. 
 Short, C. S. Jir„ 160. 
 Shumway, Lieut. -col. E. R, 7, tl, 18, 34, .^9, 
 
 72. lof), 24, 31, 34, 38, 66, 67, 69, 90,95. 
 
 269. 
 Sibo^ney, .^.^. 3.t. 108. 257. 
 Sixth Regt. dei)arts, 238. 
 Sixth v. S. Cavalryman, 116. 
 Skerrett, Mark, 277. 
 Skeirrett, N. J. 6. 229, 33, 66, 67, 69, 81, 97, 
 
 98. 
 Sleeper, Chas. W. 162. 98, 216. 17. 
 Slocum, S. 160, 16S. 
 Smith Charles, 162. 
 
 Smith, C. E. 3. i6o. 62. 78. 87, 204, 15. 16. 
 Smith Co.. E. T. 312. 
 Smith. Jas. W. 4-. 4.=;. 79, 81. 
 Smith. Wm. S., Jr. 162. 
 "Snowball." 179, 87, 93. 
 Soap incidents. 32. 177, 97. 
 Sons of Veterans, 11, 74. 
 Sonthmayd. .Major, 34. 
 .Spanish block-lrouse, 262. 
 Spanish gun, ^22. 
 Spanish sharpshooter, 115, 261. 
 Sparrell, C. 11. 160, 68. 
 SparrcH, h'. J. 160. 
 Spencer, Wm. II. 226. 
 Spiders in Lakeland, 99. 
 Spiers, F. R. 160. 
 
 Sprague, Gen'l .A. B. R. 7, 229, 79. 30S. 
 Springer. I'. A. 157. 
 Springfield, 135. 
 Spy fracas, 238. 39- 
 Squires, .A. T. 30, 79, 81. 
 Stalker, C. D. 160. 
 Standish, L. O. 7f'. 79. 8r. 
 
 Standish. Wm. G. 12, 15, 79, 81. 
 
 Steals wagon-loiad, 239. 
 
 Stearns, E. A. 88, 126, 33, 37, 47. 
 
 Stebbins, Geo. W. 87, 109, 13, 30, 46, 47, 57, 
 
 Steele. E. F. 258, 61, 98, 99. 
 
 Stevenson John, 2 14. 
 
 Stevenson, J. C. 87, 157, 
 
 Stevenson, Wm. 157. 
 
 Stewart, A. D. 88, 136, 39, 46, 47, 
 
 Stiles, M.aj. F. G. 131, S-- 221. 
 
 Stiles, Wm. H. 162. 204. 16, 17. 
 
 Stone. Gen'l Ebenezer, 222. 2^. 
 
 Strong, Gov. Caleb, 83. 
 
 Studley, Lt.-col. J. M. 221. 
 
 Sullivan, D. J. 226. 
 
 Sullivan, Edw. V. 2,^,'^. 60; his death, 272; 
 
 289, 91. 99. 
 Sullivan, Henry, 233, 67, 89, 300. 
 Sullivan, Gov. Jas. 83. 
 Sullivan, Jas. E. 238. 
 Sullivan, J. E. 233. 
 Sullivan. J. F. 233. 
 Sullivan, Capt. J. J. 254. 
 Sullivan, Gen'l John. 83. 
 Sullivan, ^largaret. 303. 
 Sullivan, P. F. 6, 231, ,^s. 35, 44, 51. 36, 39, 
 
 69. 77. 97. 98, 300. 
 Sullivan, P. J. 233, 55, 60, 97, 98. 
 Sunday in Camp Mass. 99. 
 Surf bathing, 37. 
 Surrender, 37. 263. 
 Sweeney. J. H. 233, 46, 39, 98, 300. 
 Tableaux in Salisbury Hall, 310. 
 Taft, F. B. 88, 119. 20, 36. 39. 47- 
 Taft, Fred W. 162, 80. 204. t6. 17. 
 T.ift, R. B. 160. 
 Taft, Robert. 87, 118. 46. 47. 
 Tampa, 23. 177; Bay, 24. 
 Tansey, Wm. J. 231, 40, 79, 301, 02, 04, 06, 
 Tarantula incident, 37. 
 Tatman, C. T. 160, 
 Taylor. Gen'l Chas. H. 247. 
 Taylor, G. P. 160. 
 Taylor. J. H. 133, 46, 47. 
 Telegram, Worcester, 21, 57, 199, 245. 
 Tents for Co. G arrive, 263. 
 Thaxter, Levi, 134. 
 Thirteenth in the storj-. 103, 19. 
 Thomas, Q. F. 12, 76, 79. 81. 
 Thompson, .•\lex. G. 12, 23. 69. 78, So. 
 Thompson, C. W. 162, 86, 216, 17. 
 Thomson, Geo. M. 12. 
 Tillery, .^nnie, 168. 
 Tinkham, Eugene L. 157. 
 Titus, Jos. H. 7. 
 Tisdell, Lieut. M. II. 12, 16. 23, 34, 36, 30, 52, 
 
 54. 55., 57. 00. 78. 80, 134. 
 Tobacco, High price of, 41, 262. 
 Todd, J. E. L. Ill, 14, 18, 46, 47. 
 Tomato can labels, 262. 
 T(uie, Wm. 226. 
 Toner. W'ni, [1. 231, 301, 02. 
 Toohill, J. J. 22l<. 
 Tooniey, D. IV 6. 
 Torkelson. 1. G. 12. 
 
 Torkelson, R. A. 12, 22, 49. 37, 74, 80, 81, 
 Tourtelotte, A. H. 216, 17. 
 Towne, City Clerk, 173. 
 Tracy, H. P. 245, 98, 300. 
 Traver, W. A. 12, 14, 34. 78, 80. 
 
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 Trenches, Second Mass. in the. 187. 
 
 Tribe, Geo. T. 322. 
 
 Tribute to Post 10, 316. 
 
 Trowbridffe, Dr. E. II. 73. 
 
 Trudel, G. L. 204, 16, 17. 
 
 Trumbull. Mrs. 133. 
 
 Tucker, F. J. 135, ',{/, 46, 47- 
 
 Turner, Wm. T. 22, 80, 81. 
 
 Undergrave, Silas, 162, 200, 10. 15. 17. 
 
 Vaug-han, C. A. Jr. 87, 102, 37, 46. 47. 
 
 Vaughn. F. L. 160. 62. 72. 78. Si. 85. 204. 
 
 15, 16, 
 Vesper, Lieut. 41, 66, 67. 
 Virginius Wall. iQg. 
 Vizard, W. J. 206. 
 Volunteer .\id .Association, 308. 
 Volunteer nurses, 306, 07. 
 Volunteer physicians, 282, 93, 95, 303. 
 Vosberg, E. H. igo, 216, 17. 
 Vulcan repair ship, 255. 
 Wagner. Capt. C. .-X. 123. 244. 
 Walker. Hon. J. H. 287. 
 Wallace, .\rthur J. 157. 
 Wallace. S. .\. 12. 30, 80. 81. 
 Walsh. Harry. 162. 
 Ward. F. W. 8S. 
 Ward. Caot. Geo. H. 7. 
 Ward, Ralph W. 157. 
 Ware, Horace L. 12. 
 Ware. J. C. 162. 86. 204. 16. 17. 
 Warren, Lieut. H. H. 82, 87, 91, 122, 40, 46, 
 
 47- 
 
 Washburn, F. W. 87. 
 
 Washington. 20. 92, 169. 
 
 Watermelon. The <jnly. 132. 
 
 Waycross, 95. 
 
 "Weary Willies."' 173. 
 
 Weaver. Lieut. W. M. 15. 163. 234. 
 
 Webb. Geo. D. -^22. 
 
 Wei.\ler. Carl W. 6g. 76. 80, 81. 
 
 Weldon, 20. 
 
 Wellington, Gen'l F. W. 72. 135- 59- -^-^S. 3', 
 79> 86, 301, 03. 
 
 Wellington Rifles. 159; at Camp Dewey, 
 162; leave Framingham. 165; get the 
 cigars, 167; get roses, 168: leave Lake- 
 land, 174; nationalities, 175; in the 
 trenches, 181; night march, 187; first 
 death. 200; leave Cuba. 202; reach 
 Montauk. 20s: leave. 206. 
 
 Wellwood. Chap. J. C. 12, 23, 62, 163, 73. 
 
 Wentworth, H. B. 67, 87, 106, 30, 36, 30, 47. 
 
 West, Chas. F. 286. 
 
 West Point Lieutenant. "O. 
 
 West Point prig. A, 199. 
 
 Wheeler, A. F. 6, 102, 16, 3^, ^7. 46. 
 
 Wheeler, B. E. 30, 80, 81. 
 
 Wheeler, Henry E. 157. 
 
 Wheeler, Gen'l Joe, 36, 70, 133, 77, 267, 75; 
 
 his letter, 281. 
 Wheeler, J. W. 124, 36, 39, 46, 47. 
 Wheeler. J. W. 124. 36, 39, 47. 
 Whinple. Major, 167, 95. 
 White. Peter N. 12. 42. 44. 49. So. Si. 
 Whitinsr. Wm. I. i;^. 
 Whittaker. .Abel E'. 162. 
 WhittaWer. Leaver, 162, 86, 216. 217. 
 Whittall. M. J. 279. 
 Whittle. Jas. C. 157. 
 Williams. Caot. (Co. ]). 45. 
 Williams. Col. W. A. 2*20. 
 Wills. A. .NL 3S. =;2. 76. 80. 81. 
 Wilmot. I. L. S-. 90. 146. 47. 
 Wilson. A. E. 160. 
 Wilson. A. W. 160. 
 Wine found, 37. 
 
 Wintcrsgill, A. T. 87, 90, 130, 46, 47. 
 Wiseman. Thos. F. 233. 
 Writing material scarce, 193. 
 Wolcott. Gov. Roger, 9, 16, 72, 91, n5, 65, 
 
 235. 37. 38, 40. 
 Wood, W. H. Jr. 172, 203, 15. i6. 
 Woods. H. W. 12. 
 "Wood's Weary Walkers." loS. 
 Wooldridge. E. D. 88, 90. 146. 47. 
 Worcester Board of Trade. 6. 
 Worcester helps the regul.ars. 132. 
 Worcester officers at Montauk. 134. 
 Worcester welcomes companies, 207. 
 Wounded twice. 49. 
 Ybor, City, 23, 24, 107, 72. 
 Veaw, C. S. 12, 15, 17, 10. 2S3. 87. 
 "Ve brave orderly." 62. 
 Young. General. 132. 
 Young, H. C. .=;. 6. 160, 62. 68. 73. 78. 85, 91. 
 
 95, 204, 06, 15. 16. 
 Young. Wm. S. 60. So. 81. 
 Y. M. C. A. in Lakeland. loi. 
 Zaedcr. Eniil. 87, 109, 3^, 37, 46, 47. 
 Zaeder. F. J. 87. 
 Zaeder. Titliu*. i.^l. .U'. ■f.l. 
 
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