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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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with Executive Officer Lieutenant Rees and Navi-gator Lieutenant Calkins, who conned ship most admirably, were on the for-ward bridge. Captain Gridley was in the conning tower, as it was though^unsafe to risk losing all the senior officers by one shell. You may fire when you get ready, Gridley, quietly remarked Commo-dore Dewey, at precisely forty-one minutes past five oclock, and instantlythe starboard eight-inch gun in the forward turret roared forth a complimentto the Spanish forts. Similar guns on the Baltimore and the Boston sent twohundred and fifty pound shells hurtling toward the Castilla and the ReinaChristhia. And now the battle was on in all its fury. The American fleet swungin front of the Spanish ships and forts in single file, firing their port guns;then, wheeling, they passed back, firing their starboard guns. This move-ment was repeated five times, the entire American fleet passing all the Spanishships and batteries at each maneuver, and each time drawing in closer and
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192 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. closer, and delivering a fire at more deadly range. During two hours and ahalf there was a tremendous resistance by the Spaniards. They had elevenships and five land batteries in full play, against six American warships.But the American markmanship was faultless. Every shot seemed to countagainst ship or shore battery, while most of the Spanish powder was burnedin vain. The piercing scream of shot was often varied by the bursting of time-fuse shells, fragments of which lashed the water like shrapnel, or cut intothe hulls and rigging of the American ships. One large shell came straightat the Olympias forward bridge, where Commodore Dewey and his officersstood, but fortunately fell short less than one hundred feet. A fragment ofthis shell cut the rigging over the heads of the group of officers; anotherstruck the bridge gratings; and a third passed just under the Commodore andgouged a great hole in the deck. Incidents like these were plentiful, but themen l

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