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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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they made no complaint of theirsuffering; they grieved that they were wounded, but only because their com-panions, more fortunate than they when shot and shell were raining, hadsailed away in search of further glory and had left them helpless behind. Most of them are young fellows; all of them are above the average ofintelligence. They are the victims of their first experience in action; theytold me it was target practice. In a stuffy ward at the barracks I found a fair, curly-headed youngsterwho wrote his name for me, H. Kushmeister, of New York, and who,when I asked him what he was, said: Oh, just a marine—one of McCallas,of the Marblehead. Men who care for details in history can well spare adjectives to praisehim. He was one of those brave spirits who, in launches, protected only bytheir rifles and a small rapid-fire gun, whose supply of ammunition lastedonly a few minutes, cut the cables at Cienfuegos in the faces of 1500 Span-iards pouring bullets in streams from their Mausers.
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370 AMERICAS IVAR FOR HUMANITY. A bullet entered his mouth and tore a terrible exit through his left check.He is up, however, and cheerful, though now and again the pain is so greatthat tears are forced from his eyes, and the torture of talking is awful. Yes, he said, when I asked him to tell me about his experience,they had us in a tough place; and if they had been any good we neverwould have got back to the Marblehead alive. We left the ship, some of usin a steam launch, and others in a sailing launch. From the Nashville menwere sent in the same fashion. We were picked—that is, we were volunteers. I got into it because Ihave lots of medals as a marksman, and wanted to show that I could hitSpaniards as well as targets. We went out to cut those cables under orders,and we did it—all but one, and that does not amount to anything, because isonly runs to Santiago. Of course, we were under the guns of the cruiser andthe gunboat, but then we ran in about forty feet from the shore, and c

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