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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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, keepinghis sword in his right and still carrying it at an angle of forty-five degrees.At times he upbraided men for negligence of attire. Meantime, the com-panies awaiting inspection smoked cigarettes, gazed at the ladies in the SOME THINGS THAT A CONGRESSMAN SAW IN CUBA. 93 windows of the hotels, and bought tidbits from the hucksters who beset theline. The jabbering was incessant until the inspecting officer reached thecompany; then all were as motionless as statues. The privates seemed to look upon the inspecting officer with awe, whilethe company officers evidently gave cues to their men when he was approaching.There was no crowd around the regiment, and nobody, aside from the soldiersthemselves, seemed to take any interest in the inspection. After the inspec-tion the commanding officer took his station twenty feet away from theregiment and issued his orders in a loud voice. The regiment came to a closeorder and moved off by the right flank at a very quick step to the call of the
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SPANISH GUERRILLAS. bugle. All the privates were young men, ranging, apparently, between theages of seventeen and twenty-one. Men in uniform are found on every street. The officers swarm in therestaurants, drinking light wines and feeding on olla podrida, and otherSpanish dishes well seasoned with garlic. There are usually ladies at theirtables, and cigars and cigarettes are always in form. The generals were asnumerous as generals in Washington, in 1862, when Orpheus C. Kerr saidthat a negro who threw a stick at a dog in front of Willards had the misfortuneto spatter mud on two major-generals, six brigadiers, and two colonels. The Spaniards seemed to be well supplied with money. They airedtheir uniforms in carriages at all hours of the day, and as the sun went downappeared in profusion along a favorite drive on the seashore toward Banas. 94 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. No signs of sympathy with the starving reconcentrados were shownby the Spanish soldiers. The starving people shunned th

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