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Identifier: americaswarforhu00newy (find matches)
Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ont of the city was a raging fire, but our boys were hot, and the sightof the fire only made them wild. When the wounded men were brought over to us, willing hands helpedall that they could. The most pitiful sight was the negro boy, the cook,about twenty-two years old. His left leg was hanging by sinews only, andin his agony he asked for water. He was handed a cup of cold water, andthe doctors gave him ether to deaden the pain. He would try not to groan,and occasionally would smile and say : Boys, boys, did we win? As he laid on the doctors table he looked at us and said : Boys, thisis a hard death. Still smiling, he died. (Signed.) Your Bluejacket, James C. Darcv. Cutting tho Cables at Cienfuegos. Cienfuegos lies on the southwestern coast of the Province of Santa Clara, diagonally across the island from Cardenas. It is one of the largest cities of Cuba, having a population of about 65,000, and is enough of a cable center to attract attention in that line. So, while the guns were pop-
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364 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMAN/TV. ping at Cardenas, as a protection for the cable-cutters at that place, theywere also making lively music for the Spaniards at Cienfuegos, and with asimilar purpose in view. This Cienfuegos fight was a marvelously brilliantaffair, and deserves a prominent place among the long list of daring deeds ofour gallant sailors and soldiers. Some days after the epoch of eagerness of latest news of the war haspassed, says a correspondent, somebody will tell the true story of the cuttingof the cable at Cienfuegos. And when that story is told, people will under-stand more clearly than they understand to-day what sort of stuff Uncle Samsnavy is made of. It was a theme for Victor Hugo, or a picture for a Meis-sonier, that three hours of heroism, determination and death in the Bay ofCienfuegos that bright May morning. The men knew that death awaited them. They knew, when the smallboats were lowered from the ships and they pulled toward the shore, thatwhile they worked a

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