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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, 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
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in military salute. Afterwhich he picked up his warlike instrument again and marched upon hisway—a colonel, at least, in the glorious imagination of his youth. The Blue and the Gray. We have gained enough as a nation in the reuniting of our own people,and the obliteration of sectional prejudices, to pay for all that the war has,can, or will cost. The foreign danger has made us one nation and one peo-ple again, now and for all time to come; irresistible in our strength and terri-ble in our determination to make the world free. No power on earth canwithstand us, and it is with a glow of patriotic pride that we see opening outin the near future, as the result of our own achievement, a vista of universalfreedom and a world governed by one harmonious family of republics, withour united country as the model, the friend, and the protector of them all. This thought was strikingly exemplified in the organization of the Blueand Gray Legion, in Chicago. The plan originated with Major Cooper, a
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450 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. former leader of Confederate guerrillas operating in Texas, Indian Territory,and the Southwest. It was his purpose to enlist a force composed princi-pally of the free riders of the old war combinations, on both sides, movehis men to Cuba on their own resources, and fight the Spaniards independ-ently of any connection with the government. The romance of the under-taking, and the opportunity for dare-deviltry which it held out, attracted hun-dreds of adventurous characters to Major Coopers standard. Early in April,Captain Willard Glazier, a Union veteran of the war, called on Major Cooperand talked over the situation and prospects of the Blue and Gray Legion.The result was that Captain Glazier, already famous as an explorer, abandoneda prospective expedition to Alaska, and threw himself, heart and soul, intothe organization of the free-lance battalion. He dispelled the somewhat visionary ideas which had previously existedregarding plunder and the spoils of

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