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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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w hours. It is impossible to remember the exact dates of all the fights, the num-ber involved, or the casualties. But I shall never forget Desmeyo. That battlewas fought in October, 1890. The Spaniards, 2500 of them, were drawn upin their usual close order, and we fixed to charge them with cavalry. Theyquickly formed squares with rapid-firing cannon at the corners. We hadonly four hundred and seventy-nine men, but we charged them. We roderight up in the teeth of their fire and fired our revolvers right into their faces.We didnt try to ride our horses on their bayonets, but we rode almost inarms reach of them. It was a terrible slaughter. Of our four hundred andseventy-nine we lost two hundred and fifty-one in killed and wounded in thecharge. The percentage is almost without a parallel. During that fight I heard bullets dropping around us when we werethree miles from the Spaniards. Their rifles carried that far. The velocityof the shot from that kind of a rifle is something astounding.
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304 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. Another hot battle was the taking of Las Tunas. The town washeavily fortified. After hard fighting, we got in and played havoc with theSpaniards. We charged them in the streets, and the bullets rattled againstthe sides of the buildings like hail. Finally, we planted two dynamite gunsin the parlor of a fine dwelling house about two hundred and fifty yards fromthe Spanish fort. Then we began to pump dynamite shells into them, and itmade them sick. We had with us, he went on, an educated Cuban named BarneyBueno. He was a rollicking devil-may-care fellow, who had lived in NewYork and was as full of fun as a yearling colt. While the dynamite gunwas cracking death out of the parlor windows Bueno sat at a grand piano inthe richly furnished room pounding out Dixie and all the ragtimes he knew.The dynamite gun struck terror to the Spaniards. The big brass shells hadfive pounds of dynamite in them, and when they hit the fort there was hell topay. We corraled all o

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