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Title: History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939
Subjects: Indiana infantry. 161st regiment, 1898-1899 Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories United States
Publisher: Logansport, Ind., Wilson, Humphreys
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ned livery; the poor man carried in arude coffin on the shoulders of four young men; accordingto his wealth, he is buried in his cof^n, or, as is moreusually the case, taken out and lowered by a rope into hisresting place in mother earths bare bosom. The coffin-bearers each pick up a piece of dirt, kiss it, throw it uponthe corpse, pick up their coffin and take it back to be usedfor the next poor man. A little lime is then thrown overthe corpse and the grave-digger takes his hoe and scrapesin the soil to a depth of about eight inches above the poorfellows remains, and the same grave is then ready foranother occupant, who is not long in coming. If this isshocking, what follows is more so: For centuries theestablished church of that island has imposed a yearly gravetax, an exorbitant sum which the poor, of course, cannotpay, and as the poor predominate in numbers the hideousbone pile is the result, and every cemetery has its ghastlycorner into which the grave-digger is busy throwing the
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. l6l bones while he empties the grave for another tenant. Theday of this heathenish practice is over! Up to Washingtonhas gone the cry of the Cuban people, asking the privilegefor their dead to rest undisturbed, and the influence of thestarry flag, the ideas of the American nation, will makeit so. In the regiment a corps review had been ordered.The first order for this review, dated February 8, corpsheadquarters, called for a review of the corps on thenth inst., at 3 oclock p. m., on the open ground in thevicinity of the camp of the One Hundred and Sixty-firstIndiana Volunteer Infantry by the major-general com-manding, division of Cuba. The drill ground in our vicinitywas the largest and best available; it was thoroughly pre-pared by Cuban labor, giving to the One Hundred andSixty-first Indiana the best practice ground in the wholeSeventh Army Corps. Many of the regiments were on their way to executethe above order when it was revoked because of rai

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