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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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f the American battleships in the harbor, hove in sight. His appearance wasthe signal for a spontaneous outburst by the boys aboard,who made the ancient harbor sound and resound with theircheers for their beloved commander. Shortly after thenoonday mess had been served we struck anchor andproceeded to the docks where we lay until the followingSaturday morning, during which interval the immensecargo of supplies and baggage had been unloaded and thedisembarkation of the troops began, much to the pleasure ofthe boys, who, having been five days and nights aboard,had grown tired of the transport, the strange sights andunfamiliar scenes about them and were anxious to go ashore.The regiment had been preceded by a detail of menin charge of the corral contingent and other regimentalproperty. On the 7th Lieutenant Anheier, by order ofColonel Durbin, selected as a detail of men to accompanyhim on this mission Corporals Imes, Holdridge and Gor-man and Privates Stanley, Reynolds and Hurst, of Com-
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114 HISTORY OF THE pany I, and Private McAdams, of Company H. SergeantOwens, of Company H, Ralph Robinson, Corporal Wilsonand Sam Kahn were also to accompany the party. Theywent aboard the transport Roumania about 8 p. m. theevening of the 7th. The First North Carolina were onboard. Seven regimental horses were in charge, twoambulances, twenty-seven wagons and seventy-nine mules.The vessel left at 5 A. m. on the 8th, arriving before theharbor the night of the loth, and waited until Spanish lawallowed it to enter after 6 a. m. the next morning. By 6p. M. mules and wagons were unloaded and the mulescorraled by a long rope stretched down a wide street. Those nights were wild ones in Havana—^nights ofquarreling and wrangling and shooting, and it was the firstnight that the much-commented-upon riot occurred at theHotel Inglaterra in which five Cubans were killed. Bynoon of the ne.xt day, all effects unloaded, the wagon trainwas ready to start for the ground that was to be the camp-ing si

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