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Title: Springfield in the Spanish American war
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ward, Walter W
Subjects: Massachusetts Infantry. 2d Regt Massachusetts Naval Brigade. Co. H Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Easthampton, Mass., Press of Enterprise Printing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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onewere put into commission. These marked the origin of the Jo Jo bureau of misinformation which later became animportant feature of the campaign. On the night of Wednesday, May 11th at 9.30, orders wereflashed over the wires from Washington to Lieut. Weaver tosend the Second at once to Tampa, Fla., where the army ofinvasion of Cuba was gathering. Almost everyone exceptthe guard and a few officers and attaches at regimental head-quarters, was asleep when the orders came but within a veryfew moments after their purport had been announced, therewas the wildest scene of excitement in the camp that hadever been witnessed in South Framingham. From Lieut.Weaver the orders were quickly transmitted to regimentalheadquarters and from there to the officers of the regiment.Inside of ten minutes from their receipt by Lieut. Weaver,every man of the Second was awake and in his companystreet and exultant shouts that went up, quickly aroused theother regiments. The Second was to be the first command
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•< !^OO o CO OI—I O o o 9 O Q5z;<! O O o from the old Bay State to be ordered outside her boundariesfor active service and the men were so proud of it that theycould not refrain from reminding the men of the other threeregiments of the fact. T(^ the credit of the latter it must besaid that although at first they were a bit inclined to sulk be-cause their regiment was not the first to be called upon, yetthey Soon realized that the honor was in a sense as muchMassachusetts as it was the Seconds, and their cheers joinedin with ours. Meanwhile, the regimental and company officers were do-ing some lively work. Col. Clark had gone to Springfieldthat morning, and a number of officers and men were awayon leave, no one expecting that the orders would come for aday or two. The regiment was ordered to move the nextday and before the orders had been known of but a very fewminutes, telegraph and telephone messages were sent to theabsent ones informing them of what had happened. Thisdone,

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