File:Springfield in the Spanish American war (1899) (14759029216).jpg

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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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had come fora short distance, we soon left it and changing direction tothe right, swung into a trail across country. Along this wemarched for hours amid the darkness, through woods andchaparral and fields, once cultivated. We climbed hills andforded streams, all in the darkness, we brushed the morningmist from the trees and grass as we passed, and when thedawn came found ourselves still on the march, wet and tiredand sleepy and bedraggled. Daylight made no difference.On we pressed, climbing a long hill, crowned with plantationbuildings and from which we could look down upon a sceneof beauty, the green-clad hills and mountains, their tops stillwreathed in the morning mist and with no sign that aughtbut peace and happiness lay in the valleys between them.No time, however, this to enjoy scenery, no matter how pic-turesque. On we went, now down the hill and into a thickpiece of woods, where we halted for a little time, then onagain until we once more struck a road and reached El Pozo, 96
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where there had been considerable trouble the day before.Without waiting for us the quadrille had already opened.During our halt in the woods we could hear the artillery andthe rifles and soon after we reached the El Pozo road andonce more swinging to the right started for San Juan werealized that it might be a case of El Caney over again, forwe encountered a steadj stream of wounded men going crbeing carried to the rear. Down the road screeched theMausers, but still high over our heads and in the distancewe could hear the boom of the guns of the Spanish forts asthey answered our light artillery-. Still onv/ard, with, noband or field music to give us the cadenced step, a minuteshalt now and then until we were compelled to leave the roadto make way for a battery banging recklessly along to takeanother position. Then across a stream and over an openfield in full view of the enemys trenches on the right, pass-ing the battleground of the day before and, under fire bythis time, we swung on

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