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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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Comfort of the returning soldiers, Gov. Wolcott w^s onhand when the special train rolled in and three members «>fhis staff had been at work for several days previous assisliiiigin the preparations for the reception of the men. MayorDickinson and the city officials had done everything in theirpower to aid tlie soldiers and with them at all times were theofficers and members of the Volunteer Aid association andmany private citizens, good men and women who laboredzealous:ly iti the good cause. Others there were, too, notconnected officially with state or city or with any society, butwhose work was ably done and is never to be forgotten. At 2.58 in the afternoon the train cam^ in and the 10,000,people in waiting set up a cheer at the initiative of Gov.Wolcott. Then the people pressed hard, against tlie ropeswhich marked the clear space on the platform through whichthe men were to go and the police officers had their hands fullfor a time in keeping them back. The north side waiting 144
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room had beeu cleared of occupants and outside were hun-dreds of public and private carriages waiting to carry theboys wherever they might wish. And in this one detail ofcarriages the thoughtf ulness of the people of the city as wellas their willingness to do all in their power for the boys ofthe Second were shown. Scores of them had volunteered ehtuse of their carriages that day and their offers had beengladlj accepted, for in the majority of cases the men werehardly able to walk any distance, and a ride on a joltingelectric car would not have been the best thing in the worldfor them. But there were carriages in plenty and the menwere quickly and carefully conveyed either to their homes orthe hospitals. When the train stopped the people detailed to look afterthe disembarkation of the men at once got to work and theboj^s were quickly but tenderly taken thiough the waitingroom and placed in the carriages. There were many whowere unable to walk even this short distance unassisted, butin

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