Armament Efforts Rise to Meet Prolonged War Demands
The Ordnance Department details efforts to produce smokeless powder and ammunition for 45 caliber cartridges, expanding coast defense and field artillery supplies, increasing batteries, and mobilizing private and federal powder makers to sustain a protracted conflict. Even with limited prewar stocks, a large effort to manufacture smokeless powder and cartridges was undertaken, with officers noting the small peacetime force but heightened wartime workload.
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Department
Ordainer Department
Chief of Ordnance
Quartermasters Department in War Strain and Quick Action
The Quartermasters Department is the army’s main supply arm handling clothing shelter food and transport. Faced with limited funds and imports it improvises with ships transports and purchases to equip troops for war with a rush in 1898 era conditions.
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Quartermasters Department
Great General Supply Department
Army
Army Service
Subistence and Medical Corps Review of Spanish War Efforts
The War Department defends provisioning and medical care during the Spanish War, noting adequate bulk rations, cooking issues, and officer experience gaps. It cites low disease and death rates, rail delays, and the rapid organization of the Volunteer Medical Corps while detailing officer shortages and contract surgeon challenges.
Deaths in the Foreign Wars compared to Civil War losses
A historical analysis compares mortality rates across wars, noting American volunteer forces in the Mexican War suffered 83.2 total deaths per 1000 under favorable conditions, far lower than British campaigns in the Peninsular War and Crimea. It also discusses battlefield deaths, disease, and the strategic value of division hospitals amid wartime stress.
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Ournemy
West Indies
Spain
Cuba
Algeria
Tunis
Madagascar
Burmah
Napoleon
Russia
Germany
Tur
Mexico
Peninsula
Crimea
United States
Europe
America
Wellington
The Memcal Department and Army Medical Criticism
The article discusses unjust criticisms of the army medical department amid war. It notes initial preparations before the Maine incident, then rapid steps to expand the medical corps, acquire field supplies, and add hospital stewards and privates as demands grew for a two hundred fifty thousand volunteer army.
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Medical Department
Army
Maine
Hospital Corps
Congress
United States Hospital Corps
Volunteer Signal Corps Formed Amid War Effort
The article notes the Volunteer Signal Corps, praised for admirable work at the front, began after Congress authorized its organization nearly a month after war declaration. In the interim, a small regular establishment of sixty officers and men had been built.
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Regular Army
Volunteer Signal Corps
Congress
Telegraph backbone of wartime Signal Corps reaches executive power
A volunteer force of 116 officers and 1000 enlisted men was organized with complete telephone and telegraph exchanges in every camp. Suntige saw rapid messaging from rifle pits to the Executive Mansion in Washington. In the Philippines telegraph and telephone lines ran through advance trenches as troops advanced, showing the Signal Corps fully prepared and equipped wherever troops stood.
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Suntige
Oring Ne
Washington
Philippines
Signal Corps
Mie Prasant
Engineers in Coast Defence and Santiago Campaign
John 8. Susiver describes the duties of the U S Army Engineer Corps in war. The first duty is coast defenses including permanent works and submarine mines, the second is field operations such as fortifications, roads, bridges, reconnaissances, and aiding armies in the field.
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Santiago
Engineer Corps
United States Army
Defensen Wealk
John
Susiver
Valor in a Pincushion at Civil War Campfires
A Confederate soldier recalls his first battle where fear yielded to courage after discovering a three cornered pincushion in his pocket. The young man credits the token, gift from a little girl, with steadying his resolve and vows to give it to his sister as a lasting reminder of becoming a man.
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St. Louis
Fmecrat
Sbe
Enormous New Caledonian eels reported weighing over 200 pounds
A French exploration note recounts two gigantic eels found in New Caledonia by Mar Escande during the rainy season. The creatures measured six and a half to seven feet, had heads as large as a man, dark green skin, and enormous eyes, with meat not black. One eel was shot but hard to land, weighing over 200 pounds.
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New Caledonia
Mindelphia
Jules Garnier
New Caledonian
Thigeel
la Paya
French Geographical Society
Frof. Garmier
M. A. Escande
Mar. Escande
Spain’s Fate Stirs In Courtroom Parable
In a quip drenched exchange a tall boarder predicts Spain will cede. A second speaker corrects, saying she has gone to seed, as a judge weighs phrasing and implication in a terse past tease.
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Spain
President McKinley hailed as a wise leader in war’s triumph
Washington Times and Washington Post praise President William McKinley for guiding the United States through the Spanish American War, contrasting his leadership with critics. The editorials celebrate his transformation from Ohio politician to wartime commander and imperial vision, highlighting courage, steadfastness, and devotion to liberty.
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Washington Times
Ryae Democracy
Joshua
Moses
Dewey
Schley
William McKinley
United States
Ike
Spain
McKinley
Ohio
Prince Hal
Orient
Cavite
Washington Post
Wiliam McKinley
McKinley hailed as savior of the United States
London Times praises President McKinley for guiding the war with Spain with open, consultative methods and broad national support. It credits his steady leadership, restraint, and moral aims, while noting the public focus on ideas and outcomes over costs. Wheeler testimony on army care generates discussion.
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London
Times
McKinley
United States
Spain
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