Four Miles Apart on Picket Lines Near Santiago
Journal notes U S and Spanish troops within four miles of each other at Jaragua and Basquiri with battles likely within a week. Americans ashore with supplies sufficient for a week of campaigning. General Shafter landed 16 000 men and thousands of horses with minimal losses despite treacherous transport. The emperor of Germany offered Captain Sigsbee a Prussian Red Cross decoration.
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Jaragua
Kingston
United States
Spain
Santiago
Basquiri
Muin
Shafter
Bigabee
Sigsbee
Germany
Battle of La Quasina advances Rough Riders legend
An 1890s style dispatch recounts Colonel Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt leading Rough Riders and cavalry against Spanish forces near La Quasina. It details an ambush, stubborn defense on ridges, a coordinated charge, and reported American casualties while Spanish losses are noted as heavier.
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Cube
Kingston
Jamaica
Wood
Rough Riders
la Quasina
Roosevelt
Hoosevelt
Santiago
Sevilla
Young
Troops Ordered From Camp Thomas Toward Cuba
General Brooke issued an order preparing about 15 regiments for expedition to Cuba. The First corps and Second division brigades are assigned to form an expeditionary force with units including the Eighth Massachusetts Third Wisconsin Fifth Illinois and more. Also notes reporting from Washington say movements are part of a campaign and describe the road to Santiago with Shafter's forces praised by the president.
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Jone 'At
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War Department
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Seat of War
Alger
Santiago
Davs
Shafter
Shafter Lone
Ortee
Guantamme
Fes Begg
Train Wreck Kills Soldiers Near Tupelo
Tupelo Mississippi June 27 Four soldiers died and fourteen injured in a railway wreck near the town. The Second U S Volunteer Cavalry under Colonel Torrey was being moved to Jacksonville Florida when the second section ran into the rear of the first at a curve. The Seville sleeper was demolished and the colonel injured but alive. Troops and crew battled wreckage to save comrades and extinguish fires. Engineers blamed. Rawle, engineer of the second section, disappeared amid talk of lynching. The Harvard cruiser and Yale detachments sailed for Shafter. International and Madrid dispatches report peace overtures and political tension in Europe.
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Wyo
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Eay
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Wye
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Fin
U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
Rocky Mountain
Wyoming
Colorado
Idaho
Nevada
Utah
St. Jose Los i
St. Louis
Gene
Rawle
Tartay
Sis
BASEBALL not DY a Horan thief Lexington Kentucky
BASEBALL not DY a Horan thief in Lexington Kentucky reports an unknown thief who hooked up Carr’s wagon and fled Saturday. Carr pursued and the thief fired twice at him wounding a thigh but Carr is not seriously hurt. The thief is described as a negro with no other clues. Benjamin E Weeks Dead Chicago June 2 Weeks a large stockholder in railways dies at Branston. Weeks was known across Central and South America and the western United States in Mexican and Central American banking circles.
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Carr
Benjamin E. Weeks
Chicago
Jond
Benjamin. F
Weeks
Méxican Central Railways
Branston
Mr. Weeks
Central
South
America
United States
Fortes
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