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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:05:59 EST
- Reply-To: Joe Gardner <JGARDNER@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
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- From: Joe Gardner <JGARDNER@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Subject: Spanish-American War
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- I recently acquired the pension file of my wife's g'uncle, who was a
- member of Gen. Shafter's Expeditionary Force in Cuba, June-August
- 1898. In it are two long depositions, one from my wife's relative &
- one from his first sergeant, describing the campaign that included
- the battles of El Caney & San Juan Hill & the siege of Santiago.
-
- If anyone else has an ancestor who was also in this disasterous,
- unnecessary, & monumentally stupid endeavor & would like to see two
- vivid accounts of it from the "grunt's" point of view, I'd be
- happy to send copies.
-
- Joe Gardner
- jgardner@ukcc.uky.edu
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