This book makes the case that Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Wheeler, with help from Stephen Crane and Richard Harding Davis, brought about the Spanish-American War. While ...

Meanwhile, troops stationed away from the fighting also faced danger. When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern United States.

In “Dear Folks at Home,” Sackett has compiled a collection of letters to chronicle his grandfather Eugene’s experience as a volunteer in the North Dakota regiment. Originally called to fight the ...