When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern United States. Though the surgeon general advised soldiers to maintain sanitary ...

“The cannon – forged for the king of Spain in 1794 – was captured in Cuba during the Spanish-American War as a trophy,” Eagle ...

Sick and scarred, veterans began forming local organizations in 1899 when they returned from the Spanish-American War and the Philippine ... represented returned soldiers from abroad.