Political cartoons and drawings were popular features in 1890s newspapers and the yellow journals of the Spanish-American War era. Before the Spanish-American War began, drawings depicting Spain ...

(Jackie Hutchins / Loveland Reporter-Herald) Kathleen Rudd speaks to Spanish-American War veteran John B. Tague, thanking him for his service, as she prepares to place a wreath at his grave ...

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.