Campaigning in Cuba / by George Kennan.

  • George Kennan
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Campaigning in Cuba / by George Kennan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I STARTING FOR THE FIELD AR broke out between the United States and Spain on April 21, 1898. A week or ten days later I was asked by the editors of the “ Outlook ” of New York to go to Cuba with Miss Clara Barton, on the Red Cross steamer State of Texas, and report the war and the work of the Red Cross for that periodical. After a hasty conference with the editorial and business staffs of the paper I was to repre- sent, I accepted the proposition, and on May 5 left Wash- ington for Key West, where the State of Texas was awaiting orders from the Navy Department. The army of invasion, under command of General Shafter, was then assembling at Tampa, and it was expected that a hostile movement to some point on the Cuban coast would be made before the end of the month. I reached Tampa on the evening of Friday, May 6. The Pullman cars of the Florida express, at that time, ran through the city of Tampa and across the river into the spacious grounds of the beautiful Tampa Bay Hotel, which, after closing for the regular winter season, had been compelled to
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