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id: 17195
author: Hubbard, Elbert
title: A Message to Garcia Being a Preachment
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words: 2703
sentence: 136
flesch: 74
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summary:
  [Sidenote: _Good men are always needed_] [Sidenote: There are other Garcias] Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook or threat he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant.


id: 3383
author: Howells, William Dean
title: Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
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words: 4027
sentence: 117
flesch: 64
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summary:
  This would have been consequent, logical, and in a sort reasonable; but to butcher and capture a lot of wretched Spanish peasants and fishermen, hapless conscripts to whom personally and nationally we were as so many men in the moon, was that melancholy and humiliating necessity of war which makes it homicide in which there is not even the saving grace of hate, or the excuse of hot blood. It was beautiful, I had to own, even in my quality of exile and prisoner.


id: 26026
author: Norris, Frank
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words: 4473
sentence: 183
flesch: 74
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title:
  The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898

summary:
  Our _deus ex machina_ was far ahead with General Shafter by this time, and it was only our mule that saved us from ultimate discomfiture. The beaten General came out into the open space ahead of his staff, and General Shafter rode out to meet him, and they both removed their hats.


id: 10439
author: Herrman, Karl Stephen
extension: .txt
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words: 16828
sentence: 673
flesch: 64
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title:
  From Yauco to Las Marias A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan

summary:
  CHAPTER X The End of the Campaign Arrival of the mail-steamer--The soldier-boy and his letters--The greater part of the brigade is quartered in Mayaguez--Agriculture in Puerto Rico--Material result of our campaign--A farewell order--General Schwan departs for the United States. A Public Celebration of the New Flag's Advent, under the Auspices of the Local School-teachers and their Pupils The Plaza of San German on Market-day Lower Quarter of Mayaguez A Mid-section of the Calle Mendez-Vigo, Mayaguez Positions occupied by Spanish Soldiers in the Skirmish at Hormigueros Railroad from Mayaguez to Aguadilla The Theatre, Mayaguez Custom-house at Mayaguez occupied by General Schwan as Brigade Headquarters Road from Mayaguez to Añasco Lower End of the Calle de Mendez-Vigo, Mayaguez Guenar Bridge, Mayaguez Upper End of the Calle Mendez-Vigo, Mayaguez The Town of Sabana Grande Witch River, near Cabo Rojo American Camp at Mayaguez Plaza Mercado, Mayaguez Mouth of the Mayaguez River A Bit of Yauco Wooden Dock at Mayaguez.


id: 31366
author: Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
title: A Little Dusky Hero
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words: 17344
sentence: 1131
flesch: 90
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summary:
  That was all little G. W. had for a guide. That it was one of our boys little G. W. of course knew; but he was _not_ prepared for the sight that presently rose before him.


id: 46430
author: Kerlin, Robert Thomas
title: The Camp-life of the Third Regiment
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words: 17931
sentence: 811
flesch: 74
cache: cache/46430.txt
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summary:
  Good music, good literature, good addresses and entertainments, and good, thoughtful treatment in general are influences that go far toward making good soldiers and good men. After morning mess you may see a variety of scenes characteristic of camp life.


id: 43420
author: Otis, James
title: Off Santiago with Sampson
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words: 21438
sentence: 755
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Standing with a group of _Texas_ men, Teddy and Bill Jones saw the Spaniard near the line of surf, and as their vessel's speed was checked there came a roar mightier than when the battle was first opened; the doomed ship rocked to and fro as if she had struck a sunken reef, there was an uprending of the iron decks, and then came a shower of fragments that told of the tremendous explosion within the hull of the _Oquendo_. The crew on board the good steamer _Merrimac_ had neither better nor worse quarters than those to be found on any other craft of her class; but to a lad whose experiences of seafaring life had been confined to short excursions around the harbour, this sea parlour was by no means inviting, and save for the incentive which urged him forward, Teddy Dunlap might have allowed himself to become disheartened even before it had been proven that he could take passage secretly.


id: 37755
author: Cooper, James, of Philadelphia
title: Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry April 25-November 11, 1898
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words: 21045
sentence: 871
flesch: 70
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summary:
  It was a squad of City Troopers that went over the triple muster rolls of the entire quota of Pennsylvania volunteers, for Major Thompson, and their quick, accurate work helped greatly in the rapid mustering-in of the men. Fortunately none of these belonged to City Troopers.


id: 17993
author: Holmes, Prescott
title: Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain
extension: .txt
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words: 33834
sentence: 1694
flesch: 81
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summary:
  During the next thirty days, many other Spanish ships, with cargoes worth millions of dollars, were captured by different vessels of the navy. Small boats came out from the other ships, and rescued many men from the Maine.


id: 4294
author: Hartmann, George
extension: .txt
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words: 33258
sentence: 1510
flesch: 75
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title:
  Tales of Aztlan; The Romance of a Hero of Our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a Western Pioneer and Other Tales

summary:
  There was a fight, and not until several men were seriously wounded came they to their senses and obeyed my orders. Several men looked after the wants of the horses, others built fires, and four of the party returned toward me.


id: 32206
author: Mabey, Charles Rendell
extension: .txt
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words: 37003
sentence: 1639
flesch: 69
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title:
  The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls.

summary:
  First, JOSEPH O. NYSTROM Salt Lake City Quartermaster, ADNEBYTH L. WILLIAMS Salt Lake City Veterinary, JOHN H. MEREDITH Kaysville EMIL LEHMAN Salt Lake City EMIL V. JOHNSON Salt Lake City ARTHUR W. BROWN Salt Lake City WILLIAM E. KNEAS Salt Lake City CHARLES R. MABEY Bountiful MARK E. BEZZANT Pleasant Grove CORPORALS. SLEATER, HAROLD E. Salt Lake City SMITH, THOMAS R. Logan SORENSON, HANS Salt Lake City SORENSON, JOSEPH F. Salt Lake City SORENSON, KNUD Eureka STATEN, STANLEY Springville STOUT, CHARLES S. Salt Lake City TIPTON, WILLIAM Springville TOMPKINS, ODELL D. Mystic, Conn. TRIPP, FRANCIS B. Salt Lake City VINCENT, FRANK A. Salt Lake City WALQUIST, CHARLES A. Salt Lake City WEBER, GEORGE E. Park City WILLIAMS, ALBERT R. Salt Lake City WONNACOTT, JAMES E. Salt Lake City WYCHERLEY, SAMUEL A. Salt Lake City ZAHLER, JOHN F. Bountiful [Footnote 1: Major Richard W. Young, who originally commanded the battalion, resigned to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and Major Frank A. Grant superceded him as commander of the batteries.]


id: 11102
author: Johnson, Edward A. (Edward Austin)
title: History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest
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words: 42170
sentence: 1887
flesch: 70
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summary:
  He was a short, squat, colored man, with a highly intelligent face, hair slightly tinged with gray and an air of alertness which makes him stand out in sharp contrast with the other messengers whom one meets in the halls of the big building. During the ten years' war, his cavalry escort was composed entirely of colored men.


id: 13893
author: McKinley, William
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words: 48542
sentence: 1544
flesch: 48
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title:
  Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: William McKinley; Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War

summary:
  The Hawaiian Islands and Guam becoming United States territory and forming convenient stopping places on the way across the sea, the necessity for speedy cable communication between the United States and all these Pacific islands has become imperative. _Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That the sum of $50,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of destitute citizens of the United States in the island of Cuba, said money to be expended at the discretion and under the direction of the President of the United States in the purchase and furnishing of food, clothing, and medicines to such citizens, and for transporting to the United States such of them as so desire and who are without means to transport themselves.


id: 18318
author: Fox, John, Jr.
title: Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War
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words: 50065
sentence: 2427
flesch: 84
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summary:
  There were little men in straw hats and blue clothes coming from Santiago, and swinging hammocks and tethering horses in an open field, while more little men in Panama hats were advancing on the American trenches, saluting courteously. What's your name? Bob, suh--Bob Crittenden.


id: 46188
author: Finley, Martha
title: Elsie's Young Folks in Peace and War
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words: 49370
sentence: 2323
flesch: 79
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summary:
  The difficulty was that because the _Brooklyn_ was on a parallel course with the Spaniards, and going in a directly opposite direction, she would have to make a complete circle in order to chase them; and had they had the speed with which they were credited, that would have put the _Brooklyn_ out of the fight, one of her engines being uncoupled, and in consequence her speed greatly reduced. But the Spanish vessels fell far behind their estimated speed, so that the _Brooklyn_ was able to circle about and still overhaul the fleetest of them, and the _Texas_, the slowest of our battleships, held its own in the race.


id: 3050
author: Davis, Richard Harding
title: Notes of a War Correspondent
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words: 55670
sentence: 2188
flesch: 75
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summary:
  [Picture: Firing from the trenches at Velestinos] Other men were carried out of the trench and laid on their backs on the high grass, staring up drunkenly at the glaring sun, and with their limbs fallen into unfamiliar poses. But there was this difference, that Rodriguez, while probably as willing to give six lives for his country as was the American rebel, being only a peasant, did not think to say so, and he will not, in consequence, live in bronze during the lives of many men, but will be remembered only as one of thirty Cubans, one of whom was shot at Santa Clara on each succeeding day at sunrise.


id: 46361
author: Ward, Walter W.
title: Springfield in the Spanish American War
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words: 58258
sentence: 2301
flesch: 72
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summary:
  At the depot there were often good men and women with cans of milk or lemonade and food, but even their zealous efforts could not prevent some suffering. Mayor Dickinson and the city officials had done everything in their power to aid the soldiers and with them at all times were the officers and members of the Volunteer Aid association and many private citizens, good men and women who labored zealously in the good cause.


id: 51798
author: Stratemeyer, Edward
title: When Santiago Fell; or, The War Adventures of Two Chums
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sentence: 3661
flesch: 88
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summary:
  This I felt certain Alano would remember well, and, at the risk of being spotted, I emitted the whistle with all the strength of my lungs, not once, but half a dozen times. It was a Spanish military officer of high rank who spoke, and he addressed Alano Guerez and myself.


id: 36679
author: Gue, Belle Willey
title: An American
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words: 64595
sentence: 1466
flesch: 57
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summary:
  he knew that he was selfish to the very core of him and had no gratitude for anyone who'd helped him; so he pitied little Tessa and began, in many little unknown ways, to help her bear the burden she'd assumed. Then, suddenly, a trumpet blast rang through the wide and spacious prado and a company of mounted cavalry, with naked swords uplifted, rode madly in among the crowd and scattered it as chaff is scattered by a furious wind ... cries of agony were heard as some were trampled by the horses, tortured by the cruel spurs which their infuriated riders were driving into their tender skins, and many men and women fell into disordered heaps of human misery in wildly scrambling toward a place of temporary safety.


id: 13000
author: Roosevelt, Theodore
title: The Rough Riders
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words: 64338
sentence: 2259
flesch: 68
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summary:
  They had their natural leaders--the men who had shown they could master other men, and could more than hold their own in the eager driving life of the new settlements. I sent other men to fill the canteens with water, and threw the rest out in a long line in a disused sunken road, which gave them cover, putting two or three wounded men, who had hitherto kept up with the fighting-line, and a dozen men who were suffering from heat exhaustion--for the fighting and running under that blazing sun through the thick dry jungle was heart-breaking--into the ranch buildings.


id: 16231
author: Munroe, Kirk
title: "Forward, March": A Tale of the Spanish-American War
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sentence: 2696
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Speedy's_ bridge, of course including Lieutenant Ridge Norris, knew that they were not to have the honor of warning the fleet; for a line of smoke, evidently moving seaward, appeared above the hills from the direction of Santiago Bay. At first Ridge had only his revolver, but within five minutes he had snatched up the carbine of a man who fell dead at his side, and was as well armed as the rest.


id: 28377
author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
title: Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles
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words: 63281
sentence: 1862
flesch: 51
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summary:
  To such successful operation, however, there is needed not only ships individually powerful, but numbers of such ships; and that the numbers of Sampson's fleet were maintained--not drawn off to other, though important, operations--even under such sore temptation as the dash of Cámara's fleet from Cadiz towards the Philippines, was due to the Department's ability to hold fast the primary conception of concentration upon a single purpose, even though running thereby such a risk as was feared from Cámara's armored ships reaching Dewey's unarmored cruisers before they were reinforced. The net result, therefore, of the argument, supported, as the writer believes, by the testimony of history, is: (1) that a navy which wishes to affect decisively the issues of a maritime war must be composed of heavy ships--battleships--possessing a maximum of fighting power, and so similar in type as to facilitate that uniformity of movement and of evolution upon which concentration, once effected, must depend for its maintenance, whether during a passage or in actual engagement; (2) that in such ships, regarded as fighting factors, which is their primary function, size is limited, as to the minimum, by the advisability of concentrating as much fighting power as possible under the hand of a single captain; but, on the other hand, size is also limited, as to its maximum, by the need of retaining ability to subdivide the whole fleet, according to particular exigencies; (3) as regards that particular form of mobility called speed, the writer regards it as distinctly secondary for the battleship; that, to say the least, the present proportions of weight assigned to fighting force should not be sacrificed to obtain increase of speed.


id: 13826
author: Doubleday, Russell
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words: 65524
sentence: 3490
flesch: 81
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title:
  A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun (Russell Doubleday): The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the Spanish-American War

summary:
  The tide of battle is surging on; other ships of the bombarding fleet are still pouring their shot and shell upon the grim array of forts ashore; other guns of this ship are pursuing their duty with savage energy. It is one thing lying off a port with a lot of other ships and bombarding a few measly earthworks, and another to be sneaking about in the darkness like this, not knowing when you will run your nose against an enemy twice as large, said Flagg, as several of Number Eight's crew met on the forecastle.


id: 34306
author: Stratemeyer, Edward
title: Fighting in Cuban Waters; Or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn
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words: 67416
sentence: 4044
flesch: 86
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summary:
  And, catching Walter by the arm, Carlos hurried him away. On his second morning on board Walter was talking to Si when a low roll of drums reached their ears.


id: 31158
author: Kennan, George
title: Campaigning in Cuba
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words: 87006
sentence: 2273
flesch: 55
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summary:
  If Major Lagarde, Dr. Munson, Dr. Donaldson, and other army surgeons who worked so heroically to bring order out of the chaos at Siboney, are to be believed, Dr. Appel's statement concerning hospital supplies is as false as his statement with regard to the Red Cross surgeons and nurses. 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.


id: 16750
author: Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)
title: The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
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words: 110107
sentence: 4064
flesch: 63
cache: cache/16750.txt
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summary:
  In 1827 the first newspaper published on this continent by colored men issued from its office in New York. When the troublous times of 1860 came and white men were fleeing to Canada, colored men remained at their posts.


id: 12409
author: Halstead, Murat
extension: .txt
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words: 182716
sentence: 7039
flesch: 63
cache: cache/12409.txt
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title:
  The Story of the Philippines Natural Riches, Industrial Resources, Statistics of Productions, Commerce and Population; The Laws, Habits, Customs, Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, With Episodes of Their Early History; The Eldorado of the Orient; Personal Character Sketches of and Interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila; History and Romance, Tragedies and Traditions of our Pacific Possessions; Events of the War in the West with Spain, and the Conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico

summary:
  In the above-mentioned renunciation or cession are comprised those rights of the crown of Spain and of its authorities over the archives and official registers, as well administrative as judicial, of said islands which refer to them and to the rights and properties of their inhabitants. They differ little from other Spanish-Americans, being fond of ease, courteous, and hospitable, and, as in other Spanish countries, the common people are illiterate, public education having been grievously neglected.


id: 4210
author: White, Trumbull
title: Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
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words: 190600
sentence: 8092
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Spanish men of war sailed back and forth to convoy the merchant fleets, but their protection was not always sufficient. 2. That Puerto Rico and other Spanish islands in the West Indies, and an island in the Ladrones, to be selected by the United States, shall be ceded to the latter.


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id: 46361
sid: 2041
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  john b. mandeville patrick j. bresnan ernest p. marble alfred c. brownell dennis f. mccarthy francis c. burke henry e. merchant


id: 46361
sid: 2041
eid: 4
type: PERSON
entity:
  thomas m. conlin james j. o'brien william e. coolidge charles a. nelson timothy j. crowley john j. o'leary


id: 46361
sid: 2042
eid: 1
type: PERSON
entity:
  jeremiah j. shea patrick j. hayes cyrus a. shufelt andrew f. higgins henry j. slattery frank n. hunt fred s. stetson robert g. kelly john e. tobin edward k. lathrop henry b. whitmore henry h.


id: 46361
sid: 2063
eid: 11
type: PERSON
entity:
  pittsfield william w. chadbourne alwin b. richter albert m. chandler christopher j. riordan lewis r. dikeman


