Wright's official history of the Spanish-American War; a pictorial and descriptive record .. (1900)
[Washington?] · leaf 151
and carries six 8-iuch and twelve inch and twelve rapid-fire 5-inch guns, for combat with fighting ships, while the other vessels of the flying squadron rapid-fire 4-inch guns. If Congress had not always been willing to appropriate could engage unarmored craft. This squadron, or part of it, would… … wisdom of preparing for war in time of peace was illustrated raiding upon Spanish commerce and protecting our own, very strikingly by the stock of reserve batteries which the being perhaps specially efiicient in capturing transports and Navy Department had ready for arming the merchant vessels…
Spanish-American War, 1898
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