Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 317
timekeeper calls: Thirty sec-onds to play! Then the red player heavesthe ball mightily to the farther corner of the field, and, without looking after it, sits down,grunting: They cant get to it in thirty seconds! Time! the whistle blows. The three thou-sand rush yelling into the field, and the… … eight oclock on the morn-ing of June 22, 1898,the United Statestransport Yucatan,found herself lyingoff the little cove andvillage of Daiquiri,Cuba. She was loadedwith two squadrons(eight troops) of theFirst United StatesVolunteer Cavalry, ofwhich regiment I wasthe surgeon; four companies of…
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