Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 586
our arrival we found hundreds ofmarines with loaded rifles and fixed saber-bayonetsawaiting the mournful procession. Then commencedthe most strange and unhappy scene of my life; hun-dreds of half-clothed, barefooted men and boys, somewith but a sheet or blanket wrapped about them, justas they had… … \EVADA FALLS (YOSEMITE). BY IRENE MERSEREAU, AGE 17.(CASH PRIZE.) who stood grimly by. Many of these Spanish heroesworked for weeks in the trenches before tropical Santi-ago, and were terribly debilitated by fevers and thedreadful experience of the battle. Some came stagger-ing under the burden of…
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