The Conflict With Spain a History of the War Based Upon Official Reports And De
The Conflict With Spain a History of the War Based Upon Official Reports And De
Henry F Henry Francis Keenan
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For, curiously enough, the last gun fired in this amazing conflict was from the deck of the Oregon, a gun which when the war began, was at least 10, 000 miles from the scene of Spain's overthrow ! Ensign Powell, of the flagship New York, who followed Hobson on his Merrimac mission, recounts the battle as seen from the far rear, in the IN FIGHTING CLOTHES. 223 impatient presence of the admiral commanding. He notes that when the word reached the vessel that Cervera had broken out and the flagship... " twenty miles away, " the men were filled with gloom, but reassured that they would be in at the death, they broke into irrestrainable jubilation, they were " crazy to get at the dagoes. " Nor is the sailor's picture of a crew in such a conjuncture without its value : "All hands took off their clean Sunday clothes and put on their dirt- iest habiliments. After seeing that everything was all right at my gun, I went below, took off my own finery, put on my fighting suit, and was ready for business.
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