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Title: History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest
Author: Edward A. Johnson
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[Illustration: WILLIAM McKinley.]
HISTORY OF NEGRO SOLDIERS
IN THE
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR,
AND
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST.
BY
EDWARD A. JOHNSON, Author of the Famous School History of the Negro
Race in America.
1899
BY EDWARD A. JOHNSON, RALEIGH, N.C.
CONTENTS. (see last page for index to illustrations.)
CHAPTER I
The Cause of The War With Spain--The Virginius Affair--General
Fitzhugh Lee--Belligerent Rights to Insurgents--Much Money and
Time Spent by United States--Spain Tries to Appease Public
Sentiment--Weyler "The Butcher"--Resolutions by Congress Favoring
Insurgents--Insurgents Gain by--General Antonio Maceo--The Spirit
of Insurgents at Maceo's Death--Jose Maceo--Weyler's Policy--Miss
Cisneros' Rescue--Appeal for her--Spain and Havana Stirred by American
Sentiment--Battle Ship Maine--Official Investigation of Destruction
of--Responsibility for--Congress Appropriates $50,000,000 for National
Defence--President's Message--Congress Declares War--Resolution Signed
by President--Copy of Resolution Sent Minister Woodford--Fatal Step
for Spain--American Navy.
CHAPTER II
Beginning of Hostilities--Colored Hero in the Navy.
CHAPTER III
Sergeant Major Pullen of Twenty-fifth Infantry Describes the Conduct
of Negro Soldiers Around El Caney--Its Station Before the Spanish
American War and Trip to Tampa, Florida--The Part it Took in the Fight
at El Caney--Buffalo Troopers, the Name by Which Negro Soldiers are
Known--The Charge of the "Nigger Ninth" on San Juan Hill.
CHAPTER IV
Colonel Theodore B. Roosevelt on the Colored Soldiers--Colonel
Roosevelt's Error--Jacob A. Riis Compliments Negro Soldiers-General
Nelson A.
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