Identifier: americaswarforhu00newy (find matches)
Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e, and, taking his entire family withhim, started with his nucleus for Florida; but they were stranded some-where in the land of flowers, with small prospect of reaching Cuba in time totake a hand in the war. Meanwhile, the organization of the Blue and Gray Legion was com-pleted, and the men were mustered into the service of the government. Colonel Glazier is fifty-seven years of age, and in the full vigor of maturemanhood. He was reared in St. Lawrence county, New York, whence heenlisted at the beginning of the war between the States as a private in Com-pany E, Second New York Cavalry, known as Harris Light Cavalry. Heserved during the war, and was promoted to a captaincy for gallantry andgood conduct. Since the war he has devoted himself mainly to literarypursuits and exploring tours. His chief fame as an explorer rests upon hisdiscovery, in 1881, of the source of the Mississippi River, and the lake inwhich the Father of Waters takes its rise has been named Glazier Lake in hishonor.
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452 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Davis, second in command of the Blue andGray Legion, is a southerner, born and bred, and represents a dyed-in-the-wool Confederate family. He was born at Bryantown, Maryland, in 1866,and is a son of Captain James T. Davis, who fought many a bloody battlewith Picketts division. The son was educated at the Virginia MilitaryInstitute, and afterward studied law at the University of Virginia, where hewas graduated in 1887. He served for a time as Cuban correspondent for aneastern newspaper; but, when the Grseco-Turkish war broke out, he went toGreece and enlisted in the Greek army, serving as a private for three months.On his return to America, Lieutenant-Colonel Davis settled in Chicago,where he engaged in the practice of law until the organization of the famouslegion. Four companies of British-Americans, consisting largely of Scotch-men and Canadians of English, Scotch, or Scotch-Irish descent, came intothe legion in a body, under

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