Identifier: historyofonehund01bied (find matches)
Title: History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939
Subjects: Indiana infantry. 161st regiment, 1898-1899 Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories United States
Publisher: Logansport, Ind., Wilson, Humphreys
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Many of these January days were wisely employed invisiting much of what there was of note on the island. Onthe 21st fourteen officers; including the Colonel, saw thesights. They reported a time of great interest. They didMorro and Cabannas and the city thoroughly and were inthe act of bringing the Maine from its wreck spot in the bayto camp but stopped suddenly after procuring enough tosupply a few museums. On the following Saturday tenmore under charge of Major Olds made a similar excursion.It was another pleasant and profitable day; Major Smithfound a dollar on the tomb of Columbus in the old cathre-dal. The privates had their outings, too. Colonel Durbinwho has always been considerate of his men, conceived theidea of sending each day, ten men from each company tothe country in army wagons for a day of recreation andacquaintance with the countrys beautiful appearance.Accordingly at 7 A. m. on January 29th the first excursion went out. They drove over a fine macadamized road past10 ^
Text Appearing After Image:
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. 147 trotting ponies, dusty stage coaches, lumbering burrowcarts, cane and pineapple fields and banana groves, past athousand palms and cocoas and other tropical growths,through peculiar Cuban villages to the mountains sixteenmiles away and back again at six oclock in the evening.Nature certainly has a lavish way of doing things in Cubaand as one looks upon the luxuriant landscape he thinks ofsomething that Emerson said, Happy, I cried, whose home is here;Fair fortune to the Mountaineer;Dame nature round his humble bedHath royal pleasure grounds outspread. Still appearances ofttimes deceive, and even the Cubansnever raised enough as the import statistics on rice, flour,potatoes, salt,etc., plainly indicate; but the chief thing nowis that nature does it all or nearly all, for the wooden plow

Note About Images