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Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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unded. The Americans captured 11,000 prisoners, 7,000 of thembeing regulars; 20,000 Mauser rifles, 3,000 Remingtons, eight-een modern cannon, and many of the old pattern. Thus ended a war which has covered us with glory—a warwe did not invite, but which was forced upon us in the interestsof humanity; a war which has taught European nations to re-spect us as a great power. May it be the last which our nationis drawn into. May the dawn of peace herald the day whenwars shall be .no more; when wise counsels and generous arbi-tration shall decide questions of moment between nations. War has a terrible meaning; it means desolated homes, andbitter tears shed for those who come not; it means angry pas-sions and cruel expressions of them; it means want and sufferingand the humiliation of defeat for one side or the other. Maythe days of rancor end forever! ANNEXATION OF HAWAII. In connection with the war so recently concluded, we shouldmention the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, a measure
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NELSON A. MILES—GENERAL COMMANDING THE U. S. ARMY 394 PUERTO RICO. which has been agitated for many years, and the conflict onlyincreased the sentiment in favor of making them part and parcelof our Republic. The islands comprise a group of eight, and were discoveredby Captain Cook in 1788. They are important to us from theircommercial value, and also from their strategic uses, and thenecessity for a closer relation has been recognized by nearlyevery President and Secretary of State through all the successiveadministrations. After many long and arduous debates, the vote for andagainst annexation was taken by Congress, and an overwhelmingmajority declared in favor of annexation, and Hayti with hervast commerce, her rich agricultural productions became a mem-ber of our great body politic, and on Friday, August 12, theAmerican flag waved over Honolulu, the capital of the newTerritory of Hawaii.* PUERTO RICO. The city of Santiago had not yet fallen. Bombarding had,however, long since cea

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