H. Spanish-American War

5th Massachusetts Infantry on Parade | History of SC Slide Collection

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Recruits for the army that was raised to fight the Spanish-American War, begun in 1898 when the battleship "Maine" exploded in a Cuban harbor, were trained at Camp Wetherill near Greenville. This Army...

First Breakfast at Camp Jackson, 1898 | History of SC Slide Collection

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James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C...

Supplies for the Quarantine Camp, 1899

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Many of the casualties among American forces who fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War were the result of disease, not wounds. Daufuskie Island became a quarantine detention camp for soldiers...