American Military Genealogy & History: Spanish American War

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Spanish American War 1898

President William McKinley resisted war fever until February 15, 1898, when the battleship U.S.S. Maine mysteriously blew up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, killing 250 sailors and marines. Spain was blamed and the U.S. declared war on April 25. It was one of the most successful and shortest wars in American history. Under the Treaty of Paris signed on December 10, Spain freed Cuba and gave the United States its colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in exchange for $20 million. The war made the U.S. an international power.

Read the books
An Army for Empire : The United States Army in the Spanish-American War (Texas A&m University Military History Series, No 59) by Graham A. Cosmas
The Boys of '98 : Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Ridersby Dale L. Walker

Spanish American War Research

° Database of Illinois Spanish-American War Veterans
° Spanish American War Centennial Website Links to Databases of dozens of Muster Rolls!
° Roster of the 5th U.S Infantry, Co.
° Medal of Honor Recipients
° Kingman County, Kansas Veterans
° 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry
° 22nd Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company C
° Remember the Maine
° Louisiana Lake Charles Rifles Co G 1st Regiment
° Roster of 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
° Roster of the 1st Missouri Vol. Infantry, Co. E
° Roster of the 1st Rhode Island Vol. Infantry, Co. I
° Texas 9th United States Volunteer Infantry 1898 - 1899 (Black unit recruited from LA & TX)
° Roster of the 2nd Wisconsin Vol. Infantry, Co. F

Spanish American War Biographies

Read about Spanish American War American Personages: William Anthony, U.S.M.C. ; Capt. Charles Ayers ; Ensign Worth Bagley Clara Barton ; John Bell; Gen. William Murray Black Lt. George Blow ; Maj. William Blow ; Frank Brito ; Lt. Thomas Brumby William Jennings Bryan ; Edgar Rice Burroughs 2nd Lt. Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC ; Ensign Harry Caldwell Patrick Claffey, U.S.M.C. ; Captain Charles Clark ; Maj. Henry Clay Cochrane, U.S.M.C. Stephen Crane ; William Crouse ; Capt. George Curry Richard Harding Davis ; Osborn Deignan, U.S.N. ; Admiral George Dewey Lt. Frank Donaldson, Asst. Surg. ; Charles Dorwart (alias Charles Ehler Johnson, U.S.M.C.) Capt George Elliott, U.S.M.C. ; Chief Yeoman George Ellis Rear Admiral Robley Evans ; Lt. Col. Ezra Ewers ; Patrick Gaul, U.S.N. Lt. John Green ; John Blair Gibbs, U.S.N. Medical Corps Acting Sgt. Maj. Henry Good U.S.M.C. Capt. Charles Gridley ; Capt. Francis Harrington ; William Randolph Hearst Surgeon Lucien Heneberger ; Richmond P. Hobson ; John "Tom" Hommel Leroy C. Hooker ; Col. Robert W. Huntington, U.S.M.C Maj. Gen Henry Lawton ; Maj. Gen Fitzhugh Lee Capt. William H. H. Llewellyn ; Charles Grant Long, U.S.M.C. ; Pvt. Carl Lovelace Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur ; Frank McArty ; John Avery McIlhenny William McKelvy, U.S.M.C ; William McKinley Willard McSherry ; Maj. Gen. Nelson Miles Daniel Montague, U.S.N. ; 1st Lt. Wendell Cushing Neville, U.S.M.C. Capt. William "Buckey" O'Neill ; Pvt. William Page ; Capt. John Philip Senior Maj. Percival Pope, U.S.M.C. ; Ens. Wilfred Van NEst Powelson, U.S.N. Gilbert Purdy, U.S.N. ; Sgt. John Quick, U.S.M.C. Father William H. I. Reaney ; Asst. Engineer Joseph M. Reeves. U.S.N. ; Frederic Remington Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ; Rear Admiral William Sampson 3rd Lt. Charles Satterlee, U.S.R.C.S. ; Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley 1st Sgt. Green Settle ; Maj. Gen William Shafter ; Lt. Alexander Sharp, U.S.N. Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee Sgt. Charles Hampton Smith, U.S.M.C. ; John Philip Sousa ; Pvt. Goode Taurman, U.S.M.C. Pvt. John G. Torbett ; Mark Twain ; John Henry Turpin ; Maj. Gen Joseph Wheeler Austin Winfree ; Stewart Woodford

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