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History of the Negro Soldier in the Spanish
American War
By Edward A. Johnson
Finally
The Attention Of The United States was
forcibly attracted to Cuba by the Virginius
affair, which consisted in the wanton murder
of fifty American sailors, officers and crew
of the Virginius, which was captured by the
Spanish off Santiago bay, bearing arms and
ammunition to the insurgents, Captain Fry, a
West Point graduate, in command.
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History of Negro Soldiers
in the Spanish-American War, and other items
of Interest, 1899
