Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells · English
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Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life)
William Dean Howells · English
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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS CERTAIN summers ago our cruisers, the St. Louis and the Harvard, arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with sixteen or seventeen hundred Spanish prisoners from Santiago de Cuba. They were partly soldiers of the land forces picked up by our troops in the fights before the city, but by far the greater part were sailors and marines from Cervera’s ill-fated fleet. I have not much stomach for war, but the poetry of the fact I have stated made a very potent appeal to
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