[Illustration: WILLIAM McKinley.]
HISTORY OF NEGRO SOLDIERS
IN THE
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR,
AND
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST.
BY
EDWARD A. JOHNSON,
Author of the Famous School History of the
Negro Race in America.
1899.
BY EDWARD A. JOHNSON, RALEIGH, N.C.
CONTENTS. (see last page for index to illustrations.)
The Cause of The War With Spain--The Virginius Affair--GeneralFitzhugh Lee--Belligerent Rights to Insurgents--Much Money andTime Spent by United States--Spain Tries to Appease PublicSentiment--Weyler "The Butcher"--Resolutions by Congress FavoringInsurgents--Insurgents Gain by--General Antonio Maceo--The Spiritof Insurgents at Maceo's Death--Jose Maceo--Weyler's Policy--MissCisneros' Rescue--Appeal for her--Spain and Havana Stirred by AmericanSentiment--Battle Ship Maine--Official Investigation of Destructionof--Responsibility for--Congress Appropriates $50,000,000 for NationalDefence--President's Message--Congress Declares War--Resolution Signedby President--Copy of Resolution Sent Minister Woodford--Fatal Stepfor Spain--American Navy.
Beginning of Hostilities--Colored Hero in the Navy.
Sergeant Major Pullen of Twenty-fifth Infantry Describes the Conductof Negro Soldiers Around El Caney--Its Station Before the SpanishAmerican War and Trip to Tampa, Florida--The Part it Took in the Fightat El Caney--Buffalo Troopers, the Name by Which Negro Soldiers areKnown--The Charge of the "Nigger Ninth" on San Juan Hill.
Colonel Theodore B. Roosevelt on the Colored Soldiers--ColonelRoosevelt's Error--Jacob A. Riis Compliments Negro Soldiers-GeneralNelson A. Miles Compliments Negro Soldiers--Cleveland MoffittCompliments the Negro Soldiers--President McKinley Promotes NegroSoldiers--General Thomas J. Morgan on Negro Officers.
Many Testimonials in Behalf of Negro Soldiers--A Southerner'sStatement--Reconciliation--Charleston News and Courier--GoodMarksmanship at El Caney--Their Splendid Courage; Fought Like Tigers--Never Wavered--What Army Officers say--Acme of Bravery-AroundSantiago--Saved the Life of his Lieutenant, but Lost his own--"BlackSoldier Boys," New York Mail and Express--They Never Faltered--TheNegr