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...Beaufort, S.C., retired Major Charles Pinckney Elliott, 81, who served in the Spanish-American War, the Mexican fracas of 1916, and World War I, asked to be taken back into active service. Request gently refused...
Died. Karl Decker, 73, damsel-rescuing Hearst reporter of the Spanish-American War; in Manhattan. A series of articles he wrote on Spain's cruelty to Cubans was credited with an assist toward the U.S. declaration of war on Spain. One midnight with a party of Cubans he spirited beautiful 18-year-old Evangelina Cisneros, daughter of a Cuban revolutionary, out of a Havana jail cell. Her window bars were filed, she was hoisted to the roof by rope and taken in boy's clothing to a chartered steamer. On her arrival in Manhattan she got a heroine...
...Tommy Hart goes to war again, it will be for the third time. He first smelled powder in the Spanish-American war, as a 21 -year-old midshipman on the battle ship Massachusetts. (In those days Annapolis graduates served two years at sea before becoming ensigns.) Nineteen years later, in World War I, he commanded two divisions of U.S. submarines operating with the British out of bases in Ireland. For potting German subs he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal...
...General's brother, the late Arthur MacArthur, was a shipmate of Tommy Hart's on the battleship Massachusetts during the Spanish-American...
Horses to Tanks. Adna Romanza Chaffee began Army life as a cavalryman. He had a good reason: his father was a famous cavalryman who distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War, was Chief of Staff in 1904-06. Adna too loved horses and got to be a top Army poloist before World War I. On staff duty in France, he saw that the intense fire of machine guns and artillery had outmoded cavalry in battle zones. Unlike some cavalrymen, he took the lesson to heart, looked around for some substitute for the mobile striking power which cavalry once provided...