Herrman marched with General Schwan’s Independent Regular Brigade across western Puerto Rico in 1898. He sketches the officers, the infantryman’s burden on the road to Sabana Grande, hard tack and wayside hospitality, the attitude of the islanders toward the invaders and General Miles’s proclamation, and the fighting where Gatling guns spoke up.
A brisk eyewitness record of a little-remembered campaign of the Spanish-American War. Download the free EPUB.