The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-12
VOYAGERS.
Worcester Party Returns
From Cnba.aa

O'Callaghan and Richard Healey ar
rived home from Cuba at o'clock last
evening. after a pleasant and most in
teresting trip.
The party left New York on the
steamer Santiago. Feb. IS, which
steamed directly to Nassau, where they
remained several days. The trip from
New York to Nassau was uneventful,
with pleasant weather all the voyage.
From Nassau the party went to Santi-
ago, arriving there on the 23d of H'ebru-
airy. They were met by the following
officers Of the Second Massachusetts
regiment: Mai. Whipple and Lieut.
OBrien Of North Adams, Lieut.. Burke
and Sergt. Burns of Springfield. DR..
c. w. Whitaker Of Worcester joined
the party at Santiago
DIR, Whtttake, with Fred P Dean Of
Worcester. was engaged with the
Rhodes expedition in locating the
graves of the Worcester soldiers who
died during the war, and photographs
of several graves were taken by Dr.
~ CN@AeAto 'hetAAs nv 3 0fSS VI bIlGS0 SOA-
diers of the Ninth regiment were To-
Gated: M, h O'Malley, Company X;
J, M. McNamara Company K; J. D.
Moriarty Company &c; i. Brady, Com
pany G; w. G. Sanders, Company b; J.
Mullin. Company l.
The party went all over the battle
field of El Caney and passed through
the trenches occupied both by the Sec
ond and Ninth Massachusetts regi-
ments, where they found many relics
Of those eventful July days before San
tiago. Among those brought home by
Alderman Barrett were bullets picked
up in trenches back of where the Span
ish hospitals were located.
We found the heat even in middle
Of February so intense that We were
forced to wear linen clothes and go
about constantly with umbrellas for
fear of sunstroke," said the alderman
What it must have been for those poor
boys in the middle Of July, toilng over
those hills with 10 roadWays, burdened
with camp kit and rifle is something
no one can comprehend, who has never
been over the ground The only wonder
is that SO few of them are lying today
in Cuban soil. We had no rain while
we were there, and 1 have never expe-
rienced such intensely hot weather in
my life.
I want to say right here that the
very best evidence of the noble work
done by the volunteer regiments in that
campaign | found in the testimony Of
the Cubans themselves, and the regu-
lar army officers who are stationed
there today. They say that no volunteer
regiments in the campaign gave such
gallant and meritorious service as the
Second and Ninth Massachusetts. The
praise that heard in every direction
was unstinted
while we were at Santiago, we
! learned that there were several Wor-
cester boys serving in Co. NJ of the
Fifth immunes. met several Of them
among them George e. Bennett and
! Private Fuller, who had been recruit
| ed in this city and afterWard trans
ferred to the immune regiment.
"They seemed to be faring well. We
remained in Santiago three days, and
/ want to give credit to Col. Wood fOI
| the construction of a very extensive
roadway from Santiago City to FL Ca
ney, where formerly nothing but bri-
die trail existed. Col. Wood is very
highly respected and much admired by
the people Of Santiago province.
| From Santiago we steamed along
the coast to Manzanillo, and had an ex-
cellent opportunity to view the wreck
of the Merrlmac and much of the de-
struction wrought by the American
| fleet Thence we steamed to Cienfue-
gos, where we remained for day to
observe the points of interest there. We
| left the steamer Santiago at this point
and went to MatanZas by rail. The
/ camp of the Eighth Massachusetts, vol
unteers is located there, and Col. Pew's
| soldiers are reported in good health,
and anticipating a departure for home
within a very short time. Then we
went on to Havana, where we re-
manned a week.
| Here in the suburbs OF Havana at a
military post called Vedado, are located
number of Worcester boys serving
| in the Second regular artillery. Lieut.
| Harold p. Goodnow Of Co. G showed
us many attentions. Most of the Wor-
| Cester boys are in companies D and c.
! They We're recruited by Lieut. Good
now. I met one of thin in particular,
young man by the name of Reagan,
who enlisted as a private in G Company
and who has since that time been pro-
NOTED to sergeant. He called up many
Of the Worcester boys during our visit
there, and they were photographed by
DR. O'Callaghan. All of them are in
| good health, and indeed Vedado is one
Of the most healthy localities in all the
! island.
"Our stay in Havana was made par
| tiCularly interesting through the very
kind attention Of Worcester men with
whom we came in contact We left
| there several days ago and arrived in
| New York this morning.
! CDR. O'Callaghan returned home a
| trihe i'll, but in the main We all en-
| Joyed the trip very much"