| SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR COLLECTION (RG1100), 1898-1998 |
SERIES IV: MEMORABILIA, 1898 |
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Historical Note |
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Scope and Content Note |
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Subject Files |
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2nd Massachusetts Regiment |
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Photographs |
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This series contains articles of clothing and equipment used by soldiers in Lakeland and a copy of the New Testament given to a soldier of the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers by the Tampa Headquarters of the Army Christian Commission. Included are suede gauntlets and a mess kit used by Lutrelle Amrine of the first Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and a campaign hat and Bible of Herman Markert of the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.
Pictured above is a company kitchen in one of the army camps in Lakeland in 1898.
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