31st Michigan at war
In 1898, these soldiers were photographed in the tent of the 31st Michigan Infantry’s adjutant while deployed to Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The 31st was...
A fleet destroyed
During the Spanish-American War, the Spanish Caribbean Fleet left its protected harbor at Santiago, Cuba, at 9:35 a.m. on July 3, 1898. Lt. Thomas Kearny aboard the...
All present
This item contains information abstracted from a company muster roll that documents Private Nathaniel M. McGehee's service with Company M of the 3rd Regiment of the...
Application for military headstone
In 1929, Mrs. Mande M. McGehee applied to the Office of the Quartermaster General in the War Department for a headstone for the unmarked grave of Nathaniel M....
Battle scene from 1898
During the Spanish-American War, an American officer surveys a battle scene through binoculars. Fought in the Philippines and Cuba, the short war— which lasted from...
Colonel Roosevelt
This 1917 War Department photograph shows former President Theodore Roosevelt at City Hall in New York City. President Roosevelt was sometimes referred to as Colonel...
Disease control
This group of African American soldiers was photographed at Camp Wikoff, New York, in 1898. At the end of the Spanish-American War, soldiers returning from Cuba or...