Reprint of the Squadron Bulletins of the North Atlantic Squadron (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...Watson's Squadron. It is probable the Iowa will go north for a much needed docking and overhauling. The Squadron will thus consist of the Massachusetts, Newark, Oregon, Dixie, YanKee and Yosemite. Those here (the four first) will be ready as soon as coaled; the Yankee is at New York, receiving stores and ammunition for the Squadron; the Yosemite is off San Juan, Puerto Rico-. The picket launches up Guantanamo Bay were fired on by the Spaniards near the fort, due to their having ventured beyond the fort. There were no casualties. No effort is made to dispossess the Spaniards of the upper part of the bay, as we have no use for it, and they must, eventually, surrender in any case for want of food. Intercepted letters give a very melancholy account of the want existing in Guantanamo. They are absolutely cut off from the West and have very little on which to subsist. An occasional soldier gives himself up, forced thereto by starvation. The Adula has been sent to Savannah as a prize. The Newark, with Commodore Watson's broad pennant, arrived at Guantanamo. The Osceola left for Daiquiri and Santiago. The Porter left for Key West, thence for Bristol, for repairs. The Spanish Commander in Santiago, in answer to our proposition of surrender, proposes to evacuate the city if he be allowed to retire, without molestation, as far as Holguin. SQUADRON BULLETIN No. 28. U. S. FLAGSHIP NEW YORK, OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, CUBA. Sunday, July 10, 1898. The Harvard left at 4.00 p. m. for Portsmouth, N. EL, with prisoners. The St. Paul arrived with troops at Siboney. The New Orleans arrived at Guantanamo from Key West. The Solace was sent from Guantanamo to Sibouney to receive sick; she will return to Guantanamo, take on coal, and go to Hampton Roads. The Army hospital ship Olivette ...