(SPANISH AMERICAN WAR) Joubert Joseph H A vivid letter by a

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(SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.) Joubert, Joseph H. A vivid letter by a captain in the 9th Massachusetts Volunteers at Santiago. Autograph Letter Signed to wife Mamie. 4 pages, 18 x 10 inches, on one sheet of brown wrapping paper taken from a hardtack box; wrinkled with moderate wear and a small stain, written faintly in pencil. "In the trenches off Santiago Heights, Cuba," 7 July [1898]

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"The fighting was fierce, men were dropping on every side, but the Spaniards were steadily retreating as they had been for several days previous. The shells were bursting on all sides of us, and the whistling of bullets was something not soon to be forgotten. The Spanish sharpshooters in the palm and cocoanut trees were continually dropping the Americans, but they have since all been killed or captured." Also strong description of the Cuban people and countryside. with--two unrelated Spanish-American War letters: by James D. West of the 2nd New York Volunteers, Tampa, FL, 22 July 1898; and Israel de Cremer, returning home from the Philippines, San Francisco, CA, 26 May 1901.