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376 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
On May 26, 189S, Company B returned from thirteen months' service
in the Spanish Avar. They came in about 1.15 o'clock P. M. on the Big
Four and Avere welcomed with a parading escort and an enormous crowd
which Avent Avild ?s the boys marched down the street headed by Capt.
Charles Stroud. They made a creditable record in the Avar. The
company left Sandusky on the 26t$i of April, 1898, and Avent to Toledo
and thence to Columbus, where they Avere mustered into the service of
the United States. They endured hardship and disappointment at
Chickainauga, Knoxville and Cienfuegos, Cuba. On the 17th of January,
1899, the regiment was divided, the Second Battalion under Maj. George
Barker being sent to Santa Clara Province, where Company B was
stationed. The regiment remained in Cuba four months and was then
ordered to return to be mustered out. On the 25th day of April, 1899,
the regiment sailed on the steamer Chester for the United States, arriving
at quarantine Charleston Harbor April 29th, where they remained five
days. On May 2nd the regiment went into camp at Augusta and was
mustered out May 24, 1899.
Gen. Henry W. Lawton, AVIIO commanded at Santiago, Avas born at
Venice, Ohio, July 19, 1848, and his career as a soldier, which was ended
at the battle of San Mateo in the Philippines\by his death, is part of
the creditable record of Erie County soldiers.