Identifier: reminiscencesthr00youn_0 (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences and thrilling stories of the war by returned heroes
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Young, James Rankin, 1847-1924 Moore, J. H., joint author
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898 Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott Publishing Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t for myflag, Richard responded. The quarrel became bitter and terminated by thefather taking the first steamer for Madrid after war was declared. I go to fight the Yankees, he said, as he left his house. I shall enlist to oppose you, Richard quietly replied. The next dayhe joined Company G, of the Seventy-first Regiment, and in a letter to hissister he said he hoped to see his father in the ranks of the enemy. A Spartan Mother. Mrs. John Maroney, of New Haven, Conn., performed an act of patriot-ism that places her among the Spartan mothers of the country. When thewar broke out Mrs. Maroneys son John enlisted in Captain Beachs batteryof heavy artillery, which was recruited in that city. The battery, although afinely drilled organization, has never gotten any further than the State camp,at Niantic. The men of the battery have grown very tired of their monot-onous camp life. Young Maroney became homesick, and one day tookFrench leave of his company. He turned up at his mothers home, and
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STORIES OF THE WAR. 397 Mrs. Maroney questioned him severely in regard to his absence from thebattery. John evaded his mothers questions at first, and it was not for severaldays that she elicited a confession from him that he had deserted. Mrs.Maroney at once told her boy that she was ashamed of him and would havehim arrested and sent to prison. John ran out of the house when he realizedthe possibility of occupying a military prison. Mrs. Maroney pursued him into the back yard. He attempted to scalea high board fence, and she grabbed a clothespole and beat him over the backand head so severely that he surrendered. Then Mrs. Maroney, whose hairis white with age, marched her son to the police station, called up CaptainBeach at Niantic on the telephone and told him that she had her son and shewanted the Captain to send a guard for him and give him the full punishmentfor deserting. The Captain thanked Mrs. Maroney and sent a guard to take the youngman back to camp. Mrs. Maroneys husband w

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