Munsey's Magazine, October 1898

Munsey's Magazine, October 1898 This issue features "War Time Snap Shots"—photographic documentation of the Spanish-American War's Santiago campaign, taken by photographer J. C. Hemment despite battlefield dangers and injury. The accompanying text profiles American military figures and units involved in recent combat. Featured subjects include Major General Hamilton S. Hawkins, who led the charge at San Juan Hill; Major James M. Bell of the First Cavalry, wounded at San Juan; and Lieutenant Jules G. Ord of the Sixth Infantry, killed at Santiago. Regimental profiles cover the Seventy-First New York, Sixteenth Pennsylvania, and First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, among others. The issue discusses the First Kentucky under Colonel John B. Castleman and notes appointments of military commissioners including Brigadier General William W. Gordon to oversee operations in Cuba and Porto Rico. Additional coverage includes Lieutenant Nathaniel R. Usher commanding the torpedo boat Ericsson and Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson. Photographs show wrecks of Spanish ships—the Almirante Oquendo, Vizcaya, and Cristobal Colon—and equipment from the battleship Texas, including captured Spanish hardware and an unexploded mine retrieved from Guantanamo Bay.