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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Spanish-American War collection
Creator:
Edwards, Samuel H.
Creator:
Johnson, Willis O.
Identifier/Call Number: 0556
Physical Description:
0.438 Linear Feet
1 box
Date: 1898
Date (inclusive): 1983-1998
Abstract: This collection consists of journal entries, letters, and publications related to the Spanish-American War.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
The Spanish-American War lasted from April to August of 1898. It took place following an explosion on the USS Maine in Havana
Harbor in Cuba, which led to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence from Spain. The war was fought in
both the Caribbean and the Pacific with US naval forces. Spain was also taking Cuban insurgent attacks and losing many soldiers
to yellow fever.
The war ended with the 1898 Treaty of Paris, giving ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine islands to the United
States from Spain. It also granted the United States temporary control of Cuba.
This collection consists of journal entries, letters, and publications related to the Spanish-American War. There is also
one lithograph. The journal entries were written by Samuel H. Edwards, a sergeant of Troop C First Calvary during the war.
He wrote down accounts of the war, the names of his troop members and leadership, as well as the casualties they incurred.
Willis O. Johnson wrote letters during the war from Camp Alger, VA. Included are also publications about the Spanish-American
war from the 1980s and 1990s.
Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Spanish-American War collection, Collection no. 0556, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin
American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Cuba -- Archival resources
Letters
Journals (accounts)
Lithographs
Publications
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Archival resources
Edwards, Samuel H. -- Archives
Johnson, Willis O. -- Archives