2-751-075 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Graduates of '98', Spanish-American War, June 1898, (1899). US Army soldiers Lieutenant C. W. Exton, (20th Infantry), Crallé, Davis and Lafferty at Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, before leaving for Cuba: 'the last photograph taken of Lafferty and Davis...killed before San Juan...They had all four been graduated from West Point only a few brief weeks previously'. From "The Little I saw of Cuba" by Burr McIntosh, with photographs by the author. (In 1898, American actor and journalist William Burr McIntosh went to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War for "Leslie's Weekly" as a reporter and photographer). [F. Tennyson Neely, London & New York, 1899]