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barbara a. gan non “They Call Themselves Veterans” Civil War and Spanish War Veterans and the Complexities of Veteranhood In the aftermath of the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, the Indiana state commander of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the Union army’s largest veterans’ organization, expressed its support for war with the Spanish empire with a “unanimous, by rising vote, acclamation.” Their resolution “commend[ed] and approve[ed] the purpose of our national administration and of the people to free the island of Cuba and other Spanish colonies from Spanish cruelty and oppression.” At least some of the old soldiers had been agitating for war long before the sinking of the USS Maine; in a speech at the 1896 annual meeting, the Indiana state commander protested “the inhuman cruelties recently inaugurated by the Spanish Government in its attempts to still popular liberty in Cuba and to restore its further misrule, has filled the civilized world with horror and has aroused, on behalf of that struggling people, the sympathy of the friends of popular government everywhere.” It is not surprising, then, that when war finally came another Indiana state commander, Daniel Ryan, hailed the victories in Cuba
The Journal of the Civil War Era – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Nov 21, 2015
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