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While few of the images of the soldiers have been digitized, this one has, of one of the companies of the 2nd North Carolina.

A Havana correspondent to Charlotte News has the following:
Sergeant Deaton, of Company L., is still working on his discharge. His first application was presented last August in Jacksonville. He is as much in the dark at present as at that time. He…

Camp Columbia, near Havana, Jan. 13 1899. Having seen an item copied from the press dispatches in the home papers, I take it upon myself to contradict the statement that there are any cases of smallpox in our regiment or among the Seventh Army Corps,…

Camp Colombia, near Havana CubaJanuary 6th, 1898. (NB: this is a printing error in the original) To the Standard: - Much has been said through the Associated Press giving details of the celebrated New Year's day in Havana, therefore I will state…

Camp Colombia, Near Havana, Jan. 22, 1899. For the Standard- Garrison duty in Cuba is not so humble a task as was supposed by the boys before leaving the states, and since the active service has begun, the operations give the soldiers ample…

Camp Bryan Grimes, Co. L, 1st NCVUSAThere is a general hustle in the camp today, though no definite information has been given out regarding the removal of the first regiment to Chicamauga or to Tampa, which will very likely occur during the next…

Governor Russel has named Col. J. F. Armfield, of Statesville, to be colonel of the first regiment of volunteers. The appointment of Col. Armsfield is a most commendable and meritorious one, and the governor acted with great wisdom.
He is the…

Kingston, Jamaica, April 26 - Liutenant Andrew S. Rowan, United States Army, has landed on the coast of Cuba, near Santiago, from an open boat, accompanied by Cuban guides. He is on his way to General Garcia's camp as representative of the War…