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(Special to the Messenger)
Raleigh, N.C., May 15. -- The crowd at Camp Bryan Grimes today broke the record in point of size. Excursionists from Goldsboro and Durham had a grand time. Several thousand people saw the battalion drills and dress parade.…

One of the most striking features of the present expansion movement is its sectional character - sectional in the sense that its advocates are for the most part Northern and Western men. Southern men, no doubt, contributed to the movement favoring…

There is yet plenty of fighting in Cuba; the Cuban cause yet engaged the attention of Congress and the administration; Spain is yet perverse and Cuba yet inflexible; we have reports of Weyler's deeds of savagery; we hear, says the New York Sun, again…

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…

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

Col. Eugene Harrell has been granted a week's furlough for the purpose of returning to Raleigh and straightening up the business of the first regiment. He will leave Jacksonville for Raleigh next Monday.  General Breckinridge reviewed the troops here…

Army officers have given up the idea that a campaign in Cuba is to be of the short and sweet order. Scarcely one of them holds the opinion that the United States forces will land, march triumphantly and uninterruptedly to Havana, carry that city by…