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courtesy of Bolling Smith
The liner S.S. St. Louis arriving at Portsmouth from Cuba on July 10, 1898,
with returning American soldiers, and also Spanish POWs for internment at Camp Long on Seavey's Island.
Seen from the unfinished casemates of Fort Constitution.
The liner S.S. Harvard arrived on July 14, 1898 with additional troops and POWs.
The Spanish prisoners were returned to Spain on September 12, 1898, on board the liner S.S. City of Rome.




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