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Photo of beef rations given to Third Nebraska Soldiers while still in the United States awaiting combat orders. Nicknamed “embalmed beef” because of its unsatisfactory condition, this represented the substandard rations of what most Soldiers were given at the mobilization camps. (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
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Company M, Third Nebraska while on occupational duty in Cuba, circa 1899. Third Nebraska, along with Seventh Army, received the city of Havana for the United States on April 7, 1899. (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
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Third Nebraska participating in a parade, circa 1898. Third Nebraska participated in numerous parades while on active duty including before President William McKinley after the peace treaty with Spain was signed in December 1898. (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
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Soldiers from Company G, Second Nebraska, pose for a picture at Chickamauga Park, circa 1898. Conditions at the camp continued to deteriorate until Soldiers were begging to be sent back home if they were not going to be sent to combat. (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
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Second Nebraska Soldiers enjoying gifts from back home, circa 1898. Thanks to family members back in Nebraska, Soldiers were able to supplement their diet when rations were inadequate. (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
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Company G of the Second Nebraska at Camp Thomas in Chickamauga, Georgia, circa 1898. Camp Thomas, as were all the mobilization camps during the Spanish-American War, was riddled with disease, inferior rations and unsanitary living conditions. (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
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First Nebraska, led by Company G, crossing the Marilao River on Mar. 27, 1899. Later, First Nebraska would route a Filipino position where General Irving Hale would comment, “There go those First Nebraskans again, and all hell couldn’t stop them.” (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
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First Nebraska in position at the sea wall at Manila on Aug. 13, 1898. After very little opposition, the Spanish hoisted a white flag and surrendered to the United States. (Photo courtesy of the Nebraska National Guard Historical Society)...
