Author: Remington, Frederic
Title: "Soldiers Who Cry" (paragraph essay) and "With the Regulars at Port Tampa, Florida--9th U.S. Cavalry (colored) Skirmishing through the Pines" (foldout drawing) in Harper's Weekly (May 21, 1898)
Description: New York, Harper & Bros, 1898. First Edition. 0 pp. Disbound. Original, complete disbound issue in near fine condition. This issue has a remarkable center, 2-page spread by Frederic Remingtond (in excellent condition, no tears): "With the Regulars at Port Tampa, Florida--9th U.S. Cavalry (colored) Skirmishing through the Pines." The drawing shows a long line of soldiers on horses, scaled in size to represent quite a distance. The two men and horses at the front are detailed with distinguishable human and horse faces. Remington shows his talent for describing events in his own words as well in the long paragraph "Soldiers Who Cry" (p. 502). Also, related to both the Spanish-American War and the Civil War, "A Day in Atlanta," a war diary entry describing the arrival of Spanish prisoners of war in Atlanta on their way to Fort McPherson. The Confederate General Gordon, during the Spanish-American War lived in Atlanta, and is entertaining troops with Civil War stories. He paints a rosy picture of the New South (on a recent tour of the South, the general met former Confederate soldiers who were now interested in supporting one America, he says), Especially poignant is his description of the kind treatment extended, at the surrender of Appomatox, to his raggedy soldiers by General Chamberlain of Maine and other federal officers. It ends with Gordon's wise summation: "And that is how the soldiers on each side have every acted and felt--that is, the soldiers who did the fighting. You can usually put it down that the man on either side who exhibits bitterness in peace was not much of a soldier in war." John Fox, Jr. (the Harper's Weekly writer of this article) also states that negro young men were given preference over white men during recruitment for the Sp-Am war in Atlanta at this time to give blacks better representation in the U.S. Army. Near Fine.

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