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1898: War
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WAREY.-Mary Alta, [D]aughter of John and Catherine Warey, was born Nov. 21, 1896, and died May 21st, 1898, aged 1 year and 6 months. The funeral services were conducted in German from Mark 10 :15, 16, 17, by Bro. C. Werey.
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“No part of Cuba escaped the ravages of the war with Spain that ended in 1898. From the eastern mountains across the central plains to the western valleys, the scene of desolation and devastation was the same. It was a brutal conflict in which the opposing armies seemed determined more to punish the land than prosecute the war.” [[Cuba, a short history]]
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In the first military action of the war, the United States blockaded Cuban ports on April 22, 1898. The Navy transferred several vessels to neighboring Florida to consolidate the forces available to fight the Spanish in the Caribbean. Naval presence off the Florida coast ... facilitated the transfer of information from the battlefront to the government in Washington, D.C.
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The decisive event was probably the speech of Republican Senator Redfield Proctor delivered on March 17, 1898, which thoroughly and calmly analyzed the situation and concluded war was the only answer. The business and religious communities, which had opposed war, switched sides, leaving President William McKinley and Thomas Brackett Reed almost alone in their opposition to the war.[2] Thus, on April 11, McKinley asked Congress for authority to send American troops to Cuba for the purpose of ending the civil war there.
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