Enlisted men: Louis H. Brittin (L.S.S., 1901), corporal, "A"; Arthur H. Howard (1898), corporal, "A"; Edward D. Powers (1898), corporal, "A"; Ralph W. Black (1886), private, "K"; Edward A. Bumpus (1898), private, "A," later appointed second lieutenant, Twenty-first United States Infantry; John Corbett (temporary student), private, "B"; Charles W. Cutler (1898), private, "A"; Eugene H. Douglass (1898), private, "A"; Howard B. Grose (1901), private, "K"; Frederick Heilig (1897), private, "A"; Edwin B. Holt (1896), private, "A"; Benjamin Kaufman (1900), private, "D"; Charles H. Keene (1898), private, "A"; James L. Knox (1898), private, "A"; John F. McGrath (1895), private, "A"; Moses I. Reuben (1889), private, "K"; George R. Russell (temporary student), private, "K"; Francis R. Stoddard, Jr. (1899), private, "A"; Harry C. Strong (1899), private, "K"; Edward A. Thurston (temporary student, L.S.), private, "M"; Calvin S. Tilden (1898), private, "A"; John A. White (1896), private, "B"; Charles H. Williams (L.S.S., 1900), private, "A"; Francis C. Wilson (1898), private, "A"; Roger Wolcott, Jr. (1898), private, "A." THE SEASON OF RUMORS IX. THESE were stirring times for the regiment. It was the period of rumors—of rumors that at any time might develop into realities. In order to obtain an adequate idea of the atmosphere in which the command then lived, it would be necessary to turn to the files of the newspapers for the early spring of 1898, and make a classified list of the Spanish naval bugaboos daily appearing in their columns. One odd coincidence is well worth recalling, as showing that all the misapprehensions were not confined to our own cities. On the evening of April 26th, the day on which the regiment reported at Fort Warren, mass meetings were held at Portsmouth and New Bedford, to protest against the utter disregard shown by the Government for the defenses at those points—and on that very night there was given in Havana a public banquet to celebrate the bombardment of Boston, of which rumors had spread in that city! Spook fleets were common in those days, and the men of the First, happily forgetful of the fact that they were manning obsolete works, armed for the most part with obsolete ordnance, and, worst of all, wofully short of ammunition, daily hoped that the spook cruisers might materialize into ships of steel. What little time was left from their duties they employed in pitying their less fortunate comrades in inland camps, whom they considered hopelessly out of the game of coastwise attack and defence which was expected to begin at any time.