In “Dear Folks at Home,” Sackett has compiled a collection of letters to chronicle his grandfather Eugene’s experience as a volunteer in the North Dakota regiment. Originally called to fight the ...

Meanwhile, troops stationed away from the fighting also faced danger. When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern United States.

Political cartoons and drawings were popular features in 1890s newspapers and the yellow journals of the Spanish-American War era. Before the Spanish-American War began, drawings depicting Spain ...