"Bomb proofs thrown up by the Rough Riders to protect them from the dread enfilade fire of sheel [shell?] and shrapnel from the Spanish lines."
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07002.50 Author/Creator: Place Written: Cuba Type: Photograph Date: 1898 ca. Pagination: 1 albumen Height: 13.5 cm, Width: 17.8 cm Order a Copy
Shows a single soldier standing on a battlefield littered with clothes, buckets, rifles, and other paraphernalia. The soldier's face is obscured. A crude shelter is visible behind him.
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