Fighting in Cuban Waters: or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn
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Stratemeyer Edward. Fighting in Cuban Waters: or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn
CHAPTER I. WALTER DETERMINES TO ENTER THE NAVY
CHAPTER II. A VISIT TO THE NAVY-YARD
CHAPTER III. A CHASE AND ITS RESULT
CHAPTER IV. ON THE WAY TO THE "BROOKLYN"
CHAPTER V. SOMETHING ABOUT WAR AND PRIZE MONEY
CHAPTER VI. A GLIMPSE OF THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER VII. A TALK ABOUT SPANISH SAILORS
CHAPTER VIII. THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS
CHAPTER IX. COMMODORE WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY
CHAPTER X. WALTER SHOWS HIS PLUCK
CHAPTER XI. THE SAILING OF THE FLYING SQUADRON
CHAPTER XII. AN ADVENTURE OFF CHARLESTON
CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH THE GOLD PIECE COMES TO LIGHT
CHAPTER XIV. KEY WEST, AND THE LAST OF JIM HASKETT
CHAPTER XV. FROM CIENFUEGOS TO SANTIAGO BAY
CHAPTER XVI. THE FINDING OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S FLEET
CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH THE "MERRIMAC" IS SUNK
CHAPTER XVIII. WALTER'S ADVENTURE ON SHORE
CHAPTER XIX. CARLOS, THE REBEL SPY
CHAPTER XX. IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XXI. THE FLIGHT TO THE SEACOAST
CHAPTER XXII. THE LANDING OF THE MARINES AT GUANTANAMO
CHAPTER XXIII. IN A SPANISH PRISON
CHAPTER XXIV. BACK TO THE "BROOKLYN" AGAIN
CHAPTER XXV. THE BOMBARDMENT OF THE SANTIAGO BATTERIES
CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH THE ARMY OF INVASION ARRIVES
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SPANISH FLEET AND ITS COMMANDER
CHAPTER XXVIII "THE ENEMY IS ESCAPING!"
CHAPTER XXIX. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH FLEET
CHAPTER XXX. FINAL SCENES OF THE GREAT FIGHT
CHAPTER XXXI. TOGETHER ONCE MORE – CONCLUSION
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"Well, Walter, I suppose the newspapers are going like hot cakes this morning."
"They are, Mr. Newell. Everybody wants the news. I ran out of 'Globes' and 'Heralds' before seven o'clock, and sent Dan down for fifty more of each."
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"I will." George Gimpwell's face brightened. "So you've enlisted? I wanted to do that, but I was too tall for my weight, so they told me."
"So you've enlisted?" broke in a gentleman standing by. "Glad to hear it, young man; it does you credit." And buying a magazine, he caught Walter by the hand and wished him well. Soon it became noised around on the block that Newell's clerk was going to join the Brooklyn, and half a dozen, including the clerk of the hotel, came out to see him about it. In those days, anybody connected with our army or navy was quite a hero, and somebody to be looked up to, people unconsciously told themselves.
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