Lonn—Desertion During the Civil War.
Macy, Jesse—The Anti-Slavery Crusade.
Macy, Jesse—Political Parties in the United States. Chapters 7-22.
Rhodes, James Ford—History of the United States. Vols. I-V.
Stephenson, N. W.—The Day of the Confederacy.
Stephenson, N. W.—Abraham Lincoln and the Union.
Wood, William—Captain of the Civil War.
CHAPTER VI
THE WAR WITH SPAIN
For almost a century, the Spanish possession of Cuba had been regarded with disfavor by certain elements in the United States. Reasons for this attitude varied from those of acquisition on grounds of "manifest destiny," to those of the highest altruism. When the Spanish American republics won their independence during the early years of the nineteenth century, Porto Rico and Cuba remained in the possession of Spain.