Wiley, Richard S., Somerville, enlisted April 28, 1898; mustered out April 28, 1899.
York, James W., Somerville, enlisted April 28, 1898; mustered out April 28, 1899.
[Chronology]
February, 1898.
| 15. | U. S. S. Maine destroyed in Havana harbor. |
March.
| 9. | Congress appropriates $50,000,000 for national defence. |
| 16. | Meeting of the Eighth Regiment, M. V. M. officers at headquarters in Salem to discuss matter of regiment volunteering in case of war with Spain. Decision was to volunteer. |
| 24. | Spanish torpedo gunboat flotilla assembled at Cape Verde Islands. |
| 28. | Congress received report of Naval Board of Inquiry declaring that U. S. S. Maine was destroyed by an exterior explosion. |