Page 628. Once more the Flower of Essex. See "The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook," page 82.
Page 631. Wheeler at Santiago. "Fighting Joe" Wheeler was one of the most active and successful cavalry leaders of the Confederacy. The death of General J. E. B. Stuart, in 1864, made him senior cavalry general of the Confederate armies. He served in Congress after the war, and volunteered for active service on the outbreak of the war with Spain. He was given command of a cavalry brigade, and his presence before Santiago was of inestimable value.
Page 633. Near Nimanima's greening hill. The cove, six and a half miles from the entrance to Santiago harbor, where the Infanta Maria Teresa was beached. Juan Gonzales is seven miles and Aserradero fifteen miles from Santiago.
Page 633. The Cape o' the Cross. Cape Cruz, at the southwestern extremity of Cuba.
Page 641. Who on the third most famous of our Fourths. July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence adopted. July 4, 1863, announcement of the victory at Gettysburg. July 4, 1898, announcement of the victory at Santiago.
Page 645. Aguinaldo. Emilio Aguinaldo was born in 1870, of Chinese and Tagalog parentage. He received a good education, became interested in military affairs, and was one of the leaders of the outbreak against Spanish authority in 1896. At the beginning of the Spanish-American war, Admiral Dewey sent for Aguinaldo, who arrived at Cavité a few days after the destruction of the Spanish fleet. He at once began the organization of the Filipino troops, and soon afterwards proclaimed himself dictator of the so-called Filipino Republic. He stoutly resisted the American occupation which followed the peace, but was captured in 1901, and finally took the oath of allegiance to the United States.
Page 645. Strike at his mother and his child. Aguinaldo's family was captured by the United States troops and held prisoners until his submission.
Page 645. When they read the sneering comments. The fact that no prisoners were taken at the fight at Dajo, and that many women and children were among the killed, caused much bitter comment. The poem gives the army's side of the controversy.
Page 646. Before the living bronze Saint-Gaudens made. See "Bury Them," page 508, and "An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial," page 603.
Page 650. The assassin's shot. The assassin was a young Pole named Leon Czolgosz, who proclaimed himself an anarchist. He was tried speedily, sentenced to electrocution, and executed October 28.