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Military Order of the Serpent (acronym MOS; nickname, Snaix; [1] established 1904) was an American secret society and veterans' fraternity organized in 1904, and incorporated on August 6, 1907. [2] The MOS received official recognition by the United Spanish War Veterans (USWV) at the Los Angeles encampment.
The Spanish–American War (Spanish: Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense, desastre del 98, Guerra Hispano-Cubana-Norteamericana or Guerra de Cuba ) was a military conflict between Spain and the United States that began in April 1898. Hostilities halted in August of that year, and the Treaty of Paris was signed in December.
A silver color metal and enamel device 1 3/16 inches (3.02 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: per pale argent and gules, a fleur-de-lis Azure and the badge of the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, during the Spanish–American War, Proper fimbriated of the first on a chief dancetté of the third a mullet of the fifth.
Lancaster paid tribute to its war veterans with a parade and a brief ceremony. Honored in 1962 were three men from Fairfield County who fought in the Spanish American-War.
In 1904, the United Spanish War Veterans was created from smaller groups of the veterans of the Spanish–American War. The organization has been defunct since 1992 when its last surviving member Nathan E. Cook a veteran of the Philippine-American war died, but it left an heir in the Sons of Spanish–American War Veterans, created in 1937 at ...
"A Brief History of the Volunteer Organizations in the service of the United States during the War with Spain, 1898". Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Part 1 (PDF). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Barnes, Mark (2010). The Spanish–American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898–1902: An Annotated Bibliography. New ...
The Seventh Army Corps was a unit of the United States Army raised for the Spanish–American War.After the declaration of war, General Order 36 of May 7, 1898 defined the organization of eight "army corps," each of which was to consist of three or more divisions of three brigades each.
A defining event of the Spanish–American War was the typhoid fever epidemic of July to November 1898. [1] The Army consequently undertook a series of mass-retreats and attempted evasions. The Typhoid Board concluded that only one of the five army corps stricken with epidemic typhoid succeeded in suppressing the disease actively, the 2nd Army ...