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Spanish American War 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Football Team and Band Photographs

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Title	Spanish American War 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Football Team and Band Photographs
Subject	Military Ohio Sports Football teams Athletes Soldiers Spanish American War 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) Bands Musicians Music
Place	Fremont (Ohio) Sandusky County (Ohio) Knoxville (Tennessee)
Description	A 7.75" x 9.5" (19.69 x 24.13 cm) print shows the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) football team at Camp Poland, near Knoxville, Tennessee. Clarence Childs, who was a member of the United States Olympic track and field team in 1913 and later coached at Wooster College, is shown in the second row, third from left. A second 7.75" x 8.75" (19.69 x 22.23 cm) print depicts the 6th O.V.I. band during the Spanish American War. Clarence Childs is shown standing second from left holding his trombone. The 6th O.V.I was called into service on April 25, 1898 and stationed at Camp George H. Thomas in Chickamauga Park, Georgia and Camp Poland in Knoxville, Tennessee before being transferred to Cienfuegos, Cuba to serve as part of the Cuban Occupation Force. The 6th O.V.I. was discharged on May 24, 1899. The Spanish-American War was the shortest war in United States history, lasting less than four months. It inspired tremendous patriotism, since it was the first war the U.S. fought as a unified nation after the Civil War. American sympathies for Cuban independence from Spain and a "yellow press" interpretation of the sinking of the battleship Maine led to the Spanish-American War. (The term "yellow press" refers to a style of journalism that sensationalizes news events). More than 15,000 Ohioans served in the militia and the volunteer army. Of those, few were involved in major action, although 230 died of disease. The Treaty of Paris, negotiated in part by Ohioan Whitelaw Reid, formally ended the war on December 10, 1898. Spain relinquished to the United States control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. Cuba became independent in 1902.
Date of Original	1898
Collection	Clarence Childs Collection
Source	Audiovisual material Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om623_1149041_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om623_1149041_001.tif
Image Height	3592
Image Width	5621
File Size	4954.802 KB

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