The United States was supporting Cuba in its struggle against Spanish rule.  After the mysterious explosion
of the U. S. S. Maine in Havana Harbor, war was declared against Spain.  On May 1, 1898, Commodore
Dewey defeated the Spanish Fleet that had been guarding the Philippines.  President McKinley
authorized the assembling of troops to mount a campaign against Manila.  The Spanish-American
War would become the first overseas war fought by the United States.

Franklin County, Kentucky Soldiers

W. H. Dade, Cheif Surgeon	Howard H. Farmer, Hospital steward	H. T. Gaines, Adjutant of 1st battalion
Neville Garrett, Assistant Surgeon	W. L. Waits, Chaplain

2nd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers

Company E, Bradley Guards

Charles Ahler, Private   *	Cad Davis, Private	George L. Horne, Private	Charles Schuyler, Private
Augustus Baker, Private	Jeff Davis, Private	Wallace Hunter, Private	R. S. Scroggin, Private
R. L. Bentley, Private	George M. Egbert, Private	F. C Hutchinson, Private	Albert Seibert, Private
B. D. Betts, Private	W. H. Ellard, Private	W. W. Huss, Private	George Semones, Private
Charles Berry, Private	Otis Evans, Private	James Johnson, Private	Robert Semones, Sergeant
Henry Bridgeport, 1st. Lieutenant	H. H. Farmer, Private	William Kavanaugh, Private	James Sharp, Private
E. F. Brown, Private	Stewart Farmer, Private  *	John Kersey, Captain	Claude Smith, Private
Sam Carr, Private	J. T. Fitzgerald, Private	John B. Kinkade, Private	J. F. Smither, Private
Rudolph Childer, Private	Lee R. Foster, Private	John W. Lawson, Private	W. F. Staples, Private
Albert Chilson, Private	Carlton Gaines, Private	William McClure, Private	W. R. Steffey, Private
Henry Chilson, Private	G. F. Gayhart, Private	Henry Mitchell, Private	P. D. Stevenson, Private
William Choate, Private	J. W. Gilpin, Corporal	J. S. Moore, Private	John Tobin, Private
J. E. Cleveland, Private	Arthur Glore, Private	Nerly Moore, Private	Emmet C. Triplett, Private
W. M. Cleveland, Private	J. E. Graves, Private	Charles Netherton, Private	John E. Triplett, Private
Dudley Cohn, Private	Estin Hieatt, 2nd. Lieutenant	Henry Owens, Private	Morris Updike, Private
Charles Collins, Private	Duncan C. Holmes, Private	Sidney Parker, Private	C. M. Walcutt, Private
J. P. Cox, Private	J. D. Holmes, Private	Arthur Ponder, Private
William Crane, Private	David Howard, Private	John Richards, Private
* Members of the band

Franklin County Men in Georgetown Company

Robert R. Craik	Noel Gaines, Captain   *	Ralph W. Jones
W. C Jones	Thomas R. Markham	Herbert Morrison
Allen W. Travel

*  U. S. V. of General Ludlow's staff - Provost Marshall of Havana - promoted to Major