(L.S.) (Signed) THOS.  O. MOORE. 
“’By the Governor: 
(Signed) P.D.  HARDY,
Secretary of State.

(Wilson:  Black Phalanx, p. 194.)

[27] De Tocqueville:  L’Ancien Regime et La Revolution, p. 125-6.

[28] Thomas Westworth Higginson:  Army Life in a Black Regiment, pp. 57-8.

[29] Thomas Wentworth Higginson:  Army Life in a Black Regiment, p. 261.

[30] Williams’s Negro Troops in the Rebellion, pp. 339-40, quoting the order.

[31] Williams’s Negro Troops in the Rebellion, pp. 334-6, original order quoted.

[32] See pp. 351-6 MS.

[33] Wilson:  Black Phalanx, p. 211, original order quoted.

[34] Campaigns of the Civil War.  F.V.  Greene.  The Mississippi, p. 226 et seq.

[35] Williams’s Negro Troops in the Rebellion, p. 221, original order quoted.

[36] MS. Archives of Massachusetts, Vol. 180, p. 241, quoted in Williams’s Negro Troops in the Rebellion, p. 13.

APPENDIX.

The correspondence following shows the progress of the negotiations for the surrender of the city of Santiago and the Spanish Army, from the morning of July 3d until the final convention was signed on the sixteenth of the same month.  This surrender virtually closed the war, but did not restore the contending nations to a status of peace.  Twenty-three thousand Spanish soldiers had laid down their arms and had been transformed from enemies to friends.  On the tenth of August following, a protocol was submitted by the President of the United States, which was accepted by the Spanish cabinet on the eleventh, and on the twelfth the President announced the cessation of hostilities, thus closing a war which had lasted one hundred and ten days.  On the tenth of December a Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain was signed at Paris, which was subsequently ratified by both nations, and diplomatic relations fully restored.  The war, though short, had been costly.  One hundred and fifty million dollars had been spent in its prosecution, and there were left on our hands the unsolved problem of Cuba and the Philippines, which promised much future trouble.

Within a month from the signing of the convention, the Army of Invasion, known as the Fifth Army Corps, was on its homeward voyage, and by the latter part of August the whole command was well out of Cuba.  Well did the soldiers themselves, as well as their friends, realize, as the former returned from that campaign of a hundred days, that war in the tropics was neither a pastime nor a practice march.  The campaign had tested the powers of endurance of the men to its utmost limit.  The horrors of war were brought directly to the face of the people, as the ten thousand invalids dragged their debilitated forms from the transports to their detention camps, or to the hospitals, some too helpless to walk, and many