SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

4/25/1898 - 8/12/1898

TIPTON COUNTY, TN

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Patriotic Prisoners in the Tipton County Jail

Covington, Tenn., May 1, 1898.

To the High Sheriff of Tipton County, State of Tennessee:

We, the undersigned, do hereby volunteer ourselves for the service of the United States of America to help in the struggle between it and Spain by going to war at our southern seaboard at Cuba.

C. L. Turner

Eddie Bibbs

John Henderson

Wade Powells

Will Woods

Bobs Smith

Will Perkins

(The Covington Leader, June 17, 1898)