(Spanish-American War A fine content sailors letter from onboard the battleship Texas off Santiago 3pp small folio June 19 1898 J. Franklin Wilson writes a lady telling her of Spanish snipers planted along the shoreline the bombardment of forts and effect of the fire returned and the service of the Texas credit of sinking the Spanish warship Riena Mercedes and of demolishing the town of Guantanamo and its forts we ran into a nest of submarine mines but the texas luck was in front. if we struck those mines she would have shared the fate of the Maine if Sampson would send the bulldog thats us home he ( Cervera) would come out and fight. More fine content Of course within days Cervera would indeed come out to witness his fleet destruction first hand