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In his final dispatch from Cuba during the Spanish-American War, Stephen Crane mocked the publics fascination with celebrity soldiers and blue-blood officers: The public wants to learn of the gallantry of Reginald Marmaduke Maurice Montmorenci Sturtevant, and for goodness sake how the poor old chappy endures that dreadful hard-tack and bacon. . . . . Whereas, the name of the regular soldier is probably Michael Nolan and his life-sized portrait was not in the papers in celebration of his enlistment. Just plain Private Nolan, blast him—he is of no consequence. He will get his name in the paper—oh, yes, when he is killed. Or when he is wounded. Or when he is missing. He expanded his brief dispatch about “Private Nolan” into one of his best short stories, “The Price of the Harness,” in which he describes the unheralded wartime sacrifices of regular soldiers. (Image: The Scream of Shrapnel at San Juan Hill, by Frederic Remington)
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 21:01:08 +0000

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