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Title: A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"

Author: Russell Doubleday

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A GUNNER ABOARD THE "YANKEE"

From the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun (Russell Doubleday)

The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the
Spanish-American War

Edited by H. H. LEWIS, Late a S.N.

With Introduction by W. T. SAMPSON, Rear Admiral U.S.

1896

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Honorary President, THE HON. WOODROW WILSON
Honorary Vice-President, HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT
Honorary Vice-President, COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT
President, COLIN B. LIVINGSTONE, Washington, D.C.
Vice-President, B.L. DULANEY, Bristol, Tenn.
Vice-President, MILTON A. McRAE, Detroit, Mich.
Vice-President, DAVID STARR JORDAN, Stanford University, Cal.
Vice-President, F.L. SEELY, Asheville, N.C.
Vice-President, A. STAMFORD WHITE, Chicago, Ill.
Chief Scout, ERNEST THOMPSON SETON, Greenwich, Connecticut
National Scout Commissioner, DANIEL CARTER BEARD, Fishing, N.Y.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
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FINANCE COMMITTEE
John Sherman Hoyt, Chairman
George D. Pratt
Mortimer L. Schiff
H. Rogers Winthrop

GEORGE D. PRATT Treasurer
JAMES E. WEST Chief Scout Executive

ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
Ernest P. Bicknell
Robert Garrett
Lee F. Hanmer
Jobe Sherman Hoyt
Charles C. Jackson
Prof. Jeremiah W. Jeeks
William D. Murray
Dr. Charles P. Nell
Frank Presbrey
Edgar M. Robinson