Edward Lawrence Logan was an American lawyer, judge, politician, and National Guard officer from South Boston, Massachusetts. Over a public career of more than four decades he combined three simultane
Logan as a state representative on the committee on metropolitan affairs, 1902
Colonel Logan and his staff of the 101st Infantry en route to the front, March 1918
Logan with a French officer near Vailly, in the Chemin des Dames sector, 1918 (U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph)
Logan and his staff at the head of the parade column, passing the Massachusetts State House and the governor's reviewing stand during the Yankee Division's homecoming parade, April 25, 1919
The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acquiring sovereignty ove
Edward Lawrence Logan
…businessman who himself commanded Boston's largely Irish "Fighting Ninth" regiment, Logan enlisted in that regiment as a Harvard College senior during the Spanish–American War and served as its regimental sergeant major. After earning a law degree from Harvard Law School, he served briefly on the Boston Common Council, in the…
(clockwise from top left) Signal Corps extending telegraph lines USS Iowa at the Victory Fleet Review in August 1898 in New York Harbor Filipino soldiers wearing Spanish pith helmets outside Manila The Spanish signing the Treaty of Paris Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at San Juan Hill Replacing of the Spanish flag at Fort San Antonio Abad (Fort Malate) in Manila
A Spanish propaganda drawing published in La Campana de Gràcia (1896) by Manuel Moliné criticizing U.S. behavior regarding Cuba. Upper text (in old Catalan) reads: "Uncle Sam's craving", and below: "To keep the island so it won't get lost".
General Weyler and the authorities of Havana
An American cartoon published in Judge, February 6, 1897: Columbia (representing the American people) reaches out to the oppressed Cuba (the caption under the chained child reads "Spain's 16th century methods") while Uncle Sam (representing the U.S. government) sits blindfolded, refusing to see the atrocities or use his guns to intervene (cartoon by Grant E. Hamilton).