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SURRENDER TREE: The
photograph represents the tree as it is at the present time,
surrounded, by order of General Wood, with a triple wire fence
or trocha, as a protection against relic hunters, whose
depredations are visible on the roots and lower portions of the
trunk. Surrender Tree is located about four miles out from
Santiago, on the estate of Senor Morett, a wealthy cattle
raiser, who lives at Ponce, Puerto Rico. The bodies of a number
of American soldiers, buried under and near this tree, were
removed to the United States after the close of the war.
(Spanish-American War, Cuba, 1898)
Spanish-American War Gallery |
