Soldiers Swimming

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Description:

Black and white photograph of soldier in the nude, diving into the water from the wharf. Several of his fellow soldiers can be seen, heads only, watching from the water in front of a ship named the "J.S. Heyward." Printed from a glass plate negative held in the Museum's collection.

The soldiers were possibly part of the 12th Regiment Infantry, New York Volunteers, mustered into service during the Spanish-American War. It appears they stopped in Charleston on the way to Camp George H. Thomas in Georgia before shipping out to Cuba. See MK 7652 and MK 7654.