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A large flag-waving crowd was on hand April 27, 1898 at Grand Island's Burlington & Missouri Railroad Depot (5th and Plum Streets), to give the community's militia unit, Company M of the Second Nebraska Regiment, a patriotic send-off. The company was called to active duty for the Spanish-American War. Members of the company can be seen standing of the observation platform and at the windows of this railroad car that carried them to Lincoln, where they were mobilized with other Nebraska militia forces.

The Grand Island Company, commanded by Capt. George Roeder, a Grand Island physician, did not see action in Cuba, but spent the war in training at Chickamauga Park, Georgia.

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