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Walter W. Ward
Best known for a vivid local history of the Spanish-American War, this late-19th-century writer focused on Springfield, Massachusetts, and the soldiers who served from the city. His surviving work reads as both a historical record and a tribute to civic memory.
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Springfield in the Spanish American War
by Walter W. Ward
About the author
Walter W. Ward is known as the author of Springfield in the Spanish-American War, a book published in 1899 by the Press of Enterprise Printing Company in Easthampton, Massachusetts. The work centers on Springfield, Massachusetts, and the role its citizen-soldiers played in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
From the book itself, Ward comes across as a commemorative local historian: he wrote to honor the officers and men connected with Springfield’s companies and to preserve their service and sacrifice in print. The tone of the preface is proud, civic-minded, and strongly focused on remembrance.
Reliable biographical details about Ward himself are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to let the book define him: an author of late-19th-century military and local history whose surviving reputation rests on this detailed account of Springfield in wartime.