Original U.S. Spanish-American War US Army M-1895 6th Infantry Medical Corps Major’s Tunic Hotchkiss MG with a ceramic "clapper" on

with a ceramic "clapper" on the inside

embroidered Musician chevron on right sleeve and Musician band member collar disc

In Hungarian it reads

Military Reference number on the rubber handle: 56D6221

but it has darkened from time

Original U.S. Spanish-American War US Army M-1895 6th Infantry Medical Corps Major’s Tunic Hotchkiss MG with a ceramic "clapper" onOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Spanish American War of 1898 was brief, with relatively few battle casualties, but epidemic disease, especially typhoid fever, devastated the volunteer troops. Post war investigations and commissions generated better understanding of the problem of asymptomatic carriers and a series of recommendations that greatly improved military medicine. The new practices, including the development of a typhoid vaccine, saved