| According
to Sally Jordan this photo appeared in a
Country Home magazine, June 1992. The
article was about baseball clubs and the
author mistakenly presumed that this team
was from the State of Maine. Having
recognized it as one which she had seen,
possibly at The Maine Historical Society,
she wrote to the magazine at the time and
they published her letter correcting
their error. The photo is believed to
have been taken in Florida just before
they left for Cuba, but remembers reading
that their goat mascot remained in
Florida.
Her
husband's ancestor was William Haze
Tinsman, a Landsman on the Maine. He
enlisted August 1897 at Portland Maine
and was born in Susquehannah PA, Son of
William Henry Harrison Tinsman. William
Tinsman's grave is at the Maine Memorial
in the National Cemetery in D.C. His
service record is certified by C.D.
Sigsbee, Commanding, USS Maine.
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