 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pana April 25, 1898, United States yakazivisa hondo kuSpain, ichitanga Hondo yeSpain neAmerica. The 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry akaunganidzwa kupinda basa musi 13 May 1898 muna Columbus, Ohio, uye akanga 48 vakuru uye 838 vakanyorwa varume pamusoro roster yayo. Vakasvika kuCamp Alger, Virginia musi wa 20 Chivabvu, uye vakadzidziswa ikoko kusvika musi wa 5 Chikunguru, pavakagamuchira mirairo yekuendeswa kuSantiago, Cuba pasi pekutungamira kwaGEN Nelson A. Miles. The regiment yakasvika muSiboney, Cuba musi wa 10 Chikunguru uye yakasimbisa V Army Corps pasi peGEN William Rufus Shafter. 0600 musi wa11 Chikunguru, mitsetse yeAmerica yakarairwa kuvhura moto kuzvidziviriro zveSpanish. Murwi wacho wakanga uchishanda zvikuru uye wakakuvadza zvikuru simba rinodzivirira. Mabhatiri akazarukira muvengi kubva paEl Pozo Hill, uye ngarava dzeAmerica dzakapfura zvombo zvadzo muguta reSantiago. Kugadzirira kwose kwakanga kwaitwa nokuda kwokudenha kwakabatana zvose zviri zviviri nepasi negungwa. Mukuru mukuru weSpain Toral akanga aramba kaviri kuti apinde musimba risina mvumo, uye GEN Shafter, Commodore Winfield Scott Schley uye Commodore William T. Sampson vakatsunga kupa vaSpanish mukana mumwe chete uye vobva vaparadza guta reSantiago nemabhatiri kubva kumahombekombe uye pazvikepe zvehondo. Sezvo zuva rakapfuurira, kupfura kwakava kukuru zvikuru. Kubva mugungwa, kupfura kwakatanga neUSS Newark nezvombo zvayo zve8-inch, uye ipapo USS New York neUSS Brooklyn zvakatevera. Varume ve8th Ohio vaigona kuona varume veSignal Corps pamusara wakakwirira vachifambisa-fambisa kuti vatungamirire pfuti kuenda kungarava. Mheni huru yokutanga yakapfurwa ichibva kumitsetse yeAmerica yakanyararidza varwi veSpain vaiva mumakomba, uye hapana kana chiratidzo choupenyu chaigona kuonekwa imomo. Kukombwa kweSantiagoyakaguma nokukurumidza pashure pacho, pana 17 July 1898, uye yakaramba iri pabasa rokugara muCuba kusvikira pana 18 August. Vakadzokera kuUnited States musi wa26 Nyamavhuvhu, uye vakabuda mubasa musi wa21 Mbudzi 1898. MuCuba, 8th Ohio yakarasikirwa nevakuru vana nevarume makumi matanhatu nevatanhatu nekuda kweyellow fever. 