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ROUGH RIDERS’ VICTORY Cyclonic Tactics Dismayed the Spanish at Quasimas. STRIKING COOLNESS OF THE MEN. Spaniards Were Sure of Victory and Expected the Americans to Retreat After One Volley—Some Details of the Fight. Dashing Style of the Black Troopers l Charge—Orders Were Instantly Obeyed. Colonel Roosevelt's Ardor. Quasimas is the name given to the battlefield where, on .Tune 24, the First I nited States volunteer qwvalry, better known as the rough riders, received its baptism of fire and behaved with the coolness and intrepidity of veteran troops. But all the glory of a decisive defeat of the Spaniards did not belong to the rough riders. The Tenth cavalry distinguished itself and some troops of the b irst United States cavalry were also engaged. A New Yorker in the rougli rideru, who witnessed the charge of the Tenth up a ridge on the right of the valley where Colonel Wood’s regiment seemed to be caught in a trap, was very enthusiastic after the battle over the dashing style in which the black troopers went for th# position of the Spanish and captured it. “I don’t know what kind of cavalry they make, ” he said, “but they are a glorious success as infantrymen. There can be no better soldiers in the world, and yet I used to doubt whether the negro could fight with as much dash as the white man. ” The First United States cavalry claims the credit of having opened the engagement with the discharge of a Hotchkiss gun in the direction of a force of Spaniards which was plainly in viewon the crest of a hill. It is said that the Spaniards did not open fire on the rough riders until a few minutes later. There are two things that should be said with emphasis before the battle is described in detail. One is that the rough riders were not ambusbed, as that word is generally understood, and the other is that none of them was shot by his comrades in an overlapping line in the rear. There have been hints that this happened, but they do serious injustice to Colonel Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, and also to General Young, who was in command of the brigade engaged. The brigade was a part, it should be understood, of General Wheeler’s corps. The night before Quasimas General Young sent for Colonel Wood of the rough riders and in substance said to him: “Colonel, I have reliable information that the Spaniards have taken a very strong position beyond Sevilla, near the junction of the trail over the mountain at Siboney and the valley road, and expect to inflict a defeat on us there if we advance. I think the brigade can fight the first battle of the war tomorrow morning and drive the enemy back on Santiago.” General Young got his information about the position of the Spaniards from General Demetrio Castillo’s scouts, and it proved to be correct. Colonel Wood’s regiment climbed the hill at Siboney soon after sunrise, and the Tenth took the valley road, starting later. Behind the rough riders at some distance marched the First. The country in which the troops were to operate can best be described as a chaos of high hills and mountain peaks. So prodigally are they massed about that it should not be difficult for a resourceful and determined enemy to annihilate an invading army. Colonel Wood’s men marched with heavy packs at the regulation step and suffered terribly from the heat. Many of them threw away their blankets or coats on the way, and 10 per cent fell out, so that at ono time a considerable halt was necessary.

Tho Tenth cavalry, inured to hot weather marching, went along cheerily enough, but when tho battle began they were somo distance behind the rough riders. The Tenth had, however, a better road to march over. That which Colonel Wood’s regiment took was a mere trail through tho woods, where it was not always possible for four men to march abreast. Let it be understood that tho rough riders were proceeding along one cf the ridges of which there c.re so many in the valley that ends at Santiago. Tho course of the Tenth was in tho bottom of tho valley. Overlooking tho ridge on both sides was some high ground, and in front was a considerable bill. The Spanish position was in the shape of a horseshoe, so that volley firing could be directed from three sides on a regiment advancing along the ridge. On both sides of the trail were dense thickets, in which the giant cactus known as the Spanish bayonet predominated, but the trend of these thickets was slightly upward on the right and sharply downward on the left. Captain Capron of the volunteers was riding at point, or ahead of the main body, when he became aware of the presence of the Spaniards in force on a hill to the right. He halted his little body of men and sent back word to Colonel Wood. The latter at once gave orders to deploy ou both sides of the trail, and enjoined silence, especially on the left, where there were some shouting and laughter, for the men, fagged out as they were from heat and marching, were inclined to be hilarious over the prospect of a brush with the enemy. Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt at once repressed their enthusiasm. Suddenly from cover on the left front and before the regiment was wen deployed there came a rip. rip, rip o musketry. The firing "as directs against Troop L, which was inadiance It is said that the rough riders on the extreme left anticipated the b P firing by a lew seconds, but on thi. point there seems to be some> doubt , Reference has already been wad< ~ , assertion that a Hotchkiss gun handled ,

by the First regiment of cavalry fired the first shot. Troop Los the rough riders replied to the Spanish fire with great spirit and precision. The trail and woods on both sides of it are still littered with empty cartridges tired by them. On the left side of the trail the bushes were thick, and’the men could not see the Spaniards who were firing on them from the slope. On the right the enemy could be seen in a little clearing a mile away, and Troops K, G and A, after plunging through the bushes, blazed away at them with good will. There was at first some danger that the Tenth cavalry, which came up quickly as soon as the firing began, would mistake the deploying rough riders on the right for Spaniards, and one of the officers of the Tenth afterward said that he was greatly relieved when the guidon of K appeared on a slight elevation in the valley ahead. It is doubtful whether Troops G, K and A, which were in that order on the right of Company L, could have driven the Spaniards off the hill without support. The Tenth, on getting the word, swarmed up the hill, firing with great deliberation volley after volley. Their alignment and coolness were remarkable. Whenever a man was hit, the cry of “Hospital!” went up calmly, and the troopers pressed on as if engaged in practice maneuvers. Although many of them had never been under fire, there was not the least faltering or confusion. On the left of the rough riders Troops D and F did the heaviest work, E and B being farther back and in the rear of L. Captain Capron was sJFit early in the fight, and the firing had not gone on long before Hamilton Fish fell mortally wounded. He had been in the front rank pressing on and firing as fast as he could load. Every one who witnessed his behavior under a galling fire speaks of it with enthusiasm. Fish died the death of a brave soldier. It can be said of the rough riders that almost to a man they faced with the coolness of veterans the ordeal of fire, which was the more trying because the foe, attacking from cover, could not be seen. Five times during the engagement the order was given to stop firing, and it was obeyed instantly. There could be no better evidence that the men kept their heads, and army officers speak of the circumstance as an unusual one. One man, however, seems to have lost his head. He rode back to Siboney when the fighting was fiercest with a story that the rough riders were being cut to pieces and were falling back. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Ten men killed and perhaps three times that number wounded was not a heavy loss in a command of 500 men, and, far from being driven back, the rough riders finished their part in the battle with a charge up the hill on the left with a rush that filled the Spaniards with panic. Troops D, F and E were concerned in this final movement, and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt led them in person, Major Brodie having been wounded and taken to the rear. On the top of the slope was a blockhouse, from which the Spaniards were firing with apparently little risk to themselves. The boys yelled like Comanches as they pressed up the hill on the run, and Colonel Roosevelt, forgetting in his ardor that he was in command, snatched up a Krag-Jorgensen and pumped shot after shot into the blockhouse. The Spanish fire was steady enough, but in its sweep the charge of the three troops was cyclonic, and the Spaniards burst from the blockhouse and took to their heels in the brush. Seventeen bodies were counted in and around the house. Meanwhile the other troops, the Tenth cavalry and the First, the last of which was not heavily engaged, finished the rout of the Spaniards on the right and in front. The battle seems to have been deliberately planned, for they took their wounded away in wagons, and there was a long line of them. The Spanish loss in killed was then known to be at least 50. Some fruit pickers who came out from Santiago the following day reported that the Spaniards returned with the story that they had been fighting the whole American army, and they complained that the more they fired on the Americans the faster they came on.

The Spaniards were plainly heartbroken and dismayed by the result of the battle. So sure were they of victory that they brought some of their women with them to witness the defeat of the Americans. The fact is, the unfaltering advance of our men after volleys had been poured into them from the front and flauks was an unpleasant surprise for the Spaniards, who had always seen the Cubans retreat after one raking volley. By Spanish rules ot war the Americans were whipped early in the fight, and so badly whipped that their invincible volleying and rushing were like the resurrection of a dead man. About 1,500 Americans were engaged. The Spanish force was not less than 2,500 and some estimates have made it 4,000. Its position should have been impregnable even if it had been outnumbered. If Quasimas had been fought between Spaniards and Cubans, it would have figured in the history of the civil war as a great battle, the greatest battle, in fact, of three years of fighting.— New York Suu. America to Europe. My cannon roar, my anvils ring, My battlcSags are wide unfurled. Not to dethrone an infant, king Or belt an empire round the world; Nor would I pluck the vengeance brand From the Almighty’s own light hand. The cry of blood before my gate Tears through my heart and burns my brain. Could I be mute or weakly prate Os peace, mine were the curse of Cain. In every age, in every ' lime, A craven pence is blackest crime. God send to those his holy peaee Who uo not fear his holy war! Eis hissing scourge will never cease While nations trample on Lis law. America and Spain must bletd Till outraged Cuba shall be frecA —Charles Weston Jenkins in Ne w \crk Herald.

STARS ANO STRIPES Now Floating Over the Governor’s Place at Santiago. TORAL GIVES UP IDS SWORD Hut Geueial Shafter Returns It to Him. Spanish General Escorts Americans Through the City—Tweuty-one Guns Fired When the United Stales Flag Is Swung to tlie Breeze. In front of Santiago, via Guantanamo Bay, July 18.—Old glory is now floating over the fortifications of Santiago. Y’esterday morning the Spanish troops under command of General Toral left their trenches and marched into the American lines, where, one by one, the regiments laid down their arms. At the same time the Spanish flag was hauled down and the stars and stripes hoisted in its place. The work of loading Spanish prisoners on transports preparatory to sending them back to Spain will be commenced as soon as ships are provided. The authorities at Washington have been urged to use haste in this matter. It has been suggested to use Spanish transports for this work, fear being expressed that use of American vessels would result in rendering them dangerous for use in moving American troops on account of the exposure of the Spaniards to yellow fever. THE SURRENDER. Ceremony Attending the Transfer of Santiago By Spanish to Americans. Santiago de Cuba, July 18.—Amid impressive ceremonies the Spanisn troops laid down their arms between the lines of the Spanish and American forces yesterday morning. General Shafter and the American division and brigade commanders and their staffs were escorted by a troop of cavalry and General Toral and staff by 100 picked men. Trumpeters on both sides saluted with flourishes. General Shafter returned to General Toral the latter’s sword after it had been handed to the American commander. Our troops, lined up at the trenches, were eye witnesses of the ceremony. General Shafter and his escort, accompanied by General Toral, rode through the city, taking formal possession. The city had been sacked before they arrived by the Spaniards. The American flag is floating in triumph over the governor’s palace at Santiago de Cuba, and General McKibbon has been appointed temporary military governor. The ceremony of hoisting the stars and stripes was worth all the blood and treasure it cost. The vast concourse of 10,000 people witnessed the stirring and thrilling scene that will live forever in the minds of all the Americans present. A finer stage setting for a dramatic episode it would be difficult to imagine. The palace, a picturesque old dwelling in the Moorish style of architecture, faces the Plaza de La Reina, the principal public square. Opposite rises the imposing Catholic cathedral. On one side is a quaint, brilliantly painted building with broad verandahs—the club of San Carlos—on the other, a building of much the same description, is the Case de La Venus. Across the plaza was drawn up the Ninth infantry, headed by the Sixth cavalry band. In the street facing the nalaco stood a picked troop of the Second cavalry with drawn sabers, under command of Captain Brett. Massed on the stone flagging between the band and the line of horsemen weie the brigade commanders of General Shafter’s division with their staffs. Hoisting the Stars and Stripes. On the red tiled roof of the palace stood Captain McKittrick, Lieutenant Miley and Lieutenant Wheeler, immediately above them, upon the flagstaff, the illuminated Spanish arms and the legend “Viva AlfonsoXIII.” All about, pressing against the veranda rails, crowding the windows and doors and lining the roofs were the people of the town, principally women and noncombatants. As the chimes of the old cathedral rang out the hour of 12 the infantry and cavalry presented arms. Every American uncovered, and Captain McKittrick hoisted the stars and stripes. As the brilliant folds unfurled in a gentle breeze against a fleckless sky the cavalry band broke into the strains of "The Star Spangled Banner,” making the American pulse leap and the American heart thrill with joy. At the same instant the sound of the distant booming of Captain Capron’s battery, firing a salute of 21 guns, drifted in. When the music ceased, from all directions around our line came floating jeross the plaza the strains of the regimental bands and the muffled, hoarse cheers of our troops. The infantry came to “order arms” a moment later, after the flag was up, and the boys played "Rally Round the Flag Boys.” Instantly General McKibbon called for three cheers for General Shafter, which were given with great enthusiasm, the band playing Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” The ceremony over, General Shafter and his staff returned to the American lines, leaving the city in the possession of the municipal authorities, -abject to the control of General McKibbon.

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