We have horses and carriages, and bull-carts galore, and enough furniture and other plunder to load a steamer. The enemy numbered thousands and had courage, but could not shoot straight. People can never tell me anything about the Rough Riders charging San Juan. If these natives could shoot as accurately as the Spanish, they would have exterminated us. Fighting goes on all along the lines, many natives are killed, but we capture very few rifles, as they seem to have men to take them.
Official reports say over four thousand two hundred natives have been buried by American troops.
How many they have buried themselves and how many more are dead in the brush no one knows. Frank M. Erb, of the Pennsylvania Regiment. The niggers shoot over one another's heads or any old way. Even while I am writing this the black boys are banging away at our outposts, but they very seldom hit anybody. The morning of the 6th a burying detail from our regiment buried forty-nine nigger enlisted men and two nigger officers, and when we stopped chasing them the night before, we could see 'em carrying a great many with them.