The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-19
A REGULARS POINT OF VIEW.
SAM Mcfiugh Writes About the Fight at SAN
tiago and Scores One on the
Rough Riders.

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whom 1t was wrettn
Sister, are you all dead, or are
you out of the state? / have written
TO you so often and have gotten but
one letter since left Mobile. While
writing this letter | ain in the City
Hall in Santiago. am on detail as
curior for Gen. Shafter. / am one of
his orderlies today. His headquart-
ers are - the City Hall
Santiago surrendered the 18th day
of July. Our squadron marched to
the town The 18th unfurled "old
glory" on top of the City hall, and let
her wave in her grandeur. We have
lost but four men in our troop go far,
and they died from yellow fever, but
you need not borrow trouble over me
for we now are out ofthe locality from
which the fever originated.
was sick for two weeks with fever,
mot yellow fever though) and delir-
ious the greater part of the time, but
the cause was from getting wet, over
doing myself and sleeping on the
wet ground and in wet blankets, dur
ing the two, or rather three days fight.
We now have our Sibly tents and
clothing from the Matteauwan and
secured rubber cult in Mobile, go,
am all right.
This morning while sitting in the
City Park listening to the CHM
ing bells in those old Cathedrals, it
set me thinking of the things which
have happened since this town was
founded in 1914, the oldest town in
the new world-the old San Salvador
Isle you know. The Spanish are hold
ing mass and | assure you their choir
furnishes some of the sweetest music
you ever heard. Santiago IL dirty
town, narrow streets, so narrow our
wagons can hardly pass each other.
Two troops u. " l.. are in captivity.
They were sent to bring eight-hun.
dred prisoners into Santiago. The
| Spanish rannot be made to believe
Santiago has surrendered. tell you
they stared in amazement when our
men marched through the streets the
18th, they could not realize what had
happened. Troops A. d {. will soon
be liberated and the prisoners brought
in. The killed and wounded in battle
of July 1st 2nd and 3rd were, 234'kill-
ed, wounded, 1869, number of Spanish
prisoners taken, $4,000. The priso-
ners will be sent to Spain.
Well sister, the day helped to es-
cort Capt. Schaderwitz, Of SIMPSONS
fleet, TO our battle field to take note of
the position the army held, so in bonn
harding Santiago the shells from the
navy would do no harm TO our army,
l had the good fortune 10 see the he
roes who were confined thirty-four
days in Moro Castle and Santiago.
Hobson and his men passed through
our camp and we gave Them bareback
and tobacco. We boys all took their
names. heard capt. Schaderwitz
promote some of bis men. The officers
were delighted to see their men free
once more after their narrow escape.
Each one was promoted. Reading of
war is not like the reality, tell you.
| know what a battle means now and
understand war more fully. Think of
bullets singing by your ears and shells
swshing over your head, really, 1t is
not the pleasantest thing going.
Centipedes and tarantuias abound
in this country, 1t is nothing to get
stung by a tarantula. | have seen
many sad sights during this short
war, which wish l could forget.
The climate is not 80 hot here as
you may imagine, for the breeze from
the sea and the mountains make the
temperature about as 1t is in the
Statesin July and August
could make book of what | have
to tell you, but will wait until can
talk with you, which win be soon,
think from what I understand. In a
few weeks we are to be shipped to the
coast OF Maine to freeze up" once
more as we have been "thawing OUT
in Cuba. Their purpose in taking us
to cold climate is to get the fever
out OF our system, go as not to spread
1t in the United states OF course
troops enough will be left to hold SAN
tiago. | understand Congress Is or
has been considering the question - to
either give each soldier who partici-
pated in this war so much money, So
there will he no pensions for those
who lost their health. II they do not
prefer the amount decided upon,
they are entitled to pension for di-
seases brought on during the war. 1t
is sensible idea OF the Gov. think
, In one camp where wrote you the
last letter we were terribly annoyed
by these horrible land crabs Here
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