The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-13
otcK FROM THE BIG BATTLE.
nm OFFICERS FROM GEORGIA
m RETURN HOME.

,, Newell SO Slightly wounded
- Ne Expects to Return to Cuba
,s.,, Days-Lteut. Fred Lewis
J" ,ccouut of Illness Brought
the Heat-Lieut. spence
-. Home severely Wounded In
me shoulder.
,T,nts Ca. July 12.-Among the wound
who have been ordered here
e. -7ttlefeld of Santiago TO recu-
ffo'" NJ. r3erson barracks hospital are
PEI csors.ans. one of the three, how
'N'- ,-,= So slightly wounded that he re-
e. ,sI NJ tampa, ready 10 go back into
Me hi a few days
-,,.s Gallant officer is Lieut.. Isaac I.
III n lliuedgeville, grandson of the
s.,5ror Colqultt. Lieut.. Newell grad
ia ',.5 only year ago from West Point.
u- was assigned to the Twenty-second
V-(,,,ry which did valiant service before
,,o,ber of The wounded who came in on
.,.1,.,,.aI train is Lieut.. Fred Lewis of
7,,..,rr-seeond Infantry. He is a son
~ Cen j. r. Lewis. who was postmaster
ALBANIA under President Harrison.
T..- lewis was not wounded, but be-
-. .-.,lt through excessive heat. He will
,o,ys for ocean Grove, N. J., tomorrow,
and e,-oscts to be able to go back to his
regiment after a short rest.
rtent. r. j.. Spence is the third of the
csoraians to succumb to the Santiago
4csf He was quite severely wounded in
+bs stoul5er. but will not lose his arm,
sr5 is reported to be getting along all
right Lieut. Spence was appointed
major in the Third Georgia Volunteer
Rsg,ment. but on account of the ruling
o4 the war department, allowing only
two majors to the regiment, he failed to
get has commission.
Many of the wounded at the post are
able to walk about at will and some of
them were in town within a few hours
afrer the arrival of the hospital train.
The had been away from a city for so
long sleeping in trenches and undergoing
orher hardships of campaigning, that they
lost no time in getting another glimpse
of CIVILIZATION
Whenever one of these wounded soldiers
appeared. some of them with their arms
tied up and others with bandaged heads,
they were at once the observed of all OBJ
servers. the heroes of the hour. From the
looks of their clothing, some of them
might have been engaged in a three-year
campaign without renewed uniforms, in
stead Of a three months seasoning. The
canvas clothes adopted for this particular
campaign do not seem to stand the racket
in very good form.
The two men around whom centered the
most attraction on the hospital train yes
terday were Capt. A. c. Ducat and Lieut..
H. G. Lyon, both of the Twenty-fourth
Infantry These two men have won the
admiration of their army comrades and
endeared themselves to their country
Capt Ducat with his lieutenant led the
charge on June "A on the block house
San Juan" some distance out from San
uago. The stone house stood at the top
of a hill facing the pathway leading up
10 it and into the town. 1t was placed
there purposely to guard the approach
to the city and to advance meant for our
soldiers to pass 1t. 1t was. occupied by
from fifty to sixty well armed soldiers.
Capt. Ducat with a detachment of seven
ty-dve men from the Twenty-Fourth In
fantry charged this fort. His company
charged up the hill amidst a perfect hail
storm of bullets, which We're showered
down upon them, the Americans firing as
they went.
The Spaniards were struck with awe at
the daring OF men who could not be stop
ped by bullets, and when what remain
ed OF the company arrived at the TOP of
the hill the Spaniards fed.
A number of the Dons were killed.
Neither Capt Ducat nor Lieut.. Lyon
reached the top, but their fan never for
moment stopped the onward march.
or the seventy-ive men who started up
the nil in the face Of the destructive
Spanish fire fifty-three are now in their
graves. twenty-five reached and occu-
wounded