Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-09

Queeney and Ferry, reduced. On the DIST
Ernest l.. Graham arrived from the Sol
diers' Home Hospital and Joined the COM
pany. He had been treated at the hospital
by DR.. Forward for the purpose of being
able TO enlist and go with Company B. On
this same date Lieut.. King returned to
DUTY with his company from special duty.
During this month of June a remarka BILE
change was taking place in the soldierly
bearing and military knowledge of Com
pany b. During Capt Kings illness Lieut..
Bell did some very good work in drilling
the company. The company also, with the
| regiment. took part in several practice
marches to Tampa Heights Here the regi-
ment bivouacked over night, in shelter
tents, and al 3 O'Clock the next morning
got UP for regimental, battalion and open
| order drill, taking advantage of the cool
part of the morning. The men thereby got
the benefit of much-needed instruction in
these drills.
On July l Private Turner was discharged
by special order, and on the I'd Private An
derson transferred to the hospital
corps. On this day the company, with the
regiment, broke camp at Tampa, and pro-
ceeded by rail for Port Tampa, where they
boarded the United States transport ca
tania, en- route to Santiago dc Cuba. On
the evening of July they arrived at Key
West, laid outside the harbor all night and
anchored at Key West early in the morn
Catania grounded three or four times, but
got off without any trouble. Otherwise the
voyage to Key West was uneventful. Ow-
ing to the pumps of the transport Caiania
being out of order they were delayed about
tWenty-four hours at Key West.
Sailed for Santiago.
On the evening of July the company
sailed for Santiago, under convoy of the
United States gunboat Wasp, arriving off
Santiago on the night of July g. On the
morning of the 10th they started for ST.
honey, and that afternoon disembarked
landing being effected by means of boats
borrowed from some of the government
warships. They marched about three miles
inland and made camp for the night. Re
veille sounded about 3 am. of July IL,
when the men INDUCED in coffee and hard
tack. Here everything except arms and
ammunition was left and the company
went forward to the battlefield and
trenches around Santiago, where they ar
rived between and o'clock a. IN. of the
same morning.
On the march to the trenches, within an
hour from the time the company broke
camp, the sound of firing, both by field
guns and rifles, was very distinctly heard,
most of the men, hearing the Shrek of the
shells and the whizz of the bullets for the
first time.
On this march the realities of war were
first brought home to the men by the fire.
quent graves Of soldiers that were passed
and by the wagon loads of wounded officers
and men who were constantly passing to
the rear for the hospital at Siboney.
About o'clock the regiment came to a
halt on the side of the hill directly inside
our trenches and batteries. After a few
hours rest the captain of Company B was
sent for and told to report his company
at Colonel Harries' headquarters, which
were little further up the hill under
cocoanut tree. Here Captain King received
orders to follow orderly with his COM
pany and relieve a company of regulars in
the trenches. Upon arriving at the trench
es 1t was found that the trench to be occu-
pied by Company was the most advanced
in the line of trenches around Santiago at
that time, and range of four hundred
yards was given this company for the en-