Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-12-28

ing the leading regiments abreast of the Isrt1 and First cavalry, the rear of Nhs, .oT'S g division. When General Kent vas asked at Montauk to tell of the s.urmiar uf San Juan heights, he said, We were ordered to take the heights, a-i y,e took them. In so saying the general plunged into the thick of the battle of words which has been stirred uP over this very point of orders. Yet he paid a high tribute to the line off, csrs and men He said that it was a soldiers fight RegimentaI command CTS did nobly, but, owing to the ground, coGld rot sec their it'll commands Company officers had to act, and did. with good effect.
 Rents story is that at : o'clock on the morning Of July he went to the bill where CTimsS' battery was in posi- ton !cfore Grimes opened fire, and thero Colonel McCleTnand. representing General Shafter. pointed ont a green hill Ia the cistance as Rents objective, 1Ii tho .sft, be being instructed to keep bis Iglt on the main road leading to Sa.,i ago. The green knoll is on the s1IG sidce as the San Juan blockhOGse, sC4,o hundred yards south of that point, a .IicA is neaf the road, and therefore tbc blCctiye of Rents right flank Kent bad already sent Haw kins' bri- gate forward. and shortly after Grimes tat,tYy opened, which was before o'olcsk, he rode on and came up with HsH kiEs and his leading regiment, the Sixth infantry. At that point he was ordered to give the cavalry the right of way. which caused a deiay of his ad- s.li2e @ minutes During that delay Hawkins and Kent went to the front under the fire of gharpshooters and crossed the main ford of San Juan riv- CT. already reached by the advance guard of the cavalry division, the Ninth regiment They looked through the fringe of trees and saw the eneDy's pO- sition Hawkins thought he could turn the Lnsmy's right at San Juan, but KeUt did not agree with him and de- cisied to put two t=igadss &nsS- ee4Bz18 for direct attack. Going backward to harry his troops, he met them just as they came under heavy fire not only from the front, but from the dense tbicket on the banks and from sharp shooters in trees in the rear of the nov ing troops.
 The balloon was abreast of the head of his division, and shrapnel aimed at it fell among his men The observers in the lalloOn pointed out to Kent a trail parallel with the read on its left The Sixth and Sixteenth regiments were al ready in the road. past tine forks of the trail, and Kent went back and directed the Seventy first regiment into the trail, to De followed by WikOff's brigade, in support of Hawkins The Seventy first became a stumbling block in the way of Wikoff's advance, and it was noon when the head of Wikoff's brigade reached the fording place.
 When the Sixth regiment reached the ford, Hawkins was there and said to Colonel Egbert, its commander, Somewhat beyond here you can get an eufilade fire on those works, and Lieutenant Ord will show you where to go in" The works on San Juan
 
 the front the Sixth formed on the left of the Sixth cavalry behind the fringe of trees, directly opposite San Juan blCckhoUse. Colonel Egbert looked over the grCuLi in his front, and, finding that the cavalry pickets were being fired upon jy Spaniards in the houses in front, sent out four companies as skir mishers tO re-enforce the troopers. These companies drew heavy fire from the Spanish front. This halt was made be- tween the Aguadores and San Juan.
 Seeing a battalion of the Sixteenth coming tO his support, Colonel Egbert ordered his regiment forward in line of battle. Tra7ersing grainAeld. the Sixth encountered heavy belt of trees and undergrowth lining the high banks of the San Juan river. Taking Company E, Captain Kennon, with him, the colonel plunged into the stream, which was waist deep, crossed, and beyond the high bank found a road parallel to the river and inclosed by barbed wire fences. At signal from the colonel the rest of the regiment leaped down the bank, waded the stream and clambered up the opposite side through the undergrOwth, all coming to halt at the wire fence. Captain W Whitsll, with part of the Six teenth infantry also crossed and lined up at the fence with the Sixth regi- ment The line as it then stood was a prolongstion of the line on San Juan, or Kettle, hill, which the cavalry after ward carried, as told in the last article. The rest of the Sixteenth regiEcut pass ed some distance beyond the &Nth. on its left and rear.
 Colonel Egbert kept his regiment at
 General Wood is teaching the Spaniards and Cubans in Santiago