, 1898-11-18

him. but when the Xt morning came
and he sent to notify Castillo that he
was prepared to proceed, the messen-
ger found a card on the commanders
dOOr saying that he must not be dis
turbed. He had, therefore. proceeded
without the Cubans.
After the fight was over, however.
some of the Cubans had come up under
the command of a Frenchman. who
saluting tragically with his sabre, say
ing that he had been ordered by ZEN
| eral Castillo to follow the enemy and
fight him wherever he could find him.
General Young said he simply ordered
the Cubans to the rear, and the only
service they had performed was to
gather up the baggage that the Ameri-
can soldiers had discarded.
General Young said he had been the
only man in command at La Quasima
who was mounted. and that he rode a
mule. He carried no bacGLT- except a
rubber slicker, a pajamd aid a tooth
brush. The wounded were carried back
to Siboney and, while the hospital was
somewhat congested, the men were well
attended to.
General Young said that Immediately
after the Quasima fight he had looked
the ground over toward FL Caney and
had Informed General Wheeler that he
was confident he could take the place
hat night with his brigade. if allowed
to do so.
General Wheeler had replied that his
orders from General Shafter were not
to advance without notifying him, and
that he would notify the general of his
General Young's) wishes. He had not
heard anything more officially in re-
gard to the matter.
With this General Young's service In
| Cuba ceased, as he was taken down
with fever June 80, and sent back home.
After a period of sickness he was sent
to Montauk Point and established Camp
W;koff. He said it had been impos-
sible to get in floors and that he did not
consider them necessary, either for
health or comfort.
Il gave them lumber. hammers and
nails, however, and told them to make
themselves floors if they wanted them.
I thought they were being treated too
much like babies"
He regarded the commissary supplies,
he said, as abundant and that enough
had been allowed to spoil to feed 800
men daily.
The hospital and quartermaster
stores we're all ample. He had never in
all his experience seen army hospitals
so well supplied with medicine and
stores of all kinds.
The controlling motive in selecting
Montauk was that OF selecting proper
quarantine, and a strict quaratine was
observed. He considered the camp
healthful and the site desirable.
AS to what was done there for the
| soldiers" he saiu, II think | deserve
more credit for what | did az Montauk
than for what did at La Quasima. l
think more was done than should have
been lone for the soldiers"
Telling of the h%ardships Of one com
mand which had just arrived from Gu
ba, he said: They were not the heroes,
being only regulars"
He said the privations of the war
were not so serious as Indian cam
paigns he had been engaged in. There
had to live on corn, and others when
there was nothing to eat except horse
meat and burro meat.
But that" he said, was not in the
newspapers"
Soldiers like to be made babies Of
he said, land some If them soon got
so they would not eat their regular
rations."
General Young concluded his testi-
mony with the statement that the SOL
diers were far better cared for than they
had been in the Civil war.
The adjutant general Of the army has
furnished the war investigating com
mission a statement showing the au-
thority upon which the camps occupied
during the war with Spain were Sc
lected.
1t shows that General Miles located
the camps at ~Chickarauga. Ga, Fer
nandina and Miami. Fla, and Camp
Alger. Va; that General Lee selected
that at Jacksonville and General Mer-
RAM that at Camp Merritt, and that
the other camps, except that at Tampa.
were located by boards Of officers.
The report says that a permanent
camp was never located at Tampa, but
that troops were sent there preparatory
for embarkation, on recommendation
OF General Miles.
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