Arizona republican., 1898-09-12

took part in th.s war there were many men, they tell me, who had never fired a shot.
 Now, when the regular gets under fire he realizes that the thing for him to do is to make it so hot for the en- emy that he will have to get out of the way, either to hit him or send the bull lets so near him that he will withdraw or seek cover. The regular knows how to do this. His fire is effective. and that is his bsst protection But when the volunteer gets Under fire, hears the bullets flying around him, and knows that his efforts to get at the enemy are ineffective. he has no choice but to stay and be killed or to withdraw
 Tt does not show lack of bravery if he withdraws Take the case of two men fighting One aees the other raining bIows upon him, but can do nothing in return The natural thin s for him to do is to get away as quickly as possible So it does not show a lack O. bravery on the part of voiun- teer troops if they withdraw when they have become target fer the en- eray, but are ineffective themselves"
 General Wheeler went on to eX- plain that those qualities which for nierly made the volunteers valuable on the field of battle are of little Or 10 avail now. Science has taken the place of enthusiasm.
 ''In the var of '61, he said, "sho8tt- ing and charging did some good, but that sort of thing doesn't count now. It is all science now. and that is the only thing that really counts on the field Of battle today"
 Tie general then brought out the striking difference that exists in every respect between the battle of a modern war and those which marked the war Of '61. He made this more plain by describing his own sensations in the first battle in Cuba
 ''Cf course. I knew that things would be different in this war from what they were in 'Gf and '65, but had TO idea that thsy would be so s.;,- sCIueeiy unlike what I had expert enced on the field of battle before. was in nearly all the great battles iron, 'f1 10 's5- and a great many smaller ones, in command Of the cavalry, and therefore aiways at the front. and 8 b.-.e.e diways suggested iO ny mind a great deal of noise and smoke.
 The last few days in Cuba werc very busy days; we worked till mid night, and got up at { the next. mc-n- ing That, in addition lo the heat and the cold rains, had it's effect, and four CT five days after we landed I was taken suddenly sick, ard my tampera- ture rose very high. I called the doc tor and said: Doctor. you must give ne something to put stop to this i1f-, I, ioIa helped me. and I was able to take my horse and go to the front. 1 lad made up ny mind not to go to the rear, be- cause l thought If thc generals begin to go to the rear on account of sick ness the men will so, too, and I want cd to get at the Spania-ds as quickly as possible.
 T said to General Shafte- when we were planning the operations Of the campaigns: These Spaniards are very proud of their chivalry, and the only thing to do is to show that we have just as much Of it as they, to push right on and fight them wherever we find them It was shortly after this that we located the Spaniards. We got a map of the country from the Cuban general, Castillo.
 T said to General Young: General. if they don't move, we will give them a fight in the morning. The Cubans said they would move away before morning, and that was their way l feared they would, but hoped they would not In the morning we ad- vanced, and presently we saw a line of soldiers stretching along for a mile or more. I was undecided whether they were really Spaniards or not l thought they might be Cubans. And so I said to General Young: We must be very certain that those are Span- iards before we open fire I took my glass and judged from their uniforms, but more especially from the uniform ity of their uniforms and the absence of black men among them, that they were Spaniards, and I said to General Young: You may open fire with ths shrapnel guns The Spaniards re- turned the fire and the battle had be- gun.
 ''As I looked out over the scene I could not realize that battle was being fought. The guns do not make much noise-we could not hear the Spanish rifles, in fact-there was nc smoke, and if the bullets had not been