Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-08-13

took an orderly and bugler and started
ahead. He told Captain Hobbs to
come when he heard the bugle.
Captain O'Hara met the courier on
the road, who told him that the Amer
leans were beaten. Captain O'Hara
sounded the bugle and went forward
on the double quick.
Captain Hobbs answered the bugle
call, and went in with Battery II on
the run. Captain O'Hara kept sound
ing "Forward" while advancing, to
let the men in the trenches know that
reinforcements were coming.
Going up the Manila road Captain
Hobbs was shot in the leg, but he went
on just the same. The road was
mighty hot. The Spaniards had the
range and kept the air full of bullets.
The men ran in double column and
finally reached the trench, into which
they went cheering.
Private McIlrath of Battery H, who
was acting as sergeant, jumped on the
parapet to steady the men, and walk
ed up and down. He was shot in the
head and fatally wounded.
Captain Hobbs got on the parapet,
too, to get the men steady. A we'll
directed and effective fire followed.
The Spanish fire soon slackened.
Meanwhile the courier had reached
General Greene and reported that
everything was lost. General Greene
took the news coolly. He ordered a
general call to arms, and the entire
camp turned out. The First battalion
of the First California regiment was
sent forward on the double-quick
through the fields.
Eight carloads of ammunition were
sent to the Pennsylvanians.
The Second battalion of the First
California were ordered to act as re-
serves, and the rest of the command
was held in camp under arms.
Word was sent to the Raleigh, which
was lying off shore, to be ready to
silence the Malate guns if necessary.
The Californians went forward
through a hailstorm of bullets and
shells. Captain Richter was shot in the
head and probably fatally wounded.
Sergeant Justh was instantly killed
and several were wounded.
The Californians finally got into the
old insurgent trench, mistaking it for
the American position, and opened
fire on our men in the trench ahead.
They fired three volleys before they
were stopped. There is no positive
knowledge that any loss was caused
by their fire.
The Californians finally got in place
at the right of the line and did good
work.
Private J. F. Finly of Company G
of the Californians especially distin-
guished himself. He took eight cart.
loads of ammunition through terrific
fire in the open fields to the Pennsyl-
vanians. One native driver was shot
in the leg and pony was killed. The
cart tops were riddled. When the
pony was killed Finly pulled the cart
himself and delivered the ammunition.
AS he returned across the field he
found Richter and took him to the
hospital with another wounded man.
Then he returned to the front with 10
carts for the wounded.
General Green after the fighting
issued general order congratulating
the troops for repulsing the Spanish
attempt to turn the right flank, and
praising the Third Artillery and the
Californiaps for advancing in face of
CALLING fire.
The wounded were all brought to
camp. The serious cases were treated
at the brigade hospital and the others
at the regimental hospitals.
The dead were buried in the yard of
the convent at Maribacan.
The next night there was more
fighting, but the Americans held their
fire, and the enemy did little damage.
One member of Colorado regiment
was killed. The next night one Ne
baskan was killed.
Three of the men who were wound
ed in the first fight have since died.
All were buried at Maribacan.