Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-11-23
General Ludlow was personally con

General Ludlow was personally con- spicuous along his line all day, wearing a white straw hat. His horse was shot under him early in the fight The gen. eral said that he had to hold in his men instead of encouraging them. There was no f1inching por crouching. The work of the brigade was rather negative than positive, because, while it advanced well in the front in order to get cover from the Spanish bullets it could not at all times answer the Spanish fire, for fear of shooting into Chaffee's men, who had the chief role in the battle and were pressing up closer and closer to the Spanish works on the north and east
 The interval between LudIow's and Chaffee's brigades was filled about noon by the Second brigade of the division. commanded just at that time by Lien tenant Colonel A. S. Daggett of the Twenty fifth United States (coloredl Colonel Daggett was 6 soldier in the civil war in the Fifth Maine, one of the hard fighting regiments of the Army of the Potomac He has recently been pro. noted to brigsdier general for skilIfuIlv handling the brigade during a crisis July 1.
 At Fl Caney the Second brigade con- sisted of the First, Fourth and Twenty fifth regularS The First was detached to guard the roads in the rear of the division and also to support Capron's battery. About II o'clock Colonel Dag gett was ordered to lead the Fourth and Twenty-hfth to 0 position south of the fort, where there was a gap of three-fourtbs of a mile. The stone fort against which Capron's guns had been laundering was pointed out to Daggett as the objective of his brigade The trenches around the fort were very heavy, extending on three sides These trenches as well as the mokeless puw- der were something new to the Ame-i cans The Spanish trench is about % yards in length, just wide enough for men to stand in in line, and deep enough to cover the body up to the shoulders The soil taken out of the trench is spread over the ground, and if its color is not like that of the earth it is GOV cred with brush or leaves or sod. so that from a distance an enemy cannot see the trenches except when they are occu- pied by men. The men keep out of sight except when they rise to fire. There are no exits from the trenchea- Men are put into them to fight and repulse the enemy or be killed in the ditch.
 The Spaniards had no administers nor outposts at Fl Caney, but were ready with their blind trenches, loopholed fortresses. smokeless powder and barbed wire fences to slaughter the Americans at close quarters
 The Twenty-6fth regiment being di- rectly opposite the fort, Colonel Daggett led it forward across a stream feet wide and foot deep. The men found some cover under the high bank, but beyond the bank the ground was open. Across that ground the colored troops advanced by rushes-that is to say, they rushed in groups of platoons from cover to cover. By successive rushes of 40 or 50 yards the line steadily ad- vanced. On its second advance from the bank the regiment met with its heaviest loss. Volleys were poured into it from the stone fort, from the village and from blockhouses on its left. Colonel Daggett says that many of the Span iards left the fort and came out into the open, seemingly delibersting wheth- CT to surrender or attempt to reach tbe village Their combativeness was gone. He supposed they were about to surren- der. The fort had been preached in many places by Capron's shells, and just as the Twenty fifth got abreast of it a company of the Twelfth regi- ment of Chaffee's brigade entered through breach and got the flag which had been cut down by shell. The strength of the Twenty-ifth regiment was $50 men, but only five companies, numbering 200 men, took part in the charge The principal loss of 41 killed and wounded came out of the 200. None of the officers or men of the regiment excepting Colonel Daggett, had ever heard hostile shot before Three of the companies in the charging column were gaIlantly led by three young lieu tenants, Caldwell, Moss and Hunt.
 The Fourth regiment, on the left of the Twenty fifth, did not advance be- yond the line within 500 yards range of the fort, from which the Twenty fifth charged The reason was that fur ther advance would have brought it un- der an eDfiiade fire from the village, the blockhouses around it, as we'll as the fort itself. There was smooth ground in front of It all the way. and Colonel Daggett was satisfied that it would have been annihilated in attempting to sd- vance. Company O of the Fourth skir- mished on the front of its regiment to within 800 yards of the fort and lost 25 of its men wounded out of 4S in the line GEORGE L. KHMRR
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