Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-07-27
AN INTERESTING LETTER.
Lieut.. Carter Writes Some of the De- tails of the Fight of July !. and
 of Subsequent Events.

Lieut.. Garter writes some of inc D | tails of the Fight of July !, and
 of Subsequent Events.
 From letter written by Lieut..
 ID. Carter to his brother here, tt T JOURNAL MINER is permitted to cor
 the following:
 TRENCHES, lA Miles from Santiag
 July 6, lS98.-T am sitting on tt
 bank of the trench in full view {,
 the Spanish trenches. Flag of true
 on their band. I have this shift,
 a. n. until D. m., with IS men i J this trench. We have been in
 over five days. Captain O'Neill fe
 brayely the first day, July l, abou
 10 a. m. He wouldn't have fallen
 he had not been too "nervy." w
 had heavy flank 6Fe on o1r troop and begged him to take alittie cove
 until We changed our position. an.
 he wouldn't do it, He never knev what struck him, and he never evel moaned. Our troop has lost fiv,
 killed in this fight and nine wound
 ed. Harry White wounded in leg bl piere Of shfaFnsl. We have takaI
 magnificent ground, better, in some
 respects, than the Spanish are stil | holding. .. II they don't surrender
 We will surely make it warm foI
 them. They tried little charge ou
 us the other day, and it was very
 similar tokhooting fish. They can't
 charge much. We took these hills,
 covered with their trenches, ,by
 charging with our carbines across a bottom about mile wide under a
 hail of bullets, and what IS most
 remarkable, 1t is said that we killed
 more of them than they dId of us.
 The Rough Riders and Tenth Cav
 airy (colored) are side partners now. They pranced right along together. Of course, Captain O'Neiil's death just before the final charge was
 very sad and depressing blow to our ardCr. StiIi. many of our troop were among the first on the hilt We'll. l can see the Dons standing oyer there in the trenches. We expect to fx them as soon as they take down that white flag. Good bye, old man. I will write you from Santiago next. ,.t7o ni 3.a.i.
 They are exchanging prisoners for Lieutenant Hobson and bis men, about 2OO yards on my left, at this momens, 3:l5 p. m-, July 6. a.ss i.-
 July T.- We had quiet night last night but it was not according to programme. We were notified ;hat hostilities would resume at 5 m. yesterday, but 1 guessit was bluh, because up to, this moment, $50 a. m., there has not been another shot fired, and flags of truce are constantly passing to and fro, making medicine" our boys call it. While this has been going or. un armed details of Spanish can. De seeR in the rayine between our trenches building tres over dead bodies that are, past burial. We did considerable trenching last 1 night; trerchsd to our outposts. ! We had done srarcely anything like that before, during the truce, be- cause we regard trenching ahead as a violation. of truce, but had built some shrapnel proof covers of dirt ! and boards to lie in under, So that bombs bursting overhead might not throw small pieces of iron up)u our men, who are otherwise lying in cover from direcs attack. This {, shrapneI is a bad business. 1t caaght ! Harry White and Harley Holl;ster of our troop, also OBrien. Hollis ter Is Harvard boy, one of the most lovely men l ever kaew. His wound was ugly but not fatal The. same bomb threw dirt in my face and wounded Frantz in the little finger nail. Ass troops casualties are now seven killed, as f ,liews: Capt. O'Neill, C. B. Perry, James Boyle, Champlin, Reynolds, and m
 be first fgat, G. H. Doherty, Ell sard Liggett. Wounded. RiIrr. Stan ey Hollisier,. W. w, Greenw. ,nsf, J. !! I. G5eenlev, Edward O Brien, F. W. 3ugbee, Harry White, ]. H. Waller. ,. $. Jackson, Emil Cassi. None of i hese wounded men with ordinary
 are. should be in any danger of dy$l7 i ng. Hollister's wound seems tn . ne to be the worst. He was struck . the side by piece oi shrapnei. Fhich opened gash in his rios i bout three inches long, Whites < round was a similar wound in the sg. Waller is on duty, with a bull st through his arm, and Jackson is
 n duty. guarding at the last camp, ome troop property, with hole . trough the fieshy part of bis meek. | ireen woods wound Is nsS 7 one, Il
 bullet wound through his foot e rom instep. to heel. We have 2 syeral sick, a sort of malarial fever; b lso several with skin poisoned by u olson oak or ivS. The baiahce are F weak and thin and very. . cry dirty but We could, on a pinch, V harge oyer the tops of thoss Span c Ih trenches, if our com .nanders q bought it worth the sacriEice. | do a Ot think 1t will be done. My own a is, that the battlss can q ow be fought out with mpStars and n annon, fl really tbere should be any b lore fighting. T, myself, expect u lem to surrender without another t' not, but look to see them march sl ,veral thousand of their best men. s' ith all their supplies aud equip '@ Ient out towards the loTthwest.a .ai a 'aving about three! thousanti sick, a ounded and weak, to surrender the b ,wn, We shall know, however, in 6 few hours Should any march out, i'tt , suggest, they could not carry ih 1ch, and would etehtuaiis be wornlb lt ard captured, being harrassed n Garcia ahead, and ouEsslves bot p thelr trall lih H9 l.os1sG.. P Possibly they will not try it at all Ire Id may all surrender here. During e' lis truce both sides have been get :, ng each others range down fine, ~ i'd it's not going to be. healthy,
 ould firing resume, for any man to '.' pose himself. Before the truce. II ieers used to prsnce up aud down .. A a trenches, talking to the men. H lt I don't think I'H .do muah ,uo,a h h