The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-27
First Authentic List of Those Who
Fell i'm the Jungle and Before
the Spanish Trenches.
% OFFICERS, 2O8 MEN SLAIN
AND 81 SOLDIERS MISSING AND sup
POSED TO BE DEAD.
Eighty officers and 1908 Men Wound
in Three Days Fighting 1,595.

WASHlNGION, July Z6.-Tne nrSt 1ul
and authentic list of casualties of the bat.
ties before Santiago has reached the de-
partment in an official communication from
General Shafter to Adjutant General Cor
bin dated July IL, 1898. General Shaftel
says he reports the names of killed. wound.
ed and missing in action at FL Caney ant
San Juan on the LIST, I'd and Sd of July The
reports were submitted in such way as
to make their compilation very difficult
In many cases they were mere memorandum
in lead pencil and on irregular slips ano
sheets of paper, the best obtainable at the
time General Shafter says: 1T is thought
this list is as near correct as it is possible
to make it at this date. 1t may be subject
to a few corrections, especially in regard tc
the missing of the Seventy-first New York
Volunteer Infantry, many of whom have
been accounted for before snIs, but no re.
port received"
General Lawton, commanding the Second
Division of the Fifth Army Corps, in his re.
turn remarks: THE general commanding
this division having received two urgent
calls to move the division to the assist
ance of the troops fighting in front of Santi-
ago, assembled the division Immediately
after the firing ceased and marched it OH
the road toward Santiago without waiting
to ascertain the loss of his own command
or OF the enemy, leaving battalion of the
Seventh Infantry on the field to bury the
dead and carry off the wounded on both
sides. Therefore the delay in making this
report. 1t may not be out of place to cal
attention to the peculiar character of this
battle, it having been fought against ar
enemy fortified and intrenched within q
compact town of stone and concrete houses
some with walls several feet thick and sup
ported by number of covered forts cut in
solid stone, and the enemy continuing to re-
slst until nearly every man was killed OIL
wounded, desperation apparently prede-
termined.
General Skaters report shows that the
total number of casualties was 1856. Re-
capitulated, the American losses were;
Killed, twenty-three officers and POS enlisted
men; wounded, eighty officers and .2O3 men;
missing, eighty-one men. The missing are
supposed to be dead, as, so far as known
the Spanish forces took no prisoners. In
the first division, Major Kent command
ing, the casualties were as follows
First Brigade. consisting of the Sixth and
Sixteenth Infantry and the Seventy-first
New York-Kiled. officers and 40 men;
wounded, IA officers and 262 men; missing
so men,
Second Brigade, consisting of the Second
Tenth and Twenty-first Infantry-Killed,
oIIlcer and Il men; wounded, 10 officers and
IL men; missing, men.
Third Brigade, consisting of the Ninth
Ihlrteenth and Twentyfourth Infantry
KILLED, officers and 80 men; wounded, II
oftlcerS and 1856 men; missing, men.
The casualties of the Second Brigade
Major General Lawton commanding, were
First Brigade, consisting of the Eighth
Inf
sachusetts-Killed. 1 officer and Is men;
wounded, officers and Ill men.
Second Brigade. consisting of the First
Fourth and TWenty-ffth Infantry-Killed,
2 officers and IA men; wounded officers
and 90 men; missing, 1 man.
Third Brigade, consisting of the Seventh
twelfth and Seventeenth Infantry-Killed.
officers and 45 men; wounded. officers and
14S men; missing, man.
In the cavalry division, Major General
wheeler commanding, the casualties were:
First Brigade, consisting of the Third
Sixth and Ninth Cavalry-Killed, 2 officers
and nine men; wounded. II officers and liz
Second brigade. consisting of the First
and Tenth Cavalry and the Rough Riders
Killed, officers and 80 men; wounded, lS
officers and 179 men; missing men.
In the Light Battery Battalion, three men
were killed, one officer and eight men
wounded.
Army Corps, First Division follows:
FIRST BRIGADE.
Sixth Infantry-Killed. A. M. Wetherill
captain; ]. G. Ord first lieutenant; r. S.
thurman, second lieutenant; E. N. Benchley
second lieutenant; Corporals r. Wallace
j. McConville, John j. Devan, Sergeant p.
Leonard, Privates Frank Griffin, Alexander
Werner. William Egan, Theo Brown, Glare
Neal, Musician j. F. W. Henderson.
Wounded-Captains G. B. Walker z. W.
Torrey, Second I4ieutenants L. H. Gross, c.
N. Purdy. w. H. Simons, John Robertson
Lieut.. Col. H. c. Egbart Sergeants H. II.
Beldon, Thomas Farrell j. j. Gardiner
Frank Abel. c. Delft, ]. W. Irons, Tobias
Quincy, Frank Chezanski, James Mcclure
y. Ockenden, F. Christian. c. f. Meyer. d
G. Lyle, F. Stranger, John Shepard. Will
lam Murphy, Privates Daniel Ausmus, Will
lam Braithwaite, William Harness, r. A.
Montague, Christian Lanwick William
Schamm, Joseph Sullivan. John B. West
B. Bledsoe, r. Conrey. NJ. Conway. d. Gray
]. Hunninglake, NJ. J. Long, j. iTurney J.
Hughes, Charles EiIker !(artiflceD, j. E
c. A Bell Charles Franklin. Glenn Green
field. w. ]. Held, Edward Klug, John
Mayer, w. Munson, S. S. Shelate. G. b.
Beal Porter Deidon, w. j. Feltz. Atom Glib.
son, w. L. Huston, w. Myers. d. B. Pat
rick. d. w, Fagin, L. Begley, r; H. Breeze
ters, Jefferson Gump, L. A. Converse. Mont
Manning. Charles G. Horn, Charles Coisler
II. c. Kirke William Miller. L. Bradford
y, a.
V. C. Erven, F. Markley. E. Nichols
Thomas Young. l.. Martin, H. Nicholas. r.
Addison, ]. II. Dougherty (musician), Ralph
Howard (musician), j. G. Brennan. Edward
Ecks, E: E. Horsley, George McClue, James
Best w. c.. Buck. Thomas Duggan John
Hall, James McKenna; r; Ripeborgen. M
Walsh. Pearl Smith, c. W. F. Pemberton
Joseph Stasionsky.
Sixteenth Infantry
Killed-Capt. r. W. Morrison. Lieut.. Leon
G. Andrews; Robert Kane, corporal Henry
Bailey, private; Michael OBrien, first SER
geant Stapleford. private; Charles Bern
hardr, corporal; Axel Christensen, private;
Joseph NJ Haag. first sergeant; Richard T.
Lewis. private; Robert Colling private
Wounded-Capts W. c. Mcfarland, F. c..
Woodbury., William Lassitor. Second Lieut.
Lewis L. Sorley, Quartermaster Sergeant
Plesier, Patrick Breen, Joseph Russell, Ed
ward Sauer, Peter Carr Rheinold Snive
- O'Flaherty, William Graft, Benjamin
F. Harbeson, 81 81 ogle, --.-Conklin, Cor
seph f. Frankie, Andrew Krethmer, Harvey
Hons, Theodore Kakocinski -Seabury
Ochs. - West, Theodore Paul
Frank Jeffords, George Reardon, Edgar Nc
Clarey, Privates Frank Zeitz. Ben Labude,
Homer Lyons, Frank L. Clark, Michael
Fitzgerald Clarence Leedy, John Denning,
Thonald Larson, Shanahan (artificer) -
Fay Krause, Miller, Ninety, Barty, Orcutt
Henry Albrecht Robert Allen, John Burns,
Edward Drechxlar, George b. Hess, VIM
j. c. Horstman, Frederick Muenzing, VIM,
Smith Thomas Toomey Coles Snythe
Creek Smith Holley higgins. Hamilton
Williams. Bananfant, Bartelne, Krauss An
scr e9 Bosch Raymond. Post, s sImpsaS
Manor, Thurman. Kline, Rose, Lenckia
Dirty Temert, John Draney White. Pelzen
Gruner, Ernestbergen, Holdman Patrick
Mcdonnell, ORE II Dunlap, Albert X. Phil