The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-08-26
GRATEFUL SPANIARDS.
Most Unique Document in the An
nails Of Warfare.
Embracing Spanish Prisoners Formally
Voice Sentiments of Esteem Toward
the Soldiers Who Bore Them
Down ID Defeat.

WASHINGTON, Aug. CA document
entirely unique in the annals of war
fare was cabled tonight to the war de-
partment by Gen. Shafter. 1t is in the
form of a congratulatory farewell adj
dress issued to the soldiers of the Amer
lean array by Pedro Lopez Castillo, a
private Spanish soldier, on behalf OF
the II, 900 Spanish soldiers. No similar
document, perhaps, was ever before
issued to victorious army by van
pushed enemy. The president was
much impressed by the address and,
after reading it carefully, authorized
its publication. Following is the text
of the address as ca bled by Gen. Shafter:
SANTIAGO, August -, 1898.
II. c. Corbin, Adjutant-General u. S. a,
Washington:
The following letter has just been re-
ceived from the soldiers now embark
ing for Spain:
Maj Gen. Shafter, Commanding the Amer
lean Army in Cuba:
SIR-The Spanish soldiers who capitu-
lated in this place on the 10Th of July last,
recognizing your high and just position,
pray that through you all the courageous
and noble soldiers under your command
may receive our good wishes and farewell
which we send them on embarking for our
beloved Spain. For this favor, which we
have no doubt you viii grant, you will
gain the everlasting gratitude and consid-
GRAFTON of 1000 Spanish soldiers, who are
your most humble servants. (Signed)
PEDRO LOPEZ DE CASTILLO,
Private Of Infantry.
Farewell to the Soldiers.
Also the following letter addressed to
the soldiers of the American army:
Soldiers of tbs American Army-We
would not be fulfilling our duty as we'll
born men, in whose breasts there lives
gratitude and courtesy, should we embark
for our beloved Spain without sending to
you our most cordial and sincere good
wishes and farewell. We fought you with
ardoT, with all our strength, endeavoring
to gain the victory, but without the slight
est rancor of hate toward the American
nation. We have been vanquished by you
$50 our generals and chiefs judged in sign
ing the capitulation), but our surrender,
and the bloody battles preceding it, have
left in our souls no place for resentment
against the mon who fought us nobly and
valiantly. You fought and acted in COM
pliancs with the same call of duty as we.
for we all but represent the power of our
respective states. You fought us as men,
face to face, and with great courage, as be-
fore stated, quality which we had not met
during the three years we have carried on
this war against a people without morals,
without conscience and of doubtful origin,
who could not confront the enemy, but,
hidden, shot their noble victims from am
bush and then Immediately fed.
C42his was not the kind of warfare we had
to sustain in this unfortunate land. You
have complied exactly with all the laws of
war as recognized by the armies of the
most civilized nations of the world; have
given honorable burial to the dead of the
vanquished; have cured their wounded with
great humanity; have respected and cared
for your prisoners and their comfort. and
lastly, to us, whose conditions were terrible,
you have given freely of food, of your stock
of medicines, and you have honored us
with distinguished courtesy, for after the
fighting the two armies mingled with the
utmost harmony. With the high senti-
ment of appreciation from us all, there re-
mains but to express our farewell, and
with the greatest sincerity we wish you all
happiness and health in this land which
will no longer belong to our dear Spain,
but will be yours, who have conquered it
by force and watered it with your blood, es
your conscience called for, under the de-
mand of civilization and humanity, bat the
descendants of the Congo and Guinea, min
gIed with the blood of INSCRIPTIONS Span
iards and of traitors and Adventures
these people are not able to exercise or en-
joy their liberty, for they will find it bur-
den to comply with the laws which govern
civilized communities
From II 900 Spanish soldiers.
PEDRO LOPEZ DE CASTILLO,
Soldier of Infantry.
SautiaoO do Cuba AupuSt 81 1893