Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-11
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while we had to advance on them over
The open. We charged them under a most
CALLING fire of bullets and shrapncl. as
they were supplied with what consider
a better gun than ours. You can ina ginc
the loss on our side, though we drove
them from two strong positions, captur-
ing their linca, including their fortified
block houses.
My regiment which was near the centre
of the line had six officers wounded. for
tunately none were killed was shot
after firing had been going on for an hour
and before the general advance took
place. There must have been provdcn-
tial power that saved my life. had
moved my line to the right and slightly
retired II. taking up new position in
order to give room for "A Hotchkiss bait
terry and n dynamite gun (Which did no
service) on my left, and between our
brigade and that of General Hawkins
The points which we were to assault were
known, being at n distance of not over
six or eight hundred yards The change
Of position necessitated my selecting "a
route through some underground other
than that formerly chosen. | was looking
over the ground, when sergeant on my
left remarked: There Is another man
hit" (h!ts were very plentiful and the
bullets poured in great shape while the
ruinous shrapncl played fearful havoc
quickly and was struck by q CHANGING
shot above the right eye beginning at
the root Of the hair and extending diagon-
ally downward Had | delayed the fraC-
tonal part Of a second in turning my
head. tho bullet would have gone through
my head, coming out in rear It knocked
mo out completely and everyone thought
was dead, and although some of my
men carried me at once to n dressing
station, ! hlcd so freely that some por-
tions Of my clothing were saturated
That evening | went to a field hospital.
remaining only long enough to become
partly well thrce days. and then re-
turned to the front, going on duty at
once with my troop. For long time I
was troubled with dizziness and my head
is even now. after nearly two weeks.
easily affected by the sun, which is
sizzling, intensely hot. The flesh part OF
my wound has healed nicely and any
whore else would scarcely be noticed, but
the conclusion was fearfully deafening.
We are now in position overlooking the
outskirts Of the town. Our position is
strong, so strong that even before fortify-
ing we were enabled to repel a sortie (by
night Of the enemy, In which they lost
about one thousand men. The town is
heavily fortified and intrenched while
their works are well protected by en-
tanglements. such as barb wire and
bitches in fact in front OF us is "A ramif-
cation of trenches, rifle pits. block houses
and covered ways, that Is as intricate as
a spiders web. while from commanding
points their guns can shell MS. on the
other hand they are almost surrounded
practically so; they are like rats in hole
but in order to get them out we must go
In their holes, and. as the lines connect
one with the other the task of taking
them will be a difficult one Besides this
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non-combatants have been excluded, are
heavily barricaded and the buildings loop
holed for defense. on account of lack Of
paper. | cannot write you more fully A
truce has existed since the 4th. except
during about nine hours homba rdment on
the 10th and nth.
General Miles has arrived. and with
General Shafter held a conference with
the Spanish general. Linares. to-day. De-
mand for surrender has been made and
General Linares has agreed 10 surrender
the town, providing he be allowed to
march out with honors Of war. The de-
mand has been heretofore unconditional
but il Is understood that some cocessions
have been made on both slues. The stua-
tlon seems to he precarious. as we are
becoming weaker and they stronger each
day. A truce now exists until noon to-
morrow, then IT Is not known what will
happen.
My being wounded so early in the fight
was most unfortunate as | could not he
in at the finish, and | suppose only those
who were will he mentioned. My troop did
good work, but there is little chance
without more rank and more of a COM
mand
The yellow fever has broken out at
Siboney, our depot, and everything and
everybody must be fumigated and great
delays will occur, We have great many
sick from other causes. am pretty
we'll. although suffering some with mala- !
ria and have 10 he dosed with quinne
1t Is thought that the Spaniards may
possibly surrender sometime tomorrow.
Saw Harry Dart, of the New
York Herald, for moment; ex-
pected to see him again next day. |
but as we expected an attack that day
and l came out so early in the morning, |
missed him. He stated that he cabled |
or had someone wire him, that | was not
wounded or dead as was
first reported.
All We have Is what we could carry on !
our backs, when we disembarked on the
24th of June. Delmonico could set bet
ter grub than that we get.
During the bombardment, an old friend |
Of mine, Captain Rowall of the Second
was cut In two by a shell.
II rains here pours nearly every day. |
With love to mother, and regards to
friends | am