Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-07-06
GLORIOUS OLD
JOE WHEELER.
The American Soldiers ID
the Battle of Santiago.
RETREAT OF THE SPANIARES
Battle Began at Daylight and
Ragged AllDay-Fifteen Thou
sand Americans Thunder
ing at Outer Gates of the
Doomed City.

Dispatch Boat Dandy, off Juragua.
Friday, July 1, 4 p. M, via Port
Antonio, Jamaica, Saturday, July
2, 5 a. NJ, and Kingston, jamaica
7:11 a. m.-The battle of Santiago
has ragged all day, and at 4 o'clock
this afternoon $1,000 American
troops are laundering at the outor
Notifications of the doomed city,
Since daybreak General Skaters
army has fought it's way across
two and a half miles of bitterly
contested and strongly fortified
country, and the entire line from
left to right is within gunshota of
Santiago town.
The American loss thus far zig
estimated at hospital headquarters
at twenty killed and fifty wounded,
but it will be hours before the
death roll can be accurately
given. Lieut.. Col. Patterson, of
the Twenty-second infantry, is
the only officer known to have
been wounded, and he is not fatally
hurt.
The spaniards killed and wound
ed are undoubtedly by hundreds.
The Spanish strongholds z.of
Caney and Ell Paso have fallen,
and the fort at Aguadores, just
east of Moro Castle, on the coast,
has been blown to ruins by. the
feet. With the exception of fabout
a thousand troops, who are guard
ing Balquiri and Juragua, the
entire army is engaged. together
with 1000 of General Garcia's
Cuban troops. The men fought
gloriously, and if the same measure
of SUCCESS which attended today's
engagement follows the 6ghtingof
the next twenty-four hours, the
American flag will fly from santi-
ago's wall on Sunday. Officers
and men are fully convinced that
the city will be theirs by tomorrow
night.
The battle began just at daylight
at q point about eight miles from
Juragua and four miles northeast
of the outer Notifications of San
tiago. FFhfe igeneraf order foral
advance was issned by General
Shafter at dark last night, and by
midnight every man in the army
knew that a desperate struggle
would come with the dawn. The
news put the troops in a fever of
excitement and the night was
spent in cheering and singing,
the popular strain being, "Ther'll
be a hot time in Santiago tomor-
row."
At 4 o'clock this morning hun
dreds of bugles rang out the
reveille, and before the sun had
risen the great line was complete.
To the extreme left was General
Dufield, with the Thirtythird
Michigan, his command having
reached the Aguadores bridge by
train next to the north to the
northeast was General Kent's .divi-
sion, a mile and a half from the
sea, and held as a reserve force.
The centre of the line was held by
a cavalry division, which, until
General Wheeler arrived at noon,
was commanded by General Som
mer. Owing to General Young's
illness, Col. Wood, of the Rough,
Riders, commanded; his brigade,
which consisted of the First
volunteers and the Tenth regular
and one battalion of the Ninth
regularly, all dismounted with the
exception of two troops on the
extreme right, under General
Lawton and Chaffee, fully five
miles from the sea. 1t had been ar
ranged that General Dufield
should make q feint of attacking
Aguadores in order to draw atten-
tion from the main movement,
and at 5 o'clock General Lawton's
troops moved forward, led by a
battery of the First artillery under
command of Captain Allyn Cap
ron.
Every man in the army carried
3 days rations and ammunition
to match, and every one knew that
he was not expected 10 return to
camp until Santigo had fallen.
The first shot was fired from the
artery at $40 by Captain caapron,
whose son, Captain Allyn K.
Capron, of the Rough Riders, was
killed in the battle at Sevills.
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