The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-23

ana Ameflcan SoldlerS who Vled With each other in good feeling. On account of the scarcity of food in the territory in which we were, from the first Amer jeans supplied us with the necessary rations for the subsistence of our forces. On the 29th General Shafter and myself had completed the plan of attack and 1 receive from him the or der to march on the morrow with my forces toward Santiago, which he him. self would do that same day, some reg iments and cannons having already ad- vanced. In the extreme vanguard, in sight of the fortified Spanish outposts, with Colonel Carlos Gonzales, com manding a division of Bayamo and part of the brigade of Ramon de las Taugas
 On the S0th I encamped with my forces at El Salado, nine miles from Si- boney and four miles from Santiago. At the same point General Shafter estab- lished his headquarters. At o'clock in the afternoon I received orders to place myself at Marianajo, between Caney and San Juan, to protect against any attack from the enemy, the batteries which were going to fire on both points should the enemy come from Santiago At the commencement of the attack on Santiago de Cuba, there were 15,000 men in the American army There were 4000 Cubans under my immediate or ders around the city
 At 5:30 in the morning of the first of July began the march toward La rianajo, and at o'clock l already oc- cupied the positions allotted to me in the following orders: TO the left on San Juan and fronting Santiago, Major General Jose Maria Capote, with his column of 1000 men next to him, in the center, General of Division Saturnino Lora and 800 men, to the right of the former, General of Brigade Francisco Sanchez Hechavarria with his column of 800 men, forming part of General Cebero's command and General Cerebo himself with 800 men of his division. On the right flank, in the heights of Lari- anajo General Rabi and myself with our staffs and escorts, faced the village of Caney The left flank of my forces, an American battery, tofire on Fort San Juan, was protected by the forces of Colonel Gonzales and part of those of Ramon with some of the American forces; on the right flank the batteries which were to fire on El Clancy and General Lawton, with division of the American army which was to assault the village With that division, and also under General Lawton, were 200 Cubans of Ramon, commanded by Ma jor c. Victor Duany. (All the forces of Ramon were under the direct command nf CoIpral Carlos (A0nZalPSO
 At o'clock the American batteries fired on the fortiflcations of the hill Of San Juan, the Spaniards answering with their artillery, and shortly after ward fire also commenced from the bat teries against Ell Clancy, the garrison of | the place answering with heavy fire. Fl Caney was defended by fifteen hun | dred men, troops of the dine or regulars under the command of Brigadier Gen. | eral Del Ray, and San Juan was de- tended by two thousand men, also reg | ulars. At D. m., after a gallant as- sault, the Americans took San Juan, it's | garrison being either killed or taken prisoners, except a few who had escap- I ed to Santiago de Cuba. At 6, after re- 1 peated assaults in which the Cuban | forces under Major Duany took part, | the Americans occupied Fl Clancy. | The garrison of this village perished, mostly in the assaults, and those who escaped died in the field. among them 1 General Vara del Rey, who was already | fatally wounded. The enemy attempt ed to make sortie from Santiago de Cuba and was repulsed. This day Gen.
 eral Linares, commanding the garri-
 son, was wounded in the trenches of
 Santiago, and he turned his command
 over to General Toral.
 The Americans advanced to the sub
 urbs of the city by the road leading
 from Caney, the vanguard being the
 Cuban forces under Colonel Gonzales.
 Our losses this first day of July were about one hundred, all our forces being
 under the enemy's fire.
 1 General Shafter ordered me to occupy the right flank of his army and advance l on Santiago, and I made night march,
 camping at 10 o'clock the same night
 at the country bouse Ducureau, after l ordering some forces almost on to San
 tiago.
 At dawn of the 2d I continued to ad-
 vance by the right flank toward the
 north side of the city, General Cabero
 going with his division in the vanguard 1 and at the extreme of 'the same General l Sanchez Hechevarr4a with his forces. | Upon reaching the railway line from
 Santiago to San Luis the center and
 vanguard halted, the vanguard occupy
 ing the heights across the line.
 When General Francisco Sanchez ad-
 vanced by the railway line on Santiago
 on the morning of the 2d he met four guerillas, who fired on our forces which
 returned the fire and killed them. Col onel Ferrero, advancing by the right
 met and defeated a guerilla on the hill of Quintero, occupying the position
 which we held, as also the heights of LaGaridad. During the day I ordered
 a column to advance by the railway line towards San Luis. The enemy, after a light fire, abandoned the village of Gu
 abitas, and Boinato and several forts. During the whole day of the 2d heavy | fire exchanged with the enemy in San tiago, who from the Notifications fired
 with rifles and guns, at our positions
 We had ten casualties. This day the French colony left the city accompanied
 by the consul of their country, taking
 shelter under our flag. My forces slept
 in the positions occupied within rifle
 shot of the city.