The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-16

was not picnic for civilians, that trip
down there"
The colonel told something of the
hardship Of the two or three first
nights before the battle of Santiago
The first march the regiment made
was about ten miles through a miry
road, In the dead of a glorious suns
mer night, to Wheeler's camp At day
light on the morning of July they
were put on the march again and sent
TO Ell Caney where they had part in
the capture of the block house
1.-The march on the second night was
grewsome, yet wonderful. We had
to plod along with the regiment strung
out very long line. The road what
there was of it, wound through a trOp-
ical forest. The foliage was magnifi-
cent, and there was a splendid South
ern sky The way was nearly as light
as day and the air very oppressive
put l could not but be impressed with
the beauty of the scene. AS we neared
III Cahey, we met ambulances and
wagons carrying wounded to the rear
anu some or the men were actually cry
ing as they told us of what had taken
place. There We're thousands killed
ana wounded. As we got up to the
scene Of the fight we found our dead
neatly piled up, and a little further
on we found the dead Spaniards SCAT
teTed about. One body saw my
self thrown in the ditch, and the
breath had not left the poor wretch
yet"
FIGHT AT SAN JUAN.
The colonel was not inclined to talk
nuch about it, but the men were will
lis enough to tell of the part the Third
had IN the fighting about Ell Caney
and over to San Juan. 1t was before
San Juan that they were exposed to the
worst IRE. They had made a night
narch and were waiting to be sent for
ward They were behind the advanc-
ed trenches and the shells that were
nred at the trenches were aimed high
and fell too thick for comfort in the
nelghborhood of the place where the
Ihlrd was lying exposed. 1t was dur
ing that fire that Col. Page lost his
two horses.
was standing talking to Capt.
Hale, said Col. Harbach, land the
horses were a half dozen PAGES from
us A she'll came over the trenches
ard exploded almost over our heads
and we could feel that the fragments
nad gone IN the direction of the
horses. There goes my horse, said l.
we were going to step forward to see
when a man came up from that direc-
ton and L asked him about the ami
mails. He said that he had taken Col.
RACES horses out of a little bunch and
put them where the grass was better.
They were both killed and mine not
hGrt 1t was an awful night that,
though, for the fire was raking US and
all the men could do was get as close
to the ground as possible We were in
at the taking of San Juan, or rather
the driving of the enemy and most of
the other events found us we'll UP in
the lighting line, but that's all his
tory" and the old soldier would say
no more of it. He told how glad he
was to get back to Smelling. He was
here years ago before he went into the
Eighteenth, from which regiment he
was transferred back to the Third
The nom commissioned officers were
no more inclined to talk than were
those of the line. They were all right
and had not lost their appetites. One
OF these, QuartermaSter Sergeant Clark,
was the first American soldier to enter
Santiago. He went in as escort to the
French consul after the bombardment,
but before the surrender.
HUNGRY ALL THE TIME.
Chief Musician Graves remarked that
he had the one complaint to make
that he was hungry all the time he
was in Cuba. 1.-THE rations might do
here, but had my appetite with me-"
said Mr. Graves. II didn't see a band
instrument from the time we left the
states until we came back, and the
bandmen We're real soldiers. I had one
experience that makes me shudder yet
That was the experience of lying in the
trenches some Of those nights. Not
that the danger was thought of, for
nobody cared much about that, but
the heat, the rain and the misery of it.
I don't wonder that they went off and
in6 11n mic hi 7
spent in my life was on the day and
night of the Fourth Of July. We had
heard the bOmbardment on the morn
ing of the third, but did not hear of
the capture of Cervera until the night
Of the fifth. In the meantime we lay
in the trenches. 1t was not pleasant"
and he said it as though it might have
been awful.
The following first sergeants are the
only ones returning with the regiment:
Sergeant Major Young, Sergeant Nc
Conley, Company B; Sergeant Shook,
c; Kaine, D; Kelly, E; Drinan, F;
Brown, G; Hart, H.
One thing that was remarked when
the men were asked If they had not
been looked after by the Red Cross,
was the statement that the only sign
they saw of the Red Cross was when
they arrived at Montauk. The mem
bers Of the Red Cross met them
there and gave each man In the regi-
ment cup Of condensed milk and
sandwich
A familiar figure Of the Third is
temporarily missing. Drum Major Nc
Guffin found that all his stature and
strength would not keep out the fever
and he is sick on leave, filled with fifty
pounds of quinine, he declares, but
having lost eighty pounds of flesh. He
is in Washington, D. G.
c 10 In
temporary duty" The officers and
men now on sick leave or in hospital
will be renaezvoused and both officers
and men expect to remain at the post