The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-09-17

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The Fight AZ Santiago.
Madison Sentinel: The following Is
an extract from a letter received by J. E.
Boyd of this city from his brother who is
in the regular service, now stationed at
Santiago do Cuba: :
you arc no dcubt.thinking all kinds
of things about me and wondering Row
/ am getting along way down here in
Cuba and whyI don't; write. Well to
make a long story short, l have seen
some very trying times sinceI came
here. Ever since we made the grand
charge on July 1st, we have been lying
in the rifle pits before Santiago. not a
thousand yards from the city, waiting
to shoot a Spaniard or to be shot our
selves. 1 suppose you have read all
about the battle long before this, so l
will not try to write much about it, only
| want to say that Two regiments that
got so much credit for taking this hill,
had no more to do with 1t than You did.
Those were the list MY. and the Bath
Mich. Vol, This Michigan Regiment
did not get 0 the field until the moro
ing Of July End AID the list N. Y. was
n mile to III lett and we understand
that the papers give them the credit of
it and say we merely supported them.
When we made the charge, we, the 9th
cavalry We're in the center, the Bird and
9th cavalry on our right and the 9th and
10th infantry on our left. 1t is a shame
that some volunteer outfit should get the
praise for what we so dearly bought
Just because they have n use for a reg
ular soldier. From the time we went
into the fight before sunrise on the
morning Of July 1st, having then had a
breakfast of hard tack aud water, no
fires being allowed. we had nothing
more to eat until the afternoon of July
a End and no sleep until after the flag Of
a truce was raised at r. O'clock on July 3.
! Nothing but shot and shell screechlng
all around day and night. We lost near
ly all our men the first days fight. In
my troop we lost in wounded. ten men
and our captain and lieutenant. The
| latter fell by my side soon after we took
the hill. Men went down all around me
D and yet I did not get a scratch. One
\ bullet cut a piece out Of my hat and five
went through my clothes, SO l have
come to the conclusion that was q close
shave; but a miss is as good as a rile.
! Jim, you might read a hundred years
. steady about all kinds OF battles and yet
> have not the slightest idea OF what a
! battle is like. l have been through one
and if | live fifty years longer it will
never leave my mind. The cries Of the
wounded comrades lying all around
= calling for help; some Of them were new
er found until after the fight and the
! stencil from dead men was something
frightful. Lying out in. the hot sun,
! and vet if a man went to pick up a body
! q score OF bullets would be sent after
him by s%harpshooters in the tops Of tall
trees. They ara the ones that did so
8 much damage to our men after the first
days fight. They were in our rear ard
no n seemed to know where they were
shooting from, until one or two Of them
were sighted. They would watch and
y shoot wounded men and the hospital
/, doctors and officers and anyone going
I for water along the road. But when it
was found out where they were the
!. woods were searched and nearly two
q dozen Of them shot to pieces. The men
! are falling in all directions with the fe.
yer every day. I tell you Jim, this Gu
: ban climate isn't like Dakota to live
. in. Ihayn't been sick yet but am liable
to be most any time. The boys say ]
! am too big and homely to get what they
. do, if co, 1t is better to be born lucky
! than rich. Gems. Miles, Wheeler and
y Shatter were all down half way just now
yenturing beyond their lines talking
terms of surrender with the Spanlards,
but WE don't know what they have done
yet. II they don't give in by / y. m.
we are to start the ball rolling again.
But | think they are going to give up
the ghost and quit. I am sure l hope
they do and this wal end too. Ihave
not lost any more glory than I can take
back to the United States very easily. l
: have not had my clothes off only long
enough to change them since we got off
the ship. Sleep with your belt on and
your gun under your head. These are
very precious articles down here"
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