Evening star., 1898-07-26
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Gen. Skaters Latest Report OF Cas-
ua1ties at Santiago.

Gen. Skaters detailed report of the
American casualties I'm the battle of San
| tiago has been received at the War De-
partment and is now being prepared for
publication. The total number OF casual
ties was 1,595. Recapitulated, the Amerf-
can losses were: Killed, % officers and .Os
| enlisted men: wounded, 50 officers and 1 2O3
men; missing, 81 men. The missing are
| supposed to be dead, as. so far as known.
the Spanish forces took no prisoners.
In the 1st Division. Maj. Gen. Kent COM
manding, the casualties We're as follows:
First Brigade, consisting Of the 9th and
16th Infantry and the list New York:
Killed, officers and 40 men; wounded, IA
officers and 262 men; missing. 30 men.
Second Brigade, consisting of tie 2d 10Th
and 21st Infantry: Killed. 1 officer and IL
men; wounded, 10 officers and ia men;
missing, 3 men.
Third Brigade, consisting of the 9th. 18th
and 2ith Infantry: Killed q officers and 80
men; wounded, IL officers and Is5 men;
missing, men.
Second Division. Maj. Gen. Lawton. COM
manding:
First Brigade, consisting of the Sth and
I'D Infantry and the I'd Massachusetts:
Killed, 1 officer and 10 men; wounded.
officers and Ill men.
Second Brigade, consisting OF the LIST, 4th
and 18th Infantry: Killed, officers and IA
men; wounded, . officers and % men; miss
ing, l man.
Third Brigade. consisting of the 9Th. 18th
ana l'tn infantry: Killed, officers and -
men; wounded, officers and l4S men;
missing 1 man.
Cavalry Division. Maj. Gen. Wheeler,
commanding:
and 9th Cavalry: Killed. officers and
men; wounded, Il officers and lib men;
missing, men.
Second Brigade, consisting of the 1st and
"a alr md
officers and 30 men; wounded, Ii officers
and 1i9 men; missing, men.
Light Battery Battalion: Killed, 3 men:
wounded, officer and men.
The first authentic list of casualties of
the battles before Santiago has reached
the department in an official communion
ton from Gen. Shafter to Adjt. Gen. Cor
hin, dated July Il, 1898. Gen. Shafter saws
he reports the names of killed wJurdet
and missing in action at FL Caney and San
Juan on the LIST, ID and Sd Of July. The
reports were submitted in such way
to make their compilation very difficult.
In many cases they were mere memoran-
dun in lead pencil and on irregular slips
and sheets of paper. the best obtainable
at the time. Gen. Shafter says:
1T is thought this list is as near corre>t
as II is possible to make II at this date.
1t may be subject TO a few corrections es-
pecially in regard TO the missing of the fist
New York Volunteer Infantry. many of
whom have been accounted for before
this, but 10 report received"
Gen. Lawton, commanding the I'd Dvi-
sion OF the 9th Army Corps, in his returns,
remarks:
The general commanding this division
having received two urgent calls TO move
the division to the assistance OF The troops
fighting in front Of Santiago assembled the
division Immediately after the firing ceased
and marched 1t on the road toward San
tiago without waiting to ascertain the loss
OF his Cwn command or of the enemy, leaV-
ing battalion of the 7th Infantry on the
field to bury the dead and carry off the
wounded on both sides. Therefore the de-
lay in making this report
a" 1t may not be out Of place to
call attention to the peculiar character OF
this battle, IL having been fought against
an enemy fortified and intrenched within
a compact town of stone and concrete
houses. some with walls several feet thick
and supported by a number of covered
forts cut in solid stone, and the enemy
continuing to resist until nearly every
man was killed or wounded-a desperation
apparently predetermined"