The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-08
FIRST FIGHT ON CUBAN SOIL.
Roosevelt Tells in the March Scribner of
the Fighting Of the Second Brigade

-, ,ale great pleasure In present
- :. our readers a few extracts from
I, norton of Colonel Roosevelt's
4" of the Rough Riders in the
EE...,,b Scribner's which deals with
F' .,.l Youngs Fight at Las Quasi
r. l,., before leaving Tampa we had
j. trigaded with the First .white)
rsuth (colored) Regular Cavalry
[;er Brigadicr General S. NJ. B.
[..,s We we're the second brigade,
l. first brigade, consisting Of the
E';,,i and Sixth (white), and the
E..b .colcred> Regular Cavalry un-
|. Brigadier General Sumner. The
|, brjcades of the cavalry division
under Major General Joseph
fs,e)er. the gallant old Confederate
B7,,ry commander.
General Young was-and is-as fine
|. xne Of the American fighting soldier
/, man can hope to see. He had
in command, as Colonel, of the
1lloTstcne National Park, and I had
] = GOOD deal of him in connection
19s,sTth. as l was President Of the
Line and Crockett Club, an organiza-
H. devoted to hunting big game, to
3 reservation, and to forest preser-
liou. During the preceding winter,
Ble he was in Washington, he had
1,hed with me at the Metropolitan
Ab, Wood being one Of the other
g,sts OF course, we talked Of the
l which all of US present believed
III impending, and Wood and 1 told
D. We were going to make every
Srt to get in, somehow; and he an
kred that we must be sure to get
j bis brigade, if he had one, and he
bid guarantee to show US fighting.
he Of US forgot the conversation.
B soon as our regiment was raised
aberal Young applied for it to be
3in his brigade. We were put in;
8 be made his word good; for he
a,ht and won the first fight on Gu
D soil.
5s. even though under him. we
|3ald not have been in this fight at
five had not taken advantage of
a chance to disembark among the
"a troops, and if it had not been for
8eds energy in pushing our regi-
81 to the front.
20 landing we spent some active
BIS in marching our men a quarter
y mile or so inland, as boat-load by
$load they d;sembarked. Mean
Die one of tie men, Knoblauch,
81 Yorker, who was great athlete
Il champion swimmer, by diving in
& surf off the dock. recovered most
De rifles which had been lost when
Il boat-load of colored cavalry cap
H The country would have offer
} }ery great difficulties to an attack
Orce had there been resistance.
& as little but a mass Of rugged and
I3pitous hills, covered for the most
IS by dense jungle. Five hundred
2aela:e men could have prevented the
hbarkation at very little cost to
|selves. There had been about
number Of Spaniards at Daiquiri
s. morning, but they had fed even
Eare the ships began shelling. In
f place we found hundreds of Gu
Insurgents, a crew Of as utter
e8rdemalions as human eyes looked
z8SArncd with every kind Of rife in
EM stages Of dilaridation. It was
||sa Fat at a glance, that they would
use in serious fighting, but it
topped that they might be Of ser
81 IN scouting. From variety of
rs, however, they turned out to
farly useless, even for this pur-
81 so far as the Santiago campaign
sfoucerncd.
# we're camped on dusty, brush
Sd fsd Hat, with jungle on one side,
8fn the other a shallow, fetid pool
ed with palm-trees. Huge land
s scuttled noisily through the un-
fsh, exciting much interest among
1fen. Camping was simple mat
: each man carried all he had,
81 81 33he officers had nothing. I took
||sf' macintosh and toothbrush.
nately, that night it did not rain;
E from the palm-leaves we built
F's from the sun.
aeral Lawton, a tall, finc-looking
had taken the advance. A thor
@ soldier, he at once established
2stsand pushedrcconnoiteriD par
'head on the trails. He had as
( baggage as the rest Of US. Our