Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-18
SCOTT, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY IS 1888

these movements of Bates and LAw1ou were what ShAfter himself had ordered and was expecting as the hour Wheeler refers to. toward midnight of July I.
 As already indicated in these articles. the succeSs of the cavalry in taking the first hill. giving the Gatling and HOtch. kiss guns a chance Co silence the block house, made Rents task the easier. AS things turned ont. it was fortunate that somebody ordered the cavalry to go in-
 4 word will suffice Co carry the story of the cavalry over the 2d of July up to the hour of a night attack by the Span iards and fke second proposition t0 re- treat A few ratiOns and some water weIS got up the first night. At day break on the 2d the Spsniards opened a fusillade and kept it up all day. The night of the 2d heavy fusillade began ca the extreme left of the infantry diTi- sion and rolled along in front of the cavalry. In an hour the spanish were siienoed- IL is held in the cavalry that General Sumner was then discnssing the question of retreat and the resnlt of the night attack showed that the Americans could hold on.
 On the left of the cavalry the infantry suffered from spanish fire all day the a. General Hawkins was wounded that day. lE Mas s tc; tl--.J l-I- f1inted in the trenches. and some of the faint and wounded who were carried out were hut before they could get to cover iE the rear. Parkhurst's battery got into posi- tion the night of the lst at the block house, and at 5:3O a. ua. on the sd opened fire on the city. The Spanish answered with AAnsers and artillery, killing one cannOneer and wounding Parkhurst and two men. Lieutenant Altman took command after Parkhurst fell and continued in action until it be- came too hot. then withdrew. A she'll struck one gun, and the wheels were cut up by bullets- Rests battery tried to get into action, but the Mauser fire proved too much for the cannoneerS
 The night attack uf the Sd was sprung about s;S0 p. m- on the line of Pear sons brigade. left of Rents division. Much activity had been noticed theIe in the afternoon and a Spanish officer of high rank as shown by his follow ing, was conspicuous object for some time. It was believed that the officer must be the Spanish commander. and one of the sharpshOotsrs of Pearson's brigade asked General Kent who was on the line at the time, to allow him to fire. Kent did so. and at the second shot the Spanisrd fell Afterward it was learned that Linarez had been wounded on that ground at the time, about D m. PearsOn's men had hard fight of it all day the Ed His Twenty first regi- ment was in a salient only 400 yards from the Spanish trenches None of his men dare leave the trenches to cook, and ate their bacon raw. Marksmen with records were picked out to do the firing. and the rest of the soldiers re- mained quiet under cover. It was one of these sharpSbooters wbo brought down Liaares.
 The night attack, so called. lasted an hour. Officers in the brigade said that they saw Spanish troops advance from their line and believed thata sortie had been attempted, as directed by Linares before he was wounded. General Pear son says that when his men heard of the proposed retreat the night of the 2d. they insisted on staying on the ground they had won. All the second day on the captured ridge may be summed up as a day of torrid heat, constant Msuser fire upon the men in the trenches and hunger. 1t was the condition of the men and inability to relieve it which led to talk of falling back to a better line for protracted siege. Two things