The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-18
TELLS STORY
OF HIS LIFE.
sch1cy's Autobiography Covers
His Entire Naval
Career.
III
] BATTLE lie. OF SANTIAGO

f1ad Been Defeated
Would Have Been No Question
About Who Was in Command.
I'm penning these memoirs there has
been no wish to detract from the ser.
vices OF others, no desire to cntor ,,n.
kind. undignined or rude words OF thos,
who may have differed in their views
but to set forth tho facts and services
OF life that has bcen clean In its de.
votion to home and to country and
steady In It's purpose, from youth 10
Its meridian. in giving tho best years
to. duty conscicntiously done for all TINT
1 Is near and dear! to map-honor homo
country. go. Neither the lapse OF time
nor tho change Of circumstances has
wrought any change OF faith In the
expression from the heart pcnned In
those Grst moments OF the great BATHS
OF July 8, 1898.
am glad that had an opportunity
to contribute in the least t. victory
that seems big enough for all OF u.s.
Such are tho closing words In Forty
Ave Years Under tho Flag. BY Rear
Admiral Winfield Scott schley, u. s. M.
which d. Appleton & CO. will publish
! In a few days. In these memoirs Admit.
raj Schley describes his service In Tho
navy from his appointment as acting
midshipman In 1866 until his retirement.
In all the book the word ~ does not
/.
appear except in the quotation that ends n
1t. The Admiral speaks OF himself In tho
third person, but the reader does not
lose the Impression that ''the writer
Eendeavored to do the work set before him
without fear OF personal consequences .
4 schley will be best remembered By
tho Greedy relief exedition and his part
In TIL. battle of Santiago. He writes
thus OF the final rescue OF Greedy and his i
surviving companions after infinite dif,i-
Eculties: IF n &
'.The Bear, followed closely by the
2thctis.; arrived off the wreck camp cache
saEos 1 10 p. NJ, and there found Lieu
tenant Grer.y end six OF his rolt,rl1rs I
In tent whichthe violent gale had blown /;
scuw:s over ,ir party az they lay In inttr#
4 sleeping BAGS. I he other eighteen or his
PARTY had pcrlshed, some while sceki.S
relief towHrl Cape Isabella; some droW1l-
ed while snalir>; some had starved to
death. The graves OF a number we're
on q little ridge hardly two hundred
feet away.
condition OF the survivors. was
desperate In Vhe extreme, while the
squalor OF the camp as found was heart
Erending and distressing. One OF the
whistle blasts blown to recall the search.
$ers. was heard In the camp, and Brain.
ard and Long went out % the cliff over.
tnnk (attc IN hat r,oIp nj
mean. TO their JOY thep romise was real,
for not long atterward the heralded ships
were in sight. 81 Il!
THE success OF the relief ships In 1ss,
was made possible In the fullest measure
by the officers and men, who sharcd the
dangers and exposures with the COM
mander. and who were willing TO undergo
any privation or to undertake any risk
to reach and rescue thor imperllled coun-
try1nen.
They did so with much credit to them
selves ana much renown TO the navy a,ld
to the nation.'' {9t
Admiral schley deals with the battle or
Santiago most exhaustively. and his book
will confirm those who were his adherentslG
In the slamer: able controversy which fol-{
lowed It In their opinion that he did most
TO win tho victory. A single extract vii
sufficiently Indicate the ad1nirals tone In
this part OF the narrative: s.5
From confidential document under
tho title, 'Execut We c; Third Session.
aFifty-fifth COngress.'ta communication by
Mr.. Long respecting 'advancements In
the navy 1t Is seen that the commander
sln-chiefs movements in Siboney on that
morning were under orders from the de-
3partment to meet General Shafter. This
order. then, furnishes an 9cxplanat; on OF
the commander-in-chief's signal and sub
Sscquent movements eastward on July Sd.
1T supplies too. evidence OF temporary
assignment to new duty. taking him on
Shore to the headquarters Of the army.
1t fixes incontcstably also the status OF
the commander OF the second squadron as
senior officer present In command before
Santiago after Sampson's withdrawal,
LII the battle here related had miscar-
frled, or'lf through m!smana cement Ger
vera or any OF his ships had escaped that
day. there would have been no difficulty
whatever about who was in command.
or who would have had to bear the CEN
sure. tbs as certain In tina event that
there would have been no effort to prove
that the New York was within signal dis
lance, no claim that It was captains
battle. nor any other of the sophstries
that Were invented In the aftermath OF
controversy about this great v Glory.
mo Instance Is recalled where great
success was won IN battle where every
participant was not anxious to share
In the glory, but no instance Is remem-
bcrcd where any subordinate ever de-
sired to share with his superior the odium
Of defeat Santiago alone would be
unique as !, one Of the worlds great
battles won without anybody being In
commander OF tho second squadron would
have had to take his medicine just the
same,"t4 a.. Iit n
Admiral schley describes New York's