The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-11-03
TIE OFFICIAL REPORT.

TIE OFFICIAL REPORT.
Colonel RooScycts Official report,
found al pages l. and II Of Major
General Miles Supplementary Report,
1SgS contains the following:
Accordingly we charged The block
house and entertainments on the hill
to our right against heavy fire. 1t
was taken in good style, the men of
my regiment thus being the first TO
capture any fortified position and TO
break through the Spanish lines
(Every word of that statement is ALSO
mtcly falscJ after captur-
ing this hill, we first of all directed a
heavy fire upon the san Juan hill 10
our left, which was at the time being
assailcd by the regular infantry and
cavalry, supported by Captain Fark-
er's Calling guns. by the time san
Juan was taken large force had as
semblcd on the hill we had PRENl-
OUSLY captured"
A glance at the map shows that the
hill occupied by the cavalry was far
in the rear of the San Juan hills, and
the reports of the engineer officers and
the official maps are unanimous that
Ii contains no entertainments what
ever, and there is no record of its ever
having been occupied by the Spaniards.
A glance mt the map will show how
prrpostcrous is Colonel Roosevelt
claim.
Colonel Roosevelt stated in an ad-
dress to the National Guard A>soria-
ton of the State of New York, on Feb
ruary IS, 1900 Opp. JG, 81, Official Re
port, y. c., \. ":
AS for the San Juan fight, 1t would
be an eXaggcraiion to say it was Il
cOloncrs fight. 1t was Il squad lead
cr'S fight. No human being in the col.
umn knew what he was to DO when the
column started. We moved forward
again, crossed the river and had TO
halt within range of the Spanish bat
tericS on the hills until we got the Or
der TO charge. More by n consensus of
opinion than anything else We went
up and took the hill"
This is the official report of this
speech to the National Guard, but in
the actual speech he admitted that he
did not see a Spaniartl; that they did
not know that there had been battle
until it was over.
The position of the First Volunteer
Cavalry, half mile to the right of
the road to Santiago and behind ket-
tie Hill, is indicated By the reports of
Leonard Wood, colonel. First L. S.
Volunteer Cavalry, and +. \. Baldwin,
lieutenant-c0l0nel, Tenth Cavalry (see
pages 32G and 3I1, of General Mics
official report. These reports are ver-
batim the same. One plaSariZcs from
the other. AS General Wood was some
where in the rear, he was probably the
offender:
after proceeding about half way
TO the San Juan Hill from Ell Pozol
the leading regiment Trough Riders
was directed to CHANGE THE ID.
RECTION TO THE RIGHT. and 10y
moving up TO the creek to effect june
ton with General Lawton's division
which was then engaged at Caney
about mile and half toward the
right, but was supposed to be workin !
toward our right flank. After proceed
ing i'm this direction ABOUT HALF \
MILE. this effort TO connect with Gen
Lawton was given up. and the First
and Tenth cavalry were formed fol
attack on the EAST HILL, with the
Volunteer Cavalry as support"
Colonel Wood says in bis report OF
July G p. 3I2): "Our first objective
was the hill with a small red-roOfed
house on it," Nettle HILL
After the occupation of the San Juan
hills by the infantry, it became nee
essary to create entertainments TO bC
captured and Spaniards to be killed
by the political colonel, and the only
way to do this was TO make bristline
fertilization out of an old kettle thai
had been left behind by the infantry
hours before.
Colonel Egbert. Sixth Infantry, say.
in his official report, pages 1915: "Tht
San Juan Hill Notifications being In
plain view, about 400 yards distant
while 10 our right and IN PR0L0N