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Title: Reminiscences and thrilling stories of the war by returned heroes
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Young, James Rankin, 1847-1924 Moore, J. H., joint author
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898 Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott Publishing Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t brigade I directed them to move alongside the cavalry,which was halted. We were already suffering losses caused by the balloonnear by attracting fire and disclosing our position. Fire from Front, Flank and Rear. The enemys infantry fire, steadily increasing in intensity, now came,from all directions, not only from the front, and the dense tropical thicketson our flanks, but from sharpshooters thickly posted in trees in our rear,and from shrapnel, apparently aimed at the balloon. Lieutenant ColonelDerby, of General Shafters staff, met me about this time, and informed methat a trail or narrow way had been discovered from the balloon a short dis-tance back leading to the left of a ford lower down the stream. I hastened to the forks made by this road, and soon after the Seventy-first New York regiment, of Hawkins brigade, came up. I turned them intothe bypath indicated by Lieutenant Colonel Derby, leading to the lower ford.send:ng word to General Hawkins of this movement This would have
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170 THE ADVANCE ON SANTIAGO. 171 speedily delivered them in their proper place on the left of their brigade, butunder the galling fire of the enemy the leading battalion of this regiment wasthrown into confusion, and recoiled in disorder on the troops in the rear. At this critical moment the officers of my staff practically formed acordon behind the panic-stricken men, and urged them to again go forward.I finally ordered them to lie down in the thicket, and clear the way for othersof their own regiment, who were coming up behind. This many of them did^and the Second and Third battalions came forward in better order and movedalong the road toward the ford. One of my staff officers ran back, waving his hat to hurry forward theThird brigade, who, upon approaching the forks, found the way blocked bymen of the Seventy-first New York. There were other men of this regimentcrouching in the bushes, many of whom were encouraged by the advance ofthe approaching column to arise and go forward. De

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