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Title: The Fourteenth Ohio national guard--the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Creager, Charles E., 1873- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Ohio infantry. 4th regt., 1898-1899. (from old catalog) Ohio infantry. 14th regt., 1877- (from old catalog) Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories United States
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, The London printing and publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is service, but they were toosmall and the effort had to be abandoned. Theammunition for the dynamite guns was taken to thescene of action in heavy ox carts, and this trip forciblydemonstrated the uselessness of this primitive beastin warfare. That the guns ever arrived in position atall was a wonder to all who saw the trip made. The rifle fire was kept up at a lively rate untilthe guns were 2otten into position, when the small-arm fire was stopped. It had been returned bv theSpaniards, but the bullets fiew so far over the headsof the men on the ridge that they could hardly heart*hem whistle. The Spaniards did not seem to paymuch attention to the rifle fire, but as soon as the ar-tillery was let loose there was commotion every-where in their camp. The first shot was aimed toolow, but it was near enough to suit those at whom itwas aimed and when the shell exploded with a terrificroar, Spaniards could be seen running to the top of thehill and to places of supposed safety in every direc-
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REPRODUCED FROM A WATER COLOH THE ROAD TO GAYEY. THE FOURTH 0. Y. I. 177 tion. One of the shots was afterwards said by aSpanish soldier to have fallen in the midst of thetrenches and to have killed outright twenty-sevenSpanish soldiers besides maiming many others. After a number of shots had been fired into thehills from the dynamite guns, the rifles were permittedto give them a paiting volley, and the regiment re-turned to the city. Considerable newspaper discussion followed thisengagement, but in this case the Fourth Ohio re-ceived all the credit and there was nothing but creditto be given. N^o criticism was oifered whatever tothe action of the regiment, but those who had brokento the rear and who beat a disorderly retreat wereheld in considerable contempt by their comrades, atfirst, but when all the facts in the case were learned,and when the men fully declared that they heard anorder to retreat, the suspicions against them were re-moved. The rear of the column had certainly beenin

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