A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . ng obliged tostop shooting just when we had learned todo it so beautifully ; but, still, it is somethingto have been in at the finish. CHAPTER IX The Territory Won General Schwan returns to Mayaguex — Business andpleasure — A custom we abolished—Extent of thedistrict captured by our brigade — Jguadilla — Facil-ities for transportation — Labor and the laborer —The cost of living — Rents and real estate — Skilledworkmen — A word about investments. ON August i6j in obedience to ordersfrom
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . ng obliged tostop shooting just when we had learned todo it so beautifully ; but, still, it is somethingto have been in at the finish. CHAPTER IX The Territory Won General Schwan returns to Mayaguex — Business andpleasure — A custom we abolished—Extent of thedistrict captured by our brigade — Jguadilla — Facil-ities for transportation — Labor and the laborer —The cost of living — Rents and real estate — Skilledworkmen — A word about investments. ON August i6j in obedience to ordersfrom Army Headquarters, GeneralSchwan left the bulk of his troopsin the positions they had respectively occu-pied at the time of the receipt of the truce,and, accompanied by the artillery, returned toMayaguez. The people of this city had notyet recovered from the ferment into whichthey had been thrown by our advent, andwent about in a state of tremulous titillation,expecting I know not what. At any rate, itdid not seem to arrive; and after a day ortwo had passed without any sign of fell84. A Ruined Church along our Line of March,
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