A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . ifficult to make head-way than had the first; and on the morningof the 14th the entire brigade was so brokenup and strung out that its head and tail werea good nine miles apart. So much troublehad been experienced in getting the artilleryup the incredibly steep mountain-sides thatno one had been able to give assistance oreven thought to the hopelessly embarrassedwagon-train, and consequently we were prac-tically without food for over twenty-fourhours. When at last something to eat didc
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . ifficult to make head-way than had the first; and on the morningof the 14th the entire brigade was so brokenup and strung out that its head and tail werea good nine miles apart. So much troublehad been experienced in getting the artilleryup the incredibly steep mountain-sides thatno one had been able to give assistance oreven thought to the hopelessly embarrassedwagon-train, and consequently we were prac-tically without food for over twenty-fourhours. When at last something to eat didcome plodding along, we were obliged to putup with half-rations in order that our littlecollection of recently acquired prisoners mightbe fed. At a conservative estimate, thoseprisoners must have been the hungriest lotof men that ever laid down their were less than sixty of them, and theydrew rations for about 1,200. However,they were fed; and we had the consolationof realizing that victory, like some otherthings of less familiar acquaintance, is its ownreward. By noon on the 14th, everything ^. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 83 was once more in order; and I have not yetceased to wonder how those in authoritymanaged to erase so quickly the chaos of thenight before. The engagement at Las Marias, while notparticularly momentous in itself, was note-worthy as being the last between our forcesand those of Spain during the recent do not believe that the knowledge of thisfact—even had we possessed it at the time— would have materially consoled us for thedisappointment we felt in being 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 — Re
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