A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . srations and the infantrymens packs. It wastherefore as mobile as it could be made with- 78 YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS out a pack-train. Hindered by excessiveheat, followed by heavy showers, it marchedonly to a point where the two roads, abovementioned, are joined by a cross-road,— orabout nine miles. I did not hear from Col-onel Burke during the night, as I had hopedto; and the remainder of my command hadits wagons packed, and was preparing to pullout on the morning of the 13th, when acourie
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . srations and the infantrymens packs. It wastherefore as mobile as it could be made with- 78 YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS out a pack-train. Hindered by excessiveheat, followed by heavy showers, it marchedonly to a point where the two roads, abovementioned, are joined by a cross-road,— orabout nine miles. I did not hear from Col-onel Burke during the night, as I had hopedto; and the remainder of my command hadits wagons packed, and was preparing to pullout on the morning of the 13th, when acourier came to me from him with a reportof the difficulties that had retarded his prog-ress, and of the presence of a Spanish forcenear Las Marias, variously estimated at from1,200 to 2,500. This force, the colonelsaid, had taken up a defensive position; andhe was moving toward it . . Respectfully submitted, Theodore Schwan,Brigadier-General Commanding, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Aug. dear Gilmore,— Availing myself of thefirst breathing-spell I have had for sometime, I wish in this informal way and in. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 79 advance of my regular report to say a fewwords to the general and yourself regardingour last Saturdays work (August 13). As soon as the result of the Hormiguerosfight became known in Mayaguez — aboutnine oclock on the loth — Colonel Soto, thecommander, pulled up stakes. That theSpanish troops left in the greatest hurry thecondition of their barracks abundantly evi-denced. Our advance-guard found the cityentirely clear of the Spanish, and I orderedmy cavalry to keep in touch with cavalry took the right-hand road of thetwo roads leading to Lares, over which someof the Spanish troops had actually gone ; andin the evening the troop commander reportedthat they were between seven and ten milesoff, and still retreating. My command wasthoroughly tired. No one without witness-ing it can conceive the distress an infantrysoldier suffers while marching in
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