A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . rk between the railroad and the RioGrande, near enough to enable the mento get what was necessary for their comfortduring the night. Before darkness set in,Captain Macomb with his troop was directedto make an effort to capture a railway trainin plain sight from the hill occupied by thecommand; but the train got under way be-fore he could reach it. It also escaped someshots that were fired at it by the it had now become quite dark,the captain picked up a few prisoners
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . rk between the railroad and the RioGrande, near enough to enable the mento get what was necessary for their comfortduring the night. Before darkness set in,Captain Macomb with his troop was directedto make an effort to capture a railway trainin plain sight from the hill occupied by thecommand; but the train got under way be-fore he could reach it. It also escaped someshots that were fired at it by the it had now become quite dark,the captain picked up a few prisoners, includ-ing a wounded lieutenant. The difficulty in locating the enemy, andhence in giving proper direction to the attackformations, has already been alluded cause of anxiety during the earlierstage of the fight were the reports that cameto the brigade commander from differentparts of the field, through officers, that theenemy was getting around our right (or left)flank, and endeavoring to capture our may have been some foundation forthese reports; but, if so, the flanking parties. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 55 were probably small, and deterred from pur-suing their design by our steady may be added that the train was wellguarded. Our loss embraced i enlisted man killedand I officer and 15 men wounded. All thewounded, the surgeons say, will enemys loss cannot be definitely ascer-tained, but it is estimated at 15 killed probably did not fall short of 50 in killedand wounded. The command continued its march at anearly hour the following morning, the ad-vance-guard and the main body proceedingslowly and with great caution. This extracare was unnecessary. Those of the enemysforces that were held in reserve (some ofthem not far from the city) had fled precipi-tately as soon as they realized the extent oftheir defeat. In connection with the foregoing report Iconsider the subjoined document as being ofinterest: — S6 YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS
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