A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . cted from the advance-guard, will marchwith the reserve, and will be under the di-rection of the engineer officer of the requisite tools will be carried on a arriving in camp, the advance-guardwill immediately establish the outpost. 26 YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 3. The main body will consist of ninecompanies of infantry, one battery and twoplatoons of artillery, and two Gatling guns. 4. The trains following the main bodywill be under the direction of the brigadequarterma
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . cted from the advance-guard, will marchwith the reserve, and will be under the di-rection of the engineer officer of the requisite tools will be carried on a arriving in camp, the advance-guardwill immediately establish the outpost. 26 YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 3. The main body will consist of ninecompanies of infantry, one battery and twoplatoons of artillery, and two Gatling guns. 4. The trains following the main bodywill be under the direction of the brigadequartermaster, and their order of marchwill be: — Hospital and baggage wagons. The rear-guard will be composed of onecompany of infantry. A detachment fromit will protect exposed flanks of the horses can be procured for them, thecommanders of the advance and rear guardswill be mounted. The above disposition for each daysmarch will be conformed to, unless otherwiseordered. By command of Brigadier-General Schwan. Grote Hutcheson,Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General ^ «^^. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 27 As Captain Macombs cavalry had notarrived at the hour appointed for our start,we set off without him. And in fact therewas little need of his services on that day,our march being through a section of theisland already cleared of Spanish troops, andexceedingly slow and wearisome, besides. The route from Yauco to Sabana Grandelies for some two miles along the level andcreditable road leading to Guanica, suddenlygoing off at right angles just beyond a pict-uresque sugar-mill into as uneven, crooked,and hilly a highway as can well be imagined. I cannot tell you in adequate languagejust how the tropical sun punishes the un-acclimated Northerner, especially if he be afoot-soldier tramping along in a blindingdust, parched of throat, empty of belly, andloaded down with a pack that would makea quartermasters mule to fake the you have been there, it ne
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