A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . s a reserve, or as the changing conditionsof the combat might render expedient. Butunder his supervision this defective forma-tion was soon rectified, three companiesbeing placed on the right and four com-panies on the left of the road, the former,under Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, movingforward in support of Major Gilbraith, andthe latter being held back for a Gibraith and Colonel Burkes troops,being unable to cross the creek, passed overthe bridge that spans it by the left fl
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . s a reserve, or as the changing conditionsof the combat might render expedient. Butunder his supervision this defective forma-tion was soon rectified, three companiesbeing placed on the right and four com-panies on the left of the road, the former,under Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, movingforward in support of Major Gilbraith, andthe latter being held back for a Gibraith and Colonel Burkes troops,being unable to cross the creek, passed overthe bridge that spans it by the left flank, theformers companies having previously occu-pied a sheltered place in a ditch parallel toand to the right of the main road. Aboutthis time the advance-guard, one of thecompanies of which (Penroses) had previ-ously held for a short time a knoll on theleft of the road, moved forward and crossedthe iron bridge, the advance sections of thecompanies being led by Lieutenants Alex-ander and Wells, respectively. After . .a time the entire advance-guard, includingthe two Catling guns, was concentrated on i. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS ^3 the right of the railroad. It dislodged theenemy, and with the cavalry troop to theright,— the troop had arrived about thistime, after doing effective service in threat-ening the enemys flank,— and with thecompanies of Major Gilbraith pushed for-ward in the centre, took up a position onthe northern line of hills. Here they wererejoined by the infantry and by two piecesof artillery under First Lieutenant Archi-bald Campbell, which the brigade com-mander had ordered forward, and which bytheir fire added to the discomfiture of theenemy. The two Catling guns under Lieu-tenant Maginnis, with the advance, did goodwork, at first in a place near the creek wherethe gunners had a good view of the enemy,and later on at the various positions of theadvance-guard. The two guns from themain body were also operated from the crestof the hill during the latter stage of
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