. Under three flags in Cuba; a personal account of the Cuban insurrection and Spanish-American war . sion consisting of General Wheeler,General Lawton, and Lieutenant Miley, met GeneralEscario, Colonel Fontan, and Mr. Mason, BritishVice-Consul, to arrange the terms of Spaniards finally agreed to surrender the wholedivision of Santiago; ^ the portion of Cuba eastof a line drawn through Aserradero, Dos Palmas,Cauto, Tanamo, and Aguilera; the United States totransport all troops in the command to Spain; officersto retain their side arms; the forces to march fromthe city with
. Under three flags in Cuba; a personal account of the Cuban insurrection and Spanish-American war . sion consisting of General Wheeler,General Lawton, and Lieutenant Miley, met GeneralEscario, Colonel Fontan, and Mr. Mason, BritishVice-Consul, to arrange the terms of Spaniards finally agreed to surrender the wholedivision of Santiago; ^ the portion of Cuba eastof a line drawn through Aserradero, Dos Palmas,Cauto, Tanamo, and Aguilera; the United States totransport all troops in the command to Spain; officersto retain their side arms; the forces to march fromthe city with honors of war, laying down their armsat a given point, it being understood that the com-missioners would recommend that the Spanishsoldier return to Spain with the arms he so bravelydefended. Sunday, July 17, — the day assigned for the clos-ing scene of the campaign, — dawned ten oclock church call rang out. The chaplainsled their regiments in divine w^orship and thanksgiv-ing for the cessation of hostilities. It was a memo-rable service, and as the strain Praise God from 346. ^X^^J The Closing Scene whom all blessings flow rose through the trees fromvoices softened by the gratitude and emotion of menbrought by the scenes of war to a nearer realizationof mortality, the finite and the Infinite, many a sickAmerican boy sobbed aloud, as his thoughts revertedto the distant homo where prayers were rising for theloved one in tho field. General Shafter, the gen-
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