. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. Massachusetts, left camp for the out-post on the Yauco road. The command arrived thereshortly before daylight, at about four thirty the reports of the outposts the enemy was supposedto be in a field to the right of the road to Yauco. Packswer
. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. Massachusetts, left camp for the out-post on the Yauco road. The command arrived thereshortly before daylight, at about four thirty the reports of the outposts the enemy was supposedto be in a field to the right of the road to Yauco. Packswere thrown off and the command formed for an company of Sixth Illinois(G) remained on the hilland protected our right flank. The remaining companieswere collected, two as support and three as reserve. Af-ter advancing to within two hundred yards of the plainof the hacienda Santa Decideria, the advance guard ofour attacking force was discovered by the enemy, whoopened fire from a position on the hill to the west. Thenorth and east slopes of this hill intersect each other,forming a solid angle. It was along this angle that theenemy was posted. Their reserve, posted in a roadleading from the hacienda to the east, also opened astrong fire on the road. A body of the enemy movedagainst the company on our right(G, Sixth Illinois), 73. Skirmish With tiik Spanish. 221 stationed on the liill of \enliira (j)uinones. This com-pany had intrenched themselves during the night, andafter repulsing the attacking force, directed their fireagainst the enemy on the hill to the west. The conformation of the ground was such that thefire of the enemys reserves and party on the left waseifective in the seemingly secure hollow in which our re-serves were posted. The heavy volume of fire, the noiseof shots striking the trees and on the ground, and thewounding of two men among the reserves caused amomentary confusion among the troops. They werequickly rallied and placed under cover. The fire of t
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