. The Detroit Light Guard : a complete record of this organization from its foundation to the present day : with full account of riot and complimentary duty, and the campaigns in the Civil and Spanish-American wars : a complete roster of members at the time of muster-out of the United States service, as well as a roster of all classes of members . the skirmish at LaGuasima,and by June 30th, when Gen. Shaffer came ashore and estab-lished his headquarters in Siboney, the picket lines had beenpushed out until they were closer to the points of attack thanthey were to headquarters. We all understan
. The Detroit Light Guard : a complete record of this organization from its foundation to the present day : with full account of riot and complimentary duty, and the campaigns in the Civil and Spanish-American wars : a complete roster of members at the time of muster-out of the United States service, as well as a roster of all classes of members . the skirmish at LaGuasima,and by June 30th, when Gen. Shaffer came ashore and estab-lished his headquarters in Siboney, the picket lines had beenpushed out until they were closer to the points of attack thanthey were to headquarters. We all understand now why the army was not pushed for-ward to the attack before it did. It was only made knownto the civilians up in the North after the fight, how the coun-try which our soldiers had to march over in the direction ofSantiago was devoid of all roads, and scarcely anything thatlooked like a trail. The topography of the country had tobe learned, supplies and ammunition had to be landed andadvanced to various forward positions where they wereneeded, but even this was not all accomplished in time, forit very soon became evident that the terrors of the wet sea-son which had set in WT^th its ranks of deadly fever germs,would do more to decimate the army than all the Mauser 160 Company M, Thirty-third ashore at SiboneyJune 30th, 3S9S. f I. Mouth of the Harbor at Santiago. Zll^°n^^ ^°^^ ^ Sardinariswhere Corporal Nottinghamwas Rescued from Drowning rifles the enemy could bring to bear, and on the afternoonof the last day of June, it was the feeling of every generalpresent at the council of war which had been summoned,that our success laid only in making a dash, and Lawton,coming forth from that meeting with the promise that hewould take Caney in two hours, hurried oft to move his divi-sion to its position on the extreme right, while Gen. Duffieldwas assigned the duty of protecting the left wing. was to relieve Gen. Bates in command at Siboney,as the latter was to
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