A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . n,— a factwhich it affords the brigade commander gen-uine satisfaction to announce. By command of Brigadier-General Schwan. Grote Hutcheson,Captain and jissistant Adjutant-General. CHAPTER VI The Second Day Ends A personal resume of the fight— Lack of melodramaticaccompaniments — A lost chance of glory — Anotherneglected opportunity— A glimpse of the fag— Oncemore into camp, A T the risk of being considered tauto-r\ logical, I cannot refrain from devot-ing another chapter to the Hormi-
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . n,— a factwhich it affords the brigade commander gen-uine satisfaction to announce. By command of Brigadier-General Schwan. Grote Hutcheson,Captain and jissistant Adjutant-General. CHAPTER VI The Second Day Ends A personal resume of the fight— Lack of melodramaticaccompaniments — A lost chance of glory — Anotherneglected opportunity— A glimpse of the fag— Oncemore into camp, A T the risk of being considered tauto-r\ logical, I cannot refrain from devot-ing another chapter to the Hormi-gueros fight: first, because it was my initialexperience under fire; and, second, becausethere are more things in a soldiers memorythan are set forth in the official report of hiscommanding general. Our advance-guard, after leaving San Ger-man, marched rapidly along the level roadleading to Mayaguez until about three oclockin the afternoon. As the head of our columncame into view, the country people livingalong the route gathered their most preciouspossessions into huge bundles, and hurrieds8. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 59 away across the fields,— a sure sign that wewere approaching the enemys position. Atthe hour mentioned we were suddenly setupon by a blinding shower, and a halt wasmade for about fifteen minutes, when, thefury of the downpour having somewhatabated, we once more began to move cavalry had gone oif on a side road forsome purpose not known to me, and the in-fantry was deployed in long lines to the rightand left, while the artillery brought up therear at an interval of about a hundred half-past three the skirmishers came tothe Rio Rosario, but, being unable to fordIt, were called back to the road and startedacross the iron bridge, already described byGeneral Schwan. It was at this momentthat the Spanish forces opened fire, concealedin a dense undergrowth about 500 yards inour front. ** All jammed together as we were, it wouldseem that we
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