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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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mer road a little north from La Qua-sina, about four miles in-shore from Siboney. General Young with eight troops of the First and Tenth Cavalry, amounting to430 men, and two Hotchkiss guns, followed the cart road; the rough riders, some500 men, under Colonel Wood and Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt, took the foot path.Castillo, who was to accompany Young with 300 Cubans, did not appear, but Cubansfell in in groups with General Youngs column as the latter was proceeding on itsmarch. None of these insurgents had any knowledge about the enemy, and theysoon proved utterly useless as a military force. A short distance from the fork where the cart road and the foot path joined, thefirst signs of the enemys presence appeared. The Hotchkiss guns deployed andopened fire. On their first shot volleys came back from the Spanish side. Bothrough riders and regulars came in contact with the enemy simultaneously, as neitherheard the others firing. The shrubbery and grass of tropical growth were so high
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GENERAL HAWKINS CHARGING EL CANEY. — 379 and dense as to hamper progress considerably and prevent seeing farther than 100yards. The Spanish firing line, using smokeless powder, could not be located, whilethe puffs of smoke from the Americans betrayed their position distinctly. So it hap-pened that both rough riders and regulars suffered severe losses. By 8:30 the leftwing of the regulars, the First Cavalry, had formed connection with the right of therough riders. About this time the Spanish left wing began to yield before the Amer-ican right, the Tenth Cavalry. The enemy concentrated their force toward the roadwhich turns westward here toward Santiago. All the troops, rough riders and reg-ulars, impatient with the resistance of the Spaniards, rushed the latters positionand put them to flight. They pursued them for about a mile; then the Americanshalted, as they were far in advance of the rest of their army and feared they mightany moment run into an ambush or against a Spanish force

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