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Identifier: fourteenthohiona00crea (find matches)
Title: The Fourteenth Ohio national guard--the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Creager, Charles E., 1873- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Ohio infantry. 4th regt., 1898-1899. (from old catalog) Ohio infantry. 14th regt., 1877- (from old catalog) Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories United States
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, The London printing and publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rdered the regiment to proceed, however,and Major Speaks of the First Battalion assumedtemporary command of the regiment. A surgeon washastily summoned from the artillery camp to attendColonel Coit, but Major Semeans, the regimentajsurgeon, also appeared on the scene. It was seen thatthe injury sustained to the colonels leg might proveserious and he was advised to return to Arroyo, buthe refused to do so, and followed the regiment, assum-ing personal command a few hours later. 144 THE FOURTH 0. V. I. REFERENCE MARKS. Pn Cemetery, <V First camp in Porto Rico. . Point at which extreme poiiu of nd-T vance guard was first fired upon. t Position of C Company when fir^™ opened. -;- Position main column when fire opened r^ A Company deployed lines. Q C Company deployed lines. j~l B Company deployed lines. A I Company deployed lines. CT E Company deployed lines- • » Dynamite Guns position, ^ Out Posts (Fourth Ohio.) f^ Out Posts rrhlrd Illinois.) X Positions of Companies!). G, Kand L.
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THE FOURTH 0. V. I. 145 As soon as the regiment reached the main road, itwas halted and Major Speaks reported to GeneralHaines, who had been waiting. The general directedthat one company act as advance guard and thatMajor Speaks assume personal charge of this duty.Company A was at once designated to take the ad-vance and it proceeded several hundred yards in ad-vance of the main column. A Company had not proceeded far until MajorSpeaks directed that with loaded pieces flankers anda point be thrown out. For the benefit of thosereaders who know nothing of military matters it isexplained that flankers are detachments of troopsdeployed to the right and to the left of advancingcolumns to discover anything that might impede theprogress of the advancing column, whether it be alarge stream, a fortification or an enemy. Thepoint is the extreme advance or head of the ad-vancing column. When a line of battle is formed,however, the presence and in most cases the exact lo-cation of the enemy is kn

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