Identifier: illustratedhist00russ (find matches)
Title: An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Henry Benajah, 1859- Thurston, John Mellen, 1847-1916 Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Hartford, Conn : A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of morning mist andrevealed the advance line of the army scattered along the nar-row valley which traces irregular paths between Baiquiri.andSevilla. Two miles to the rear were the tents of the seconddivision marking with a white line the road to Demajayabo,to which General Wheeler had moved and established head-quarters during the night. General Lawtons headquarters consisted of a cluster ofhalf a dozen huts two miles inland from Siboney, whose littleharbor was crowded with transports, launches, and small boatsstill engaged in landing troops. The third division was clus-tered about the beach, some bathing, others gathering the scat-tered equipments, and still others making preparations forbreakfast. Far to the front was the thin line of CastillosCuban outposts, their flags faintly moving in the morning air. According to reports brought to General Wheeler, whowas in command of the forces which had already landed, AvhileGeneral Shafter was still on his ship, the Spaniards, after their
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APPROACHING GUASIMAS 685 evacuation of Sibonej, had retired to a point three miles awaynear Sevilla, and had intrenched themselves at a junction oftwo roads or trails called Guasimas. From that point a singleroad leads to Santiago. General Wheeler had in this local-ity the Twenty-third Infantry, four troops of the FirstCavalry, four of the Tenth Cavalry, and the troops of theKough Eiders — in all about 1,000 men. After making anexamination of the country in which the enemy was supposedto have halted, he returned to his headquarters and notifiedhis officers that he proposed to attack. Colonel Wood of theRough Riders was ordered to approach the enemy from theleft while the force under General Young followed the roadto the right, the two meeting at Guasimas. Gradually the sun chased the lingering shadows out ofthe ravines and began to scorch the hillsides. Camps werebroken, columns of soldiers were formed, and the advance wasresumed. Blazing blockhouses here and there indicated thatthe

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