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line, and a dozen men who were suffering from 

 heat exhaustion for the fighting and running 

 under that blazing sun through the thick dry jungle 

 was heart-breaking into the ranch buildings. 

 Then I started over toward the main body, but to 

 my delight encountered Wood himself, who told 

 me the fight was over and the Spaniards had re- 

 treated. He also informed me that other troops 

 were just coming up. The first to appear was a 

 squadron of the Ninth Cavalry, under Major 

 Dimick, which had hurried up to get into the fight, 

 and was greatly disappointed to find it over. They 

 took post in front of our lines, so that our tired 

 men were able to get a rest, Captain McBlain, of 

 the Ninth, good-naturedly giving us some points 

 as to the best way to station our outposts. Then 

 General Chaffee, rather glum at not having been in 

 the fight himself, rode up at the head of some of his 

 infantry, and I marched my squadron back to where 

 the rest of the regiment was going into camp, just 

 where the two trails came together, and beyond 

 that is, on the Santiago side of the original Span- 

 ish lines. 



The Rough Riders had lost eight men killed and 

 thirty-four wounded, aside from two or three who 

 were merely scratched and whose wounds were not 

 reported. The First Cavalry, white, lost seven men 

 killed and eight wounded; the Tenth Cavalry, col- 



