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ored, one man killed and ten wounded; so, out of 

 964 men engaged on our side, 16 were killed and 52 

 wounded. The Spaniards were under General 

 Rubin, with, as second in command, Colonel Al- 

 carez. They had two guns, and eleven companies 

 of about a hundred men each : three belonging to the 

 Porto Rico regiment, three to the San Fernandino, 

 two to the Talavero, two being so-called mobilized 

 companies from the mineral districts, and one a 

 company of engineers ; over twelve hundred men in 

 all, together with two guns.* 



General Rubin reported that he had repujsed the 

 American attack, and Lieutenant Tejeiro states in 

 his book that General Rubin forced the Americans 

 to retreat, and enumerates the attacking force as 

 consisting of three regular regiments of infantry, 

 the Second Massachusetts and the Seventy-first 



* See Lieutenant Miiller y Tejeiro, "Combates y Capitulacion 

 de Santiago de Cuba," page 136. The Lieutenant speaks as if 

 only one echelon, of seven companies and two guns, was en- 

 gaged on the 24th. The official report says distinctly, "Gen- 

 eral Rubin's column," which consisted of the companies de- 

 tailed above. By turning to page 146, where Lieutenant Te- 

 jeiro enumerates the strength of the various companies, it will 

 be seen that they averaged over no men apiece; this probably 

 does not include officers, and is probably an under-statement 

 anyhow. On page 261 he makes the Spanish loss at Las 

 Guasimas, which he calls Sevilla, 9 killed and 27 wounded. 

 Very possibly he includes only the Spanish regulars; two of 

 the Spaniards we slew, over on the left, were in brown, instead 

 of the light blue of the regulars, and were doubtless guerillas. 



