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when the bulk of the fighting was over. General 

 Sumner's own brigade fell to Colonel Henry Car- 

 roll. General Sumner led the advance with the cav- 

 alry, and the battle was fought by him and by Gen- 

 eral Kent, who commanded the infantry division, 

 and whose foremost brigade was led by General 

 Hawkins. 



As the sun rose the men fell in, and at the same 

 time a battery of field-guns was brought up on the 

 hill-crest just beyond, between us and toward San- 

 tiago. It was a fine sight to see the great horses 

 straining under the lash as they whirled the guns 

 up the hill and into position. 



Our brigade was drawn up on the hither sjde of 

 a kind of half basin, a big band of Cubans being off 

 to the left. As yet we had received no orders, ex- 

 cept that we were told that the main fighting was 

 to be done by Lawton's infantry division, which 

 was to take El Caney, several miles to our right, 

 while we were simply to make a diversion. This 

 diversion was to be made mainly with the artillery, 

 and the battery which had taken position imme- 

 diately in front of us was to begin when Lawton 

 began. 



It was about six o'clock that the first report of the 

 cannon from El Caney came booming to us across 

 the miles of still jungle. It was a very lovely morn- 

 ing, the sky of cloudless blue, while the level, shim- 



