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being the highest officer left there, and I was in 

 immediate command of them for the remainder of 

 the afternoon and that night. The Ninth was over 

 to the right, and the Thirteenth Infantry afterward 

 came up beside it. The rest of Kent's infantry was 

 to our left. Of the Tenth, Lieutenants Anderson, 

 Muller, and Fleming reported to me ; Anderson was 

 slightly wounded, but he paid no heed to this. All 

 three, like every other officer, had troopers of vari- 

 ous regiments under them ; such mixing was inevita- 

 ble in making repeated charges through thick jun- 

 gle;, it was essentially a troop commanders', indeed, 

 almost a squad leaders', fight. The Spaniards who 

 had been holding the trenches and the line of hills, 

 had fallen back upon their supports and we were 

 under a very heavy fire both from rifles and great 

 guns. At the point where we were, the grass-cov- 

 ered hill-crest was gently rounded, giving poor 

 cover, and I made my men lie down on the hither 

 slope. 



On the extreme left Captain Beck, of the Tenth, 

 with his own troop, and small bodies of the men 

 of other regiments, was exercising a practically in- 

 dependent command, driving back the Spaniards 

 whenever they showed any symptoms of advancing. 

 He had received his orders to hold the line at all 

 hazards from Lieutenant Andrews, one of General 

 Sumner's aides, just as I had received mine from 



