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iards against us.* Our total loss in killed and 

 wounded was 1,071. Of the cavalry division there 

 were, all told, some 2,300 officers and men, of 



* The total Spanish force in Santiago under General Linares 

 was 6,000: 4,000 regulars, 1,000 volunteers, and 1,000 marines 

 and sailors from the ships. (Diary of the British Consul, 

 Frederick W. Ramsden, entry of July 1st.) Four thousand 

 more troops entered next day. Of the 6,000 troops, 600 or 

 thereabouts were at El Caney, and 900 in the forts at the 

 mouth of the harbor. Lieutenant Tejeiro states that there 

 were 520 men at El Caney, 970 in the forts at the mouth of 

 the harbor, and 3,000 in the lines, not counting the cavalry 

 and civil guard which were in reserve. He certainly very 

 much understates the Spanish force; thus he nowhere ac- 

 counts for the engineers mentioned on p. 135; and his figures 

 would make the total number of Spanish artillerymen but 32. 

 He excludes the cavalry, the civil guard, and the marines 

 which had been stationed at the Plaza del Toros ; yet he later 

 mentions that these marines were brought up, and their com- 

 mander, Bustamente, severely wounded; he states that the 

 cavalry advanced to. cover the retreat of the infantry, and I 

 myself saw the cavalry come forward, for the most part dis- 

 mounted, when the Spaniards attempted a forward movement 

 late in the afternoon, and we shot many of their horses ; while 

 later I saw and conversed with officers and men of the civil 

 guard who had been wounded at the same time this in con- 

 nection with returning them their wives and children, after 

 the latter had fled from the city. Although the engineers are 

 excluded, Lieutenant Tejeiro mentions that their colonel, as 

 well as the colonel of the artillery, was wounded. Four thou- 

 sand five hundred is surely an understatement of the forces 

 which resisted the attack of the forces under Wheeler. Lieu- 

 tenant Tejeiro is very careless in his figures. Thus in one 

 place he states that the position of San Juan was held by two 

 companies comprising 250 soldiers. Later he says it was held 

 by three companies, whose strength he puts at 300 thus mak- 



