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whom 375 were killed and wounded. In the 

 division over a fourth of the officers were killed or 

 wounded, their loss being relatively half as great 



ing them average 100 instead of 125 men apiece. He then 

 mentions another echelon of two companies, so situated as 

 to cross their fire with the others. Doubtless the block-house 

 and trenches at Fort San Juan proper were only held by three 

 or four hundred men; they were taken by the Sixth and Six- 

 teenth Infantry under Hawkins's immediate command; and 

 they formed but one point in the line of hills, trenches, ranch- 

 houses, and block-houses which the Spaniards held, and from 

 which we drove them. When the city capitulated later, over 

 8,000 unwounded troops and over 16,000 rifles and carbines 

 were surrendered; by that time the marines and sailors had 

 of course gone, and the volunteers had disbanded. 



In all these figures I have taken merely the statements from 

 the Spanish side. I am inclined to think the actual numbers 

 were much greater than those here given. Lieutenant Wiley, 

 in his book "In Cuba with Shafter," which is practically an 

 official statement, states that nearly 11,000 Spanish troops were 

 surrendered; and this is the number given by the Spaniards 

 themselves in the remarkable letter the captured soldiers ad- 

 dressed to General Shafter, which Wiley quotes in full. Lieu- 

 tenant Tejeiro, in his chap, xiv., explains that the volunteers 

 had disbanded before the end came, and the marines and sail- 

 ors had of course gone, while nearly a thousand men had been 

 killed or captured or had died of wounds and disease, so that 

 there must have been at least 14,000 all told. Subtracting the 

 reinforcements who arrived on the 2d, this would mean about 

 10,000 Spaniards present on the ist; in which case Kent and 

 Wheeler were opposed by at least equal numbers. 



In dealing with the Spanish losses, Lieutenant Tejeiro con- 

 tradicts himself. He puts their total loss on this day at 593, 

 including 94 killed, 121 missing, and 2 prisoners 217 in all. 

 Yet he states that of the 520 men at Caney but 80 got back, 

 the remaining 440 being killed, captured, or missing. When 



