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shot or abandoned but were cured by our men. 

 These expeditions sometimes under the chaplain, 

 sometimes under the Quartermaster, sometimes 

 under myself, and occasionally under a trooper- 

 would go to the sea-coast or to the Red Cross 

 headquarters, or, after the surrender, into the city 

 of Santiago, to get food both for the well and the 

 sick. 



The Red Cross Society rendered invaluable 

 aid. For example, on one of these expeditions I 

 personally brought up 600 pounds of beans; on 

 another occasion I personally brought up 500 

 pounds of rice, 800 pounds of cornmeal, 200 pounds 

 of sugar, loo pounds of tea, 100 pounds of oatmeal, 

 5 barrels of potatoes, and two of onions, with cases 

 of canned soup and condensed milk for the sick in 

 hospitals. Every scrap of the food thus brought 

 up was eaten with avidity by the soldiers, and put 

 new heart and strength into them. It was only 

 our constant care of the men in this way that en- 

 abled us to keep them in any trim at all. As for 

 the sick in the hospital, unless we were able from 

 outside sources to get them such simple delicacies 

 as rice and condensed milk, they usually had the 

 alternative of eating salt pork and hardtack or going 

 without. 



After each fight we got a good deal of food 

 from the Spanish camps in the way of beans, peas, 

 and rice, together with green coffee, all of which 

 the men used and relished greatly. In some re- 



