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took at the time; but as I had found since that the 

 members of the First and Tenth Regular Regiments 

 held with equal sincerity the view that the main part 

 was taken by their own commands, I have come to 

 the conclusion that the way I have described the 

 action is substantially correct. Owing to the fact 

 that the Tenth Cavalry, which was originally in sup- 

 port, moved forward until it got mixed with the 

 First, it is very difficult to get the exact relative 

 position of the different troops of the First and 

 Tenth in making the advance. Beck and Galbraith 

 were on the left; apparently Wainwright was 

 furthest over on the right. General Wood states 

 that Leonardo Ros, the Civil Governor of Santiago 

 at the time of the surrender, told him that the 

 Spanish force at Guasimas consisted of not less than 

 2,600 men, and that there were nearly 300 of them 

 killed and wounded. I do not myself see how it 

 was possible for us, as we were the attacking party 

 and were advancing against superior numbers well 

 sheltered, to inflict five times as much damage as we 

 received ; but as we buried eleven dead Spaniards, 

 and as they carried off some of their dead, I be- 

 lieve the loss to have been very much heavier than 

 Lieutenant Tejeiro reports. 



General Wood believes that in following Lieuten- 

 ant Tejeiro I have greatly underestimated the num- 

 ber of Spanish troops who were defending Santiago 

 on July ist, and here I think he completely makes 

 out his case, he taking the view that Lieutenant 



