| Show v THE SIXTEENTH INFANTRY v THE birst FLAG ON off SPANISH breastworks credit should be given eliere credit it VI fa 1 it 3 hue th tha casualties CatU show what jt t art 0 work ork the regiment did eichor plure the battle rif n banua BanU lago 0 tic de cubi cuba IN e have noticed that PA jun sevener first now new tork volunteers volun tetra fuld the sixth united infantry have been he mentioned in words of praise through the columna of 0 a number of 0 1 the e eastern IT papera lil 1 ithe at art york tork volun aeria came 1 in n for the greatest amount of ft pral arilee be the th imbres don in 1 that they TW tho the nion who led ld the regulars on 0 o victory that the ahry Y were the th men who did the br braidel ardeL fighting thal ihal the sev anty first visa a th tho regiment n that lout at ht t create erta t number of men that they afre ore the mw men who cap captured the first arca tn orka at santiago Sant laigo de cuba uba mind mil that they planed the first ale rican flag on breas breastwork work a now NOTY I 1 do not loot in lah ish to rob any at 0 the glo Kloie iiii of 0 the glory and credit they aae le viola on but I 1 do like to see me all the th tn nl get what or dit in due choul fie sixteenth In infantry has not r re rived ived wt Y credit for or if the brave and client HOBO aock ork they did ta ia the fight at alt abstracts taken f r rom 0 n 1 biome m ot t the riter ore lillich I 1 have elbe decaul r r aiom the 1 ont cited l will haw show ahat the sixteen ehg h flohl skaters ilat infantry flatry were in still thai it I 1 van rap the th mth fantry anil and a f tw fw w of 0 th the sixth lilean ry y lio JIO h happened 10 lo be mixed d in with ih gift mgt far ga nth that madr be gal and tool took the ine first anit Sp ailish arks at Sant lago de luba cuba and I 1 atel the liral american flag lher Fol folio loining ing are f ew ore a idlers taken direct we roin tin fie front franr it it hut but had IL dorril terrible lale tight fight on the took look their the ir work all 0 a L van right h hen Z horn V joked up the colors haap wm al sis killed ond and sl JI inar marlany had the cht olora burink tho the anil a took aca no the corli wo avel them tram from the erast fr w as lora H van I 1 horn of at company compa ny IT sixteenth infantry ia I 1 a wn of 0 brig gen van horn he H in tile hie faill all ot of IT tor for a commission and when the orders order carno tor for tile the sixteenth infantry to go to tn th ohp front lie li was naturally highly alk aly delighted deligh Led at the of 0 a chance to 0 o v win in b liisi IS straps ft an officer of 0 the he sixteenth In v I 1 n was bounded and petit flent back to co lf t country t ry stated that the sixteenth infantry intall ry ed tile hip first american nag na on spanish another letter rallied that hat coats copts AfelT mcfarland arland alln allen all n aft satur palmer find and with their corn adien the th first over the spar ish ervast i the sixteenth nth with a fe aw of n f the st ath with alth nl lint river over too men anon I 1 in n line char charged godt the retain rosi toti over yarda of open odd neld the had about men fit at a blokh blo ouRe on a I 1 high 1191 blutt and we rout routed d tile the span 1 nth ald took their position another jolter stated that we had killi till Kl it and thirteen ini salli V i tho the letters which have been received received show that the sixteenth infantry lo ill did 1 I tile the lobdel lOT del fighting took look alic ali most in ini or ant irions ind and lost th their r b thore e in killed filed eon and the e I 1 jooa the sixt sixteenth nth bhola IN hole t they ey va w were e a and what hat I 1 ibay afro r holnis doan la in ille tight P ill W jaw one ot of the sixteenth boys lri bo fort sherman Kh erman ida july 23 29 isa |
