| Show HE MADE A MISTAKE ifer york nov 25 Gen shatter wa the principal ruest at a banquet gleeo at by the bonn of jibe ol 01 the new york in abo course ot a IM 1 I wih to aay something about the ll 11 r about the in cuba I 1 appia yoo all know bow cam llin bam bitterly I 1 6 I 1 ekl TA want to tell you that it is much easier tor a man to eay auw a thing should bo done than to do t general shatter then detailed the preparations tor the and the embarkation or santiago say inn war was scared dc ared ic april at the the season in caba it was the express intention dent and ha told me eo to delay the war kunii after that boason no matter what the public clamor waa he would not bend volun cers into cuba luring tb sickly season after leering to the conditions which made earlier action gen shatter told of the embarkation at tampa of bia arrival at with his forces and said 1 I will say right here that there was no atrat gy employed I 1 learned of a considerable body of spanish troops in and about santiago which in houed numbers I 1 will place at 1 I knew we would and I 1 determined to make a sharp and forced march straight to iantia eo I 1 bad men all of the light artill ry and all the available cavalry regiments of volunteers one composed of cowboys cow boye who while they barked larked in the discipline of the re blare were inured by past hardship and did good work there the seventy first new york and ahn they were cooj and did their duty well there is not a regiment in the volunteers oa the face of the earth who could be made soldiers in the short time and training that these regiments bad of course we could ant carry comfortable for table homes with us arery man had three days rations all tha rener all except gen wheeler went on foot with their and rations like privates gen shatter then described the various marches and the methods 0 tha spaniards in and continued 1 I made one in that march toward santiago it was the only tor mistake I 1 make that waa at the battle ot ElCaney on tho first day wo op the town from the northeast I 1 tent of our best mn to rec n noite on their return thoy told me that the could be taken oa learn thia from them I 1 ordered an advance on el caney gen complimented gen bets and gen lawious Law tous borcea fight he raid it was the mo it direct way I 1 knew tha sickness wa certain cert bin and I 1 wag daei to reach santiaco Santi aeo before tb sickness cina upon the men I 1 kne that the of santigo santi go was only a quntion ot a few days I 1 was told by the british afterward tatt town was oure when we arnved at the brow of the hill there was imd camor for me to assault the town I 1 had to exercise the greatest effort to withstand it in of tho of the mm he said wa hid lits l its of buffering I 1 will admit thare i auf acrin in war abera was not a bf ant when I 1 could have prevented I 1 that any man buffered unnecessarily oa of 1600 wounded but thirteen did as I 1 was in july thai is a small have near haid c from any officer or man of the regular aricy |
