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Cavalry Sergeant nas Wounded atBattle of Santiago.B. T. Tolin, a brother of Sergt. Jacob ToHn. of the regular cavalry which engaged in the battle of Santiago, has received a letter from Jacob, written at Santiago de Cuba, July 80. The familyhere had been led by press dispatches to believe that Jacob Tolin had been sent, wounded, to Tampa. In his letter Sergt.Tolin says: * f.™ ^ ■“1 am still In the land of the living. I was wounded July 1—not bad. only a flesh wound. The ball entered my left leg just below the hip-bone and came out about three inches above the knee. I was in the hospttal twenty-one days.You can see by the head of the letterthat 1 did not go to the States, so I am again doing duty, although my wound U not thoroughly healed up. But it does not bother me any.No doubt you have seen by the papers about the flght down here. Our force was 1lt;,000 men and sixteen pieces of artillery. We captured 23,400 Spaniards. The Spaniards were finely entrenched. After the flght. we were all surprised at what we had done—17.000 men capturing 23.1*00 men. behind finely entrenched earthworks. The first day’s flght we drove them out of four lines of earthworks.Our line won about five miles long. Sampson was bombarding from the sea, whileour sixteen pieces were banging away on land. Without small guns, the noisewas terrific.•‘This division expects to move to thlt;»States in a few days. I do not know at w'hicfc place.’*
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 13, 1898
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