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iliirPLEASANT OCCASIONliesAn Evening with Soldiers at the Rooms of the Grand Ar-fpiiI ray of the Republic.ufilst' ou*:INTERESTING REM1NISCENSE85iiU)SiSai)*Khu|)t«ii« U«ui. Hti'laiinicd.nirlRiiiipOCCiJgitha? • nisrig(Thiddmlrlt;xlortr*8^S1.6mtosfliedTUstil.lien\tinre-ille\viePrldaj ni^lrt Mio rooms af tlie G. A. K . were wpII filled with an nppii'eiatlvo amUeiire gat'lKivil to hear I he ivlutlou of Army wiwriwico by Capt. W. L. Simpson, 01' the 11 th U. S I . Liunb., Harry C, Clouicnr of the '4'iii U. L,j and Col, Jolm T. Dnniebo of rlie J5DthI. V. I.Prohablriio uudieiieo in Phiuahus been so interested to catch every woid during a I'^luciou that tilled iwotuli hourj, as was vhivt which gathcan! last night.Cnpt. Simp-«nn was calh'd by the President, A. W. Prugh, and gave lu detail a» far a« time svonlU pcriuU, yUc history of the U'or us he saw it. from begiuQing to end. NV© saw the tardy loadiug of the ^rausporiH nt Tampa, the crowded voyage to Santiago, the lauding at Baiquiri, by launches aud^liip boats from the vessels fur out, the slow travel with luudcd vrugous uud all tho men prepared for only u iiglir weight maruh. through ulniust Impassable uar* row trails to the foobliilh about SLbonoy aud Sou Jnau. cJie three days battle all along the Sau Joan Eauge; thuddach of many brave men in the chapparal, ^vith uo enemy in sight! tho grand cbaigo over (0) yaid? of grass aa high as the sbonldors--Doc a olmrfS in hue, but as tudividnals—erury luuu going us bed? he could tbrough the deadly hail of Mauser bullets for ths top of the bill.They readied the top and in thres minutes the Spaniards were on the run and the fort and tho entire hill were theirs.Then cams the entrencbmcut with hand®, bayonets, gwords, aud whatever else they con Id dig u1tli, and soon there were 12 miles of entrench meat reach-iug all around tho north and west of Santiago. ?arn to be followed by the surrender of the city aud th© entireprovince.Cupt. Simpson attributed the great nclory aud the comparatively small loss, reaohiug to only n lit lie over one per vent, from deaf.ii ou the field, wounds and sickness, to the disciplice of the army—bhe trmuing in the school ot* ihc soldier, to do wbac lie Mas ooin* Qiaudcd to do, at; cnce. aud vs'iihout cjiiestion. The craiucd soldier ktmwa uoMiiug and thinks of lolhiug but to go forward, Tu Oils lack of disdpliue he atcribntcd the disgrace that came to the 71st Now Vork Volunteers, laying the fault to the olliccrs eloue.Capt. Simpson gave, at tho dwe of his rem.irks, the foliuwiug inlcrcsclug acatUtics:Total force of Cipc^tioa to CuIki, iu round uurubera, 17,001).Force acCuallv engaged in buttles about S.antiago, about 12,000.Spanish pri.5oiiGrs surrendered, '28,SOO. The folio whig from the ‘•Army and Navy Journal of Oct. b, ’ilS, quoted from K. Y. Herald.iri4^ninilfttDU-iuoof:‘rrr:iicrhepalidelitLUdd«.lit-ou,re-estrn-ocueutonVft-ilhOil-idrLUkmg(heverTfVm.R OP c,i?irAi/nKn.Porto Ricu—Killed, no olHcei's, ^ enlisted men: woaurtwl, 4 otlicer^, 30 cii*(he liaced ineu.redLhd115.jib-theachal-lif‘rL'lieres*onioavoreNose ISjimW'\ivn^quisi him * mouc fnllv Tmyof inwill I frrira Jos iust y Troy, the e: ChT to gO! enmi bill fi him i Clark last i Th.the p other want atton itviW ht» bi In ISoldbdied lt;he vn Cta: wast kept' to bn the ' bcuri one y C^ntoClarlCOlOT' It WP but a Arroi ugaiiThe Oril \Yi\ A Gran 0. Y fnllD' ortic€ .on i\ ill N«FoColaGrccrToW.Sidlt;FoFoStlt; Price Leba J. T. Ham Fu LymFoFindFoBell,.'Gdlt;oii•torMat! i hi— Ki lied, n o otticort, I o en lis t • 1 ^ ^ fed men ; wouudmi, ID officOTa, jlisted men. ToLl^lt;On\,a_Killed, ?3 officers, 287 enlisted men : wounded, il!) ofticei'a, 1332 enlisted men.Total loss in Culiu, killed and wounded. 1741.Total lo«s in ontttft army from May 1^to Stipe. 30, from all causes; killedofhcers, 251 cnli.^ccd luoii; died ofwounds, 4 olllftprf?, dl onlisted men:died of dUtiii^e, 80 odicer.s. 2,485 ctjlisl*ftd men. Total force, Ji74,6l7; per cent.1 . awi’loss, I.0,'l9.Lieut, Oloment gave un interu.iting description of. the fortifications. the blockhouses, Uinottes, «fec., at 121 Cancy. folhwiug bis ri^imcnt. the 25d, and nil the other ftBSOoincud forc«?R from thG transports to tins noted gtronghold four milos ease of Santiago, till they gathered al)OUt tho town, and finally c^iptnred11) kind and • rapif Wea ness ytev'a Oncf,’jin ' It block h oases a ad all.xte.Iahcu ity ii curei aud ’ aboiL OhioMi a most (ItiU] free, aud;lcstCol. J. T. Barnvtb. had no oxpcriom CCS on the field to tell, bat gave a most incercstlug picture of an army in cnmp, first at Canjp Alger, uonr Falls Ohnrch rt7id Dnn LoHug, Virginia, together | the I with the rations, water andriisoiphno of' ‘ontiy life, till tlmy finally camo Camp Mcttdo, the best of all, and then : to Tnfliaj 1 apolis for thcar mneter-out. i KjiftrAvcryintorestirigpartof Col. Barnott’^ | romurks was that ToUifing to tho discir-linoofwimp. Col. Rimrotl epoko 1 pcdully of punl«bmciii iu the army, Coii^ which was soinofrimw Wamod on the officers, tvlicrorts thby halt;l nothing to do with its kind or its indictioti, farther than to indorse the fitirlingH of the Court it h Mai I ini that snt upon and detormlni'd each case m it nccurac'd. Vcry luiturah ly and iroporiy. Tho Colonel fonn.l fftoll frith HomoofthosontatlonBlnowH-p^per* thiir proferred a seusatton rothnr Ihnn tho troth.The iDtenrntlng mnlai^ cloned with a few cOfigratuUtory ind ippreoiativo roan d I rocoictTooDf.1tiio 1 rente Itonll nieyiilpif
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Piqua Miami Helmet
Piqua, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 20, 1898
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