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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1898.WAS IN THE BATTLEJOHN G. GRIGG, OF THIS CITY FOUGHT SPANIARDS.Writes To His Mother And Tells About The Bravery of The Rough Riders And the Impressive Burial Ritual.Ten Miles East of Qui Diaro, Saturday, July 25, 1898.Dear Mother and Brother Art.—Wearrived at this place yesterday about 7:30 a. m., and shortly afterwards met 4,000 of the Spaniards. There were only about 850 of us—that is 400 Rough Riders, the balance Ninth and Tenth cavalry. The Spanish were strongly entrenched in block houses and natural trenches: in fact theythought they had us, and they were so sure of it that they let an advance guard of Cubans pass unmolested, so as to make sure of entrapping us, but they forgot that Americans fight under any and all circumstances, and as one Spaniard said Why they keep shooting and coming.”
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San Antonio Daily Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Jul 09, 1898
Page 14
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