After wading the river we marched through the ranks of the Thirteenth (regular) Infantry and formed about fifty yards in their front.

We were then about six hundred yards from and in plain view of the block-house and Spanish trenches.

As soon as the Spaniards saw this they concentrated all of their fire on us, and, while changing from column to line of battle (which took about eight minutes).
Illustration: A large size photo of above picture can be had on application to P.H.Bauer, Photographer, Leavenworth, Kansas.

we lost one hundred and two men, and that place on the river to-day is called "bloody bend." We had only one advantage of the enemy-that was our superior marksmanship.

I was right of the battalion that led the charge and I directed my line against the center of the trench, which was on a precipice about two hundred feet high.
Illustration: A large size photo of above picture can be had on application to P.H.Bauer, Photographer, Leavenworth, Kansas.
I was born December 4, 1852, in Wythe county, Virginia, and joined the army in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 22,1869, and have been in the army continuously since.