title: The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the Spanish-American War
author:  A. B. Feuer 
description: "In The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the Spanish-American War, A.B. Feurer has collected soldiers' letter and re-created that campaign from the vantage point of the men who fought in it. He has thus rescued the Spanish American War from the myth perpetrated by the yellow press and politicans anious to convice fellow citizens that the Untied States Was indeed a major nation boasting a powerful military."-Latin American Rearch Review<br /><br />..."Feuer skillfully combines a scholarly overview of the war with firsthand accounts by participants from both sides. The latter are particularly useful in transporting the reader from his present-day vantage point to the combatants' time, so that he can see the war through their eyes."-Military History<br /><br />?...Feuer skillfully combines a scholarly overview of the war with firsthand accounts by participants from both sides. The latter are particularly useful in transporting the reader from his present-day vantage point to the combatants' time, so that he can see the war through their eyes.?-Military History<br /><br />?In The Santiago Campaign of 1898: A Soldier's View of the Spanish-American War, A.B. Feurer has collected soldiers' letter and re-created that campaign from the vantage point of the men who fought in it. He has thus rescued the Spanish American War from the myth perpetrated by the yellow press and politicans anious to convice fellow citizens that the Untied States Was indeed a major nation boasting a powerful military.?-Latin American Rearch Review<br /><br />.,."Feuer skillfully combines a scholarly overview of the war with firsthand accounts by participants from both sides. The latter are particularly useful in transporting the reader from his present-day vantage point to the combatants' time, so that he can see the war through their eyes."-Military History<br /><br />"This is vintage A.B. Feuer. Once again he transports his readers back to one of America's foreign wars. This time it's the shortest. The carefully selected words from the diaries and memoirs of soldiers who experienced it first-hand are his conveyances. Thanks to Feuer, we are better able to appreciate the fighting war from the perspective of the lowly, eleven-dollars-a-month privates in particular. Theirs involved enemies and self-imposed obstacles more formidable than usually believed, as well as an ending even more shameful. Some interesting surprises are in store for students of this not-so-splendid war. Not surprisingly, warfare's Siamese twins, Heroism and Folly, saw service in the Santiago Campaign of 1898."-Barry Machado Professor of History Washington and Lee University
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  CONTENTS
  
  
  I. Raising thb Rbgihbnt 5
  
  
  II. To Cuba 4Z
  
  
  III. General Young's Fight at Las Guasimas . . 73
  
  
  IV. The Cavalry at Santiago 112
  
  
  V. In the Trenches 157
  
  
  VI. The Return Home 194
  
  
  Appendices:
  
  
  A. Muster-Out Roll 233
  
  
  B. Colonel Roosevelt's Report to the Secretary of
  
  
  War of September loth 283
  
  
  C. The *• Round Robin" Letter 295
  
  
  THE ROUGH RIDERS
  
  
  RAISING THE REGIMENT
  
  
  DURING the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War I was Assistant
  Secretary of the Navy. While my party was in opposition^ I had preached, with
  all the fervor and zeal I pos-sessed, our duty to intervene in Cuba, and to
  take this opportunity of driving the Spaniard from the Western World. Now that
  my party had come to power, I felt it incumbent on me, by word and deed, to do
  all I could to secure the