Infantry and the Second Massachusetts, the last named regiment being on the right.  The Second Brigade was to connect with this on its right and succeeded in finding the position of the Second Massachusetts during this halt.  At 11.30 Miles’ brigade was ordered to take position on the right of Ludlow’s brigade, which it did in the following order:  The Fourth Infantry on the left, joining with the Second Massachusetts on Ludlow’s right; the Twenty-fifth on the right, with its left joining on the Fourth Infantry.

We must now review the progress of the battle so far as it is possible to do so, from the firing of the first shot by Capron’s battery up to 11.30, an hour long after the time at which it had been supposed that El Caney would fall.  Capron’s reports are very brief.  He says:  “July 1—­Fired shell and shrappnel into El Caney (ranged 2,400) 6.15 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.”  In another report he says:  “Opened fire July 1, with shell and shrappnel at 6.15 on Caney; range, 2,400 yards; continued until 11.30 a.m.”  He says that the battery “continued its fire against specified objectives intermittently throughout the day under the personal direction of the division commander.”  The forces we have so far considered, consisting of Ludlow’s and Miles’ brigades, and of Capron’s battery, lay to the south of Caney, between it and Santiago, Ludlow’s brigade having been placed there to “cut off the retreat of the garrison should it attempt to escape.”  Up to 11.30 there had been no call for employing it for that purpose.  The garrison had made no attempt to escape.  We must now go around to the east and north of Caney.  Here the Third Brigade, consisting of the Seventh, Twelfth and Seventeenth Infantry, was posted, and early in the morning joined in the attack, the brigade getting under fire before eight o’clock.  Colonel Carpenter, of the Seventh Regiment, says that one company of his regiment, by General Chaffee’s direction, was detached and sent forward to reduce a blockhouse, well up on the hill, which commanded the approach of his regiment to the field of action.  After several ineffectual attempts by the company, the Captain (Van Orsdale) was directed to abandon the undertaking and rejoin the regiment, which then took up a position on the crest of a hill running nearly parallel with the Spanish lines.  From this position the men crawled forward about fifty yards and opened a deliberate fire upon the enemy, keeping it up for about an hour, but as the losses of the regiment at this time were considerable and the fire seemed to be without material effect, the command was withdrawn to its position on the hill where it found protection in a sunken road.  In this condition this regiment lay when Capron’s battery made its lull at 11.30.  The fearful fire this regiment met can be estimated by the losses it sustained, which during the day were as follows:  Killed, 1 officer and 33 enlisted men; wounded, 4 officers and 95 enlisted men; missing, 3 enlisted men.  The Seventeenth Regiment went