into action on the right of the Seventh, doing but little firing, as their orders were not to open fire unless they could make the fire effective.  Companies C and G fired a few volleys; the remainder of the regiment did not fire at all.  Four enlisted men were killed and two officers severely wounded, one, Lieutenant Dickinson, dying from his wounds within a few hours.  Several enlisted men were also wounded.  At 11.30 this regiment was lying on the right of the Seventh.  The Twelfth Regiment began firing between 6 and 7 in the morning and advanced to take its position on the left of the Seventh Infantry.  This regiment early reached a position within 350 yards of the enemy, in which it found shelter in the sunken road, “free from the enemy’s fire.”  The regiment remained in this position until about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and, hence, was there at 11.30 a.m.  The losses of this regiment during the day were, killed, 7 enlisted men; wounded, 2 officers and 31 enlisted men.  From these brief sketches the reader will now be able to grasp the position of Lawton’s entire division.  Beginning on the south, from the west, with Ludlow’s brigade, consisting of the Twenty-second, Eighth and Second Massachusetts, the line was continued by Miles’ brigade of the Fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry; then passing over a considerable space, we strike Chaffee’s brigade, posted as has just been described.  General Bates’ brigade probably arrived upon the field about noon.  This brigade consisted of the Third and Twentieth Infantry, and is known as “Bates’ Independent Brigade.”  The brigade is reported as going into action about 1 o’clock and continuing in action until 4 o’clock.  It took a position on the right, partially filling up the gap between Miles and Chaffee.  The first battalion of the Twentieth Infantry went into action on the left of the Twenty-fifth Infantry’s firing line, and one company, A, took part in the latter part of the charge by which the stone house was taken.  Between 11.30, when Capron’s firing stopped, and when Miles’ brigade was moved forward to join the right of Ludlow’s, and 12.20, when the battery recommenced, the troops, including Bates’ brigade, were either in the positions described above or were moving to them.  Noon had arrived and El Caney is not taken; the garrison has not attempted to escape, but is sending out upon its assailants a continuous and deadly fire.  “Throughout the heaviest din of our fire,” says Colonel Carpenter, “could be heard the peculiar high-keyed ring of the defiant enemy’s shots.”

Twelve o’clock on July 1st, 1898, was a most anxious hour for our army in Cuba.  The battle at El Caney was at a standstill and the divisions of Kent and Sumner were in a most perilous situation.  Bonsal’s description of the state of the battle at that time is pathetic.  Speaking of the artillery at El Caney—­Capron’s battery—­he says it was now apparent that this artillery, firing from its position of twenty-four hundred yards, could