The Hawk guarded the prize till morning and then, seeing her fast aground, ran back to Havana to report to the fleet and to ask help in taking her.  The Castine was sent down to aid in the work, but the shore batteries opened on the ships when they appeared.  After two hours’ fruitless fighting the Hood went back to the fleet for re-enforcements.  The Prairie, manned by Massachusetts reserves, was dispatched to engage the batteries, and at 1 o’clock in the afternoon Captain Train took a position two miles from Martello tower and began pitching six-inch shells into the tower and sand batteries.  Ten shells silenced the three guns in the tower and sent the artillerymen streaming back over the hill toward the city.

Two gunboats inside the harbor poured five-inch shells at the Prairie, but nine shells from that ship routed them and drove them back to the city.  The sand batteries were harder to silence, but fifteen shells did that work and wrecked the barracks besides.  The infantry in the rifle pits supporting the batteries were driven out by five-inch shells from the Castine, which fired during the morning and afternoon 250 shots.  The Prairie used thirty-eight of her six-inch shells and about 100 six-pounders.  The Castine and Hawk had taken the steamer, and the Hawk then reported to the fleet at Havana.  The Spanish vessel was so badly riddled that the name could not be deciphered.

General miles assumes command in Cuba.

On July 13 General Miles arrived at the front and assumed personal command of the army around Santiago.  Negotiations for the peaceful surrender of the city had been going on for several days between General Shafter, commander of the American forces, and General Toral of the Spanish army, but it was not until the 16th that a final agreement was reached.  On this date conditions of surrender were offered, the principal articles of which were as follows: 

First, that all hostilities shall cease pending the agreement of final capitulation.

Second, that the capitulation includes all the Spanish forces and the surrender of all war material within the prescribed limits.

Third, that the transportation of the troops to Spain shall be furnished at the earliest possible moment, each force to be embarked at the nearest port.

Fourth, that the Spanish officers shall retain their side arms and the enlisted men their personal property.

Fifth, that after the final capitulation the Spanish forces shall assist in the removal of all obstructions to navigation in Santiago harbor.

Sixth, that after the final capitulation the commanding officers shall furnish a complete inventory of all arms and munitions of war and a roster of all soldiers in the district.

Seventh, that the Spanish general shall be permitted to take the military archives and records with him.

Eighth, that all guerrillas and Spanish irregulars shall be permitted to remain in Cuba, giving a parole that they will not again take up arms against the United States unless properly released from parole.