ad, and soon should have again, a value of from two to
five hundred and often one thousand dollars per acre.

"Cuba (under Spanish semi-barbaric rule for four hundred years)
could be transformed from a graveyard of open graves, the feeding-
ground and paradise of vultures, to the richest and most ideally
beautiful and most enchanting spot on the face of the earth, with
a prosperous population on a high plane of civilization. Even the
tropical diseases in Havana and other coast cities would disappear
before modern methods of sanitation. In general, outside of a few
cities, the island is healthful, notwithstanding the contaminating
effect of the pestilential cities. Yellow fever, smallpox, and a
few infectious diseases exist here continually, but they soon would
disappear.

"The property owners, in spite of high taxes, have lived in this
island in 'barbaric luxury,' partaking somewhat of _splendor_.
This will be the case again, and much intensified, when touched by
a civilization that regards the rights of man.

"The ease and comfort possible in such a place as this are too
great to be appreciated by such plain hard-working persons as you
and I. But----

"Yours most respectfully,
"J. Warren Keifer,
"Major-General Volunteers."

APPENDIX F

List of officers who served (at some time) on the division staff
of Major-General Keifer in the Spanish War.

_Personal Staff_

Captain Horace C. Keifer (Ohio), 3d U. S. Vol. Engineers, Aide.

First Lieutenant Albert C. Thompson, Jr. (Ohio), U. S. Vol. Signal
Corps, Aide.

First Lieutenant Edward T. Miller (Ohio), U. S. Vol. Signal Corps,
Aide.

Second Lieutenant Dwight E. Aultman (U.S.A.), 2d U. S. Artillery,
Aide.

Second Lieutenant Lewis W. Brander (Va.), 3d U. S. Vol. Infantry,
Aide.

_Division Staff_

Major Benjamin Alvord (U.S.A.), Chief Ordnance Officer. (U.S.V.)

Major George L. Hobart (N. J.), Assistant Adjutant-General.
(U.S.V.)

Major William S. Scott (U.S.A.), Assistant Adjutant-General.
(U.S.V.)

Major John Gary Evans (S. C.), Inspector-General. (U.S.V.)

Major James M. Moody (N. C.), Chief Commissary of Subsistence.
(U.S.V.)

Major James M. Arrasmith (U.S.A.), Chief Commissary of Subsistence.
(U.S.V.)

Captain J. E. B. Stuart (Va.), Commissary of Subsistence. (U.S.V.)

Major Noble H. Creager (Md.), Chief Quartermaster. (U.S.V.)

Major William J. White (Ohio), Chief Quartermaster. (U.S.V.)

Captain Fred W. Cole (Fla.), Quarter