t to be
done, and did it. Results show that it was done at the right
moment.

8. That the Twenty-fifth Infantry caused the surrender of
the stone fort.

I desire to repeat that it is with great reluctance that I
make so much of this report as relates to myself, and
nothing but a sense of duty would impel me to do it.

Very respectfully,

A.S. DAGGETT,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Commanding.

LOSSES OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.

Killed.--Lieutenant H.L. McCorkle, Company G; Private Albert
Strother, H; Private John W. Steele, D; Corporal Benj.
Cousins, H; Private John B. Phelps, D; Private French Payne,
B; Private Aaron Leftwich, G; Private Tom Howe, D.

Wounded.--Company A: Private William H. Clarke, Sergeant
Stephen A. Browne. Company B: Private Tom Brown. Company C:
Lieutenant John S. Murdock, Private Joseph L. Johnson,
Private Samuel W. Harley, Private John A. Boyd. Company D;
Captain Eaton A. Edwards, Sergeant Hayden Richards, Private
Robert Goodwin. Company E: Lieutenant H.L. Kinnison, Private
James Howard, Private John Saddler, Private David C. Gillam,
Private Hugh Swann. Company F: First Sergeant Frank Coleman.
Company G: Corporal James O. Hunter, Private Henry
Brightwell, Private David Buckner, Private Alvin Daniels,
Private Boney Douglas, Private George P. Cooper, Private
John Thomas, Corporal Gov. Staton, Private Eugene Jones.
Company H: Private James Bevill, Private Henry Gilbert.

Wounded July 2.--Private Elwood A. Forman, H; Private Smith,
D; Private William Lafayette, F.

COMPLIMENTARY ORDER.

Headquarters 25th Infantry,

Near Santiago de Cuba, August 11, 1898.
General Orders No. 19.

The regimental commander congratulates the regiment on the
prospect of its speedy return to the United States.

Gathered from three different stations, many of you
strangers to each other, you assembled as a regiment for the
first time in more than twenty-eight years on May 7, 1898,
at Tampa, Florida. There you endeavored to solidify and
prepare yourselves, as far as the oppressive weather would
permit, for the work that appeared to be before you; but,
who could have fortold the severity of that work?

You endured the severe hardships of a long sea voyage, which
no one who has