Beschrijving
The reports of the Commander of Cavalry Division in the Santiago campaign of the Spanish American War. This important Spanish-American War memoir contains information on casualties and also on the illness of the author, a major commander. The role of the Red Cross (including Red Cross hospital ships) is considered.At the time of original publication in 1898, Major-General Joseph Wheeler was Commanding Fourth Corps, United States Army. After a career in the Confederate Army, and then serving as a longtime congressman from Alabama in the post-Civil War years, he became a major general of volunteers in the war with Spain. In 1900 he was retired with the regular army rank of brigadier general. His Confederate career had earned him the sobriquet \
