The First Brigade also moved forward and assaulted the ridge to the right of Fort San Juan.

There was a small lake between Kettle Hill and San Juan Ridge, and in moving forward your command passed to the right of this lake.

This brought you opposite a house on San Juan Ridge--not Fort San Juan proper, but a frame house surrounded by an earthwork.

The enemy lost a number of men at this point, whose bodies lay in the trenches.

Later in the day I rode along the line, and, as I recall it, a portion of the Tenth Cavalry was immediately about this house, and your regiment occupied an irregular semi-circular position along the ridge and immediately to the right of the house.