Then the fleet got under way, and we steamed slowly down to Santiago.

Here we disembarked, higgledy-piggledy, just as we had embarked.

Different parts of different outfits were jumbled together, and it was no light labor afterwards to assemble the various batteries.

For instance, one transport had guns, and another the locks for the guns; the two not getting together for several days after one of them had been landed.

Soldiers went here, provisions there; and who got ashore first largely depended upon individual activity.