As soon as the sun rose the Spaniards again opened upon us with artillery.

A shell burst between Dave Goodrich and myself, blacking us with powder, and killing and wounding several of the men immediately behind us.
Next day the fight turned into a siege; there were some stirring incidents; but for the most part it was trench work.

A fortnight later Santiago surrendered.

Wood won his brigadier-generalship by the capital way in which he handled his brigade in the fight, and in the following siege.

He was put in command of the captured city; and in a few days I succeeded to the command of the brigade.
The health of the troops was not good, and speedily became very bad.
There was some dysentery, and a little yellow fever; but most of the trouble was from a severe form of malarial fever.