365 GENERAL LAWTON.

finished their work completely and deliberately, andrejoined their comrhdes untouched.

At half-past one General Shatter becameiimatient at the delay before Caney. He was lyingillin his camp bed in a tent to the- rearr,at the junction of the San Juan and El Caney roads, andreceived frequent information of howthings were going at the front. It was an younger hands fell back from the firing line and crept towards the road. In a moment the general pounced upon them, inquiring their nation inlow,unhoneyedaccents, and then, taking them persuasively by the elbow,led them back to the extreme front,and havingdeposited them in the firing line, stood over them while he distributed a few last words of pungent and GENERAL CHAFFEE AND CAPTAIN LEE.

to lie down, he himself stood erect or walked about just behind the firing line. To quote Captain Lee once more:" Wherever the fire was thickest the general strolled about unconcernedly, a half-smokedcigar between his teeth, and an expression of exceedinggrimness on his face. The situation was a trying one for the nerves of the oldest soldier, and some of the sulphurous advice. But the general was not the only man who seemed to bear a charmed life that day. As the brigade closed in upon El Caney, two men of the 12th Infantry moved out in front of theregiment to cut with strong pliers the barbed wirefences thatlay across the line of advance. Their appearancedrew a storm of bullets from the enemy's Mausers, but they