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"Pacified Matanzas" ^
were just such troops as Georgia and the Carolinas
would have sent to the field early in this century.
The discipline was good, and the men, though one
missed many of the formalities that distinguish regular soldiers, were conspicuously willing and obedient.
I was surprised to find that by a recognized but unwritten law, a professional man in good standing, or
one holding the degree of bachelor of arts, was entitled to a lieutenant's commission and a servant.
Occasionally officers so appointed failed to develop
the slightest military capacity; some even suffered
from the hardships of camp life, yet I never knew
an instance of dissatisfaction at the system by the
humbler rank-and-file. All of these men, officers
and " buck-soldiers " alike, served absolutely without pay and on pain of a death, if captured, such as
our frontier soldiers were accustomed to meet when
taken prisoner by the Apache Indians.
So much for Pavo Real. On the morning of the
6th the local forces separated, returning to their own
districts, and Lacret resumed his series of extraordinary, zigzag marches across the Island, that made
him, to the Spaniards, a man of mystery.
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000088 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | "Pacified Matanzas" ^ were just such troops as Georgia and the Carolinas would have sent to the field early in this century. The discipline was good, and the men, though one missed many of the formalities that distinguish regular soldiers, were conspicuously willing and obedient. I was surprised to find that by a recognized but unwritten law, a professional man in good standing, or one holding the degree of bachelor of arts, was entitled to a lieutenant's commission and a servant. Occasionally officers so appointed failed to develop the slightest military capacity; some even suffered from the hardships of camp life, yet I never knew an instance of dissatisfaction at the system by the humbler rank-and-file. All of these men, officers and " buck-soldiers " alike, served absolutely without pay and on pain of a death, if captured, such as our frontier soldiers were accustomed to meet when taken prisoner by the Apache Indians. So much for Pavo Real. On the morning of the 6th the local forces separated, returning to their own districts, and Lacret resumed his series of extraordinary, zigzag marches across the Island, that made him, to the Spaniards, a man of mystery. |
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