opposite. The camps of Generals Chaffee, Lawton, Hawkins, Ludlow,
and the positions and trenches taken and held by the different
regiments under them one can place only relatively. One reason for
this is that before our army attacked the hills all the underbrush
and small trees that might conceal the advance of our men had been
cleared away by the Spaniards, leaving the hill, except for the high
crest, comparatively bare. To-day the hills are thick with young
trees and enormous bushes. The alteration in the landscape is as
marked as is the difference between ground cleared for golf and the
same spot planted with corn and fruit-trees.

Of all the camps, the one that to-day bears the strongest evidences
of its occupation is that of the Rough Riders. A part of the camp of
that regiment, which was situated on the ridge some hundred feet from
the Santiago road, was pitched under a clump of shade trees, and to-
day, even after seven years, the trunks of these trees bear the names
and initials of the men who camped beneath them. {4} These men will
remember that when they took this hill they found that the
fortifications beneath the trees were partly made from the
foundations of an adobe house. The red tiles from its roof still
litter the ground. These tiles and the names cut in the bark of the
trees determine absolutely the site of one-half of the camp, but the
other half, where stood Tiffany's quick-firing gun and Parker's
Gatling, has been almost obliterated. The tree under which Colonel
pitched his tent I could not discover, and the trenches in which he
used to sit with his officers and with the officers from the
regiments of the regular army are now levelled to make a kitchen-
garden. Sometimes the ex-President is said to have too generously
given office and promotion to the friends he made in Cuba. These men
he met in the trenches were then not necessarily his friends. To-day