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Vol. 60 The Outlook Published Weekly October 8, 1898 Was the capture of The Santiago Campaign Santiago the end of a well-planned, well-executed military campaign, or was it made, despite the most serious blunders in generalship, through the desperate courage of private soldiers and their company and regimental commanders? The latter is the view taken by Mr. Richard Harding Davis in the current "Scribner's Magazine," and supported in other periodicals by Mr. Caspar W. Whitney, Mr. Stephen Bonsal, and, to some extent at least, by Captain Lee, the British military attaché who accompanied our army. Mr. Davis's article is more than a criticism; it is a personal indictment of General Shafter. The responsible and conservative character of the management of "Scribner's Magazine" makes it impossible to class this charge with mere sensational newspaper articles. Mr. Davis blames General Shafter because he did not ask to be relieved of his command when he was physically totally unfit for the task. "I am prostrate in body and mind," General Shafter is reported to have said just after the battle of San Juan. Yet, comments Mr. Davis, "so great was the obstinacy, so great the vanity and self-confidence, of the man, that, though he held the lives and health of thirteen thousand soldiers in his care, he did not ask to be relieved of his command." And, again: "His self-complacency was so great that, in spite of blunder after blunder, folly upon folly, and mistake upon mistake, he still believed himself infallible, still bullied his inferior officers, and still cursed from his cot. He quarreled with Admiral Sampson; he quarreled with General Garcia; he refused to allow Colonel Greenleaf, Surgeon-in-Chief of the army, to destroy the pest-houses in Siboney; he disobeyed the two orders sent him by General Miles from Tampa and again from Washington, directing him not to allow No. 6 our soldiers to occupy the Cuban houses; he insulted all of the foreign attachés collectively, and some individually; and he related stories in the presence of boy officers which would have been found offensive in the smokingroom of an ocean steamer." Turning from General Shafter's personal conduct to his strategy, Mr. Davis declares positively that he did not know the situation at the front, because he did not or could not, except on one occasion, go near the front; that his orders were so absurd that they were disregarded before his face; that he was on the point of withdrawing from the position his men had gained (as shown by his published dispatch of July 2) when Cervera's attempt to escape made the surrender of Santiago inevitable. Moreover, Mr. Davis (and other critics agree with him in this) asserts that General Shafter's plan for the advance on El Caney and San Juan was quite impossible of accomplishment, and was abandoned by the generals under him only after it had caused terrible and avoidable loss of life; "he did not see the battle of San Juan, nor direct the battle of San Juan, nor was he consulted by those who did." In short-for we cannot here follow Mr. Davis's narrative in detail at San Juan "a series of military blunders emanating from one source had brought seven thousand American soldiers into a chute of death from which there was no escape except by taking the enemy who held it by the throat and driving him out and beating him down. So the generals of divisions and brigades stepped back and relinquished their command to the regimental officers and the enlisted men." The result all know; and in a sense the victory excuses previous blunders; but if this account be true, that victory must be ascribed to individual courage, not to military science; and if General Shafter were, as charged, incapable |