o sadly needed.

_June 14._ Substantial recognition was given by the Navy Department to the
members of the gallant crew who took the _Merrimac_ into the entrance of
Santiago Harbour and sunk her across the channel under the very muzzles of
the Spanish guns.

The orders sent to Admiral Sampson directed the promotion of the men as
follows:

Daniel Montague, master-at-arms, to be a boatswain, from fifty dollars a
month to thirteen hundred dollars a year.

George Charette, gunner's mate, to be a gunner, from fifty dollars a month
to thirteen hundred dollars a year.

Rudolph Clausen, Osborne Deignan, and ---- Murphy, coxswains, to be chief
boatswain's mates, an increase of twenty dollars a month.

George F. Phillips, machinist, from forty dollars a month to seventy
dollars a month.

Francis Kelly, water tender, to be chief machinist, from thirty-seven
dollars a month to seventy dollars a month.

Lieutenant Hobson's reward would come through Congress.

While a grateful people were discussing the manner in which their heroes
should be crowned, that little band of marines on the shore of Guantanamo
Bay, worn almost to exhaustion by the harassing fire of the enemy during
seventy-two hours, was once more battling against a vastly superior force
in point of numbers.

From the afternoon of the eleventh of June until this morning of the
fourteenth, the Americans had remained on the defensive,--seven hundred
against two thousand or more. Now, however, different tactics were to be
used. Colonel Huntington had decided that it was time to turn the tables,
and before the night was come the occupants of the graves on the crest of
the hill had been avenged.

A scouting party, made up of nine officers, two hundred and eighty
marines, and forty-one Cubans, was divided into four divisions, the first
of which had orders to destroy a water-tank from which the enemy drew
supplies. The second was to attack the Spanish camp beyond the first range
of hills. The third had for its objective point a signal-station from
which information as to the movements of the American fleet had been
flashed into Santiago. The fourth division was to act as the reserve.

In half an hour from the time of leaving camp the signal-station was in
the hands of the Americans, and the heliograph outfit lost to the enemy.
The boys of '98 had suffered no loss, while eight Spaniards lay with faces
upturned to the rays of the burning sun.

At noon the Spanish ca