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An Irrepressible Conflict of Testimony: Maceo

The following is the way one of Maceo's "battles" appeared after it reached Havana by a private conveyance, and flashed through the secret channels to Tampa, from which it passed into American history:

A combination of Spanish columns was attempted near Limonar, where Maceo was apparently intending to cross the line into Havana province. This also failed, for the reason that Colonel Tort, with the Almancea battalion, a newly arrived body of green recruits from Spain, who had never seen fighting, attempted to hold the vital point on the lines. Maceo's veterans swept down upon them, and broke through the combination with a fierce fight which fairly wiped out the Almancea battalion.

The Spanish retired in the direction of Limonar, carrying about 100 wounded; and, besides the nineteen dead they carried away, left seven on the field, whom the rebels buried.