Santiago order of battle explained

The following units and commanders of the U.S.^[1] and Spanish armies fought at the Siege of Santiago during the Spanish–American War from July 3 to July 17, 1898.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

• Gen = General
• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• k = killed
• m = missing

U.S.

Commanding General of the United States Army - MG Nelson A. Miles arrived July 11

V Corps

MG William R. Shafter^[2]

General Staff

• Adjutant General: Ltc Edward J. McClernand
• Asst. Adjutant General: Capt James C. Gillmore
• Inspector General: Ltc John Jacob Astor IV

Headquarters

• 1st Squadron, 2nd U.S. Cavalry: Maj William A. Rafferty Sr.
• Companies C & E, U.S. Engineers: Capt Edward Burr
• Signal Corps Detachment: Capt Alexander D. B. Smead

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
1st Division     BG Jacob Ford Kent	1st Brigade   Brevet BG Hugh A. Theaker	6th U.S. Infantry: Maj Charles W. Miner 16th U.S. Infantry: Col Hugh A. Theaker, Maj. William H. McLaughlin 71st New York Volunteer Infantry: Col Wallace A. Downs
	2nd Brigade   Col Edward P. Pearson	2nd U.S. Infantry: Ltc William M. Wherry 10th U.S. Infantry: Ltc Edgar R. Kellogg 21st U.S. Infantry: Capt Frederick H. B. Ebstein
	3rd Brigade   Ltc Ezra P. Ewers   BG Adelbert Ames	9th U.S. Infantry: Ltc Ezra P. Ewers 13th U.S. Infantry: Maj William Auman 24th U.S. Infantry: Maj. Alfred C. Markley
2nd Division     MG Henry W. Lawton	1st Brigade   BG William Ludlow	8th U.S. Infantry: Major Casper H. Conrad 22nd U.S. Infantry: Major William M. Van Horne 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: Colonel Embury P. Clark
	2nd Brigade   BG Chambers McKibbin	1st U.S. Infantry: Ltc William Henry Bisbee 4th U.S. Infantry: Maj Stephen A. Baker 25th U.S. Infantry: Ltc Aaron S. Daggett
	3rd Brigade   BG Adna R. Chaffee	7th U.S. Infantry: Ltc Gilbert S. Carpenter 12th U.S. Infantry: Ltc Richard Comba 17th U.S. Infantry: Maj Lyster M. O'Brien
Independent Division     MG John C. Bates	1st Brigade   Col John H. Page	3rd U.S. Infantry: Ltc Abram A. Harbach 20th U.S. Infantry: Maj William S. McCaskey
	2nd Brigade   Col Henry L. Turner	1st Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Col Henry L. Turner, Ltc George V. Lauman 1st District of Columbia Infantry: Col George Herbert Harries 9th Massachusetts Infantry: Ltc Lawrence J. Logan
Cavalry Division     MG Joseph Wheeler	1st Brigade   BG Samuel S. Sumner	3rd U.S. Cavalry: Maj. Henry W. Wessells Jr. 6th U.S. Cavalry: Maj. Thomas C. Lebo 9th U.S. Cavalry: Maj William C. Forbush
	2nd Brigade   BG Leonard Wood	1st U.S. Cavalry: Col Charles D. Viele 10th U.S. Cavalry: Ltc Theodore A. Baldwin 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry: Col Theodore Roosevelt
Artillery	Light Artillery Battalion   BG Wallace F. Randolph	Light Battery E, 1st U.S. Artillery: Cpt Allyn Capron Light Battery K, 1st U.S. Artillery: Cpt Clermont L. Best Jr. Light Battery A, 2nd U.S. Artillery: Cpt George S. Grimes Light Battery F, 2nd U.S. Artillery: Cpt Charles D. Parkhurst Light Battery F, 4th U.S. Artillery:– Cpt Sydney W. Taylor Light Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery: Cpt Henry J. Reilly Sr.
	Siege Artillery	Battery G & H, 4th U.S. Artillery: Cpt William Ennis Gatling Gun detachment: 2LT John H. Parker
Reserves	Separate Brigade (II Corps)   BG Henry M. Duffield	8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Col Curtis V. Hard 33rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry: Col Charles L. Boynton 34th Michigan Volunteer Infantry: Col John P. Petermann

Cuban

Army of Liberation

Lieutenant General Calixto García^[3]

• Insurgents: General Jesús Rabí^[4]
• Insurgents: General
• Insurgents: General José Manuel Capote
• Insurgents: General Agustín Cebreco
• Insurgents: General Saturnino Lora Torres
• Insurgents: General Minet
• Insurgents: General Demetrio Castillo Duany

(further composition unknown)

Spanish

IV Corps

Gen José Toral y Velázquez

width=25%	Division	width=25%	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Santiago Division	1st Brigade	1st Provisional Battalion of Puerto Rico 4th Battalion Talavera Peninsular Regiment 1st Battalion San Fernando Regiment 1st Battalion Asia Regiment 1st Battalion Constitution Regiment 1st Battalion Cuba Regiment 2nd Battalion Cuba Regiment 1st Battalion Simancas Regiment

See also

• San Juan Hill order of battle
• El Caney order of battle
• List of orders of battle

Notes and References

1. Lee, Fitzhugh Cuba's Struggle Against Spain, New York 1899 p.428
2. Lee, Fitzhugh Cuba's Struggle Against Spain, New York 1899 p.428
3. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18981212.2.2 Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 96, Number 113, 12 December 1898
4. Web site: Spanish-American War: Santiago Campaign, 1898. Library of Congress.