Baní (Bany). Santana withdraws there, leaving an outpost at the savana Buey.

To sustain the courage of our troops, who had before them a campaign of the most arduous and deadly kind, they were told that the town of Bany and the village of St-Christophe had not adhered to the secession, which was false. Our soldiers believed they could count above all on the inhabitants of St-Christophe, the only village of the Department of the Ozama whose population, descended from formerly enslaved Africans, was Black in its majority. They did not know that the inhabitants of Saint-Christophe said they were Dominicans and that they did not resemble the morrocoyes of Haiti. (*) General Santana, seven days after the evacuation of Azua, left a fairly considerable outpost at the savana Buey and withdrew to Bani, fearing that the Haitian troops, who were very numerous, might come and establish themselves between these two last points. At Azua, at the moment of abandoning that town, he had had Buenaventura Baez arrested, because he was accused of having climbed a height during the fight of the 19th and of having made a signal with a white handkerchief to show the Haitians the road by which they should pass in order to assail the town with certainty. He had sent him to Santo-Domingo, where he was imprisoned. When Santana returns to that city, he will have him set at liberty, not finding the accusation well founded.