The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-20
TEDDY TAKES THE CAKE
SOME REGIMENTS WILL NEVER
GET AN OPPORTUNITY.
Captain Ducat the Worst of the
Wounded Officers, But His Re
covery. Is Considered Probable
Colored Troops Fought Nobly and
Were In the Thick of the Battle.
Washington Office of The Herald, J
I415 G Street. N. w.

Washington, d. c., July 14.-While
the Roosevelt rough riders have made
an excellent record in Cuba, and seen
plenty of hard fighting, the Torrey and
Griggsby regiments 90 -.;iI in camp.
AT present it does not look as if the
GriSgsby regiment would get into az
ton at all. There is some prospect that
Torrey's men may take part in the
Porto Rico expedition. if that ever oc-
ours, Tor it is understood that this is
TO be made up largely from the troops
now at Jacksonville. At present there
are no plans for moving the regiments
encamped at Camp Thomas. and this
apparently sidetracks olonel Griggs-
by and his men for the war Letters
received here from officers and men of
both commands show great Impotence.
They are fearful that all the cavalry
honors of the war will go to the Roose-
Veit riders, and that the other volun-
teer cavalry regiments will never
smell powder. The colonel of the First
cavalry has already earned the single
star OF brigadier. Roosevelt has BE-
come full colonel and there have been
promotions all along the line The
tact that the other cavalry regiments
have had no chance. and are not likely
20 get any, is proving very vexatious,
ana earnest appeals have been made
10 senators and other influential public
men to get these regiments ordered to
Cuba. Senator Carter has visited the
Griggsby boys at Chickamauga, and !
senator Shoup has been to see Torrey
and his men at Jacksonville Both /
these senators and others from the /
west have urged the prompt utilization /
OF these fine regiments. But there are |
accumulated proofs that the war de !
partment does not regard cavalry as /
essential in Cuba 1t is pointed out
that the Roosevelt regiment has done
nothing mounted. but has operated as
from the first
The two crack troops of New York
cavalry at Camp Alger are also bitterly
at their failure to get 10
the front. These troops are made UP
OF swell New Workers, and so impatient
have they been to get into the fighting
that no less than 81 of them have been
as officers in the volun-
teer army and have gone on to Cuba.
while two or three have oeen trans
ferred to the Roosevelt rough riders.
All those that could possibly get away
nave done so.
Good reports continue to come in
through official statements and news
paper correspondents of effective work
lone by the black regiments in the adj
fance on Santiago. The Twentv-
L
oSseS in killed Were much lighter than
vas at first reported, and the wounded
low in the United States are all doing
'ery well. The black soldiers take
lindly to the climate and food in
'uba- Correspondent Charles NJ. Pep
'er tells the Evening Star of Wash !
ngton that the soldiers of the Twenty
ourth pay no attention to the eau
ions of the doctors about eating man
'oes and drinking water freely. They
ave eaten manages abundantly. This
correspondent does not believe there
will be any prolonged epidemic of dis !
ase. He says the ground is high and |
n case of prolonged siege the health !
f the troops would not be likely to l
uffer more than if they were in camp
4 the United States l
Mr.. Pepper says the appearance of
'uban soldiers greatly interested our {
7eStern regiments. He says the strings
t cloth which answered for shirts and 5
Their garments could hardly be said 5
D clothe the nakedness of the men, |
ONE were barefoot, while others had a !
ind of straw sandal, which protected :
he sole OF the foot A few had ma
hetes alone, but the majority had guns ,
S well. These were old style Reming- |
ms or discarded Springfields
The regiments of General Calixto
arcia's command. which were landed
[ Siboney, were no better clad, though
think there might have been a larger r
rea of ragged shifting, greater show
bare shanks to a given number of
len. They waded through the surf
utching their guns as a possession in
nitely more valuable than clothes. T
early all of these Cuban soldiers are Z
ack, for it is the Santiago blacks
no have been in continuous rebellion
sainst Spain. During the last two or
Iree days the supplies issued by the
and commissary de-
lrtmentS to them have improved the
ldiers in the Cuban army. They are
'odigal of ammunition, for to have -
ough cartridges is a luxury they L
I've not heretofore known. But Their tt
have asked the privilege ~
being in the front ranks, and it has =
en- accorded them. The Cuban SOL III
ers have the opportunity of inscrib- tie
g q chapter of their own in the his J.
~ yet 10 be written of how Santiago NJ
as taken. tie
The most seriously wounded officer of til
e Twenty fourth, according to war br
partment reports, is Captain A J.
lcat, who has three bullet y ounds. fla
o of them in the thighs, Gripping NJ
that walking is impossible He is, TT
viewer, expected to recover. in
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