The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-10
Capt. GuilfoyIe Talks ofLieu-
tenants Shipp and Smith.
CHUMS AT WEST POINT
SHOT DOWN TOGETHER ON THE
HILLS AROUND SANTIAGO.
NORTH CARDINALS HEROES IN WAR
Lieutenant Shipp Lost his Life After Having
Succeeded in Making Trip Of Daring
.-He Volunteered TO do it.

Among the officers of the Ninth Caval-
ry who We're here yesterday was Captain
Guilfoyle who ranks high among the
officers of the Ninth.
Captain Guilfoyle is West Pointer
and during his graduating year the
lamented William T.. Ship entered the
Military Academy and though there was
a difference Of several years in the ages
Of the two men they became fast friends
and were, closely associated for long
time thereafter
Yesterday Captain Guilfoyle was
speaking of the heroes North Carolina
had furnished in this war. He paid n
tribute to Ensign Worth Bagley, Il ma
tive of the State. to Blue and to Hob
son and then he spoke to me of pecu-
liar coincidence at the battle of San
tiago.
"Shpp and Smith were two Lieuten-
ants in the Tenth Cavalry and their
lives have been linked together with
strange and unusual happenings in army
life. As young men the two were at
college together. They chummed to-
gether throughout their course in the
prep school and left college at the same
time.
when / was in my first class year
at West Point the two men entered us
plebes and on the class roll side by side
We're the two names.
William f. Ship.
"Wiliam Il. Smith.
when the two men graduated they
NJ aSctunnI tnuatbnr 81 md only
for Il short time while Ship was in
the South were they separated.
Smith married the same year that
Ship did and each left beautiful wife
and two children to mourn their loss
The two men felt close to each other and
there was always brotherly affection
manifested by each to the other.
"When war was declared both Ship
and Smith were with the Tenth Caval-
ry. Shipp was Regimental Quarter
master and Smith was second in com
mand of a company of the best fighters
in the brigade. Shipp and Smith left
Tampa on the same transport and bunk
ed side by side on the voyage. They
retained the same affection for each
other and after the Regiment was landed
ut Santiago each had the more reason
for the others confidence and company.
up to the time of the battle Ship
and Smith remained tie same familiar
companions and as the Tenth Cavalry
forged its way through the underbrush
of the Cuban thickets Ship was busy
carrying orders from the commander to
his subordinate officers.
THE battle was at the hottest when
Ship undertook deed of daring.
Some one must take the order across
to Smith and TO reach him must en-
counter great danger. Shipp volunteer
ed. He took the order and safely ar
rived by the side of his companion
through life He stood but moment
after his fearless dash across the line
of the enemy's fire. He was in the
act of delivering the order when two
separate and distinct reports were heard
and side by side Ship and Smith fell
on the battle field near Santiago.
Both were fearless, both were man.
ly. both were gentlemen and is it not
singular that with the sadness of the
thought there comes a. certain JOY, that
two so fond of one another, whose lives
had been wound together by Il strange
fate should have fallen together and
that Ship and Smith the comrades Of
youth rest side by side in Cuban
graves"