The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-16

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n6sr thsl Ne was transferred 70 Company Z
and promoted"
~Yos, We had a ans lot Of officers" said
Trooper Pollock, ''but perhaps = good deal OF
Il was thanks 70 Col. Roosevelt The other ON
GERS took their cue from him. One OF them.
who didn't had TO leave IN Disgrace. He was
q West Pointer and q regular martinez, He was
always calling Attention 7 when he WA
around camp and ordering the men TO salute
him and telling them how 10 hx their fingers
and toeh when they did"
"Yso." ohimed In Trooper Bell, "and Of
eourse We expected great things OF him when
We GOT mp Ia the firing line. But Lordi he lost
hiB sword and got 90 ratified that when q cocoS-
nut or something fell out Of q tree behind him
hethought II was q bomb and ran all the way
70 sIboney before he stopped. Then. when he
rot his breath, he told 'em down there that the
regiment was cut TO pieces, and they hustled q
lot Of troops up there 20 fast that they almost
killed 'em. he was . bird"
"Tos. no was plumb buffaloed." remarked
Pollock. "But IL was . 1ne thing to see the
| Colonel under the same circumstances. We
were on our stomhchs most OF the time, you
know. We just had to be. But I never saw
him crawl. he was prancing up and down
telling us 70 Oct down, therei keep down,
boysl' but never doing Il himself. It was
nothing short Of . miracle that he wasn't
killed. Tho only explanation IL that he was
destined 10 live through the war. and they
couldn't lift when fate said Hands orr"
when We went forward and took San Juan
| Hill" said Trooper Bell. "the others thought
We had orders and some OF them piled in aud
went along, and the consequence was that
| whom we got TO the top there were rough
| riderh. Ninth and Tenth Cavalry. and Sixth
Cavalry aud Infantry all mixed up together.
You never saw such q mix-up. And Col.
Roosevelt not only looked after us but he
helped look after the resi- OF the cavalry. too.
You may think we're partial. but you Just ask
any Of the Ninth and Tenth regulars. They
were the colored troops. and they know what
kind OF . man Roosevelt is. Now Just let me
tell you something. You know . soldiers can
teen IL the thing he always clines to-his cam
teen, his gun and his cartridge belt. Well.
whom we were on the march the Colonel would
come along the line and ask one OF his boys for
q drink from his canteen and make no bones Of
it at all. And not only that. but he'd drink out
OF the canteen Of q Ninth or Tenth cavalryman
ana not act a. II the Lord had made him out OF
o little lnor clay than all the rest Of the world
though the Lord did. just the same !"
But was he altogether perfect2 2" asked the
wondering young woman.
THAT depends on the point OF view. We
liked him all the better because. whom he
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20, and he went himself. And 1t wasn't only
that he looked out for those Of Us who Were
alive. either. There wasn't q rough rider that
died who wasn't buried with military honors.
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