Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-02-16


the hip by Msuscr, and as lay there
waiting for the stretcher | thought Of
the coincidence that 33 years before to
a day my father lay on the field at NAL
vern Hill, Va, unconscious, and it wae
then believed wounded to death. "
"Then you are the son of our favorite
Grand Army comrade, General Henry
A. Barnum.
eyes, but how do you know that2"
"Bocause every Grand Army man,
certainly every Now York soldier,
knows that Henry A. Barnum was shot
through the body while leading u bril-
liant charge at Malvern Hill and was
counted among the dead, and that he
carried that wound unhealed as long as
he lived. I'll make n story of this. Are
yOu the generals namesako?' said /,
thinking of young Anderson s analogous
case
ono, | am Malvern Hill Barnum
No need 10 say further az 10 why he
became "A soldier and no need for won
der on my part that in every lincament
he showed that he'd rather have found
a grave in Cuba than not have been at
San Juan hill n tho anniversary day Of
his father gallant charge in 1859.
Although reticent about his own
deeds Lieutenant Barnum was loud in
the praise of others. lie gave me the
names of all the NEGROES who had won
honors ut Santiago, told me about the
officers killed and wounded, and took it
upon himself to secure the photograph
of the son of Colonel Baldwin of the
Tenth, the gallant little fellow who by
clever ruse rot his chance to uphold
the family honor in battle The boy,
Theodore \. Baldwin, Jr, was at school
and his parents refused to allow him to
enlist and break no school pans. 1t was
compromised on his passing the vaca-
ton days with his father in Cuba. The
boy assumed the full measure Of his per-
init and insisted upon sticking with the
regiment when it lined mp along san
Juan creek. on July I. He was with
ont weapons and in civilian costume
When the line reached the barbed wire
fence he saw the negroes grapple the
posts to overthrow them and put III
slender arms to the work. Soon negro
soldier fell dead by his side and "A LOADED
krag-JorEcnscn lay at his feet withou
a hand to bear it against the Spaniard:
on the hill. He seized it and went Il
the slope in the very front line of In
negroes. Whom this reached the cars
President Mckinley, he sent comm.
sion to Theodore A. Baldwin, il, III
the boy was IN the army in spite %
parental prohibition.
/ TIL" father Of Young Carron, The hel
Of Las Guasimas, was not vatcra
fighter If the civil war bat he ,I
| braced the profession OF soldier in IT,
midst Of that conflict. Graduating -
+ West Point in 1851, he went to th
| plains and saw enough warfare to brin-
ont the Spartan stuff in his make up.
| 1t is we'll known that he was the son OF
a battery hero Of the Florida and MoS
| lean wars
Tho third Allyn Canron entered tn,
army as a private ana worked his way
up through all the noncOmmissioned
grades to lieutenancy, and when tho
rough riders took the field asked to &c
along in command of Troop K He was
in the first line when the rough riders
charged at Las Guasimas, and fell a>
the SOLDIER loves 10 fall, if fall he must
killed in action,
With his hao to the field md his feet to the foe
Among the regulars in Lawton's di