Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
CAPTAIN O'NEELL'S BODY
Rough Rider Webb Gives Directions
 for lis Location.

From Q letter from Cuba. printed in
 Q recent issue of the Pick and Drill we
 note, says 4. D. Webb, editor of the Stafford AriZOnian, that the body of i Captain Wm. o. O'Neill mas not yet
 been found although diligent search i has been made for it during the past l four months It is not our intention to i infict any war "reminiscences on the
 readers of the Arizonian. but as the people Of this territory are probably
 more deeply interested in the recovery i Of "Buckey" ONeill's body than in anything else connected with the war, ] the following is written with the hope
 that it may lead to the finding of he remains of the bravest man who went i to the war from Arizona.
 Captain O'Ne1ll was killed while standing in the road talking to an i officer of the Ninth regular cavalry | about seven or eight hundred yards i from the Spanish trenches on July i 1st. When he was killed A troop was l lying along the side of the road and , had just fired two vOlleys at the Span iards. As the captain was seen to totter and fall several of his troopers sprarg into the road picked tip the l side of the road where it was placed i'll the shade of some small trees, near the angle made by two wire fences coming together, one bordering the road and the other running in from the direc- ton Of the creek. Soon after the cap tain was killed 4 troop was ordered to advance and the body was left with Trooper Buhlzing as guard. Some time during the day Buhlzing with the assistance Of soldiers from other regi- ments moved the body to the creek north of the read. The writer went over this same ground twice that day, while carrying Sergeant Greenwood to the rear and returning to the firing line, and would judge the distance to be about 300 yards from the road to the creek, but as each trip was made under hot fire, we would not be sure of the distance
 On the morning of the 2nd of July about sunrise a shell burst among the | Rough Riders, who were then occupy ing the crest of San Juan hilI killing | Jack Robinson of New Mexico Race l Smith of B troop and badly wounding Stanley HoIlister and O'Brien. mem | bers of troop Frank Vansiclen. | Henry Bradshaur, Bob Wren, Howard | Marine and Corporal Jackson took | Stanley HOllister. who afterwards died | cf his wound, to the hospital. On the | way they picked up BugIer Cassi. who | went with them and when they reach | ed the hospital and had turned Hollis | ter over to the surgeons. they procured tools and went with Chaplain Brown [ and buried Captain O'NeiH The body was found where it had been moved | by Buhlzing the day before and was buried right at that point. The place | or lntarment being on the south or left bank of the creek, going LID stream, and about a quarter of a mile up stream from the field hospital The hospital, it will De remembered. was located on the bank of the creek at the second ford coming down from San Juan hill
 The men who buried Captain O'Neiu were Chaplain Brown, Troopers Frank Y2nslclen, Henry Bradshaur. Bob Wren, Bugler Cassi and Corporal Jackson; Howard Marine becoming exhausted. could go no further than the hospital.
 Captain O'Neill was buried in houSh Rlder uniform, brown trousers ana jacket and wore new pair of tan shoes- His canteen was placed about slX inches above his head and he was Dulled some three or four feet deep.
 o1 the men who buried him, Bob N-- NoA4N ~ssh5Sl et1 S III 1N6W I OGk cltV. ! Frank Vansiclen is in Stafford Arizona, and I think Henry Bradshaur, Chaplain Brown and Corporal Jackson are iii Yavapai and Coconino counties.
 Captain O'Neill was buried apart from the others. There is probably not another grave within 200 yards of the spot. Frank Vansiclen took an axe and blazed two or three large trees ill the immediate vicinity of the grave so he could find the place again. The men were under a dropping fire all the time and in danger from sharp shooters hid in the trees. On account Of the rapid growth of vegetation and changed conditions it would probably be hard for even those who buried Captain O'Nein to go direct to the place, but there are men in the party not easily rattled and who are accustomed to riding the range and prospecting in the hills of Arizona and if the United States, the Territory of or the personal friends and relatives of Captain O'Nein desire to have the body brought to the United States we believe that Frank Vansic- len, Henry Bardshaur or Corporal l Jackson can go to Santiago and find it.
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