The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
Blood Wi1l eli.
How American Boys Won Their
Spurs .at Santiago.
BY CAPT. GEO. LANGDox KILMER.

| Wnen war is on II Is cruel TO make a
stay-at-home of a likely lad who first
saw the light OF day in garrison quar-
ters cut on the plains, with the stirring
at-a-pian of the martial drum for lul-
laby. So thought Theodore n. Baldwin,
Jr., when Baldwin, senior, marshalled his
black troopers of the Tenth Cavalry at
Tampa and sent the usual message to his
wife and sen, saying he'd write home full
particulars of the fighting in Cuba for
the DEDICATION of the boy. and re-
ward for having passed an examination
for West Point. Mothers may imagine
the scene when the lad declared that ne
| couldn't stay at home for papa might be
wounded and need his care, or if killed,
he, young as he was, must carry the fam
lily name in the army until victory should
be won. That mol r yielded as would The
true wife of any army officer. So Col.
| Baldwin welcomed the boy at Tampa and
! took him along to Cuba Just to look on
and see the Spaniards run
The Tenth reached San Juan river IN
a strung out line about II o'clock on July
l, with the coloners pride, in his borrow
ed and cut down khaka suit trudging
| along at the head of column. At the first
| wire fence the negroes halted and attack
ed the savage barricade with musket
| stocks and bare hands The Coonels boy
mad no musket then, but he pushed and
| pulled at the pests and coiled the parted
| wires out of the path.
Mausers were flying. even then, along
the san Juan, and Suddenly a black troop
er working beside the boy, fell dead At
| last the fence was cleared, the blacks
gave yell, then dashed into the jungle
to hunt for Spaniards The boy turned for
last glance at his dead comrade His
| ~ Aa.~Efx, -.
TO PICK 1t up and aVenge the owner
| death-no hand but a STANDARDIZATION the
| CoIcneFs son knew instinctively that there
would be fighting before the Spanish races
came off. He seized the rifle and rushed
on with the line at which the blacks
erlnned and cheered, giving way to let
the boy soldier reach the front, bes de his
father. When the blacks halted and fired
at the Spanish trenches on Kettle Hill
the Colonel's boy banded his carbine with
the best of them when they charged and
cheered he was up with the foremost and
stood on the crest where the Tenth's flag
was planted TO stay. He likewise heard
Col. Leonard Wood praise his fathers
regiment for its gallant work in that
charge. Could a soldiers boy with his
blood up stop at that while San Juan ridge
lay in front, swarning with Spaniards?
Never; and mingling his piping shouts
with the growls of the excited negroes
he rushed the hill, way to the second
crest.
1t all seemed as simple as a football
game TO the schoolboy in uniform, but
the men and officers of Woods brigade
declared that it was serious business.
and that the Coloners boy was a war
hero. Some one sent a dispatch of that
purport to President Mckinley, and he
appointed Theodore N. Baldwin. Jr,
lieutenant in the Twenty-fourth Infan-
try, one of the regiments of Skaters
| Brunette brigade fYar1 for 7a1
school boy is now serving in the Philip
pines, the youngest commissioned officer
of the regular army
Another San Juan Hill Boy.
On the rolls of the Seventy-frst New
| York stands the name of Austin Par
dee. He Is the son of a former officer of
the Thirteenth regulars, who lost his life
, on the plains. Young Pardee lived with
his mother in New York city when the
war broke out, and begged to be allowed
t to enlist in the old Thirteenth. so as 90
: follow the flag of his soldier father But
his mother opposed it, as he is an only
; son. and Austin compromised by going
5 with the Seventy-frst Now in the mix
: up of troops at the crossing of San Juan
river-all histories tell the story-the Sew
enty-first stood still after coming under
: fire, and the Thirteenth passed TO the
e front through its ranks. When Austin
recognized the flag he had seen in baby
hood on the plains, and saw the veteran
comrades of his father around H. he
J rushed to the head of the company his
t father once commanded. and asked the
l Captain to let him fight there in the
} ranks. Certainly, my boy" said the
? Captain. you're the kind we're looking
l for. Fall in"
t War histories tell, too. how the Thir-
teenth charged the block house and cap
' tured the Spanish flag. After the battle
the Captain sought out his volunteer re-
: | nd ya1 }, he
. stay with his fathers old company and
: be transferred to the regular rolls. Eyes,
1 Captain; I'd Ike IT," said the boy "But
! ] promised mother that 1 would stick by
? the Sevenfy-first and march home with it,
+ and l shall keep my word" Austin kent
: his word, and 1t was at Camp Wikoff that
2 / learned his story ne lay in the hos
D pital. The officers of the Thirteenth
went to the hospital and praised the lad
2 as a chip of the old block" and a
! worthy son of Capt. Pardee.
Young Baldwin.
' From Adjutant Barnum of the Tenth
Cavalry, I learned the story of young
| Baldwin. Lieut.. Barnum tod so many in
! teresting things about the regiment that
= the fact of his bearing noble army name
3 didn't occur to me, until, in the course of
| his narrative 1t became necessary to in
dulge in a personal mention. THE incl
a dents of the trench fighting after the
morning of July - said he "you must
get from other sources. l was wounded
early that day and carried to the hos
pital"
, inquired to the particulars of his
= wound, for 1t was his first, since he is but
boy, the nature of 1t and the sensat lions
accompanying it. He was wounded In the
hip. Said he: My first sensation was
that l had been suddenly knocked fiat,
and the next was the sudden recollection
that thirty-sx years previously to a day,
or on July 2. 1862 my father lay on the
. battlefield at Malvern Hill, Va, hopelessly
, wounded, then supposed"
Then YOU are the son of Gen. Henry A.
Barnum?"
Yes" said he blushing, but how did
you guess that?"
Because" said 1. II happened to know
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