Arizona republican., 1907-08-29

orable discharge as one who had sacri- feed his health, in truth his life, in the service of his country. He came to Arizona making his home alternate ly in Prescott and Phoenix. as the sea- sons changed, finally making his home in Tempe. where his daughters could have the benefit of attending the nor nal school. He was appointed adju- tant general of Arizona by Governor Brodie in which office he was so eff cient the present administration saw no need of change. In this connec- tion it is timely to say that Governor. Kibbey yesterday named Colonel Me Clintock acting adjutant general to fill the vacancy in the territory's military establishment.
 From General Markley. who is now here. has been secured a copy of an article that is most timely on this oc- casion. defending the gallant negro regiment. the Twenty-fourth, of which General Markley was in command and in which Col. Leavell was then a cap- tain. Of the incidents described Gen. eral Markley says Capt Leavell was participant and on that occasion he proved himself as much a hero as ever faced a bullet. The article was first published by the New York Sun in the course of controversy in which the Twenty-fourth regiment became con- founded with the Twenty fifth, a por- ton of which figured in the Browns vile affair, a matter irrelevant at this time. The following is taken from the Suns article:
 Twenty-fourth Infantry, that was ordered to fever stricken Siboney after the assault on San Juan Hill, in which | 1t lost three officers and ten men and had four officers and seventy-one men wounded. The story of its heroism in the fever camp has been told by an officer as modest as he is brave Major Alfred C. Markley, now commanding the Twentieth Infantry at Manila. but | it is buried in the report to the War Department made in 1898 by the Major General commanding the army. On July 15, the first day 1t could leave its intrenchments on the mill Gen eral Toral having at last capitulated. the Twenty-fourth was ordered at o'clock in the afternoon to proceed to the base hospital. and at 5:30 it began the march of fourteen miles down the | trail, arriving in Siboney during the night with a cOmDletement of fifteen officers and 456 men. Sixty-five nurses were needed for the pest camp. in ad- dition to sevent.- nurses and attend ants for the hospital proper. Captain A. A. Augur of Company H called for volunteers for the pest camp. after ex- | plaining the risks of the service. Eff ] teen gallant fellows" said Major Mark 1 ley. responded from his company. and yet this fine example soon produced more than were needed for all pur- poses"
 But they were all needed, every man of them. before the pestilence had run it's course and the camp was broken mp. We quote from Major Markleys report:
 By the end of July yellow fever had overrun all the hospitals, including new one established in large railroad shed. All was pest camp; even sep aratiOn of cases was impossible. All wards had it. Surgeons. nurses and hospital stewards were now among the patients; and SO it continued to about August 20. when determined steps were taken to break up the place Of this regiment Captain Dodge had
 
 three were dangerously i'll. and five more or less so. Out of sixteen pres- ent ten were in hospital. threee sick but doing well; sick and well living mostly within a radius of fifty feet. Officers kept up when they should have gone into hospital. making it worse for them ~-''-~ they did give up. Not a jar occurred. The officres of this regi- ment were unit, as usual. Of the sixty-five men sent as nurses to the pest camp July Is. most had succumb- ed, their places being filled, and the same was the case in all the hospitals and the whole camp the whole time"
 The record of that black regiment in the pit of horror called Siboney transcends in heroisms anything done by any charging soldier on the bullet swept and sunlit field of San Juan. with the inspiring colors streaming in the wind. Out of 456 enlisted men only twenty-four escaped sicknesss. The sick often went on duty with the well. No man faltered. none made excuses. They nursed the sick, they dug graves, they buried the dead. men, of the Twenty-fourth among them. On Aug ust the Sth, the heroic medical officer in charge, the even tempered. sanguine. irdefatigable La Garde, who never seemed to sleep. broke down and was attacked with the fever. His loss was of the sort to breed panic. but the same fortitude and devotion were shown by all ranks to the end. The faithful Markley pays this tribute to the men of his commands
 Tt is notable fact that in these forty days not even murmur was heard from d soldier of the Twenty fourth Infantry Cor officer either). Though discipline was enforced with strictness. not an infraction worth noticing occurred. These men are us- ually light hearted and noisily merry in camp in a pleasant way, but tEis CaInp was silent. no amusements- nothing to tighten the dead weight ,n their minds day and night during his long and dreary time. Having no prop CT cooking utensils, their meals were not even pleasure and q distraC ton. But they bore all bravely and patient