The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-01-20

held his squad up to the work until
he was ordered to retreat and when
they retired every able bodied man
was assisting a wounded coIurade
and several never did come back.
1t was the absolute confidence in
and reliance upon the officer that
made that little skirmish line stand
there for half an hour against
twenty times their number.
In Clusters last battle, one squad
ron commander had an excellent de.
fensive position in the river bottom,
hut he got ratified, ordered mount,
then dismount, then again mount,
and his generalization naturally
spread to many of his command and
but for the excellent discipline that
existed the retreat would have been
nothing but wild panic. 1t was
the troop officers that saved the rem
nant of the Seventh Cavalry until
rescued by Gibbons command.
In another Indian fight, an officer
badly wounded and almost helpless
said: at looks like another Custer
Massacre" and the men near by
were getting uneasy when another Of
fcer said: Nonsense, we've got them
Just where we want them and Wen
give them HI" And they did.
Our people we're not much interest
ed in the Spanish War. That is Il
was not life and death matter, and
self interest, not national welfare
animated all classes. Politicians en-
tered into a scramble for militar,
commissions with no regard to fit
ness. Railroads advocated this o.
that place for assembling troops
Just think Of sending troops to Tam
pas deadly shore, to harden them TO
a tropical campaign!
The Press looked upon the war a
a news producing episode. The.
magnified all complaints of hardship
and suffering.
The papers told OF the awful sui
fering of a few wounded in Cuba VIII
were transported four miles in arm
wagons without springs. Contras
that with the horrors of Lees retrea
from Gettysburg, where his Wounds
were transported forty-five miles o,
er mountain roads, without halt; o
the thirty-eight thousand wounde
from the army of the Potomac VIII
went in army wagons from fifteen t
forty miles, from the WILDERNESS!
Spottsylvania, North Anna and Col
Harbor to Falmouth or White Hous
Landing. and no complaint was made
1t was necessary.
Think OF the universal howl abou
embalmed beef. Absolutely withou
foundation, but sensations, not fact
were craved.
Captain Ettinge Is Quoted
Captain Eltinge gives as an iilu
tration to show how men may b
steadied by seeing that their leade
is confident:
"At Pickett's advance last day 6
Gettysburg, General Gibbon rod
down the lines, cool and calm and
an unimpassioned voice said to hi
men: Do not hurry, men, and fre to
fast; let them come UP close befor
you fire and then aim low and stead,
The GOODNESS Of their general wa
! reflected in the faces of his men.
Again he says: A couple of instai
ces OF how morale can be quickly d.
, veloped with our typical America
! stock. Grant, when his men were col
structing intrenchments under fiji
, and fast getting out Of hand, COOL
, walked to the top Of the intrencl
/ ment and sat down In plain sight
smoke a cigar That, without wor
, being said, was sufficient to stead
the men.
During the fight at Zapote Rive
in 1899, several companies for hour
/ faced the Insurrecto trenches acros
r the river but at very short range
! The Filipino fire was heavy, but Il
, accurate. One company commando
: went along his line and assigned eac
man a small area to cover and to-
t him that that short stretch Of hosti