Notes Of A War Correspondent By Richard Harding Davis







































 -   Major Brodie and Lieutenant
Thomas were both wounded within a few feet of Colonel Wood, and his
color-sergeant, Wright - Page 53
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Major Brodie And Lieutenant Thomas Were Both Wounded Within A Few Feet Of Colonel Wood, And His Color-Sergeant, Wright, Who Followed Close At His Heels, Was Clipped Three Times In The Head And Neck, And Four Bullets Passed Through The Folds Of The Flag He Carried.

One trooper, Rowland, of Deming, was shot through the lower ribs; he was ordered by Roosevelt to fall back

To the dressing station, but there Church told him there was nothing he could do for him then, and directed him to sit down until he could be taken to the hospital at Siboney. Rowland sat still for a short time, and then remarked restlessly, "I don't seem to be doing much good here," and picking up his carbine, returned to the firing-line. There Roosevelt found him.

"I thought I ordered you to the rear," he demanded.

"Yes, sir, you did," Rowland said, "but there didn't seem to be much doing back there."

After the fight he was sent to Siboney with the rest of the wounded, but two days later he appeared in camp. He had marched from Siboney, a distance of six miles, and uphill all the way, carrying his carbine, canteen, and cartridge-belt.

"I thought you were in hospital," Wood said. "I was," Rowland answered sheepishly, "but I didn't seem to be doing any good there."

They gave him up as hopeless, and he continued his duties and went into the fight of the San Juan hills with the hole still through his ribs.

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