Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...Davis. He was well in advance of the farthest point to which Capron's troop had moved before it had deployed to the left. He was running forward feeling confident that he must be close upon our men when he saw, far in advance, the body of a sergeant blocking the trail and stretched at full length across it. Its position was a hundred yards in advance of that of any others; it was apparently the body of the first man killed. After death the bodies of some men seem to shrink almost instantly within themselves; they become limp and shapeless, and their uniforms hang upon them strangely. But this man, who was a giant in life, remained a giant in death. His very attitude was one of attack. His fists were clinched, his jaw set, and his eyes, which were still open, seemed fixed with resolve. He was dead, but he was not defeated. "God gives," was the motto on the watch taken from his blouse; and God could not have given him a nobler end; to die, in the forefront of the first fight of the war, quickly, painlessly, with a bullet through the heart, with his regiment behind him and facing the enemies of his country. One of the military heroes of the medical staff has been so graphically described in the action at Las Guasimas by Mr. Richard Harding Davis that I venture to quote his language: "When G Troop passed on across the trail to the left I stopped at the place where the column had first halted. It had been converted into a dressing station, and the wounded of G Troop were left there in the care of the hospital stewards. A tall young man with a red cross on his arm was just coming back up the trail. His head was bent, and by some surgeon's trick he was advancing rapidly with great strides, and at the same time carrying a wounded man much heavier tha...
