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Show HISTORY of fire covered the entire battlefield. Although the troopers x zone Pt at El Caney. 9 Fp BP inn! nie dl ter te FS Pe Throughout the entire campaign the enemy used smokeless powder, which rendered detection of his location well EL CANEY AND SAN JUAN HILL Soon after the benigh impossible. ginning of the artillery engagement, Colonel Roosevelt was ordered to march his command to the right and connect with General Lawton — an order impossible to obey. The heat was intense and many of the men began to show signs of fatigue early in the day; ‘he Mauser bullets drove in sheets through the trees and chapparal; the bulk of the enemy’s fire appeared to be practically unaimed, but his began were scattered far apart, taking advantage of every scrap of cover, Soon the order came to move man after man fell dead or wounded. forward and support the regulars in the assault on the hills in front. Waving his hat aloft, Colonel Roosevelt shouted the command to en oes & eresneea San +4 ee es ee oo a 4 At about the same moment the charge the hill on the right front. other officers gave similar orders, and the exciting rush at ‘‘Kettle and was with his {Per 448 Story of the Rough Riders, Edward Marshall, New York, 1899: haps it is not quite accurate for me to call this part of the battle ‘The oe 4 up San Juan Hill,’ for this hill was not properly a part of San Juan Hill. was a little preceding hill, and between it and San Juan ,Hill proper ae slight depression containing a shallow pond of water. hill were some large sugar kettles, sc that the regiment At the top of this a? named so that in speaking of it, they could differentiate between it Here the Rough Riders put in what was by all odds the Hill. their fighting, and lost far more men than they did after they The bullets flew the eminence after which the battle is named. it ‘Kettle " 2 and San a hardest pat aa began to ae like bees Sill But they were not those kettles and like bees they were very busy. Not less than a dozen of the Rough They were spilling blood. honey. went down here and several were killed outright.’’ 449 Story of the Rough Riders, p. 185. ace J a nee PHF, Pn PA eae en eed tee friends, TEPER ES PG dearest nat aot nee eee ae! ts rere ner iwer va mae eee i FP EARP YM 2k rp eo ee ersA 6 ~~ m = ep my PE Fe LLDPE among more than I was with any other during the days preceding our deI know those negro troopers to be brave men, parture from Tampa. and indeed they proved themselves to be among the best soldiers 12 Colonel Hamilton was the United States army, later that same day. eeT OPPS I901TUMNTO A regiment Hamilton, ee iPp Ste G2 Me pes ey eer eves et ee ee = ey ene ‘‘The situation was, perhaps, the most exasperating that troops Several regiments were ahead of the can be called upon to endure. This regi Rough Riders, among them the Ninth regular cavalry. I counted:its lieutenant-colonel, ment was made up of colored men. PE SPE LO Luna, and ees PP ek Park % Poe dea Llewellyn, ee oe a al . their captains, Marshall: 449 PS OP Bc tare ar EES i pei tel : under Says Edward AIYUVIUT Muller. . Hill’’ began. The first guidons planted on the summit of the hill, according to Roosevelt’s account,*#® were those of Troops G, E, and F of his regiment, aoe teed MEXICAN ot Rede OF NEW FACTS se eee ee LEADING 586 |
