Reminiscences and thrilling stories of the war by returned heroes (1899) (14775444924)

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Title: Reminiscences and thrilling stories of the war by returned heroes
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Young, James Rankin, 1847-1924 Moore, J. H., joint author
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898 Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott Publishing Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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fight well in trenches and in trees. Get them in a block-house and they are stubborn. We rarely got nearer to them than 1,000 feet.Now and then we closed up and surrounded their blockhouses. They didnot get away when we did this, and Hoeksters blue eyes had a glint ofsatisfaction. Badly Wounded, but Fought On. Hoekster was shot in the neck while lying in the trenches. He said itfelt as if some one had knocked him in the back of the head with an axe.He reached for his first aid bandage, which every man carries in his knap-sack. A comrade bandaged him up, and he returned to the firing lines.Pretty soon he began to bleed so badly that an officer took away his gun andcartridge belt, and sent him to the rear. Joseph H. Whitman, of Reading, Pa., a member of the Twelfth UnitedStates Infantry, was badly wounded in the charge of the heights of El Caney,July 1. Whitman is 23 years of age, and comes from fighting stock. YoungWhitman gave a graphic description of the great charge, and how he was
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221 HEROISM OF THE REGULARS. nearly shot to death by a Spanish sharpshooter. He said that his companyhad just reached the heights, and the Spaniards had been routed and werefleeing in all directions when he received a bullet wound in the left shoulder.The ball penetrated the flesh and passed across his back and out on theopposite side. While preparing a temporary bandage, another struck him onthe left arm, passing through the muscles. A second later he was struck on theleft leg. This was followed by two more, which passed through the fleshy partof his right leg. 1 thought that sufficient punishment, said Whitman, butthe spiteful devil, who was concealed in a tree, seemed determined to finishthe job, and kept pegging away, and finally landed the sixth shot. This tookeffect in my right leg, just below the knee, and taking a downward courseoassed out through my heel. I lay on the field all of that night until thenext day, when I was removed to the hospital at Siboney. Ever hear how an ol