nant
Shipp, later killed at San Juan Hill, who, on inquiring and
being told that I belonged to Troop B, congratulated me on
its conduct, and said it had made a name for the regiment.
Lieutenant Shipp was not in that fight, but had come up
after it was over and had heard of us through the 1st
Cavalry."

C.

Sergeant John Buck was born September 10th, 1861, at Chapel
Hill, Texas; enlisted in 10th Cavalry, November 6, 1880, and
passed over ten years in active Indian service. He is a man
of strong character, an experienced horseman and packer, and
so commanded a portion of the firing line in the battle of
June 24 as to elicit remarks of praise from officers of
other troops "for his gallantry, coolness and good judgment
under fire." Sergeant Thompson's good conduct in the same
battle was noticeable also. Sergeant Buck was made second
lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Volunteer Infantry and
subsequently captain in the 48th United States Volunteers.

FOOTNOTES:

[15] See Note A at the end of this chapter.

[16] THE TWENTY-FIFTH AT EL-CANEY.

American valor never shone with greater luster than when the
Twenty-fifth Infantry swept up the sizzling hill of El-Caney to the
rescue of the rough riders. Two other regiments came into view of the
rough riders. But the bullets were flying like driving hail; the enemy
were in trees and ambushes with smokeless powder, and the rough riders
were biting the dust and were threatened with annihilation.

A rough rider described the feelings of his brigade when they saw the
other regiments appear and retreat. Finally this rough rider, a
Southerner, heard a well-known yell. And out of the distance moved a
regiment as if on dress parade, faces set like steel, keeping step
like a machine, their comrades falling here, there, everywhere, moving
into the storm of invisible death without one faltering step, passing
the rough riders, conquering up the hill, and never stopping until
with the rough riders El-Caney was won. This was the Twenty-fifth
Regiment (colored), United States Infantry, now quartered at Fort
Logan, Denver. We have asked the chaplain, T.G. Steward, to recite the
events at El-Caney. His modesty confines him to the barest recital of
"semi-official" records. But the charge of the Twenty-fifth is
deserving of comparison with that of "the Light Brigade" in the
Crimean War, or of Custer at the massac