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GENERAL YOUNG'S FIGHT AT LAS GUASIMAS 



JUST before leaving Tampa we had been bri- 

 gaded with the First (white) and Tenth (col- 

 ored) Regular Cavalry under Brigadier-General S. 

 B. M. Young. We were the Second Brigade, the 

 First Brigade consisting of the Third and Sixth 

 (white), and the Ninth (colored) Regular Cavalry 

 under Brigadier-General Sumner. The two brigades 

 of the cavalry division were under Major-General 

 Joseph Wheeler, the gallant old Confederate cav- 

 alry commander. 



General Young was and is as fine a type of 

 the American fighting soldier as a man can hope 

 to see. He had been in command, as Colonel, of 

 the Yellowstone National Park, and I had seen a 

 good deal of him in connection therewith, as I was 

 President of the Boone and Crockett Club, an or- 

 ganization devoted to hunting big game, to its 

 preservation, and to forest preservation. During 

 the preceding winter, while he was in Washington, 

 he had lunched with me at the Metropolitan Club, 

 Wood being one of the other guests. Of course, 

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