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right hip, passing entirely through the body. The 

 fourth bullet (which was apparently from a Rem- 

 ington and not from a Mauser) went into his neck 

 and lodged against the bone, being afterward cut 

 out. The fifth bullet again hit his left hand. The 

 sixth scraped his head and the seventh his neck. 

 He did not receive all of the wounds at the same 

 time, over half an hour elapsing between the first 

 and the last. Up to receiving the last wound he had 

 declined to leave the firing-line, but by that time he 

 had lost so much blood that he had to be sent to the 

 rear. The man's wiry toughness was as notable as 

 his courage. 



We improvised litters, and carried the more sore- 

 ly wounded back to Siboney that afternoon and the 

 next morning; the others walked. One of the men 

 who had been most severely wounded was Edward 

 Marshall, the correspondent, and he showed as 

 much heroism as any soldier in the whole army. 

 He was shot through the spine, a terrible and very 

 painful wound, which we supposed meant that he 

 would surely die; but he made no complaint of any 

 kind, and while he retained consciousness persisted 

 in dictating the story of the fight. A very touching 

 incident happened in the improvised open-air hos- 

 pital after the fight, where the wounded were lying. 

 They did not groan, and made no complaint, trying 

 to help one another. One of them suddenly began 



