ij 8 The Rough Riders 



we had just taken, driving the Spaniards through a 

 line of palm-trees, and over the crest of a chain of 

 hills. When we reached these crests we found our- 

 selves overlooking Santiago. Some of the men, in- 

 cluding Jenkins, Greenway, and Goodrich, pushed 

 on almost by themselves far ahead. Lieutenant 

 Hugh Berkely, of the First, with a sergeant and 

 two troopers, reached the extreme front. He was, 

 at the time, ahead of every one; the sergeant was 

 killed and one trooper wounded; but the lieutenant 

 and the remaining trooper stuck to their post for the 

 rest of the afternoon until our line was gradually 

 extended to include them. 



While I was reforming the troops on the chain 

 of hills, one of General Sumner's aides, Captain 

 Robert Howze as dashing and gallant an officer 

 as there was in the whole gallant cavalry division, 

 by the way came up with orders to me to halt 

 where I was, not advancing further, but to hold 

 the hill at all hazards. Howze had his horse, and 

 I had some difficulty in making him take proper 

 shelter; he stayed with us for quite a time, unable 

 to make up his mind to leave the extreme front, 

 and meanwhile jumping at the, chance to render any 

 service, of risk or otherwise, which the moment de- 

 veloped. 



I now had under me all the fragments of the six 

 cavalry regiments which were at the extreme front, 



