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with "I'm ashamed of you, ashamed of you! I 

 wouldn't have believed it! Firing; when I told 

 you to stop! I'm ashamed of you!" 



That night we spent in perfecting the trenches 

 and arranging entrances to them, doing about as 

 much work as we had the preceding night. Green- 

 way and Goodrich, from their energy, eagerness to 

 do every duty, and great physical strength, were pe- 

 culiarly useful in this work ; as, indeed, they were in 

 all work. They had been up practically the entire 

 preceding night, but they were too good men for me 

 to spare them, nor did they wish to be spared ; and I 

 kept them up all this night too. Goodrich had also 

 been on guard as officer of the day the night we 

 were at El Paso, so that it turned out that he spent 

 nearly four days and three nights with practically 

 hardly any sleep at all. 



Next morning, at daybreak, the firing began 

 again. This day, the 3d, we suffered nothing, save 

 having one man wounded by a sharp-shooter, and, 

 thanks to the approaches to the trenches, we were 

 able to relieve the guards without any difficulty. 

 The Spanish sharp-shooters in the trees and jungle 

 nearby, however, annoyed us very much, and I made 

 preparations to fix them next day. With this end 

 in view I chose out some twenty first-class men, in 

 many instances the same that I had sent after the 

 guerillas, and arranged that each should take his 



