Appendix D 3 01 



APPENDIX D 



CORRECTIONS 



IT has been suggested to me that when Bucky 

 O'Neill spoke of the vultures tearing our dead, he 

 was thinking of no modern poet, but of the words 

 of the prophet Ezekiel : "Speak unto every feathered 

 fowl ... ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and 

 drink the blood of the princes of the earth." 



At San Juan the Sixth Cavalry was under Major 

 Lebo, a tried and gallant officer. I learn from a 

 letter of Lieutenant McNamee that it was he, and 

 not Lieutenant Hartwick, by whose orders the 

 troopers of the Ninth cast down the fence to en- 

 able me to ride my horse into the lane. But one 

 of the two lieutenants of B Troop was overcome by 

 the heat that day; Lieutenant Rynning was with 

 his troop until dark. 



One night during the siege, when we were dig- 

 ging trenches, a curious stampede occurred (not in 

 my own regiment) which it may be necessary some 

 time to relate. 



Lieutenants W. E. Shipp and W. H. Smith were 

 killed, not far from each other, while gallantly lead- 

 ing their troops on the slope of Kettle Hill. Each 

 left a widow and young children. 



