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artillery at Morro, one at Socapa, and half a com- 

 pany at Puenta Gorda; in all, not over 500 or 600 

 men, but for the sake of argument we can say a 

 thousand. In round numbers then we had imme- 

 diately about the city 8,500 troops. These were 

 scattered from the cemetery around to Aguadores. 

 In front of us, actually in the trenches, there could 

 not by any possible method of figuring have been 

 less than 6,000 men. You can twist it any way 

 you want to; the figures I have given you are ab- 

 solutely correct, at least they are absolutely on the 

 side of safety. 



It is difficult for me to withstand the temptation 

 to tell what has befallen some of my men since the 

 regiment disbanded; how McGinty, after spending 

 some weeks in Roosevelt Hospital in New York 

 with an attack of fever, determined to call upon his 

 captain, Woodbury Kane, when he got out, and pro- 

 curing a horse rode until he found Kane's house, 

 when he hitched the horse to a lamp-post and strolled 

 in; how Cherokee Bill married a wife in Hoboken, 

 and as that pleasant city ultimately proved an un- 

 congenial field for his activities, how I had to send 

 both himself and his wife out to the Territory ; how 

 Happy Jack, haunted by visions of the social meth- 

 ods obtaining in the best saloons of Arizona, ap- 

 plied for the position of "bouncer out" at the Execu- 

 tive Chamber when I was elected Governor, and how 

 I got him a job at railroading instead, and finally 

 had to ship him back to his own Territory also ; how 



