. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . PRIVATE PFISTERER RESCUED HIS COMRADE. — 383. CHARLES D. ROBERTS, was ordered to do this about 10 oclock in the forenoon. Colonel Haskell led his menalong the cut of the El Caney road and deployed towards the crest. The ground wassimply criss-crossed by the wire fences. The Americans could not see anything of the
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . PRIVATE PFISTERER RESCUED HIS COMRADE. — 383. CHARLES D. ROBERTS, was ordered to do this about 10 oclock in the forenoon. Colonel Haskell led his menalong the cut of the El Caney road and deployed towards the crest. The ground wassimply criss-crossed by the wire fences. The Americans could not see anything of the Spanish trenches and were suffer-ing severely from the enemys incessant fire. It was here, about 400 yards from the Spanish linethat the commander of the Seventeenth, Lieutenant-Col-onel Haskell, fell mortally wounded in an attempt to getnearer the enemy through the tangle of the wire officers and five men of his regiment went bravelyforward to where he lay and carried him back undershelter of the embankment of a sunken road. They wereafterwards rewarded with the Medal of Honor. Thedetails of the episode were as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel Haskell and the regimental quartermaster. Lieu-tenant Dickinson, were passing through the bush towardsthe enemy in advance of the regimental line. Closebehind followed Compa
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