. 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 . ees brigade east, and Miless brigade remained south. Captain Capron, father ofCaptain Capron who was killed in the fight of La Quasina, had his four guns occupya hill to the southeast of the town, about 2,500 yards from the nearest fortified pointof the enemys line. At 6:30 oclock Capron opened fire. The Spaniard
. 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 . ees brigade east, and Miless brigade remained south. Captain Capron, father ofCaptain Capron who was killed in the fight of La Quasina, had his four guns occupya hill to the southeast of the town, about 2,500 yards from the nearest fortified pointof the enemys line. At 6:30 oclock Capron opened fire. The Spaniards answered immediately from the trenches. Chaffees brigade advanced in extended order from the northwest, the SeventhInfantry on the right, the Twelfth on the left, the Seventeenth as reserve; LudlowsEighth and Twenty-second Infantry advanced in the same way from southwest, withthe Twenty-second Massachusetts Volunteers in reserve. The American firing linesuffered considerably, especially from Spanish sharpshooters hidden in trees, fromwhere they had a splendid view of the advancing skirmishers, remaining unseenthemselves. In front of Chaffees brigade, between the two firing lines, there was a sort ofnatural embankment which it was necessary to occupy. The Seventeenth Infantry. PRIVATE PFISTERER RESCUED HIS COMRADE. — 383
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