. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. ts grew faint. It is to their credit that with feAV excep-tions they did not flinch in that terrible ordeal. In what was afterwards christened the Bloody Angle, apiece of grassless ground at a ford which encompassing treesmade an ideal hiding-place for sharpshooters, even cool-headedofficers occasionally sought a sheltering bush. In doing soone of them called out to Colonel Roosevelt: Colonel, bet-ter get down or theyll pot you. To which the acting colonelof the Rough Riders, grimly biting the stump of a cigar
. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. ts grew faint. It is to their credit that with feAV excep-tions they did not flinch in that terrible ordeal. In what was afterwards christened the Bloody Angle, apiece of grassless ground at a ford which encompassing treesmade an ideal hiding-place for sharpshooters, even cool-headedofficers occasionally sought a sheltering bush. In doing soone of them called out to Colonel Roosevelt: Colonel, bet-ter get down or theyll pot you. To which the acting colonelof the Rough Riders, grimly biting the stump of a cigar, re-plied : Im not going to lie down for any confounded Spaniard,and he stalked about, fortimately uninjured. No time was lost in deploying from right and left, but itwas clear that the advance was confused, and it was inevitablein such a country. Looking at San Juan hill from El Poso, itappeared to consist of but one very high hill, whereas it was aseries of hills, steep and difficult and forminjo; a veritable Gib-raltar against an assault by infantry. Erom the first the o <. THE EMERGENCY AND THE HERO 709 Spanish had every advanrage of position. As onr men ad-vanced they were met by an ever-increasing cross fire pouredfrom the wooded eminences on both flanks which could notbe seen from the road even by the skirmish line. Every littlemound, every inch of the country w^as perfectly known to theenemy and had been measured and filled with the Americans had to cross one of the glades or clearingsit seemed as if the whole Spanish fire was concentrated uponit; yet the same thing was happening in different places. TheAmericans were in a continual ambush. Where the volleyscame from and why the bullets reached them in such showersthey could not realize. It was like being shot at in the darkand yet seeing men fall like tenpins. It was no wonder thatin such a deadly labyrinth some heart weakened and com-mands got mixed up and orders went astray. The division had be
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