. 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 . orward boiler and the starboard engine and disablingthe steering gear. The torpedo boat was helpless and on fire, but none of the crewof twenty-five was injured sofar. The Hudson, seeing the condition of the Winslow,went bravely to her help. A hawser was thrown on board the Winslow, andher executive ofiicer. Ensi
. 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 . orward boiler and the starboard engine and disablingthe steering gear. The torpedo boat was helpless and on fire, but none of the crewof twenty-five was injured sofar. The Hudson, seeing the condition of the Winslow,went bravely to her help. A hawser was thrown on board the Winslow, andher executive ofiicer. Ensign Worth Bagley, was busy with four other men endeav-oring to secure it when a Spanish shrapnel burst in their midst. All five men werekilled, Bagley and Fireman Daniels instantly; the other three died within a fewminutes. They were all fearfully torn by the fragments of the deadly shell. Butwhile Lieutenant Bernadou, the commander of the torpedo boat, who was himselfwounded, kept on firing the forward one-pounder as fast as he could, the Hudsonmanaged to land another line on board, which was made fast, and thus suc-ceeded in towing the wrecked Winslow out of reach of the Spanish guns. The fivevictims were the first Americans killed in the war. CUTTING THE CABLES AT CIENFUEGOS. c UTTiNG the cables at Cienfuegos marked anotherof the events of the Spanish-American Warwhich cannot be overlooked, if only for the condi-tions under which it was carried out. It occurredon May 11th, in the early stage of the war, and wasone of the most perilous and exciting of the under-takings. The men were obliged to do this work insmall boats, and were constantly under the fire ofthe Spaniards. The men were comparatively easymarks for the bullets, and but for the eventual pro-tection given them by the Nashville and Marble-head to which the men belonged, there can belittle doubt that none of them would have beenspared to tell the tale. The Marblehead and Nashville had been sent todo blockade duty on
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