. 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 . This was done. The Third Brigade,Wickoff, and two regiments of the Second, Pearsons Brigade, then passed to thefront on this road; the third regiment of the Second Brigade, the Twenty-first In-fantry, had followed the First Brigade on the main road. The edge of the woods, mentioned before, reaches a little beyond
. 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 . This was done. The Third Brigade,Wickoff, and two regiments of the Second, Pearsons Brigade, then passed to thefront on this road; the third regiment of the Second Brigade, the Twenty-first In-fantry, had followed the First Brigade on the main road. The edge of the woods, mentioned before, reaches a little beyond the right bankof the San Juan; beyond that there is a strip of flat ground some 250 yards wide and — 386 — covered with high grass, and then the ground ascended steeply, to about thirtydegrees. On this slope were the trenches and block-houses; the flat strip of grasswas criss-crossed with wire fences. The Americans deployed along the edge of the woods under an almost unbear-able fire by the Spaniards, who knew the exact distance of the woods and also sawhow the Americans caroe thicker and thicker, lining this edge. On the extreme right wing of the American position was supposed to be GeneralGarcia, with 1,000 Cuban insurgents; but nothing was heard or seen of them. Then. CEREWIONY OF PRESENTATION OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR. Corp. G. F. Berg, Sergt. U. G. Buzzard, and Srrgt. B. Wcnde, of the 17th U. S. Lijautri/,vrcciring their Medals of Honor at Sim FeriKiniln, Philippine Islands. came the cavalry — First, Ninth and Tenth Regiments—then the rough ridersunder Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt, as Colonel Wood had been detailed to thecommand of a brigade; while farther to the left were the Third and Sixth Cavalry,the whole division again under command of Wheeler, who had returned to thefighting line in spite of his illness. To the left of him followed the brigades ofHawkins, Wickoff and Pearson. When the American line was well established it was nearly noon. The enemysnearest posi
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