. 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 . ut into the open to help his commander; Second Lieutenant C. D. Roberts, CorporalU. G. Buzzard, and Privates John Brookins, T. J. Graves, George Berg and BrunoWende followed. Berg and Brookins were shot down; they managed to crawl orroll back into shelter. The others half dragged, half carried the poor colonel be
. 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 . ut into the open to help his commander; Second Lieutenant C. D. Roberts, CorporalU. G. Buzzard, and Privates John Brookins, T. J. Graves, George Berg and BrunoWende followed. Berg and Brookins were shot down; they managed to crawl orroll back into shelter. The others half dragged, half carried the poor colonel behindthe embankment amidst a withering fire from the trenches. As has been said, theMedal of Honor was their reward for this act of devotion and bravery. In the Seventh United States Infantry, fighting shoulder to shoulder, so to speak,with the Seventeenth, Private Herman Pfisterer, of Company C, was so fortunate asto rescue a wounded comrade out of the Mauser fire without being injured too, gained the Medal of Honor for this brave deed. The cut in the road was soon filled with wounded and killed, and shortly afternoon the Fourth and Twenty-fifth Regiments of Colonel Miless Brigade receivedorders to deploy and advance; the First Regiment remained at Caprons — 384 — The Twenty-fifth Regiment advanced in the heaviest fire up to v^ithin fifty yardsof a stone house, from where the American sharpshooters were able to enfilade someof the enemys trenches. No further advantage ofground was gained by the Americans for two hoursand a half. At 1:30 Batess Brigade, the Thirdand Twentieth Regiments, filed into the firing linebetween the Fourth and Twenty-fifth situation became almost critical; GeneralChailee, with absolute contempt for the Mauserbullets raining about him, exposed himself reck-lessly and is said to have rallied in person a num-ber of young soldiers who felt their place in theline almost too uncomfortable for keeping it. About then an or
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