OCR Text |
Show 1HE HEROIC 24TH INFANTRY. - A correspondent of the New York Sun hopes that the President on mature reflection; will call a halt on the execution 'of his order dismissing in dishonor. - .and with forfeiture of the right to civil employment by the Government, the battalion of the Twenty-fifth 'infantry, some of whose members coinmitte'd murder and mayhem .at Brownsville, Texas, and his plea is X ounded on rthe statement .that it was that regiment -afSiboney.dnrimg jhe Cuban campaign. that volun- :te3ered to f aee the scourge of yillow, fever under conditions con-ditions that -made, the disease. more ''to be dreaded than "Mauser bullets. :-r Three -or four, of the Twenty-fifth regiment at Brownsville jgot. into a rumpus at 6ome dive, we pre--Bume, killed one or two men and committed other Outrages, and when called upon no one of the regi- - jnent would give away the criminals,, so the President dismissed the whole-battalion ironi the ariny. '::- But. thee Sun reminds ithe correspondent that it as not the Twenty-fifth regiment, that was at Sib- .3ney and xhat. tooK-care oi tne sick, Dut rawer it .Tas the Twenty-fourth. ' . r -?" We believe, the Sun is mistaken. We believe the ".Twenty-fifth yr&t ; at Siboney; but the Twenty-fourth jwas the one that stormed San Juan Hill and ' later ; volunteered to take care of the sick. The Sun's review of this is a .yivid reminder to ' Bait Lakers f. that jegiment lit was here at Fort :;Itouglas :a jpod while, and it stormed. San Juan t-JEll side.by ;-sidewith theVfamous Sixteenth, that Zfr&K also stationed here a good while, v ! , '" In that assault the Twenty-fourth lost three offi-jiters offi-jiters and ten men killed, and four officers and seven-s seven-s jy)ne mien wounded,-and the Sun recalls the report made. byi Mai.. Alfred -Ci Markley;" (another name stfrery familiar to' us here). j -From 1 the ? Sun we condense a. .few statements HBjade mthatwppri ofIaj.-lTarkl:;..'::,:,.. . . - r'-. Gen.rTonh yfho -juirajaand of the Spanish jrjtroop's at.5anti.ago,7capitulatM on July - J4, and on I-5the 15th iioe Twepty-.f PRrth yvere marched back down T-fche hill- to Siboney.-! Arriving there, Capt. A: A. Au- W. company:U; called for volunteers. for, the pest icamp, explaining at the same time r. the risks of the -:pervice. . .. . " "... J ' Maj.Iarkiey .says : ; "'T "Pifteen gallant fellows responded from my com: "-pany, and this 'fine" example ;soen produced more, .than werVtieeded f all purposes. . ? ' c.': SityfiTe irarses were needed for the pest camp End. seventy nurses and attendants - for. the hospital 4roper. . ' ' - rlt may be explained that the pest camp was- here tbe yHlow fever, patients were, quartered, '. ' r. in a little whire, however, aecording to Markley V report, the 5-eilow lever pati6nt1ncreased so that all ' ;the hospitals were .overrun With them and eyery- ' jaan in the-regiment, numbering' 436 men,' was m? ' : . V-- ' . ' ' ' '-.'' " -' |