Show BRAVE MEN ASSAILED or of I 1 hie ile twenty fourth wandered blan dered ty toy a now lork colonel new iw A aik oik oct 15 colonel downs commander of the seventy first new ao 10 NA 0 lc ic volunteer infantry infant in a speech in Y ofil ais iciEy cac 7 madei the following anc sensa senna ional nal statement concerning the tha twenty t y buith ulith united states lutra and re c cling upon its conduct at the battle I 1 of frau au juan two companies of the twenty fourth were lying down between beti een my men and it i ana its all their of ficere could do to keep them from stampeding to the lear X no regiment was N as better when thea the once got started than that same twenty fourth colored ahey fa faiad ed conditions never faced beffie by e ther ol 01 volunteers it was N as a bit b of the devent seventh first new york commanded by colonel that was chaigen thai chai ged by boveia cowardice coward ica at the battle of san juan it being alleged that th attlia the battalion to obey oi 01 ders to advance the men lying down dawn in the load and permitting the regulars to march over their prostrate pio strate bodies the official report of major general kent indicated that the battalion was in ill a 8 state of panic at a ci stage of tile the battle salt lake city utah oct 18 15 during the aftel noon apt ducat received a 1 dispatch atom a new lork orl paper asking for a statement in reply to colonel IO dawni WIls assel tion shortly after the receipt of the dl dis patch the captains of the severa several companies at lort fort douglas Dion glas held a meeting it was las according acco iding to all accounts is a very animated session hession it ans as decided to answer tile the new I 1 aik oz oik k a dispatch to captain ducat in tile the following lit jr tc arms rius the s of the tat twenty enty fourth infanta infantry to notice any stat at L eitnier tb er derogatory ot 0 commendatory i manati tig fi aiom out colonel downs doans Olli kers iera of the twenty fourth infantry |