. BALDWIN,
Lieutenant Colonel, Tenth Cavalry,
Commanding.

[A TRUE COPY]

Second lieutenant, Tenth Cavalry, acting
regimental adjutant.

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"A foreign officer standing near our position when
we started to make that charge was heard to say,
'Men, for Heaven's sake don't go up that hill. It
is impossible for human beings to take that
position and you cannot stand the fire.'
Notwithstanding this with a terrific yell we
rushed up to the enemy's works and you know the
result. Men who were near said that when this
officer saw us make the charge he turned his back
and wept."

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Camp A. G. Forse,
Huntsville, Ala., December 1, 1898.
The Adjutant General, U. S. Army,
Washington, D. C.,
Through military channels,

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following
report of the part taken by Troop D, Tenth
Cavalry, in the engagement before Santiago de Cuba
so far as it is known to me. As we approached the
foot of the hill our artillerymen fired over our
heads at the enemy on top of it. This caused a
slowing up on the general advance. When I was
about half way up the hill I was disabled by three
bullet wounds received simultaneously. I had
already received one, but did not know it. What
took place after my disablement is known to me
only through the statement of my men and others
subsidized by the depositions enclosed herewith.
My platoon went to the top of the hill with the
infantry and was soon afterward conducted by
Lieutenant J. J. Pershing, R. O. M., Tenth
Cavalry, to the line of the Tenth Cavalry some
distance to the right.

Very respectfully,
JOHN BIGELOW, JR.,
Tenth Cavalry, Commanding,
Troop D.

In the report of Major Wint, November 28th, 1898, to the
adjutant-general is the following: "Lieutenant Pershing, R.O.M., was
with the Second Squadron w