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On sick leave from wounds received in action at Fort San Juan, Cuba, July 1, 1898. Majors .-- J.
Milton Thompson, commanding regiment and post of Fort Douglas, Utah.
Alfred C.Markley, with regiment, commanding post of Fort D.A.Russell, Wyoming. Chaplain .-- Allen Allenworth, Post Treasurer and in charge of schools. Adjutant .-- Joseph D.Leitch, recruiting officer at post. Quartermaster .-- Albert Laws. On July 1, 1898, our regiment was not a part of the firing line, and was not ordered on that line until the fire got so hot that the white troops positively refused to go forward.
When our commander, Lieutenant-Colonel E.H.Liscum, was ordered to go in he gave the command "forward, march," and we moved forward singing "Hold the Fort, for we are coming," and on the eastern bank of the San Juan river we walked over the Seventy-first New York Volunteer Infantry.
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