We knew perfectly well that we could give as much assistance there as anywhere else, and that it was our duty to remain until relieved.

And we did.

White soldiers do not, as a rule, share this feeling with colored soldiers.

The fact that a white man knows how well he can make a place for himself among colored people need not be discussed here.
I remember an incident of a recruit of my troop, with less than two months' service, who had come up to our position during the evening of the 1st, having been separated from the troop during the attack on San Juan Hill.

The next morning, before the firing began, having seen an officer of the Tenth, who had been sent to Colonel Roosevelt with a message, returning to the regiment, he signified his intention of going back with him, saying he could thus find the regiment.