The public will then learn that not every troop or company of colored soldiers who took part in the assaults on San Juan Hill or El Caney was led or urged forward by its white officer.
It is unfortunate that we had no colored officers in that campaign, and this thing of white officers for colored troops is exasperating, and I join with _The Age_ in saying our motto for the future must be: "No officers, no soldiers." PRESLEY HOLLIDAY, Sergeant Troop B, Tenth Cavalry.
Fort Ringgold, Texas, April 22, 1899.
* * * * * JACOB A.RIIS in _The Outlook_ gives the following interesting reading concerning the colored troopers in an article entitled "Roosevelt and His Men": [Illustration: GENERAL NELSON A.MILES.] "It was one of the unexpected things in this campaign that seems destined to set so many things right that out of it should come the appreciation of the colored soldier as man and brother by those even who so lately fought to keep him a chattel.

It fell to the lot of General 'Joe' Wheeler, the old Confederate warrior, to command the two regiments of colored troops, the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, and no one will bear readier testimony than he to the splendid record they made.
Of their patience under the manifold hardships of roughing it in the tropics, their helpfulness in the camp and their prowess in battle, their uncomplaining suffering when lying wounded and helpless.

Stories enough are told to win for them fairly the real brotherhood with their white-skinned fellows which they crave.

The most touching of the many I heard was that of a Negro trooper, who, struck by a bullet that cut an artery in his neck, was lying helpless, in danger of bleeding to death, when a Rough Rider came to his assistance.

There was only one thing to be done--to stop the bleeding till a surgeon came.