CHAPTER V.
MANY TESTIMONIALS IN BEHALF OF THE NEGRO SOLDIERS.
A SOUTHERNER'S STATEMENT, THAT THE NEGRO CAVALRY SAVED THE "ROUGH RIDERS." Some of the officers who accompanied the wounded soldiers on the trip north give interesting accounts of the fighting around Santiago.

"I was standing near Captain Capron and Hamilton Fish, Jr.," said a corporal to the Associated Press correspondent to-night, "and saw them shot down.

They were with the Rough Riders and ran into an ambuscade, though they had been warned of the danger.

If it had not been for the Negro Calvary the Rough Riders would have been exterminated.

I am not a Negro lover.