I told him to turn him over to a man who had two or three other captives, so that they should all be taken to the rear.

It was the only time I ever saw Jack look aggrieved.
"Why, Colonel, can't I keep him for myself ?" he asked, plaintively.

I think he had an idea that as a trophy of his bow and spear the Spaniard would make a fine body servant.
One reason that we never had the slightest trouble in the regiment was because, when we got down to hard pan, officers and men shared exactly alike.

It is all right to have differences in food and the like in times of peace and plenty, when everybody is comfortable.

But in really hard times officers and men must share alike if the best work is to be done.
As long as I had nothing but two hardtacks, which was the allowance to each man on the morning after the San Juan fight, no one could complain; but if I had had any private little luxuries the men would very naturally have realized keenly their own shortages.
Soon after the Guasimas fight we were put on short commons; and as I knew that a good deal of food had been landed and was on the beach at Siboney, I marched thirty or forty of the men down to see if I could not get some and bring it up.