When Hawkins's soldiers captured the blockhouse, I, very much elated, ordered a charge on my own hook to a line of hills still farther on.

Hardly anybody heard this order, however; only four men started with me, three of whom were shot.

I gave one of them, who was only wounded, my canteen of water, and ran back, much irritated that I had not been followed--which was quite unjustifiable, because I found that nobody had heard my orders.

General Sumner had come up by this time, and I asked his permission to lead the charge.

He ordered me to do so, and this time away we went, and stormed the Spanish intrenchments.