If there had been any one in high command to supervise and press the attack that afternoon, we would have gone right into Santiago.

In my part of the line the advance was halted only because we received orders not to move forward, but to stay on the crest of the captured hill and hold it.
We are always told that three-o'clock-in-the-morning courage is the most desirable kind.

Well, my men and the regulars of the cavalry had just that brand of courage.

At about three o'clock on the morning after the first fight, shooting began in our front and there was an alarm of a Spanish advance.

I was never more pleased than to see the way in which the hungry, tired, shabby men all jumped up and ran forward to the hill-crest, so as to be ready for the attack; which, however, did not come.