We were with this battery throughout the San Juan fighting, and we grew to have the strongest admiration for Parker as a soldier and the strongest liking for him as a man.

During our brief campaign we were closely and intimately thrown with various regular officers of the type of Mills, Howze, and Parker.

We felt not merely fondness for them as officers and gentlemen, but pride in them as Americans.

It is a fine thing to feel that we have in the army and in the navy modest, efficient, gallant gentlemen of this type, doing such disinterested work for the honor of the flag and of the Nation.

No American can overpay the debt of gratitude we all of us owe to the officers and enlisted men of the army and of the navy.
Of course with a regiment of our type there was much to learn both among the officers and the men.