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Following the Equator
Part 7

CHAPTER LXVII
18/27

Two of these were killed by the Boers themselves, by accident, the other by Jameson's army--one of them intentionally, the other by a pathetic mischance.

"A young Boer named Jacobz was moving forward to give a drink to one of the wounded troopers (Jameson's) after the first charge, when another wounded man, mistaking his intention; shot him." There were three or four wounded Boers in the Krugersdorp hospital, and apparently no others have been reported.

Mr.Garrett, "on a balance of probabilities, fully accepts the official version, and thanks Heaven the killed was not larger." As a military man, I wish to point out what seems to me to be military errors in the conduct of the campaign which we have just been considering.

I have seen active service in the field, and it was in the actualities of war that I acquired my training and my right to speak.
I served two weeks in the beginning of our Civil War, and during all that tune commanded a battery of infantry composed of twelve men.

General Grant knew the history of my campaign, for I told it him.


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