[Following the Equator Part 7 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing 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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