Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — How He Crossed the Bridge. [ARTICLE]

How He Crossed the Bridge.

The unaffected modesty which marks the best type of courage is one of the most winning traits a man can have, be he soldier or civilian. During a recent battle in the Philippines, a Kansas regiment was brought to a halt at a wrecked bridge. The trying situation Is thus described by a hero of the war, Lieut. Col. Little: “As the colonel was across and my battalion at the head of the column, my bugler, Berry of Company F, and I were the first to reach the bridge, and, of course, the first to cross. “I’ve read of men crossing bridges under fire at the head of columns, and supposed the sensation was peculiar. It was not. A man simply tries to paddle along as fast as he can, and get across. I beat Berry over, but we haven’t decided yet whether I was the braver or the worse scared.”