Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1899 — The Bugler Who Forgot. [ARTICLE]

The Bugler Who Forgot.

It Is not often that an enlisted man gets a chance to run a part of the fight to suit himself. That chance, however, came to one bugler. Capt. Hannay, finding that L Company was too far away to hear orders, sent his bugler after the company to sound the charge. At the first notes L flew onward. It was right here that the bugler forgot, for the time being, that he was only the commanding officer's orderly. He saw another chance for L to move on the jump—too good a chance, he thought, to be lost. He sounded once more, and Lieut Ross, imagining, of course, that the order came from Capt Hannay, executed It Not even yet was the bugler’s thirst for forward action sated. He sounded again and again, as the heat of generalship made his blood flow fast and hot By the time the bugler came to himself and relinquished the duties of fight-director, the poor fellows of L Company were troubled with shortness of breath. In this brisk affair, according to the official report, the dead reached a total -of about sixty, Including some officers. It is the enemy’s dead that is meant, of course. Twentyone Mausers and six Remingtons were the spoils of this field.—Manila correspondent in Leslie's Weekly.