The Defence of Duffer's Drift

Entered July 5, 1904, at the Post Office at Washington, D.C., as second-class matter, under act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1904, by the U.S. Infantry Association. All rights r...

After vainly trying until bright daylight to see the enemy in order to do some damage in return, so many men were hit, and the position seemed so utterly hopeless, that I had to...

In about a quarter of an hour we had had five men shot through the head, the most exposed part. The mere raising of a head to fire seemed to be absolutely fatal, as it had on a...

After dark, by which time we had one man killed and two wounded, the firing died away into a continuous but desultory rifle-fire, with an occasional dropping shell from the guns...