Note 47 — Chapter XXVI · Murder As a Governmental Agency
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“He47 can never forget the magnificent dash back into the wide, ugly, swollen stream, made by Captain Edward L. King of General Lawton’s staff, as he spurred his horse in, followed by several troopers who had responded to his call for mounted volunteers to accompany him in an effort to save the lives of the men who went down. Their generous work proved futile. But it was inspired partly by common dread of what they knew would happen to any half-drowned soldier who might be washed ashore far away from the column and captured. If an army was ever ‘in enemy’s country,’ it was then and there.”48