These officers are: First Lieutenants V.A.
Caldwell and J.A. Moss, and Second Lieutenant J.E. Hunt. It
is my opinion that the two companies first deployed could
not have reached the fort alone, and that it was the two
companies I ordered to their support that gave them the
power to reach it. I further believe that had we failed to
move beyond the Fourth Infantry the fort would not have been
taken that night.
The Twenty-fifth Infantry lost one officer killed[18] and
three wounded, and seven men killed and twenty-eight
wounded.
Second Lieutenant H.W. French, adjutant of Captain Scott's
battalion, arrived at the fort near the same time as the
other officers.
I request that this report be forwarded to corps
headquarters.
Very respectfully,
A.S. DAGGETT,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Commanding.
General Chaffee's statement is not to be questioned for a moment.
There is not the least doubt that the troops, as organizations arrived
at the fort in the order he describes. General Lawton says: "General
Chaffee's brigade was especially charged with the duty of assaulting
the stone fort, and successfully executed that duty, after which a
portion of the Twenty-fifth, and a portion of Bates' brigade, assisted
in the work, all of which is commendable.
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