Charge Quotes
Southerners were paranoid that the relatively new Republican party leaders were conspiring to foment slave rebellions. In particular, they believed that the Republican party was behind John Brown’s failed slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry. For many Republicans, Brown’s raid was understandable and even inevitable and moral, but there was no assistance provided to Brown by the Republican party of even members of its leadership. Democrats attacked the Republicans with this charge. There were some strong abolitionists who were Republicans who did believe that violence to end slavery was not only moral but was inevitable due to the intransigence of the South.
The Americans were at the bottom of the hill and the Spanish were dug in at the top. They were able to pick the Americans off one by one. Roosevelt was planning on a frontal charge of his Rough Riders and Buffalo Soldiers he was commanding but his fellow officer’s men were in front of them. The officers had no orders to charge the top of the hill and the other officer would not order his men to charge. Led by Roosevelt, his men went through the other troops and charged the hill taking it in the famous Charge Up San Juan Hill (actually Kettle Hill).