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1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

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264 THE SCROLL.Emerson, supposed to be a citizen of Germany, was permitted to land at.San Juan de Puerto Rico, but, when he had started on a tour of observationthrough the island, he was arrested and imprisoned. He cleverly managedto escape, and tracking his way across the mountains to the coast, he tookpassage on a small boat for the Danish West Indies. Lieutenant XVhitneyhaving joined him, both returned to Washington, to report in person toGeneral N. A. Miles and the Secretary of War.EDWIN EMERSON, JR., ROUGH RIDER,War Correspondent in the Far East for the New York World and Collier's Weekly.At Washington he received an urgent invitation from Theodore Rooseveltto join the Rough Riders. He embarked on the next transport for Santiago,arriving there just in time to enlist in Colonel Roosevelt's regiment as it wasmoving into action. His bearing in his first engagement was such that hewas mentioned for gallantry in action and attracted the favorable attentionof Joseph Wheeler, commanding the cavalry division of which the Rough

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