Don Stivers Signed and Numbered A Day of Honor Print in Northbrook, IL

During the Battle of Las Guasimas, Cuba, June 24, 1898, Major Bell of the first Cavalry had gone down with a wound to the leg. Captain C. G. Ayers attempted to carry him from the field, but his shattered leg bone broke through the skin causing so much pain * that Ayers had to let him down. The fire was so intense that in 1 plot of ground fifty feet square sixteen me were killed or wounded. Still, there was a fellow American soldier badly hurt and in need of assistance, and Private Augustus Walley - of the * famed "Buffalo Soldiers" - his compassion overcoming self-preservation, ran to help. Between Ayers and Walley, Bell was dragged to safety. This courageous effort gave Private Augustus Walley his 2nd nomination for the Medal of Honor. * * * * Artist