Sergeant Cash, one of the "Rough Riders" who was wounded in the battle before Santiago, and the first wounded man to reach Washington, in a conversation with a news-paper reporter said:—
"The health of the men where I was was good. We did everything we were told not to do in the way of diet, and made out very well. We were told to drink nothing but filtered water, and not to eat fruit. Instead of this, we drank no filtered water, but took that from the streams, which was abundant and good, and ate great quantities of fruit, which we relished and which did us no harm."
