Bucky O’Neill was killed at Santiago, showing the same absolute indifference to life, the same courage, the same gallant readiness to sacrifice everything on the altar of an ideal, that his father had shown when he died in Meagher’s brigade in the Civil War.
Roosevelt draws a parallel between the courage of Bucky O’Neill and his father's bravery in the Civil War.
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