The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-28
CAPT. CARTOONS ACCOUNT
He Says the Minnesota Boys Behav-
ed SpIendidIy Under Fire.

ed SpIendidIy Under Fire.
Capt. w. A. Carlton, under date of
Aug. 10, writes of the battle TO his
wife in Minneapolis
We left camp at a. m and took
our position just near where we had
company outpost duty two days be-
lore. Our battalion was under COM
mand of Capt. COrriston, and we were
assigned to duty as regimentaI re-
serves. We laid in a ditch in the mud
and rain from a. m. to 10 a. m, when
the Olympia and two small gunboats
opened fire on the Spanish fort. which
had made us so much trouble, and gave
1t good pounding. Then the Utah
battery opened up and DESTROYED the
blockhouse at the end of the Spanish
Ine, ana an hour or SO later we were
al! ordered forward. We were, of
course, several hundred yards in the
rear OF the firing line, which was COM
pCsed or our own two first battalions
and the Astor battery. They advanced
In SkirmiShes and found the enemy
at the small church called Santa Anna.
Here there was a red hot scrap. and
our men constructed a hasty earthwork
across the road and helped the Astor
battery (who had two killed and eight
wounde0 to regain their guns. which
they had been driven from, and the
battery and the Thirteenth Minnesota
and the Fourteenth United States in
fantry finally took the blockhouse bv
a desperate charge and gave les
Espanoles surprise party After
thls the Spanlards retreated to Manila.
ana we reassembled the regiment and
marched to place where we hOisted
the American flag and gave 1t a march
ing salute.
When our battalion advanced we
started from place marked "A" on
the enclosed map and advanced along
the road through Sartel and Then I1n
to the turn beyond the blockhouse
marked b" Here we laid down and
listened to the diminishing on abead
by ana by zip went a bullet overhead
ana tnen a perfect storm of them fol.
lowed, and in a few minutes the air,
overhead sounded like sawmflI or
49, 80 niHg' JUST mere a thing happened
Whlch SHOWS how easily mems feelings
are excited when under a great strain
Inc bullets overhead were couino. low:
er and lower and beginning to scatter
leaves and branches on US. when y
poor white kitty came running down
the foad, apparently badly frightened
py the lighting, and Just when Sba 1,1oS
ip front OF Company F a bullet wen n3
spank into tree trunk at orr side
ana the poor kitty turned a sOmprsaI1I
ana started the other way. And how
the men laughed and cheered the moo
KITTY After we had been here under
IRE Tor ten minutes, Col. Ames cana
oIch ana called out to Capt. Corriston
axe companies [ and F and rein
Iorce the firing line" We started aIono
the road and Corriston told his huoia7,
TO play double time" He did so i,lSt
as we turned the corner of tba 800
marked e. and the bugler had bard@
~ prayed 1t when he was instantly
killed. At this point Company r ba,G
two men hit, one Private Albert H i9@u
SON. shot through the shoulder end
the other Private Charles TittIe sbnt
III the right leg. The sound Of ~
ouIIets all about us at this point UaS
soHlethlng terrible. We were being fir~
gu upon py a battalion of Spanish who
np ;, ca ' 81, just IN rear of blockhouse
e, p ana the bullets came from oI,,.
ie1t. There was just a continued wb Et'
ihS, humm1ng, buzzing and zinnino-
- InaI MADE fellow think of his p,ifo
II Il. ne mad one. The men behaved snTa,,
1 Iy ana kept their heads beautifIIII,
~ lay GOWN again just beyond tba
sndJo,o1, CIe ROAD, as the firing had
49, ttpuuehly ceased ahead Of us. aItbono.b
I IIat on our left kept up for some tiITsa Il
w could not reply, as we couIdn,t iii
~" Iar our troops had advanced 10
yond the fort ''iiCeo De-
was an extremely trying nositio,,
DIS we mad to lie down and 49, a.
So So, ooGioh Shoot back. a regular Of,
ilcer VINO came along a few r,in,,taz
later said we were hevine t,sI yes
piece or work to do than those Nh
were actually fighting Then tha fir;no
ceased ana we marched into Erroit6S
For tWenty-four hours our hattaIior,
ulu outpost duty, keeping the insur-
sehCS OUT or Manila. We remained
tllere until o'clock yesterday. ana
w 80 HT LelleVen' and are now CHARTERED
a hov
spanish soldiers used to be housed
The Thirteenth Minnesota hoe bo5
more wounded than all the other com
mands together, and three officers arc
among the number. We had onlv oon
Killed Patterson, Capt. Corriston's
6ugler, although Capt. Seebach NAV
die. 1 had two men sunstruck ana
Lieut.. Charles Clark also was SIM mn
struck. The other two wounded on
GERS are Capt. Bjornstad and Tjent
Bunker, and both are getting on finely
| our other two battalons are ont a
| outpost duty, and we will probably ha
sent out this afternoon. 1t is now Mon
| day noon and I have not had nv
| clothes or nor had good wash since
Saturday morning. After the fight we
were twenty-four hours without food
and hive had war enough to last a few
Gays. The insurgents are becoming
| very troublesome because they are
kept out of Manila and we may have
to whip them plenty tonight or tomor-
row. They are dirty lot of robbers
| and cutthroats If I ever saw any.
| The total loss as near as we can FIND
| out so far is three killed, three missing
! and thirty-seven wounded on our side
| The Spanish loss IS estimated from 15C
| to 800 killed and 400 wounded. The
slaughter where the shells from the
| fleet reached the fort was awful. One
| eight-inch shell from the Olympia kill
| ed sixty-one Spaniards. AS soon as
| the Spaniards were driven out of the
| Santa Anna block house they reiterated
| to the city and all surrendered. The
| Spanish flag was hauled down and Old
Glory raised over the main fort at Ma