The record-union., 1898-07-29
THEY FOUGHT UNDER DEWEY.
TWO sACRAMENTANs ON THE
BALTIMORE.
p. J. Morgado Writes About the
Naval Battle in the Bay
of Manila.


residents here. letter written on board
the "Raltimore" in Manila Bay. The
writer's are p j. Morgado and A " Iy-
Ter. second class musicians in the Navy
and now with Admiral Deweys fleet at
Manila. Accompanying the letter is
map made on shipboard, showing the
lines Of the great naval battle in which
Dewey sank the Spanish ships.
There came with the letter also
neat octave pamphlet of % pages, en-
titled. Battle of Manila Bay" 1t is
written by J. A Wisner and II. r.
Humphrey of the ships command, the
latter being ships printer. 1t is well
bound, neatly covered and is printed
in red. white and blue, and is typo
graphically very neat. 1t contains
complete roster of the ships population,
with their ranks and stations The
work was all done on shipboard.
We make copious extracts from the
letter to show something of the spirit
of the men forward" and what the
thought is that inspires them. Some
thing of this may be gathered also from
q crude stanza on the cover of the lit
tie book:
when the din of battle was Ger,
Revenged were the boys Of the Malne;
We have made the enemy lower
The flag of ancient Spain.
L. S. s. Baltimore,
Manila Bay, Island of LuZon
June Il, 1898.
Dear Friend Billy: This is to let you
know that / received your two letters
yesterday. Our dispatch boat McCul-
Tough left here on the 4th of May for
Hong Kong. TO bring some news, but
ha hac wit il
not until yesterday when an English
man-of-war came in saying that the
American Consul in Hong Kong had
about thirty bags of mail for our fleet.
We had not heard anything. The Con-
sui was afraid to trust the mail for our
fleet with any other ship.
You have no idea how we made our
sneak in here. and how we showed up In
front of them, and how we poured
eights and skies into the Spanish ships
on Sunday morning May the 1st. If
you only think it wasn't hot, by the
eternal you should have been here and
felt the heat.
Now, Bill we are only waiting for
the troops so that we can take Manila
and its 400, 900 people. These places
are hotter than Honolulu. We get all
the fruit we want, but we can't get
ashore. We get it from the bumboat,
which comes three times a day and
oh, my! 1t brings the best smoking
Manila cigars! Even Tyler is smoking
cigars here
l send you a map of the battle, by
which you can see how we sneaked in
here that Saturday night through the
forts at the entrance. You must under
stand that from the Isle of Corregidor
to the Cavite Navy Yard and arsenal il
is 20 miles and to Manila -. We came
in very slowly. and on Sunday morn
ing we We're on the other side of the
city. and we started up to the navy
yard to find the Spanish ships. And
SO, Bill. ! send you small book so
that You can read the whole account of
our little battle. This book was gotten
up by our ships printers, and 1t is
pretty fair for the first.
The map was made by our ships
writer You can tell all the boys that
Tyler and / are still standing pat. We
Were on board the Petrol last Sunday
visiting, and we had a few words with
Bill Maybury. His ship was never
touched by the enemy, but ours was hit
five or six times. One shot wounded
five men. 1t struck on the starboard
Went through to the port and back to
starboard and wounded the men, One
was unconscious for two days, but he
Is all right now.
Another thing. The Fillipinos cot
permission from Admiral Dewey to go
through the navy yard and help them
selves TO whatever they needed. and
they got all the rifles and ammunition
they wanted. and are now about three
the stuffing out of the Spaniards. and
when our troops get here there won't
be much for them to do. But the Ad-
miral told the rebel Chief not to capture
the city till our troops get here, and
then we will make it lively in the city
of Manila.
/ Will close. hoping to hear some
news from the flying squadron. We
are wishing they would come to time
and do something. We did quick work.
and / think they had eleven ships to
our six, and they had all sorts of forts
and batteries besides. Yours,
p. J. MORGADO.
Billy, I forgot to say to you that we
are still on the Baltimore. Tyler and /
let you know that we are on board the
fighting ship L. S. S. Baltimore. Three
cheers for the Balti-Hurrah, Hurrah,
Hurrahi TYLER.
A Residence Robbed.
While NJ Wise silent soundly in the