The Columbus journal., 1898-09-21
At ExRils.
july 81. 1XS

piano y. The house u native Ne had .
hlcs wet. The folks i've ~ sood
house, have good furniture, aud afs
clean. The Two young ladies II the
family are both good musicians.
Ne went 10 the village. saw tEs Old
Catholic church, built Ia 1914. Il is o,e
of the fnsst ! ever saw
We returned Aonetifed aud henysy,
to leasn that We were 10 20 IL tue ffort
| in the morning, SO about o'cloca ysstef,
da! rlofnihz found ns under TIRE q! the
Spanish xuns. Cannon aud ,its balls
We're fiyiog pretty tack. ! Mas acting
as Majors tfnmpetef, aud stayed With
hitl. The boys got INTO the entisnch-
nlsnts and ! went to the battalion head
quarters. bich We're established ia an
abandoned English club house about
three fourtLs II mile fsoin Manila q
fiae place buii, of bamboo and nahoy
any. All the furniture left was a piano
which was TOO heavy fo, The natives o.
carry otf. tits built UP FROM the ground
abQnt Elk feet, aud, being above the
/ breast works, is fiddied with bullets,
and when they go; W firing, and the
bullets got to singing through the build
lBx, We changed our quarters 10 the
ground under the porch on the s0ath
side opposite the enemy.
Our boys worked all I!pht throwing
Hp breast works within 100 yards of the
Spanish works.
August ], ~
last night while We We're ali sound
asleep, at ii ~ our first battle opened.
At II A the trumpet sounded to arms,
and ] repeated the call. The boys all
turned out aud the regiment was formed.
We STOOD ia line three quarters III ah
hour, a6d then went to our quarters,
where We are yet. The Columbus boys
and the California boys went out tO sup
port the Tenth Pennsylvania. We were
ordered not tJ s0 tO sleep. md the boys
were given IA hundred rounds. more
shells.
We heard this morning that fifteen Of
the Tenth We're Killed, aud forty five
w0nHdet The spanish. attacked our
night Hank, md came onto the boys be
fore they could realize whui iind hap
peHed, Bat the b0ys did not finch, aud
drove them back behind the walls, tax
ing their breast works.
t'ennsy ylyania had eight killed aud i've
w1und.d.
August z
We are going out this morning tn
take The trenches, Dewey has given
hem III tomorrow Ia surrender.
August 8
Well, We ars back, and didn't pet INTO
The light I mean Ia. X. We were On
the right Hank, aud the attack WAS ON
the left. They had quite IL battle. 90.
q, David City. had ohs mnn killed. u
L.0 ~.
part 1T his skull just over his left ear.
They had four others woun.ir.l. The
Spanish wefa within twenty yards nf
n0r intranahnenis, They sny that after
Wa hai quit firing, the Spanish were
carrying ~ their dead Tor al,ont two
heass, 4 fsw .isad Spaniar.is laid near
our intranohmenis Yet this morning.
I received y"ur letter this morning,
written jane ~, tho ii,st one sine. We
left tinn"lulu. and oh. how glad l was
Ia seo ~
They afs landing the tToops from tho
Third expedition, our recruits arc not
on u, ani the Monterey is not here yoi
! would hardly give II cent for our livss
hafs, fos Ws AFRO in tho reach ,two miles,
of tho spanish guns all the time. They
aonld at any moment they see III, tear
our camp all IL pieces. aud when W. go
oul into tho trenches. there are not more
than l,,As' IT Us. ahd " hen tho Spanish
make All attack. they eomp about i've ar
six thousand
lam writing an an oll coal barge an
tho beach, Tho ti.ia Ia running hish,
higher than u has frr years, sS tho na-
tiVas say, ean eco n,We,'s ;ieet, the
foreign ilset, Manila, taVite ani oii
Create, II Ia grand sight, 1! ID u
loVety night,
AnsAaI 4;
Alter u. ka iitst ons sen.vnI Sssief-
.iaS moinins No lrit eamp o. So eus ~
the tront hut stappei at tho fe5srVe
post, about q miis this siis the tTsns
line, AMI commenced thtn~ Ins ny hEes.sI-
works, AMI worked I'LL dark, AtpaI
!:.G the run ecnsaen.sN, shs,lt grape
ant canister, saiia shot ani maaseg hal-
lets sang uVef ana aFuuai ~ like hal,
MaSins hargsele siis,'sgN ani thea
game the aF<,ss - msNs - she tToas
trenches We started eas IN asGssis nles
tN a aaa y. h all msxs>s w; although
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