The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-10
His watch was shot Into Him.


the Light Batteries of the Sixth num-
bered among their officers in the Philip
pines one name, at least, as renowned
for daring and devotion in Indian battle
as it became for skill, courage and ability
N action against the insurgents in front
of Manila-Harry Hawthorne-he whose
watch was shot into his system, driven
by Sioux bullet, at the battle of Wound
ed Knee. Only two regiments of regular
infantry were with us when the Filipino
war broke out-the Fourteenth and Tween
ty-third-both famous as Indian fighters
and but few of the men who led their
stalWart attachments in old Arizona and
Wyoming days remain with them. Death
or other promotion had long since removed
them from the rolls YetsOveushine, now
colonel of the Twenty<thiid and brigadier
general of volunteers, was a captain in
the fighting Fifth Infantry in the days
of its tiercest campaigns. Potter, major
commanding the Fourteenth was a grad
uate in frontier service with the Seven
tenth Infantry, and Murphey and Nc
Cannon had served a quarter of CEN
fury on the frontier with the Fourteenth.
Big Brave Lawton.
Then there was another, a veteran,
who wore the chevron of sergeant in
the company of engineers when it sailed
in to help the squadron of the Fourth Cav
airy that hot day along The Pasig bluffs,
between Pateros and Paranaque. Quarter
of a century ago he wore the yellow lace
of the same grade in Payne's troop of the
Fifth Cavalry-was the best shot in the
regiment. and won a name for GOODNESS
and bravery in many fight. He looked
not a day older in Manila than when he
was hailed as Paddy Mill of the Fifth
HorSe-and who can say that the expert
ences of the Indian campaigns were not
of the utmost value when, as more than
once happened, the Filipino rifles blazed
at them from three sides al once?
And so, just as in the old days of the
decade Immediately succeeding the civil
war we now speak of Lawton among the
Indian fighters at Manila as foremost
and the only attribute he seems to have
outgrown Is caution. There he is, mag
nificently tal, athletic and muscular, gray
as a badger, but alert as a terrier His
keen eyes have lost nothing of their fire
and his stride nothing of its scope or
elasticity. He can outwalk and outrde
many a youngster even now and to say he
is tireless puts it altogether too mildly. He
came to my headquarters the day after
his assignment TO the command of the First
Division and we rode out to the lines to-
gether, he on a big black American horse
and on little runt OF a Filipino pony
The contrast was so funny the soldiers on
guard could hardly keep from laughing
some of them didn't-after we had got a
few rods away. The line had been Sc
lected when he had only a small force
with which to hold il, but by the time
Lawton arrived the Twentieth and Twen>
ty-Second Infantry had been sent 20 rein
force us and the Fourth came with him.
so he decided TO push farther out to where
long and moderately ridge crossed the
front from the Pasig toward Ovenshine's
left. The Filipino camps. we knew. were
not far over that ridge and their outposts
could sweep il with their Mausers from a
distance, while my volunteers with their
hard-kicking Springfields could not reach
them. The regulars. however. came with
their long-ranged "Krags," and about the
first thing Lawton did was to order the
selection of a dozen crack shots from each
company in the First Brigade, and for
these he obtained our latest model of mag
azine rifle.
LawtOn's Plucky Son.
This placed us on better terms with "the
little brown men,, and now Lawton was
ready for an aggressive move. A most
gifted correspondent of a great New York
periodical closed a capital description of
the general with the information that he
was a bachelor, yet the first time Lawton
reconnotered that ridge a chip of the old
block, a gallant little fellow in his early
teens, followed his fathers movements
on Filipino pony and took his baptism
VI IRE from lHe llSufBent MauSerS tdr
more coolly, 1 dare say, than did the de-
voted wife and mother three miles away
in Manila the news that her boy had more
than one close shave that afternoon. 1t
was Gods mercy that spared them both
for the underbrush down the westward
slope was full of lurking Tagals. and Law
ton had only squad of troopers 20 escort
him.
A day or two after he rode the old line
with me 10 "get acquainted" as he said
with the officers of the First Brigade. ana
after we had reached Haystack Knoll and
the earthworks in advance of Cemetery
Hight, what did he do but dismount
straddle the trenches and go stalking out
over the rice fields straight towards
little hight that had never been without
its Filipino sharpshooters until our fell
lows got their Krags, and might still har-
Dor batch of them. He got over ground
like a stag hound, with long. springy
strides and ordering a dozen Califor-
mans to follow and to cover" the front
as quickly as possible. l chased after
him. He reached the top without turning
a hair and proceeded to climb and stand
erect OH a big rock a the summit mark
that could be seen for miles around.
got there blown" and rebukeful After
five minutes survey he slid down and
again strobe away toward the ridge that
spanned the horizon directly to the south
Only our scouting parties had crawled
thither before
Flying bullets Did Not Scare Him.
Our Californians looked concerned at