Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-03

pickets. The firing was heavy until
midnight and only desultory from that
hour until daylight on Sunday morn
ing, the 5th The full details of what
tho regiment did that day are given
above in the statement by Sergeant
Major REIN. On the 1 1th it made the
fight of its career in assaulting Fill
Pine lines around Manila. Directly in
front Of the regiment was a Chinese
hospital, used for barracks by the in
surgents. 1t was fortified with heavy
stone wall and sheltered about 1000
Filipinos. Around the stronghold were
blockhousos, all manned, and the in
surgents received the Pennsylvanians on
their advance with terrific fire. Colo
mel Hawkins led in four companies, and
while the line was moving cautiously
in unison with the Montana and Da-
kota regiments on the tanks the Penn
sylvanians broke into run, at the same
time cheering wildly. Colonel Haw-
kins, describing this incident, says:
With growls. with howls and Pennsyl-
vania cheers my dandies went after the
heather, and hell and all It's gloomy
caverns seemed to have opened up. Our
men never slackened their onslaught nor
faltered. and although bullets rained
around ther not man finched. am
more than ever proud of tho boys of tho
Tenth. Sometimes they do annoy mo
(some of them), but how they do flghtl
They get so impetuous that restraint is
necessary under fire, and / have never
found any tagging or showing cow
ardice. Well may the keystone State
feel proud of such sons. They have done
her credit and honor the nation In
camp a rollickng. mischief loving set; in
battle a hope and anchor you can safely
| moor to.
A member of the regiment describing
, the days work says;
Pennsylvania. with Dakota and Mon
tana troops, took first the Chinese hos
! pttal, Chino cemetery and the cathedral
at the top of the hill with a fine charge.
| covered by the Utah battery. We got un-
| der fire and in sight of the cathedral just
| when the Utah battery landed the shell
| that drove the natives home. The gem
erals were in the thickest Of 1t all. Ma
| tor General Macarthur, our general, and
| his staff were on the ridge while we
were going up. The colonel, lieutenant
colonel and Major Bierer made them
! selves solid with the men, and Major
ton. led the Pennsylvanians right up the
hill. waving his hat for them to come on.
He Is the talk Of the army.
| There were two battle events of the
day in which the Tenth was conspicu-
ous. The Filipinos fed from the hospi-
tai, and the Pennsylvanians leaped the
walls Of the hospital position only to
see their enemy rallying on the crest OF
a hill half a mile away, crowned by a
strong church building. After resting
for an hour the line went forward on a
charge for the possession of this HILL
called the San Juan hill of the Philip
pines. Spectators declared this charge
the most picturesque scene of the war
around Manila. The navies looked on,
as did the foreign consuls and attaches
The Tenth had the center of the line
in this grand charge.
Colonel Hawkins was just to the
right of the center with a company
commanded by his own son. There was
little cover to be had from the fire Of
the Filipino sharpshooters, Wire fences
were encountered and torn down and
without a halt at any obstacle, firing
as they advanced, the "sons of Father
Penn swept up the slope Major
Behrer. commanding the left Of the
regiment, was wounded by Mauser
bullet in the shoulder. AS the line
neared the fortress at the top of the