The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-03
In a WASHINGTON REGIMENT
ARE "A LOT OF MINNESOTA BOYS
FIGHTING IN THE PHIL
IPPINES
Fred GundIach, of White Bear,
Writes Home About His Company
and Their Experiences In the
FteId-WiII BE Glad to Get Home.


and Their Experiences I'm the
FteId-WiII BE Glad to Get Home.
Fred Gundlach, Of White Bear, is a
member of Company B, First Washing
ton regiment. Three-fourths of the mem
bers of this company are Minnesota boys.
In view OF these facts the following ex-
tracts from a letter received within few
+ days by Mrs. Gundlach cannot fail to
interest Minnesota readers especially:
Pasig City. April II, '9s-Dear Mother:
your letter of Feb. % received and was
very glad to hear from YOU. The only
thing / do not like is that it takes
letter too long to go and come. But that
Wlil, soon pc stopped, as we will be going
won't be glad. We are going back to
Frisco to do garrison duty at the Preside
for a. while. Col. Sommers, of the Fourth
cavalry, who is in command at the Pre-
sld1o, sent request to have US sent back
to the Preside because we are acquainf-
ed with that duty; also, the people of
Frisco have asked that our regiment be
sent there. You see what good reputa-
ton does ......The transport Sheridan is
In port and they say that we are going
back on her. L think that I have been
very lucky to go through all this trouble
and not get hurt, especially when our
captain and the restsof the boys got shot
as was right alongside of them, and not
: nifty feet from the insurgents when they
file and we had just gone across the
bridge and halted, and the colonel who
WaSaW1th us was going to- send out three
Z or four men to- find out where the en-
envy were when they shot at us. T have
not seem Bob Long, for over two months,
2 We do not get a chance to go visiting and
sfSnt seeing have only seen Maj. Bean
twice since have been here but did not
get a chance to. speak tochim. We have
now about 800 men for duty In oiirasrepr-
iment .1f We have only thirty men in our
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the men in the band and the buglers have
to do guard duty. The most of the men
: are sick with dysentery, fever and such
thlngs-asAa good smanylof the men have
sore feet on account of having thin shoes
all the time, and the heat causes little
sSores to break out. A good many play
out on or account uni of the intense heat One
day 1T was 100 degrees jim the shade, and
So degrees is regular thing. .....I amswell
and healthy. Love to all.
The foregoing letter was written with
no thought of publication, and gives lit
tie glimpse intoxthe actual condition of
affairs amongst the boys in the Philip
pines as far back as last April.
In a subsequent letter appears the fol-
lowing:
Labor is very cheap here. Chinese
coolies do all the work You have seen
pictures of them carrying things over
their shoulders / saw one the other day
carrying small live pig on one snd and
big stone on the other end to balance
1t. There are no saw mills. ALI lumber
is sawed by hand.
We are in quarters at Pasig city, and it
is quite a relief, after travelling about
the country and sleeping out of doors
all night We have thetown barricaded;
big stone wall across ALI the streets on
the outskirts. The rainy season is now
on and it rains every day and night; 1t
not only rains but pours.
There is an EnglishFnan in our company
who has relatives in London who sent
him copy of the London Times, con-
tanning an article written for the Times
by an officer of one of the English war
ships that in the harbor here. In
1t he tells that in the battle OF Feb. 5
he was on high hill. overlooking the
ground, and that the charge of the Wash
ington regiment at Santa Anna has never
been equaled in the annals of war, fer
the bravery they showed in going across
an open field, Invading river, when the
men did not know how large foe they
were to meets We boys all felt rather
proud when we read that. I have had
the PLEASURE of meeting President Schur-
man, Of the peace commission, and hav-
ing quite conversation with him.
The American newspaper, Freedom,
Published at Manila, P. l., was obliged to
go to press on April j instead of March
81, because the latter was Good Friday
and the natives in the composing and
press rooms declined to work on that
day.