New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-04-12
Letter From Manila.

Letter FROM NAdNlld+
Mr.. Ed. Hoadley is in receipt of the
following letter from his bother Will,
now with the 18th Minnesota at the bat
tie fields in the Philippines, which will be
of interest to many New Ulmites.
Manila, Philippine Is., Feb. IA, 90.
Dear Folks at Home:-
| Just wrote to Grayce
few days ago, but as this is St. Valen-
tines day, I thought that letter would
be the best valentine would be able to
send, so here it is. Suppose you are just
reading the news of the war in this coun-
try, of course you are all anxious to hear
from us, but before this reaches you, you
will know that We, rather the 18th are
! here in town and doing just about the
same as they always did. Everything is
50 quiet here now that it is hard for us
to realize that we are having trouble
with the natives. The Insurgents don't
understand modern warfare and we are
killing them on all sides. believe the
last report has 1t about eight thousand
Insurgents killed to fifty eight or sixty
Americans, so you can see that they don't
know much about it. They don't kno
any thing about volley firing nor making
a charge. When our forces make a
charge they all begin to yell at the top
Of thei1 voices and that with the firing
makes it sound as if all creation had
| turned loose, and we do such deadly
work in a charge that the natives have
got so when they hear our forces begin
to yell they turn and run to look for
some place Of safety. They say the
Americans don't fight fair, as they have
been used to fighting the Spanlards.
They would fire few shots and thea get
down behind their trenches and smoke
cigarettes for a while, then after they
thought they had rested enough they
would fire a few more shots. The Amer
leans keep them on the run so they don't
get chance to smoke, hence we don't
fight fair. 1 am still confined to quar-
ters and will be until next Saturday, but
| am glad I ran away and went to the
front, for l would willingly stand court
martial for the experience I had on the
] firing line and think / am getting off
easy as it is. ITO. 49,.
| Phil. Burgers was over for while last
night, he goes out to the lines nearly ev.
cry day as he is connected with the hos.
pital corps in some way, just while the
war IS going on. There are great many
more wounded Philippines in our hos.
pitfalls than Americans.
Ross Keeling was over III the after.
; noon,he had just come from the lines anc
will be IN town until tomorrow night
When made him present Of his bayo
net he was greatly surprised and coulc
hardly make him believe that Ihad founc
it on the battle field. He says he viii
q tell his grand children about it when b,
is telling them some of his war stories
The people tere think We will get hom,
lust about as soon now as we would i
J, this trouble hadn't come up and I can
see why we wont, as it isn't going t
amount to very much. think I can Sc,
the end of it all now. If Il ever get hom,
alive and l haven't any intentions of get
; ling homo any other way, I wouldn'
} take five hundred dollars tor my exper-
ience and I wouldn't go through it agail
, for five thousand dollars; although ",
haven't had any very hard hard-ships tt
go through.
jim, the monkey, has got his discharg'
) and started for America about two week
Iago. The regiment expect to pick hin
up at Frisco SO you may get chance t,
see HIM yet. think it will be fine i
J, the regiment can be quartered in the ex
), position building as that will be mucl
!, better than going into camp, for ther,
wouldn't be near SO much guard duty
: Well will have to close for this time
will write again in few days. Nov
) don't worry about me for am still feel
: ing good as ever.
Yours in exile,
Will.
}, S. D. Petersen and John Torgrimsol
Z >Ihave received two carloads os wagon
! and machinery, which they will sell q