The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-01

HARRISON GRAY OTIS.
Make a fairly good plan of battle. send
the soldiers in under their officers, hold
them well in hand. give them good
/ rifles and keep them supplied with
plenty of ammunition: maintain strict
fire discipline. show them the enemys
position. and the men viii DO the rest.
The namelees man behind the gun
and the all-too-Obscure line officer have
/ far more to do with winning victories
! than many poorly informed civilians
| seem TO understand"
The start; how was that made?"
The first advance was partly
through the open, across rice fields and
cleared ground. partly through timber
and underbrush. and across marshes.
lagoOnS, dry barrancaS and running
] streams of varying degrees of depth.
The River Tuliahan was passed by the
! Third artillery and the Twentieth Kan
sas Of my brigade while yet the day
was younS. and by the First Montana
later on. The enemys center had been
pierced
And then?'
The Victorious March.
"The victorious march continued
right along, day after day. until Ma
loios was reached" answered General
Gus The rivers were crossed by the
infantry either by fording, swimming.
or on lmproVised RATS or temporary
bridges; the artillery and supply trains
passed the streams on the iron railway
bridges, which the enemy could not
burn and had been unable to blow up
Tor want of time, because his burning
parties had been chased off too prompt
ly by our intrepid advance guard. Be
sides the ctraa I'M. 10
that had to be crossed or hanked.
thorny bamboo thickets, dense banana
forests and difficult stretches of tam
gled ehapharel must be penetrated and
cleared under fire. Our eVer-adyancine-
line took trenches. swept over earth
works, carried fortified places and con-
trlDuted continuously to the eclat of
the conflict, not to say the saiety of
the nations. While over all was heard
the dreadful crash of our infantry fire
and the fearsome roar of the artillery.
Nothing could and nothing did restrain
the magnificent ardor of our magnffi-
cent men.
AT MaloIos itself there was ONLY
feeble resistance by the enemy. whose
warriors had by that time grown dis
couraSed and become demoralized by
their repeated and unvarying defeats.
and had proved themselves the premier
spr1nters of our new colonial posses
sions.
Just before we entered Aguinaldo's
abandoned capital. it was fired. as all
the towns had been fired, by the rear
guard of the retreating enemy My
brigade marched in on the side where
the government palace is located. and
by the time the advance had reached
the public square, the big building and
scores of smaller ones were enveIoped
IN flames, and too far gone TO be saved
Raised the Stars and Stripes.
This was shortly before 10 o'clock in
the forenoon. BY that hour our stand
ards, with the stars and stripes in the
lead were flying from imprOviSed bam-
boo f1agStaffS erected on the public
square, and answering to the fervid
tropic breeze and the shouts of our
victorious soldiers. The beating sun
and the burning buildings made the
very air Dulsate with heat.
The Second brigade marched in al
most simultaneously, entering on the
side of the city. east of the
railroad track Its progress had been
slightly by the greater resist
ence of the enemy in that direction
The casualties in my brigade during
the weeks operations aggregated 136 in
killed and wounded
And that is the way in which
Malolos was taken?''
Yes, so it fell. The TagaIo dictator.
who. with his coterie Oh associated
patriots for profit had been doing so
much last-ditch shouting, had escaped
his American pursuers.''
i wish to be understood as desiring
to give full credit, impartially. to all
the organizations and all the troops
that took part in the brilliant and sue
,essful campaign which in a single
week, gave the United States possession
IF the rebel capital. and l cannot hope
20 do them complete Justice in this
short talk If j have spoken more par
-icularly of the brigade that had the
honor TO command. its work. its
achievements and its battle roll. I Will
De pardOned. because to have done SO
s but natural; since I am better uuaIi-
led TO speak for my own Immediate
command than for troops with which.
I did not come in. such
Hose contact"
You must appreciate the fact that
your brigade was composed of such
good men and officers?"
Couldn't Keep Men Back.
Il do. fully. The conduct of the
roops in campaign was distinguished
or cheerful endurance. subordination.
discipline, alertness, steadiness, and
quick intelligence, and by the most
splendid ardor in the supreme hour of
conflict. Nothing, save orders, death
IT severe wounds could keep them back
rom the firing line, and nothing thar
,ver came out of orientaIs loin could
their impetuous onsets along
md across the rough edge of battle.
My reStmental commanders / am
,lad you asked about them / rouId
lot help but acquire respect. admira-
ien and affection for every one Of
hem. They are all men of standing in
heir respective homes and officers of
Established high character in the army.
,olonei kessler of Montana is a veteran
i tne var Tor the union: careful and
Intelligent commander. and a hip bnsi
less man of Butte. Colonel Hawkins
f Pennsylvania formerly in nv
rigade), Is also veteran, white head
d and vigorous. he has for twenty
wo years commanded the Tenth regi-
nent OF the Pennsylvania National
iuard and is NOW a Sto to 60, - oIa<t