The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-21

Wamego boy with the Twentieth Ken
sas, says: after our great charge at
Caloocan many visitors came TO our
trenches bearing gifts. such as beer and
tobacco. Although it is conceded that the
Kansas regiment has done the greatest
part of the fighting, / do not claim that
Kansas did it all" Which shows thai
Kansas can be modest as well as brave
you would have laughed to see me
dodge Mauser bullets" writes Ed Shive-
" of Stockton to his mother. Il woula
dodge after the bullet was several hun
dred yards away, but l finally got Ver
that and did not try to dodge You
would hardly think it, but the boys would
roast each other about lodging bullets,
and before one would be done speaking
he would be lodging and swearing HIM
self"
f. S. Dodds writes to his folks in Clay
Center as follows up tell you that Il is a
funny feeling to stand out in a field and
hear the Mauser and brass Remington bull
let's hum about your head Imagine the
disappointment of picking up a radlsh to
eat it and having it knocked out of youe
hand by a bullet. l tell you, one looks
for hole to hide in. All the Clay county
boys say 10 tell the folks we are fat
and saucy The hardest work we have
to do IS 20 bury the dead after bat
tie. Well, l will write more in few
days. / am so warm l can't think, sitting
in the hot sum-"
The Filipinos say we don't fight fair"
writes {. E. Kent, to his mother, at Cie-
neseo. ''They say we shoot at them all
night and then try to catch them with our
hands in the daytime. They think We
don't eat anything, and they say the
Spaniards would go out and fight ana
come pack to Manila to eat and smoke
and then go and fight some more"
Yesterday the insurgents kept shooting
at us from the trees with their smokeless
powder and we couldn't locate them.
writes Lincoln Endsley 60 his folks in AL
ton, so Col. Funston came down and 90,
myself and five other men and went ont
scouting. I'VE had gone perhaps $50 yards
when they commenced firing on us bur
we went ahead Soon we came to a large
stone building. Charge it, said M
colonel. and he took the lead and we
couldn't do anything but follow him f,6l
ing sure that we should be shot Bu
fortune favored us. Taking the hack
track after leaving this building We
reached our own lines under beavv, fire
N'+N iAibSi dNhilOWltQBG Indt
very glad TO get back. And right there
is where the co.onel and ceased 90 he
friends" v 20
Johh Morse, Linn county boy. was shot
IN the head at the charge of Caloocan He
writes as follows: MY wound i not a.
all serious, and there is no sense in nv le-
ing kept in the hospital as long AS have
Inc Dali entered about an inch above the
rlght eye ana came out about an inch and
a n he. IL
the skull, but burrowed through n for
ways. II has not panied me since the
first day, and am as well otherwise as I
ever was. We have excellent care AT The
hospital, but l had much rather he hack
with the company. l had a call from ,bA
colonel's wife last evening, and feel "a III
er proud to-day, but Wait has the snan
He was sick when the fuss began and got
out Of bed to go to the front Stood Il FOR
four days and then had to come in. For
the last four days he has been guard ana
cOachman for Mrs. Funston and Mrs
Whitman. Can hardly see the rest of as
now"
Babe -Wickham, another Linn county
boy with the Twentieth writes: ''The Maui
ser bullets were singing all around us and
the person that heard the peculiar ping
of Mauser will not soon forget ii. The
OCSS soy tHdA tNNig Oht OF lnGfn saws. =
want you About o'clock THURSDAY
morning John Morse was looking over
the trenches when he was hit by a Maui
ser bullet. Our lady nurse in the trenches
dressed his wound and made him as com
Portable as possible until the hospital
gang came and carried him off on
stretcher. The boys worship Col. Funston.
He is one Of the bravest men on the ISL
and, and Capt. Boltwood Is another. The
boys would follow these two men any.
where"
Says Capt. Bishop, commander Of the
Salina company: "rhe charge through Ca
loocan was by far the most desperate move
that my company has made. but my mind
keeps going back 10 that night OF Feb.
4, as that was our FIRST experience under
fire. and II was there that ] FIRST knew
that my boys could BE- handled IN the dark
and under frr. sna q Has there fhsi :
first learned mat r. man could stand 10
iu tho face ~ Mausfrs ana give oommasds
tle same a. ~ dlill.'