The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28
DARK SIDE OF THE PICTURE.
Letters on the Dirty Work and
General Cussedness Going on
in the Philippines.

General Cussedness Going on
in the Philippines.
On the 18th OF the present month
Senator Pettigrew received from
Major Wrane, of the Dakota volun-
teers, now with Otis in the Orient,
a letter in which he states that he
mas written to Adjutant Cor
bin asking that he may be
relieved of his commission and
asks the senator to intercede in his
behalf. Continuing the Major says:
''The boys that are yet alive, all
want to come home but six who
wish to be relieved here. Our reg
iment is practically busted. For
three months they have had to do
the hard field work and are physi-
cally knocked out. We have only
400 men able for duty and there are
500 dead and in the hospitals. We
are simply worn out.
1.-THE South Dakota and the Ne
braska regiments have nobly done
I all that has been asked of them and
have always been in the thickest
of the fight while the regulars were
either in Manila or in the real
protected from the enemy by a line
of human breast works, built out Of
the brave boys from the land Of the
I Dakotas. For the past two months
neither Of our surgeons have been
allowed to go to town and look after
, our own and about a week ago our
men we're examined by a regular
and some $50 we're ordered to the
, the front. OF these, three tainted
before they reached the station and
had to be.returned to the hospital.
i, Eighty Of them after getting to the
q end of the aailroLd we're unable to
, walk to this point and had to toted
here on bull carts. All of them. are
back in the hospital. Many of the
! men have attempted to apply for
a their return home through the
regular military channels, but have
4 been held up by Col. Frost, who by
the way is one of the most %conceited
asses that the Creator in thought
~ less moment ever created and allow.
.e ed to walk erect and mock the name
II OF man. Today the Kernel called
IS the company commanders together
y and told the group that they wer,
le towards to allow their men on tn
sick list. For the good Of all con
T. cerned the kernel should be reliev
y e6 OF his command, as he is q low
contemplate cur that crawls GU
Us longcnough 10 bark at men passing
re by, and then crawls back into h!
~ hole and cuddles up among the gart
10 age OF his nest till it is time to bar
again, looking only to his own sci
Nv fish interest and would gladl
$. sacrifice every man in his regimen
all for a few dollars in his pocket or
at little glory for Kernel Frost. H
lie has no interest in our men, nor j
RS the state, except to further his ow
no. hellish ideas of self advancement.
TO- "The situation here has turne
ont to be nothing but a bushwhacl
ing scrap. Yesterday we had on
~ killed and sever wounded in a lit
skirmish through the brush. AS t
=: tho right or wrong of the question
there isn't a man among us bu
what will tell you that the Filipino
are in the right and that they ha,
NC been treated more falsely by tt
Americans then they ever we
by the Spanish. When the tru'
a and the politics is known, Il
ry, American people in one accor'
to will wiring their hands and CT
is "Verily I say unto you, the Ian
ich aud the lion must lie down togethe
he but the lamb must be on the insi
&C. of the lion, for OF such is the kingdo
of political skulduggery."
IN 1--WE are all sick now, and if COZ
PEELED to stay here through t
me rainy season, many, If they ev
touch the home land again, will
nj it through the box route. Get
out of here as soon as possible a
-, receive the heartful thanks of t
Dakota volunteer"
A LETTER FROM CHAs. II. JACKSON
The UNION publishes the folio
-" ing letter written from San Ferna
o's do under date of June Bird, to A.
e Jackson of Hot Springs, the faith
,ns OF its author. Chas. H. Jackson
ok listed in Company M which left Il
''on city in May, 1898. He was o Wig,
Gus and nervy young man Of tt
elias blue makeup. He writes as
and lows:
ION. Dear Father:-I will write 20,
wife few lines in our sick book. as | /,
anne excused from duty today. Nine
lren out every hundred men in the FL
South Dakota are unfit for du
Gen. Hale has been trying to Sc
Z. us RI Manila for rest. Init Gen. 4