The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-28

IN Mania SO they won get snOI.
We are sixty miles from Manila
along the railroad. Several thous-
and regulars are idle in Manila. l
have to go half starved, not enough
to eat. Wrote my captain asking
him to assist me in getting a dis
charge. His answer | send so you
read it for yourself.
81 understand Gov. Lee is trying
to get u regiment'home, but fear
our regiment will never return.
Wherever the hardest fighting is to
be done the South Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Montana, Kansas and Iowa regi-
ments are sent. The Filipinos
drive the regulars back, but they
can't drive the volunteers; the boys
will die first. Our time is up. We
enlisted for the Spanish war Of 1898.
Today's battle, one killed and six
wounded on our side: eighty-seven
natives dead, forty-seven wounded
and thirty prisoners.
eff | live to get out I can never
be "a republican again. There is al
most u mutiny among the troops
now; they want to get away.
Your son,
"Chas. H. Jackson.
Jackson was among the South
Dakota arrivals ut San Francisco
Monday on the hospital ship Nor
gan City, Having been severely
wounded and later racked by dis
ease, he is little like his former self.
HOT SHOT FROM A SOUTH DAKOTA BOY.
Regarding the arrival of the hos
pital ship Morgan City the special
correspondent of the Denver News
has the following to say:
Five hundred gaunt, hollow
eyed: fever-parched, MANNED and
wounded men, bearing little resem.
blance to "the best we breed" re.
turned on the transport Morgan
City from Manila today. There
were men from nearly all the volun
teer regiments in the Philippine:
and their comments may be takel
as the concrete sentiment of the en-
tire volunteer army. When asket
for their story they said, 'Look a
US" One man said the orders Civ
en- out on board the TRANSPORT were
"We don't want to hear any com
: plants from you fellows or it vii
: be the worse for YOU"
Six of the men had their dis
charges in their pockets and anon
; these was Private W. E. Brown
! Co. G, LIST South Dakota volunteers
: He said: "We had the rebels COZ
; nered at Calumpit, Paranque, Mar
; int and other places and u rus
n would have ended it all, but eac
time OTIS, back there in Manila, OF
J dered a halt and VIZ stood there an
y watched the rebels slip away. A
d other places we have stood an
g watched them construct trenche
= and after they were completed W
Il would charge and take them and Il
the rebels build others.
q ''The volunteers with their clun
sy old Springfelds we're forced
le the front, while the regiments wit
'e Krag-Jorgensen rifles were he'
back in reserve. All this tin
J. there we're 10000 Krag-Jorgensen
! lying in the arsenal at Manila. Hi
os Otis cabled you people that?
We elias he cabled you that the no
pitfalls are o~vercrowded and tn;
re '' they are putting up tents for tt
overflow" continued the indignal
Dakota volunteer.
"Has he cabled that he has N
y been to the front since March 26?
"Has he cabled that one Mar,
~ day fifty poor fellows fell out of t
ranks exhausted and we're killed
m the Filipinos because he did n
provide the command with amb,
ances?
"Has he cabled that orders ha
OF been issued to permit Filipinos
white clothing and protesting to
friendly to pass behind our lines?
HAS he cabled that these 'frien
lies hide their rifles, put on viii
clothing and as soon as our lin
:. move forward recover their riff
W and attack isolated pickets and t
N guards we post?
I. "Has he cabled you that his G
Ter tire army is sick of his dilly-da
IN policy, heartily sick of the emit
MS war aud wants to come home?
Dr. IF he has not cabled this he
'ue not cabled the truth. He cam
help but know that his whole arr
curses him for his incompetency a
, a inaction," concluded the South I
am kotan.
WHAT THEY ATE.
rst "Our fare on the way over" s.
ty. another, 'shas been corned beef q
md was so rotten that it gagged us.