Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26
Lawton characterized 1t the Telling
One of the Campaign.
BRAVE WORK OF The Sd REGIMENT
Lieut.. Tenney Ross Of This City
Leads Charge.
uADCOMMAND OLA COMPANY
Manila Correspondence Leslle's Weekly.

ness OF tnt VI NtiASi al La so'i -
column, flying to the northward and back
again. thoroughly understood in Manila
Starting out from Iona church, pushing
onward through strange, new country, go
ing around the great swamp, fighting TWEEN
tv-five pitched battles with varying forces
of insurgents, Lawton's tireless, resistiess
advance. eliminating finally in the cap
ture of San Isidro seemed brilliant The
reason for his backward march to Manila
is by no means clear, but to the majority
of the army men here. 70 whom Lawton is
ideal American soldier, it is certain
that he neither committed military blum
der nor suffered any reverses in the face
of the little brown enemy.
1t remains only to be said. then
that the moves of that famous column are
something of a military mystery. 1t is
taken for granted that Lawton acted UNI
der orders. and so, while the mystery does
not lessen. there is only praise for the hero
of FL Caney.
The Thirds Running Fight.
But incident of that puzzing cam
paign stands out sharp, distinct. clear-a
beacon of American grit, dash. triumph,
shining before a background of uncertainty
and bewildering motives. That incident was
the Sd United States Jnfantry's ail-day
running fight from San Miguel to Baliuag.
Pho Pillar, the young fighting idol of the
FiIp;nos. is reputed to have conducted the
attack and orders found on a dead insur
gent officer show that Pillars division was
ordered into the movement, though of the
exact number of the enemy engaged there
is no more exact information. The division
attacked d regiment and got OF with the
worst drubbing that a single regiment of
has given the enemy since the start
o: the campaign. To be strictly exact. it
wasn't whole regiment of ours, either.
The I'D had but ten companies present on
May - these ten companies commanded
by Capt. j. w. Hannay, We're at San Mig
uel That night Geographic orders were re-
received to move the regiment from San
Miguel to Baliuag on the following day.
In some mysterious way the insurrectos
possessed themselves of the contents of
that order. They prepared to give the I'd
warm reception on its inward march. In
stead, they got themselves.
AT abo1t 8 O'Clock on the morning of the
cd of May the Sd left San Miguel. Though
no enemy was known to be within striking
distance every precaution was taken. Cap
tain Buffers battalion led. with Company
A. under Lieutenant Macarthur. as advance
guard. ana Company L, under Lieutenant
Ross. supporting. Company NJ, under Cap
tain Day, and Company X, under Lieuten-
ant Hanuay, came next. Lieutenant Haw-
thorn. with one mountain gun. came be-
tween the first and second battaions, the
entire artillery force. Captain Beals sec
ond battalion. composed of Company G,
under Lieutenant Moore. and Company G,
Beafs- Captain Cookies battalion consist
ed of Company /, under Lieutenant Free
land; Company E. under Lieutenant Gid
dings; Company +, under Wygant, and
Company II, commanded by Lieutenant
Houle acting as rear guard. For the first
two hours the regiment toiled over the road,
hating just outside of San Ildefonso at 8
a M Here details were sent back to build
bridges for the passage of the wagon train,
which was under Captain Cookies protec-
ton Just ahead of the advance guard a
: squad Of a dozen or so of the men of the
signal corps had passed along, picking up
the wire of the military telegraph laid on
the way out. 1t was this signal corps which
ran into the first signs IF the enemy. While
busily working along the road these wire
pullers ran unexpectedly into an advance
post of the insurgents The first our sig
nalmen knew was sharp hail, a demand
for surrender Looking mp and ahead, they
found themselves looking into Mausers
backed by the grinning. confident faces of
the natives. 1t was "a situation that called
for yielding. The little American squad
though greatly outnunbered, did nothing
OF the sort.
Did Not Surrender.
"Give EN- - shouted one of the wire
pullers. In twinkling the tiny almost in
visible puffs of smoke began to come from
the ground, where the Krags were splitting
out their message of contempt.
Hurry up, boyst' shouted one of the
for at the first sound of shots MacArthur's
company started forward on the run, TAX
ing the road and both TANKS, while Ross
company deployed out to the left and
Lieut. Hannay's company the left of
that, while NJ company, Capt Day, went
off 20 the right TO swing in on San Ilde-
fonso. With the enemy in trenches and
the Americans in open country without
protection. everything was favorable to the
wiping out of these companies for the
fire al The little
and rafting 1t rapidly became less brisk
less accurate, for. the 3ds men adj
Vanced they fired so swiftly and with such
accuracy that the brownies soon discovered
the peril attached to raising their heads
-. above the trenches. NJ company getting
too far 70 the right. c company was or
dered in between A and NJ, while Capt
BeaH led G as support along the road
Then the charge began, accompanied by
that rousing yell taught to American SOL
diers. For a mile the charge continued
the insurrectos forced to give way vet
stubborn about it, Even when they began
to retreat the brownies preserved their or
eahlzauoh perfectly. They were picked
troops-the chocolate cream of AguinaIdo,s
army On the hill near the town one body
OF men. the famous red legs" halted and
sent back beautiful volley. The return
hre made them take to their heels II was
hait-paSt 10 when the regiment got into
San lldetonso the men tagged and winded
stop was made for coffee. 1t was esti-
mated that the fight just finished had been
= against about a thousand of the enemy
Thirty dead insurrectos and twentv-two
MauSers We're found wv
CoTee was being served to the tired fight
ers when word came forward that anofher
force had attacked the rear guard and tha
pun train Houles company was the frst
nred upon here. Swift flash he wheel
cd his company about. and straight at The
brownies they went, shooting as they ran
Captain Hannay took G and c comma nias
and the mountain gun and went back To
give help. Though the achievements bur
ried. by the time they arrived Cookies hat
TALON had disposed of their assailants esti
mated at 800 Two of Houle's men were
wounded in the scrimmage. On to Maasjn
was the next move. Here. every one knew
the chances We're big and bright for fight
On the way up into this country Lawton's
men had driven the brownies ONT of
trenches at Maasin. The trenches were
there yet Captain Hannay ordered them
thoroughly secuted. This was done but
not single Filipino developed Therefore
the regiment started across the river. A
i and one platoon of Al had gotten over
the bamboo bridge; the second platoon OF NJ
and the whole OF X were on the bridge in
solid formation. P-p-p-p-p-p-p-pop. rang
the Mausers- The range was hardly ON
yards The soldiers tightly packed on the
bridge should have suffered frtghtfui loss
a a