Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-11
Of my brigade taken up the night before

Of my brigade taken up the night before
wer9 substantially. at right angles to the
Caloocan- Balantasig road, running north
| The advance once begun was almost con-
! tinuous, the enemy being steadily driven
before us from the start and the prescrib-
| ed plan for the preliminary movements was
| largely carried out during the first day,
with some notifications rendered necessary
| by certain unforeseen features of the stu
alton developed during the advance
The two parallel roads referred to were
taken and passed during the first two
hours. and before s o clock in the morning
| the Sd Artillery and the Goth Kansas regi-
ments had gained the north bank of the
Tuliahan river, the men wading and swim
| ming the stream at points where the water
was neck deep and even deeper. The river
was intrepidly crossed by the advanc. of
these regiments under severe fire from
the intrenched enemy, firing at short range
from his works on the north banks
The advance of the first named regiment,
crossing the river in the face of a strongly
| occupied blockhouse on the north bank, suf-
fered considerable losses in its determined
onset but inflicted severe punishment on
the enemy, driving his picked troops from
the blockhouse after killing many of them
on the bank of the river. Here Lieut.. Aber-
rethy. 3D. Artillery, again distinguished
himself by gallant conduct in action with
his command
The advance of the Goth Kansas Qnclud-
ing Company H. under Capt. Ciarke) hav-
ing also encountered a sudden and severe
north bank, the men of the first line, with
some 1nen from other regiments rushed
gallantly down the steep bank into the I'M
known stream, wading swimming it I'M
der telling fire, which resulted in eight
casualties in the Kansas company alone
The rush of soldiers was so sudden
and impetLous that the enemy were unable
to escape. and nearly the entire detach-
ment, according to information subsequent
ly derived from a nauve-the Enactment
numbered thirty men-died where they
fought, having been attacked in both front
and flank by the impetUous volunteers, and
shot down at shoEt -range Out of the
whole number of F'ilipinos engaged at that
particular point twenty,six were killed out
right. two mortally andtone slightly wound
ed, ana only one appears to have gotten
away.
During the days movements through the
difficult country traversed, interspersed as
1t Is. with dense jnngles. thorny thickets
bamboo belts, difficult streams and treach-
erous morasses the regiments and battai-
ions of the brigade nhavodably became
somewhat separated, more particularly the
lst Montana, which had been so DELAYED
that but ore battalion succeeded in cross
ing the Tuiahan early in the day with the
other regiments. In the afternoon another
battalion, under: Lieut.. Col. Wallace cross
ed and the remaining battalion, under Col.
Kessler which had sWerved so much to
the right that by personal direction of the
division commander 1t temporarily at
tached to and operated with the % Brigade
during the latter portion of the day sue
ceeded in passing the river before dark
The days casualties in the brigade ag-
gregated sixty-eight killed and wounded