Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-09


ellie, we'll known and popular membe
of Co. f at Chicamauga. The letter
as follows
Block House No.
Manila p. |. June 5--9
E. j. Badger.
Dear Sir.
You must excuse me for not writin.
brtole but since have been her,
have had no time to do any
thing for myself.
When we left Plattsburgh we wen
by way Of Buffalo. Chicago, and Ogden
sburgh and We're seven days going tt
Frisco. We stopped in Chicago about
four hours to repair car wheel that
was broken and we were not supposed 70
leave the ears but you know how sold
icr> are. We got to Frisco. on the 18th ,
cot off the cars and onto the boat at once
and pulled out of there at 3 a. m. the
18th. We were only 5 hours out when
we broke down and as there was quite
a h"avy sea running the boat pitched
pretty bad and | began to pitch too and
for four days was so sick | didn't care
if the old tub went to the bottom or
what happened We were broke down
altogether about Is hours on the trip
for sharks and caught two, one about s
feet long and another about IL feet long.
We had very good trip having only
one stern and that lasted about hours.
We were very con forlable considering
the number Of soldiers aboard (about
l1OOO. wo sen from Co. l.. died and
ere buried at sea but aside from that
we were very well. We came direct
here not going by way of Honolulu and
tor II days after the second day out we
did MOI sight any land or a boat. We
were 22 days in getting here and were
un;oh,d in Chinese li4h 4hters and were
camped in the city for3 days. saw
the Oregon ard Olympia. being anchor
ed only about IA mile from them. |
have seen Dewey and Otis since | came
here. Dewey left few days ago for
the U. s,
if YOU could see the city you would
wonder how our small forces could take
it for it is surrounded by a high wall
about 80 feet high and 20 feet thick and
is mounted with cannon about every 80
feet. 1t is The incest city ever saw,
nice walks, drives, parks, gardens and
buildings.
The parks and gardens are filled with
banana, mango and cocoanut trees and
is a very pretty sight to Il northern boy
so far from home, especially when the
Spanish signorittas are in them singing
or talking to us. The horses are very
small here not much larger than a
Shetland pony and the people are very
small hardly ever you see one over l.
9 feet and never over 5 feet but they are
very strong. The woman will carry on
their head for miles more than | can lift
and the men will carry 400 pounds bal
auced on Il stick across their shoulder
June 21. Excuse me for not finish
iup this letter before, but ! have been
cut and only just got back. We l'f'
San Pedro Macate al 4 a. m. June ~
,,d ont a bout 3 miles we struck the
,,;pnprs and GOT them on the luD. There
were 8 companies of the 21i the l3'h
and 14,b, 2 companies of battery r OF
Of tie l.t light ARTILLERY, battery OF
III, GiL heavy rtjllery. a troop OF cav
aIi, mounted, troop of cavalry un-
mounted, 9th in5art1y, and we kept
them going fer 27 miles that day. IL
was tie hottest day I've seen on the
5 and. My company had TWO 'i'en
W, w,un,,d. The next day we took Las
linas without firing a shot and gave the
n,ggers two hours to surrender raran"-
que. city strongly entrenched aoou'
two miles from us, or we would pom-
bard it from the gun boats in the nay
p,,f N
and the artillery on the land' ana we
took the city without ever seeing ii. we
s,ail a, Las Pinas until the unlucky
18Th when Companies j and l OF 'he
Dis, started cut under Gen Lawton 10
scout arould Borong. When we nao
gone about two miles we met n'se'
+ hat said he would show US where tne