The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-10-25
LOUIE IN SERVICE.
Thinks the 18th Minnesota Are
Stealing Thunder.

CHutI udUc Vi OuluQu I'd, AAilP
pine Islands, Aug. 31st, Louis
Junger, now member of the Third
United States Infantry, in which
regiment he did valiant service in
the battle of Santiago, writes to
Chief of Police Crooks of this city,
that he was feeling much better at
that time than he has during any
time since he landed on the archi
pelago.
You see we are not having so
much rain now as we have had in
the last three months. There were
ten companies of our regiment sta
toned in large town by the name
of Baligna, and two companies, B
and D, are stationed in Guinqua,
which is small town stationed on
the Rio Grande, and which has a
large stone church that is as old as
the hills around. The church has
five nice bells in the tower, and we
ring the largest bell three times a
day. The bell reminds me of the
one I used to hear when I went to
school in Redwood Falls. Guinqua
is five miles east of Malolos and
Baligna is seven miles northeast of
here, and Manila is % miles from
Malolos.
I'VE have nice, large ferry that
we use for our wagon trains.
well, we had a nice skirmish
two miles east of this town on Aug.
18th, and we had one man wounded
in the ankle-that was ALL The
next day we had breakfast at 2:3O
and after breakfast we started out
again. About 8 o'clock we flanked
the niggers on the right. Col. Page
came down from Baligna with Troop
H of the Fourth Cavalry and four
companies of infantry and one field
piece and flanked them on the left.
and the niggers got a good, heavy
fire there. Say, you would have
laughed to see them pike it over
the rice paddles. Well, we had one
man, member of Co. F., killed,
and none wounded on that day.
Gas soon as a soldier is dead here
they put his remains in an air tight
casket and send them to Manila, and
when the body arrives there it is
embalmed and put back into the
casket and laid to rest to the Gene
terry, and then some time during
the year they are all dug up and
shipped back to the States.
''The rainy season is the worst
time of the year here, and it is dur
ing that season that the boys are
troubled with all kinds of disease.
A man can be sick here one day and
the next day be we'll, and when a
man does get sick he don t care for
anything.
II find that the climate is better
in the archipelago than it was over
in Cuba.
Eat the present time l can talk
the PHILIPPINE language very good,
and am not so bad on the Spanish.
| have seen James 0 Hara and sew
eral of the boys that reside in Mel
rose, meeting them in Manila about
a month ago. I presume that they
are in San Francisco about this
time. When I met them in Manila
| was having a tooth pulled and two
filled with paste-all for one Amer
lean dollar.
| We will be fighting again in De-
cember, when the rainy season is
over, and while it looks as though
the insurgents are about ready to
give in now I think it will require
a general march over the Island to
give, them the finishing touches of
what freedom under the United
States government means.
Say, the 18th Minnesota boys have
the big head. When they left here
they had as many men as they did
when they left the States, and the
Washington regiment had only 200
men when they left here. What do
you think of the comparison? The
18th Minnesota boys think they are
entitled to all the credit, but there
are many other larger bivalves
around here. If James OHara of
that regiment, comes up to Redwood
he will tell you all about it, but lin
don t know it all.
Tomorrow l will be on guard