The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-10
HEROISM BORN OF CHARITY.
WAR BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN
HUMAN NATURE.
Incidents Of the Battle Of Malolos-
Ministering to Dying and
Wounded Soldiers.

Freedom the American paper pub
lished in Manila, in it's issue of April
9th, just received, has the following
comments on the battle of Malolos, in
which reference is made to the noble
work of Mrs. May Stevens-Boysen of
Sacramento in minister-ing to the
wounded and dying soldiers:
1.-The campaign against Maloios,
which terminated last Friday by the in
surgents beating an ignominious re-
treat, bag and baggage, from their cap
ital after having applied the torch to its
sacred walls with their own hands, was
watched with more GREATNESS interest
probably than any other movement
since the outbreak of the American-Fil-
ipino war
AS that great column swept onward
UP the valley toward Maloaos every
wood and ambuscade, and almost every
mile Notifications, with rivers to swim,
bridges ana roads to- be repaired. and a
thousand and one other things to be
done, which neither time nor space Will
allow mentio4, of, there were many acts
of heroism, kindness, and elfdenial
which will never go into print and will
live only in fireside stories on winter
evenings in long years to come.
While the boys on the firing line
were winning for themselves glory
which shall be immortalized in poetry
and song, there We're other organiza-
tions who were doing their duty just
as truly and as weM, and made it pos
sible for the army as whole to carry
on its magnificent work as a perfect or
ganization. Ha
THE Signal Corps kept even pace
with the firing line, al corps of engineers
repaired the roads, bridges and railroad
tracks, keeping the advanced body in
daily communication with Manila, and
making it possible for thei wagon trains
to keep at the front so that at no time
was there q deaIth of food or ammuni-
ton. Special mention should be made
of the efficient work done by the Hos
pital Corps
Many a sad heart at home would be
lighter to-day if it only knew that the
last hours of a loved one We're made
easier by the kind attention of those
who do not fear to brave the enemy IS
bullets in order to give succor to the
wounded and dying. The enemy's
wounded received all the attention that
could be accorded them, and were han
died as gently as our own boys. A
grateful look from a pair of suffering
black eyes has repaid more than one
deed of kindness
The wounded were sent from the
field dressing station by train to the
General Hospital at Manila, and as
trains left two or three times a day the
wounded we're hurried back where they
could have every facility for treatment.
Major Henry F. Hoyt is in command
of the Second Division@ field dressing
station, and has shown himself an en-
ergetic and capable officer on the firing
line. He has been ably assisted by Ma
jor G. w. Neff, Major John A Rafter
and Major F. A. Luyder, while Hospital
Stewards G.. D. McIlwaine, Tenth Penn
sylvania; Elmer Butler, Twentieth Kan
sas, and Lindquist, First Montana.
working independently, are only a few
Of the names Of those who have been
aiding in the good work.
And the wounded one-how grandly
they have borne it all: always solicit
Gus for the welfare of a ecmrade and
anxious that he should receive the first
attention, without a thought to their
own critical condition.
Mrs. Boysen. also the heroine of the
advance on Maiolos, has acted the part
of the true Red Cross lady that she is.
An angel of mercy, she was found on
every battlefield, and many a rough SOL
der, wounded sore unto death, burst
into tears as she ministered to his wants
and soothed his aching brow"