The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-09-01
is HOME FROM MANILA.
Sergeant Coursey is Back to Alpena,
Having Been Mustered Out
of the Regiment.
(From Thursdays paily.)

(trom InurSdayS Da1ly.)
AS stated Wednesday Sergeant o. w.
Coursey arrived at his home in Alpena.
The sergeant's wife made her home in
this city most Of the time, while her
husband was in Manila, with her
father, J. b. Nolt. Sergeant Coursey
stopped over night in Aberdeen and
gave an interesting interview to the
News, which is given below:
Sergeant o. W. Coursey, of Com.
pany G, First South Dakota, arrived
in A Aberdeen from San Francisco via
the Northern Pacific yesterday after
noon on his way home to Alpena. The
sergeant was met here by his wife and
his mother and the party went to AL
pena on this mornings Milwaukee,.
Prior to his enlistment in the volun-
teer service, Sergeant Coursey was
pena, which position he resigned to go
into the service. He was slightly
wounded above the knee in one of the
engagements in which the South Da-
kota regiment fought, but did not go
to the hospital for several days, his
wound appearing too trivial until he
caught cold in it and was unable to go
farther. AS he was about to resume
duty he WAS attacked by dysentery and
had been sick about ten days when the
order was issued to send all the sick,
who could travel, to San Francisco.
he was soon we'll and was last week
discharged. With this exception the
sergeant says he was never in better
health than in Luzon.
Speaking of the work Of the South
Dakota regiment Sergeant Coursey said
no other one saw such service except
fine record and saw some very severe
| fighting. The Minnesotas, he says,
did good work in policing the city of
Manila but we're in the field very little,
and had but small opportunity to do
Zig hting. The sergeant gave it as his
opinion that Major Warne must GER
tainly be found guilty by the court mar
tial which will try MIN on his arrival
at San Francisco. He thinks that un-
der the articles of war there is little
chance that he will escape dishonora-
BILE discharge. In saying this he de-
clared it was not necessary to go into
the merits of the charges made by
Major Warne against Colonel Frost.
The soldiers at San Francisco are all
friendly to Major Warne, he said, but
felt that the writing and publication OF
the majors letter was gross violation
of the rules governing the conduct of
soldiers. The sergeant said it was
true that General Otis had sent regu-
lar army doctor to examine men in the
hospital and that some of them were
reported able for duty by that doctor
and they were ordered out when they
were unfit to go. They did not, how
ever, 90 out, as Lieutenant Colenel
Slower and Major Warne prevented it.
Sergeant Coursey told a News re-
porter last evening that if, at the end
of the rainy season, the government is
still enlisting men, he will enter one OF
the volunteer regiments and return to
the Philippines. He gives it as his
judgment that no man can tell how Ion e
it will take to suppress the insurgents
With the force now being put in the
field it will be possible to deal the
rebels blow hard enough to break
their force and scatter them into the
mountains, from which the small
parties are likely to cause annoyance
for long time. He says the insurg'
money and managa to get arms in when
they need them-he thinks from Japan
He expressed the belief that General
Otis did all that any general could
have done under the circumstances
and that the administration is doing
what it should do in keeping him il
command. He thinks. however, thai
the work of governor general and com
mander of the troops in the island
should not all devolve upon one man
as there is enough to keep two men
busy all the time.
The sergeant said the work O
mastering out the soldiers now a
Frisco was going forward steadily, bu
be could not predict when the Aber
deem boys now they would be reached
They may be reached any day and
they may be reached for some time.
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