Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26
fire of five Filipino companies. neither one

f1re OF hve Filipino companies. neitner one
was hit.
An Enlisted Mans Opportunity.
1t is not often an enlisted man gets q
chance to run a part of the fight to suit
himself. That chance however. came to
one bugler. Captain Hannay. finding that
L company was too far away to hear or
ders, sent his bugler after the company to
sound the charge. At the first notes l.
flew onward. 1t was right here that the
bugler forgot, for the time being, that he
was only the commanding officers orderly.
He saw another chance for l. to move on
the jump-too good a chance, he thought,
to be lost He sounded once more, and
Lieut.. Ross, imagining, of course, that the
order came from Capt. Hannay, executed
It, Not even yet was the bugler's thirst
for forward action stated. He sounded again
and again, as the heat of generalship made
his blood flow fast and hot. By the time
the bugler came to himself and relinquish-
ed the duties of fight director the poor
fellows of company were troubled with
shortness of breath. In this brisk affair,
according to the official report, the
dead reached total of about sixty in
Guiding some officers. 1t is the enemy's
dead that is meant, of course. Twenty-one
Mausers and six Remingtons were the
SpOils of this field
When the forward movement was again
begun, at 3 in the afternoon Capt Ham
nay wanted to relieve A company from
Iufther duty as advance guard. to give the
men rest from their hard work of hours.
Lieut.. Macarthur begged hard, however and
was allowed to keep his position in the
lead. A mile and a half he had gone when
ne discovered the enemy, heavily intrench-
ed to the left. near a bridge that had to
be crossed. He deployed his men, having
no sooner done so than he fell. shot through
the ankle. While L company was or
dered to the left of the road. and NJ to the
other side of the road to take position X
was ordered to move across the bridge. and
did so. thanking the trenches Before the
men of X company had gotten fifty feet,
yeilng like fiends the brownies took fright
and fed, making first-class targets of them
selves as they did Fifty or sixty dead
enemies and fifty captured rifles was the
tale at this point K lost four men wound
ed IN the charge; one of them has since
died. Just before dark the regiment was
fired on from ahead. Two shells from Haw-
thorn's gun sent the insurgents after some
thing they had forgotten.
Exhausted, but happy. the Sd marched in
to Baliuag at . O'Clock in the evening
were the casualties for the day. Two of
the wounded have since died, and another
is expected to. Had 1T not been that our
shot so effectively as to demoralize
the enemy's fire. this tale of American
losses would have been much more grew
some. Gen. Otis promptly telegraphed con-
CALCULATIONS to Capt. Hannay. Gen. Law
ton wired: THE most brilliant fight of the
season, and the most effective" 1.-The tell
ing fight of the campaign was the message
that Gen. Macarthur sent. AS the oldest
regiment in the army, the Sd has sustained
it's record of century's quick. decisive.
brilliant fighting. The Filipinos have
learned lesson which will probably do
them good