The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-22
ANACONDA NEWS.
They FOUGHT BRAVELY.
Montana Soldiers Considered
the Bravest in the Army.
OUR BOYSSTOPA AT NOTHING
Members OF Other Regiments Say That
They Flight Like Savages"-What
DR.. Browning Says In an
Interesting Letter.
OUR BOYSS1OPAT NOTHING

DR.. Browning Of Miles CITY writes
an interesting letter to Louis King OF
this city under date of April II. The
letter was written at Malolos, P. L.,
and reads in part as follows:
''on the night Of Feb we had our
first real taste of war and real fighting
which we had been longing and pray
ing for so many months. 1t did rot
come unexpectedly, and within 20 min
utes after the first alarm the boys of
the LIST Montana were marching to the
outposts singing Hot Time and feel
ing jubilant that at last we were to
have shot at the insurgents. Com
pany M, from Anaconda, had been at
tackled by the insurgents at their out
post and had been forced to retreat
to an old cemetery, to which the
other companies now marched as re-
Inducements. This was in the SUI
burbs of Manila and the American
outposts circled around the town in a
long, thin line, while the insurgents
were everywhere in front of us, often
as close as so yards. During this night
they Simply retreated 10 tortlneo u
sheltered tfenches, Whlle the insurgents
arms, which did us very little harm
and did much to put nerve and heart
in our own boys. With early morning
TWO guns OF the otah pattery hao peen
planteo ana tney opened the pail py
senoing shells INTO the Hlliage, WneIe
the rebels were lntrencheo. MeanWnlle
the generals issued the orders for a
general advance, a concerted movement
in which nearly every regiment par
t1clpated, only Two be1ng held as re-
serves to guard the city against revolt
namely, the 23d regulars and the 18TH
Minnesota. You have read in the pa
pers how this movement was every
where successfully executed and the
volunteers went into hre with VIII ana
determlnatlon. BY evening OF that DAY.
April D, the American INES covered IL
mics OF ground IN length.
we camped until the loth at ID
Iona; then the list brigade OF the "a
division, composed OF the 20th Kansas,
sd artillery and LIST Montana, were sent
forward against the insurgents, VINO
had assembled IN force at ana pelore
Ialoocan. On TINS day the Drunt Oh
the nghtlng fell upon the Montanans,
and we lost 81 men killed and wounded
IN a three-mile charge, which was
glorious. The advance was partly
through the town of Caloocan But
nothing could hold the boys on that
day. Company K, from Anaconda, was
ordered to support Company Is, but
when the hght got thlck the saVages'
as we csN them here, forgot all about
being reserves, and they crowded INTO
the hiring line and went forward STOP
ping at nothing and being held pack at
times only by threats shall never
forget this day. DIR. Adams ana my
self had dressed all the wounded men
by that time and we were on the hrlng
line ourselves. Colonel Wallace mad
been shot through the lungs, and the
boys OF Company x We're wild When
they heard that. Soon. 1T was nothing
but chase, ana the insurgents were
running IN the open, Whlie our ooys
went over the rebel trenches with
cheer and then took good ann at the
nlggers, VINO were trying TO escape.
Little Phil Greenan mad captured "a
Mauser and was shooting the 1nsur-
gents with their own medicine. And all
along the line it was the same way
Colonel kessler rode his little native
horse, and the boys learned to like their
colonel on this day, because he certain
ly does not know the meaning of rear
as far as bullets are concerned. we
dressed or buried no Filipinos on that
day. but the next morning l. was pussy
until afternoon, and then we shipped
them in three freight cars to the re-
serve hospital in Manila. The dead
ones We're buried IN punches OF 20, 80
and 40, and some half burned bodies