The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-01

4 thus relieving the troops on the front line
/ of an arduous and important duty, aud
! leaving them foot loose to fly at the foe.
/ our general infantry advance was a
/ long, superb sweep northward by thin
I line OF troops In extended order Of battle
1 deployed so as to cover nearly the entire
/ stretch Of country between the bay OF Ma
Mia on the west and the San Juan on The
| east. To 90 back little. The movement
/ began at $50 a. m. OF March %, with
| iialo's advance on the rear right His
movement was taken up at a M my
brigade on the center. Wheaton, with the
| left advanced later
ION account Of the boldness and activity
of the enemy on his left General Hall
was kept busy thorc and did not advance
/ with the general line He had been d.
! rected by The corps commander 10 sectrc
I the safety of our extreme right and also
he rear beyond tho peradventure Of Il
doubt.
The lighting itself well, ] can not go
into that In detail now 1t would require
much space. There Is no trouble, my boy,
about the lighting on our side Make a
fairly good plan OF a battle, send the sol
diers In Under their officer. hold them
well in hand give them good rifles and
keep them supplied with plenty Of am
munition, maintain strict Are discipline,
show them the enemy's position and the
men VIII do the rest.
THE nameless man behind the gun and
the all too obscure line officer have far
more to do with the winning OF victories
than many poorly informed civilians seem
to understand"
THE start how was that made ?"
"The first advance was partly through
the open. across rice fields and cleared
ground, partly through timber and under
brush, across marshes, lagoons and
streams Of varying degrees of depth
"The river Tuliahan was passed by the
Third artillery and the Twentieth Kansas
of my brigade while the day was yet young
and by the First Montana later on. The
enemys center had been pierced"
''And then7'
"The victorious march continued right
along day after day. until Malolos was
reached The rivers were crossed by the
infantry either by fording, swimming or
on improyised RATS OF temporary bridges;
the artillery and supply trains passed the
streams on the railway bridges, which the
enemy could not burn and had been I'M
able TO blow IN for want of time because
his burning parties had been chased off
promptly by our intrepid advance guard.
Besides the streams lagoons and marshes
that had to be crossed or Ranked, thorny
bamboo thlckets dense banana forests and
difficult stretches OF tangled chaparral
must be penetrated and cleared under fire.
"At MaloIos itself there was only the
feehlest resistance by the enemy whose
warriors had by that time grown dis
cotlraged and became demoraiized by their
repeated and unyarylng defeats and had
proven themselves the premier sprinters
OF our new colonial possessions
Just before we entered Aguinaldo's
abandoned capital the place was fired All
the towns had been fired by the rear guard
OF the retreating army My brigade
marched In on the side where the gov
eminent palace is located and by the time
the advance guards had reached the public
square the large building and scores Of
smaller ones were enveloped In flames
and too far gone to be saved"