The record-union., 1899-07-19
some twenty wounded of the cavalry

some twenty wounded of the cavalry
alone.
We-that is the cavalry-are hardly
mentioned in the San Francisco papers,
who give all the praise to the volun.
teers, but our percentage of killed and
wounded I think is above the average,
showing that we are doing our share.
/ finished the muster rolls to-day, and
if the troop does not come in will prob
ably go out and join them again l
do not think there is any advance in
tended, and they are probably doing
patrol duty. do not want to miss any
thing, as Frank and I have been side
by. side in every engagement. Adj
vancing on San Raphael, Frank was
sent on a message to ford the river to
division on the other side, and I did
not see him until late the next day.
/ was never SO worried in my life, al
though the Duke assured me that my.
"Luffing brudder ish all right" In
these accommodating expeditions and
quick retreats we have to make one
often is in need of assistance once in
a while in mounting, controlling a
frightened horse. etc. and Frank and
are always on the lookout to help
one another OUT
Frank had pictures taken two months
ago, just before we went out. 1 am
going after them, and will send them
in a few days.
. MANILA Up. -, June 3. 1S99.-Since
my last to you the troop has arrived.
and we are all enjoying a few daya
rest, after over two months of the
l,oY
There are thirty-three on sick report
this morning, nearly all boils, ring
worms, eczema, etc.
OF course we ate all kinds of things
against which we had been warned.
and perhaps this is what caused it,
In all of. these towns were warehouses
full of raw sugar. leaf tobacco, beno
veno and anisada. and occasionally a
shack full of mangoes packed away to
ripen. In most of the houses were
left the furniture, cooking utensils, etc.
and in many places we sat in wicker
chairs and ate off carved oak tables
with the best of chinaware. The ma,
tiveS basketed their chickens and hid
them in the fields, sometimes two or
three hundred together. so we did not
need to exert ourselves chasing the
stray ones. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
although we did not know what hour
in the day we might run into a hole
and get all cut up.
I have been busy the last two days.
preparing blanks for the signatures of
the war soldiers, applications for dis
charge and medical certificates.
think we will be out of the service
inside of sixty days, and perhaps on
our way home by that time.
The troop is under orders to be ready
to take the field again. and I guess
it is Paranaque this time. I do not
think it will take over three days to
occupy that place.
1 suppose you read of the death
from wound of Young. the scout. We
were out with him and his little band
three days, looking for the column of
five thousand rebels, who were said
to be advancing from Novaliches
northward, and then again reinforced
them one evening, after they had held
off over a hundred rebels and thei,
ammunition nearly gone. This was on
the road to San Miguel, at Masin. We
were at Maliuag, most of us asleep in
our squad shacks. or down to tina
river bathing. when the order was
given to saddle up. In just six min,
utes we were moving, and galloped five
miles to find these twenty-four scouts
with over hundred of the enemy be-
fore them. We soon drove them back
into Masin and returned.
Young was a gentleman. and one
of the finest physical specimens I ever
saw AS the scouts. three of whom
f,-n,, f1,a aox 1px- no q
man among million.
Harrington I knew well. and shared
my canteen of water and can Of corn
beef with him on outpost only a few
days before he was brought into San
Isidro with the Stars and Stripes
wrapped around him
Well, I have given you all the news
to date, and will close with love to all.