The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
THE NAL [OS CAMPAIGN
How the Insurgent Capital Was
Stormed and Captured.
FIRST TO ENTER THE CITY
The Honor Belongs to the Second Bat
TALON of the First Montana.
Great Mortality Among
the Nebraskans.

/ Mr., and Mrs. c. P. Brinton. who have
TWO boys with the Montana regiment in
the Philippines, Charles and Wilmer,
are in receipt of series of letters from
the boys, dated from March 81 to April
., covering the period of the operat lions
against MalOlos and the taking of the
capital of the Filipinos The brother
Charles, who was wounded in the early
fighting, is well again and both boys
are now at the front. I will be noted
that the claim of the Kansas men to
having been the first to enter Malolos
is disputed and that the boys claim the
honor for the Montanans.
The letter dated March 81 says: I'VE
took Malolos early this morning and
are now engaged in patroling the town.
The Kansas men are blowing around
that they We're the first to enter the
town at II o'clock. 1t is a well-known
fact that the second battalion of our
regiment, under Major Cook was first
into Malolos, at $50 a. M. the third
battalion, under Major Miller, follow
ing Immediately. We We're up at
o'clock and advanced on the insurgents
capital at 7:15, after 80 minutes bonn
bardment by the artillery. We We're all
disappointed in the taking of the town,
as we expected big fight. ! do not
know how many We're killed and
wounded, but the firing was heavy on
our right
Under date of April 8 the boys say:
The third battalion had a taste of
scouting last Saturday. We We're de-
tailed to proceed up the railroad about
four miles to the next town. where the
insurgents were supposed to be strongly
entrenched. We found them and they
found us, to their sorrow. They were
in very strong force and consequently
we could not do much but reconnoiter
We came back without the loss of a
man and with a very good report as to
the strength and numbers of the enemy,
VINO We're strongly entrenched and well
protected on their TANKS. Company F
sharpshooters killed two officers on
this expedition, but were were unable
to learn their rank :
On April the brother Charles. among
other things, says: My wound is en-
tirely well. 1t was only a flesh wound
in the left arm which kept me in the
hospital about month, but I did not
miss any of the fighting, as our regi-
ment laid in the trenches at Caloocan
during that time I don't suppose any
one knows when we will get home I
SuVSs We dit SOpu +lol our Two years.
Some of the regiments have suffered
terribly. The Nebraskas now have
only about 400 men fit for duty out of
a full regiment. Our company has the
largest number of men for duty of
any company in the regiment We have
had only four men wounded, and they
only slightly. Three of them, myself
among them are back on duty Not a
man of our company has died"
On April the boys wrote: We have
been up to try and take Calumpit, but
failed, though we had the whole regi-
ment, the 4th cavalry, two guns of the
9Th, artillery and Colts automatic
gun from the Helena. We lost one
man and had five wounded and 2S We're
overcome with heat. Yesterday %
krag-Jorgensen rifles We're issued to
each company. We each got one. This
don't look much like coming home We
are not nearly as much impressed with
this country as we were, and as far
as mineral discoveries are concerned,
we haven't heard of any,"