The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-01-19
a PHILIPPINE LETTER.
Claude Brogden Says War is Almost Over
Two Crawford County Boys in the
Philippines Now,
PANIQUE, z. L., Nov. 25, 1900.

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Two Crawford County Boys in the
Philippines Now
PANIQUE, z. L., Nov. 25, 1900.
DEAR COUSIN BLAINE!
Your letter of September 10Th came
to me long time ago, and 1 would
have answered sooner. but we have
been SO busy chasing niggers for the
last month, and that is all have time
to do, 1t is move every day or prepare
to move.
The sick men of our regiment have
been lett here, and head. quarters of our
commissary department and wagon
train. was left here to cook for the
men of our battalion, about eighty and
it keeps me somewhat busy. Have
been cooking for them week. and do
not know how long they intend to keep
a mess for them.
l get sergeants pay, S2l. go, rank as
sergeant, and then $1S 40 is made up to
me by the boys which makes $40 per
month. But it is hard job and per-
son gets a cussing by every one and
every few minutes if anything goes
wrong.
Well Blaine. think the war is about
off, for don't see how "Aggle' can
hold on much longer for he is sur
rounded, the railroad track is all cap
tured, and many of his men are DESERT
ing his army, bringing IN their guns and
turning them over to the Americans for
which they receive thirty dollars, mexi-
can, each. =
Our regiment has done good work in
this campaign, more than any other
regiment here. Our colonel (BelD has
been promoted, a brigadier general for
the good work he has done and he is a
S'cracker jack" too, afraid of nothing,
and he uses very good generalship,
Our'loss has been very light, only.had
tea killed and thirty some wounded
since our organization.
Chas. Schesser of Arion. is in this
regiment, Co. 1. 1 guess he and 1 rep.
resent Crawford county in the Philip.
pines. now.
1t is the finest kind of weather here,
cool all the time except when the sun
shines, but it gets cool and nice when
the sun goes down. Excuse this paper,
it has gone through the campaign in
my blanket roll, and has been used for
pillow and everything else. It has
hpp1
outfit.
haven't received any mail for a
month; there is plenty of mail here for
us, but it is impossible to get it on &C
count of transportation and if they
should start to where we are we would
likely be gone when it got here.
guess our regiment is scattered along
the railroad for 80 miles.
But a very little of the railroad was
damaged by the insurgents as they left
it, l guess, because the American
troops went after them SO fast they did
not have time. In weeks time the
railroad will be fixed from one end to
the other
We don't get great lot to eat now as
we only draw travelling rations. For
breakfast we have warmed corn beef,
rice, coffee and sugar and hard tack;
for dinner, beans, stewed tomatoes, cot
fee, sugar and hard tack. But when
we are in quarters we get plenty to eat,
plenty of bread and fresh beef or NUT
ton.
Well Blaine 1 will address this letter
to Denison and then if you are not
there it can be forwarded to you.
suppose Deloit is a s'great town.
now, is 1T not? Well Blaine, 1 don't
ever expect to make it my home, but l
may, if cannot find employment in the
PHILIPPINE Islands, when my time is up.
They are good enough for me.
CLAUDE.
GO. e. SO U. S. w.