The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-21
LIEUT.. TARLTON WRITES.
He Tells of n Skirmish That Was Full
of Excitement.

Captain Charles S. Tarlton, formerly OF
this city, now in the Philippines, In
letter to a friend here, among other things
says: "Well after the hardest campaign
of the entire war I am trying to keep
awake long enough to write. We started on
the 18th and just got back. and a more
motley crowd was never assembled than
the one that met the gaze of the colonel
as we came in this afternoon with over one
hundred Spanishyprisoners we had released,
thirty-five insurgents. and six officers who
had been captured and almost hundred of
u.s. But you should have seen us without
hardly bit of our original uniform. One
OF the men wore Spanish generals out
fit, others with a common insurgents uni
form, all different, most of us barefooted
and all dirty and greasy. When cheered by
the garrison the mems faces lighted up.
and after the prisoners had been disposed
of a colonel ordered the attachments of
the two companies out on the Lunetta
where he read the congratulatory kilograms
from Otis, Schwan and Wheaton publishing
an order which made the boys hearts swell
with pride. This was the hardest as we'll
as the most successful expedition that has
been sent out since the southern expedition
began and perhaps the most successful one
on the island. During the month the men
were without rations some of the time and
all the time on half rations, marching on
the most impossible of trails in the noun
tains and swimming the deepest of rivers.
We had forced night marches when the
heat was most intense. and the rations
most of the time were bad.
AT night have seen the men fall down
and go to sleep without supper. so tired
ment struck Colonel Mololes (who by the
way, is military governor general and
colonel of the famous Banahoe regiment
which has been giving the authorities at
Manila so much trouble, and who
Is much wanted mani up
in the mountains between Unisan and
Autraumon on March 26. at daylight When
ty-eight dead. including three officers, fif-
ty-four wounded. including two officers
and thirty-three prisoners, including six Of
ficers. All the civil and military papers of
Mololes, some money, forty-six Mauser
rifles, lots of ammunition. rations clothing
and over one hundred bolos were captured.
Mololes has $50 rifemen and 200 bolo men.
We had one man wounded in the leg (who
by the way, the acting hospital stew
ard who, after his own wound was ban
daged. very calamity dressed all of the
wounds OF the insurgents. We took Guni-
AGA, Lopez and a number of other towns
as are troubled greatly with the 'dobie
ITCH and as that is vegetable germ the
only way IL can De destroyed Is 10 burn
ii with acid. If il is not attended to at once
IL will spread like a ringworm. and I'M
fortunately for us we had no acid on the
trip. Then there Is the tropical ulcer,
which is something like boil. which gives
US lots of trouble. Although we did not
get Mololes, still his regiment is scattered
to the winds and his officers killed or cap
tured. so his power for a time among the
natives is broken.
This is the most elegant country I'm the
world. If il could be just seen as have
seen IL, mountain after mountain covered
with cocoanut trees or hemp and rice in
the valleys.
Major Hardigan. who is my battalion
commander, had command of the two de-
tachments that went out the expedi-
ton and he is I'm receipt of many fine no.
| tices which are sent here from Manila. Guy
Boyle is we'll and waiting the action OF
| the authorities on his resignation.
THE officers we captured are of a very
| high order and / was very much surprised
| to find them such gentlemen After the
| gathering of the rice and cocoanut crops
we may have lot more trouble. But while
| this expedition was great in its operations
| and hardships as well as in its results, IL
| was not a drop in the bucket to the excite
ment and real thing we got at San Diego
| on Jan. q.