Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-04-13
From the Philippines.
CONTINUED from last week.


But after "A long march one has got TO
90 on guard He has TO keep awake, for
NJ ne il caught sleeping at his post ne
viii be shot the next morning, so 1t pays
e. keep awake. We have been without
ratious several times and had TO 1--we on
chicken and rice we had % forage. we
stayed IN the last town two days and
then started back TO Alphonso, arriving
az night and met the other two compan-
les of our battalion The next morning
we started on the march again, gong
lal day without water. About ten
O'Clock we came 10 place where we
could see for miles for we were away
upon the top of a mountain. tell you
the scenery was something grand. AT
the foot of the mountain there was
| bsy Out a little ways in the bay was
an island with volcano on II, the vol
cario being in action, the only .one on
this island of Luzon II looked az if the
bay was only mile away, but 1t was
! fiffeen miles or more We marched un.
ri two O'clock on this mountain, then
commenced going down. We were
three and half hours going down It
was so steep. We got 10 "A town at dark,
camped, started again next morning on
our iparch This day we had lots OF
GOOD water and good, level roads 10
march on. We got TO another town
about me O'Clock and found the First
Battalin there. Our company passed
througr and all the afternoon did scout.
ipy v found sugar plant with 200
tons of agar in IT. We also found lot
of natiy swho had left the town. They
had no guns, only bolos, so We took the
bolos and let them go We got back 20
town that night and the next day starte
ON tha march again. The towns are
luuite large in this part OF the Island
inst as we got out of town man who
was in the rear got killed by some mig
Ger in ambush We passed through
another large town that day and the
d2v following marched TO the coast, oil
rather TO bay on the coast. Here III
this ,own we camped two days, resting
land securing new clothes, and ther
started on our way again. Sometime
on these marches we would get attacked
hut would only lose few men Well
We marched two days and two nights
reached a town where the rest OF oul
regiment was waiting for Us 10 he!I
Them take some strong intrenchment'
which were two miles out of town. W.
started at nine o. clock and drove then
ont without tile loss Of a man. 1t wa
not known how many were killed on
the other side. but if one could see th'
strong intrench he'd positions held by the
rebels il would be Thought impossib'
70 drive any army ont OF them. Oul
battalion got here the 2jth of January
and il here vet. Our company had L
90 70 the bay. which is ten miles from
tbe town. and get rations IL was OIL
one of these trips that came very nea,
pas,ing in nv chetos. We were coming
back from the bayr 9TH train of ra
tions. at night atn. with only abou
thirty five men to iglard it. | was IL
the rear guard width four more men
when all at once oiI.sur left volley wa
fired. only few feet away. They wer
, 80 close / could see some of them, bu
, they fired at the wagons, not seeing u
AT first. but which they soon did an
one made for me Aith his gun pointe
|, toward my body. l in nnped to one sid
= lust as his gun Went off. Then l hi
. him with my gun ahdl we commence
firing into them. they retreated g
once firing as they wei, {, but they hre
too high and help soon Tot TO US frol
- the front when we gave them "A fe'
. rounds and that was theA last we saw
y them. We found threA dead nlRgel
= and they probably carried some ava!
= We had one mule killed And one wount
- ed. and three men slightly wounded.
s cannot write you all that has happene'
, but we have had our share OF the tgh
- ing, nearly every day having orus
- with the niggers, and ar night While c
o guard being continually fred upon.
: think God has been very u'erciful 10
e all Ii seems almost inlpe esible 10 3
4 | out of some Of the scraps vitnout loslr
a man ! have beer where the onlIe
q were Aying all around me. and lyir
u down in a skirnish when ene onIIe
hit the ground on both sides OF me not
foot away, and get out without
scratch. II is an experience that W
last me d life time. We have'march'
Ie over 225 miles but l cat,not rememo
the names of all the towns we march'
through, nor the dates when we nj
the hardest fighting, and there are
Of important happeningieith 1 ma
not written about, becanse some
them slipped my memory, IrhiS Is {
first chance have had &C. Write, and
found this paper in an empty fnl!lpll
house. AS am writing two soidle
are being buried and from where l an
can hear the bugle playing taps and nc
hear the three volleys fired over tht
graves. One Of them was crowned
the bay, while the other tlied. from. g
effects Of drinking too mitch native
ouor. Well, will write again the ne
chance / get
pOurpr II SNrfH