Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-09
LIVELY sKIRmIsHEs WITH "SIGGERs,'
John Glenn Writes to his Father OF Some Expert
ences In the Philippines -incidea's
Of His Army Life.

Under date Of Ma~csn first, from Pasco,
Philippine ISLANDS, John Glenn writes
to BIS father, Jason Glenn of this city.
an interesting letter. From the same
the CENSOR is permitted to make the
following extracts:
There hasn't any mail reached the
regiment for some time so | havn't had
letter from You since l wrote last. We
have made another jump since then, and
are now on the southeast point of the
island in little town called Pasco The
Forty-fifth is sailing un Ter new name
now. of which you will probably see
something in the papers. The 45th, 10th,
ten companies of the 37th and part o.
the Astor battery are brigaded together
for the present and are called General
Bells Expeditional Brigade This place
is the supply station of the brigade and
is held by Co. q for the present
We left Naiee the 10th of February
and boarded the transport Tarton and
sailed that evening, accompanied by
three or four ether transports carrying
the other regiments. and the o. S. gun
boat Marinette We sailed about the
islands for four daS' . and dropped anchor
in st Michaels bay on the southeast
point of the island We landed from
the ship in the ships boats, and had to
Jump from them into thick black mud
nearly to our armpits and wade il for
several rods to reach firm ground You
can imagine how we looked when We
did reach it We would have made swell
newspaper pictures One of our lieuten-
ants took snap shot of us. He was
standing Just as he came out in his
shirt tail and covered with mud from
head to foot As il happened Co. Fl was
the first company to make landing.
They had Just got the mud partly
scraped from themselves and outfits
when the 'niggers" made charge on
them from the brush. They We're armed
with spears, bows and arrows. Mausers,
Remington and German express rifles.
The company quickly got into action
and put them back into the woods, where
they held them for an hour while Co u
was landing, The 'niggers' kept up a
scathing fire all the while, but burt no
one. Company Fl got several of them
though. As soon as we were in readi-
ness company q took the lead and fol
lowed down the line of nigger trenches,
which they left the first thing just as
we got even across from them they
opened on us. Just here the advance
guard got their first Negro. We We're
quickly thrown out into line of skir-
mishers and advanced at double-quick
across the rice paddles and mud rivers,
with the bullets whistling around us.
We kept ON until we We're within five
hundred yards of them and the captain
ordered us to lie down, which we were
ready enough to do, and did in a hurry.
From here we fired several volleys into
them and .hen fired only when we saw
a Negro, which was not for long for
they got out of there pretty promptly
and retreated into thick grove of cocoa
nut trees. from which tney opened on us
again. We kept driving them from one
place to another, straight TO the town OF
| Calatongo, three miles from the beach.
| II was four o'clock when we entered the
town We hustled the ''nigs' out the
| other side and then came back to get
| supper for we hadn't had anything
| since breakfast ON the ship. We failed
/! - capture their artillery. | guess they
didn't have much ammunition for they
| loaded their cannons with old bolts and
| pieces of iron. / don't know how many
of them we killed, a lot of them though.
| for we saw lots of them piled ap IN
| shacks, and lying on the field They
only killed one of our boys and wounded
two others. The one they killed was
shot through the stomach. The ball
took in part of the brass of bis belt and
two empty shells he had in his pocket.
The hole where /, cane out was big
enough to stick your fist IN. He lived
only four OF fits minutes; died befor'
the doctors came up.
don't know how long we will sta,
here.