The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-09
EXPERIENCES IN THE PHILLIP
 PINES.
A Soldier Writes an Interesting Letter

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 A Soldier Writes an Interesting Letter
 Corporal Edward U Flood of one of the companies in the Forty-sixth regi-
 ment writes to friends in Hartford an | interesting account of some of his ex- | periences in Manila. He says:
 | We don't get mail very often for we
 are on the firing line. I will try to | give you an idea of the time we are | having. We left Manila on the Sd
 at in the morning and travelled five
 miles, when we joined General swans S
 brigade. The next day we made twen-
 ty miles to Bemjan, where we had our
 first engagement, but did not fire a
 shot, as we were the support of the
 Thirtieth regiment. We left there the
 next morning, our battalion in the lead, where we went bushwhacking for few 1 days over mountain tops, now in the valley or through some rocky gorge until we came to Silon, where we saw our first good fight. We chased the Gugos out of the town and slept in their houses. We captured a rapd-fire gur, established our headquarters there; we then started again with the Thirtieth in the lead for Indan, where we captured $7000 in gold, blew up a powder mill, and set their prisoners free. Company F began to get hungry
 for fight went eight miles to
 Mendas, took the town and eight
 ponies, and then took n moonlight trip
 to Alfonso, and then back to Indan,
 ending our first expedition with two en-
 agreements. Our record being good, the
 three companies were ordered out on
 our second expedition under General
 Wheaton as flying column. We took
 five days rations and started on our
 march to the sea. The enemy fled be- fore us and we were breaking all rec ords for marching and capturing towns,
 till the 18th. Then we came to Calacca,
 where they put up pretty stiff fight, but we filled them full of holes, and there was plenty of dead niggers. I got pony and seventy-1ve rounds of Mauser bullets that gave me my hands full, so sat down and fried my bacon. In the afternoon we started for Temay, getting into a scrap on the way that delayed us about thirty minutes. As we came to the town, the enemy opened on us and fired volley into our left flank. They were in the trenches, with a swift running river between us. We made a charge, but it was not very ef- fective as we could not get at them. After exchanging a few volleys we re- treated in the darkness and forced our way to the bridge. Things were quiet all night with our guard on one end of the bridge and theirs on the other. As tI1a ir,cs do J cox Awe ri can gunboat in the bay, that had been attracted by our fire We sent them to Taal for help. Everything was quiet except shot now and then from a 
 At o'clock the battle opened in earn est. Our endorsements were on the other end, the gunboat in the bay, while we were in the middle with the enemy. We pulled the Instructions from the bridge and over after them we went under the fire of cannons they had on the opposite wall. They | lad few balls, so they put in scrap iron, l bunch of keys, jewsharps and har- | nonicas in the cannon. They played | amiliar airs as they passed over our reads and buried themselves in the on either side of the street. When the whole thing was over we had me man killed and one wounded the | irSt night, and two wounded the sec md. The fellow that was killed was n the same company with me. He | unlisted from Hartford, and was three ,aces from me on the line. The bullet )ierced his heart, as we were running long the bank. He was in the rear nd fell into the water. His name was Frank Carr.
 I must close as I have work to do, nd you must jump when you are poken to in the army.
 I forgot to say that we were recom- nended to Washington for our conduct n the battle, and the colonel himself ave us fatted bull, the only fresh eef that we have had.