The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-08-16

| o"hhS VI cool looking stream SIX
miles from Santa Cruz. While we
were busy preparing our meal We
heard tue fast gallop Of IN American
horse which in few sec ,nds cam"
into view with courier fr"m Gen.
Schwan S headquarters, bringing an
order to our commander, Lieut.. Col
Beacon, to hurry to the town of Ami
mnos and be ready to engage the
instructors as they came from the
mountains, where detachment Of
the Both L. s. Vol. Infantry had
gone to run them from and supposed
ly in that direction. In a few min
utes after our hurried meal we were
again upon the hike thinking ere the
sun set that night we would run up
against the ''real thing" But the
wiley followers Of Aggic were not to
be caught so easily. We arrived at
.Aniruinos about i o'clock in the
afternoon and marched to the centre
of the town aud was dismissed. with
the warning to listen for the busle
We lounged about in the empty
houses, for the town was deserted,
until dark, when guard was mounted
and marched to their prst. and all
men off duty were told TO occupy the
houses for sleeping purposes About
, o clock the sound of rifle awoke
;he echoes as we'll as thc sleeping
soldiers. The insurgents had fired
from ambush upon outpost No. ,.
The sentinel replied with his trusty
krag and in few minutes there was
a regular fusilade Of bulle,s flying
recklessly among and into the houses
woere we We're qnartered, from which
the soldiers began to vacate ''pronto'
Quick to places more congenial for
their safety. A firing of here and
there remington and the reply of tn"
krag was kept up until day
when the welcome sound of the bugle
called us to assemble. into ranks.
which it took but few minutes to
do. when off we went upon what
proved to be the hardest, hotties
hike we mad ever experienced We
marched from Animinns to San Pablo
from there to San Tomas, where We
stopped Just long enough TO eat few
slices Of bacon and couple of hard
tacks and get swallow or so of mud
dy river water, when off we went
with the swing Of veteran hikers to
Colombia. through dust that was ankle
deep and portion of this insurector-
infested country that only had one
water course. Mile afer mile we
marched. hoping against hope, tha.
we would soon get to water from the
lack of which men were fast becoming
fanished. a last we saw the steeple
on the the church of Colombia and
with renewed energy we stepped with
Il fast, determined step toward this
city. Many ofus were sick, fainting
almost, as We dragged ourselves into
this place where We thought we would
stay, but alas. we were doomed for a
yet harder lot. We rested for about
an hour and then marched to the
shore of the bay where we were put
aboard of cascoes covered boats
each company occupying one cascoe
which was so small that we had to SIT
or lay upon one another for twenty
four hours at which time We had
reached again Santa Cruz, where We
disembarked and march. d to head
quarters, resting about an hour and
then proceeding to the mountains
where We lay down upon the ground
that night about y o'clock and slept
till daybreak when we again started
upon the hike for Paeta, reaching
this place about Il O clock of the 3rd
day of February. We garrisoned
Paeta with three other companies OF
our regiment until about the 25th of
February. G. and G. companies went
to the town of Pagsanham.
While we were quartered in Paeta
we went upon daily hikes around in
the mountains and every time, witt
but few exceptions, we had 1
"scrap." On the 9Th of February
we had the misfori une to have ou
Captain severely wounded in the righ
shoulder. Captain Edmund Dubois
hailed from the State of New Jersey
and was an exemplary CCmpan'
Commander, a,d the wounding o
him was a hard blow to our company
"F." He was sent to Manila an,
thence to Frisco for trea 'ment and
} offered his dischnrpe- hnt rein SCI