The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-09
LTLYNCHS GALLANTRY
III AND HIS COMPANY xN \
 HAIL or DULL1Ts.
Yher Were Ambushed and Had . Hot Eight--His Horss Killed Under Him While He Was
 Nhot Through the Thigh

< The following account of recent sn- i. nrement in the Philippines appeared tn The Indianapolis News not very
 bng since. Lieutenant Lynch, wEo
 ras in command of the American
 sompany. is a Montgomery boy. and sis friends here will read of his gal- { lant conduct with great pride:
 Al interesting letter was received
 vesferday by J. A. Shirley, real
 esfate dealer of this city, from his esn. who is first sergeant of Company
 A 44th United States Volunteers, now
 xfationed at Helongos. Leyte, Phthp-
 Err islauds. He tells of an experience
 if and other soldiers had on Nov. z1 &xv1fh the insurgents. He says: 2 fhirty-five of us, under the command IT Firet Iieutenant Lynch. left there 1T o'clock in the morning for Puita, niuno9t fifteen miles from Heren. hav- inw received information of . force of
 n1urgents there. To reach the place ye had to follow treacherous r1ver hank through . range of mountains. We found that our objective point could only be reached by goingthrough . marrow dsfile with towsrlnS moun. fnan af rocks on each side. We thought 1T iundvisabIe to risk entering with nnch | small number of men, so we naade about for home. About eight miles from Helongos we made turn lu the river which brought us in the center of four largo hills. There was no sixn of life about the place ana not a sound was heard, until we were startled by terrible volley, which was poured in sn us from the rear. followed immediately from the right and left. We started on the run for the front. only to be stopped by another voliey. This lasted for 5 minutes and all was confusion. We shouted and yelled and vainly sought shelter by getting be- hind bushes that would not stop pebble from a slingshot.
 q nave often read of a perfect hall Of bullets but never took it literally be- fore. but without exaggeration they fell every bit as thick as that. In- stinctively we began to shoot nut with no thought except to die fighting. For every man thought there was not the slixktest possible chance of one or us living to tell the story. There were, na we afterwards learned. over two hundred riflemen and about the same number armed with bolos. Our efforts were directed toward preventing charge by them. as we preferred death by bullet. An insurrecto omcer was running up and down in plain sight. trying to get the bolomen to charge. He kicked. and cuffed them and even drew his revolver and shot one through the head, but they would only make a feeble attempt to reach us, only to fan back at a volley or two from us. But the riflemen were still getting In their work, fact which every man of the detachment bears evidence or.
 "I1ieutenant Lynch was mounted, nut was rnseated by shot which went through his thigh and killed his horse. He. on account of being an ofncer. was the target for as terrible rain of bull lets as man ever experienced and lived to tell about. They went through his hat. his clothing and one cut the straps of his canteen allowing 1t to fan to the ground. As each bullet grazed him he would strike at the af, fected spot with his hand with angry ejacuiations, as if stung by a bee. Finally he gave a man his revolver and grabbing a rifle went to shooting at the enemy as fast as the rest of us. After about twenty minutes of hell each man was not wondering If