Show ROM CAr AIN YOUNG Viid Description of th Battle at S I Mania PREPARING FOR ATTACK > FOLLOWED BY ROU OF A MQT UlELSUSEE L GC al Explanation of the Plait of l the Attacking TreeTe Battle I I Itself With Particular R ferece S tQ he Gallant Pat Taken By the Utah Tr psapt Grant Tells f of he raking of Wakes Island Below is a most interestIng letter from Captain RIchard W Young written I writ-ten at Mania f his wife In this city I aCer the battle whIch resulted in the I aU of the city > had taken place I g1ves a graphic des riptlon ut me pre paraton for the attack the battle and lows the results The letter reads a fol Camp Dewey Near Manila July n iSIS Since writing you last we have had I some excitement Thursday night along toward mornIng I was awakened by I General Gmeues aide i Schiefin who handed me a written order from I the general to get two of my guns I ready to go up into the trenches lt 8 ocock the next morning and to take hal of the battery nin with tlC I learned from Mr Schlefin that the EIghteenth infantry and a battalion of the Colorado boys were to go with us We were ready on time although the excitement of the order and tre uncertainty of the object of our visit prevented J y sleeping very much the I rest of the night Ve put about 35 I men on each gun laving previously put ropes on them and you would have I laughed to see a light battery usually the dashing arm of the service go up n muddy road with 35 men pulling I I laboriously along When we got up there we found two insurgent guns just gns where we desired to put ours They II were great bIg oldfahioned guns shooting a round cannon bail about six I Inches in diameter They put some I ropes on thesQ guns and dragged them I 1 I p7 t I PAf15t TROOP ST l I j J A AA SAIIRY < 0 6THRY 1 1 I 0 I w I l D O I L CAMP I II I Cpt Yous 3Iap of the Battlefield I back out of the enclosure and put our two in their places I made the na lives stare to see two great big guns replaced with two much smaller ones They did not understand that the modern mod-ern rife cannon is much superior to the old W had a most uncomfortable uncomforta-ble location The natives had been around there foi some time and the I place stunk most sickeningly Time water was In ever depression I lies I about 1 inches below the surface and so rises into every hole The earthwork earth-work we were stationed behind was about 10 feet thick and at the rear was sustained by bamboo poles sunken sunk-en in the ground behind which were place piece of Wicker work made of bamboothis held up the earth to the desired height about six feetthrouh i all were two embrasure narrow behind and gored out in front so the guns could be traversed around from side to side THE FIGHT rondayThe fight has occurred We occupied our new p sltons on the new lnes dug by the Colorado boys two or three nights since yesterday morning early Fortunately Captain Grants two guns were taken forward yesterday morning to n positiOn on the other Ide of the church All was coin paratvely quiet yesterday Tier were a few shots now and then whonaome of our men unnecessariy cXPse tn m selves hut there wa a sort of am that preceded the storm of last nIght i Ye wade some v cry COUfoltble houses for the men around the guns I remained re-mained up there until about 5 oclock in the evening and left Lieutenant Gbbs in charge for the night the main par of the battery and men being be-ing in Camp Dewey At 130 last night I was awakened by the most infernal racket I eve heard There va an incessant roar or small arms punctured with the discharge dis-charge evdry second almost of some heavy cannon The whole camp was up Immediately Ye knew our boyap were in for it to what extent we did not know Bugles began to sound the CU tO arms Vc had our Umbers and I caissons laded with shot and shraunel and the terrible noise of the battle Con I tnuetli eas beyond all question the j I most infernal liaise I ever herd An hide of General Greenes went through j I our camp and tgld us to await orders The Infantry flied past and soon choked uu the naov road Down this road was a v riable rain of lead Men fell in every regiment The sea beach was swept with shrapnel and small arms We waited In the impenetrable darkness dark-ness and rain for orders Men oon began be-gan to run thou camp They were terrorstricken One shouted Turnout Turn-out the guard BrIng on all the ammunition munion We gbb him and found out he had no order but was simply stamp ed Another man came run I I rng down the rpad and when halted I by an officer and asked where he was I f going sid the first sergeant had sent him for a drink of water This was two i battle and a half miles from the scene of I I WILD REPORTS riPORT S Thun came the reports that the Utah bteres were knocked out wiped I out that the trenches had been entered en-tered by the Spanish and 1 bur men killed I was 3 most fearful cper renee We could not have taken more ammunition the roads the ammunion up rads infantry clogged them up and it would hye I ben suicIde to tke one fair rmber chest f l of ammunitIon up through such a fusillade A single ball would I have exploded the whole 42 rounds Besides Be-sides we wer uner orders to remaIn in camp After two hours or fearful suspense the end cme Then we hur red our ammunition forrard40 ot the boys taking two lImbers for to and onehal miles through mud 3 foot deep They got there Sely and thank j God round the boys all sound In my t t f fL L i > bat iE ufn t Gbbs had a scratch I on hIs thumb ahd Pot Leaver Sams son hfa trifling qbrqslon on his ab domen caused by a Mauser bullet I whIch first struck a wheel and glanced thererrom into his blue shirt through I that and then along his stomach and comIng tQ a stop Inside his shira most narrow e cape The Infantry boys were rot so fortdnate1O sverd killed and 40 were wounded The funerals fu-nerals of the dead were held yesterday md were of course very sad and touching ceremonIeS The wounded now lie in tents in camp and are re celying the attention of the hospital I and medical departments 1 DETAILED DESCRIFTION The battle was as follows The Tenth I PennsIvamna regiment or more properly prop-erly a battalIon or It under command I of Majpr Culebrtson was stationed t along the American trenches on either aide of a monastery formerly a fine 1 I building now riddled with bullet and shel holes Back a hal Jule or so Iwere the support consisting of a company com-pany ot the Third United States art ler armed with the Kragorgensen I rifes By the way the Spanish troops I as a rule are much better armed than Ii we are They have the Mauser rifle a rifle of German make which is one of the best rifles made I is however in no way superior to oui KragJorgen sen Both are magazine gns nut the only troops with us having the Krag Jorgensen gun are the regulars four companies of the Eighteenth infantry and two com anies of the ThIrd ar I tier The Pennsylvania Colorado Nebraska and CalifornIa regiments have the old Springfield I whose Mauser bullets do hae mi ugly sound as they pIng through the air or clip off the tops of tree or lades torsass within a few feet of your head Two guns of our battery and two of Captain Grants were also in the I trenchesurs on the right his on the left As good luck would hate i we had moved our guns from the insurgent Insur-gent positiOn in rear to heir new resting rest-ing laces the morning before the en gagenment and Captain Grant had taken up two of his guns I had very I carefully copcealed my guns by putting put-ting thatches in front bf the embra mires or holes through which the gun protrude and I andall of us are quite I convinced that the SpanIsh were taken wloly by srprse when my two guns I opened on thmthoy supposed they j were still in the rearIp the old Insurgent I in-surgent positoand that is where I they got fooled to their cost we believe be-lieve Captain Grant had taken no menns to conceal his embrasures although l al-though they were in fact partly hidden 1 and Lieutenant Grow fees assured that the Spanish believed that the only guns they would have to deal with were I the two on the leffor that reason they kept a thin line In front of the left wing putting most of theIr min I on our side In order to avoId the gun There had been skirmish fire durIng the day betwen the sharpshooter but nothing serious About 5 in the afternoon after-noon I had gone up on a porch on the third floor of the Monastery with Captain Cap-tain Grant and Lieutenant Kraenbuhl Third artillery We crwled out to the end of the porch wherete had a splendid splen-did view of the Spanish lines I had vew just left them and had crawled up the rear slant of the roof to the gable I I had seen COlonel Hale In the same ex celent position in the moring when the Spaniards began firing lIke sin I I dont know whether i was at us or not if so nothtng came very close but Grant and Kragenbuhl made a bee line I br the stalrcae and from thence down into the trenches But for me escape I was not qult so easy so I made up my mind to sty on the roof until I thiniis looked more encouraging There I remained to the immense enjoyment f of the boys in the trenches below for abou half an hour and then t sneaked I down pretty dose to the staircase and I got down In a hurry I assure you Asa I As-a matter C fact we have all ben i where the bullets fly ever since we t came A bulet comes through camp once in a while A man was shot in I the leg by one esterday morning ALv4tS SILENT To return tdThe battle l VaS com I paratvely sfeht until 130 The boys were crouching behind the earthworks most of thos belongIng to the battery being asleep under the canvas shelter II I constructed for them Then there arose from Uie Spanish lines marked I S s s S a sheet of fame Our boys saY there ntre at least 3000 of the enemy TheIr guns back In their lines i joined in and the dmknd rainy ni < ht I disagreeable enough under any circumstances circum-stances was made hideous by the flight i of messengers or death The lemy came out of the r earthworks iUI the I evident intention or throwing our right I think which was supposed to be in I charge of the insurgents but which in fact was most woefully weal and unprotected I un-protected The Pennsylvania boys valiantly returned the enemys fire I rising up over the parapet to deliver their shots and loading under cover Then thing got intolerable Lieutenant I Gibbs let drive with one of our pieces knocking out the temporary cover to the embrasuresthis was followed by I Lieutenant Grow on the west They lred shrapnel shells each Containing 200 bullets jlglmt into the enemys flashes Lieutenant Krgenbuhl says I that each shot left a gap in the Spanish Span-ish lines The PennsYlvania boys fred so rapidly that before long they were almost without ammunition then for a time things looked extremely blue f The Snanilrds seemed to have an inexhaustible i inex-haustible supply and their firing kept I up intermittently Gibbs cut his shrapnels at zero so It would explode II in the gun land let them have i right and left Grow followed suit Just at the critical moment up came the re eres under Lieutenant Kragenbuhi They came through the mud at a double time with their bugles blowing timey filed into the trenches and were received with a hearty cheer by the hoys Immediately the commands load ready aim and fre were llcrd and the regulairs rose above the works and poured volley after volley into the almost victorious Spaniards Then up came other regulars Third artillery then the Colorado boy and some California compan and the Spaniard I Span-iard concluded he had had enough and retreated after two hour had cob test We do not know how many were killed among them but i must have been a considerable number they were out of their trenches ue were in our I and we baa Our cannon right against their lines I lnes PRAISE FOR THP TT U nv You shOuld hear the praises bestowed be-stowed on the Utah boys I is frequently fre-quently stated that we saved the day sae that the Spanish would have been too much for our infantry without the pro teton of our guns We fired 160 cannon can-nOn shots during the enggement One provoking feature of the affaIr was the shooting into our batteries and trenches by some California companies The later went Into the Insurgent abandoned aban-doned trenches behind us and must have mistaken ou lines ahead for the Spaniards and let us ave a volley or however two ap arenty without killing anyone At the earliest moment w < sent up two limbers full of ammunition to each batfery I took O nen to pull each limber but the boys went through the mud with a right good will in constant danger of their lives CaptaIn Grant and I also went up onto the lines as son as we learned that General Greene had nothing else for us tp do Nelson went vith me tf Yesterday Lieutenant Vebb tooK Gbbs place and again lat night the firing started The wind was the other way and ne did not hear so wen but our lines were much stronger and were in command of Colonel McCoy of Cob rdo a splendid and efcIent man who made up his mind to let the Spaniards stand off and do all the firing they wished so long a they dId not come Into our cap and reserve Ills fore until I was really ne essar and not needlely expose a man r do not be lieveave fr it gun Several woundea haTe been brought in however and ram r-am very anxious to lear from Lleuten ant Webb r GOOD NWS Lieutenant W bb came1 and with him r t the goo1 news that not one of our men had suffered A stalwat fellow from Colorado was shot through the head He was aiming aver the top or the parapet par-apet when an ugly little Mouser went through his open eye had an through his head When hIs ee was ebbed you could not see where he was hit Several Sev-eral ther were wounjed in the Cob rade regiment The attack was like 1ke that ofthe night before A strong infantry in-fantry fire and the lIFe of a umber of guns The Spaniards have the range ral1re perfectly and drop shells in our lines with fearful accuracy Lieutenant Crichlow was assisting in the aiming of one of Grants guns when a shell came through the embrasure struck the frame of the gun knocked i of and exploded it Fortunately no one WS hurt though pieces few in all di rectons Lieutenant Webb did not jire jre In fact we had day before yesterday as yesterday the strictest orders nOl to fire unless the enemy came out of its trenches So last night when the attack at-tack was repeated just as before we did not fire a shot though the infantry infan-try poured out COOOO or 70000 bullets The Spanish aim is splendid nothing saves us but the entrenchments The Monterey monitor has not arrived yet Dewey it seems must have her before he starts in There s ems to be some apprehension that the German fleet whIch is strong will resent the bombardment or the ton and that our admiral will have the Dutchmen also to fight so he wants his strong vessel HE has no armored shIp here but the Monterey is one of the most powerful warships afloat More anon I must post this GENERAL ORDER OF THANKS The following Is the general order of I commend ton and thanks issued by command of General Creene Headquarters Second Brigade U S5 Exp ditonary Forces Camp Dewey near Manila Aug 1 1893 General Orders No 10 The brigadIer eIral commanding desires to thank thi troops engaged last night for he gallantry and skill displayed by them in repelling such a sig rous attack by largely superior forces of the Spaniards Not an Inch of ground was yielded by the Tenth regiment Pennsylvania infantr and batteries A and B Utah artillery stationed In the tr nche the i battalion Third United States infantry t infan-try moved forward to their support through a galling fire with the utmost intrepIdity The courage and steadiness 1 steadi-ness shown by aU In their first engage I i ment are worthy of the highest corn mendaton The dead wi be buried with proper honor under the supervision of regimental regi-mental and battalion commanders at 3 I oclol today in the yard of the con I vent near 1arlcabal i By command of Brigadier General Greene W G BATES I Assistant Adjutant UCleral |