Span-Am War Fighting

Span-Am War Fighting

"March 19, 1899 near the lake called Laguna de Bay, ten miles S. E. of the city of Manila. Two days before this Company G of the Washington Volunteers captured 150 Filipinos near here and seized a quantity of ammunition." "A church out here at our right was taken and occupied by the American troops and a sentinel posted in the steeple to watch for movements of the enemy. These stone breastworks have also been hurriedly thrown up around the church to defend the ground." "The Filipinos are retaliating for their disaster of the day before yesterday. The natives are out of sight in a bamboo thicket at our left,and from that shelter they are sending a sharp fire. Our men here behind our own active guns are Companies H and D of the Washington Volunteers, under command of Major Weisenberg. We have lost two men already today, besides having an officer and thirteen privates wounded. It is impossible to know as yet what has been the loss of the insurgents out there among the bamboos, but these guns of the Washington boys keep up a resolute fire and something is bound to happen where their bullets strike."

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