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the indignities to which they had been compelled to submit, were inspired by a personal feeling which would not brook further restraint and became implacable foes, fighting not only to repulse but to kill. Steadily they advanced, driving the Filipinos before them from Santa Mesa to San Juan del Monte, capturing those villages.

Gen. MacArthur's estimate of the losses in his division from the 4th to the 10th of February, was two officers, and forty-six enlisted men killed, and thirteen officers and two hundred and twenty-three enlisted men wounded.

OPERATIONS SOUTH OF THE PASIG RIVER.

It will be remembered that the district south of the Pasig was occupied by the first division, under Major-General Anderson. At 3:40 A. M., on the morning of the 5th, the insurrectos opened fire on block-house No. 11, on the south side of the Pasig. Concerning the movements of Gen. Anderson, he says in his report of February 18th to the Adjutant-General:

"I had just ridden up to my headquarters in the city, from which I had telegraphic communication with every post of my command. I first telegraphed Corps Headquarters for permission to take the offensive when it became light enough to do so. At seven o'clock I directed Gen. Ovenshine to open artillery fire on block-house No. 14, and the wood near by, and to be prepared to drive the enemy from Malate front, and if they yielded easily, turn to the left with part of his command and sweep the enemy from his entire front; if successful, to be ready to re-inforce King's right and turn to the left of the insurgent force operating from Santa Ana. This project was not carried out until later in the day, as permission was not given to assume the offensive until eight o'clock.

"In the meantime the firing on King's line became heavier as the day advanced. The Washingtons, the Idahos, six companies of the California Regiment, and Hawthorne's Mountain Battery were put on the firing line, on the Paco front. Four guns of Dyer's Battery, and four companies of Californias were sent to Battery Knoll on the right. A battalion of Wyoming Volunteers which had reported the night before, was brought up to the intersection of the Paco and Cingalon Roads, so that it could reinforce either brigade as occasion required. The troops of the 4th Cav. were kept in reserve.

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INSURGENT ARMY AT MALOLOS.

"The artillery soon began to do effective service, and drove the insurgents from several strong positions near our line. Toward eight o'clock I learned that neither the fire from the navy, nor our guns on Malate had shaken the hold of the

enemy on Ovenshine's front, and the volume of fire beyond Cingalon, and the demand for ambulances showed that a desperate battle was being waged there. At last at eight o'clock, a telegram came from Major-General Otis, authorizing an

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King's Brigade substituting this for the intended co-operation of Ovenshine. Smith's right was a little later re-inforced by Company A, Battalion of Engineers, under Lieut. Haan. Gen. King was present, and was ordered to advance as soon as Smith deployed.

"These officers received this order with delight, and their troops with enthusiasm. The movement began at 8:20 A. M. with a rush over the creek on our front, a cheer, and rattling volleys as the whole line advanced, not by rushes, but with a rush. The insurgent line fell back before our advance, fighting, however, with spirit. The rice-fields in our front were intersected by little irrigating dykes, and behind each of these, a stand was attempted, the Filipinos firing from behind them. Our men disdained these shelters and moved steadily on until raking fire was opened on them from the redoubt on the neck of the bend between Pandacan and Santa Ana. The Idaho Regiment made a turn to the left, charging the reboubt, carrying it at the point of the bayonet, and driving a regiment of the insurgents to the bank of the river.

"The California companies in Pandacan at the same time crossed Concordia Creek and captured the smaller earthwork on the further bank. On the lower side of Santa Ana, on the river, was another earthwork in which two Krupp guns were placed, bearing on the river, but with embrasures also on the land side, and to one of these one of the Krupp guns was transferred, when an advance was made. To its fire, Hawthorne's Battery replied with good effect, until its fire was masked by the advance of our line. This earthwork was also carried, and both Krupp guns captured.

"At the redoubt the Filipinos made a brave defense, as the Scotch guard at Flodden Field formed an unbroken line around their king. So these misguided insurgents fell where they fought, filling the trenches with an unbroken line of killed and wounded. Apparently a whole battalion was driven to the bank of the river. They attempted to cross in boats and by swimming, but not a man was seen to gain the opposite bank. Their bodies have been floating down the stream

ever since.

Maj. Figgins, of the Idahos, estimates the enemy's loss in this movement in the neighborhood of 700 killed, wounded, drowned and captured. "At the same time the California Battalion charged and drove the enemy out of Santa Ana, driving them from stone walls and convents, churches and houses, and fighting their way through blazing bamboo huts from which the natives were firing. This could not have been accomplished, had not Col. Smith's command. broken the left of the insurgents' line and carried the English cemetery which was enclosed with a strong stone wall. The Regular Engineer Company, under Lieut. Haan, volunteered for this service, and did yeoman's work.

"The Wyoming Battalion, on the right of the line, did not advance with the energy of the rest of the line. Had they done so, the enemy's forces might have been captured in Santa Ana. Retreating on San Pedro Macati, they attempted to make a stand. A number attempted to hold the church and cemetery of San Pedro Macati. Then the Wyomings came up, at last, and did good service. By a skilful, tactical movement of the Engineer Company this strong position was taken in reverse and carried. The insurgents finally broke and ran, and our forces advanced and captured the church and monastery of Guadalupe, a mile beyond.

"Brigadier-General Ovenshine, commanding the 2d Brigade, had the North Dakota Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Treumann, occupying the old Spanish trenches, from Fort Malate, on the bay, to an almost impassable swamp which divided his line into two sections. From the further east side of his line was block-house No. 13, on the Tripa de Gallina. His line was held by nine companies of the 14th Inf., under Maj. C. H. Potter, and three dismounted troops of the 4th Cav., under Capt. F. Wheeler, on the extreme left. There our men had to fight in dense woods and bamboo thickets. The enemy had strong entrenchments, and fired on us from ditches and tree tops. The fight waged here more fiercely than anywhere else.

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"The left of our line could not advance because the enemy had a flank fire on it. When I sent Smith's improvised command to the left of King's line, I kept only one company in reserve in support of the artillery at Battery Knoll, but

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HALE AND COL. STOTSENBERG CONFERRING WITH COL.
MIGUEL ON THE SAN JUAN BRIDGE A FEW DAYS
BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF FEB. 4TH.

finding that two companies which had been out on outpost duty during the night had been left behind in the advance, I ordered them over to the right to

* This report is dated February 18th.

support Wheeler. This gave him one battalion of the 14th Infantry, his three troops of cavalry, and one company each of Washingtons and Californias. "At about ten o'clock, Ovenshine ordered an advance. The North Dakotas drove the enemy from their front back to the Carmelita convent. Maj. Potter, with Mantile's Battalion, 14th Inf., advanced through the woods to the right of block-house No. 14, and Capt. John Murphy, with his battalion of the 14th Inf.. charged block-house No. 14 and the adjoining trenches. After a desperate fight, the enemy were driven out, but not without inflicting serious loss on us. Capt. Mitchell was mortally wounded leading his company.

"Lieut. Miles, 14th Inf., was first in the enemy's trenches, and followed by only six men, charged into the smoking ruins of the block-house. This was a daring and brilliant feat of arms. At the same time Capt. Wheeler advanced from block-house No. 13, but after coming in view of the enemy's trenches, fell back. A gun of Dyer's Battery was sent to him, but on account of the dense bamboo thicket, it could not do satisfactory service. Shortly before 2 P. M., Maj. Rucker, 4th Cav., joined the cavalry battalion, and relieved Capt. Wheeler of

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command. Hearing of the successful advance of the North Dakotas, I telegraphed Gen. Ovenshine to carry out the project I had arranged with him, to attempt to roll up the enemy by a movement from right to left. As there was a long delay in carrying out this order, I repeated it several times by telegraph, and aides were sent with oral orders. It was at last found that he was under a false impression that he had received orders from the Corps Commander. When this misapprehension was removed, he made the movement with complete success. the meantime I had sent a battalion of the 1st Tennessee, under LieutenantColonel Gracey Childers, to the Cingalon front. They reached that point just as the North Dakotas were clearing the front and driving the enemy into the woods beyond the Tripa. The Tennessee Battalion, crossing said stream, opened on them, as also did Dyer's guns on Battery Knoll. Ovenshine then advanced with his brigade to Pasai, which he found abandoned. Leaving part of his command there, he marched with the rest up the Pasai Macati Road and opened communication with Gen. King at San Pedro Macati, and returning picketed the road. This ended the fighting at the front, but soon after King's Brigade had advanced

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beyond Paco a number of insurgents, who had lain concealed in the town, began to fire on the ammunition carts and hospital ambulances going to the front. "Anticipating the possibility of this treachery, a small force had been left in Paco under Lieutenant-Colonel Duboce. time there was a lively contest in the town. The insurgents were so persistent that nearly all their "nipa" houses had to be burned to dislodge them. Forty-three prisoners were taken, all in ordinary clothing, but unquestionably participants in the savage warfare. While this was going on in the town, a sharp musketry fire was opened on us from a large stone church near the Paco Bridge. I directed Dyer's Battery on the Knoll to reverse his guns and open on the church. It was soon in flames, yet a number of desperate men took refuge in the church tower. It was several hours before they could be dislodged, and they kept up their resistance to the last. "During the engagement, the telegraph men of the Signal Corps did effective service, carrying their lines to the extreme front at San Pedro Macati, Fort Malate and Pasai. Lieut. Kilbourne, who was with the headquarters party, did a brave act in climbing a telegraph pole at the Paco Bridge to string a broken wire, under a cross-fire between desperados in the tower and our artillery. New troops are generally demoralized by firing from flanks and rear. In this contest bullets seemed to come from all directions, but our men continued, unconcerned. When I had my headquarters on Battery Knoll, the artillery men and my staff of officers and orderlies were subject to this cross-fire during the entire engagement, and as the enemy used smokeless powder it could only be surmised from what direction the fire came.

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TRENCH SHOWING WORK OF WASH-
INGTON REGIMENT.

"At two o'clock I rode to King's front and found his lines satisfactorily established; then went to Cingalon front and found everything satisfactory there. In this engagement we lost two officers and ninety-five soldiers wounded, and one enlisted man killed. We can only estimate the enemy's loss. Our burial parties interred in their own trenches two hundred and thirty-eight insurgent dead. We took about three hundred and six prisoners, and two very fine Krupp guns, besides a large number of small arms, ammunition and ordnance stores.

"This division had on the firing line in the battle of the 5th instant about 3850 officers and men. We were opposed, as I believe, by about 5000 insurgent Filipinos. Of these, I estimate that 2000 were killed, wounded, captured or scattered. Within two days we had captured Pasig and Pateros, and our scouting

parties had gone to the Laguna de Bay."

THE TROOPS OF THE PROVOST GUARD.

The troops of the Provost Guard were glad of an opportunity to go to the front. At the call to arms, on the night of the 4th, the 2d Oregon Inf. took positions assigned them at the gates and on the streets of the walled city. On the 6th, three companies, C, G, and K, under Maj. Eastwick, took the field in Paco

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