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."
