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Post by miletus12 on Feb 19, 2023 1:20:07 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Saturday 2-18-991. This is the hotpoint around which all of that fighting was centered. The Katipunan were after the key position. The Americans fought to maintain their position. The issue was most definitely in doubt. I still do not understand how Welch could call his "opponents", (Filipinos)^1 and still write about the patriots that they: ^1 That Unreconstructed Confederate term which was and is an expletive deleted perjorative for African American citizens. It is the kind of term that matches in reprehensiveness the similar kind of terms used by the British colonials for citizens of India. Pakistan, and Burma and Malaysia at the time all the way until the end of their "empire". And like the British, the Americans, then and now, try to run away from what we said and did, our ancestors. Still... though we put the past, in the past since we cannot change it, and follow the new better path to the future for we can change the present, but we do not and should not forget that past, lest we revert and repeat it. =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Saturday, Feb. 18th, 18992. That is Unreconstructed Confederate racist thinking pure and simple. 3. Oddly enough, I look for sleepiness, inattention and lack of interest in things to which the person should pay notice, claimed headaches, and personal slovenliness, sloppiness, and unwillingness to pitch in to do the work or cooperate with the team, and attitudes of negativity and cowardice, to gauge whether or not a co-worker, superior or subordinate may be a problem I have to deal with as an OBSTACLE towards getting the present work done. I read that in Milsaps. 4. Considering that lawyer, William Evana, sued the cockroach for monies owed him, I think that letter is a doomed useless missive. 5. No newspapers and no newspaper delivery. The soldiers are too busy being... soldiers. =============================================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Saturday, February 18th, 18996. The northern front is not quiet, but it is less hectic than around San Pedro Marcati, this day. Notice the damage that Spanish .43 and Krag bullets can do? Note also that the Smallpox epidemic is still ongoing. Some of the wounded are Filipino prisoners. These are the ones with the Krag bullet drill-woumds. Those hit by Remington rounds, have wounds reminiscent of British dum dum bullets. The Spanish .43 in its original form was an American designed and made soft lead core copper semi-jacketed projectile for the Spanish contract Remington Rolling Block Rifle. That bullet was later Spanish modified into a brass-jacketed reformado bullet which was not like the copper nickel jacketed USG Krag .30s. 7. Some of the wounded are Lantanka casualties or victims of artillery shell burst. I leave it to the reader to figure out as to "eyes shot out" and "arms and legs blown off" and "insides hanging out", which was which, and who was who, so wounded. The hint is that artillery shell fragments acted like razor blades or sharp high speed spoons that dug out whole swaths of human flesh, while bamboo cannon gravel shot were of a lesser obscene horror. 8. One thing I will write in defense of the Americans, who were guilty of so many APPALLING war crimes: they brought in ALL of the wounded, Filipino and American, and gave them the best care they could on a surprisingly equal basis, (Which was Civil War era standards lousy by the way. M.), an act that was almost unheard of among any other colonialist imperialist power. 9. The Katipunan continue to aim high and miss. We have discussed why.
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 20, 2023 5:26:33 GMT
This was REALLY bad. Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Sunday 2-19-991. By bad, I mean the 1st Washingrton Tobacco Thieves were enfiladed and hung on by the skin of their fingertips. 2. USS Laguna da Bay was elsewhere trying to gunfire support another part of Wheaton's line. Notice how Welch describes not having the gunboat present. It affected American morale. 3. Mueres esta noche invasor, yanqui. Or mamatay ka ngayong gabi, Yankee. The whole point was to feed on the fear that exposed out of position troops would have. 4. Scott's battery... GATLING guns.
With Scott's battery, Battle of Baliuag Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton is shown here observing the American advance on Baliuag, Bulacan Province, May 2, 1899.That is Scott's battery as of 19 April just before the Battle of Baliuag, which is the only picture I could find of them. The man in the Pith helmet is GEN Lawton, the general officer who saved Wheaton's hash when he mounted the Laguna da Bay line rescue a little later in March of 1899. I am not going to jump the gun, but he had to restore the situation up north of Manila in April, too. He was the "fire brigade leader" who straightened out the war criminal's, GEN Otis' overall mess. I have to wait on him a bit. M.=============================================================================== The cockroach... poor booby (INTENSE SARCASM). Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Sunday, Feb. 19th, 18995. The cockroach was hopeful for a handout. The Mormons told him to "Get Lost". 6. The 1st Californai Flour Mill Thieves legged it for the rear? Yes, that happened. They LOST the First Battle of Guadalupe Viejo. That was where the USS Laguna da Bay was hammering away to little effect in direct support. The church strong point was blown to bits. 8. Took dinner with the Owens, means as usual, the cockroach bummed a meal. 9. "Shells of the South Seas" refers to all of those free you can grab off the Bay shore, "She sells seashells by the seashore to a stupid...", well you know what I mean. 10. More about the knives and imaginary assassins, the cockroach writes. Expletive deleted, the Unreconstructed Confederate is a yellow belly of the worst sort. The real actual house to house "rifle hunt" is a GRIM harbinger of dark things to come in future diary entries, I am afraid. 11. Translation: I am a errant coward, and though I trust in my religion, I am going to hide in my rented house behind my locked iron gate with my knocking knees until the shooting stops and the imaginary assassins I see everywhere are rounded up and put in their place by our troops. And by their place, I mean subservient to their masters, like me.
GRRR. This awful man grinds my gears. How was he not packed on a ship and sent somewhere to do some actual good, like HONG KONG where the colonials there would have a jail cell all ready for him where he could be making hemp rope for the Royal Navy? ====================================================== Diary of James J. Loughrey February 19, 189912. This was the battle the 1st California Flour Mill Thieves lost, referred to in 6 above. They blew up and burned the church. The church and convent in ruins after the Philippine–American War in 1899. The Flour Mill Thieves did not do a thorough job. It was kind of a hasty departure they made.13. The gunboat was the USS Laguna da Bay. As an aside, the two main lessons from this entire atrocity, was: a. Do not desecrate a sacred site. b. You should have built and sent more than 1 gunboat. ==================================================== How were the 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits doing? Diary of John Henry Asendorf Sunday, February 19th, 189914. For the brigade up north it is hold in place. Dewey continues to be the difference as he pounds the Katipunan right flank hard. Of course the American right flank is still dangling open north of the Pasig just beyond Dewey's gun coverage. Pay attention to that open flank. CYNICAL Miletus.
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 21, 2023 4:13:07 GMT
Diary of Chriss A. Bell Feb. 14-20, 18991. Bell has malaria. 2. Bell's chess game is plodding as he describes it. 3. The 2nd Oregon Furniture Thieves are located just northeast of the Tondo, still out there with an open flank. The thing I noticed is that the war criminal, GEN E. Otis, did not instruct either MacArthur, or the other war criminal, GEN H. Otis, to put any cavalry out there to screen the open flank and look for anybody making their way into northern Manila proper. Maybe the American commanders thought they had burned everybody out, or maybe they underestimated Luna, (They did. M.), but this bad mistake is going to bite the Americans hard. ================================================================================ Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Monday 2-20-994. Fighting was moderately severe along the area stretching from the Tullajan River and the La Loma positions. 5. The Filipino snipers were given the captured Spanish Mausers the Katipunan captured and they used good ammunition. Americans hit by themn were hit hard. As for the Filipinos at the bridge, other accounts state that the Americans ran the bridge and got across and tried to set up a beachhead across the river. They had to go through two trench lines to make it. They, the Americans, should have taken prisoners during the rout, but the truth, they do not tell you, is that you better HIDE, as the enemy, rather than surrender in the middle of a hot fight. The attacker is nervous, angry and usually in no mood to deal with prisoners. So a prisoner may be properly taken, and passed along, and then someone behind who takes custody, will suddenly decide that the "prisoner" is a liability to his own business, which at that moment usually is that the soldier is trying to stay alive, so he has to watch around him for snipers and has no spare eye time for minding a prisoner and so "bang". It is not morally correct and in a unit, already notorious for "massacres" and shooting anything and everything in front of it, it is the rule and not the exception. Make no mistake, the 1st Washingtom Tobacco Thieves may have come from a "progressive liberal" 1899 lAmerican state, but they behaved like licensed murderers. =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Monday, Feb. 20th, 18996. The Reverend Owens continues to associate with the cockroach. I have to shake my head at that one. The US Mails work, no surprise there.. With the 1st Tennessee Photo Shop Thieves unavailable, the cockroach has to rely on a Spanish photo-studio. With a war on, the cockroach might have a little problem with his films getting developed? 7. You remember that red cross package that the US Army swiped and then advertently distributed among the needy troops before the cockroach, who was going to divert it for his own personal use, could steal it, way back in October? Yes, that one. Surgeon Fairchild wrote to Milsaps to demand an accounting of it. Oops. 8. The American consul was a practicing attorney. The cockroach seemed to have been under the misimpression that the consul was HIS practicing attorney. Milsaps was told to go hire his own lawyer and then go pound sand. 9. The cockroach "got the message" from Oscar F. Williams, the guy who helped Dewey with preparations for the Battle of Manila Bay, and decidely the one wrong person to torque off in Manila (See 8.? Guess who the US CONSUL was? M.). So, now Milsaps was looking for passage out of Manila. 10. That rumor (Not a rumor, the position out there was indispute and was falling. M.), is part of the open flank I mentioned. Stay tuned; the situation to the northeast is about to really get out of hand, if you are an American. That is the other reason, our yellow-belly was looking for passage out. 11. Once again it is weird to see how the cockroach twists things. If you remember, reader, the commanding officer of the USS Monadnock ordered his LT to throw the cockroach off the monitor when the cockroach interfered with the ship chaplain's service.12. More fake Salvation Army ranks and titles invoked and a not subtle plea... "Get me out of here." to his "superiors" is what Milsaps wrote. 13. I think Milsaps hoped that Ward would lean on Evans to forestall the pending civil suit. 14. I wonder how Milsaps intends to distribute those "Evangelista" periodicals out among the Filipino people, now that his "flunkies" are out on the line shooting at them? 15. This was the "Bison Horn" ambush of three days ago. Milsaps mixed up the dates. 16. Same old cockroach, speaking to people about a subject of which he knew nothing. =============================================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Monday, February 20th, 189917. That was an odd way to describe the two weeks following the Battle of San Roque and its followed up aftermath as the Americans tried and failed to link up Cavite and Wheaton's line anchored at Markati . See MAP.
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 22, 2023 1:26:39 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Tuesday 2-21-991. This (^^^) was ridiculous. 2. That is actually a 8cm / 25 field gun M1897. The 3.2 inch diameter bore gun had a vicious defect, it shared with the Hortchkiss guns the American army used. It tended to somersault over its own gun crews. The American army replaced it with a 3 inch gun that was imitative of the French 75mm / 20 M1902. =============================================================================== Diary of James J. Loughrey February 21, 18993. The 1st California Flour Mill Thieves are licking their wounds, but the Filipino Katipunan are not letting the pressure up at all on them. =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Tuesday, Feb. 21st, 18994. On drugs (Hong Kong joy juice.), Milsaps wrote about his "religious experience". I read it as "fear". 5. $1.50 for 3 photographs in 1899? That is like $150.00 for 3 modern photographs today. I know it was wartime in a wartime city and things were expensive; but that was and is ridiculous for a photograph taken by a Kodak Box Brownie. 6. 7. Spanish turret captured by the 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits that the cockroach called a blockhouse. 8. Those "tourists" are the 1st Nebraska Cable Car Absconders. They "posed" for that picture. Notice that it was a very shallow "crawl ditch" and the Filipinos were unarmed and laid out in a very strange manner. It reminds me of the posed Confederate dead at Gettysburg on that wooden rail fence that Mathew Brady had Union soldiers arrange for "dramatic effect" in his faked war photographs. Such propaganda has to be exposed for the lie that it is. Some of the photographs at the citation are NOT faked, such as the rather horrible photo of the Filipino soldiers slain by the Utah battery. 9. She sells seashells by the seashore to a Schmedlap. 10. Ensign May Jackson never got the money. You know what happened to her? She died alone and friendless (Except for the cockroach, ironically. M.). 11. You would THINK that the cockroach would get a clue. 12. Another rumor debunked? Wait for it... =============================================================================== Diary of Vice-Consul Cummings February 21, 189913. Trust me, this would not go well. The British could never get a parley right. =============================================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Tuesday, February 21st, 189914. None of that, except for the local lull, is true for the 10th Pannsylvania Train Bandits. CYNICAL Miletus
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 23, 2023 2:15:44 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Wednesday 2-22-991. Welch freely confessed a warcrime. The 1st Washington Tobacco Thieves clearly lived down to their reputations this Washington's Birthday. ================================================================================ Diary of James J. Loughrey February 22, 18992. The 1st California Flour Mill Thieves also sortied and they got shot up. ================================================================================ Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Wednesday, Feb. 22d, 1899Shakes head at this diary entry. 3. It is hard to fathom why Hines was wandering around loose far to the rear away from his unit on this day of BATTLE, because Luna's big attack started this very day. The cockroach and he shared a meal. Hines hustled his accrued gear to the rear into the cockroach's dubious safekeeping to keep barracks thieves *(Rear echelon moocher filchers) from appropriating the stuff he stole from the Filipino people while he was up north shooting at the Katipunan. 4. The cockroach paid for a ride? Amazing. Little mail as usual. 5. PVT. Berry was at La Loma Church where he was supposed to be. 6 Two thieves gave each other advice on how to be good "Christians". Think about that one. 7. MacArthur, quite properly, played for time. He was in big trouble wirth an exposed flank, and the navy low on ammunition. 8. SEE MAP. North is left. Do you see BLOCKHOUSE 4? Trace the threat axis to the SE. Luna's attack was a combination of counter-arson to burn the Americans out and infiltration on the American right. 9. PVT Greene is doing to the cockroach what the cockroach did to so many others. 10. The cockroach packed up his bugout bag. 11. I am surprised that the cockroach did not steal Porky, when he had the chance. 12. The cockroach was incredibly stupid. I would be hustling my worthless carcass out of there. Those fires are a GIANT ARROW aimed at the Tondo. ================================================================================ Diary of John Henry Asendorf Wednesday, February 22nd, 189913. The 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits were fighting for their lives. The Filipino objective was the railroad station. THAT is how far the infiltrators got this night. They were BEHIND the American line up near Caloocan and attacked MacArthur's main line of supply and his line of retreat. Looking at it 123 years later, that was some good generalship from GEN Luna. MacArthur could not afford to retreat. He had to fight in place and hoped that the two idiots in his rear (The war criminals: E. Otis and H. Otis), could defeat the Filipino effort to encircle him, or he, MacArthur, was cooked.
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 24, 2023 3:59:50 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Thursday 2-23-991. The US Mails still work!2. Welch's Filipino girlfriend sent him a note. I do not know which one. Apparently he had 3 on the string in the United States and he had 5 or 6 in the Philippine Islands. Where did he find the time? 3. MacArthur's rear supply line is burned out. He is in TROUBLE. 4, The last item is straight out of the American Old West. American army units used to stake out stretches of river and water holes with snipers. Then they would wait for the Native Americans to show up to collect water for themselves and water their horses. They shot the braves and stole the horses. That is why so many massacres are named after "rivers". Of course with the Washingtonians, such massacres were not restricted to Native Americans or restricted to the American army. ===================================================== The only good thing the cockroach provides in his diary entries is an overall skeleton of events to hang the other diary entries together. Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Thursday, February 23d, 18995. Children were murdered, for if the young boy was deemed capable of carrying a rifle, he was shot indiscriminantly. Hughes put the cutoff at age 12. Note that this did not mean the boy "had" a rifle or even needed to be caught with one. Hughes gave that order and it set a rotten precedent. We had it afflict American troops all the way down to the Iraqi wars. So, it was impossible to establish whether the Mujahadeen recruited suicide bombers before we started shooting anyone who looked suspicious, or after: when the Iraqis argued that if we were shooting their children, then their children might as well join the fight to kill us. In the Filipino-American War case, the Americans started the arsons and the mass murders. The soldier diaries and later Congressional investigations into the atrocities made that quite clear. 6. The 13th Minnesota Dairy Thieves, like the 1st Washington Tobacco Thieves, also have a state history of massacres and mass-murders. So who pulled provost marshall duties? See 5. above. 7. You can see by the "Battle of the Iron Works" that the American high command in Manila was in complete chaos and that units were in danger of engaging each other. As the cockroach was takin g pictures, he almost got himself shot in such an incident. A couple of those "children" I mentioned. M.8. Chaplain Wood had some "choice words" for the cockroach. 9. Note who torched the Tondo, which American historians, down to the present, blamed on the Filipino liberationists? The Paco, yes, that was a Katipunan attempt to burn the American occupiers out; but the Tondo arson was mostly an American atrocity. 10. That column of civilians fled the Caloocan fighting. The Second Battle of Caloocan is in full roar. Those guns the cockroach heard, were Dewey's ships supporting MacArthur. 11. I did not know that the Reverend Owens had been through the Paris Commune. NERVES OF STEEL on that man. 12. The Tondo fires were described as being just short of a fire-storm. The American let them burn. 13. Maybe having a canal between the cockroach and the fires was more the reason he was not burned out. 14. The cockroach apparently did not want to admit in writing that he cowered in his rooms. 15. (INTENSE SARCASM) The cockroach and the Reverend Owens went out to "tourist" when it was safe; after the American army had burned and rooted out the district of "insurgents". Never mind the displaced persons they burned out or shot, in the doing. That is he was doped to the gills on "tea". M.16. He had to take those pictures. A proper man, but never the cockroach, would have looked to the wounded and lost and given what aid he could, like the American soldiers gave to the Filipino wounded. (This is something I still cannot wrap my head around. The American soldiers were quite savage in their atrocities, one moment, and yet they stopped to help the people they burned out and otherwise injured, the moment the shooting stopped. I cannot fathom the schizophrenia. It is so characteristic of American wars, that the soldiers behave like beasts in battle, but once the fighting lulls, they remember that they are MEN. M.). 17. More evidence that GEN Hughes has lost control of the situation. Battlefield cleanup (Graves Registration in the modern parlance. M.), absolutely vital for keeping down disease and wild animal carrion feeding, not to mention respect for the slain, had not happened. It is that dirty dishes left around unwashed thing. I cannot understand the stupidity involved in such disorder and inattention to necessary things done. 18. One of the cockroach's many "associates"; ex SGT Harper. He was a deserter and a black marketeer. 19. In case you missed this passage, the cockroach is headed up to Caloocan. The Filipino National Liberationists had almost cut MacArthur's line of retreat and he had to pull troops (The 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits for one. M.) from his line and send them south to fight for his communications. What you see Milsaps describe along the trip from the "Battle of the Foundry" north was the night fighting results that occurred while the fires raged. 20. Calle Lemeré or Lemere Street was a site of a BLOODY battle between Filipino and American soldiers. See the Asendorf entry, next. 21. Hand to hand fighting, the cockroach saw an example of the results. 22. Mr. John F. Bass “Harper’s Weekly” correspondent. "What the ------- are you doing here?" More "choice words" for the cockroach. 23. The cockroach took a picture of the corpse. 24. That is our cockroach. 25. And as predicted yesterday, Luna was after the railroad. 26. a. Not even an attempt to compress the wound which was known even back then to be of life-saving aid. b. The IDIOTS gave him water, which hastened the bleedout and aggravated his pain. c. The cockroach would have left the woman to die like the man, if those two US soldiers had not shown up. I am convinced he was that callous and bestial. Notice he did not participate in the litter carry? Expletive delete him. Note the underlined? That means Owens and the two soldiers, probably made the litter. Again... expletive delete the cockroach. 27. The cockroach had to do something for those 2 wounded men after he had proved to the soldiers and Reverend Owens that he was a piece of walking filth. It was little enough he said he did. We only have his claim he did it. 28. Unreconstructed Confederate Filth! No empathy, no compassion at all. 29. 30. Maybe, because the ambulance was jammed full with American wounded? If the ambulance was headed SOUTH, that would be the reason. 31. Notice how Milsaps describes his "good deed". Did the cockroach not "boss" the rescue like some "plantation master"? As for the physician, I ssume he was a Filipino Ilustrado cleaning up the mess the Americans made or possibly far more likely, since the cockroach had the Filipinos litter the wounded Filipino soldier to the 13th Minnesota Dairy Thieves, it was an American doctor who gave treatment. Either way, it was the cockroach giving orders and NOT bearing a hand; again. Expletive deleted. 32. The cockroach really does not get it. Depends on your point of view. I would describe the man as a Filipino patriot. Of course if the cockroach had bothered to learn Spanish or Tagalog as the American soidiers were doing.. But no, that woulkd not fit the cockroach's (lack of) character. M. 33. Of course you would meet opportunistic carpetbaggers, scalawags, highwaymen, bummers, horsethieves, burglars, conmen and other assorted human filth in a warzone, where law had broken down and you had such chaos. I mean we are reading from the diary written by one, are we not? 34. Battlefield souvenirs of course, (I would pick up a Mauser and any loose ammunition as a trade up from a Krag in 1899. M.) and the cockroach may have confused a bolo for a machete. Whatever; it was not necessary that the weapon / tool was smuggled anywhere. It was a common household implement. 35. The groceries were paid for by guess who? The curfew notice was a bit polite, but the intent was to keep the civilian population indoors at night. Caught outside after 7PM? Bang. 36. Three things: (INTENSE SARCASM.); a. MacArthur was able to restore his lines of communication by the timely movement of troops along the railroad. b. The wind shifted, otherwise those fires set by the Filipino patriots in the Paco, would have made it impossible for the Americans to form their new line and win the "Battle of the Foundry". The winds blew the wrong way and HELPED the Americans. Taking advantage, the Americans used more fires to drive the Filipinos away from the railroad station. That explains the Tondo district arson and the bizarre pockets of fighting in the midst of the flames in that area. c. Praising the Flying Spaghetti Monster for murder, theft, callous inhumanity towards one's fellow man and invoking THAT to justify those crimes is just... ===================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Thursday, February 23rd, 1899 37. Chinese are not people? 38. Up to 17 assaults according to the official histories. The 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits were almost overrun in some spots of the line. How near run was it, this day? The war criminal, GEN E. Otis, confessed that GEN Luna had completely surprised him and come near to destroying 8th Corps. M.
And it was not over yet.
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 25, 2023 19:10:04 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Friday 2-24-991. Lull in fighting in front of the 1st Washington Tobacco Thieves. The battlefield is burned out and "empty". NEVER a good sign. =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Friday, Feb. 24th, 18992. What to make of this garbage? First, this yakker has done nothing to remediate the chaos around him. He has strolled about and touristed the burned areas of the city. He sees the suffering and the ruin that his people caused and DOES nothing. 3. The cockroach complains about the high cost of eggs. Maybe he should ask those 20,000 chicken thieves why the cost of eggs is high. 4. Hypochondriac. There is nothing wrong with the cockroach. 5. Three of his flunkies, Milsaps means. He has to "keep them in line". 6. Italics. This is what interests the cockroach. POLITICS and not the work. 7. Jitters from our nervous cockroach. He would not have lasted a DAY in New York. (SCOFF.) 8. Reinforcements that the war criminal, GEN Otis, expected; arrived a week late because of the Pacific storms encountered enroute. 9. I must remark that the Chinese-Filipino community in Manila did not make friends among the Katipunan, by sidling up to the Americans. "Collaborator" is a dirty word in English, Spanish (colaborador), and Tagalog. ====================================================== The 10th Pennsyulvania Train Bandits are still at it. Diary of John Henry Asendorf Friday, February 24th, 189910. Three days of continuous fighting has exhausted the Train Bandits. 11. I am unsure of what Asendorf means? Stilt houses? A Train Bandit er Pennsylvanian who passed through Hawaii might have seen this: 12. It is a pole house with a dirt or concrete or stone block demi-floor. 13. If you are an occupier and you see people on the roofs in a city in which you had no business being as a colonial imperialist, you shoot those people. They could drop a rock on you. 14. One of the few good things the Americans brought to the Philippine Islands; a world class postal service. 15. Navy on the left flank, Mormons on the right flank. In other words, MacArthur took the high ground in front of him and then anchored his flanks, with the navy left and his most reliable artillery troops on the right, and dared the National Liberationists to come at him in the Second Battle of Caloocan. How did that work out? We shall see.
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 26, 2023 3:07:28 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Saturday 2-25-991. Mapping the battlefield was a US Army thing. It was not the only army to do this; but it was the first to do it in the middle of the battle. =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Saturday, Feb. 25th, 18992. PVT Lloyd was moving his loot, that he stole during the arsons and battle before he was sent to the front. He deposited this loot with the cockroach. Makes you wonder whether our cockroach was a 'banker' for assorted crooks? (Hint: based on what the cockroach wrote about and how loose he was with an honest true accounting of the funds entrusted to him by his backers, I would suggest that he might have been a "fence".) 3. The Syrian friend is the black marketeer who has the horse fodder and carpentry concessions for the Americans. 4. The Spanish photographer took the cockroach's money and failed to deliver the photos promised. 5. With the 20 US Infantry ashore, who shows up immediately to be a pest? 6. PVT Foulkes will lose his leg. Gangrene. 7. Clayton Scott the Malingerer had pulled another "dodge" to avoid "bullet fever". You may have noticed by now that I am "CYNICAL"? 8. The cockroach bummed another meal off the Owens. At least the Reverend made the cockroach pay for the carriage. 9. It is not a rumor that the Katipunan massed in front of MacArthur's lines. In retrospect this was a tragic mistake. 10. Drew on? The money was intended for the evangelical mission. The correct legal term is "stole" by fraud. 11. Italics. Salvation army politics in the United States. The SCUM involved were the Booth-Tuckers. We have discussed these British interlopers and troublemakers at length a couple of days ago. The cockroach was of their faction. ============================================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Saturday, February 25th, 189912. It has always struck me, that the Katipunan generals should have not shattered their nascent national army on MacArthur's line at Caloocan. Perhaps, if they had studied the American Revolution and understood that Washington preserved the army and never accepted battle when the British proffered it until he, Washington, was absolutely sure he had the correlation of forces in his favor. That was 6 to 1 at Saratoga, and 3 to 1 at Yorktown. In the first case the British had been sucked into the woods and snipered to death. In the second case a French fleet cut off Cornwallis and French troops and artillery made up half of the "American" army that forced Cornwallis to surrender. Point? Luna and Ricardi did not have to beat the war criminal, GEN Otis, who they already proved they could outmaneuver and outthink. They had to beat ADM Dewey and the NAVY. And that was something that Aguinaldo never solved for them, because to beat Dewey, Aguinaldo needed the GERMANS and their dangerous east Asia Squadron. Something for both Filipinos and Americans to think about.
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Post by miletus12 on Feb 26, 2023 12:55:42 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Sunday 2-26-991. See article amd See MAPs. Map of MacArthur's campaign.Positions of the Americans prior to the First and Second Battles of Manila 1899. 2. The Second Battle of Caloocan *Wikipedia* 3. The Second Battle of Manila / Caloocan from the American viewpoint.. (Many of the photos in this article are from the despicable John Milsaps. M.) ================================================================================ Diary of Chriss A. Bell Feb. 20 – 26, 18994. The 2nd Oregon Furniture Thieves did provost work and patrolled as well as manned the center-right of MacArthur's line. The usual "burn them out and shoot them as they run" tactics were in effect. Late in the week, the Furniture Thieves found themselves fighting the very fires and arson that they committed, as well the Filipino-set fires in retaliation, which had gotten out of everyone's control. ================================================================================ Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Sunday, Feb. 26th, 18991. No rain. And the cockroach bummed another meal from the Owens. That seems absurd. If Milsaps bummed a meal, it must be another day for him. 2. Italics. More garbage about the Booth-Tuckers. Even Milsaps, scum that he was, kind of called them left-handed scum. It should be obvious by now, what "opinion" I have of those self-promoting Pharisees, then and NOW. ================================================================================ Diary of John Henry Asendorf Sunday, February 26th, 18993. The dry details Asendorf gives, belies the dying embers of Luna's effort to dislodge MacArthur from his position. The Cattle Rustlers and the Mormons defeated that effort, much as USS Monadnock, by firing into the Tondo, had saved MacArthur's communi9cations back to Manila proper. Thus was bungled, the best chance to force the Americans to evacuate Manila. I believe an overrun here, could have been politically exploited internationally. The Krupp cannon President Aguinaldo secured for this attack did not materialize out of thin air, for exaample.
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Post by miletus12 on Mar 5, 2023 19:47:27 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Monday 2-27-991. Probably the red beaked caracara, it was. Some "deserters" did the anti-colonialist bit. =============================================================================== Diary of James J. Loughrey February 27, 18992. The 1st California Flour Mill Thieves have not seen a break in a week and a half of rather severe fighting. That is not good. Note the troops were paid on the firing line! =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Monday, Feb. 27, 1899 3. How much work did Milsaps "do for Jesus"? Talked to 5 US soldiers. Was blown off by 5 US soldiers. Success 9% . 4. The South Dakota center fielder got a cup of lemonade? The trip to Cavite was nixed because the USN told the cockroach to go pound buffalo chips. 5. You know the one good deed that the cockroach has to his credit? He is too late. The truism from the German is: Too late is the same as never. 6. Staff Capt. Symons is another Booth-Tucker... 7. The "tourists" went to see the "Filipino wild men". I do not recognize the highlanders described, but I dol recognize the bigotry. The US 23rd infantryman violated standing orders in letting civilians to contact POWs. 8. The cockroach bummed a meal off the US field mess. The 2 soldiers violated policy. 9. Private Henry Walkenhorst violated operational security. ================================================================================ Diary of John Henry Asendorf Monday, February 27th, 189910. Asendorf must mean the shooting around La Loma.
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Post by miletus12 on Mar 5, 2023 20:56:18 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch Tuesday 2-28-991. King was fired for incompetence. The Filipino freedom-fighters have closed the range in hopes of making up for their defective black gunpowders. 2. Tops is Welch's girl back in the states. 3. The 8,000 insurgents are in 3 Filipino "brigades". There were more likely 5,000 insurgents out there shooting. 4. General Lloyd Wheaton was another one of my not favorite Americans of this era. 5. Santa Ana is the battlespace for the 1st Washington Tobacco Thieves. See MAP. (Markita) =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 1899
6. That passage to Cavite is Milsaps' version of events. It was a lie. He was picked upon as a fraud by some drummers, who pointed out that he was just another con man, just like they were. They did not mock Jesus. They mocked him. 7. The Navy wanted to get rid of the cockroach, so passed him on to the army. The army, being practical, passed him through the outpost line in the hopes that some Filipino with nothing better to do, would relieve the army of the cockroach. Alas no Filipino showed up with the inclination. 8. Fort Rice was the Filipino breastworks the Americans overran during the Battle of San Roque. 9. Good Christian to the cockroach means "Unreconstructed Confederate" to me. PVT George Baker, thus, praised by Milsaps would be someone of whom I would disapprove. 10. The guns were Gatling guns, set up to rake the avenue of approach with a crossfire. The Navy was not stupid. 11. Frank Tarr: another Milsaps praised man, was a what? See 9.. 12. George Baker was not completely irredeemable. He tried some tangible Christian charity. Did the cockroach pick up the lesson? Not Milsaps: he tried to teach the Filipino how to pray, when what the Filipino and he could not even understand each other. Kind of hard to teach when no communication exists?: 13.T^he San Roque cemetery expedition is typical cockroach. The way he describes the vandalism and desecration by the Americans, it never strikes home to him how it reflects on his countrymen and HIM as a supposed religious man?14. Damasa Garcia was interned and read over by the cockroach. Guess having a con man read services over the dead was a thing back then as it is now? 15. And we get the cockroach losing his nerve again. Would I have sympathy? (^^^) What do you think? 16. And of course the cockroach bummed a meal off PVT George Baker. 17. Bishop James. Mills. Thoburn. Unlike the Booth Tuckers and the cockroach, this American clergyman and Methodist WAS THE REAL DEAL. It is telling that the cockroach is kind of mute about what the bishop and he discussed. It must have been "interesting". 18. CPT Elliot was slain by a Spanish 0.43 from a Remington Rolling Block rifle. See my previous discussion about that weapon. ==================================================== Diary of James J. Loughrey February 28, 189919. The 1st California Flour Mill Thieves were headed for where? Not Negros island? SEE MAP. West of Bulacan. ==================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Tuesday, February 28th, 189920. The 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits and the 1st Kansas Cattle Rustlers only hoped it was so...
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Post by miletus12 on Mar 5, 2023 22:58:46 GMT
Diary of Alfred Burton Welch March 1-991. The 1st Washington Tobacco Thieves began their participation in the Battle of Pasig City, this date. ================================================================================ Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Wednesday, March 1, 18992. US post-office was closing at noon on account of the war, so the cockroach had to cut short his novel writing to be mailed off to the San Francisco Salvation Army. 3. Bishop Thoburn talked with the cockroach again. Now we know what the dispute from yesterday was about. . 5. The cockroach's mail is interesting. Again, who is going to distribute the Tagalog gospels? The cockroach sure could not. he could not even read them. 6. US quarter horses arrive from the American mainland. The US cavalry has arrived. 7. You know what I wrote about operational security and idiots who did not maintain it? How did Milsaps, who should not have had access, know: 8. By the way, the "set-the-hut-on-fire-and-shoot-them-when-they-run", atrocities the Americans committed were expanded well beyond Luzon by now. 9. ADM Dewey went on to live until 1917. 10. PVT George Oden paid a visit and gave the cockroach more info in the form of rumor and scuttlebutt. ====================================================== Diary of James J. Loughrey March 1, 189911. So the 1st California Flour Mill Thieves are headed to Negros Island after all. ====================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Wednesday, March 1st, 189912. The 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits were paid... in the trenches. That is not customary AFAIK in any other army. Furlough rotation is 1 day per 2 weeks in combat. .
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Post by miletus12 on Mar 6, 2023 0:32:22 GMT
Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Thursday, March 2d, 18991. This day is a furlough day. Milsaps notices a hardening of the American line infantry's attitudes among some, a few very few, soldiers he meets. The "them or us, so better US attitude is not a good thing to appear at all. . 2. Now that the rear area is secure, guess who shows up, "suddenly cured of bullet fever"? Clayton Scott, our favorite shirker, pulls out his money. He returns to the quartermaster corps where I presume he once again resumed his pilfering of American army supplies and his black market activities. The $3.00 that Scott tithed to Milsaps implied that he left $30.00 originally with the cockroach for safekeeping. Why leave that much money with the untrustworthy cockroach, when there was a floating bank called the USS Olympia complete with a big safe and lots of guns to protect deposits? Mayhaps PVT Scott did not want to explain all that cash to a NAVY burser? 3. The odd thing is that the Filipino national liberationists and the American imperialists line infantry sometimes break bread TOGETHER during the fighting lulls. This seems fairly common early in wars when the common soldiers get together and find out that they hurt the same, bleed the same, are lied too the same and are hungry and ALONE the same, as Welch mentioned a day ago in his diary entry. But then the officers break that all up and it is back to the business of hating and shooting each other all over again. When will our species ever grow up? Miletus================================================================================ Diary of James J. Loughrey March 2, 18994. The 1st California Flour Mill Thieves are at Vasayas. And they do not know why they are there. ================================================================================ Diary of John Henry Asendorf Thursday, March 2nd, 18995. The USN continues to pummel the Filipino coastal settlements and this produces casualties. The American military hospitals are crowded with those injured; mostly Filipinos and mostly what we moderns call "collateral damage". But to put into reality check mode; each injured Filipino from this terror shelling is a warcrime. The Americans have no business making such a kind of war upon a sovereign nation only trying Does this make the hero, ADM George Dewey, a war criminal? Yes, unfortunately, it did.
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Post by miletus12 on Mar 6, 2023 1:26:16 GMT
Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Friday, Mar. 3d, 18991. The cockroach speaks of cold weather and of Filipinos making campfires to stay warm. The average Filipino line infantryman (see photo) lacked one commodity which American soldiers had. SOCKS. It made a huge difference. 2. How did the cockroach know that reinforcements are on the way? Americans have big mouths and cannot keep a secret. 3. What businesses there are, with most of the Ilustrados in hiding from Hughes' headhunters and the Chinese-Filipino businesses in the Paco burned down to the ground and a lot of the Tondo scorched earth, the businesses remaining are either inside the old walled city or along the Escolta.4. That smallpox epidemic that started back in October 1898 is still ongoing. 5 She sells sea shells to a sad sack. =============================================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Friday, March 3rd, 18996. The 1st Washington Tobacco Thieves and the 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits have interesting differfences in their fights. Whether it is because the Filipino Right Brigade had a score to settle with the mass murdering Washingtonians, or the Pennsylvanians were dug in really well and had the Mormon artillery, I cannot say, but the Filipinos, by now, were really trying their best to break through the line where the Washingtonians were esconced. 7. Asendorf is making the bread and meat run back to Manila in a stolen Filipino wagon. You will note that the Filipinos shot at Asendorf and not the draft animal pulling the wagon? The reason was that the wagon's contents was of use to the National Liberationists. The Katipunan really needed three things, the water buffalo, the wagon and its contents for their own use and Asendorf dead: to send a message to the Pennsylvanians.
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Post by miletus12 on Mar 6, 2023 2:39:26 GMT
Diary of William R. Johnson Mch 4th 18991. The 22nd US infantry (Regulars) arrived this date. 2. Johnson is near the end of his enlistment. he will muster out, try his hand at the local economy and then reenlist for the duration of the war. 3. The USS Senator had to be close enough to USS Olympia to sort out the difference between officers around her pilot house? (See PHOTO). Which one of them was George Dewey? Answer: He's behind the photographer. 4, USS Monterey was an Amphitrite Class "Theseus ship". She had 10 inch bore / 30 caliber guns. Johnson wqas writing through his hat. =============================================================================== Diary of John E.T. Milsaps Saturday, March 4th, 18995. This mishmash should be interesting. Notice how the cockroach prepared a "bugout bag?" It is historically true that after the Americans torched much of Manila north of the Pasig and started the "burn-the-huts-and-shoot-them-as-they-run-out" form of massacres, that the Katipunans returned the favor. Who set fire to what this night becomes confused. 6. Milsaps thanks god that more soldiers showed up to save his precious hide? He never did learn that he was not supposed to be in the Philippine Islands in the first place. 7. More lies for the San Francisco War Cry the cockroach scribbled. 8. Translation: Bishop Thoburn told the Reverend Owen he had no business trying to missionary in Manila in the middle of a WAR. As for the cockroach, the bishop asked Milsaps; "What the expletive deleted are you doiing in Manila?" He, the cockroach, was not even an ordained or called disciple or missionary. You read Milsaps' alleged answer above? Thoburn was WELL AWARE of the Booth-Tuckers and their Salvation Army scams, since they came out of the same mission territory of INDIA that Thoburn worked as a Methodist. Why do you think Thoburn was in Manila? =============================================================================== Diary of James J. Loughrey March 4, 18999. The 1st California Flour Mill Thieves are on that island. ============================================================================== Diary of John Henry Asendorf Saturday, March 4th, 189910. The 10th Pennsylvania Train Bandits are north of Caloocan. The Mormons were invaluable as their field guns broke Filipino defenses, especially entrenchments. ============================================================================== Diary of Theodore Wurm March 4, 189911. Wurms served with the 18th US Infantry (Regulars). His impression of the Filipino soldier is a fair one.
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