CHAPTER XIX.
RETURN TO MANILA-- IN THE HOSPITAL-- CONGRATULATED BY ALL-- WRITING TO
THE PAPER OF HIS EXPERIENCES.
IT took the regiment much longer to march back to Manila than it had
taken it to follow the rebels, for the wounded of both sides had to be
carried, and the arrangements for carrying them were very imperfect.
Fortunately, most of them were able to ride horses, and the officers
were successful in securing wagons enough to carry most of the others,
but there were about a dozen who could neither ride horses or lie in
wagons, but had to be carried on stretchers all the time. Of course
this was slow work, and the officers were glad enough when they
reached the town with the three-story building. Here they found things
very much as they had left them, two days before, save that the
inhabitants were more abject than ever to them, now that they had
captured most of the rebel force.
It wasn't an easy matter to find quarters for so many men, and some of
the Filipinos were obliged to camp in the public square overnight,
while the wounded and ill were given beds in the various houses of the
town. The inhabitants were required to furnish food, too, for the
Americans were entirely out of almost everything. They still had some
hardtack, but of meat and coffee there was none. The people of the
town pretended to be very glad to serve their "masters," but every one
knew that the natives would be only too glad of a chance to cut the
throat of every Yankee soldier.
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