Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — From Leonard Jessup at Iloilo. [ARTICLE]

From Leonard Jessup at Iloilo.

Lee Jessup received another letter Monday from his brother Leonard, a member as has been before stated, of the Ist Tennesse regiment, and located at Iloilo, on the island of Panay one of the Phillipines, and the only one except Luzon where the people are making any fight worth mentioning against the authority of the United States. The letter was dated August 18 and reached Rensselaer Sept. 25th When he wrote he expected to be mustered out by Sept Ist. and that the regiment would start home by Sept 15th. Leonard thought that he would not return home with the regiment but thought he would stay a while in in the island and then in company with some others of his regiment, return home by way of Paris. and New York, and thus complete a journey around the world. He was somewhat doubtful about staying at Iloilo any longer however, as the small-pox was very prevalent among the inhabitants and he feared it would get among the soldiers again. Young Jessup thinks that the Tagalogs will keep up the fight for a very long time yet unless our goverment runs in soldiers much faster thad it has been doing. Since the above was writen, the daily papers give the news that the Ist. Tennessee was on board the Indiana and started for home and on Sept. 22nd. 265 members of the regiment voluntarily disem-' barked and went back to Cebu Island to take part in a fight with the insurgents, who were artistically but thoroughly thrashed. It was the Tennessee boys last chance for a scrap and they would not missit.