Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1901 — Soldiering In The Philippines Is Hard. [ARTICLE]

Soldiering In The Philippines Is Hard.

Clay Hopkins, wh& joined the regular army two at three months ago, is still at Presidio, near San Francisc, waiting to be sent to the Philippines. He writes to his relatives that he is working hard to be made a quartermaster sergeant and if he slips up on that he feels sure of being a company troop clerk. He watched the recent landing of the 37th volunteers, from Manila, and evidently concluded that war in the Philippines is a mighty tough experience. So manyof the men being only physical wrecks from the effects of sickness and exposure. “Out of the 1200 men that went over in the regiment,” he says, “only 496 good able-bodied men landed on American soil. They are all that escaped the fever and the Filopino bullets,”