And General Greene continues:  “I then returned to the troops outside the walls and sent Captain Birkhimer’s battalion of the Third Artillery down the Paco road to prevent any insurgents from entering.  Feeling satisfied that there would be no attack from the Spanish troops lining the walls, I put the regiments in motion toward the bridges, brushing aside a considerable force of insurgents who had penetrated the city from the direction of Paco, and were in the main street with their flag expecting to march into the walled city and plant it on the walls.  After crossing the bridges the Eighteenth United States Infantry was posted to patrol the principal streets near the bridge, the First California was sent up the Pasig to occupy Quiapo, San Miguel, and Malacanan, and with the First Nebraska I marched down the river to the Captain of the Port’s office, where I ordered the Spanish flag hauled down and the American flag raised in its place.”

The insurgents were disposed to disregard the white flag and the process of the capitulation, but “a considerable force” of them was “brushed aside.”  General Greene’s losses before Manila were 16 killed and 66 wounded:  his force 5,100.  He remarks:  “The resistance encountered on the 13th was much less than anticipated and planned for, but had the resistance been greater the result would have been the same, only the loss would have been greater.  Fortunately, the great result of capturing this city, the seat of Spanish power in the East for more than three hundred years, was accomplished with a loss of life comparatively insignificant.”

Captain T.B.  Mott, detached from General Merritt’s temporarily, served on General Greene’s staff, and received this mention: 

“In posting troops in the trenches, in making reconnaissances, in transmitting orders under fire, and in making reports, he has uniformly exhibited courage, military ability, and sound judgment, the qualities, in short, which are most valuable in a staff officer.”

Captain Bates, Lieutenant Schieflie, and Captain D.F.  Millet, artist and author, are praised for activity, intelligence and valuable service.  Millet was with Greene before Plevna, during the Russo-Turkish campaign.  Greene was appointed the senior member of the committee to arrange the terms of the capitulation.

General Anderson had instructions to extend his line to crowd the insurgents out of their trenches with their consent, but this was not attempted, for that would have brought on an engagement prematurely.  Anderson had purchased wire-cutters with insulated handles in San Francisco, and they were useful!  Anderson had his trenches with the insurgents.  McArthur’s division was before a “circulated line of earthworks faced with sand bags,” and the problem of the advance was made difficult because “we could not be sure whether our first attack was to be tentative or serious, this depending on action of the navy; second, from our orders not to displace