the insurgents without their consent from their position to the right of their guns on the Pasay road.  This to the very last the insurgent leaders positively refused to give.  Yet, if we could not go far enough to the right to silence their field guns and carry that part of their line, they would have a fatal cross fire on troops attacking blockhouse No. 14.  I therefore directed General MacArthur to put the three 2.10 inch guns of Battery B, Utah Volunteer Artillery, in the emplacement of the insurgent gun and to place the Astor Battery behind a high garden wall to the right of the Pasay road, to be held there subject to orders.

“I assumed that when the action became hot at this point, as I knew it would be, that the insurgents would voluntarily fall back from their advanced position, and that the Astor Battery and its supports could take position without opposition.”

General Anderson got a message from General MacArthur.  “I knew from this that he wished to push the insurgents aside and put in the Astor Battery.  I then authorized him to attack, which he did, and, soon after, the Twenty-third Infantry and the Thirteenth Minnesota carried the advance line of the enemy in the most gallant manner, the one gun of the Utah Battery and the Astor Battery lending most effective assistance.”

It was General Anderson’s opinion that MacArthur should counter march and go to Malate by the beach, but he had gone too far, for “the guns of the Astor Battery had been dragged to the front only after the utmost exertions, and were about being put into battery.  At the same time I received a telegram stating that the insurgents were threatening to cross the bamboo bridge on our right; and to prevent this and guard our ammunition at Pasay, I ordered an Idaho battalion to that point.”

Again the insurgents were making mischief, and General Anderson, as well as General Greene had the experience of the continuance of fire when the white flag was flying.  The loss of General Anderson in the taking of the city was nineteen men killed and one hundred and three wounded.  He concludes by saying: 

“The opposition we met in battle was not sufficient to test the bravery of our soldiers, but all showed bravery and dash.  The losses show that the leading regiments of the First Brigade—­Thirteenth Minnesota, Twenty-third Infantry, and the Astor Battery—­met the most serious opposition and deserve credit for their success.  The Colorado, California, and Oregon regiments, the Regulars, and all the batteries of the Second Brigade showed such zeal that it seems a pity that they did not meet foemen worthy of their steel.”

General MacArthur says:  “Several hours before the operations of the day were intended to commence, there was considerable desultory firing from the Spanish line, both of cannon and small arms, provoked no doubt by Filipino soldiers, who insisted upon maintaining a general fusilade along their lines.”