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Show 92 The the 8th troops Corps at Camp Dewey and 2nd Division. were organized into two General Thomas Anderson Commander of the 2nd Division. brigades under designated as was General Arthur MacArthur commanded the 1st Brigade and General Frank Greene was commander of the 2nd Brigade. The First Brigade was made up of two battalions of the Twenty-third Regular Infantry, one battalion of the Fourteenth Regular Infantry, the Thirteenth Minnesota Voluntee r s , two battalions each of the First North Dakota and the First Idaho, Battalion of the First one The Second ular Infantry, Company A of Wyoming and the Astor Battery. consi sted of two battalions of the Brigade one battalion of the Thi rd the Engineers, Batteries Eighteenth Heg H.egular Artillery (acting as infantry), A and R of the Utah Light Artillery, the First California Volunteers, the First Colorado Volunteers, the First Nebraska, and the Tenth Pennsylvanian Volunteers. These uni ts set up thei r defense in the old entrenchments which had been prepared by the Insurgent Filipinos as part of their preparations in harrassment of the Spanish. General Greene's forces were in the trenches from the Manila Bay beach east for about three hundr-ed yards at Insurgent forces. The line of entrenchments was located about 11 00 yards from Fort San Antonio de Abad on the edge of Malate, a village to the south of Manila. The troops on the line were rotated by shifts while waiting for the battle to begin. On the 29th of July, the Utah Batteries were ordered to take four of their eight 3.2 inch guns to the defen sive line. Battery A under Captain Young' moved two guns to the right side of the American defenses, and Captain Grant set up two Battery B guns on the left. These guns were supporting the infantry troops of the Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers and the Third Artillery (infantry) who we r e on line when the first Spanish attack took place. extending which point with the they joined On the night of July the American po sf tions left their . 31st the Spanish made their first move against estimated 3,000 Spanish troops to the north and started the assault on the American At 11:30 P. lVI. an emplacements As the Spanish charged through the rice fields and bamboo thickets the American guns began their devastating fire with shrapnel shells in support of the infantry firing. Sergeant Horace E. Coolidge of Battery B describes He said the f'e roci ty of the Spanish attack. positions. the roa r Spanish it struck. Fort The Mauser bullets [the terrible. rifles] would make a sharp report when regular intervals we would see a flash from and din wa s had Mauser At Malate, then the boom of ing of a cannon and the awful shell coming closer and closer until the scream deafening screeching detonation would explode, usually within twenty feet of one of the guns. However, most of the shells exploded a |
