00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862428847 Buklod 20211006000409.0 m | | ta 211005s2004 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00042614955 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3858 Borrinaga, Rolando O. author. A Balangiga survivor's letter from Samar on January 18, 1902, at the height of Gen. Smith's "kill and burn" campaign Rolando O. Borrinaga. 2004. pages [201]-215 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215). Private Ernest U. Ralston survived the massacre of Company C, 9th US. Infantry Regiment, in Balangiga, Samar, on September 28, 1901. He spent 40 days in a military hospital in Tacloban, Leyte, and after recuperation was assigned to the regimental headquarters in Calbayog, Samar. In Calbayog, Ralston wrote a four-page letter to his parents, at the height of Brig. Gen. Jacob H. Smith's "kill and burn" campaign in retaliation for the U.S. Army's debacle in Balangiga. Ralston mentioned his published accounts of the Balangiga fighting in some American newspapers and the recent arrival in Calbayog of new soldier-recruits from the U.S. He chided his parents for believing that the "war was over" in the Philippines. He also revealed that some Us. Army officers had enriched themselves at the expense of the war in Samar, and cited Brig. Gen. Robert P Hughes, commander of the Department of the Visayas, and Gen. Smith, as examples. At the same time, he lauded Major Edwin F Glenn, Judge Advocate of the Department of the Visayas, for unearthing a native plot that resulted in the detention of an unnamed presidente (mayor), the hanging of an unnamed priest, and the confiscation of a large amount of cash amounting to 10,000 dollars from the alleged plotters. Ralston had filed for discharge from the army when he wrote the letter, Where he also revealed he was "(awfully) sick" of army life. This paper analyzes Ralston's letter and provides an expanded context of the people and events in Samar that he had mentioned, as corroborated by other documents from American, Filipino, and British sources. The Journal of History Vol. L, Numbers 1-4 (January-December 2004), p. [201]-215. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 05 October 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3858 Analytics