[41] P.I.R., 512. A 5.
[42] P.I.R., 485. 5.
[43] Senate Document 138, Fifty-sixth Congress, First Session.
[44] P.I.R., Books B-6.
[45] P.I.R., 472. 8.
Chapter IX
The Conduct of the War
It is not my intention to attempt to write a history of the war which began on February 4, 1899, nor to discuss any one of its several campaigns. I propose to limit myself to a statement of the conditions under which it was conducted, and a description of the two periods into which it may be divided.
From the outset the Insurgent soldiers were treated with marked severity by their leaders. On June 17, 1898, Aguinaldo issued an order to the military chiefs of certain towns in Cavite providing that a soldier wasting ammunition should be punished with twelve lashes for a first offence, twenty-four for a second, and court-martialled and “severely punished” for a third.[1]