SECOND.
Manila, May 4, 1902.
To General Davis:
Please accept my congratulations for yourself, and express to Colonel Baldwin and all the officers and men engaged in the Battle of May 2, my high appreciation of their bravery, gallantry and soldiery conduct. My congratulations to both officers and men. I sincerely regret the death of some and the wounding of others. Let no comfort be withheld from the latter that can be supplied them.
(Sgd.) General A. R. Chaffee,
Commanding Philippines.
THIRD.
Cebu, May 4, 1902.
To General Davis:
My sincere congratulations to Baldwin, and to the officers and men engaged yesterday. Also to yourself for your energetic and skillful conduct of the whole affair, from first to last. It was necessary to give the Moros a lesson, and it seems to have been done in such a manner that it will not have to be repeated.
(Sgd.) Brigadier General Wade.