[20] Diary of Major Simeon Villa, p. 1898, Senate Document 331, pt. 3, 56th Congress, 1st Session, 1902.

[21] See Merritt’s Report for 1898, War Dept. Report, 1898, vol. i., pt. 2, p. 40.

[22] Expedition to the Philippines, p. 61.

[23] “With 10,000 men, we would have had to guard 13,300 Spanish prisoners, and to fight 14,000 Filipinos,” says General Anderson, North American Review for February, 1900.

[24] Senate Document 208, p. 86.

[25] Mr. McKinley’s instructions to the Peace Commissioners, Senate Document 148, 56th Cong., 2d Sess., 1901, p. 6.

[26] See General Greene’s Report, W. D. R., 1898, vol. i., pt. 2, p. 72, where Mr. Millet’s conduct in the assault on the city receives special mention.

[27] War Dept. Report, 1898, vol. i., pt. 2, p. 73.

[28] See War Dept. Report, 1898, vol. i., pt. 2, p. 58.

[29] Congressional Record, December 5, 1898, p. 5.