Wake at 4 a.m. and sat out on the balcony. Heard the fillips bugles sound reveille. Very pretty as their trumpeters are splendid musicians, and the notes rose and fell, and “trembled away into silence.” Doctor Daniels out and set my teeth to aching. We got orders to prepare for action at 5 p.m. and we are now ready. Wrote to dear old Topsy. Think we will go up against something harder than usual.
Alfred Burton Welch
(September 26, 1874 — June 30, 1945). Served with Company D, 1st Washington Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines, April 30, 1898 to November 1, 1899.
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