Gunboat engaged enemie’s shore batteries today on the e. close to delta. Rebels fired 5 shots in 7 seconds, so it is either a rapid fire gun, or a battery of more than one gun. This is my 2nd night in raining a little, with a br’t moon, rainbow in the west. Was about 97° this morning.
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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