About the author: Robert Lee Bullard (January 5, 1861 – September 11, 1947). Served in the 39th Infantry as a colonel, throughout 1900 and most of 1901.
About the diary: His diary is in the Library of Congress. Cited in Schoolbooks and Krags; the United States Army in the Philippines, 1898-1902, by John Morgan Gates, p. 174, note 53.