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Genl. Otis made a serious mistake when he said we had men enough here to handle these people. That fact lost 6 months of valuable time to our government and to us vols here.

It will take 100,000 men to crush these people.

The land over which we fight is a natural protection and fortification for these people. there are marshes ofttimes as far as the eye can reach, which consist of a black filthy muck that is all the way from 6 inches to 3 foot deep. Imagine if you can, a Reg. floundering through a slough of this kind under a fire of perhaps 2000 Mausers. Then we have rice feilds, rivers, and impassible jungles to cross and get through. In the rainy season campaigning for the  white man is impossible, and it has now set in. for 4 months we must wait & watch