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was very poorly equipped in the soldierly essentials of discipline , training , organization , and morale . Your statement is awaited .”
To which Colonel Hughes of the 9th Infantry replied , “ It may be true , General Chaffee , that Company C of the 9th Infantry , was lax in discipline , training , and morale . I would not be qualified to comment upon the subject as the Company has been under my command for but two weeks . During its previous China service , it was under the direct command of General Adna R . Chaffee , Commanding the Philippine Division !’’ 40
Chaffee had no answer to this . But he did what he had to . He simply replaced Hughes with a man who would implement his policy of retaliation , a man who would gain notoriety for turning Samar into a ‘ howling wilderness ’ - Gen . Jacob Smith .
Endnotes
1 Oswald , Mark . A paper entitled “ The Howling Wilderness Courts-Martial of 1902 ,” Department of the Army , U . S . Army War College , Carlisle Barracks , PA 17013-5050 2 Borrinaga , Rolando O . “ The Balangiga Conflict Revisited ”, New Day Publishers , Quezon City , 2013 , p . 53 3 Sellers , Michael , “ The Warriors of Samar ,” The Balangiga Uprising of 1901 , ( http :// warriorsofsamar . thejohncarterfiles . com / the-bells / 4 Ibid , p . 55 5 Ibid 6 Young , Kenneth Ray , “ Guerrilla Warfare : Balangiga Revisited ”, Readings in Leyte Samar History , Divine Word University of Tacloban , 1979 , 251 7 Daza Affidavit . In 1935 , Daza gave his version , in Spanish , of the Balangiga incident in a notarized account , probably in response to James O . Taylor ’ s “ The Massacre at Balangiga ”, published in 1931 as part of a campaign to get the Medal of Honor awarded to the American survivors . The original statement was lost in a fire in 1945 but a copy has survived .
Eugenio Daza y Salazar was born on 15 November 1870 in Borongan , Eastern Samar . His parents Juan Cinco Daza of Catbalogan and Magdalena Campomanes Salazar of Borongan were both prominent in the province . He married Carolina Cinco of Catbalogan and was blessed with seven children . In 1884 , he was sent by his parents to Manila to pursue his education . He enrolled at the La Congregacion de la Santisima Virgen de San Luis Gonzaga ( Escuela Normal de Maestros ) Ateneo de Manila . While studying in Manila he met some prominent personalities of the propaganda movement in the likes of Paciano Rizal , brother of Jose Rizal and Apolinario Mabini . In 1888 he graduated with honors with the degree in Education . After graduation he returned to his province and taught at the Borongan Municipal School . In the later years he established , his own school under the supervision of the Spanish government . His teaching profession was interrupted with the outbreak of the 1896 Philippine Revolution . In 1899 during
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