MANILA, May 4, 1902.
TO GENERAL DAVIS:
Please accept my congratulations for yourself, and express to
Colonel Baldwin and all the officers and men engaged in the Battle
of May 2, my high appreciation of their bravery, gallantry and
soldiery conduct. My congratulations to both officers and men. I
sincerely regret the death of some and the wounding of others. Let
no comfort be withheld from the latter that can be supplied them.
(Sgd.) GENERAL A. R. CHAFFEE,
Commanding Philippines.