"Art. 6. The officers shall take care that on the top of the
houses along the streets where the American forces shall pass
there shall be placed four to six men, who shall be prepared with
stones, timbers, red hot iron, heavy furniture, as well as boiling
water, oil and molasses, rags soaked in coal-oil ready to be lit
and thrown down, and any other hard and heavy objects that they
can throw on the passing American troops. At the same time in
the lower parts of the houses will be concealed the Sandtahan,
who will attack immediately.
"Great care should be taken not to throw glass in the streets, as
the greater part of our soldiers go barefooted. On these houses
there will, if possible, be arranged in addition to the objects
to be thrown down, a number of the Sandtahan, in order to cover
a retreat or to follow up a rout of the enemy's column, so that
we may be sure of the destruction of all the opposing forces.