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for Letter from Dr. Fenn J Hart to his wife Rosa Ann Brown Hart upon his arrival to Manila, Philippine Islands, to serve as a Red Cross physician and combat surgeon during the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars
Letter from Dr. Fenn J Hart to his wife Rosa Ann Brown Hart upon his arrival to Manila, Philippine Islands, to serve as a Red Cross physician and combat surgeon during the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars
Date1898
MediumPaper
Dimensions8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2023.3.75
DescriptionLetter dated 8/21/1898 from Dr. Fenn J Hart, Tempe's first mayor, to his wife Rosa Ann Brown Hart in Tempe, Arizona upon his arrival to Manila, Philippine Islands, to serve as a Red Cross physician and combat surgeon during the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars from 1898 - c. 1900. He describes seeing German, French, English, Japanese, Danish and Swedish war ships also at anchor in Manila, the ruins of a sunken ship, and the boom of ship guns. Dr. Hart states that although Manila surrendered after a one day fight, the insurgents were an ongoing issue. Dr. Hart reports that 18 Americans were killed and 140 were wounded, an unknown number of Spanish soldiers were killed, and that he is busy day and night attending the wounded officers and sick civilians without rest. He describes the city of Manila as surrounded by beautiful fauna and flora, but filled with narrow dirty streets, houses with no yards or windows, vacant buildings filled with troops, and piles of rifles, cannons and ammunition taken from the Spanish.Status
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