A Signal Corpsman’s Captivity

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Corporal John D. Saulsbury, Signal Corps, a 22-year-old native of Darien, New York, was assisting Private Leland S. Smith photograph General Lawton’s advance into northern Luzon., when, on October 20, 1899, they were caught up in the crossfire between American and Filipino positions, turned around in the ensuing confusion, and captured by insurgents. Smith went on to join the Gillmore Party prisoners, while Saulsbury was held separately in the province of Tarlac by General Gregorio del Pilar’s forces. Here is Saulsbury, wracked with dysentery and wasting away, weeks after his liberation on Christmas Day, 1899.