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Collection: Laurie C. NICHOLS Diary
1899-1901
1755.1
P.C.
Physical Description: 25 loose photographs and 1 volume of 205 (i.e. 197) pages.
The diary is manuscript and has pen and ink drawings and tipped-in printed
illustrations, posted in a Filipino blank book with preprinted pagination, of
which leaves numbered 19-20, 155-156, 167-168, and 171-172, were removed while
the diary was in preparation. Pen sketch of the capture of the stronghold in
the canyon of Santaretta on p.97 has been completely destroyed by acid in
the ink. Also, five pages of xerographic material.
Acquisition: .
Gift of Emily Nichols Morgan, Clyde, N.C., on Dec. 1, 1988; accessioned
Dec. 15, 1988.
Description: The diary was kept by Laurie C. Nichols, Co. E, 43d Regiment,
U.S. Army, from September 11, 1899 to May 26, 1901, while serving in the
Philippine Insurrection (now called the Philipplne-American War). Nichols,
the son of Stanford Nichols, a Raleigh printer, and his wife Caroline, was
a brickmason by profession. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted in .
the U.S. Army and served in Cuba under Capt. W.B. Beavers of Raleigh. (Twelve
of the twenty-five photographs relate to the Spanish-American war, the remaining
thirteen relating to the Philippine Insurrection.) After the return of Nichols
to Raleigh, he re-enlisted in the 43d Regiment on September 11, 1899, and
was shipped with his regiment to the Philippines on November 16, 1899. From
December 31, 1899, to July 3, 1900, Nichols and his regiment were in action
in and around Manila. On July 3 Company E was detached from the regiment and
sent to Baybay, Leyte Island to help in quelling the guerilla army under
Gen. Moxhica. At Baybay Nichols was made sergeant of a mounted detachment,
having formerly served as a quartermaster sergeant, and the remainder of his
Philippine service was from the headquarters at Baybay. After Emilio Aguinaldo
was captured in March
190Г,
• the armed struggle for independence (or insurrection)
collapsed. When Gen. Moxhica signified his willingness to surrender his forces
in Leyte to the American commander at Baybay, Nichols and his mounted detachment
were ordered to St. Augustine to escort Moxhica and his staff to Baybay. The
surrender was effected on May 18, 1901. .Nichols left with the 43d Regiment
for the United States on May 26.
Nichols carefully prepared his diary at intervals during the expedition
from notes made by him on the march or in the field. It is illustrated with
drawings and news service photos taken from magazines. A drawing of the
Filipino fortification in the canyon of Santaretta has been destroyed by ink
acid, but drawings of a waterspout in the Bay of Baybay, of a plague of
grasshoppers, of a Filipino church, of bolos, and so forth, are Intact.
