Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1899, Vol. 5: Report of the Chief of Engineers Inspector-general of the Army. 4. - Report of major-general Commanding the Army and Department Commanders - Continued. Maj. Gen. E. S. Otis, on Military Operations and Civil Affairs in the Philippine Islands. Part 5. - Report of major-general Commanding the Army and Department Commanders - Continued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.