For the purely historical reason that it was filmed by Edison in 1899, this is a seldom ever seen print that shows soldiers (played by National Guardsmen) firing on trenches inhabited (supposedly) by Filipinos, played by black men and seen only from medium distance and from the rear.
Robert Osborne explained that actual Filipinos were not used and that it was easy enough to use blacks because nobody real knew what the Filipinos looked like at that time without the newsreels and documentaries that exist today.
Since the print only lasts for what seems like little more than a minute, it's not the sort of film that can receive any sort of recommendation from this viewer. It's a crude film, certainly not something that looks the least bit artistic and shows its primitive origins from start to finish.