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Mabey + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Utah Batteries: A History + A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, + skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together + with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. + +Author: Charles R. Mabey + +Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32206] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE UTAH BATTERIES: A HISTORY *** + + + + +Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<h1>THE UTAH BATTERIES:</h1> + +<h2>A HISTORY.</h2> + + + + +<h4> +A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE MUSTER-IN, SEA VOYAGE,<br /> +BATTLES, SKIRMISHES AND BARRACK LIFE<br /> +OF THE UTAH BATTERIES, TOGETHER<br /> +WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF OFFICERS<br /> +AND MUSTER-OUT ROLLS.</h4> + +<h3>by</h3> + +<h2>CHARLES R. MABEY,</h2> +<h6> +LATE A SERGEANT OF LIGHT BATTERY A, UTAH VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY.</h6> +<p style="margin-top: 10em;" class='center'><small> +ILLUSTRATED.<br /> +<br /> +SALT LAKE CITY,<br /> +1900.</small> +</p> + + + + +<p style="margin-top: 5em;" class='center'><small> +<span class="smcap">Copyright Applied For.</span><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +DAILY REPORTER CO., <span class="smcap">Printers, 158-160 S. West Temple St</span>.<br /> +<br /> +<span class="smcap">Salt Lake City, Utah.</span></small> +</p> + + + + +<h3 style="margin-top: 5em;"> +TO THE UTAH BATTERYMEN</h3> + +<h4>WHO BRAVELY FOUGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S FLAG ON A FOREIGN<br /> + +SOIL, THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED</h4> +<h5> +BY<br /> + +THE AUTHOR. +</h5> + + + +<h2 style="margin-top: 5em;"><a name='link1'></a>PREFACE.</h2> + + +<p>Sometime after the Utah Battalion left San Francisco for the Philippines +the author conceived the idea of writing a history of that organization +after its return from the war. With this purpose in view he kept a diary +during the entire campaign and also collected what other material that +could be utilized for such a work. Immediately upon the arrival in Salt +Lake City of the discharged volunteers he, with others, set to work to +bring about a completion of this plan. This little volume represents the +result of the labor expended at intervals between that date and the +present time. The author claims no more for it than its title assumes—a +brief history of the Utah batteries. It is no more. There may be some +works in the future which will command, to a greater extent, the +attention of the reading public. This is not written with the idea that +it will become a standard work, but that while those events which +happened are yet green in the memories of the Utah artillerymen, they +may be recorded and not be consigned to oblivion. The author trusts he +may not be asserting too much when he affirms that the book is written +with a strict adherence to facts, as he has had access both to public +and private data in the compiling of the work, and he has been +scrupulously careful in guarding against errors of every description. At +this opportunity he takes pleasure in thanking those officers and men +who have helped him in bringing about an accomplishment of his plans, +and furthermore, he wishes to extend his thanks to Angus K. Nicholson +for his contributions and a like communication to those friends who have +given him timely advice and aid in disposing of difficulties which have +arisen from time to time.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Bountiful</span>, January 25, 1900.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> + +<a href='#link1'><span class="smcap">Preface</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link2'><span class="smcap">Introduction</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href="#CHAPTER_I"><span class="smcap">Chapter I.</span>—The Mustering</a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href="#CHAPTER_II"><span class="smcap">Chapter II.</span>—Barrack Life </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href="#CHAPTER_III"><span class="smcap">Chapter III.</span>—The Insurrection </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href="#CHAPTER_IV"><span class="smcap">Chapter IV.</span>—The Gunboats </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href="#CHAPTER_V"><span class="smcap">Chapter V.</span>—The Home Coming </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link3'><span class="smcap">Major Richard W. Young</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link4'><span class="smcap">Major Frank A. Grant</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link5'><span class="smcap">Captain E.A. Wedgewood</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link6'><span class="smcap">Captain John F. Critchlow</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link7'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant George W. Gibbs</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link8'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Raymond C. Naylor</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link9'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Orrin R. Grow</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link10'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant William C. Webb</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link11'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant George A. Seaman</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link12'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Frank T. Hines</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link13'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant John A. Anderson</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link14'><span class="smcap">Sergeant Harry A. Young</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link15'><span class="smcap">Sergeant Ford Fisher</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#link16'><span class="smcap">Roster</span>—Battery A</a> <br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;"><a href='#link17'>Battery B </a> </span> +</p> + + + +<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2> + + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> + +<a href='#illus001'><span class="smcap">A Familiar Scene</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus002'><span class="smcap">Old Guard Fatigue at the Cuartel</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus003'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Gibbs' Section at Ft. MacArthur</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus004'><span class="smcap">Gun at Pumping Station Firing on Mariquina</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus005'><span class="smcap">Utah Guns on Manila & Dagupan Ry. en route to the Front</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus006'><span class="smcap">First Platoon, Battery A, ready to move to Malolos</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus007'><span class="smcap">Utah Guns in Park at Congressional Hall, Malolos</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus008'><span class="smcap">Preparing for an Engagement</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus009'><span class="smcap">Major Richard W. Young</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus010'><span class="smcap">Major Frank A. Grant</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus011'><span class="smcap">Captain E.A. Wedgewood</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus012'><span class="smcap">Captain John F. Critchlow</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus013'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant George W. Gibbs</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus014'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Raymond C. Naylor</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus015'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Orrin R. Grow</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus016'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant William C. Webb</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus017'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant George A. Seaman</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus018'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Frank T. Hines</span> </a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus019'><span class="smcap">Lieutenant John A. Anderson</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus020'><span class="smcap">Sergeant Harry A. Young</span></a> <br /> +<br /> +<a href='#illus021'><span class="smcap">Sergeant Ford Fisher</span></a> <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span><br /> +</p> + + + +<h1 style="margin-top: 5em;">THE UTAH BATTERIES.</h1> + +<h2><a name='link2'></a>INTRODUCTION.</h2> + + +<p>The history of the Utah Batteries should be a plain tale, for deeds of +valor cannot be garnished by the flower of rhetoric or the pomp of +oratory. This is a simple story of brave deeds. The stern browed +Heracles standing unarmed in the midst of his countrymen was a frank, +common figure, but when he dashed like Ares upon the Lerneaen hydra he +became majestic, and no mere pen picture could augment his greatness. So +we shall paint a picture of the achievements of the cannoneers and +gunners of Utah while withstanding the onslaughts of the dusky warriors +of Aguinaldo, and no greater compliment can be paid them than a clear +true narrative of their exploits.</p> + +<p>Utah was early distinguished in the furious fights of Luzon. Even before +the soldiers of "Uncle Sam" had felt their way into the defenses of +Manila, her guns had awaked the long-sleeping sentries of the Dons and +torn holes into the bulwarks of Spanish oppression and tyranny. Her +later accomplishments against the fierce Tagalan braves have only served +to increase the homage and admiration of the world, yet, in the dark +days of the conflict, as veterans know, are performed many daring acts +and feats of human strength, which are never recorded in the chronicles +of fame, or proclaimed by the bugle's blare. There were those who knew +what it was to feel the pangs of hunger and the ravages of disease, +those who experienced the racking pains occasioned by fatiguing marches, +and long, weary tramps through the unbroken wilderness of the tropics; +and there were belated ones who hid in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> swamps anxiously watching +for the first beams of dawn to reveal the lurking foe.</p> + +<p>An account of the actions of the men of Utah is not a recital of the +performances of one man; neither is it a description of the doings of a +particular section of men. It is the story of brave men fighting under +competent chiefs. Their history is exceptional. In every engagement +against the insurrectionists, on land and river, the unceasing fire of +the guns of Utah was heard. While Major Young, Major Grant, Captain +Critchlow and Lieutenant Seaman battered down the enemy's breastworks at +Caloocan and San Lazerus cemetery, the cannon under Captain Wedgewood +hurled fiery wrath into the terrified foe at Sampaloe, and Lieutenant +Webb's death-dealing monsters flung destruction into the ranks of the +Filipino hordes at Santa Mesa. While the land batteries, with the +infantry, worked their way through the tropical forests in that campaign +which drove the natives out of Calumpit and San Fernando and sent +Aguinaldo flying into the mountains beyond, Major Grant, Lieutenant +Naylor and Lieutenant Webb, with their fire-spitting dragons, the river +gunboats, bore down upon the insurgents at Morong and Santa Cruz and +disturbed the silence of the primitive woods at San Luiz and Candaba.</p> + +<p>The country was not slow in recognizing Utah. Almost as soon as +hostilities commenced Major Young was elevated to a position on General +MacArthur's staff, and when the river gunboats were put into commission +in anticipation of a Tagalan outbreak Lieutenant R.C. Naylor was placed +second in command. Later when the river fleet was enlarged Major Grant +took command and Lieutenant William C. Webb assumed control of the +"Covadonga," positions which both held till Utah's fighting days were +over.</p> + +<p>The Utah cannoneers were not only exceptional as fighters, but they did +things before unheard of in artillery annals. They pushed along in line +with the infantry in many a hard-fought encounter in the vanguard; +during the early days of the conflict, when the rival force first turned +its weapons upon the walls of Manila, they hauled their pieces after +them in grim pursuit of the fleeing foe.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> They stood comparison with the +well-drilled regulars, and in many instances surpassed them; the bark of +their iron-tongued guns never failed to strike terror into the hearts of +the dusky braves of Luzon, while it ever sounded as a note of cheer to +the infantrymen on the straggling skirmish line.</p> + +<p>There is Santa Mesa, Malabon, Quingua, Bag Bag, San Fernando—words +hollow sounding to the ordinary ear; but when named to the stalwart +veteran they touch a chord which quickens the pulse and sets every nerve +fiber vibrating with emotion. To him each tells a tale of noble +achievements wrought beneath the broiling sun of the tropics; to him +each whispers an assurance that his duty was bravely done in the +blasting fires of the East.</p> + +<p>The warriors of Utah have listened to their last reveille and their last +retreat. When they withdrew from the Orient they left the scenes of +carnage behind and returned to loved ones and to peace. May that peace +be lasting and happy.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> + +<p class='center'>THE MUSTERING.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> + + +<p>When the war trumpet's shrill notes disturbed the serenity of this +tranquil land early in '98 their echoes were not lost on the hills of +Utah, but reverberating from cliff to cliff and peak to peak they +swelled into a martial hymn whose chorus was sung in every home in the +commonwealth. The dark stormy days preceding the declaration of war in +April had aroused the dormant energies of men, hitherto engaged in the +peaceful pursuits of life, and filled them with an eager desire to +perform the more exciting duties of the camp, so that when the call was +issued by Governor Wells on April 25th a host of young men from every +corner of the State applied for enlistment in the volunteer army.</p> + +<p>Out of the 500 men, Utah's original quota, 343 were designated for the +Light Artillery service. There are reasons for this not altogether +understood by those outside military circles. At the breaking out of +hostilities with Spain the National Guard of the various States were +deficient in this branch of the service. The guns consisted mostly of +obsolete and useless muzzle-loading cannon, divided among the States at +the close of the Civil War. Some were smooth bores, others rifled. There +were Napoleons and Parrots, brass cannon and twenty-four pounders. Very +few of the States had modern guns, but Utah was especially favored in +this line. During the early organization of the guard she had been +provided with eight 3.2-inch B. & L. rifles, together with limbers, +caisson, harnesses, etc. Thus it was apparent to all who knew anything +of the manner of procedure that the youngest State in the Union would be +called upon to furnish artillery, and so it proved, for, after having +been informed by Senator Frank J. Cannon that this State could man the +guns, the War Department made arrangements for Utah to put two batteries +in the field.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + +<p>The day following the Governor's call recruiting officers were appointed +to enlist men for the service, the names of those designated to enroll +batterymen being Richard W. Young, Frank A. Grant, George W. Gibbs, Ray +C. Naylor and Orrin R. Grow. These were assigned to different portions +of the State and the work began on the day following. Ethan Allen, +afterwards First Sergeant of Battery A, was the first man to enroll. +Orders were received from Washington naming Fort Douglas as the +rendezvous for the recruits, the message reaching here the day +enlistment began. Briant H. Wells, a Lieutenant in the Second United +States Infantry, who had been stationed here on duty with the National +Guard, was assigned as mustering officer. The recruiting continued with +varied success until May 1st, when the quota was filled. Applications +for enrollment were so plentiful after the news of the call became +generally known that recruiting officers were frequently compelled to +have the men draw lots in order to determine the lucky ones, for that is +the term then used.</p> + +<p>May 3rd, camps were pitched on the lower parade ground at Fort Douglas. +It was named Camp Kent in honor of Colonel (now Major-General, retired) +J. Ford Kent, who had commanded the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry +stationed at the fort when hostilities were declared, and which had +marched away but a short time before. As soon as the camp was +established the men began coming in. It was a strange gathering of men +which appeared at the surgeon's door for examination the following +morning. Farmers fresh from the plow, cowboys from the plain, miners +from the mountains, blacksmiths from the forge, students, teachers, +doctors, bookkeepers had assembled to be defenders in common of the +Nation's honor.</p> + +<p>On May 4th the officers were selected. The appointments of the Governor +were as follows:</p> + +<p>Battery A—Captain, R.W. Young; First Lieutenant, George W. Gibbs; +Second Lieutenants, Ray C. Naylor and Thomas B. Braby. Lieutenant Braby +declined the honor and William C. Webb was selected in his stead.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + +<p>Battery B—Captain, Frank A. Grant; First Lieutenant, Edgar A. +Wedgewood; Second Lieutenants, John F. Critchlow and Orrin R. Grow.</p> + +<p>These selections were regarded as very happy ones. Captain Young is a +graduate of West Point and was at one time a Lieutenant in the Second +United States Artillery; Lieutenant Gibbs was the Major commanding the +battalion of light artillery in the National Guard of Utah; Lieutenant +Naylor was one of the founders of the National Guard and had worked his +way up to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy, while Lieutenant Webb had been for +some time the Captain of Company A, First Infantry N.G.U.</p> + +<p>All the officers of Battery B had been identified with the National +Guard. Captain Grant was Colonel of the First Regiment; Lieutenant +Wedgewood was formerly Captain of a company stationed at Provo; +Lieutenant Critchlow was a member of the medical staff, while Lieutenant +Grow was Major of the first battalion of the First Infantry.</p> + +<p>No time was lost after the officers had been chosen, as the work of +disciplining the raw force immediately began. Camp Kent was the scene of +bustle and hurry. It was drill, drill, drill, from morning until night, +and "Action Front," "Action Right," "Action Left," "Change Posts," +"Section left front into line" kept the men moving from reveille until +retreat. All seemed anxious to become proficient in the use of the guns, +and even guard duty—that task ever despised by the soldier—was +performed with a surprising willingness.</p> + +<p>On May 9th Lieutenant Wells administered the oath which transformed the +body of citizens into a battalion of soldiers. The work of preparing the +roll was cheerfully done and was accelerated somewhat by the arrival of +a message from the War Department announcing that the Utah Batteries +would be sent to the Philippines. The declaration was received with +satisfaction by some, but others were less enthusiastic as an opinion +prevailed that there would be no fighting in the East, but that Cuba +would furnish the battles of the war. Later developments proved this to +be a mistake, for long after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> the Spanish had felt the force of American +war machinery at San Juan and El Caney their lost subjects in the +Antipodes were fleeing in terror before the mighty thunder of the Utah +guns at Santa Mesa and Bag Bag.</p> + +<p>The batteries left for San Francisco on May 20th. It was an imposing +sight to see the newly recruited soldiers, commanded by Captain Young, +as they marched down the streets to the depot followed by thousands of +citizens who gathered to bid them farewell. Some partings between +relations were exceedingly touching and sad. Perhaps mothers and +sisters, fathers and brothers read in the dim misty vista of the future +the fate to which some of the men were doomed in the furious skirmishes +of Luzon. Cheer after cheer rang out as the train pulled away and the +volunteers responded with vigor, although there were some whose voices +sounded husky as the final greetings were given.</p> + +<p>On their arrival at San Francisco the batteries received a royal +welcome, the Red Cross society taking especial pains to make their visit +a pleasant one. Several weeks were consumed in perfecting the +organization and preparing it for foreign service. Lieutenant Wedgewood +and Sergeants Brown and Fehr returned to Utah and recruited 104 men to +complete the organizations to their full strength, leaving Salt Lake +City with them on June 29th. On June 15th the batteries sailed away to +the land across the seas where work of a far more serious nature awaited +them.</p> + +<p>The voyage across was not altogether unlike a voyage on any ordinary +vessel, save for the fact that the men were crowded a little closer than +on a first-class passenger boat, and the food was not so elaborate in +character as one would expect to find in a first grade hotel or a +railway dining car. The men kicked in the good natured American way and +continued to eat what was given them and slept as best they could.</p> + +<p>A stop was made at Honolulu, where occurred a reception to the Utah men +which marked a bright day in the life of the soldier. The transports +arrived on the night of the 23rd, and at 11 o'clock. The next morning +they went ashore amid the cheers of the Hawaiians, who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> gave them a +greeting hearty and cordial. Flowers were in profusion and pretty girls +threw bouquets at the tired pilgrims until they felt that they had +indeed found the "Paradise of the Pacific." Judge Kinney, a former +resident of Salt Lake City, headed the reception committee, and there +were elaborate preparations to make the stay one of gladness. The great +sugar works and plantations at Oahu were visited and the points of +interest carefully shown. Then under the shading palms, amid the +fragrance of flowers, with hundreds of pretty girls to wait on them the +men sat down to the banquet. In an atmosphere which breathes poetry and +pleasure; where the soft tropical zephyr kisses the cheek as a mother +does a sleeping infant the choicest fruits were served and substantial +edibles tempted the appetite. Soldiers made love to maidens with dusky +cheeks; American blue eyes told short stories of love to Kanaka brown, +and the Caucasian ladies were not forgotten, for it was a feast of love. +Everywhere was "Aloha, Aloha."</p> + +<p>But all things end. The next day saw the ships sail away. With the sweet +fragrance of blossoms still lingering in their nostrils and the +long-to-be-remembered clasp of friendship yet plainly felt they passed +away from the dreamy isle into the oblivion of the Pacific to resume the +diet of beef a la can and coal a la "Colon." Once more was ship soup +staple and tropical sea monotony plentiful.</p> + +<p>A few days later the fleet arrived at Wake Island, which General Greene +took possession of in the name of the United States. Five days after +this the Ladrone Islands were sighted and passed.</p> + +<p>About the middle of the month the Philippines were sighted and on the +17th the fleet of transports entered the harbor of Manila escorted by +the cruiser "Boston."</p> + +<p>The landing was an exceedingly difficult undertaking. The facilities for +taking the guns from the transports were not perfect. The guns were put +ashore in about five feet of water and had to be hauled out by hand, but +the work was accomplished in the usual good natured American fashion, +and when this task was finished men dried their clothes as though +nothing had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> happened. In landing several amusing incidents occurred. +Many Filipinos, anxious to earn a few "centavos," flocked around the +ships, and not a few of the men hired a native as a sort of a pack horse +to carry them ashore. One two-hundred-pound soldier was unfortunate in +the selection of his human pack horse, for he sat astride the shoulders +of a ninety-pound native until the little fellow broke down and buried +himself and rider in the sad sobbing sea waves to the great amusement of +his comrades and his own disgust. Other occurrences were equally as +ludicrous.</p> + +<p>The several days following the landing of the batteries were spent in +giving the men the rest they had earned and needed. No work worthy of +mention was done until the morning of the 29th, when came the first +scent of trouble—of war. From the actions of the officers at early +morning it was plain to be seen that something was going to happen. Two +guns of Battery A were taken over to the trenches which had been built +by the insurgents near the Capuchin Monastery. During the day the +sharpshooters of the Twenty-third United States Infantry and the Spanish +had been doing some desultory firing with little result on either side, +save that the men kept their heads closer to the breastworks, while a +battalion of the Colorado Infantry, under Colonel McCoy, advanced beyond +the old trenches to a point near the monastery, where they threw up a +new line of earthworks. The two guns of Battery A moved to this point +the following morning and took possession of the emplacements already +constructed. On the following morning two guns under Lieutenant Grow of +Battery B were brought over from Camp Dewey and placed in position on +the left. Men from both lines were engaged in erecting gun pits all +along the front. The guns were located about 1000 yards from Fort San +Antonio de Abad, which formed the extreme right of the Spanish line. The +enemy's left and center was protected by a line of intrenchments. +Outpost duty was being performed by a company of the Eighteenth United +States Infantry. The firing, which had been kept up with more or less +vigor, came from the right of the Utah position,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> which was entirely +unprotected owing to a failure on the part of the insurgents to maintain +their lines between Calle Real and the Pasig road.</p> + +<p>During the night of July 30th-31st the excitement began. Heavy small arm +firing was indulged in by the enemy and from his lines came shells at +irregular intervals, none of which did any damage. At this time +Lieutenant Naylor was in the trenches with the two guns of Battery A. At +8 o'clock next morning Lieutenant Gibbs relieved him of the command with +two-gun detachments of fresh men. All day everything was quiet. The +enemy was planning a night attack, as he had no desire to mix with the +American forces in a fair open fight in the broad light of day, but +rather trusted to darkness to accomplish his designs. Everything was +quiet until 11:30 that evening, when the Mausers began singing +venomously from the Spanish lines. Then came the boom of his artillery +and the men in the trenches knew that the time for action had come. The +Tenth Pennsylvania troops replied with their Springfields and the whiz +of the "45's" mingled with the keen "twang" of the Mausers, while the +Third Artillerymen, equipped as regular infantry, took a part in the +altercation. The instructions of the Utah men were not to fire until it +was evident the enemy was making an advance. The cannoneers stood by +their guns awaiting the orders which should make them a part of the +fight. Finally it came. Major Cuthberton of the First California, the +senior officer present, gave the word and then Utah's voice was heard +for the first time during the war. The gunners worked like Trojans and +with shrapnel punched at zero they sent shell after shell into the +Castilian lines. Corporal Charles Varian, with no clothing on save a +pair of trousers, sweating like a man who was working for his life, yet +cool withal, managed his piece like a veteran. Sergeant J.O. Nystrom +gave orders in a collected way that instilled fresh courage into the +hearts of his men. W.W. Riter wore a seraphic smile as he sighted his +gun at the spits of flame on the other side, while Billy Kneass worked +his cannon with the sang froid of a man in a blind waiting for ducks. It +was a warm time and when<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> morning dawned it was ascertained that several +Castilian voices had been added to Choral Society in that land beyond +the river. Utah's men were standing their baptism of fire and proved +themselves soldiers. All the terrible passion of war had supplanted the +first feelings of timidity, and they manipulated their guns with as much +composure as they would have handled the pigskins on the gridiron. But +the ammunition was running short. Fifty-seven shrapnel had been +discharged and the battle was still on. The Pennsylvania men had fired +away nearly all their ammunition, and affairs began to look serious, +when a body of men from Camp Dewey hauling a limber chest after them +dashed from out the gloom. Once more across the intervening space the +shells shrieked and broke the Spanish lines, causing havoc and terror. +The attempt of the "Dons" had proved futile, and after having fought for +two and a half hours they withdrew.</p> + +<p>Although other commands had lost men the Utah boys were fortunate in +this that not one of their number was killed and only one slightly +wounded in this engagement.</p> + +<p>For several days but little was done by the Utah troops. The men +constructed emplacements for the guns, cut down timber which might have +interfered with good work and awaited orders. In the meantime the +Lieutenants of the batteries were relieving each other from day to day. +The fire from the Spanish lines was kept up in a desultory manner and +was replied to by the infantry in the American lines.</p> + +<p>The final engagement on the 13th was short, but the guns of the Utah men +did wonderful execution. In conjunction with Dewey's fleet they tore +holes in the Spanish fort at Malate and helped in forcing the enemy out +of his position on the extreme left.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> + +<p class='center'>BARRACK LIFE.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + + +<p>Like all the other organizations which had taken part in the capturing +of Manila, the Utah batteries were without a home when they first +entered the city. Battery A found temporary quarters in a spacious nipa +hut in the Malate district, while Battery B went into barracks in the +Odministracion de Hacienda. Several days later Major Young secured the +Cuartel de Meisic, formerly occupied by a Spanish engineer regiment, and +Battery A was stationed there August 18th. Some days following Battery B +moved into the same building. The Third Artillery occupied the south +half of the Cuartel, and the batteries were domiciled in the east and +west wings of the north half. The Cuartel was a large and stalwart +structure located in the most picturesque part of Manila. South of it +lay the business portion of Manila, with its Escolta, its Plaza de +Cervantes, and its Hotel de Oriente; to the west was the Marcadero +teeming with rustic Filipino maids and redolent with its Oriental odors; +stretching away to the north were the broad rice fields and forests of +bamboo, with the mountains in the distance forming a background. It was +a pleasant home and one which the men appreciated.</p> + +<p>During the first few weeks of barrack life the men settled down serene +in the thought that they would soon be speeding homeward. Their duty had +been done and they felt that they were now entitled to the happier +pleasures of Utah. But days passed, and were lengthened into weeks, +weeks passed and were lengthened into months, and still they remained in +the tropics with less hope of returning home than they had at first +entertained. The novelty of their surroundings began to wear off and +everything which the Philippines could afford became decidedly +commonplace. Unable, therefore, to find other entertainments when off +duty, as a pastime<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> the men exchanged reminiscent fairy tales about +their late combat. Wearying of these occupations they often sauntered +out of the Cuartel in bodies in quest of what little mirth they could +get out of the passive and inexplicable natives.</p> + +<p>Of course, there were drills and everybody liked them, as they produced +such an excellent opportunity for one to give vent to his feelings after +the drills were over with. Those were happy hours which the men spent in +sweltering under the genial warmth of the southern sun, and learning +with a bitter vengeance the tactics of "dismounted drill." And "double +time," too, was always a pleasant innovation as it generated a bodily +heat to correspond with mental feelings and external influences. Then +there was always an appreciative audience of gaping nut-brown maids and +matrons who took delight in watching the "soldado" go through his +ever-changing evolutions. Yes, those were days which the veteran will +always look back upon with rapture.</p> + +<p>At first some trouble was occasioned over the inadequate food supply; +but that difficulty was soon obliterated. The then acting commissary +sergeant was removed and A.L. Williams, familiarly known among his +admirers in the battalion by the euphonious prefixes of "Dad" and +"Judge," was elevated to this position. Under the judicious management +of the Judge a revolution was made in the department and the men waxed +fat from the overflowing cornucopia of the commissary.</p> + +<p>In those murky days of Manila were other things which served to offset +the oppressive blazonry of the tropic sun. In order to make the attire +of the soldiers harmonize as much as possible with the requirements of +the climate, light shirts and trousers were provided by the +quartermaster's department. Every week occurred a general inspection, to +which the men were expected to appear housed in this startling white +with polished shoes and flaming brass buckles. A very imposing +appearance they made when lined up on these occasions.</p> + +<p>The advent of the soldier vastly accelerated the trade of the native +fruit venders in the vicinity of the Cuartel, and as time wore on this +peculiar product of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> the Orient increased his sales by the addition of +the deadly "vino," sometimes with rather disastrous results to the +imbiber. That wondrous monument of human ingenuity commonly known as +"army hardtack" formed the standard medium of exchange between the +industrious fruit dealer and his overworked customer. The barred windows +of the Cuartel became the market ground for all the products of Luzon, +and through them many a luscious mango was exchanged for an adamantine +biscuit upon which the soldier had vainly expended all his dental +energy. The natives had full access to the barracks at this time, and +the native washerwoman made the blanco trousers shine iridescently for +inspection by beating them against the sunny side of a boulder and +afterwards pressing them with a fearfully and wonderfully made flatiron.</p> + +<p>Hard by the Cuartel were a number of "tiendas," widely known among the +soldiers as "vino stands." The presiding spirit over one of these +establishments was generally a pretty "mestiza," who, in addition to her +natural charms, was blessed with a high-sounding Castilian name. There +were four shops run on the plan, which held pre-eminence both for the +character of the "vino" which they supplied and the bewitching charms of +their owners. The returned volunteer will remember with keen enjoyment +"Juanita," "Juaquina," "Victoriana," and above all "Isabella," the +saintly and virtuous, who was equally as skillful in obtaining the +nimble sixpence as in raising a brood of mestiza children. There was +also "Madre," withered and antiquated, but a born dictator, and through +her superior management she came to be known as the top-sergeant. +Finally there was Ysabel, with a gentle smile upon her pleasant brunette +face, and Estepania, brown-eyed and plump, most beautiful among all the +mestiza belles. Isabella's casa was the place to which the eyes of the +weary soldier turned after a long and fatiguing drill; afterwards it was +the point to which his footsteps inevitably led when he was able to rush +in for a few days from the firing line. The house was large and +spacious, with polished ebony floors and wide windows through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> which the +balmy zephyrs blew and kissed the heated brow of the tired fighter. +Beautiful creepers twisted their way up the wall and stole in at the +extensive balcony to catch a taste of the pleasures within; the +broadleafed banana palm surrounded the casa and broke the power of the +blazing tropic sun. It was, indeed, the one spot in all the East which +made the home-loving Utahns feel at home. When away all his secret +longings were centered upon that place and its attractions, and his +mouth yearned for a renewed acquaintance with the delicate omelets +fashioned by the dainty fingers of Pania and the crab brought from the +bay by the ubiquitous Peek-a-boo. His mind reverted with gratitude to +the anxious solicitations of "Madre" when she learned that he was +suffering from a headache and he acutely remembered the healing balm +which she applied to his fevered brow. He knew, too, that should he be +struck down in death by the bullet of the enemy, what tears of sympathy +would be shed at the news of his misfortune.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus001.jpg" alt="a familiar scene" /> +<a id="illus001" name="illus001"></a> +</p> + +<p class='caption'>A FAMILIAR SCENE.</p> + +<p>The one source of worriment about the Isabella mansion was the fact that +the thirsty soldiers were frequently<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> given an over supply of the deadly +vino. Such an occurrence was attended with dire results; but as the +motherly "Madre" was blessed with an abundant store of remedies, under +her care the victim was soon restored to his mental equilibrium. All +soldiers seem gifted with special powers to spend money and as a +consequence few of them could command the attention of a penny bootblack +twenty-four hours after being paid, but this weakness had no weight with +the kindly old dame who carried a large credit roll and could refuse +nothing to a Utah soldado. So Isabella's mansion forms a part of the war +history of the Utah batteries; and it must be remembered with other and +more stirring scenes; for when the thoughts of the Utah soldier stray to +the domicile of the Isabella family they are mingled with happy +reminiscences and strange memories and tragic sights.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>One hundred and four weary and footsore recruits arrived in the Cuartel +on the 28th of August and deposited their blankets and all other +portable property on the greensward. They had been waiting out in the +bay four days and had finally reached the Cuartel after having made a +complete circuit of the city. Sergeant Arthur W. Brown piloted the new +batch of volunteers to their home, and ever since the redoubtable +Sergeant has borne a reputation, as a file leader, which would make a +Mexican burro grow green-eyed with envy.</p> + +<p>Here it might be stated that after watching the fleet of transports, +which conveyed the Utah batteries, sail out of the rugged Golden Gate +into the broad Pacific, Lieutenant E.A. Wedgewood and Sergeants Arthur +W. Brown and L.N. Fehr turned toward Utah bent on the mission of +securing 104 recruits, which would give each battery its full quota of +173. Volunteers were numerous but the work of enlisting covered a period +of nine days. Recruits were obtained from all points in the State but +the majority came from Salt Lake City. On the 28th of June the full +number had been enrolled and the following day the small body of men +left for San Francisco, after being accorded a warm demonstration at the +depot. At Oakland they remained all night of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> 30th and the following +morning they marched to Camp Merritt, from which place they were removed +to the Presidio two days later.</p> + +<p>Late in June Lieutenant Wedgewood was taken ill with typhoid fever but +remained with the men until July 6th, when he was taken to the Lane +hospital and Lieutenant Diss of the California Heavy Artillery was +placed temporarily in charge of the recruits. Orders were for the Utah +contingent to sail on the transport "Rio de Janeiro," and as the South +Dakota Infantry was the only organization on the vessel Lieutenant +Foster of that regiment was given command of the men.</p> + +<p>The voyage was uneventful save that the soldiers were ill-treated by +Lieutenant Foster, who succeeded in gaining for himself the eternal +hatred of the men under his charge. As the recruits were then +unacquainted with military practices, many expressions of disgust being +made in an unguarded way, reached the ears of the worthy Lieutenant, who +heaped still greater indignities upon the men by way of retaliation.</p> + +<p>At Honolulu W.A. Kinney, the large plantation owner, entertained the +Utahns during their brief stay in that city.</p> + +<p>The "Rio de Janeiro" arrived in Manila Bay on the 24th of August, but it +was four days later before the recruits set foot on the soil of Luzon +and made their phenomenal march up the streets of Manila to Plaza de +Felipe II, where they greeted their comrades.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Wedgewood, having recovered from his fever, arrived October +4th on the "Scandia," which left San Francisco on August 27th.</p> + +<p>During the long dreary days following the arrival of the recruits their +life was not entirely joyous. From sunrise to sunset they were forced to +listen to the blood-curdling tales which their companions told of the +late conflict with the "Dons." At first they hearkened to them with +respectful attention. They never doubted the truth of these glowing +fairy stories. They revered these self-lauding heroes as a species of +immortal beings. In return for this tributary deference they were +treated with contempt. The veteran called them "rookies," and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> whenever +one of them attempted to soar he was promptly and sternly reminded of +his inferiority and kindly invited to get off the pedestal upon which he +had so unwittingly placed himself while one of his superiors proceeded +to relate a harrowing tale of blood and thunder and rain down in the +trenches. Every bit of rainy weather or glorious sunset reminded the +Malate hero of something he had seen in the trenches and at once he +began to dilate upon it with great attention to details and a lofty air +of his own importance.</p> + +<p>So it went on. The recruits vainly sought for relief. He tried to stem +the tide of persecution by relating stories of his own. But as soon as +he made such an attempt he was immediately "bawled out" and his +tormentors proceeded with a fresh tirade. Finally one of the groaning +victims hit upon a happy plan, and after it was carried out it +effectually stopped the torture. When in the future the mendacious +veteran essayed to array himself in a cloud of glory by narrating +legends of personal prowess, he was unceremoniously suppressed by the +rookies, who sang:</p> + +<p class='center'> +It may be so; I do not know,<br /> +But it sounds to me like a lie.<br /> +</p> + +<p>Instantly upon the starting of this little hymn it was taken up by every +soldier in the barracks and the unlucky veteran, crestfallen and beaten, +was only too glad to retire into seclusion.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>During those five months in which the soldier was learning the +peculiarities of Oriental life and sweltering under the rays of the +Southern sun, he adopted any means of causing the speedy destruction of +time. After the singularities of his new surroundings had ceased to be +uncommon he began to look about himself in search of other amusement. +Naturally a person who adapts himself easily to his environments, he +took up with the games of the Filipinos, and, as a consequence, soon +after the appearance of the American as a prominent figure on the +streets of Manila, it was no unusual occurrence to behold the huge, +good-natured Yankee engaged in friendly sport with the diminutive and +fiery Tagalan.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> + +<p>As cock-fighting is the national game of the native the soldier seized +upon this diversion with an enthusiasm that was truly remarkable. The +slender and wiry game cock was in great demand. The feathered pugilist +became the hero of the hour. The price of "pollos" jumped above par two +or three times over. On the shady side of every street could be seen +little knots of men eagerly awaiting the outcome of a battle in which +these kings among all the fowl tribe were engaged. And the victory was +not decided without great loss, for frequently the champion proclaimed +himself conqueror by mounting the gory body of his late enemy and +crowing with great vigor. Men bet on their favorites with as much fervor +as an ardent proselyte of Mohammed utters praises to his Maker from the +housetop at sunrise.</p> + +<p>But even this pastime was too tame for the restless nature which +constantly pined for the more exciting fun of America. So the chicken +stock suddenly declined in value, and that of the swine took a +corresponding rise, when there was talk of organizing a football +association. This plan, however, lost its popularity after several +practices on the "Gridiron"—the climate of Luzon had its drawbacks when +it came to punting the pigskin. The requirements for a good football +game are a temperature of 6 degrees below zero, and a field covered with +a four-inch layer of snow and a corresponding thickness of soft mud +underneath. As the Philippines are sadly deficient in the first two +articles, it was decided to drop "Rugby" in favor of baseball.</p> + +<p>Throughout the Eighth Army Corps this proposition was received with +great warmth. Every organization had its team. Some influential men of +Manila offered inducements to the winning nine; the American Commercial +Company agreed to present a silver cup to the team which could score the +most points. Arrangements were made for matches, and rival teams soon +met on the diamond at the Lunetta. Utah was not to be outdone even in +baseball; any man who had ever played ball or looked at a diamond was +invited to join the team, and after this liberal request, it took no +great time for the battalion to put a pretty good organization into the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +field. Soon the husky farmers from Utah were pitted against the powerful +"pumpkin rollers" from Nebraska, and the sturdy Pennsylvanians fought +for honors with the Wyoming cowboys.</p> + +<p>Those were pleasant hours when the sons of America met under the tropic +sky on a foreign soil and exchanged friendly greeting in their national +game. Not a follower of the "Stars and Stripes" was there but felt +happier and prouder after such a day. Home seemed nearer by half than it +ever had before. And the natives, too, came in for a share of the +rejoicing; they liked to see the "Grande Americano" perform his antics +with the ball; they, too, gathered in knots and talked and gesticulated +and laughed and cheered. The irrepressible small boy was everywhere +present, with his sarsaparilla, his peanuts and his slabs of cocoanut +candy. There were those who made his trade profitable and those who +preferred something of a more fiery nature. That also could be obtained +for the asking.</p> + +<p>So the games went on by the side of the great swelling sea, and the roll +of the surf mingled with the merry tones of the players. Battles were +fought and fields were won on the diamond and Utah carried the trophy +away to America.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>While there were some things which excited the curiosity, others which +aroused the attention, and still others which seemed to rivet men's +minds for a short time on certain subjects, yet they all paled into +insignificance before the magic of that one word "Mail!"</p> + +<p>On a quiet sultry day, when all nature except the sun seemed to be +taking a rest and when nothing but the bugle call for dinner could prove +that a spark of life remained in the barracks, the announcement that +mail had arrived would transform that peaceful quiet building into an +Eastern bazar, with all of its accessions. At the mention of that word +the stolid sentry, pacing his beat with languid steps, instantly +quickened into life; the motionless somnolent forms lying on the canvas +cots sprang from their recumbent positions, strangely wide awake; the +groups of men engaged in a social game<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> of cards, instantly scattered +for that new field of interest. The First Sergeant's office became a +scene of the greatest activity. An eager, excited crowd gathered around; +cheeks and noses were pressed against the iron grating, while the ear +listened intently for familiar names. Happy was he who received a goodly +supply.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus002.jpg" alt="old guard" /> +<a id="illus002" name="illus002"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> "OLD GUARD FATIGUE" AT THE CUARTEL.</p> + +<p>There were those who turned away crestfallen and disappointed, there +were others who remained behind and hungrily eyed their more fortunate +comrades, as they knew they had no loved ones to write to them. When the +mail had been distributed the barracks again relapsed into silence, but +it was a wide awake silence, not a sultry, oppressive one. Then was +reading of letters which told of love and friendship and hope; then were +familiar scenes brought before the imagination to renew acquaintances +which had begun to grow dim; then were sighs heard for dear home and +mother. Newspapers and magazines were not unpopular. The letters read, +then the papers were devoured. Long articles, short articles, +advertisements and pictures were consumed with equal eagerness, and when +every visible portion had been absorbed they were held up to the light +to see if they contained anything on the inside. Such was mail day in +Manila, and the story proceeds.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> + +<p>In the early days of barrack life, men talked of returning home to +celebrate Thanksgiving, but after October had begun to decline it became +evident that these fond hopes were not to be realized.</p> + +<p>Then the inventive Yankee proceeded to devise means to give thanks in +the good old fashioned way in spite of climate and strange country. The +Luzon turkey in all respects does not compare favorably with his +American cousin, yet he is "turkey," and that goes a great way when it +comes to celebrating Thanksgiving.</p> + +<p>It was upon this peculiar species of the feathered race that the +batterymen fastened their attentions. Turkeys were secured, and they +served as a nucleus about which all preparations centered. Several weeks +prior to the gala day most elaborate arrangements were made. The +soldiers gathered in knots and discussed the coming event. It had a +particular interest with them as they anticipated something more +palatable than the ordinary "hardtack and slum-gullion." Nor were their +expectations disappointed, for, when the day came in all its glory, the +commissary had proved itself equal to the occasion. All the powers of +the culinary art had been brought to bear upon the leathery tendons of +this turkey of the East. It had been fried and flayed until the very air +of the barracks became aromatic with its savor. Even the hungry natives +scented the perfumed air and gathered at the entrances to inspect the +delicacies more closely.</p> + +<p>At length the tables were prepared and the ravenous warriors seated +themselves. Then were the victuals attacked with vigor; the enemy +brought forth all his fighting force; he assaulted the front with deadly +effect; simultaneously he attacked the flank and the rear; he cut, he +hacked, he slashed, he dissected and tore, until there was nothing left +of his victim but the skeleton, and even this he eyed ravenously. Of +course there were pies and cakes and cranberries and fruits and greens +and vegetables, and they, too, suffered. Of the squash family there were +not a few, the favorite pumpkin was wanting, but then the lack of it had +been long since supplied by the desiccated potato, and the consumer felt +no secret<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> pangs at its absence. Thus Thanksgiving passed on and +Christmas came with its bevy of holiday boxes, and its "Peace on earth +good will to men;" but while the American was still thinking of the +light of peace, there came the low rumbling of impending gloom; his ears +were startled by the distant thunder of the voice of war; he knew it to +be the opening peal of the awakening insurrection and his attention +turned to the more serious matter of the imminent conflict. A more +powerful enemy than his late foe menaced him from all sides.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> + +<p class='center'>THE INSURRECTION.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> + + +<p>The report of a rifle rang down the quiet Santa Mesa hill on the night +of February 4th. As the flash of the gun died away in the gloom a dusky +warrior fell in death and the spark of an insurrection kindled into +flame. Almost instantly the belligerent Tagalans rushed down upon the +American outposts; the United States forces from Caloocan to Malate +swung into line, and the sturdy Anglo-Saxon and the fiery Malay were +matched in combat.</p> + +<p>The violent clash caused no look of surprise to flutter across the faces +of the American soldiers; all knew that the outbreak was coming, all had +waited with expectant excitement for the impending conflict. To the +intoxicated native victory against the Spanish seemed too certain to be +wrested from him by the conquering American; he had long smarted under +the goading reflection that "the wreath of the conquerer" had been +snatched away at the moment when it seemed almost within his grasp. This +bitter knowledge irritated and maddened him, until he only awaited an +opportunity to spring at the throat of his imaginary foe and wrench from +him what he considered his own. He remembered the long years of +wretchedness under Spanish tyranny and oppression. He suspected that his +new masters would prove even more overbearing than his late persecutors. +He had not forgotten the daring rush for liberty which his ancestors had +made. Their blood coursed through his veins and he determined that he +would not relinquish the struggle without one last bold dash for the +coveted goal.</p> + +<p>It was not alone a love for liberty which spurred onward the dark horde +which followed the red banner of Aguinaldo. Since 1896 they had striven +with their ancient enemy, with the hope that they might tear from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> him +all his wealth. Their leader had with subtle diplomacy urged on his wary +braves with the thought that when they battered down the walls of Manila +all that it contained would be theirs to loot and ravage. They loved +liberty, but they loved the gold which it would bring still more. So +they looked with hungry eyes when they saw the Americano enter the city +of their dreams and close the gate against the black hosts who sought +entrance to plunder and steal.</p> + +<p>During the few months preceding the outbreak the Filipinos had become +less friendly to their late allies. "La Independencia," the official +organ of the insurgents, frequently came out with loud denunciations +against the Americans and called the sullen natives to action against +the hated usurpers. It was not an uncommon occurrence to see the walls +of public buildings patched over with "proclamos," signed by Aguinaldo, +almost openly declaring war against the Americans and asserting the +rights of the Tagalans to their independence.</p> + +<p>The fourteen blockhouses which had been the Spanish line of defense had +been allowed to fall into the hands of the Filipinos, who converted them +into a strong offensive and defensive work. When by chance an American +strayed beyond these fortifications, the attitude of the native sentries +was often violent and abusive. Eventually no soldiers were permitted to +go outside of the territory bounded by our outposts, and the Malay line +of muskets tightened around the city like the arm of a colossal dragon. +Repeatedly there were war alarms, and for several days the men not on +duty were kept in barracks. At times the Tagalans at the pumping station +shut off the water supply merely as an insolent challenge and an +indication of what they were able to do. On certain parts of the line +the Filipinos were seen building new intrenchments and reinforcing the +old ones.</p> + +<p>For several weeks natives had been concentrating around the Santa Mesa, +and Lieutenant Webb was sent out to the Nebraska camp with the left +platoon of Battery A to strengthen the Nebraska position. The Santa Mesa +road was looked upon by the multitude of Aguinaldo as the natural +gateway to Manila. It was at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> San Juan Del Monte bridge that they +had sought in vain to pound their way into the Spanish lines on many a +desperate battle night. One of the Utah guns occupied the very gun pit +which had been used by the Castilians as a defense from which their +cannon barked back defiance to the onrushing fanatical hordes.</p> + +<p>Often there were wrangles between Colonel Stotsenberg and the Tagalan +officers regarding the line of outposts which the native forces should +occupy. Several times the Colonel averted hostilities by a judicious +yielding to minor points. Ultimately at the San Juan bridge a stalwart +American sentry and a diminutive Tagalan paced in parallel lines. The +Filipinos seemed anxious to aggravate the Americans into an act of +hostility, and rigorous orders were issued to prevent such an +occurrence. Night after night the native warriors clustered about one +end of the bridge and uttered curses at the silent Nebraskan outpost. +Before the outbreak actually took place several times our sentries were +forced back by a howling mob of drunken Malays.</p> + +<p>One native officer was particularly violent. Not a night passed but that +he gathered a crowd of inebriated Tagalans and tramped down to the +bridge for the purpose of scoffing and hurling vile epithets at the +taciturn American posted there. They were encouraged by the lenient and +apparently submissive attitude of the Americans whom they had begun to +look upon as arrant cowards, who could be wheedled and whipped about as +they chose.</p> + +<p>On the night when the signal shot sang out in the darkness and the +battle came, the same haughty officer was coming down towards the +American line to repeat his abusive conduct, when the sharp voice of the +sentry rang out as a warning to halt. He persistently advanced and at +the same time launched some vehement Tagalan curses at the outpost. The +next instant he lay dead with a bullet through his heart; the report +startled the still night air and an insurrection was born.</p> + +<p>All that night the thunders of the united American forces in action were +wafted to the Cuartel. The natives were so close that some of the +bullets pattered against<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> the walls of the building and some even struck +the Hotel De Oriente, nearer town. When the commissary wagons probed +their way out to the belligerent front they were fired upon from the +houses lining the streets. Every nipa hut in which a private family +lived became an arsenal.</p> + +<p>The trouble had been anticipated and every officer knew what portion he +was expected to defend. Ten minutes after the news arrived in the +Cuartel, the heavy guns of Utah rumbled over the streets to different +parts of the field.</p> + +<p>Those under Major Grant rushed out into the night and were instantly +under a vigorous fire near the woods of Caloocan. Captain Wedgewood +disappeared in the blackness and took up the appointed position on the +Balic Balic road near Sampaloe cemetery. The guns under Lieutenant +Seaman dashed out of the barracks and a few moments later their deep +bass was added to the Satanic roar. On McLeod's hill surrounded by the +Nebraskans two guns under Lieutenant Webb menaced the plain below.</p> + +<p>At Santa Mesa the fight began. Three minutes after the opening flash the +Nebraskan camp was deserted. As the outposts slowly returned the +regiment swept onward to the fray, and soon the angry rattle of the +"Long Toms" answered back the viperous "ping" of the Mauser.</p> + +<p>The sound of the first shot had hardly ceased echoing upon the hill when +the Tagalans, jubilant, confident, flew for the bridge; their onrush was +met with a volley from the Nebraskans. Then from Caloocan and Sampaloe +the din of multitudinous musketry fired in unison, waved over the hill; +then the awful thunder of the guns of the fleet pulverized the enemy's +bulwarks at Malate swelled over the plain. Occasionally a lull came in +the fight and then as if gathering strength by inaction the tumult broke +forth with increased fury. In the darkness it was impossible for the +Utah guns to accomplish anything, as the location of the infantry could +not be exactly distinguished. So all night the men tugged and toiled to +get the pieces in position, that they might take part in the encounter +at dawn. The fifth section gun<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> held a commanding position on the right +and the sixth section was stationed directly in front of McLeod's house, +from which point it could sweep the enemy's line from Blockhouse No. 7 +on the north to the Catholic convent on the south.</p> + +<p>Just as the first streaks of dawn dappled the east, the two big guns +belched over the plain and the fight began. During the night the +relative positions of the opposing forces had not been changed. The +maddened Filipinos made a renewed attempt to cross the bridge and +penetrate the Nebraska line, that they might gain their coveted +goal—the city of their dreams. The aim of the two guns was concentrated +upon this point. Twice the Tagalans with frenzied courage charged up the +bridge, only to be torn to pieces by the shrieking shells and the deadly +bullets. With desperate energy they hauled an artillery piece into +position on the bridge, but this was demolished by a single shell from +one of our guns.</p> + +<p>The position of the artillery became perilous; the insurgents centered a +galling fire upon the big guns, with the hope of ridding themselves of +this new terror. The leaden missiles rained from three points, +Blockhouse No. 7, the bridge and the convent. Every time one of the +cannon roared over the hill, she raised a vicious hail of bullets from +the enemy. Three minutes after the conflict began Corporal John G. Young +received a fatal wound in the lungs. Almost immediately after Private +Wilhelm I. Goodman fell dead with a bullet through his brain.</p> + +<p>Instantly men rushed in to fill their places, but the position of the +gun had become so dangerous that Lieutenant Webb ordered it removed to a +more sheltered point, at the north of the house. In the face of a heavy +fire the men lifted the piece out of the pit and rolled it to the +station designated. This ended the casualty list of the artillery for +that day. Both guns now shelled the enemy at Blockhouse No. 7 and the +San Juan Del Monte Church, until the two guns under Lieutenant Gibbs +came up. The skilled aim of the two gunners and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> superb courage of +Lieutenant Webb and Sergeants Fisher and Robinson were greatly +commended.</p> + +<p>Shortly before 11 o'clock two Nordenfelt guns under Lieutenant Gibbs +arrived at the hill and under the orders of Colonel Smith of the +Tennesseeans advanced up the Santa Mesa road. The Tagalans were still in +strong force in the woods to the right of the road, and, as the two guns +moved forward, they received a pelting fire from this locality.</p> + +<p>The guns dashed up the road and swung into action on the bridge. The +forces then began an advance up the road, running twenty and thirty +yards at a time, supported by the infantry from Tennessee. After a half +hour of sharp fighting the Tagalans fled before the cannister and +shrapnel of the big guns and the bullets of the Tennesseeans, and thus +the hills as far as the Deposito were won. Meanwhile, a battalion of +Tennesseeans had deployed out to the left and taken the Deposito, and +the two guns were moved to this point.</p> + +<p>The Tennesseans left the Nebraskans in charge of the Deposito and +disappeared off to the right. Late that night Lieutenant Webb and the +fatigued warriors of Santa Mesa joined Lieutenant Gibbs at the Deposito, +where they bivouacked with the prospect on the morrow of an advance upon +the pumping station, four miles beyond.</p> + +<p>The movement upon the pumping station was not easily accomplished; there +were several sharp skirmishes on the way. Though the power of the +insurgents seemed to have been broken on the previous day, there were +some in whom the spirit of resistance was not entirely extinguished and +they contested the march of the Americans with vigor. When the move was +made on the morning of the 6th the artillery was under the personal +command of Major Young. A straggling line of infantry deployed on either +side of the road and with the artillery in the rear the forward movement +began. Scarcely half a mile from the Deposito the moving column +encountered a small body of Tagalans, who opened fire. Once more the +angry guns pealed forth in menacing thunder and the terror-stricken +natives retreated for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> the kind shelter of the bamboo thickets beyond. +Two similar skirmishes happened farther up the road. About a mile and a +half from the Deposito the mutilated body of Dr. Harry A. Young was +found lying by the side of a ventilator. Some distance back the body of +his horse had been discovered. Major Young was the first to locate this +gory evidence, which mutely told the tragic story of the end of Dr. +Young. All the clothing had been rent from the body, a bullet hole was +in his forehead, and a bolo wound from the elbow of the left arm to the +waist told the tragic story of how he died. The supposition is that the +Doctor was surprised on his way to the Deposito, where he had an +appointment with Major Young, and took the wrong road, which led him to +a grim death in the Tagalan territory. A few minutes later, while the +body was being conveyed to Manila, the Major calmly commanded his men in +a rush with the enemy, in which eighty of them were killed. This +exhibition of splendid courage was ever after an inspiration to the +Utahn when he felt like being disheartened.</p> + +<p>Gradually the uncoiled infantry line pushed back the recalcitrant +natives, and late in the morning the heights above the beautiful +Mariquina valley were reached. Here the artillery was placed in +position, and, with the Mariquina Church steeple as a target, the town +was bombarded. Now and then a shuddering shrapnel was sent shrieking +after fugitive bands of Tagalans, who made all haste for the protecting +shelter of the mountain on the opposite side of the valley.</p> + +<p>From that place they were content to look with dismay upon the +death-dealing monsters which frowned from the hill above the bulwarks.</p> + +<p>When the first platoon of Battery A, under Captain Wedgewood, sped out +into the gloom on the night of the 4th it took up a position in the +Balic Balic road near the Cemetario de Sampaloe. All night long the two +guns were under a straggling fire from the Filipinos, who at this place +held Blockhouse No. 5, about 300 yards to our front, and a diminutive +stone church which was located off to the right of our position. The +section two gun was placed inside the Cemetario, but that of section +one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> remained outside, where it was exposed to the enemy's fire.</p> + +<p>At 3 a.m. from two points the Malays centered a vicious fusilade upon +the artillery, which remained inactive owing to the obscurity of the +Tagalan line of defense. No. 1 gun was moved back about 100 yards to a +more sheltered station by the cemetery. Just as the first streaks of +dawn appeared in the east the two guns blazed toward the blockhouse and +the small church, in which were a large number of natives. +Simultaneously the Colorado infantry swung into position and with a +withering fire slowly advanced upon the enemy. Several well-directed +shells sent the Filipinos flying from the blockhouse and a few more +accurately trained shots annihilated the little church. As the Tagalans +moved from their cover they fell many deep before the blasting volleys +of the invincible Coloradoans.</p> + +<p>As the natives fled from the church, the artillery turned its attention +to Blockhouse No. 4, 1700 yards distant, and while the South Dakotans +made a wonderful charge they demolished this wooden bulwark. Next the +big guns were ordered to shatter Blockhouse No. 6, but before they could +be brought into play against this point the insurgents had disappeared +into the woods with the swift-moving Colorado infantrymen hard on their +track. On the 6th the platoon was moved to a position left of Blockhouse +No. 7. On this part of the line it remained until March 23rd, when it +was ordered to Caloocan to take part in the fierce engagement at that +point when the whole line charged the enemy's works on March 25th.</p> + +<p>The damage inflicted on the natives of Sampaloe was very considerable. +Over a hundred bodies were buried there and in many a battered form +could be seen that ripping course of a shrapnel. General Hale personally +praised the work of Sergeants Emil Johnson and W.E. Kneass, who were in +immediate charge of the two rifles.</p> + +<p>The guns of Battery B took a position on the left of the line to the +south of Caloocan on the night of the war alarm. Second Lieutenant +Seaman went out on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> the Caloocan road with one 3.2 gun. Major Grant left +the Cuartel with three 3.2-inch guns, and after leaving one at Bilibid +Prison took the remaining two up the rugged Bulum Bugan road as far as +Lazaro Hospital. Emplacements were made under a spattering fire from the +enemy at this point, facing the Chinese Hospital and the Binondo +Cemetery, in both of which places the Tagalans were strongly lodged. +Only an occasional shot blazed towards the enemy during the night, but +from a commanding position the artillery fire began at dawn with +destructive and terrifying results. Besides driving the +sturdily-intrenched Tagalans back, the Utah attack entirely covered the +simultaneous advance of the Tenth Pennsylvania and South Dakota +infantry.</p> + +<p>The advance of the slowly-moving regiment was irresistable and the +natives fell back from their position after a stubborn fight. All that +day the Malay resisted the American advance with fanatical frenzy. The +artillery moved forward at the same moment, but many times was delayed +by burning huts. After an advance of about 400 yards they again joined +the infantry line, but they had arrived at a conspicuous and dangerous +position on the road, where for thirty minutes they fought desperately +in the open under a heavy fire from the Filipino intrenchments. It was +here that Major Bell of General McArthur's staff rode up and requested +Major Grant to move up beyond the Chinese Hospital, where the Tagalans +in a fierce engagement were inflicting heavy damage on the infantry. +Almost at the same moment Colonel Wallace sent word that a company of +the Tenth Pennsylvanians had been cut off to the left, and Lieutenant +Critchlow was sent with one gun up the Leco road to its assistance. The +remaining guns tore the woods in front of the advancing infantry and +cleared the way for the Pennsylvanians and South Dakotans, so that the +right wing advanced at this point almost without a casualty. Still +towards Caloocan the artillery advanced with the musketeers, and beyond +the Cemetery Church the big guns shelled the woods to the left of La +Loma in front of the advancing Third United States Artillery (infantry) +and Twentieth Kansas. Just when the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> Tagalans were fleeing, bleak with +terror, from the artillery shells; when Colonel Funston, like a young +Jove, was pounding his way irresistibly up from the left, and when +everything looked auspicious for an easy dash into Caloocan, word came +from General MacArthur that the firing should cease. The spires of +Caloocan were then almost in view, and there is an opinion that had +General MacArthur not feared that the line would grow too thin by a +further advance Funston would have taken Caloocan that night, with many +railway cars and many supplies, and with the saving of many lives which +went out on the next advance when the Filipinos had had time to bulwark +themselves behind their wonderful intrenchments.</p> + +<p>On the same day the guns were moved to a position close to La Loma +Church. Later two Nordenfelt guns arrived, one of Battery A, and were +stationed first at Blockhouse No. 3 and afterwards east of La Loma +Church and in front of the left battalion of the South Dakota infantry. +These were commanded by Lieutenant Critchlow.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile Lieutenant Seaman withstood a destructive fire on the Caloocan +road. Early in the fight he was reinforced at the suggestion of the +division commander by the addition of another gun. Major Young took +personal command of the Nordenfelt which arrived there late that night. +Frequently in the encounter the natives rushed up to within 150 yards of +our position, from which they went reeling back before the awful thunder +of the big guns. At times the powder-begrimed Utahns were in advance of +the main line, carrying death into the very teeth of the foe. So fierce +was the conflict that Major Young had the gun manipulated in short +reliefs, and this shortened the casualty list of our organization. +Corporal Wardlaw and Private Peter Anderson sustained wounds while +serving their pieces in this manner. The natives trained two big guns on +our position and fired fifteen ineffective shots from them. Next day the +two guns supported the Kansas troops in their advance upon the Filipino +intrenchments and Blockhouse No. 1. As the swift-moving column charged +the enemy's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> line the two rifles tore great gaps into this wooden +structure and plowed furrows into the wonderfully-constructed +earthworks. When the insurgents had fled before the deadly volleys of +the Kansans one gun was stationed at the blockhouse and the other at the +Binondo Cemetery. Here they remained until February 10th, when they took +part in the demonstration against Caloocan.</p> + +<p>The next three days Major Grant's three guns did nothing except to fire +occasionally at some enthusiastic Filipino sharpshooters. On the 11th a +general advance was made by the Montana and the Kansas infantry and the +Third United States Artillery. The artillery force consisted of two guns +under Lieutenant Seaman on the hill to the left, two guns under +Lieutenant Fleming of the Sixth United States Artillery on the railroad, +Lieutenant Critchlow with two Nordenfelts at Blockhouse No. 2, and Grant +with three 3.2-inch B. and L. rifles at La Loma Church. The prearranged +signal for the attack was to be a bombardment by the navy accompanied by +a similar action by Major Young's artillery force. The big guns pounded +shell against the native defenses, and sent shrapnel singing into the +woods surrounding the town, and under the somewhat ineffectual, but +loudly-thundering labors of the fleet the infantry column hurried +forward, and the Tagalans gradually swayed back. As the enemy retreated +the aim of the guns was directed higher and several of these iron +messengers went crashing into the town. Some remarkably good work was +performed by our gunners on this day. It is said that a small body of +Filipinos could be seen reinforcing the intrenchments at the gate of the +Caloocan Cemetery. A Utah gunner saw this, and turned his piece on the +gate and shortly after a shell shuddered through the air on its +2600-yard journey. When the smoke cleared away, gate, Filipinos and war +weapons strewed the ground for many yards.</p> + +<p>Major Bell with a flanking column of Montanas deployed through a ravine +on the right. Suddenly a long, rope-like column of natives whipped out +of the fringe of the woods and quickly coiled around the company.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> Major +Young saw the predicament in which the Americans were placed, and soon +the murderous shells fell in the midst of the column, which broke into +fragments and disappeared the way it had come. The next day Major Bell +was lavish in his praise of the batteries, and several British officers +who were watching the progress of the fight complimented the gunners on +their expert and effective gunnery.</p> + +<p>During the attack on Caloocan Lieutenant Seaman followed with the +infantry as far as the flames from the burning houses would permit and +pulled the gun through Caloocan to a position on the Kansas line. On the +11th guns were moved to a position on a hillside near the residence of +Mr. Higgins near Caloocan at a place where he commanded the causeway +between Caloocan and Malabon. At this point the two guns were joined by +a platoon of the Sixth Artillery and a 3.6 mortar under Corporal Boshard +of Battery B.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus003.jpg" alt="Gibbs' section" /> +<a id="illus003" name="illus003"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> LIEUT. GIBBS' SECTION AT FT. MACARTHUR.</p> + +<p>At this time Utah soldiers on different parts of the line manned +thirty-two pieces of artillery, including 3.2-inch B.L. rifles, +Hotchkiss revolving cannon, Hotchkiss mountain guns, Maxim Nordenfelts +captured from the Spanish, Mortars, Colt's rapid-fire (Browning's) gun, +a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> navy field piece, navy six-pounder and Gatling guns of various +calibers.</p> + +<p>After Caloocan was taken possession of by the troops scarcely any +fighting was indulged in until March 25th, when an advance was made. +Except for occasional incursions into the enemy's territory for the +purpose of driving back harassing sharpshooters there was a practical +cessation of hostilities at the waterworks. At this time the line over +which our guns were stationed extended from Malabon to Mariquina. At +Caloocan a severe engagement occurred on the 23rd of February. A large +force of insurgents came rushing down from the hill towards our outposts +and finally established themselves within 150 yards of the American +lines. It was during this period that some of them were able to +penetrate the American position and steal their way into Manila to take +part in the burning of the Tondo district. This band was under the +leadership of a bold and gallant chief named Zandico. While Tondo was +disappearing in flames and sharp hand-to-hand skirmishes were taking +place between these Filipino desperadoes and the American police a +furious altercation was going on between the darkly-outlined bulwarks of +the two armies. During this attack sixty men of the Kansas and Montana +regiments alone were killed and wounded.</p> + +<p>The work of the sharpshooters showed the watchful alertness of the +enemy. Whenever one of these riflemen espied a piece of American anatomy +there was a report and a still messenger of death went skimming through +the air. Frequently one of the large guns had to be employed to repress +the zeal of one of these ubiquitous Malays. While repairing a breach in +the gun pit Lieutenant Seaman received a wound in the leg, Corporal +Southers was shot in the hip and Private Hill sustained a serious wound +in the back.</p> + +<p>About this time existed as remarkable a truce as was ever patched up +between belligerent forces. Some Filipino statesmen came down from +Malabon to see Aguinaldo, and as they carried a flag of truce firing +from our side ceased. The natives signified their desire to talk and +Colonel Funston and Major Young went half<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> way to meet them. The +Tagalans then made known their proposition, which was that there should +be no firing between the two forces at that point for a period of ten +days. Colonel Funston assented. This was directly in front of the Kansas +line. The insurgents rigidly adhered to their promise, and while the +Springfields and Mausers were angrily barking in the vicinity of the +railroad track no messenger of war sped across the space in front of the +Kansans.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The four guns under Lieutenant Gibbs and Webb lifted to a commanding +position on the hill above the waterworks, menaced the valley below. +Frequently they boomed from the mountains as a warning to the curious +natives down on the wide plain of the San Mateo. The encounters which +took place between the Americans and the Tagals at this place are +illustrative of the peculiar mode of warfare carried on by the natives. +Not a few times our forces made invasions in the enemy's country at +Mariquina under the protection of the guns and drove his army into the +foothills on the opposite side of the valley, only to find him back in +his old position before nightfall with his camp fires piercing the gloom +of the valley as darkness settled in.</p> + +<p>These successive defeats seemed to have no power in dampening the ardor +of the ducky warriors of the plains. They continued to make invasions on +the American territory, and frequently waylaid belated American troops. +Up to March 25th the infantry force was not sufficiently large to hold +the country which had been taken. Four times the town of Mariquina was +captured in this style. Finally, by some peculiar decision of fate, a +battalion of Coloradoans descended into the valley and after dislodging +the enemy set fire to the hideous nipa huts. Thereafter fewer skirmishes +occurred in this locality. The white and shining church steeple arose +above the blackened ruins as a ghostly monument of the work of war.</p> + +<p>About four days after the occupancy of the waterworks by the American +troops Colonel Stotsenberg with a small body of the infantry scoured the +Mariquina plain, but though he met with some heated skirmishes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> and +drove the enemy back, there was no visible results from his excursion. +The artillery was first used in an advance on February 17th, when the +two Nordenfelt guns were taken down the Mariquina road by Lieutenant +Gibbs. None of the Utah men were hurt on this occasion, although the +natives fought stubbornly at short range and several men and officers of +the Nebraska regiment were wounded. Meanwhile General Montenegro, known +as one of the fiercest Filipino chiefs, had congregated his forces in +the woods southwest of the pumping station towards Pasig Lake and +Cainta. A plan was formed for surrounding the insurgents and the +Nebraska and Washington infantry and the two Maxim Nordenfelts took part +in the engagement. The artillery worked with the Nebraskans and shelled +the woods. Then there was a simultaneous advance from two sides by the +regiments. The Washingtons did their work well and the shells from the +guns were effective, but for once the Nebraskans failed in their usual +dash and came up too late to cut off the retreat of the enemy and +prevent his escape.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus004.jpg" alt="gun at pumping station" /> +<a id="illus004" name="illus004"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> GUN AT PUMPING STATION FIRING ON MARIQUINA.</p> + +<p>Again on the 24th the two Nordenfelts under Lieutenant Webb moved down +the Mariquina road, and did<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> excellent work in aiding the Nebraskans to +drive the natives back towards San Mateo. The B. and L. rifles from the +hill fired into bodies of natives to the left of Mariquina Church on +this occasion, and the death roster of the insurgents for that day was +very great. A revolving Hotchkiss under Corporal Hesburg, located close +to the Deposito, also inflicted severe damage on the natives. Still the +enemy at this point was alert and aggressive. The next day Major Mulford +went scouting with a small force to the right of Mariquina. Soon after +he reached the valley he was completely surrounded by the insurgents. +Then the big guns on the hill sent bursting shells fast into the +Filipino ranks and soon they retired stubbornly into the woods. Several +of Major Mulford's men were killed or wounded, and he stated afterwards +that the Utah guns had saved himself and party. This skirmish proved +that the natives were gathering there in a larger and more formidable +force, and this circumstances led to the burning of Mariquina. All night +the flames from the bamboo huts and old Spanish mansions illumined the +valley, and when the troops descended the next morning they found that +all the south and the greater part of the north end of the city were +entirely destroyed.</p> + +<p>There was comparative quietude after that until March 6th, when the +natives began to resume the annoying fire on the infantry, and an +artillery demonstration became imperative. As the insurgent attack came +about daylight, the guns under Lieutenant Gibbs bombarded the valley +from the hill, driving the enemy northward. Another large force of the +Tagalans swept down upon the Nebraskan outposts on the left and a deadly +affray commenced. Reinforcements were rushed to the aid of the stricken +sentries, who were gradually forced back by the superior numbers of the +assaulting party. Sergeant Ford Fisher with the fifth section gun dashed +out of the camp to the front. For three-quarters of a mile the +diminutive Filipinos horses with which the guns had lately been equipped +sped down the ridges under a galling fire. On the brow of the hill the +gun whirled into action long enough to drive the enemy back<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> a few +hundred yards. Again the piece limbered up and rattled over the hard +lava road for a new position. The Tagalans soon centered a murderous +fire from three points upon the big gun as a desperate measure to +annihilate this new terror. A horse ridden by Private Engler was shot +down, but was able to recover himself sufficiently to gain the shelter +of a small gulch a few yards farther on. From its shelter the big gun +pounded over the road to another gulch which had been deserted just a +few minutes previously by a company of Nebraskans. The heavy limber +chest was left at the foot of the hill and on their hands and knees the +men pushed the piece forward until the bore of the gun gleamed down the +slope. A heavy volley answered from the plain below. Ford Fisher said +afterwards that he saw a Filipino sharpshooter behind a rock fire six +times point blank at the gunner as he was sighting the piece. Suddenly +the roar of a cannon tore down the hill. The Tagalans answered it with a +fiendish yell and came steadily onward. The men on the gun worked like +Trojans, but they could not force the Malays back. Just as it seemed as +if the gun would have to retire the tall white figure of Colonel +Stotsenberg could be seen with galloping steed coming up the hill. +Instantly the wavering infantry line tightened. The Colonel's pistol +flashed in the sunlight, and the whole column swung up the eminence to +victory. The voice of the big gun bellowed back its notes of defiance +and the haughty foe fled in terror.</p> + +<p>During the encounter Corporal McDonald with a revolving Hotchkiss cannon +performed some excellent service on the right in aiding the Oregon +infantry. Most of the fighting had been done at from 100 to 150 yards +range. The casualty list of the Nebraskans was heavy, and an immense +number of Filipinos was killed. The infantry followed the retreating +natives for three miles.</p> + +<p>On the 7th, in conjunction with the river fleet, the guns aided the +Nebraska, Wyoming and Washington infantry in forcing the enemy through +the woods towards Guadaloupe and Pasig Lake. The guns under Captain +Wedgewood shelled the insurgents to the south of San Juan del Monte and +aided the infantry very materially<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> in its advance. The gunboats +hammered the natives on the left bank of the river and sent them +scurrying into the woods beyond Guadaloupe.</p> + +<p>It was decided to take the town of Mariquina on the 16th of March, and +Major Young with the left platoon of Battery A shelled the woods to the +north and west of the town so effectively that when the infantry forces +entered the place they found it deserted.</p> + +<p>This ended the fighting in that vicinity until the general advance of +March 25th.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus005.jpg" alt="guns on railway" /> +<a id="illus005" name="illus005"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> UTAH GUNS ON MANILA & DAGUPAN RAILWAY EN ROUTE FOR THE +FRONT.</p> + +<p>On March 25th began that remarkable advance which never ended until the +native forces were driven beyond Calumpit and San Fernando into the +hills north of San Isidro and Tarlac. The American forces had long been +inactive gathering strength for the difficulties before them, and now +that this strength had been mustered they were eager for the fray. The +plan was for the commands of Generals H.G. Otis and Hale to swing around +to the right and cut off the retreat of the enemy from that quarter, +while General Wheaton's brigade was to strike the foe in front and not +move forward until the other forces had had sufficient time to +straighten out the line. A large body of the insurgents had assembled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> +at Malabon. The entire preparation had been made for the capture of this +force.</p> + +<p>Otis's brigade on the left consisted in the order given of the Kansas, +the Third Artillery (infantry), and the Montana regiment; in the center +was the divisional artillery under Major Young and then troops of the +Fourth United States Cavalry, and on the right was Hale's command, +containing the Tenth Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Nebraska regiments. +The Nebraskans were on the extreme right, while the Kansans formed the +pivotal regiment.</p> + +<p>The artillery designated to take part in the forward movement were two +B. and L. rifles, under command of Lieutenant Critchlow; two B.L. rifles +of the Sixth United States Artillery, under Lieutenant Fleming, and an +automatic gun under command of Ensign Davis of the navy. On the evening +of the 24th Lieutenant Fleming's guns were removed from the old +intrenchment in front of Fort MacArthur, and were replaced by two B. and +L. rifles under Lieutenant Gibbs of Battery A, who had formerly been +stationed in front of the Colorado line at Sampaloe. Major Grant at this +period was no longer in immediate command of Battery B, as he had been +detailed as commander of the river gunboats on February 17th. During the +period of waiting the Government mules had arrived and the rifles under +Lieutenants Critchlow and Fleming were now equipped for the journey into +the jungle.</p> + +<p>Few artillery exploits can compare in dash and daring with that +performed by Lieutenant Naylor out on the right of the line early in the +morning of the 25th. Many brave and reckless deeds with guns at close +range were done by artillery forces on other occasions in the Filipino +campaign, but it is hardly probable that any field pieces have been +rushed so far beyond infantry support as they were on this day before +the enemy at San Francisco del Monte.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Naylor's position lay in a sunken road at a point where the +lines of the Tenth Pennsylvania and South Dakota regiments joined. For a +distance of about 800 yards the road, which had been constructed by the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> +Spanish, extended toward the Tagalan earthworks. At the point the road +abruptly ends, and there is a plat of hard ground. Fifty yards farther +on a rude barricade had been erected as a shelter for the native +outposts, and a hundred yards in advance of this the enemy's strong line +of earthworks widened out across the top of a gently rising eminence. +This position had been accurately located several days previously by a +reconnoitering party.</p> + +<p>Early in the morning the guns moved to the end of the sunken road and +began the perilous journey up this narrow defile. With Lieutenant Naylor +were Captain Crainbuhl and Lieutenant Perry of General Hale's staff and +a detachment of eight men of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment under +charge of a sergeant. Every one knew the danger that accompanied an +expedition of this character, and there was silence as perfect as that +of a tomb, save when one of the wheels of the heavy guns rumbled in a +rut. A few hundred yards from the camp they crossed a small stream and, +as the road broadened at this place, there was ample room to unlimber +the pieces. This was done so that there would be no delay when the time +for action should come. The pieces were placed in front and the two +limbers followed. At the end of the road the squad of infantry deployed +as skirmishers to drive back the Filipino sentries. Then the guns were +rushed up on the flat; two shells shrieked through the air towards the +insurgent intrenchments, which loomed up darkly on the hill, and the +bombardment began. At the first bark of the big guns the native outposts +fled precipitately for the protection of the heavier works on the summit +of the knoll. The roaring monsters now hurled a perfect stream of iron +into the place, and after responding feebly for a few minutes the foe +retired in haste across the San Juan river towards San Francisco del +Monte. The artillery advanced to the stream and sent shells flying after +them until it became too hazardous to continue the bombardment, owing to +the approach of our troops. Down the causeway over which the Tagalans +fled in their mad desire to escape whole squads of Filipinos lay. As the +guns had made the advance almost entirely unaided by the infantry it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> +was purely an artillery charge, and to the artillery belonged the +victory. General Hale rode up a few minutes later and personally +complimented Lieutenant Naylor upon the ability with which he had +handled his men in this successful maneuver.</p> + +<p>As the guns were unprovided with mules they were unable to proceed and +retired to their former position.</p> + +<p>The engagement opened up by Lieutenant Naylor's men on the right found +an echoing response from the guns of Lieutenants Critchlow and Fleming. +As they were to continue the advance their general course lay along the +railroad track, which stretches entirely across Luzon Island from Manila +to Dagupan. Just after dawn on the 25th the infantry moved forward about +700 yards ahead of the artillery, which followed the Novaliches road. A +strong force of the enemy was encountered heavily intrenched in a +position commanding the Novaliches and Malinta roads. The infantry swung +into line and attempted to force back the Tagalans, who stubbornly +resisted the attack of our column. Two large guns were soon brought into +play and the natives gradually retired. An examination later showed that +the defenses of the insurgents were remarkably constructed; in some +cases the main breastworks were twenty feet thick. The first day's +fighting had taught them a lesson by which they had profited.</p> + +<p>General MacArthur gave orders for the artillery to remain with him +during the advance, as it was impossible to move over the ridges. A +troop of the Fourth Cavalry, under Major Rucker, also remained with the +General. In the afternoon the artillery had turned down a small valley +toward the bed of the Pulilan river. The infantry had entirely +disappeared from the division commander's view, owing to a mountain +which lay between our forces and the artillery position. The general +whereabouts of our troops could be ascertained by the battle-sound, but +occasionally this died away as the moving column advanced. The General +sent forward one of his aids with a view of re-establishing our lines; +but he was fired upon and compelled to retire. The<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> troops of cavalry +then dismounted and deploying as skirmishers soon dislodged the enemy. +Soon heavy firing was heard and an orderly rushed back asking for +reinforcements. The General sent word back that he had no reinforcements +to give. Just then Major Bell rode up and said he wished one of the Utah +guns and the General authorized Major Young to take one of the big +rifles and a Browning gun under Ensign Davis.</p> + +<p>Majors Bell and Young went forward to locate a position for the pieces. +They discovered that where the road crosses the river the banks of the +Pulilan rise to an almost perpendicular height of nearly fifteen feet. A +road a little distance above, so small that it could only be utilized +for carometas, crosses the river a short distance beyond the dismantled +bridge. On the right abutment of the bridge the Filipinos had +constructed a very formidable breastwork of earth and stone, and the +heavy steel beam of the bridge was arranged above this so as to leave a +long slot for the rifles the whole length of the work. This menaced the +surrounding approaches. A short distance below this was a boiler and +engine-house and on the other side of the river and lower down was a +remarkable field work. It extended along the river a distance of two +hundred feet, and was constructed with the same wonderful skill as the +smaller one at the bridge abutment. It had the same long slot flaring +outward about eighteen inches and the upper part of the work was +substantially held by bamboo flooring.</p> + +<p>The two Majors left the artillery piece and went forward to discover a +good site for the big gun. Major Young selected a place just under the +brow of the hill. The enemy was only 100 yards beyond, but our exact +location was screened from his view by a thick undergrowth of bamboo. A +heavy stone wall was used as a shelter for the men. Meanwhile the +cavalry stood a terrific fire. Out of less than forty men who took part +in the encounter nine were killed and wounded, a casualty list of almost +one-fourth of their number. The guns rushed into action. Major Young +directed that the Colt's automatic be turned on the slots to protect the +big gun. At the first boom of the rifle all the attention of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> the +insurgents was turned upon the crews working the piece, but the bamboo +screen kept them from taking accurate aim. Of the three shells fired by +Corporal Don Johnson, two struck immediately in the slot holes and burst +in the interior, doing considerable damage to the bamboo shed and above +all terrifying the dusky warriors, who turned and fled. The spitting +Colts and breaking shrapnel followed them with deadly effect. The +artillery then lumbered up and dashed to a position on the hill, from +which the boiler-house could be bombarded with annihilating effect. The +cavalry had stood a heavy fire during all this time at a range of +seventy-five yards, and when the beam had been examined after the enemy +had been driven out it showed the marks of eighty-nine cavalry bullets.</p> + +<p>That night the weary troops rested on the banks of the river. The next +morning, March 26th, an early advance was made upon the insurgents' +position at Malinta and Polo. It was here the moving column met the +advancing lines of General Wheaton, and then it was learned that he had +marched forward simultaneously with Hale's flying command, and that the +wily native had had ample time to flee out of Malabon and his old +position at Caloocan. So the projected coup had failed. Lieutenant Gibbs +with the right platoon of Battery A and one gun of Battery B and a +mortar bombarded Malabon and the surrounding country. When the shelling +ceased the Oregon regiment charged over the open and assaulted the +enemy's works, which were taken after a stubborn fight. The routed +Tagalans fled along the railroad track towards Malinta.</p> + +<p>One gun under Lieutenant Seaman accompanied Wheaton on this march as far +as the foot of the hill leading to Malinta, and was unloaded from the +car under a shower of Mauser bullets. Private Parker J. Hall of Battery +B was wounded at this point while standing on the track. A few shells +were fired into distant intrenched position on the hill, but when +Wheaton resumed his advance early in the morning the B. and L. rifle was +returned to its position at Fort MacArthur. It was during the advance up +the hill a few moments later<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> that the gallant, white-haired General +Egbert, veteran of many battles, was fatally shot through the stomach.</p> + +<p>In the meantime the artillery with General MacArthur's division +continued the march up the road close by the railway line. While the +artillery was sending shell fast into the Filipino position at Malinta +and Meycayauan, and occupying their attention, General Hale executed a +rather brilliant flank movement and forced the enemy to retreat with +considerable loss. When the march was resumed on the 27th, the artillery +was moved up to a position just behind the first battalion of the Kansas +regiment, while all the rest of Otis's brigade remained in the rear.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus006.jpg" alt="first platoon" /> +<a id="illus006" name="illus006"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> FIRST PLATOON. BATTERY A, READY TO MOVE TO MALOLOS.</p> + +<p>When General MacArthur's division moved forward on March 25th, General +Hall, with the Colorado and Minnesota regiments, moved down the +Mariquina valley towards the San Francisco del Monte, where the bullets +of the South Dakotas and Lieutenant Naylor's shells were battering +against the walls. General Hall's advance was so warmly contested that +it became necessary for the guns on the hill to bombard the city and +surrounding woods to the north and west. The infantry was then able to +press forward and drive the natives back from the valley toward San +Mateo.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p> + +<p>On the 31st of March General Hall essayed a more extended advance, and +on this occasion his forces consisted of the Fourth and Twenty-third +regular infantry, the Minnesota and Colorado regiments and two Utah B. +and L. rifles, commanded by Captain Wedgewood. The movement began at +dawn. The regulars came from the South and the Minnesotas and +Coloradoans around the north of Mariquina. The town was entered before +the enemy had begun to fire. The attack was sudden and effective, and as +the natives began to retreat a gun under Sergeant Nystrom and another +close by the Mariquina Church commanded by Captain Wedgewood played +vigorously on their ranks. The infantry followed the natives six miles, +and from the hills overlooking the city San Mateo was bombarded by the +two guns.</p> + +<p>The natives were again in retreat when a telegram arrived from Otis, +which showed that he feared the natives might be preparing to make +another entrance into Manila. It read: "Wheaton has engaged enemy at +Malolos and taken that place. A very small force of the enemy was there. +Withdraw all your forces which are moving towards San Mateo and bring +them back to La Loma Church." It was a wearisome march to La Loma after +the fatigue of the day's campaign, and when the men arrived there with +the guns they were forced to sleep among the graves of the churchyard +without blankets and in a pelting rain. The next day the guns were +ordered back to their old position above Mariquina, where they remained +until relieved by the Sixth United States Infantry, when they joined the +rest of the command at San Fernando.</p> + +<p>On April 27th our forces met the Filipinos on the banks of the Marilao +river, on which occasion the noses of the big guns were pushed to within +fifty yards of the native earthworks. The guns employed were two under +Lieutenant Critchlow, a platoon of Dyer's light battery and Colt's +automatic under Ensign Davis. The Kansans under Major Metcalf had +deployed on the left and approached the river, but they were forced back +by the heavy fire of the insurgents, who had cut away the intervening +trees to give a clear sweep for their rifles. The<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> whole north side of +the river had been cleverly and completely intrenched so that it formed +an almost impregnable fortification when attacked from the front. The +causeway up which the artillery had to advance was commanded by the +insurgent infantry. Across the river where the infantry first engaged +the enemy, the natives were about 800 yards distant. Major Young went +forward with Ensign Davis to locate a good position for the guns. While +there General Funston came up and stated he had seen quite a number of +cascos further down the river, and that if Major Young would protect his +men with an artillery fire he would be able to cross the river and flank +the enemy. This was agreed to, and a company of Kansans accompanied the +guns as a support. Lieutenant Critchlow's guns were quickly turned upon +the earthworks. As the big rifles roared across the stream the small +arms and the Colt's automatic centered a withering fire on the +intrenchments to keep the enemy's fire inaccurate. This vigorous +demonstration terrified the Tagalans and soon several white flags +appeared fluttering above the trenches. The firing ceased and the +Filipinos were ordered to stand up. Some few of them reluctantly showed +themselves, but the greater number ran through the get-away ditch and +vanished in the dark fringe of the bamboo forest. Lieutenant Coulter of +the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment with an enlisted man stripped and swam +the river and walked directly into the enemy's trenches. The two naked +men took as many rifles as they could hold from the defeated Malays. By +this time Colonel Funston, who had crossed the river, came up and took +some thirty natives prisoners.</p> + +<p>As the bridge crossing a branch of the Marilao river at this point had +been destroyed by the insurgents, the artillery moved to a new position +by the railroad track until a new bridge could be constructed by the +engineers. Just as night came on the natives were seen to emerge in a +large force from the woods and move towards our lines. Soon the entire +American host was sturdily engaged in repelling the attack. In the dark +it was impossible to exactly locate our infantry, but Major Young, at a +venture, directed several shots over our column at a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> range of from 2000 +to 2500 yards. The Filipinos soon retreated. It was afterwards learned +that these shells had fallen in the midst of the attacking force.</p> + +<p>This spirited encounter was the subject of a special report of the chief +of artillery to the division commander in which Lieutenant Critchlow and +the cannoneers received special mention for their gallantry.</p> + +<p>That night a pontoon bridge was built across the river and on the +morning of the 28th the artillery moved across and encamped during the +succeeding day and night in the suburbs of Malolos. An advance of only a +short distance had been made the next morning when a body of the enemy +was encountered at Bocaue. Here it was necessary to cross the Santa Mone +river. This was attempted with some difficulty, as only the guns could +be taken over on the bridge and the mules had to be swum across. The +pieces and accoutrements across, the artillery immediately went into +action against the long lines of Filipinos. A railroad train in the +hands of the insurgents could be seen in the distance and some natives +were busily engaged in applying torches to the engine-house. A few +shells were sent screaming in that direction and the engineer needed no +further orders to speed with all dispatch toward the north country. +Again the guns were limbered up and the force advanced to the Bagoa +river, where it was again necessary to drag the guns across the shaky +bridge and force the reluctant mules to swim.</p> + +<p>By this time the infantry had pushed some distance ahead, and suddenly +there was heavy firing near another dismantled bridge close to the +Guiguinta. Both the town and the bridge had been burned by the +insurgents, and as soon as the infantry force crossed the railway track +it was greeted with such a heavy fire that there were thirty casualties +within a few minutes. The artillery came forward, as it had done before +in many desperate fights, at the critical moment. The mules were +unhitched and the cannoneers dashed with two of the guns across the +shattered bridge and began firing from the top of the track. The +insurgent fire came directly down the railroad grade. Private Pender was +shot through the hip<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> while working at the gun. In a few moments the +shrapnel had torn the Filipino earthworks and in the semi-darkness the +dusky figures of the Filipinos could be seen in retreat. The river which +barred the way was crossed the next day.</p> + +<p>When evening fell on the 30th, the towers of Malolos, the insurgent +capital, where a few months before Don Emilio Aguinaldo had been crowned +president of the Filipino republic, were almost within view. A long line +of Filipino intrenchments defended the approaches to the city. All eyes +had been turned from the beginning of the insurrection toward Malolos, +and here it was expected that on the morrow Aguinaldo, with a host of +his black warriors around him, would make a desperate effort to resist +the aggression of the American troops. The four big rifles and the +Colt's automatic were moved into a position at dusk close to a deserted +line of intrenchments south of Malolos. Majors Bell and Young, later in +the evening, went forward to locate a position for constructing +emplacements for the guns. Suddenly there was a long flash from a low +line of Filipino intrenchments 1000 yards to the front. They saw the +flash in time to guard themselves by the shelter of a rice stack from +the pattering bullets. Their mission by this time was accomplished, for +they had discovered a strong position for the rifles just within a +circle of bamboo trees from which there was an easy view of the enemy's +works.</p> + +<p>Late that night, in the tropic darkness of the overhanging trees, a line +of men, carrying picks and spades, trudged out slowly from the +encampment. They were guided by First Sergeant John Anderson of Battery +B. Soon the rice stack where the emplacements were to be made could be +seen through the gloom. The work was begun quietly, for the Filipinos in +the distance were known to be on the alert. An axe struck sharply +against a bamboo and a pick dinned resoundingly in the hard earth. Every +one looked searchingly into the distance, where a response was looked +for from a hundred guns. Major Young stated that he had posted a lookout +near by so that when he called "flash" the men could take care of +themselves as they saw fit before the winged<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> bullets arrived. So the +work went on. When the earth had been reared about one foot, the lookout +suddenly called "flash" and twenty men dropped to the ground. But there +was no report and no bullets came. The lookout had seen some restless +Filipino lighting a cigarette. The intrenchments were ready shortly +after midnight, and before dawn on the morning of the 31st the guns were +moved into position. The insurgents formed a belligerent half-circle +around the city, and were prepared to advance from three sides when the +roar of one of the big guns gave the signal to move. When the light came +it brought into bright relief the heavy earthworks of the enemy, and a +body of soldiers was observed standing idly on the railroad track about +ten hundred yards away. Suddenly the yawning big guns roared over the +plain and a shell burst over the Filipino intrenchments. There was a +brief response. The vigorous click-click of the automatic joined in with +the roar of the big guns. Within an hour the infantrymen were advancing +upon the outer works of the city from three sides, and the Filipinos +could be seen fleeing down the railroad grade. They were followed by +bullets from rapid-fire guns and several shells were sent into the +insurgents city at a range of four kilometers. Afterwards it was learned +that the natives had been driven from their two lines of intrenchments, +which were 1000 yards apart, a fact which clearly indicated the accuracy +of the firing. As soon as the enemy was dispersed the pieces were +limbered and while one section took the winding course of the Malolos +road into the city the other went by way of the railroad. For several +thousands yards in front of Malolos the track had been torn up by the +insurgents and the gun which went up the track had great difficulty in +passing. At one place where the bridge had been destroyed it was +necessary to replace a large number of ties which had been hurriedly +thrown into a body of water near by.</p> + +<p>All morning a long curling line of smoke could be seen from the distance +arising from the heart of the city. When the artillery swept into the +city side by side with the rigid column of infantry they found half the +place in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> ruins; the great church which had been used as a congressional +hall was fading in the flame. The American had found the city a burning +Moscow and the people, like the patriotic Russians, had applied the +torch to the capital upon which they had centered their fondest dreams. +The soldiers trooped into city, mud-bespattered and weary, and commented +in loud tones of surprise on their peaceful entry into a city where they +had looked for the bloodiest strife of the insurrection. The artillery +made a striking appearance as the big mules galloped over the evacuated +town. The guns were parked in the plaza before the Hall of Congress of +the insurgent capital, and Major MacArthur accorded to Major Young the +honor of raising the first American flag over the walls of the rebel +capital. It may be added here that several weeks later the Utah band +played patriotic airs in the hall where but a short time ago Aguinaldo +was declared president of the Philippines.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus007.jpg" alt="guns in park" /> +<a id="illus007" name="illus007"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> UTAH GUNS IN PARK, AT CONGRESSIONAL HALL, MALOLOS.</p> + +<p>The troops remained for several days inactive at Malolos to recuperate +after the rigors of the long march. During this time the two guns +commanded by Lieutenant Gibbs at Caloocan were brought to Malolos by +rail, and Captain Wedgewood took charge of them, while<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> Lieutenant Gibbs +returned to the two platoons stationed at the waterworks.</p> + +<p>On April 7th a reconnoitering expedition went out to investigate the +enemy's position to the east of Quingua in the vicinity of Bag Bag. +Major Bell commanded the party, which consisted of a troop of the Fourth +Cavalry, a Hotchkiss revolving cannon and one Hotchkiss mountain gun, in +charge of John A. Anderson. They found a place where the river could be +forded and discovered that the insurgents were strongly intrenched on +the banks of the Bag Bag river. The country at this time was heavily +timbered and the party was able to return unnoticed by the enemy.</p> + +<p>A severe battle occurred on April 23rd as the forces closed in on +Quingua. A reconnoitering party of cavalry encountered a large body of +insurgents and the fire was so withering that Major Bell was forced to +retire. Reinforcements of infantry were promptly called for and soon the +Nebraskans moved forward to the fray. The fight lasted several hours, +and the infantry and cavalry were forced to endure a heavy fire out in +the open from a long line of Filipinos intrenchments hidden in a line of +underbrush and trees. It was during this engagement that the gallant +Stotsenberg was killed while rallying his men for the charge over the +open. The artillery did not arrive until 11 o'clock, when two rifles, +one from each battery under Captain Wedgewood and Lieutenant Critchlow +came to the front and as usual soon ended the argument. Private D.J. +Davis of Battery A was shot through the fleshy part of the leg, and +while standing twenty yards behind the piece Captain Wedgewood was +wounded in the hand and stomach by a flying piece of copper from the +defective gun breech. The artillery occupied a position at one hundred +yards range during this stubbornly fought engagement. The guns were +partially sheltered by the foliage of a clump of trees to the left of +the Pulilan road and the Nebraska infantry. Firing from the artillery +was plainly effective, and after forty-five minutes of continual +bombardment the insurgents retired over the Pulilan road toward Bag +Bag.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p> + +<p>During this engagement Lieutenant Fleming of the Sixth United States +Artillery arrived from Malolos with one of his own and a Battery B gun, +manned by a Utah detachment, and did valuable service at a +one-thousand-yard range. As the natives retreated in columns they +afforded a conspicuous target and bursting shrapnel tore large holes in +the retiring lines. Private Abplanalp of Battery B, one of the drivers, +was shot through the hand and arm while in the rear of the firing line.</p> + +<p>This was considered to be as fierce a fight as that in which the rough +riders won their way to glory at Las Guasimas. At that point three +regiments were engaged and there were seventy casualties. At Quingua +there were only five hundred Americans against a large body of +insurgents and sixty of these were killed or wounded. General Gregoria +del Pilar, the dashing young Filipino leader, who had previously visited +General Otis for the purpose of arranging terms of peace, commanded the +dusky warriors at this place. Though he was forced to retreat he took +upon himself the credit of killing Colonel Stotsenberg, and afterwards +boasted that he had slain one thousand Americans in the engagement.</p> + +<p>The next morning Lieutenant Fleming with two big rifles and a Hotchkiss +revolving cannon, in charge of Gunner Corporal M.C. Jensen, forded the +Quingua river, a tributary of the Rio Chico, which in turn draws its +waters from the Rio Grande de Pampanga, at Calumpit. The remainder of +the artillery, consisting of a platoon of Battery A, under Lieutenant +Naylor, and one gun under Lieutenant Critchlow, went on down the Pulilan +road toward Bag Bag. There was a sharp encounter on this road, during +which a body of the enemy about a thousand yards to the right attempted +a flank movement, but a few shots from the big guns and the Hotchkiss +forced them to change their course. The guns directly under Major Young +on the other side of the river became involved about three hundred yards +south of the enemy's long low line of earthworks at Bag Rag. Their +intrenchments occupied the strip of land at the junction of the Rio +Chico and the Bag Bag rivers. When a reconnoitering party visited this +place on April 7th the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> plain surrounding the Bag Bag was covered with +bamboo and underbrush, but now all the plain was as clean and level as +if it had been swept by a cyclone. Thus the intrenched Malays had +cleared a spot which commanded the plains for miles around.</p> + +<p>Infantry and artillery advanced from both sides of the Quingua—Hale +with Fleming on the other side and Wheaton with Utah to the south. Soon +the artillery was engaged on the Pulilan road, 225 yards from the enemy. +At this time the infantry force was fifty yards in the rear, where it +was masked from the enemy but could render no important assistance. The +fire from the Tagalan intrenchments was murderous. While the artillery +fire was as rapid as possible at least two responsive volleys came from +the intrenchments after each shot. Private Max Madison fell, killed +instantly, early in the action; Private Frederick Bumiller received a +fatal wound through the hips. Two other cannoneers were hit in their +attire by glance balls and all three of the big guns were cut with +Mausers. In Lieutenant Critchlow's single detachment of eight men five +were struck—two killed and one seriously wounded. Wheaton's line +meanwhile bore in from the left and the artillery swung forward with the +line until they were almost on the opposite bank from the enemy. The +armored train, equipped with Gatlings revolving cannon, pulled up at +this point and turned loose its armament upon the enemy at a 200-yard +range. The insurgents stubbornly fell back under the terrific fire.</p> + +<p>On the opposite bank Corporal Jensen and his crew, sixty yards from the +enemy's position, were ripping the low intrenchments with the revolving +cannon. His position was perilous and his gallant fight soon ended. He +was pierced through the stomach with a bullet and on the next day died +from the wound. Lieutenant Fleming, in his report to the chief of +artillery, says of him: "I desire especially to mention Corporal M.C. +Jensen for gallantry in this action. His fearlessness undoubtedly cost +him his life." He also recommends in this report that Corporal Jensen be +awarded a certificate of merit.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p> + +<p>Calumpit is a city which the insurgents looked upon as invulnerable. Its +huts and stone bridges are on both sides of the Rio Grande de +Pampanga—the broadest and longest river in Luzon. It was here a few +months before that the insurgents captured many thousand Spanish +prisoners with all their arms, and they were prepared to vigorously +contest the advance of the American troops.</p> + +<p>The guns of Utah and the two big rifles of Lieutenant Fleming were on +the south side of the Bag Bag, and it is only a mile from here to the +Filipino stronghold. The advance began early on the morning of the 27th. +A platoon under Lieutenant Naylor, who had been in charge of Battery A +pieces since the wounding of Captain Wedgewood, one gun under Lieutenant +Critchlow, Fleming's two guns and a Hotchkiss in charge of Corporal +Bjarnson were pushed by hand over a bridge hastily constructed over the +waters of the Bag Bag. The clattering din of the infantry could soon be +heard in altercation with the insurgents at the front. The insurgents, +behind intrenchments, were sending volleys fast into the Americans from +the north bank of the Pampanga. It was observed that the long bridge had +been partially destroyed and the rails torn from the track for several +hundred yards. The heavy iron beams of the bridge were placed above the +two lines of intrenchments. Iron rails supported the ponderous beams, +and between them was formed a long slot for Filipino rifles.</p> + +<p>The three big Utah guns were rushed to a position on the right of the +station, about 100 yards from the enemy, and where there was partial +protection from a nipa hut. Earthworks were quickly thrown up and to +divert the enemy's attention while this was going on, a squad of Montana +men kept up a constant fire from a position immediately in front of the +artillery. Bullets came in sheets from the Filipino position. A Montana +sharpshooter, shot through the head, fell dead at the foot of the +half-made emplacement. Fleming's guns pointed through an aperture broken +through the solid brick walls of the station facing the half-demolished +bridge. Further off to the left Corporal Bjarnson with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> the revolving +Hotchkiss was with the line of Kansas infantry under Colonel Funston. +Out on the left Colonel Funston was performing the famed and intrepid +feat by which he was able to cross the river. Protected by the swift +fire of the revolving Hotchkiss, a Kansas man with a rope swam the swift +moving waters of the Pampanga and fastened one end to the base of a +bamboo tree. Then Funston with about forty of his men crossed the river +on hastily constructed rafts, guided by the long ropes. Suddenly this +small body of warriors charged and attacked the insurgents on the left +flank. The insurgents who had valiantly and stubbornly held their +position, were terrorized by the unexpected onslaught, and the whole +line in the east side of the bridge sprang from the intrenchment and +fled northward along the railroad embankment. Natives were strewn thick +upon the banks of the river as they ran. A mounted Filipino officer was +shot through the heart as he stood with flashing sword vainly trying to +rally his confused and fleeing troops. The Tagalans to the right were +touched with consternation and fled from their bulwarks. And so during +this one hour Colonel Funston performed the most dashing deed of the war +and the Malay hosts were driven from their strongest defense. Fifteen +hundred American soldiers in this battle contested with 12,000 +intrenched warriors of Luzon, and won by their prowess and the strategy +of a gallant leader.</p> + +<p>The two brigades were allowed to rest for several days on the sunny +banks of the Pampanga. On May 14th the troops began the march toward San +Fernando, which lies green and low at the base of Mt. Arayat, which can +be seen for many miles around. The artillery, with the mules, crossed +the river on rafts. Wheaton advanced up the railroad track while Hale's +brigade strung out over the Apalit road.</p> + +<p>A revolving Hotchkiss cannon and one Gatling gun, manned by Battery B +detachments, were mounted on trucks. This moving battery was commanded +by Lieutenant Naylor. As the troops approached Santo Tomas the +insurgents were discovered, intrenched on both sides of the railroad. As +the infantry engaged them on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> right, Lieutenant Naylor's machine +guns played on the thin line of smoke curling above the Filipino +intrenchment. As the infantry pressed them on the right they retreated +over the railroad towards a long line of intrenchments, and the bullets +from the Gatling fell among them here faster than autumn leaves. Colonel +Funston, at the head of his troops, took the fire line of intrenchments +on the left of the track and moved down on the Tagalans, who had +constructed a long line of intrenchments parallel with the railway. They +were beaten back by the Kansas men, but in this charge Colonel Funston +fell, having sustained a slight wound in the arm. During this engagement +General Luna, most renowned of the Filipino chiefs, was wounded in the +arm, and as there was only a light infantry fire, the opinion prevailed +that this was inflicted by Lieutenant Naylor's fast-clicking Gatling +gun. General Wheaton personally praised Lieutenant Naylor for his work +in the Santo Tomas battle, and afterwards in his report recommended him +for meritorious service.</p> + +<p>Over on the right up the Apalit road Captain Wedgewood and Lieutenant +Critchlow were encountering difficulties. The insurgents had constructed +pitfalls in the road. They were thinly covered with a layer of leaves +and earth and the wayward feet of mule and soldier were menaced beneath +with sharp pointed wedges of bamboo. These were discovered early in the +march and no accidents resulted from them. There was some brisk fighting +on this end of the line and the big guns shelled the insurgents on the +opposite side of the river. The whole of the next day was consumed in +transporting the artillery and equipage across the river on a raft +constructed by the engineers, and on May 6th they entered San Fernando.</p> + +<p>This fair city was half destroyed by flames, and when the troops entered +no lingering black warriors could be found. They had all retreated +farther north, following in the general direction of the railway. +Major-General MacArthur's headquarters were established near the center +of that part of the city which was untouched by the flames, and close by +the Utah guns were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> parked. Later one of the big guns was utilized for +outpost duty, a rather remarkable use for artillery. Every night after +the Filipinos had begun to gather again near the city one of the pieces +with a gun crew would go down a sunken road and watch all night with the +farthest outposts of the infantry.</p> + +<p>During this period Major-General Otis had issued an order offering +thirty pesos to every Filipino warrior who would return his rifle to the +American authorities. On May 23rd Major Bell went on an expedition up +the railway track for the purpose of posting up the order, and took with +him two troops of the Fourth Cavalry and a revolving Hotchkiss gun, +manned by Sergeant Emil Johnson and Corporal Hesburg of Battery A and +Private Martin of Battery B. All the men were mounted and the cannon +equipped with a small Filipino horse, so that if necessary a hasty +retreat could be made. They proceeded up the railway track, and notices +were duly and conspicuously left at Bacalor and Quiuag. Just as the +forces reached the outskirts of Santa Rita they were fired on by a large +body of insurgents, who were heavily intrenched around the city. The +revolving cannon was used effectively and Major Bell and his men went +into action five times, but the insurgent attack was too fierce for the +small force and it was obliged to retreat. With a whoop of joy the +Filipinos rose from their trenches in pursuit, cheering loudly as they +came. They followed for five miles through Bacalor, and as far back as +their old intrenchments surrounding San Fernando. The rather meagre +encouragement of having been able to chase a small troop of cavalry +seemed to give the Tagalans at this time an idea that they had the whole +American force in retreat.</p> + +<p>During the night word was brought to General MacArthur that the +Filipinos were preparing to make an attack early the next morning. At +dawn the Montana and Kansas regiments and a platoon under Lieutenant +Naylor went out to meet them. The Filipinos were in force in their old +position to the northwest. The Kansas went through some cornfields on +the left and the Montanas through a sunken road to the right. The +artillery re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span>mained in a concealed position in the center and waited +until the two regiments had moved up on the startled natives from both +flanks. As the insurgents retreated in confusion the big guns played on +the scattered ranks. A large number of the natives were killed during +this clever maneuver and thirty of their rifles were captured.</p> + +<p>The Tagalans when on the warpath are persistent. The next day they +occupied intrenchments farther to the north. They were again driven back +and this time they took up a position towards Mexico and in front of the +Iowa troops.</p> + +<p>During the next few days the Malay hordes came toward San Fernando from +all sides. Eventually their forces completely surrounded the city. +General MacArthur watched their plans, saw them tearing up the earth for +intrenchments and waited. It was apparent that they were preparing to +march with crushing force upon the American troops.</p> + +<p>The cloud burst on June 16th. Just at that time, when the Americans were +not looking for them, the Tagalans descended on the town. Captain Fred +Wheeler was out on a plain drilling a troop of the Fourth United States +Cavalry. It was in the morning and there was a heavy mist. One of +Captain Wheeler's men informed him that he could see the "niggers" +coming. The Captain could see nothing and sent for his glasses, but +before they arrived the long skirmish line of the Tagalans could be seen +emerging like spectres from the mist. Then there was a remarkable +spectacle—the Fourth Cavalry and the Tagalan warriors racing for the +same intrenchments. The cavalrymen arrived first and there the battle +began.</p> + +<p>The natives came in from four sides. The outposts waited in the old +Filipino intrenchments and on some parts of the line the attacked +Tagalans were allowed to approach within 200 yards. Most of the guns, +when the fight began were located close to MacArthur's headquarters, but +they were soon on all parts of the line. When the attack by the +Filipinos began the gun under command of Lieutenant Naylor was on its +way to the outposts. It had been the custom to take the gun there<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> just +before dawn and bring it back immediately after darkness came. The +advancing Filipinos began firing before the gun was in position. +Corporal Hanson was in charge at the time, and the rifle was at once +rushed to the emplacement. Word came at the same hour to Lieutenant +Naylor, who was officer of the outpost, and he went through a heavy fire +down the road leading to the intrenchment. When he arrived there the +Filipinos were within three hundred and fifty yards and were advancing +over the rice ridges at a rapid gait. The Lieutenant had a shell sent +into the approaching insurgents, who seemed astounded to find that the +artillery occupied such an advanced position. When nine shells had been +sent into their line, the Filipinos gradually drew back and were not +seen any more on this part of the line during the fight.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus008.jpg" alt="preparing for an engagement" /> +<a id="illus008" name="illus008"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'>PREPARING FOR AN ENGAGEMENT.</p> + +<p>The Seventeenth and Twenty-second Infantry were the support on this end +of the line, which faced to the north.</p> + +<p>On the west, east and part of the north line were the Kansas and Montana +infantry. It was to this point that the two guns of Lieutenant Gibbs +were moved when the firing began, and here the guns inflicted severe +damage on the islanders. Another gun of Battery B was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> also placed near +this part of the line under Lieutenant Hines, but it was unnecessary +from this position to use the artillery.</p> + +<p>This fight was the first time the American soldiers during the whole +campaign had repulsed an attack from behind intrenchments, and they laid +back and smiled as the black men approached and then passed out some +volleys that made the whole advancing line reel. When the Tagalans began +to retreat under the awakened storm, the Americans followed, and as the +Filipinos recoiled from one regiment they were broken against another. A +company of the Twentieth Infantry located near Santo Tomas was almost +cut off by the advancing column of the enemy, and a company of the +Montana men was sent to its assistance. The fight lasted nearly two +hours and the Filipino loss amounted to several hundred. The only +casualty on the American side was a slight wound received by a Montana +man, which shows clearly what the Americans could do in a contest with a +black man under conditions more or less equal. Colonel Funston stated +afterwards that a shell from one of Lieutenant Gibbs's guns had killed +fifteen Filipinos.</p> + +<p>The burying of dead Filipinos the next day was a tragic sight. +Sixty-four were engulfed in one trench. They were brought up in caribou +carts, and the American pulled them off with ropes and deposited them in +the common grave.</p> + +<p>There was another fight on the 22nd, but the Filipinos seemed to have +lost their dash and courage of a few days before, and on this occasion +the artillery was not called out.</p> + +<p>A few days later word came that the Utah battalion was ordered home, and +on the 24th day of June the Utah men boarded the train for Manila and +were carried away from the smoke of war and the darkly fought +battlefields of the East.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Sergeant John A. Anderson with one gun of Battery B and a rifle of the +Sixth Artillery was in the flying column of General Lawton, who left a +path of ashes around<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> the Pampanga province and finally drove the +insurgents from San Isidro with his detachment on the 21st of March and +arrived on the same day at Bocaue. The order to march came on the 23rd +and the Sergeant was given a position on the left of the Thirteenth +Minnesotas. From the brow of the hill above Norzagaray the guns began +shelling at 1500 yards. The front line was silenced but at this point +the natives made an effort to turn the right flank, and it was necessary +to throw many shrapnel into the advancing insurgents column before it +turned. The next day Norzagaray was entered after the place had been +shelled, and during this slight advance the artillery was in action five +times. Colonel Sommers personally commended the detachment on the +accuracy of its gunnery and its promptness. On the 25th Ongaut was +burned and on the 26th there was an engagement which lasted for some +time below Baliuag. San Maguel was taken on the 4th, and on the 13th a +few shells were thrown into San Isidro, but the insurgents, after +repeated defeats, showed small resistance here and soon retreated.</p> + +<p>On the 24th the artillery arrived with the infantry at Candaba, and the +detachment remained quartered here until the order arrived for the Utah +men to return to Manila. The plan of Lawton's campaign was for his +troops to drive the insurgents towards Candaba, where they could be met +by the advancing forces under Major Kobbe and the river gunboats. But +when General Lawton came down to Candaba there were none but American +soldiers there as the insurgents forces had disappeared in the interior.</p> + +<p>Shortly after the arrival in Malolos the Utah men were joined by +Corporal Dusenbury and two other men of Battery B. They with a revolving +Hotchkiss cannon were picked up by General Wheaton early in his advance +from Caloocan, and were highly praised by the General for the skill and +efficiency they had shown in many dangerous places. General Wheaton +showed his appreciation of the work of the guns by attaching several +regular and Oregon infantrymen to the pieces, in order that they could +be carried over rough places with the greatest possible dispatch.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> + +<p class='center'>THE GUNBOATS.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p> + + +<p>No history of the Utah batteries will be complete without a narrative of +the exploits of the gunboats. While the land forces performed their +duties with great honor and are to be commended in every way possible, +it must be remembered that a portion of the men were fighting on the +water and did work of such a character that they won especial mention +from those in charge when the big guns were hurling death and the +Gatlings were barking fire at the opposing army.</p> + +<p>At first the proposition of building gunboats was not at all popular +with the authorities. Some opposed the scheme on the grounds that it +could not be successfully accomplished with the limited means at hand +and the rivers of Luzon to contend with. However, later developments +attested that those who were the originators of the plan showed greater +wisdom than their opponents.</p> + +<p>Sometime prior to the breaking out of hostilities between the American +forces and the natives General Otis conceived the idea of employing +gunboats on the rivers and lakes for the purpose of opening up lines of +communication between difficult portions of our own lines. The fact that +the rivers were shallow was the one serious objection to the project, +but this difficulty was eliminated by the adoption of light draught +boats. The nature of the country in the vicinity of Manila and the other +towns where the heaviest fighting took place is such that it was +apparent to those who were aware of these conditions that this craft +might be engaged in protecting the advance of the infantry and +artillery; could hold the hostile bands in check until favorable +positions could be taken, and be of wonderful service in the campaign.</p> + +<p>The first vessel to engage in this kind of work was the "Laguna de Bay," +which has made a reputation never to be forgotten so long as the history +of the war in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> Philippines remains familiar to the American mind. +This vessel is doubtless as well known as the "Olympia," the flagship of +gallant Admiral Dewey, and while there are those who fail to recall the +fact that the "Boston" or the "Raleigh" took part in the attack on the +Spanish in the bay of Manila, it is safe to assert that the operation of +the "Laguna de Bay" and her sister craft will ever be fresh in the minds +of those who have made even a casual study of the events which took +place during the campaign carried on by the brave men from the youngest +State in the Republic.</p> + +<p>The "Laguna de Bay," the first converted gunboat, was placed in +commission on January, 1899. She was formerly used by the Spanish as an +excursion boat on the body of water from which she derived her name and +prior to the fall of Manila had been captured by the Filipinos and +turned over to the United States. She was by no means a small craft +considering her environments—shallow rivers and muddy bayous. She was +140 feet in length, 40-foot beam with a draught of four feet. When she +was fitted out it was decided to give her some protection for the men, +so her main deck, the upper deck, the pilot house and the Gatling +battery, were protected by a double sheeting of steel. The many bullet +marks on this light armor demonstrated afterwards the wisdom of this +policy. At this point it may not be out of order to interpolate the fact +that her companion gunboats were similarly protected, which accounts for +the small list of casualties.</p> + +<p>The armament of the gunboat consisted of two three-inch marine guns, two +1.65 Hotchkiss revolving cannon and four Gatlings. At first Lieutenant +R.C. Naylor was in charge of the guns, while Captain Randolph of the +Third United States Artillery commanded the vessel. In addition to the +men from the Utah batteries, several were detailed from the various +regiments to act as sailors, riflemen and cannoneers.</p> + +<p>The boats which were added to the fleet were the "Oeste," the "Napindan" +and the "Cavadonga." The last went into commission on May 6th and was +commanded by Lieutenant William C. Webb. The crews of the vessel<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> were +made up of members of the Utah batteries and men from the Twenty-third +United States Infantry, the First South Dakota Infantry and the Third +United States Battery.</p> + +<p>On the morning of February 5th the "Laguna de Bay" steamed up the Pasig +to the town of Santa Ana while the Nebraska, California and Washington +troops assaulted the enemy from the land. Twenty minutes after the boat +turned her guns upon the town the principal buildings were in flames and +the stricken garrison made all haste toward San Pedro Macati and +Guadaloupe. Next she turned her attention to those portions of the enemy +stationed in Bacoor and Mandaloya. Her forward guns tore great gaps in +the enemy's earthworks and her Gatlings raked the trenches with so +galling a fire that the foe was sent flying towards the woods in the +region of Pasig with the Nebraska Infantry in speedy pursuit. The +following morning the boat passed Santa Ana, where two three-inch Krupp +guns had been captured by the Idaho troops, and reconnoitered the native +position in the woods beyond. Late that afternoon she returned to Manila +and replenished her coal bunkers, when she resumed her old position at +the Nebraska landing.</p> + +<p>March 7th the gunboat again passed Santa Ana and went up as far as +Guadaloupe, where the First California was quartered. General Anderson +came up the river in a launch and a consultation was held as to future +operations. Nothing of moment happened that day, but on the morrow +General King arrived on his way to Pasig for the purpose of demanding +the surrender of the town. He desired the "Laguna de Bay" to await his +return. A vigilant patrol was kept up that evening and during the night +three shots were fired by sentries from the boat. The day following was +uneventful, but on the 10th the "Oeste," which was towing a casco, came +alongside and stated that Colonel Stotsenberg had sent word that the +insurgents were massing west of the camp of the Nebraska regiment.</p> + +<p>It was on the 14th that word was received from Colonel DuBois of the +Idaho regiment to hurry up stream at all speed. This was done and an +effort made to anchor<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> off the mouth of the Pateros, where the infantry +fire was very brisk. Here it was that Lieutenant Harting met his death. +Harting with four men got aboard and the line was dropped when the boat +sank, being swept almost immediately under the gunwale of the "Laguna de +Bay." The three men forward grasped the gunwale and were saved, but the +officer and the fourth man went down stream. Though the Lieutenant was a +good swimmer, no sign of him could be seen. He was heavily laden with +revolver, belt and ammunition. Lieutenant Larson jumped overboard to +rescue him, but was unable to get even a glimpse of him. His body was +found two days later near General Otis's headquarters. The fourth man +escaped by swimming ashore.</p> + +<p>By order of the Commanding General February 16th, Major Grant took +command of the river force and Captain Randolph rejoined his regiment. +The next day an assiduous fire was directed against San Pedro Macati +with telling effect.</p> + +<p>The commanders now decided that in case the forces stationed at +Guadaloupe should be too strongly pressed by the enemy they should fall +back to San Pedro Macati, setting fire to the convent and other +principal buildings as they returned. In this instance the gunboat was +to steam up above Guadaloupe. On Sunday, February 19th, this very thing +was done though the insurgents as yet had made no advance. The soldiers +left the convent after firing it. As the gunboat moved up the stream she +met with a determined resistance. The opposing force repeatedly assailed +her, but her Gatlings finally compelled them to withdraw. An +unsuccessful effort was made to explode a quantity of nitro-glycerine in +the convent by the use of percussion shell. The boat then advanced +nearer the town where it engaged the insurgents on both sides of the +river. Every gun now played upon the enemy's lines. In the course of +twenty minutes twenty-five three-inch shells, 4200 Gatling, 1500 +Krag-Jorgenson and 800 Springfields were expended. This spirited defense +caused the prudent native to withdraw to a country less subject to +leaden bullets, and the boat dropped down stream. In the afternoon +Admiral Dewey visited the "Laguna de<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> Bay" in quest of information, and +while he was securing what he came after a Filipino sharpshooter began +taking pot shots at the Admiral, who, being unprotected, decided he was +far enough inside the enemy's lines and turned back.</p> + +<p>At San Felipe Lieutenant Naylor was sent ashore on the following day to +cut down some trees and burn some huts so the view of the boats' gunners +would not be obstructed, which duty was performed under a straggling +fire.</p> + +<p>Admiral Dewey visited the gunboats on the 21st, stating he would send +two rapid-fire guns for the "Laguna de Bay." That was the object of his +visit, which was short. The same day General King and his staff came +aboard and were taken up the stream. Word was soon afterward received +that the Wyoming battalion was going to advance on the enemy near +Guadaloupe on the left of the river early the following morning but as +the gunboat was not in a position to aid in the expedition she remained +inactive when the firing began the next morning.</p> + +<p>On the day following Lieutenant Naylor again landed with a small force +of men at San Felipe, where he set fire to the buildings and cut down +trees which would have obstructed the view. Nothing occurred until the +night of the 25th, when desultory firing was heard at San Felipe, and +following this matters were unusually quiet until the night of March +1st. That day the insurgents were encountered at San Pedro Macati and +the Gatlings, the three-inch and the 1.65-inch guns were brought into +action. During the firing Sergeant Shea received a slight wound in the +hand. A three-inch gun was disabled in this engagement. Two days later +another conflict took place at the same point resulting in the complete +defeat of the enemy, who was forced from his position after a severe +bombardment.</p> + +<p>The morning of March 4th opened cloudy with "Laguna de Bay" at San +Pedro. A sharp skirmish soon began. The natives held their position for +some time but were finally compelled to give way before the superior +strength of the Americans. Under orders from General Wheaton the gunboat +followed them and directed a dead<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span>ly fire into the woods on both sides +of the river. During the fight, which lasted several hours, the boat was +frequently struck by the bullets of the enemy. It was during this +encounter that Private John Toiza of the Third Artillery laid down his +life. He was shot in the left breast, the bullet passing downward +through his heart, killing him instantly. A shell also lodged in the +1.65-inch gun, disabling it for the time.</p> + +<p>On March 5th Admiral Dewey again came alongside and stated that General +Otis had declared he believed he would keep the gunboats down the stream +if they did not cease fighting so much. Then the Admiral added with +emphasis, "We ought to have three such boats."</p> + +<p>Two days later when Hale's brigade made an advance upon the insurgents +on the left, and the natives were hurried with great speed toward +Mariquina and the San Mateo river, the "Laguna de Bay" again performed +excellent service in flanking them and turning their left wing against +our right.</p> + +<p>Very early on the morning of March 13th the battle of Guadaloupe and +Pasig opened, the attention of the guns on the boat being centered on +Guadaloupe. Meanwhile Wheaton advanced his troops on the right to +Patteros and along the Pasig. The advance to Guadaloupe began along the +river with the gunboat in the vanguard. Two insurgents partially +concealed in the bushes on the banks were taken prisoners and turned +over to the Twenty-third Infantry. Sunken cascos, loaded with rock, were +frequently encountered, but the boat avoided them with only a little +delay. Generals Anderson and Wheaton moved up from the right and the +gunboat started up the stream. Near the Mariquina river they met with a +fierce fire from both sides of the stream but no one on the boat was +injured. Two Filipino launches were noticed but they got away. A casco +was found in which were the clothing of some Filipino officer and men. +The wearers had escaped.</p> + +<p>On the day following there was a brisk engagement at Pasig in which the +town was bombarded with good effect, some thirty of the enemy being +killed, while the remainder were sent flying in all directions.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + +<p>Nothing of interest occurred until Wednesday, March 15th, when a casco +manned by natives was chased down the river. She was overhauled but not +until her crew had jumped overboard and swam ashore. The "Laguna de Bay" +raised a white flag for the purpose of investigating, but the insurgents +instead of recognizing it pivoted a sharp small rim fire upon the boat +which answered with a heavy rain of shell and shrapnel.</p> + +<p>Two days later an expedition, led by the gunboats, headed for Morong on +the opposite side of the lake. Lieutenant Webb with a Gatling and +twenty-four men went ashore to make a reconnoissance. This small +detachment was followed by three infantrymen under Captain Pratt. Upon +the advance of the Americans the enemy retreated quickly across the +plain and disappeared in the shades of the mountains beyond. One +thousand bushels of rice and three cascos were captured at this place +and a letter from General Pilar directing a general advance on Pasig was +also found. But few inhabitants remained in the town and upon +questioning them it was learned that the Filipinos had several large +launches on the Pagsanyan river.</p> + +<p>Major Grant had long been working to interest General Lawton in favor of +an expedition against Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is situated on the eastern +shores of the lake just behind the point of a mountain which juts out +into the water. She is the agricultural center of all the rich land on +the eastern side of the island of Luzon. All the smaller towns of the +surrounding country look up to her. She is the emporium to which all the +farmers and travelers and merchants resort and from which they reap a +bounteous harvest.</p> + +<p>The insurgents had long since seized upon this important place as it +furnished an inexhaustible supply of food for their armies. Besides +being far out of the way and difficult of approach, she became the +military station to which the famished and fatigued insurgents looked +for support and rest. Major Grant early noticed the importance of the +town and thereafter he labored incessantly to bring about its capture by +the Americans. Finally, on the 18th, he succeeded in getting a fleet of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> +gunboats, launches and cascos headed that way. Captain Pratt and +Lieutenant Franklin attempted to make a landing on the shore in front of +the town, but they failed as the water was too shallow. Five miles +farther up the beach they made a profitable landing at the mouth of the +Pagsanyan river. However, as this was blocked with obstructions of +bamboo and rock, no effort was made to sail up the stream until three +days had elapsed. Then the impediment was removed.</p> + +<p>During the time which intervened between the 21st and the 28th little +was done with the exception of attending to some needed repairs on the +boat. On the 28th the gunboat advanced to the south of the Balucan +river, where another delay was caused by the obstructions placed there +by the natives. The country skirting this place was thickly covered with +brush and low trees, very much like bayou. When about a mile and a half +up the stream the enemy opened fire at a range of about 500 yards, which +was returned by the guns on the boat. The fire was heavy and the +insurgents evidently concluded that they were too close for comfort, for +their fire slackened materially in a very short time. The "Laguna de +Bay" and the "Napindan" then came down the stream. As the latter started +to follow the larger boat the pilot was hit in the hand by a bullet and +before he could recover himself the little craft had run aground. When +the "Laguna de Bay" went to her assistance she also struck a bar and was +held fast. The boats were compelled to remain here under fire until the +tide came in and floated them off.</p> + +<p>The work of the gunboats was without extraordinary interest until April +8th. On that day the fleet steamed up Pasig with twenty cascos and seven +launches in tow. One thousand five hundred men, with two days' rations, +two light artillery guns and necessary horses, composed the expedition, +which was commanded by General Lawton. Among the troops were detachments +from the Fourth United States Cavalry, the Fourteenth United States +Infantry, the North Dakota, Idaho and Washington volunteers, the Sixth +Artillery and the Signal Corps. This force reached Jalajala on the 9th<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span> +and then awaited the arrival of the entire fleet. The place of +advancement and attack—Santa Cruz—was mapped out and then the fleet +steamed ahead. About five miles from Santa Cruz the "Napindan" ran into +a point close to the shore and opened fire. Here the works were +silenced, after which the troops landed. Under cover of the guns of the +"Oeste" other men also disembarked. With Lawton aboard, the "Laguna de +Bay" advanced toward the town approaching to within 300 yards of the +shore. Some troops in cascos were put ashore. After a survey of the +situation the boats went out into deep water and advanced from the +right, while the troops encamped to the west of the town.</p> + +<p>The next day a general advance began at daylight. The American forces +came up to the enemy's position and opened fire. This was a signal for +action on the part of the boats and after moving in closer they opened a +heavy fire on the insurgent works. The troops placed south and west +under General Lawton drove the natives northward while those posted +along the shore of the river, aided by the guns on the boats, did +considerable damage. Large bodies of the natives broke for a place of +safety and while attempting to escape through a marshy open field many +of them were killed. Shells actually mowed them down in heaps. By this +time the lines of the infantry had been completely formed for an advance +and the gunboats ceased their work. Shortly afterward our forces took +possession of the town, and a message was received from Lawton saying he +had established his headquarters in the church.</p> + +<p>On the 11th the boats steamed up the lake and ran close to the shore +near the mouth of the Pagsanyan river, where they opened fire on the +town of Lumbaog, toward which the land forces were advancing. This fire +was kept up until the infantry reached the place and took it. A message +was received from General Lawton to the effect that he had captured the +town of Pagsanyan; also that six launches had been captured there and +were at the town. The "Cavadonga" at this time sailed up and relieved +the "Oeste." The guns were on the hills north of Orani and after a time +the infantry took posses<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span>sion, for a flag from the church tower called +for a boat to be sent to that place. The "Laguna de Bay" responded, went +up the river and shelled Paite and Sinilaon until darkness ended her +usefulness for that day. The troops had in the meantime checked the +native advance and camped at Paite.</p> + +<p>From this time until May 7th little was done by the boats. A greater +part of the time was spent in making necessary repairs. On the last +mentioned date a Macabebe named Soteros Gatdula reported for duty as +pilot, and under his direction the fleet steamed across the bay to the +mouth of the Rio Grande. Passing up this stream the boats shelled the +towns of Guagua and Sexmoan. At the former place a fire had been started +and a launch in the river was observed to be in flames. A party was sent +out to try to save this craft, but she proved to be of little value and +the attempt was abandoned. Two Spaniards claiming to have been held as +prisoners by the natives, and a Filipino suspect were taken aboard.</p> + +<p>It was decided early in May to make an effort to pierce the waters of +the Rio Grande de Pampanga, which leads to Calumpit and beyond far into +the heart of the enemy's country. The first efforts to search out the +channel were made by the "Cavadonga" on May 9th. Soteros Gatdula, a +Macabebe pilot, was directed by General Otis to undertake the task and +the "Cavadonga" started on the cruise into the unknown waters early in +the morning. Near the mouth of the river the boat suddenly went aground, +and when the tide rose, and early in the day the boat was joined by the +"Laguna de Bay." The channel was then located by the Macabebe and there +was no further difficulty in forcing a passage up the wide waters of the +river, the largest on Luzon Island. For a long distance up the river the +territory is occupied by the Macabebes, the ancient and traditional +enemies of the Tagalan race. A large crowd of these friendly natives was +on the shores of the river as the boats passed up and they filled the +air with cheers and cries of "Viva los Americanos," which the soldiers +replied to in variegated and wonderfully woven Filipino phrases. One +obstruction was met in the river consisting of cocoanut poles,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> but the +Macabebes assisted in removing these from the path of the boats. Without +having fired a shot, early in the afternoon the boats arrived at +Calumpit, where troops of the infantry were stationed.</p> + +<p>On May 14th the "Cavadonga" was sent out on a reconnoitering expedition +up the river. On the way up Sexmoan and Apilit were passed, and it was +observed that all the natives fled from the river as soon as the gunboat +approached. The country is heavily timbered on both sides of the river, +and there was no evidence of a hostile attitude on the part of the +natives until the boat swung round the curve leading to San Luiz. Almost +through the entire distance the shores were lined with Filipino +intrenchments, but it was discovered that these were unoccupied. +Lieutenant Webb was out on the bow capstan, entirely unsheltered by the +meagre 3-16-inch armor with which the craft was encased. Just as a curve +was rounded in front of San Luiz a long line of straw hats and the bores +of fifty rifles were seen facing the boat from the port side, no more +than fifty yards away. Lieutenant Webb was scanning the opposite shore +with his glasses, when the lookout discovered the enemy on the port +side. Sergeant Ford Fisher called out a sudden warning to the Lieutenant +and reached out towards him. Just then the volley came. Fisher reeled +backward with a bullet piercing his brain. Instantly the bow one-pounder +and the Gatling gun on the port side tore the Filipino intrenchments. +Bullets pelted fast against the slight armor of the cruiser. Fred +Mitchell, one of the men at the Gatling gun, was wounded in the hand. +The "Cavadonga" turned round almost where it stood and slowly moved +back, and during a wonderful skirmish in which the native and American +frequently fired in each other's faces at a range of twenty yards, raked +the Filipino works with the fast-firing machine guns. The fighting only +lasted thirty minutes.</p> + +<p>When it was over Ford Fisher, who was still breathing, was placed on +board the "Oceania," which had remained about two hundred yards in the +rear during the fighting, and almost at the moment he was laid on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span> +craft he expired. The "Oceania" sped quickly down the river with the +dead body of the Sergeant, but frequently the "Cavadonga" stopped to +suppress the desultory fire from the natives who had fled during the +early part of the action. It was learned afterwards from the "padre" at +San Luiz that fifty insurgents had been killed during the engagement, +and when the Utah men arrived there a few days later a long line of new +graves in the walled cemetery told a tragic story of the ending of the +fight.</p> + +<p>On the evening of this day the Seventeenth Regular Infantry and a +battalion of the Ninth Infantry advanced up the Rio Grande from Calumpit +over the old Apilit road under the leadership of Major Kobbe of the +Third United States Artillery. Early the next morning the "Laguna de +Bay" and "Cavadonga" started up the river and most of the way kept +within view of the troops on the shore. Occasionally the gunboats moved +ahead and daring scouts could be seen calmly looking into vacated +Filipino intrenchments. The enemy was encountered several times along +the shore as far as San Luiz and all intrenchments were bombarded by the +"Laguna de Bay" some distance to prevent a repetition of the disastrous +surprise of the day before. When San Luiz was neared white flags could +be seen floating everywhere, and on arriving there it was discovered +that the whole body of insurgents had disappeared into the interior. The +boats remained at this position during the night, and early the next +morning resumed the advance ahead of the infantry up the waters of the +Pampanga. During this journey large numbers of Filipinos were met in +cascos with their families and all their earthly possessions, making +their way down the stream. About noon the boats reached Candaba without +a hostile shot having been fired during the whole day. Here Major Grant +was met by the Mayor of the city, who stated that he had forced the +soldiers to evacuate in order to prevent the bombardment of the town and +the subsequent loss of life among the people of whom he was guardian. An +evidence of the hasty departure of the natives was found upon entering +the town, for a guard list giving the names of the officers and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> +enlisted men of the guard was found posted on the walls of the town +hall.</p> + +<p>This ended the fighting record of the gunboats under a Utah commander. +From this period until June 24th the boats were utilized in carrying +supplies and towing soldiers, laden cascos and wounded men up and down +the Pampanga. On May 24th the rebel commissioners, General Gregoria del +Pilar and Colonel Actia, who had gone to Manila to negotiate peace with +General Otis after the crushing defeat of the insurgents at Calumpit, +were taken on the gunboats and conveyed as far as Candaba. They had +expressed a wish to go by way of the gunboats, as they had no desire to +cross the insurgents' lines at San Fernando because General Luna was in +command at that place and there was strife between the two Generals. +Pilar showed great interest in the armament of the "Laguna" and said he +would give all his wealth for one of the three-inch guns. The "Oceania" +was sent ahead with instructions to all the commanding officers to make +as large a display as possible. At San Luiz the instructions were not +complied with and as the "Laguna" passed one officer and four men were +falling in for guard. General Gregoria smiled. Farther up the river the +case was different. Where they were in the habit of posting but one +guard there was an officer and twenty men. This was repeated at all the +other stations until Candaba was reached. General Gregoria's smile had +faded, and he remarked that the Americans kept the country better +patrolled than he had imagined. The General and Colonel were landed at +Candaba and under an escort of Americans disappeared in the distant +green line of woods.</p> + +<p>On May 24th it was known among all the Utah men that their days of +fighting were over, and on this date Major Grant was relieved of his +command of the river boat fleet. And so ended, for Utah, the career of +these wonderful ironclad river machines.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> + +<p class='center'>THE HOME COMING.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p> + + +<p>While the fighting Utah batterymen were still living in the nipa huts at +San Fernando and Baliaug and repelling the attacks of the dusky Tagalan +braves at Candaba and Morong from General Otis an order came to the +Cuartel. It had an unpretentious look—that slip of paper; but it +carried a message of great importance to the belligerent Utahn than any +he had received since the thunders of war shook the earth on the night +of February 4th. It told the artilleryman to gather all his portable +utensils and board the United States transport "Hancock," which lay idly +in the bay waiting orders to weigh anchor and steam for America.</p> + +<p>Almost a week passed before the scattered batteries were assembled +within the familiar walls of the Cuartel. The main body at San Fernando +turned over its guns to the famous Third Artillery and arrived safely at +the quarters over the Manila and Dagupan railroad; Lieutenant Seaman's +detachment at Baliaug dropped its war machinery and made all possible +speed to Manila; Lieutenant Webb's detail on the "Cavadonga" for the +first time turned its back on the enemy and fled for the protecting +walls of the barracks. When these battle-begrimed veterans reached the +quarters there was such a demonstration as the old walls had never seen +before. The old scenes of order disappeared, the rigors of discipline +were relaxed, and chaos reigned. Everything was made subservient to the +one all-absorbing topic, "Home." The sturdy soldier doffed his war +attire and donned his peaceful garb. The renowned Utah band paraded the +streets in holiday dress and, with the blare of brass, proclaimed the +happy news to the nut-brown maid. The stalwart warriors danced and sang +to the music of that soul-lifting song, "A Hot Time in the Old Town +Tonight." The jubilant battle hero collected his ordnance and other war +trap<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span>pings and handed them over to the ordnance officer while he +exchanged looks of mutual doubt and suspicion with that important +personage. The weary and worn Utahn bade adieu to the dreamy-eyed damsel +of the East with many expressions of fond attachment and love; then +mustered his heterogeneous troop of relics and curiosities and joined +the Nebraska regiment on the "Hancock." Two days later the officers +steamed over from the gay apartments of the "Baltimore" in a brightly +decorated launch and walked aboard the big boat. Finally a goodly supply +of canned beef and antiquated swine were hoisted on the vessel and the +Captain gave orders for the sailing flag to be put to the breeze. This +was on July 1st.</p> + +<p>When the official contingent was safely housed in spacious staterooms it +was learned that quite a change had taken place in the roster of that +worthy body. The shoulders of Captain Grant were adorned with the gold +leaf of a Major; Lieutenant Critchlow had been elevated to a Captaincy; +Lieutenant Naylor wore the single bar of a First Lieutenant, and First +Sergeant John A. Anderson of Battery B shone in the glowing uniform of a +Second Lieutenant. Major Young sent a letter bidding farewell to the +Utahns and expressing his disappointment at not being able to accompany +the batteries home.</p> + +<p>The batteryman entertained no high opinion of the Government transport. +He had become acquainted with the luxuries which Uncle Sam provides the +defenders of his broad acres. He had already learned how elaborately the +American Government furnishes apartments for its soldiers and food for +its larder. So, after he had landed safely on the main deck and +deposited his knapsack and monkeys, he was not surprised when the order +came for him to take his goods and chattels and repair to the forward +hold. He entered the gangway and descended four flights of stairs +without any misgiving or hesitation. He threaded his way through the +labyrinthian passage of his subaqueous home with a skill equal to that +displayed by the blind fish of the Mammoth Cave. He beheld the +wonderfully constructed bunks which glowed specter-like in the +semi-darkness without evincing the least disappointment. Later when one +of these had been assigned as his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> sole property during the voyage he +accepted it and its diminutive proportions without a murmur and +philosophically concluded that the Government either thought he had +diminished in stature while on the islands or intended to reduce his +dimensions on the way home. Thus the Utah warrior was quartered. The +celerity with which he adapted himself to his environments clearly +exhibited his excellent training. He quickly disposed of the problem of +how to shorten his linear measurements to four feet eight inches by +placing himself diagonally across his bed. The posture thus assumed was +not unlike that of a "Skeleton in Armor." When his joints became cramped +he straightened himself out by throwing his soles against the head of +his neighbor, who instantly developed a remarkable vocabulary of +explosives anent Hades, Paradise, Satan, etc.</p> + +<p>Mess time on the "Hancock" was not an occasion of the greatest felicity +to the returning volunteers. Their epicurean tastes could not totally +harmonize with bogus coffee and cows that had a flavor strangely akin to +that of horse flesh. When the bugle shrilly proclaimed the dinner hour +the men formed in a long serpentine line and displayed their skill in +keeping their equilibrium and at the same time holding their place in +the procession. The rattle of Government tinware, upon which the soldier +had inscribed many strange hieroglyphics descriptive of his adventures, +served as a musical entertainment in lieu of the melody furnished at all +other times by the combined efforts of the Utah and Nebraska bands. They +facetiously derided the commissary sergeant who had long since become +calloused to all sneering remarks made by the ordinary defender of the +flag; for in case of any exceedingly hostile demonstration he was armed +with a long cleaver and several carefully concealed bolos. They made +comments, too, not at all flattering to the bill of fare, about "gold +fish" and "slum-gullion" and ancient swine, but they "wasted their venom +on a file." The cooks, also, came in for a share of the complimentary +criticisms, for they were not blessed with a superabundance of skill in +the culinary art. Occasionally the voice of a volunteer was raised in +loud-mouthed protest over<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> the meagerness of his own supply of food and +the apparent excessiveness which adorned the plate of his associate. +This always ended in a peculiar panegyric on the merits of a person who +had a "stand in" or a "pull" with the officers. When the ravenous Utahn +was handed his cheer the bestower very kindly warned him not to taste or +smell the victuals, as such an act would be attendant with serious +injury to his appetite; so he merely devoured the contents of his plate +with his eyes and passed them on to his gastronomical organs with no +further ceremony.</p> + +<p>A small portion of the forward deck was allotted to the batteries to be +used as a messhall, lounging apartment, etc. It was here the +battle-scarred veterans collected at meal times and dispatched their +slender store. As the Pacific is not always so peaceful as its name, +this pleasing task was not at all times accomplished with ease. When on +a boat tipped to an angle of 60 degrees, a Japanese juggler would find +some difficulty in conjuring his body to remain in an upright position +and simultaneously inducing a seething plate of soup to abide in a +placid state; yet the uninitiated volunteers contrived to perform this +daring feat three times a day. The many strange figures which they +described in their endeavors to execute these occult tricks would have +done justice to the most skillful acrobat. Frequently, as the vessel +gave an extra lurch, the insecure warrior proceeded with all possible +speed to the side of the boat and deposited his food and eating utensils +on the surface of the sad sea waves amid the execrations of those whom +he had the good fortune to come in contact with on his hasty trip and +the jibes of his appreciative audience. At this same place the +mendacious batterymen gathered in the warm afternoons to tell sea +serpent legends and fairy stories about some great event which had never +happened in the trenches. When this supply had been exhausted they began +forthwith to dilate upon the virtues of the most famous officers until +those worthies would have been unable to recognize their own characters +had they been confronted with them in their garnished garb. Once in a +very great while an officer strolled down from the aristocratic +atmosphere of the saloon dining hall and watched<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> the feeding of the +enlisted drove with a superior grace. To convince the famished soldiers +that they were getting a redundant quantity of food, he sometimes called +for a [text missing in original.] There was always a good heap of hash +left to show the astonished men that they were merely chronic kickers. +Then the well-fed comedian adjourned to his spacious saloon and offered +an apology to his offended stomach by supplying it with an abundance of +all that the steamer carried.</p> + +<p>The one great comfort to the fagging spirits of the Utahn was the +battery fund. Through the darkest days of war his dying hopes were +revived by visions of what the future held in store for him by the aid +of this phantom. It was to the despairing volunteer what mirage is to +the thirsty traveler of the desert. The fund represented the combined +contributions of the soldiers, benevolent persons and charitable +institutions. Besides this a fabulous sum was added by the artillery +canteen which exchanged beer for the Utes' money and, in addition to +what it contributed towards the battery fund, provided turkeys and +succotash for the Thanksgiving and Christmas banquets. When it was +announced that this enormous sum was to be expended for dainties on the +way home the joy of the batteryman knew no limits. Spectre dinners of +mutton, cakes and pies arose in his mind with a suddenness that would +have startled the most ardent disbeliever in ghosts. Without the aid of +Pluto he called up all the spirits of meals long dead and fed on them +till the marvelous distribution should take place. And it was not long +in coming. One morning, accompanied by the stentorian voice of the bugle +Judge Williams, heavily laden with a huge cargo of jam, hove in sight. +Then were many whispered comments made about the quantity which each man +was to receive. The Judge soon stopped this and shortly after there was +a hum of satisfaction all along the deck as the men made way with this +delicacy. Now the gastronomy of the warrior lived and flourished under +the rigors of army hardtack and navy beans, but it collapsed at once +when introduced to Jamesson's jam. There was a sudden epidemic of cramps +throughout the entire organization, but the ever victorious commissary<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> +sergeant soon stamped this out by the judicious application of some +French mustard, which had been purchased by the battery fund. And thus +the men of Utah were fed.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile the swift "Hancock" steamed out of Manila bay and speeded +toward Japan. Two days out she passed the beautiful Island of Formosa, +and in three days more the vessel came in sight of Nagasaki, the leading +coaling station of the Flowery Kingdom. Just at dusk the pilot boarded +the vessel and directed her safely through the narrow channel into the +land-locked harbor. Next morning all the soldiers were given shore leave +for the day and San-pans—the native craft—were provided to take the +men ashore. Here the Utahn explored the country in the jin-rickisha—a +two-wheeled vehicle which is drawn by the cabby himself, who as soon as +he has settled to his satisfaction the price to be paid, ambles off at a +gentle speed. If the Island of Kiusiu appeared beautiful as the boat +approached it in the waning twilight it seemed doubly so in the glory of +the morning sun. It is a land where poetry breathes as freely as the +gentle zephyrs blow from the summit of Mount Olympus; it is a land where +women are as fair as the daughters of Niobe. The pretty terraced hills +adorned with Pagan temples are rich in the odor of the spice and pine; +the pellucid lakes and bays gather a silver purity from the very crest +of the mountain; and as one gazes upon this beauty and simple grandeur +he imagines that it was just such influences as these that stirred the +soul of Hellas when she pictured Aphrodite springing out of the sea or +Neptune riding in his chariot of shells with a gay company of Tritons +and Nymphs. Three days, owing to a raging typhoon, the vessel was +delayed in coaling, but after the storm had spent its force the coaling +was resumed and the transport put to sea. On the 11th the ships arrived +at Muji, the key to the southern end of the inland sea. Here Japan's +military power is fully shown. Huge guns bristle from every hill, dark +warships stud the clear waters of the ocean and soldiers deck the peaks. +The sharp green cliffs in the inland sea chop off into the water and +from every one of these of any importance a cannon menacingly points. +Both entrances to the place are controlled by powerful<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> fortresses which +command the open sea for a distance of twelve miles. In such a way has +the Mikado prepared for any war emergency. Two days after sighting Muji +the "Hancock" dropped anchor in the harbor of Yokahama. The visit here +lasted three days, during which the Utahns took a trip to Tokio and saw +of what the outside wall of the Emperor's palace is composed. At +Yokahama the batterymen spent the time in visiting the European portion +of the town and learning all they could about the flavor of the Japanese +foods. On the 16th the vessel lifted her ponderous anchor and pointed +her prow eastward.</p> + +<p>The only exciting incident during the entire voyage happened at +Nagasaki, when the first officer attempted to use corporal punishment on +the ship's quartermaster who had been ashore and in addition to getting +drunk had succeeded in breaking his kneepan. While he was getting his +wound attended to in the ship's hospital the big burly mate descended +the gangway and struck him a violent blow in the face. Not content with +this brutal treatment the monster had the poor wretch placed in irons +and dragged up the ship's ladder. Just as this procession landed on the +upper deck the soldiers rose unto a man and stopped the performance amid +cries of "throw him overboard." Surprised and astounded at this +interference the worthy officer demanded of the mob if they knew they +were mutinying. To which several of the leaders answered they knew not +under what legal nomenclature such a demonstration could be classed but +that they would carry out their threat to the letter if the castigation +should proceed. At this the cowed dignitary retreated in haste to the +security of his cabin.</p> + +<p>The "Hancock" was generally regarded as a fast boat. This may have been +true twenty years before the Nebraskans and Utahns boarded her, but +there were those who doubted the truth of such an assertion. During her +infancy on the Atlantic the boat had struck an iceberg and succeeded in +breaking forty feet off her bow. Since then she has been subject to +periodical disturbances in her interior, consequently her owners +patiently awaited the advent of war, knowing that the United States +Government would purchase her for the transport service<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span> at an early +opportunity. It is needless to say she eventually found her way into the +Pacific. On leaving Manila it was the intention of the "Hancock" to +break her own record of eighteen days between San Francisco and that +port. Her new record of thirty days had not yet been announced in the +newspapers. As a matter of fact she did happen to break her machinery +and delay the expedition six hours, causing a break in the fond hopes +which the soldiers had built up.</p> + +<p>There was one death during the trip over, Richard Ralph of Battery B, +who died at Nagasaki of typhoid fever on the 15th of July. Corporal +George Williams of the same organization was also left at the same point +owing to a severe attack of the dysentery. Both men were Englishmen and +had enlisted at Eureka. Otherwise the health of the batteries was good.</p> + +<p>The big prow of the "Hancock" loomed up darkly on the night of the 29th +in San Francisco harbor and rested at anchor. The long sea journey was +over. Until very late that night, long after taps had sounded sharply +over the waters of the harbor, the soldiers clustered around the deck of +the ship, heard the megaphone dialogues between the newspaper tugs and +the transport, and looked with longing eyes and hearts that beat with +joy at the gleaming lights of San Francisco.</p> + +<p>Many friends from Utah arrived on tugs during the next day, when the +transport was still in quarantine, and there was a generous greeting +when the transport moved up to the dock on the morning of the 30th. The +whole of this day was spent by the soldiers in exchanging greeting with +friends and in preparing their property for transportation to the +Presidio.</p> + +<p>It was on the morning of the 31st that the soldiers were permitted for +the first time to descend from the transport and walk again, after +sixteen months of absence in the Orient, upon the shores of the United +States.</p> + +<p>The battalions marched up the streets of San Francisco behind the +veterans of the Nebraska regiment, the center of a tremendous +demonstration. At the Presidio they were given quarters on the slopes to +the left of the Presidio road. The patriotic sentiments and generous<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span> +feelings of the citizens had been further shown, as the slopes of the +hills were lined with large Sibley tents, each equipped with a stove as +protection from the chilly mists that creep up by night from the bay. +There were also frame buildings for use as offices and a large kitchen +and mess room, commodiously and thoroughly equipped for comfort and +convenience.</p> + +<p>The citizens of Utah in the meantime had been active in preparations for +receiving the native warriors. On August 8th, Adjutant-General Charles +S. Burton and Colonel Bruback, members of the Governor's staff, and +representing the citizens' committee, arrived at the Presidio and used +every effort in providing for the further comfort of the men and +arranging for their early departure to their homes in Utah. It was +learned that a special train had been chartered by the citizens to +convey the volunteers to Utah, and to the fund necessary for this +purpose Collis P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific had contributed +$2500.</p> + +<p>The date for the muster out of the Utah troops was fixed by the +headquarters of the Department of California as August 16th, and +notwithstanding the efforts of General Burton and Major Grant to have +this time extended, General Shafter was unable to give an extension of +time. This left but a short period for the immense labor of closing the +affairs of the battery and the intricate details of the muster out. The +Captains of the batteries and a large clerical force were kept working +almost continuously from the day of the arrival at the Presidio, and +late on the night of the 15th they had the gratification, after toilsome +days and sleepless nights, of putting the final touch to the muster out +rolls. The next morning the rolls went to the paymaster. The labors of +the Utah volunteers in the army of the Republic were over.</p> + +<p>Some time before this, on August 5th, the men passed the final physical +examination, and the general condition of the command was found to be +extraordinarily good. Then the men were ready for the last function of +muster out.</p> + +<p>The next day the paymaster's wagon rattled up the Presidio slope. Then +the soldiers performed the last act<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> of their soldier career. One by one +they marched into the small official frame building where the paymaster +fingered his gold. As the veterans came out, each hand laden with gold, +there was upon each face an iridescent smile, not only because of the +augmented wealth, but for the reason that each one knew that for him the +last bugle call had sounded, that his breast would no longer swell under +the blue of the United States uniform. In two hours the soldiers had all +left the Presidio, officers were shaking hands with the men over the +bridged chasm of official dignity, and up on the slope of the Presidio +the Sibley tents were ransacked and deserted.</p> + +<p>That night the men of Utah slept in the hotels of San Francisco and +dreamed of the morrow.</p> + +<p>On the night of the 16th the transport "Warren" arrived, bearing among +its passengers Major Richard W. Young, late chieftain of the batteries, +who had come, much to the satisfaction of the men, in time to join his +old war comrades in the homegoing.</p> + +<p>The ferry which was to carry the soldiers to Oakland was ready before +noon on the 17th, and early in the afternoon the engine of the special +train gave a few premonitory puffs and the train full of returning +warriors was moving towards Utah. The cars consisted of tourist sleepers +for the men and a buffet Pullman for the officers and their friends. +Across the center car a streamer stretched, bearing the words, "The Utah +Batteries."</p> + +<p>Crowds gather at all the stations on the route and cheer the warriors. +There was some delay, but nothing of special import occurred during the +trip.</p> + +<p>Early on the 19th the soldiers were able to see for the first time the +towering blue mountains of Utah and the splendor of her sunshine. It was +nearly noon when the train drew up at the Ogden station, and the +soldiers looked out over the heads of a cheering multitude and listened +to shrill whistles signalling a joyous welcome. The reception here only +lasted an hour, but was cordial in the extreme, and out on the Ogden +park a tempting lunch was served by fair women of Ogden. Lieutenant +George A. Seaman, formerly of Ogden, was given an ovation as he stepped +down from the platform of the car. A<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> special car conveying the Governor +and a large party met the volunteers.</p> + +<p>Two hours later the jubilation was complete. The volunteers saw at first +a crowd and then a throng. They saw flaming streamers, flags fluttering +and hats waving; they heard the diaphanous shriek of the steam whistles, +the blaring of bands and the din of thousands cheering—all mingled in +one chorus of praise and rejoicing. There were hurried handshakes and +greetings and policemen's voices raised in fierce altercation with the +crowd.</p> + +<p>Soon with the cavalrymen and the engineers and the national guardsmen +the batterymen had struggled into line. Horses were in waiting at the +station for the officers and all were mounted in the parade. When the +order to march could be heard through the tumult, the procession moved +through a gayly decked arch at the station, and Majors Young and Grant +rode side by side at the head of the battalion.</p> + +<p>The crowd became more dense as the march continued towards Main street, +and as far as Liberty Park thousands thronged the avenues. Excited +relatives made a military formation impossible by rushing into the ranks +to grasp the hand of a veteran.</p> + +<p>At the Park the day's ceremonies were held. There were speeches by the +Governor and the two Majors, and here the silver medals which the +Legislature decided should be presented to the fighting sons of the +State were awarded. With the conclusion of the formal exercises, the +volunteers were led to an elaborately prepared lunch on beflowered +tables beneath the shadows of the locust trees, and while refreshments +were being taken fair maidens who ministered at the feast pinned badges +on the breasts of the modest volunteers.</p> + +<p>That night the celebration reached its full blazonry. The city glowed +and sparkled; gayly-bedecked, her flaunting colors were aurioled in the +lustres of the night; like an imperial palace, awaiting the return of +victorious princes, the lights gleamed and burned into the darkness; and +in the center a luminous monument, glowing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> like the smile of an +archangel, stood in vivid brightness the arch of triumph.</p> + +<p>When the men of Utah batteries passed out into the darkness that night +from the dazzle of color they knew that the glamor of the victorious +home-coming, the shouts and the jubilation were over. Yet there was +peace in their hearts and on their breast was a badge of honor from a +grateful people. And when they slept that night there were in their +dreams no spectral visions of distant battlefields. All that was +closed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><span class="smcap">Officers of the Batteries.</span></h2> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link3'></a>MAJOR RICHARD W. YOUNG.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus009.jpg" alt="Major Young" /> +<a id="illus009" name="illus009"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> MAJOR RICHARD W. YOUNG.</p> + +<p>Major Richard W. Young, who left Utah as the ranking officer of the two +batteries, being at that time Captain of Battery A, and who was +afterward appointed Major commanding the battalion and still later +selected as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Manila, is a +native of this State, having been born April 19, 1858, his parents being +Joseph A. Young (deceased), a son of the late Brigham Young, President +of the Mormon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span> Church, and Margaret Whitehead Young, who still survives +her husband.</p> + +<p>Major Young is a trained military man, having been educated at the +military academy at West Point. For a time after his graduation he was a +member of the staff of Major-General Hancock, at that time commanding +the Department of the East. Later he acted as Judge-Advocate in the army +and conducted the Swaim court-martial, which was a case celebrated at +that time. He was then transferred to the Third Artillery and stationed +here with his battery at Fort Douglas. He resigned the service to take +up the practice of law, which he engaged in until he was selected as +manager of the Herald, a place which he filled acceptably for some time, +when he again resigned to practice law.</p> + +<p>At the outbreak of the war with Spain he tendered his services to the +Government and was later selected by the Governor of Utah to command +Battery A. At Camp Kent he was the ranking officer and had entire charge +of its affairs.</p> + +<p>His services in the Philippines were of such a distinguished character +that he was breveted Major by the President and later promoted to the +complete rank.</p> + +<p>When the batteries' term of service was nearly completed, he was +designated by Major-General Otis as Associate Justice of the Supreme +Court of Manila and came home with the volunteers to enjoy a vacation.</p> + +<p>Major Young is the author of a standard work on military law written +while he was a Lieutenant in the regular army. He is an able young man +and one well liked and respected. He is exceedingly popular here in this +city and State and outside of it.</p> + +<p>His married life has been very happy. Eight children have been born to +him and Mrs. Young, seven of whom are living.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link4'></a>MAJOR FRANK A. GRANT.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus010.jpg" alt="Major Grant" /> +<a id="illus010" name="illus010"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> MAJOR FRANK A. GRANT.</p> + +<p>Frank A. Grant, who went away from Salt Lake City with the bars of a +Captain, came home with the gold leaves of a Major in his shoulder +strap. He is not a native of this State, but was born in Kingston, +Ontario,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span> forty-four years ago. He received his education at the +military college of his native city and graduated therefrom. After +leaving school he came to the United States, where he became a citizen, +and settling at Detroit was engaged by one of the large steamship +companies in the capacity of pilot. He was a well trained man in his +business and followed the occupation for a period of ten years. He has +lived in Utah for ten years. During that time he was engaged in real +estate and insurance business, in both of which he made great successes.</p> + +<p>At the time of the breaking out of hostilities he was a member of the +National Guard of Utah, being Colonel of the First Infantry. Previous to +this time he had held a position as staff officer on the brigade +commander's staff, and was always a valuable man in military matters. It +was due principally to his efforts that Troop C was organized in this +city and made a success.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span></p> + +<p>Governor Wells commissioned him as Captain of Battery B, and with that +rank he went into the field. Like Major Young he was breveted by the +President for distinguished service and later was promoted to the full +rank of Major, coming home in command of the battalion.</p> + +<p>As commander of the river fleet Major Grant performed excellent service, +his expedition up the Rio Grande de Pampanga being especially well +carried out. Since his return he has gone into his old business—that of +insurance—and expresses himself as having had enough of military life. +He is married and has six children.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link5'></a>CAPTAIN E.A. WEDGEWOOD.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus011.jpg" alt="Captain Wedgewood" /> +<a id="illus011" name="illus011"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> CAPTAIN E.A. WEDGEWOOD.</p> + +<p>Captain E.A. Wedgewood, who was promoted to the command of Battery A +after the promotion of Major Young, left the State as First Lieutenant +of Battery B. He is a native of Massachusetts, about forty years of age +and an attorney-at-law, being the junior partner of the firm of Rawlins, +Thurman, Hurd & Wedgewood. Immediately prior to his coming to Utah he +had served as Sheriff for several terms in the State of Nebraska. He +selected Provo for his home on coming to Utah and after entering the law +office of George Sutherland in that city and being admitted to the bar, +associated himself with Hon. S.R. Thurman. Later on the present firm was +formed.</p> + +<p>Captain Wedgewood was the officer sent back from San Francisco to Utah +to recruit 104 men in order to bring the batteries to their full +strength. Upon returning to San Francisco the party embarked and joined +the commands in Manila.</p> + +<p>Captain Wedgewood was a member of the National Guard prior to the time +of his enlistment, being Captain of the Provo company at the State +encampment the year previous. He is said to be a most versatile +character and can do anything from playing the violin to patching a sail +or pleading a case in court. It was expected he would rejoin the +National Guard, but it is learned he has<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span> had enough of military honors +and will engage in the practice of his profession with a view to reaping +shekels for use in his old age.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link6'></a>CAPTAIN JOHN F. CRITCHLOW.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus012.jpg" alt="Captain Critchlow" /> +<a id="illus012" name="illus012"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'>CAPTAIN JOHN F. CRITCHLOW.</p> + +<p>Captain John F. Critchlow left the State with the batteries a Second +Lieutenant. He came back here leading Battery B. His promotion was due +to distinguished service performed while abroad. He was specially +recommended for gallantry by Major Young and for coolness on the field +under circumstances of the most trying character.</p> + +<p>Captain Critchlow was born in Tonawanda, N.Y., in 1867, and is only 32 +years of age. He attended the Rochester University and after graduating +from that institution went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he +studied medicine for several years, graduating in 1894 with the degree +of M.D. For the next year and a half he was in the German hospital at +Philadelphia,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> where he was enabled to obtain a practical insight into +the mysteries of materia medica, and upon leaving there he came to this +city, where his brother, E.B. Critchlow, a prominent attorney, was +already established in business.</p> + +<p>Dr. Critchlow became a member of the National Guard some time after his +arrival, being attached to the medical staff with the rank of First +Lieutenant. He proved to be a valuable and efficient member, always on +the alert and endeared himself to all his associates.</p> + +<p>When the call was made for troops he enlisted in Battery B and was made +a Second Lieutenant in that organization.</p> + +<p>His services in the Philippines were valuable. On the night attack of +the Spanish it was Lieutenant Critchlow who brought the ammunition to +the firing line at the time when it was most needed. In every place to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> +which he was assigned he was always at the fore and his conspicuous +bravery was the subject of special commendation, as has been related. +Upon the promotion of Captain Grant to the rank of Major, he was +advanced to that of Captain, coming home in command of the organization +with which he went out as a Second Lieutenant.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link7'></a>LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. GIBBS.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus013.jpg" alt="lieutenant Gibbs" /> +<a id="illus013" name="illus013"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. GIBBS.</p> + +<p>First Lieutenant George W. Gibbs of Battery A is a well-known character +in this State, in Montana and in Massachusetts, his old home, where he +was born. His father was a veteran of the War of the Rebellion and +George was a member of the order in Montana, having been department +commander with the rank of colonel. He has always been interested in +matters appertaining to the National Guard; was a member of an infantry +regiment in Massachusetts, a Captain of a troop of cavalry in Montana +and Captain of Battery A, N.G.U., and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span> Major of the battalion at the +outbreak of hostilities with Spain.</p> + +<p>He was at one time chief of the fire department in Helena and was a +member of the Salt Lake City department at the time W.A. Stanton was its +chief, being captain of the chemical. He afterwards served as Deputy +Sheriff when Harvey Hardy was at the head of that department.</p> + +<p>Gibbs is forty-one years of age and married. Two children, a boy and a +girl, are the result of a union with a most estimable lady.</p> + +<p>Prior to coming to this city and before he went to Montana he was in +Colorado, where he was employed as a sheriff's officer, serving with +distinction. He spent some time in San Francisco, where he was in the +employ of one of the leading traction companies.</p> + + +<p><a name='link8'></a>LIEUTENANT RAYMOND C. NAYLOR.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus014.jpg" alt="Lieutenant Naylor" /> +<a id="illus014" name="illus014"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> LIEUTENANT RAYMOND C. NAYLOR.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Raymond C. Naylor was born in Salt Lake City in 1873. His +early education was received in the public schools of Utah. Later he +attended the University of Utah, from which he graduated with honor. As +a student he took a prominent part in athletics and military training, +being a member of the baseball team as well as captain of one of the +companies of students then taking military drill under Lieutenant +Wright. He afterward taught school for several years and was engaged in +that labor in Centerville when the war broke out. Those who knew him +well were not surprised when he stepped to the front and offered his +service to his country along with others who were willing to brave any +peril in defense of their country's honor. Lieutenant Naylor had long +associated himself with the National Guard, in which he was Captain for +two years. He afterwards was promoted Major and at the breaking out of +hostilities he was filling the office of Assistant Inspector General +with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.</p> + +<p>When the batteries were organized Governor Wells appointed him a Second +Lieutenant of Battery A, which position he filled with such distinction +that he was promoted First Lieutenant.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span></p> + +<p>As an officer Lieutenant Naylor won the respect and admiration of both +officers and men. His interest in behalf of the privates gained for him +a popularity which was not surpassed by any of the officers in the +batteries.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link9'></a>LIEUTENANT ORRIN R. GROW.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus015.jpg" alt="Lieutenant Grow" /> +<a id="illus015" name="illus015"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> LIEUTENANT ORRIN R. GROW.</p> + +<p>Second Lieutenant Orrin R. Grow, the youngest commissioned officer of +the Utah batteries at the time of their departure for the Philippines, +was born in Salt Lake City October 20, 1873. As a boy he received his +education in the public schools of Salt Lake City and afterwards he +attended the University of Utah several years, but he did not remain +long enough to graduate. While at the University he took military +training under Lieutenant Wright and after leaving that institution he +joined the Denhalter Rifles as bugler. He soon was promoted Sergeant and +subsequently Lieutenant.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the Denhalters joined the National Guard in 1892 Mr. Grow went with +them and was unanimously chosen captain of Company A, First Infantry, +N.G.U. Later he was chosen Major, a position which he held with credit +until the breaking out of hostilities. His ability was recognized by +Governor Wells, who appointed him a Second Lieutenant of Battery B when +that organization was mustered in. Lieutenant Grow went with his battery +to the Philippines, and during the fighting at Malate distinguished +himself. During January, 1899, he returned home owing to serious +illness. His early departure from the island prevented him from winning +greater honors in the insurrection, as his ability was displayed in the +Spanish-American war.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span></p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link10'></a>LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. WEBB.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus016.jpg" alt="Lieutenant Webb" /> +<a id="illus016" name="illus016"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. WEBB.</p> + +<p>Along with the many native sons of Utah who joined the ranks in defense +of their country there were some who were born on foreign soil. Such a +man was Lieutenant William C. Webb, who was born in England March 13, +1873. In his early youth Webb attended the schools of his native country +and while he was yet a youth he accompanied his parents when they +emigrated to Utah.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Webb early associated himself with military affairs, as he +was a member of the Denhalter Rifles, and when that organization lost +its identity in the National Guard he became one of the most active +workers in the new service. When Captain Grow of Company A became Major +of the First Battalion, First Infantry, N.G.U., Webb was unanimously +chosen Captain of that company. He held this position until he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> was +appointed a Second Lieutenant of Battery A by Governor Wells.</p> + +<p>When the Utah volunteers left for Manila Lieutenant Webb accompanied +them. He took part in the Malate campaign, where he showed promise of +that brilliant work which he later accomplished in the Filipino +outbreak. At the breaking out of the insurrection he had charge of the +left platoon of Battery A at Santa Mesa hill. His fearlessness and +daring at that place won for him the universal admiration of his men. +Later he was placed in command of the river gunboat "Cavadonga," and +during all the fierce fighting of that little boat he manipulated her +with remarkable skill.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Webb, on account of his exceptional work, was recommended for +a Lieutenancy in the regular army, a position which he will undoubtedly +accept.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link11'></a>LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. SEAMAN.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus017.jpg" alt="Lieutenant Seaman" /> +<a id="illus017" name="illus017"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. SEAMAN.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant George A. Seaman, who went away as a Corporal of Battery A, +and came back with the "straps" of a Second Lieutenant, was born in the +little town of Morgan, twenty-nine years ago. While he was yet a boy his +parents moved to Ogden, where he secured the foundation of the education +which was later enlarged upon at the State University. He remained at +that institution four years, graduating with honor in 1892. While +obtaining his mental training he was a member of the University +Battalion, in which organization he acquitted himself so well that his +name was placed upon the honorary roll at Washington. It was also during +his college career that he became acquainted with Miss Lottie Fox, +daughter of Jesse W. Fox. Between them sprang up a mutual attachment, +which was later consummated at the altar. Shortly afterwards Lieutenant +Seaman moved with his wife to Bountiful, where he took up school +teaching as a profession. He showed an efficiency in his work which won +the esteem of all his patrons and pupils. When the call for soldiers was +made his blood was of that order which impelled him to drop the master's +rod and take up the sword in defense of his country.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p> + +<p>Having enlisted he set to work to familiarizing himself with all the +tactics pertaining to artillery warfare, and soon made himself +acquainted with military science. His studious habits and his morality +soon commended him to his superior officers who recommended him for the +first vacancy which occurred. He was appointed Second Lieutenant of +Battery B, which position he held with honor until the mustering out of +the battalion.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link12'></a>LIEUTENANT FRANK T. HINES.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus018.jpg" alt="Lieutenant Hines" /> +<a id="illus018" name="illus018"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> LIEUTENANT FRANK T. HINES.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Frank T. Hines, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Hines, was +born twenty-one years ago in Salt Lake City. He attended the city +schools from which he graduated in 1896. For several years thereafter he +was employed at Mercur and later entered the Agricultural College. It +was while at the college that Mr. Hines learned to like the military +life which he subsequently led for a short period.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the country called for volunteers he enlisted in Captain Grant's +battery as a private, but he was soon appointed duty sergeant. The +latter position he filled very creditably and when a vacancy occurred by +reason of the resignation of Lieutenant Grow, he was elevated to the +Second Lieutenancy, which office he held until the batteries were +discharged.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link13'></a>LIEUTENANT JOHN A. ANDERSON.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus019.jpg" alt="Lieutenant Anderson" /> +<a id="illus019" name="illus019"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'>LIEUTENANT JOHN A. ANDERSON.</p> + +<p>Lieutenant John A. Anderson, one of the few who worked his way up by +sheer force of ability, was born in Smithfield, Cache county, Utah, +twenty-five years ago. He received his education in the district school +of his native town, and later went to work as a millman, the occupation +which he followed at the breaking out of the war.</p> + +<p>When the batteries went away he was a duty sergeant of Battery B, in +which capacity he earned the posi<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span>tion which he afterwards secured. It +was Sergeant Anderson who had charge of that section of the Utah +Battalion which accompanied General Lawton in his expedition in the +interior as far as San Isidro. Following his return he was appointed +First Sergeant of Battery B, and just before the organization left the +island he received his commission as second lieutenant. Lieutenant +Anderson was a brave, efficient man, and one who won the respect of all +who knew him.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link14'></a>SERGEANT HARRY A. YOUNG.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus020.jpg" alt="Sergeant Young" /> +<a id="illus020" name="illus020"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> SERGEANT HARRY A. YOUNG.</p> + +<p>Sergeant Harry A. Young, son of the late Lorenzo D. Young, was born in +Salt Lake City February 24, 1865. During his boyhood he attended the +public school of his native town, and afterwards he spent several years +in the Utah University, where he evinced a great liking to medicine. +During 1884-85 he filled a mission to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span> Northern States. Soon after +his return he went East and entered the medical department of Columbia +College. He graduated from this institution with distinguished honors +and great future promise to his profession. He established himself in +Salt Lake City, where he succeeded in building up quite an extensive +practice in a short time. The blood of a patriot flowed through the +veins of Dr. Young and when his country needed his service he cheerfully +joined the ranks and was appointed Quartermaster-Sergeant of Battery A, +a position which he filled with great credit. When the Utah volunteers +embarked for Manila Sergeant Young went with them and took part in the +fighting against the Spaniards. Although his service as a doctor was not +required, Dr. Young was continually in the front administering to the +wants of the wounded men. Subsequently he partici<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span>pated in the fighting +of the Tagalan outbreak, and it was while he was bravely at the front in +search of opportunities to perform deeds of mercy that he met with his +death at the hand of the enemy on February 6, 1899.</p> + +<p>Those who were intimately acquainted with Dr. Young knew his sterling +worth and admired his manhood. He ever walked in the path of right, +unmindful of the opinions of the world. What he considered to be his +duty he did with unswerving honesty. He was diligent and studious and +applied himself with untiring energy to his books. As a soldier the +batterymen will remember his unceasing efforts to better their +condition. During the five tedious months of barrack life when others +were idly waiting, he devoted himself to his chosen profession. Had +Sergeant Harry A. Young lived two days longer he would have received his +commission as a surgeon in the United States army.</p> + + +<p class='center'><a name='link15'></a>SERGEANT FORD FISHER.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/illus021.jpg" alt="Sergeant Fisher" /> +<a id="illus021" name="illus021"></a> +</p> +<p class='caption'> SERGEANT FORD FISHER.</p> + +<p>Sergeant Ford Fisher, who bravely gave up his life in his country's +defense, was born at Seaford, Delaware, twenty-three years ago. He was +the son of I.M. Fisher of Salt Lake City. At an early age Ford, as he +was better known among his associates, came to Salt Lake City with his +parents. Here he attended the city High School, from which he graduated +with high honors. While at the High School he was noted for his +efficiency in mathematics and here he developed a liking for civil +engineering, which he later studied at the Washington State University. +For some time prior to the breaking out of hostilities with Spain he had +associated himself with the National Guard, and when the President's +call came too much patriotic blood flowed through his veins to admit of +any second appeal, and he enlisted with the batteries.</p> + +<p>Major Young soon became acquainted with the young man's military ability +and he was appointed drill sergeant at Camp Kent. When the batteries +departed for the Philippines he went with them and distinguished himself +for his gallantry in the Malate campaign. Later during the insurrection +he took part with the other Utah men in many a fierce conflict with the +insurgents until<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> he was stricken down by the enemy's bullet while +heroically defending his position at San Luiz on May 14, 1899.</p> + +<p>The Utah artillerymen remember the stalwart figure of Sergeant Fisher as +it loomed up in the forefront at Santa Mesa, Mariquina and Sexmoan. He +was an inspiration to the wavering spirits of the Utahn in twenty hard +encounters. His voice ever sounded as a note of cheer and his ringing +command never failed to infuse with new life. Always attending to his +duties he expected the same of others; his soul was too great to stoop +to the level of anything base; his heart was honest and open and free. +He was a pleasant companion and a true friend. He was blessed with an +abundance of original humor which made him doubly loved by the soldiers +during the lonely hours of barrack life.</p> + +<p>At the time of his death Sergeant Fisher was first in line of promotion, +as he had been recommended for the next commission by Major Young.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><span class="smcap">Roster</span></h2> + +<p class='center'>BATTALION UTAH LIGHT ARTILLERY, U.S.V.</p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Major Frank A. Grant</span>, Commanding.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></p> + +<p class='center'><a name='link16'></a>BATTERY A.</p> + +<p class='center'>OFFICERS.</p> + + + + +<div class='center'> +<table width='600' summary='roster'> +<tr><td align='left'>Captain, E.A. WEDGEWOOD<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded April 23, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>First Lieutenant, GEORGE W. GIBBS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Second Lieutenant, WILLIAM C. WEBB</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Second Lieutenant, JOHN A. ANDERSON</td><td align='right'>Logan</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<p class='center'> +SERGEANTS.</p> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>First, JOSEPH O. NYSTROM</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Quartermaster, ADNEBYTH L. WILLIAMS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Veterinary, JOHN H. MEREDITH</td><td align='right'>Kaysville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EMIL LEHMAN</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EMIL V. JOHNSON</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ARTHUR W. BROWN</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WILLIAM E. KNEAS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHARLES R. MABEY</td><td align='right'>Bountiful</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MARK E. BEZZANT</td><td align='right'>Pleasant Grove</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + +<div class='center'> +CORPORALS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>GEO. S. BACKMAN</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NOBLE A. McDONNEL</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WM. JACOBSON</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NELSON E. MARGETTS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THOMAS COLLINS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WM. NELSON, JR</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JOHN R. WOOLSEY</td><td align='right'>Kaysville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PETER JENSEN</td><td align='right'>Newton</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SAMUEL HESBURG</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LINDSEY HUDSON</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EDWARD G. WOOD</td><td align='right'>Logan</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LEONARD DUFFIN</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span>FRANK T. HARMER</td><td align='right'>Springville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THOMAS HOLLBERG</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EDGAR W. STOUT</td><td align='right'>Halliday</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WM. T. DENN</td><td align='right'>Nephi</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +FARRIERS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>JULIUS W. SORENSEN</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WM. G. McCOMIE</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +ARTIFICERS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>BURIAH WILKINS</td><td align='right'>Coalville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HIELE M. MADSON</td><td align='right'>Gunnison</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +SADDLER. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>VICTOR E. MARTHINI</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +WAGONER. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>JAS W. ALLRED</td><td align='right'>Ephraim</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +MUSICIANS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>ELMER G. THOMAS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHARLES W. KROGH</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +PRIVATES. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>ALDRACH, WILL F.</td><td align='right'>Clear Lake</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ANDERSON, JOSEPH F.</td><td align='right'>Ephraim</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ANDERSON, LOUIS P.</td><td align='right'>Ephraim</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ARCHER, DAVID G.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BAGGE, JOHN R.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BEAN, HARRY J.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BEEMUS, JOHN W.</td><td align='right'>Gunnison</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BENSON, PETER J.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BERLIN, JOHN H.</td><td align='right'>American Fork</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BOSTWICK, ROBERT L.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BRADFORD, ARCHIBALD.</td><td align='right'>Murray</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BYWATER, CALEB J.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CAMPBELL, JOHN W.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CAULKINS, HAROLD L.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHRISTENSEN, PARLEY B.</td><td align='right'>Ephraim</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHRISTENSEN, THEODOR</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CURTIS, CLARENCE S.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DAVIS, DAVID J.<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded April 23, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DOTY, GEORGE E.</td><td align='right'>Richmond</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DUFFIN, GEORGE</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EARL, WILLIAM</td><td align='right'>Centerville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EDWARDS, WILLIAM</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span>EKSTRAND, ALFRED</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ELLIS, WILLIAM G.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EMERY, FRANK W.</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ENGLER, GEORGE W.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FERRIS, EVERETT B.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FISHER, GEORGE R.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FRANKENFIELD, GEORGE</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FUNK, EZRA S.</td><td align='right'>Sterling</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GILROY, JACK</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GLEDHILL, LEO N.</td><td align='right'>Gunnison</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GRIFFITHS, WALTER F.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GUNN, THOMAS S.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARRIS, GEORGE </td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HENNEFER, WILLIAM H.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HOPE, CHESTER J.T.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HOWELLS, EPHRAIM B.</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HUBER, JACOB</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HUGHES, THOMAS J.</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HUMPHREY, ANER O.</td><td align='right'>Springville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>INGOLDSBY, JOHN E.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>IVINS, JOSEPH C.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JENICKE, CHARLES G.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JONES, HENRY O.</td><td align='right'>Newton</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KAHN, LOUIS E.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KEARSLEY, RICHARD.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KENNER, RAY<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded accidentally April 21, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Sterling</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KIDDER, RALPH</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KING, MURRAY E.</td><td align='right'>Kingston</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LARSON, WARREN</td><td align='right'>Ephraim</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LEAVER, WILLIAM H.<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded July 31, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LEE, JAMES A.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LOUDER, ARTHUR L.</td><td align='right'>Nephi</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LOWRY, ERNEST E.</td><td align='right'>Sterling</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LYNGBERG, AUGUST E.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MEYERS, JOSEPH J.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MORGAN, JOSEPH H.</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MORTENSEN, DAVID</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>McKAY, DANIEL</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>McLAUGHLIN, WILLIAM F.</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NICHOLSON, ANGUS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NIELSON, JAS. P.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NIELSON, NIELS</td><td align='right'>Pleasant Grove</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NOBLE, GEORGE W.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span>OHMER, ARTHUR F.</td><td align='right'>Rawlins, Wyoming</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PERRET, WILLIAM E.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PETERSON, CHARLES</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PETERSON, FRANK C.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PETERSON LOUIS C.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PHILLIPS, MANNIE C.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>QUINN, JAMES</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RADEMACHER, AUGUST</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RASMUSSEN, SEVEREN</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RAUSCHER, EDWARD W.</td><td align='right'>Nephi</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RICHMOND, WILLIAM</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ROBINSON, WILLIAM J.</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ROBISON, JOHN L.</td><td align='right'>Pleasant Grove</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RYAN, MICHAEL F.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RYVER, WILLIAM A.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SELMER, EMIL F.<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded April 26, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SLEATER, HAROLD E.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SMITH, THOMAS R.</td><td align='right'>Logan</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SORENSON, HANS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SORENSON, JOSEPH F.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SORENSON, KNUD</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>STATEN, STANLEY</td><td align='right'>Springville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>STOUT, CHARLES S.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>TIPTON, WILLIAM</td><td align='right'>Springville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>TOMPKINS, ODELL D.</td><td align='right'>Mystic, Conn.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>TRIPP, FRANCIS B.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>VINCENT, FRANK A.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WALQUIST, CHARLES A.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WEBER, GEORGE E.</td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WILLIAMS, ALBERT R.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WONNACOTT, JAMES E.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WYCHERLEY, SAMUEL A.</td><td align='right'>Coalville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WYNE, HOMER W.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ZAHLER, JOHN F.</td><td align='right'>Bountiful</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Major Richard W. Young, who originally commanded the +battalion, resigned to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of +the Philippines and Major Frank A. Grant superceded him as commander of +the batteries.</p></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +HONORABLY DISCHARGED. +<table width='600' summary="roster"> +<tr><td align='left'>First Sergeant, D.H. WELLS <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">October 31, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sergeant, A.L. ROBINSON<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 3, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Mt. Pleasant</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, WILLARD CALL<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 14, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Bountiful</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, LEWIS P. HANSON <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, WM. D. RITER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">October 31, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span>Corporal, JOHN B. ROGERS <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 29, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, GEO. A. SEAMAN <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">November 24, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Bountiful</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, FRANK B. SHELLY <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Farrier, W.M. CLAWSON <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">May 18, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Kaysville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Farrier, H.P. HANSEN<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Artificer, V.A. SMITH <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, ETHAN E. ALLEN <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, WM. W. BURNETT<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">February 24, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>San Jose, Cal.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, A.C. CAFFALL<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">July 7, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, THEO. CLEGHORN<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">May 11, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, JAS. W. CONNELL <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 10, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, A.H. FICHTNER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, P.B. FREDERICKSON <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, GEORGE GRANTHAM <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>American Fork</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, JOSEPH J. HOLBROOK<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 14, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Bountiful</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, ELMER JOHNSON<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, J.B. LICKLEDERER<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">July 7, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, HERBERT L. MEYERS<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>San Francisco, Cal.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, ISAAC E. LITTRELL<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Berkeley, Cal.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, THEODORE NEWMAN<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 10, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, FRANK E. PETERS<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, W.I. ROWLAND<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">February 1, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, ISAAC RUSSELL<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 18, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, BISMARCK SNYDER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 14, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, A.L. THOMAS, JR.<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 12, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, JOHN A. TILSON <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, FRANCIS TUTTLE<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">September 21, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Bountiful</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, CHAS. E. VARIAN<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 14, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span>Private, E.P. WALKER<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<p class='center'>ROLL OF HONOR.</p> + + + + + +<div class='center'> +KILLED IN ACTION. +<table width='600' summary="roster"> +<tr><td align='left'>Quartermaster-Sergeant, HARRY A. YOUNG <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">February 6, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sergeant, FORD FISHER<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">May 14, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, JOHN G. YOUNG<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">February 5, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, WILHELM G. GOODMAN <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">February 5, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +DIED OF DISEASE. +<table width='600' summary="roster"> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, GEORGE O. LARSON<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 10, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Dover</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, JOHN T. KENNEDY<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">March 15, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, OSCAR A. FENINGER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 5, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, CHARLES PARSONS <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 20, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class='center'><a name='link17'></a>BATTERY B.</p> + + + +<div class='center'> +OFFICERS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>Captain, JOHN F. CRITCHLOW</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>First Lieutenant, RAYMOND C. NAYLOR</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Second Lieutenant, GEORGE A. SEAMAN <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded April 11, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Bountiful</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Second Lieutenant, FRANK T. HINES (Batt. Adjt.)</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +SERGEANTS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>First, JOHN U. BUCHI</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Quartermaster, JAMES K. BURCH</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Veterinary, FELIX BACHMAN</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LOUIS N. FEHR</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ROBERT STEWART</td><td align='right'>Plain City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JOHN A. BOSHARD</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GEORGE B. WARDLAW <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded February 4, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ANDREW PETERSON, JR. <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded March 11, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Manti</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARVEY DUSENBERRY</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +CORPORALS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>JAMES J. RYAN</td><td align='right'>Mercur</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHARLES C. CLAPPER</td><td align='right'>Mercur</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THEODORE L. GENTER</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NEPHI OTTESON</td><td align='right'>Manti</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span>HENRY L. SOUTHER<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded March 24, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Mercur</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DON C. JOHNSON</td><td align='right'>Springville</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FRANK H. COULTER</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JAS. W. MERANDA</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JAMES M. DUNN</td><td align='right'>Tooele</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JNO. FLANNIGAN</td><td align='right'>Mammoth</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RICHARD L. BUSH</td><td align='right'>Logan</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GEORGE WILLIAMS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FRANK J. UTZ</td><td align='right'>Mercur</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>STEPHEN BJARNSON</td><td align='right'>Spanish Fork</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PHILLIP SCHOEBER</td><td align='right'>Salina</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WILLARD H. FARNES</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FRANK WICKERSHAM</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +ARTIFICERS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>FRANK DILLINGHAM</td><td align='right'>Eureka </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> LEE A. CURTIS</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +WAGONER. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>ANTONE LITJEROTH</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +MUSICIANS. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>JOSEPH WESSLER</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MORTON T. GOODWIN</td><td align='right'>Heber City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + + +<div class='center'> +PRIVATES. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>ABPLANALP, JOHN D.<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded April 24, 1899.</span> </td><td align='right'> Heber</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ACKARET, MAHLON H.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ALEXANDER, ROBERT</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ANDERSON, DAVID M.</td><td align='right'>Peterson</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ANDERSON, PETER</td><td align='right'>Richfield</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>AUSTIN, BERT W.</td><td align='right'>Bingham</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BAKER, JOHN</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BEESLEY, JOHN W.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BENZON, GLENN</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BILLINGS, CLAUD G.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BJARNSON, EINER</td><td align='right'>Spanish Fork</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BORKMAN, ARTHUR</td><td align='right'>Mercur</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BRAMAN, JOHN<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded April 26, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Bingham</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BRIDGMAN, JOHN D.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BURTON, RAY S.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CARR, JOSEPH W.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CARLSON, GUST</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHAMBERLIN, VIRGIL L.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span>CHATLIN, EUGENE</td><td align='right'>Castle Gate</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHAFFIN, MILLARD</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CHRISTENSEN, THEODORE</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>COLLETT, RALPH</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>COLLINS, WM. J.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CONOVER, ROBT. F.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CORAY, DON R.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CRAGER, FRED H.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DALGETY, JOHN</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DALIMORE, PHILLIP</td><td align='right'>Lehi</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DUNCAN, ELMER</td><td align='right'>Heber</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DECKER, LEO</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DOYLE, JOSEPH</td><td align='right'>Mammoth</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DUNNING, DANIEL A.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EDDY, LOUIS B.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ELLIS, ALFRED</td><td align='right'>Silver City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EVANS, WILLARD</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FOWLER, GEORGE</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FORCELAND, CHARLES G.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GRAVES, NED C.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GREEN, LOREN C.</td><td align='right'>American Fork</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HALL, PARKER J.<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded March 25, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HALL, WALTER S.</td><td align='right'>West Portage</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HARDIE, FRANCIS R.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HEATHERLY, CHARLES</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HERBERTZ, PETER</td><td align='right'>Castle Gate</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HOGAN, JOHN</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HAGGAN, THOMAS A., JR.</td><td align='right'>Manti</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HOLDAWAY, PARLEY P.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HOBKINS, EVERITT E.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HUBERT, WELMER E.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HUGHES, JOHN W.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JENSEN, HANS</td><td align='right'>Hyde Park</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KELL, JOHN V.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KLENKE, HENDRECH</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KING, SAMUEL</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>KNAUSS, WM. G.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LARSEN, G.R.</td><td align='right'>Manti</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LAWSON, D.V.</td><td align='right'>Joseph</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LEONARD, THOMAS</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LEWIS, SAMUEL C.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MARTIN, FRED S.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>McCABE, JAMES</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>McCARTY, LEONARD</td><td align='right'>Manti</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span>McCUBBIN, WILLIAM</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MOIR, GEORGE</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MORTON, JOHN W.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MORTON, MILTON</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NEILSON, ANDREW P.</td><td align='right'>Spanish Fork</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NORRIS, JOHN D.</td><td align='right'>Denver, Colorado</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>OLSEN, PETER</td><td align='right'>Logan</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>OLSEN, REINHART</td><td align='right'>Milton</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PENNINGTON, LOUIS P.</td><td align='right'>Brigham</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PRATT, ERNEST M.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>QUICK, MARSHALL</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RAE, ALEX</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>RAE, WILLIAM</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>REEDALL, THOMAS</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>REES, GEORGE</td><td align='right'>Silver City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>REID, ROBERT</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ROBERTS, EDWARD J.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ROWLAND, GEORGE E.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SAVAGE, WM. H.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SCHAUPP, FREW W.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SCOTT, HYRUM C.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SHEARER, WM. H.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SMITH, JEROME</td><td align='right'>Tooele</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SMITH, SIDNEY J.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SMITH, HARRY</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SNOW, JUNIUS C.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>SNYDER, HARRY S.</td><td align='right'>Provo</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>TATE, JNO. P.</td><td align='right'>Tooele</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>TAYLOR, GEORGE</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>TURNER, MORONI</td><td align='right'>Heber</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>TYREE, SAMUEL P.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>VANCE, JOHN R.</td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>VAN SYCKLE, BENJ.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WALTERS, ALBERT N.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WALTERS, JOSEPH W.</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WINKLER, JOSEPH G.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WRIGHT, WILLIAM A.</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>YATES, JAMES K.</td><td align='right'>Diamond</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WHEELER, GEORGE</td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ZOLLINGER, JOHN D.</td><td align='right'>Providence</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<div class='center'> +HONORABLY DISCHARGED. +<table width='600' summary="roster"> +<tr><td align='left'>Second Lieutenant, ORRIN R. GROW</td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>First Sergeant, J.A. ANDERSON <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Discharged June 29, to accept commission as Second Lieutenant.</span></td><td align='right'>Logan</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span>Quartermaster-Sergeant, CHAS. ASPLUND <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 23, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Fairview</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sergeant, ALBERT ST. MORRIS <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sergeant, HORACE E. COOLIDGE <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">March 22, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Manti</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, WM. Q. ANDERSON<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded August 24, 1898.<br /></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 15, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Logan</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, JOHN T. DONNELLAN<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">March 17, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, JACOB A. HEISS<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 1, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, E.V. DE MONTALVO <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 21, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Mercur</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Musician, JOS. F. GRANT <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 11, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saddler, LOUIS MILLER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">November 15, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Farrier, FRED D. SWEET<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 11, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, GODFREY J. BLUTH <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">February 12, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, F.D. CHATTERTON <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 21, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, JASPER D. CURTIS <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 23, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, ROSEY P. FLORANCE <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">December 30, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, CHARLES S. HILL <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Wellington</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, BARR W. MUSSER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 17, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, JOHN A. PENDER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded March 30, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">May 5, 1899.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, THOMAS SHULL <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Mammoth</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, THOS. W. THORNBURG <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, FREDERICK BLAKE <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, AUGUSTUS BRANSCOM<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Ogden</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, WILLIAM CROOKS <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, JOHN FERGUSON<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 15, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Park City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, CHAS. I. FOX <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, GEORGE LACEY <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 10, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Manti</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, DON C. MUSSER <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">January 17, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, NEPHI REESE <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">November 11, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Silver City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span>Private, GEO. SIMMONS <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 23, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, CHRIS WAGNER<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">March 13, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, CARLOS YOUNG<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">June 28, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<p class='center'>ROLL OF HONOR.</p> + + + +<div class='center'> +KILLED IN ACTION. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>Corporal, MORITZ C. JENSEN <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 26, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Castle Gate</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, FREDERICK BUMILLER<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 26, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Salt Lake City</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, MAX MADISON<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">April 25, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Mercur</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, GEO. H. HUDSON <br /><span style="margin-left: 1em;">August 25, 1898.</span></td><td align='right'>Mercu</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + + +<div class='center'> +DIED OF DISEASE. +<table summary="roster" width='600'> +<tr><td align='left'>Private, RICHARD H. RALPH<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">July 21, 1899.</span></td><td align='right'>Eureka</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Utah Batteries: A History, by Charles R. 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Mabey + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Utah Batteries: A History + A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, + skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together + with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. + +Author: Charles R. Mabey + +Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32206] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE UTAH BATTERIES: A HISTORY *** + + + + +Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + +THE UTAH BATTERIES: + +A HISTORY. + + + + +THE UTAH BATTERIES: + +A HISTORY. + +A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE MUSTER-IN, SEA VOYAGE, +BATTLES, SKIRMISHES AND BARRACK LIFE +OF THE UTAH BATTERIES, TOGETHER +WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF OFFICERS +AND MUSTER-OUT ROLLS. + +by + +CHARLES R. MABEY, + +LATE A SERGEANT OF LIGHT BATTERY A, UTAH VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY. + +ILLUSTRATED. + +SALT LAKE CITY, +1900. + + + + +COPYRIGHT APPLIED FOR. + + +DAILY REPORTER CO., PRINTERS, 158-160 S. WEST TEMPLE ST. + +SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. + + + + +TO THE UTAH BATTERYMEN + +WHO BRAVELY FOUGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S FLAG ON A FOREIGN + +SOIL, THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED + +BY + +THE AUTHOR. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +Sometime after the Utah Battalion left San Francisco for the Philippines +the author conceived the idea of writing a history of that organization +after its return from the war. With this purpose in view he kept a diary +during the entire campaign and also collected what other material that +could be utilized for such a work. Immediately upon the arrival in Salt +Lake City of the discharged volunteers he, with others, set to work to +bring about a completion of this plan. This little volume represents the +result of the labor expended at intervals between that date and the +present time. The author claims no more for it than its title assumes--a +brief history of the Utah batteries. It is no more. There may be some +works in the future which will command, to a greater extent, the +attention of the reading public. This is not written with the idea that +it will become a standard work, but that while those events which +happened are yet green in the memories of the Utah artillerymen, they +may be recorded and not be consigned to oblivion. The author trusts he +may not be asserting too much when he affirms that the book is written +with a strict adherence to facts, as he has had access both to public +and private data in the compiling of the work, and he has been +scrupulously careful in guarding against errors of every description. At +this opportunity he takes pleasure in thanking those officers and men +who have helped him in bringing about an accomplishment of his plans, +and furthermore, he wishes to extend his thanks to Angus K. Nicholson +for his contributions and a like communication to those friends who have +given him timely advice and aid in disposing of difficulties which have +arisen from time to time. + +BOUNTIFUL, January 25, 1900. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +PAGE 7 + +PREFACE + +INTRODUCTION 13 + +CHAPTER I.--The Mustering 16 + +CHAPTER II.--Barrack Life 24 + +CHAPTER III.--The Insurrection 36 + +CHAPTER IV.--The Gunboats 77 + +CHAPTER V.--The Home Coming 90 + +MAJOR RICHARD W. YOUNG 102 + +MAJOR FRANK A. GRANT 103 + +CAPTAIN E.A. WEDGEWOOD 105 + +CAPTAIN JOHN F. CRITCHLOW 106 + +LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. GIBBS 108 + +LIEUTENANT RAYMOND C. NAYLOR 109 + +LIEUTENANT ORRIN R. GROW 110 + +LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. WEBB 112 + +LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. SEAMAN 113 + +LIEUTENANT FRANK T. HINES 114 + +LIEUTENANT JOHN A. ANDERSON 115 + +SERGEANT HARRY A. YOUNG 116 + +SERGEANT FORD FISHER 118 + +ROSTER--Battery A 120 + +Battery B 125 + + + + +LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. + + + PAGE + +A FAMILIAR SCENE 27 + +OLD GUARD FATIGUE AT THE CUARTEL 33 + +LIEUTENANT GIBBS' SECTION AT FT. MACARTHUR 47 + +GUN AT PUMPING STATION FIRING ON MARIQUINA 50 + +UTAH GUNS ON MANILA & DAGUPAN RY. EN ROUTE TO THE FRONT 53 + +FIRST PLATOON, BATTERY A, READY TO MOVE TO MALOLOS 59 + +UTAH GUNS IN PARK AT CONGRESSIONAL HALL, MALOLOS 65 + +PREPARING FOR AN ENGAGEMENT 74 + +MAJOR RICHARD W. YOUNG 102 + +MAJOR FRANK A. GRANT 104 + +CAPTAIN E.A. WEDGEWOOD 106 + +CAPTAIN JOHN F. CRITCHLOW 107 + +LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. GIBBS 108 + +LIEUTENANT RAYMOND C. NAYLOR 110 + +LIEUTENANT ORRIN R. GROW 111 + +LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. WEBB 112 + +LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. SEAMAN 114 + +LIEUTENANT FRANK T. HINES 115 + +LIEUTENANT JOHN A. ANDERSON 116 + +SERGEANT HARRY A. YOUNG 117 + +SERGEANT FORD FISHER 119 + + + + +THE UTAH BATTERIES. + +INTRODUCTION. + + +The history of the Utah Batteries should be a plain tale, for deeds of +valor cannot be garnished by the flower of rhetoric or the pomp of +oratory. This is a simple story of brave deeds. The stern browed +Heracles standing unarmed in the midst of his countrymen was a frank, +common figure, but when he dashed like Ares upon the Lerneaen hydra he +became majestic, and no mere pen picture could augment his greatness. So +we shall paint a picture of the achievements of the cannoneers and +gunners of Utah while withstanding the onslaughts of the dusky warriors +of Aguinaldo, and no greater compliment can be paid them than a clear +true narrative of their exploits. + +Utah was early distinguished in the furious fights of Luzon. Even before +the soldiers of "Uncle Sam" had felt their way into the defenses of +Manila, her guns had awaked the long-sleeping sentries of the Dons and +torn holes into the bulwarks of Spanish oppression and tyranny. Her +later accomplishments against the fierce Tagalan braves have only served +to increase the homage and admiration of the world, yet, in the dark +days of the conflict, as veterans know, are performed many daring acts +and feats of human strength, which are never recorded in the chronicles +of fame, or proclaimed by the bugle's blare. There were those who knew +what it was to feel the pangs of hunger and the ravages of disease, +those who experienced the racking pains occasioned by fatiguing marches, +and long, weary tramps through the unbroken wilderness of the tropics; +and there were belated ones who hid in the swamps anxiously watching +for the first beams of dawn to reveal the lurking foe. + +An account of the actions of the men of Utah is not a recital of the +performances of one man; neither is it a description of the doings of a +particular section of men. It is the story of brave men fighting under +competent chiefs. Their history is exceptional. In every engagement +against the insurrectionists, on land and river, the unceasing fire of +the guns of Utah was heard. While Major Young, Major Grant, Captain +Critchlow and Lieutenant Seaman battered down the enemy's breastworks at +Caloocan and San Lazerus cemetery, the cannon under Captain Wedgewood +hurled fiery wrath into the terrified foe at Sampaloe, and Lieutenant +Webb's death-dealing monsters flung destruction into the ranks of the +Filipino hordes at Santa Mesa. While the land batteries, with the +infantry, worked their way through the tropical forests in that campaign +which drove the natives out of Calumpit and San Fernando and sent +Aguinaldo flying into the mountains beyond, Major Grant, Lieutenant +Naylor and Lieutenant Webb, with their fire-spitting dragons, the river +gunboats, bore down upon the insurgents at Morong and Santa Cruz and +disturbed the silence of the primitive woods at San Luiz and Candaba. + +The country was not slow in recognizing Utah. Almost as soon as +hostilities commenced Major Young was elevated to a position on General +MacArthur's staff, and when the river gunboats were put into commission +in anticipation of a Tagalan outbreak Lieutenant R.C. Naylor was placed +second in command. Later when the river fleet was enlarged Major Grant +took command and Lieutenant William C. Webb assumed control of the +"Covadonga," positions which both held till Utah's fighting days were +over. + +The Utah cannoneers were not only exceptional as fighters, but they did +things before unheard of in artillery annals. They pushed along in line +with the infantry in many a hard-fought encounter in the vanguard; +during the early days of the conflict, when the rival force first turned +its weapons upon the walls of Manila, they hauled their pieces after +them in grim pursuit of the fleeing foe. They stood comparison with the +well-drilled regulars, and in many instances surpassed them; the bark of +their iron-tongued guns never failed to strike terror into the hearts of +the dusky braves of Luzon, while it ever sounded as a note of cheer to +the infantrymen on the straggling skirmish line. + +There is Santa Mesa, Malabon, Quingua, Bag Bag, San Fernando--words +hollow sounding to the ordinary ear; but when named to the stalwart +veteran they touch a chord which quickens the pulse and sets every nerve +fiber vibrating with emotion. To him each tells a tale of noble +achievements wrought beneath the broiling sun of the tropics; to him +each whispers an assurance that his duty was bravely done in the +blasting fires of the East. + +The warriors of Utah have listened to their last reveille and their last +retreat. When they withdrew from the Orient they left the scenes of +carnage behind and returned to loved ones and to peace. May that peace +be lasting and happy. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE MUSTERING. + + +When the war trumpet's shrill notes disturbed the serenity of this +tranquil land early in '98 their echoes were not lost on the hills of +Utah, but reverberating from cliff to cliff and peak to peak they +swelled into a martial hymn whose chorus was sung in every home in the +commonwealth. The dark stormy days preceding the declaration of war in +April had aroused the dormant energies of men, hitherto engaged in the +peaceful pursuits of life, and filled them with an eager desire to +perform the more exciting duties of the camp, so that when the call was +issued by Governor Wells on April 25th a host of young men from every +corner of the State applied for enlistment in the volunteer army. + +Out of the 500 men, Utah's original quota, 343 were designated for the +Light Artillery service. There are reasons for this not altogether +understood by those outside military circles. At the breaking out of +hostilities with Spain the National Guard of the various States were +deficient in this branch of the service. The guns consisted mostly of +obsolete and useless muzzle-loading cannon, divided among the States at +the close of the Civil War. Some were smooth bores, others rifled. There +were Napoleons and Parrots, brass cannon and twenty-four pounders. Very +few of the States had modern guns, but Utah was especially favored in +this line. During the early organization of the guard she had been +provided with eight 3.2-inch B. & L. rifles, together with limbers, +caisson, harnesses, etc. Thus it was apparent to all who knew anything +of the manner of procedure that the youngest State in the Union would be +called upon to furnish artillery, and so it proved, for, after having +been informed by Senator Frank J. Cannon that this State could man the +guns, the War Department made arrangements for Utah to put two batteries +in the field. + +The day following the Governor's call recruiting officers were appointed +to enlist men for the service, the names of those designated to enroll +batterymen being Richard W. Young, Frank A. Grant, George W. Gibbs, Ray +C. Naylor and Orrin R. Grow. These were assigned to different portions +of the State and the work began on the day following. Ethan Allen, +afterwards First Sergeant of Battery A, was the first man to enroll. +Orders were received from Washington naming Fort Douglas as the +rendezvous for the recruits, the message reaching here the day +enlistment began. Briant H. Wells, a Lieutenant in the Second United +States Infantry, who had been stationed here on duty with the National +Guard, was assigned as mustering officer. The recruiting continued with +varied success until May 1st, when the quota was filled. Applications +for enrollment were so plentiful after the news of the call became +generally known that recruiting officers were frequently compelled to +have the men draw lots in order to determine the lucky ones, for that is +the term then used. + +May 3rd, camps were pitched on the lower parade ground at Fort Douglas. +It was named Camp Kent in honor of Colonel (now Major-General, retired) +J. Ford Kent, who had commanded the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry +stationed at the fort when hostilities were declared, and which had +marched away but a short time before. As soon as the camp was +established the men began coming in. It was a strange gathering of men +which appeared at the surgeon's door for examination the following +morning. Farmers fresh from the plow, cowboys from the plain, miners +from the mountains, blacksmiths from the forge, students, teachers, +doctors, bookkeepers had assembled to be defenders in common of the +Nation's honor. + +On May 4th the officers were selected. The appointments of the Governor +were as follows: + +Battery A--Captain, R.W. Young; First Lieutenant, George W. Gibbs; +Second Lieutenants, Ray C. Naylor and Thomas B. Braby. Lieutenant Braby +declined the honor and William C. Webb was selected in his stead. + +Battery B--Captain, Frank A. Grant; First Lieutenant, Edgar A. +Wedgewood; Second Lieutenants, John F. Critchlow and Orrin R. Grow. + +These selections were regarded as very happy ones. Captain Young is a +graduate of West Point and was at one time a Lieutenant in the Second +United States Artillery; Lieutenant Gibbs was the Major commanding the +battalion of light artillery in the National Guard of Utah; Lieutenant +Naylor was one of the founders of the National Guard and had worked his +way up to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy, while Lieutenant Webb had been for +some time the Captain of Company A, First Infantry N.G.U. + +All the officers of Battery B had been identified with the National +Guard. Captain Grant was Colonel of the First Regiment; Lieutenant +Wedgewood was formerly Captain of a company stationed at Provo; +Lieutenant Critchlow was a member of the medical staff, while Lieutenant +Grow was Major of the first battalion of the First Infantry. + +No time was lost after the officers had been chosen, as the work of +disciplining the raw force immediately began. Camp Kent was the scene of +bustle and hurry. It was drill, drill, drill, from morning until night, +and "Action Front," "Action Right," "Action Left," "Change Posts," +"Section left front into line" kept the men moving from reveille until +retreat. All seemed anxious to become proficient in the use of the guns, +and even guard duty--that task ever despised by the soldier--was +performed with a surprising willingness. + +On May 9th Lieutenant Wells administered the oath which transformed the +body of citizens into a battalion of soldiers. The work of preparing the +roll was cheerfully done and was accelerated somewhat by the arrival of +a message from the War Department announcing that the Utah Batteries +would be sent to the Philippines. The declaration was received with +satisfaction by some, but others were less enthusiastic as an opinion +prevailed that there would be no fighting in the East, but that Cuba +would furnish the battles of the war. Later developments proved this to +be a mistake, for long after the Spanish had felt the force of American +war machinery at San Juan and El Caney their lost subjects in the +Antipodes were fleeing in terror before the mighty thunder of the Utah +guns at Santa Mesa and Bag Bag. + +The batteries left for San Francisco on May 20th. It was an imposing +sight to see the newly recruited soldiers, commanded by Captain Young, +as they marched down the streets to the depot followed by thousands of +citizens who gathered to bid them farewell. Some partings between +relations were exceedingly touching and sad. Perhaps mothers and +sisters, fathers and brothers read in the dim misty vista of the future +the fate to which some of the men were doomed in the furious skirmishes +of Luzon. Cheer after cheer rang out as the train pulled away and the +volunteers responded with vigor, although there were some whose voices +sounded husky as the final greetings were given. + +On their arrival at San Francisco the batteries received a royal +welcome, the Red Cross society taking especial pains to make their visit +a pleasant one. Several weeks were consumed in perfecting the +organization and preparing it for foreign service. Lieutenant Wedgewood +and Sergeants Brown and Fehr returned to Utah and recruited 104 men to +complete the organizations to their full strength, leaving Salt Lake +City with them on June 29th. On June 15th the batteries sailed away to +the land across the seas where work of a far more serious nature awaited +them. + +The voyage across was not altogether unlike a voyage on any ordinary +vessel, save for the fact that the men were crowded a little closer than +on a first-class passenger boat, and the food was not so elaborate in +character as one would expect to find in a first grade hotel or a +railway dining car. The men kicked in the good natured American way and +continued to eat what was given them and slept as best they could. + +A stop was made at Honolulu, where occurred a reception to the Utah men +which marked a bright day in the life of the soldier. The transports +arrived on the night of the 23rd, and at 11 o'clock. The next morning +they went ashore amid the cheers of the Hawaiians, who gave them a +greeting hearty and cordial. Flowers were in profusion and pretty girls +threw bouquets at the tired pilgrims until they felt that they had +indeed found the "Paradise of the Pacific." Judge Kinney, a former +resident of Salt Lake City, headed the reception committee, and there +were elaborate preparations to make the stay one of gladness. The great +sugar works and plantations at Oahu were visited and the points of +interest carefully shown. Then under the shading palms, amid the +fragrance of flowers, with hundreds of pretty girls to wait on them the +men sat down to the banquet. In an atmosphere which breathes poetry and +pleasure; where the soft tropical zephyr kisses the cheek as a mother +does a sleeping infant the choicest fruits were served and substantial +edibles tempted the appetite. Soldiers made love to maidens with dusky +cheeks; American blue eyes told short stories of love to Kanaka brown, +and the Caucasian ladies were not forgotten, for it was a feast of love. +Everywhere was "Aloha, Aloha." + +But all things end. The next day saw the ships sail away. With the sweet +fragrance of blossoms still lingering in their nostrils and the +long-to-be-remembered clasp of friendship yet plainly felt they passed +away from the dreamy isle into the oblivion of the Pacific to resume the +diet of beef a la can and coal a la "Colon." Once more was ship soup +staple and tropical sea monotony plentiful. + +A few days later the fleet arrived at Wake Island, which General Greene +took possession of in the name of the United States. Five days after +this the Ladrone Islands were sighted and passed. + +About the middle of the month the Philippines were sighted and on the +17th the fleet of transports entered the harbor of Manila escorted by +the cruiser "Boston." + +The landing was an exceedingly difficult undertaking. The facilities for +taking the guns from the transports were not perfect. The guns were put +ashore in about five feet of water and had to be hauled out by hand, but +the work was accomplished in the usual good natured American fashion, +and when this task was finished men dried their clothes as though +nothing had happened. In landing several amusing incidents occurred. +Many Filipinos, anxious to earn a few "centavos," flocked around the +ships, and not a few of the men hired a native as a sort of a pack horse +to carry them ashore. One two-hundred-pound soldier was unfortunate in +the selection of his human pack horse, for he sat astride the shoulders +of a ninety-pound native until the little fellow broke down and buried +himself and rider in the sad sobbing sea waves to the great amusement of +his comrades and his own disgust. Other occurrences were equally as +ludicrous. + +The several days following the landing of the batteries were spent in +giving the men the rest they had earned and needed. No work worthy of +mention was done until the morning of the 29th, when came the first +scent of trouble--of war. From the actions of the officers at early +morning it was plain to be seen that something was going to happen. Two +guns of Battery A were taken over to the trenches which had been built +by the insurgents near the Capuchin Monastery. During the day the +sharpshooters of the Twenty-third United States Infantry and the Spanish +had been doing some desultory firing with little result on either side, +save that the men kept their heads closer to the breastworks, while a +battalion of the Colorado Infantry, under Colonel McCoy, advanced beyond +the old trenches to a point near the monastery, where they threw up a +new line of earthworks. The two guns of Battery A moved to this point +the following morning and took possession of the emplacements already +constructed. On the following morning two guns under Lieutenant Grow of +Battery B were brought over from Camp Dewey and placed in position on +the left. Men from both lines were engaged in erecting gun pits all +along the front. The guns were located about 1000 yards from Fort San +Antonio de Abad, which formed the extreme right of the Spanish line. The +enemy's left and center was protected by a line of intrenchments. +Outpost duty was being performed by a company of the Eighteenth United +States Infantry. The firing, which had been kept up with more or less +vigor, came from the right of the Utah position, which was entirely +unprotected owing to a failure on the part of the insurgents to maintain +their lines between Calle Real and the Pasig road. + +During the night of July 30th-31st the excitement began. Heavy small arm +firing was indulged in by the enemy and from his lines came shells at +irregular intervals, none of which did any damage. At this time +Lieutenant Naylor was in the trenches with the two guns of Battery A. At +8 o'clock next morning Lieutenant Gibbs relieved him of the command with +two-gun detachments of fresh men. All day everything was quiet. The +enemy was planning a night attack, as he had no desire to mix with the +American forces in a fair open fight in the broad light of day, but +rather trusted to darkness to accomplish his designs. Everything was +quiet until 11:30 that evening, when the Mausers began singing +venomously from the Spanish lines. Then came the boom of his artillery +and the men in the trenches knew that the time for action had come. The +Tenth Pennsylvania troops replied with their Springfields and the whiz +of the "45's" mingled with the keen "twang" of the Mausers, while the +Third Artillerymen, equipped as regular infantry, took a part in the +altercation. The instructions of the Utah men were not to fire until it +was evident the enemy was making an advance. The cannoneers stood by +their guns awaiting the orders which should make them a part of the +fight. Finally it came. Major Cuthberton of the First California, the +senior officer present, gave the word and then Utah's voice was heard +for the first time during the war. The gunners worked like Trojans and +with shrapnel punched at zero they sent shell after shell into the +Castilian lines. Corporal Charles Varian, with no clothing on save a +pair of trousers, sweating like a man who was working for his life, yet +cool withal, managed his piece like a veteran. Sergeant J.O. Nystrom +gave orders in a collected way that instilled fresh courage into the +hearts of his men. W.W. Riter wore a seraphic smile as he sighted his +gun at the spits of flame on the other side, while Billy Kneass worked +his cannon with the sang froid of a man in a blind waiting for ducks. It +was a warm time and when morning dawned it was ascertained that several +Castilian voices had been added to Choral Society in that land beyond +the river. Utah's men were standing their baptism of fire and proved +themselves soldiers. All the terrible passion of war had supplanted the +first feelings of timidity, and they manipulated their guns with as much +composure as they would have handled the pigskins on the gridiron. But +the ammunition was running short. Fifty-seven shrapnel had been +discharged and the battle was still on. The Pennsylvania men had fired +away nearly all their ammunition, and affairs began to look serious, +when a body of men from Camp Dewey hauling a limber chest after them +dashed from out the gloom. Once more across the intervening space the +shells shrieked and broke the Spanish lines, causing havoc and terror. +The attempt of the "Dons" had proved futile, and after having fought for +two and a half hours they withdrew. + +Although other commands had lost men the Utah boys were fortunate in +this that not one of their number was killed and only one slightly +wounded in this engagement. + +For several days but little was done by the Utah troops. The men +constructed emplacements for the guns, cut down timber which might have +interfered with good work and awaited orders. In the meantime the +Lieutenants of the batteries were relieving each other from day to day. +The fire from the Spanish lines was kept up in a desultory manner and +was replied to by the infantry in the American lines. + +The final engagement on the 13th was short, but the guns of the Utah men +did wonderful execution. In conjunction with Dewey's fleet they tore +holes in the Spanish fort at Malate and helped in forcing the enemy out +of his position on the extreme left. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +BARRACK LIFE. + + +Like all the other organizations which had taken part in the capturing +of Manila, the Utah batteries were without a home when they first +entered the city. Battery A found temporary quarters in a spacious nipa +hut in the Malate district, while Battery B went into barracks in the +Odministracion de Hacienda. Several days later Major Young secured the +Cuartel de Meisic, formerly occupied by a Spanish engineer regiment, and +Battery A was stationed there August 18th. Some days following Battery B +moved into the same building. The Third Artillery occupied the south +half of the Cuartel, and the batteries were domiciled in the east and +west wings of the north half. The Cuartel was a large and stalwart +structure located in the most picturesque part of Manila. South of it +lay the business portion of Manila, with its Escolta, its Plaza de +Cervantes, and its Hotel de Oriente; to the west was the Marcadero +teeming with rustic Filipino maids and redolent with its Oriental odors; +stretching away to the north were the broad rice fields and forests of +bamboo, with the mountains in the distance forming a background. It was +a pleasant home and one which the men appreciated. + +During the first few weeks of barrack life the men settled down serene +in the thought that they would soon be speeding homeward. Their duty had +been done and they felt that they were now entitled to the happier +pleasures of Utah. But days passed, and were lengthened into weeks, +weeks passed and were lengthened into months, and still they remained in +the tropics with less hope of returning home than they had at first +entertained. The novelty of their surroundings began to wear off and +everything which the Philippines could afford became decidedly +commonplace. Unable, therefore, to find other entertainments when off +duty, as a pastime the men exchanged reminiscent fairy tales about +their late combat. Wearying of these occupations they often sauntered +out of the Cuartel in bodies in quest of what little mirth they could +get out of the passive and inexplicable natives. + +Of course, there were drills and everybody liked them, as they produced +such an excellent opportunity for one to give vent to his feelings after +the drills were over with. Those were happy hours which the men spent in +sweltering under the genial warmth of the southern sun, and learning +with a bitter vengeance the tactics of "dismounted drill." And "double +time," too, was always a pleasant innovation as it generated a bodily +heat to correspond with mental feelings and external influences. Then +there was always an appreciative audience of gaping nut-brown maids and +matrons who took delight in watching the "soldado" go through his +ever-changing evolutions. Yes, those were days which the veteran will +always look back upon with rapture. + +At first some trouble was occasioned over the inadequate food supply; +but that difficulty was soon obliterated. The then acting commissary +sergeant was removed and A.L. Williams, familiarly known among his +admirers in the battalion by the euphonious prefixes of "Dad" and +"Judge," was elevated to this position. Under the judicious management +of the Judge a revolution was made in the department and the men waxed +fat from the overflowing cornucopia of the commissary. + +In those murky days of Manila were other things which served to offset +the oppressive blazonry of the tropic sun. In order to make the attire +of the soldiers harmonize as much as possible with the requirements of +the climate, light shirts and trousers were provided by the +quartermaster's department. Every week occurred a general inspection, to +which the men were expected to appear housed in this startling white +with polished shoes and flaming brass buckles. A very imposing +appearance they made when lined up on these occasions. + +The advent of the soldier vastly accelerated the trade of the native +fruit venders in the vicinity of the Cuartel, and as time wore on this +peculiar product of the Orient increased his sales by the addition of +the deadly "vino," sometimes with rather disastrous results to the +imbiber. That wondrous monument of human ingenuity commonly known as +"army hardtack" formed the standard medium of exchange between the +industrious fruit dealer and his overworked customer. The barred windows +of the Cuartel became the market ground for all the products of Luzon, +and through them many a luscious mango was exchanged for an adamantine +biscuit upon which the soldier had vainly expended all his dental +energy. The natives had full access to the barracks at this time, and +the native washerwoman made the blanco trousers shine iridescently for +inspection by beating them against the sunny side of a boulder and +afterwards pressing them with a fearfully and wonderfully made flatiron. + +Hard by the Cuartel were a number of "tiendas," widely known among the +soldiers as "vino stands." The presiding spirit over one of these +establishments was generally a pretty "mestiza," who, in addition to her +natural charms, was blessed with a high-sounding Castilian name. There +were four shops run on the plan, which held pre-eminence both for the +character of the "vino" which they supplied and the bewitching charms of +their owners. The returned volunteer will remember with keen enjoyment +"Juanita," "Juaquina," "Victoriana," and above all "Isabella," the +saintly and virtuous, who was equally as skillful in obtaining the +nimble sixpence as in raising a brood of mestiza children. There was +also "Madre," withered and antiquated, but a born dictator, and through +her superior management she came to be known as the top-sergeant. +Finally there was Ysabel, with a gentle smile upon her pleasant brunette +face, and Estepania, brown-eyed and plump, most beautiful among all the +mestiza belles. Isabella's casa was the place to which the eyes of the +weary soldier turned after a long and fatiguing drill; afterwards it was +the point to which his footsteps inevitably led when he was able to rush +in for a few days from the firing line. The house was large and +spacious, with polished ebony floors and wide windows through which the +balmy zephyrs blew and kissed the heated brow of the tired fighter. +Beautiful creepers twisted their way up the wall and stole in at the +extensive balcony to catch a taste of the pleasures within; the +broadleafed banana palm surrounded the casa and broke the power of the +blazing tropic sun. It was, indeed, the one spot in all the East which +made the home-loving Utahns feel at home. When away all his secret +longings were centered upon that place and its attractions, and his +mouth yearned for a renewed acquaintance with the delicate omelets +fashioned by the dainty fingers of Pania and the crab brought from the +bay by the ubiquitous Peek-a-boo. His mind reverted with gratitude to +the anxious solicitations of "Madre" when she learned that he was +suffering from a headache and he acutely remembered the healing balm +which she applied to his fevered brow. He knew, too, that should he be +struck down in death by the bullet of the enemy, what tears of sympathy +would be shed at the news of his misfortune. + +[Illustration: A FAMILIAR SCENE.] + +The one source of worriment about the Isabella mansion was the fact that +the thirsty soldiers were frequently given an over supply of the deadly +vino. Such an occurrence was attended with dire results; but as the +motherly "Madre" was blessed with an abundant store of remedies, under +her care the victim was soon restored to his mental equilibrium. All +soldiers seem gifted with special powers to spend money and as a +consequence few of them could command the attention of a penny bootblack +twenty-four hours after being paid, but this weakness had no weight with +the kindly old dame who carried a large credit roll and could refuse +nothing to a Utah soldado. So Isabella's mansion forms a part of the war +history of the Utah batteries; and it must be remembered with other and +more stirring scenes; for when the thoughts of the Utah soldier stray to +the domicile of the Isabella family they are mingled with happy +reminiscences and strange memories and tragic sights. + + * * * * * + +One hundred and four weary and footsore recruits arrived in the Cuartel +on the 28th of August and deposited their blankets and all other +portable property on the greensward. They had been waiting out in the +bay four days and had finally reached the Cuartel after having made a +complete circuit of the city. Sergeant Arthur W. Brown piloted the new +batch of volunteers to their home, and ever since the redoubtable +Sergeant has borne a reputation, as a file leader, which would make a +Mexican burro grow green-eyed with envy. + +Here it might be stated that after watching the fleet of transports, +which conveyed the Utah batteries, sail out of the rugged Golden Gate +into the broad Pacific, Lieutenant E.A. Wedgewood and Sergeants Arthur +W. Brown and L.N. Fehr turned toward Utah bent on the mission of +securing 104 recruits, which would give each battery its full quota of +173. Volunteers were numerous but the work of enlisting covered a period +of nine days. Recruits were obtained from all points in the State but +the majority came from Salt Lake City. On the 28th of June the full +number had been enrolled and the following day the small body of men +left for San Francisco, after being accorded a warm demonstration at the +depot. At Oakland they remained all night of the 30th and the following +morning they marched to Camp Merritt, from which place they were removed +to the Presidio two days later. + +Late in June Lieutenant Wedgewood was taken ill with typhoid fever but +remained with the men until July 6th, when he was taken to the Lane +hospital and Lieutenant Diss of the California Heavy Artillery was +placed temporarily in charge of the recruits. Orders were for the Utah +contingent to sail on the transport "Rio de Janeiro," and as the South +Dakota Infantry was the only organization on the vessel Lieutenant +Foster of that regiment was given command of the men. + +The voyage was uneventful save that the soldiers were ill-treated by +Lieutenant Foster, who succeeded in gaining for himself the eternal +hatred of the men under his charge. As the recruits were then +unacquainted with military practices, many expressions of disgust being +made in an unguarded way, reached the ears of the worthy Lieutenant, who +heaped still greater indignities upon the men by way of retaliation. + +At Honolulu W.A. Kinney, the large plantation owner, entertained the +Utahns during their brief stay in that city. + +The "Rio de Janeiro" arrived in Manila Bay on the 24th of August, but it +was four days later before the recruits set foot on the soil of Luzon +and made their phenomenal march up the streets of Manila to Plaza de +Felipe II, where they greeted their comrades. + +Lieutenant Wedgewood, having recovered from his fever, arrived October +4th on the "Scandia," which left San Francisco on August 27th. + +During the long dreary days following the arrival of the recruits their +life was not entirely joyous. From sunrise to sunset they were forced to +listen to the blood-curdling tales which their companions told of the +late conflict with the "Dons." At first they hearkened to them with +respectful attention. They never doubted the truth of these glowing +fairy stories. They revered these self-lauding heroes as a species of +immortal beings. In return for this tributary deference they were +treated with contempt. The veteran called them "rookies," and whenever +one of them attempted to soar he was promptly and sternly reminded of +his inferiority and kindly invited to get off the pedestal upon which he +had so unwittingly placed himself while one of his superiors proceeded +to relate a harrowing tale of blood and thunder and rain down in the +trenches. Every bit of rainy weather or glorious sunset reminded the +Malate hero of something he had seen in the trenches and at once he +began to dilate upon it with great attention to details and a lofty air +of his own importance. + +So it went on. The recruits vainly sought for relief. He tried to stem +the tide of persecution by relating stories of his own. But as soon as +he made such an attempt he was immediately "bawled out" and his +tormentors proceeded with a fresh tirade. Finally one of the groaning +victims hit upon a happy plan, and after it was carried out it +effectually stopped the torture. When in the future the mendacious +veteran essayed to array himself in a cloud of glory by narrating +legends of personal prowess, he was unceremoniously suppressed by the +rookies, who sang: + + It may be so; I do not know, + But it sounds to me like a lie. + +Instantly upon the starting of this little hymn it was taken up by every +soldier in the barracks and the unlucky veteran, crestfallen and beaten, +was only too glad to retire into seclusion. + + * * * * * + +During those five months in which the soldier was learning the +peculiarities of Oriental life and sweltering under the rays of the +Southern sun, he adopted any means of causing the speedy destruction of +time. After the singularities of his new surroundings had ceased to be +uncommon he began to look about himself in search of other amusement. +Naturally a person who adapts himself easily to his environments, he +took up with the games of the Filipinos, and, as a consequence, soon +after the appearance of the American as a prominent figure on the +streets of Manila, it was no unusual occurrence to behold the huge, +good-natured Yankee engaged in friendly sport with the diminutive and +fiery Tagalan. + +As cock-fighting is the national game of the native the soldier seized +upon this diversion with an enthusiasm that was truly remarkable. The +slender and wiry game cock was in great demand. The feathered pugilist +became the hero of the hour. The price of "pollos" jumped above par two +or three times over. On the shady side of every street could be seen +little knots of men eagerly awaiting the outcome of a battle in which +these kings among all the fowl tribe were engaged. And the victory was +not decided without great loss, for frequently the champion proclaimed +himself conqueror by mounting the gory body of his late enemy and +crowing with great vigor. Men bet on their favorites with as much fervor +as an ardent proselyte of Mohammed utters praises to his Maker from the +housetop at sunrise. + +But even this pastime was too tame for the restless nature which +constantly pined for the more exciting fun of America. So the chicken +stock suddenly declined in value, and that of the swine took a +corresponding rise, when there was talk of organizing a football +association. This plan, however, lost its popularity after several +practices on the "Gridiron"--the climate of Luzon had its drawbacks when +it came to punting the pigskin. The requirements for a good football +game are a temperature of 6 degrees below zero, and a field covered with +a four-inch layer of snow and a corresponding thickness of soft mud +underneath. As the Philippines are sadly deficient in the first two +articles, it was decided to drop "Rugby" in favor of baseball. + +Throughout the Eighth Army Corps this proposition was received with +great warmth. Every organization had its team. Some influential men of +Manila offered inducements to the winning nine; the American Commercial +Company agreed to present a silver cup to the team which could score the +most points. Arrangements were made for matches, and rival teams soon +met on the diamond at the Lunetta. Utah was not to be outdone even in +baseball; any man who had ever played ball or looked at a diamond was +invited to join the team, and after this liberal request, it took no +great time for the battalion to put a pretty good organization into the +field. Soon the husky farmers from Utah were pitted against the powerful +"pumpkin rollers" from Nebraska, and the sturdy Pennsylvanians fought +for honors with the Wyoming cowboys. + +Those were pleasant hours when the sons of America met under the tropic +sky on a foreign soil and exchanged friendly greeting in their national +game. Not a follower of the "Stars and Stripes" was there but felt +happier and prouder after such a day. Home seemed nearer by half than it +ever had before. And the natives, too, came in for a share of the +rejoicing; they liked to see the "Grande Americano" perform his antics +with the ball; they, too, gathered in knots and talked and gesticulated +and laughed and cheered. The irrepressible small boy was everywhere +present, with his sarsaparilla, his peanuts and his slabs of cocoanut +candy. There were those who made his trade profitable and those who +preferred something of a more fiery nature. That also could be obtained +for the asking. + +So the games went on by the side of the great swelling sea, and the roll +of the surf mingled with the merry tones of the players. Battles were +fought and fields were won on the diamond and Utah carried the trophy +away to America. + + * * * * * + +While there were some things which excited the curiosity, others which +aroused the attention, and still others which seemed to rivet men's +minds for a short time on certain subjects, yet they all paled into +insignificance before the magic of that one word "Mail!" + +On a quiet sultry day, when all nature except the sun seemed to be +taking a rest and when nothing but the bugle call for dinner could prove +that a spark of life remained in the barracks, the announcement that +mail had arrived would transform that peaceful quiet building into an +Eastern bazar, with all of its accessions. At the mention of that word +the stolid sentry, pacing his beat with languid steps, instantly +quickened into life; the motionless somnolent forms lying on the canvas +cots sprang from their recumbent positions, strangely wide awake; the +groups of men engaged in a social game of cards, instantly scattered +for that new field of interest. The First Sergeant's office became a +scene of the greatest activity. An eager, excited crowd gathered around; +cheeks and noses were pressed against the iron grating, while the ear +listened intently for familiar names. Happy was he who received a goodly +supply. + +[Illustration: "OLD GUARD FATIGUE" AT THE CUARTEL.] + +There were those who turned away crestfallen and disappointed, there +were others who remained behind and hungrily eyed their more fortunate +comrades, as they knew they had no loved ones to write to them. When the +mail had been distributed the barracks again relapsed into silence, but +it was a wide awake silence, not a sultry, oppressive one. Then was +reading of letters which told of love and friendship and hope; then were +familiar scenes brought before the imagination to renew acquaintances +which had begun to grow dim; then were sighs heard for dear home and +mother. Newspapers and magazines were not unpopular. The letters read, +then the papers were devoured. Long articles, short articles, +advertisements and pictures were consumed with equal eagerness, and when +every visible portion had been absorbed they were held up to the light +to see if they contained anything on the inside. Such was mail day in +Manila, and the story proceeds. + +In the early days of barrack life, men talked of returning home to +celebrate Thanksgiving, but after October had begun to decline it became +evident that these fond hopes were not to be realized. + +Then the inventive Yankee proceeded to devise means to give thanks in +the good old fashioned way in spite of climate and strange country. The +Luzon turkey in all respects does not compare favorably with his +American cousin, yet he is "turkey," and that goes a great way when it +comes to celebrating Thanksgiving. + +It was upon this peculiar species of the feathered race that the +batterymen fastened their attentions. Turkeys were secured, and they +served as a nucleus about which all preparations centered. Several weeks +prior to the gala day most elaborate arrangements were made. The +soldiers gathered in knots and discussed the coming event. It had a +particular interest with them as they anticipated something more +palatable than the ordinary "hardtack and slum-gullion." Nor were their +expectations disappointed, for, when the day came in all its glory, the +commissary had proved itself equal to the occasion. All the powers of +the culinary art had been brought to bear upon the leathery tendons of +this turkey of the East. It had been fried and flayed until the very air +of the barracks became aromatic with its savor. Even the hungry natives +scented the perfumed air and gathered at the entrances to inspect the +delicacies more closely. + +At length the tables were prepared and the ravenous warriors seated +themselves. Then were the victuals attacked with vigor; the enemy +brought forth all his fighting force; he assaulted the front with deadly +effect; simultaneously he attacked the flank and the rear; he cut, he +hacked, he slashed, he dissected and tore, until there was nothing left +of his victim but the skeleton, and even this he eyed ravenously. Of +course there were pies and cakes and cranberries and fruits and greens +and vegetables, and they, too, suffered. Of the squash family there were +not a few, the favorite pumpkin was wanting, but then the lack of it had +been long since supplied by the desiccated potato, and the consumer felt +no secret pangs at its absence. Thus Thanksgiving passed on and +Christmas came with its bevy of holiday boxes, and its "Peace on earth +good will to men;" but while the American was still thinking of the +light of peace, there came the low rumbling of impending gloom; his ears +were startled by the distant thunder of the voice of war; he knew it to +be the opening peal of the awakening insurrection and his attention +turned to the more serious matter of the imminent conflict. A more +powerful enemy than his late foe menaced him from all sides. + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE INSURRECTION. + + +The report of a rifle rang down the quiet Santa Mesa hill on the night +of February 4th. As the flash of the gun died away in the gloom a dusky +warrior fell in death and the spark of an insurrection kindled into +flame. Almost instantly the belligerent Tagalans rushed down upon the +American outposts; the United States forces from Caloocan to Malate +swung into line, and the sturdy Anglo-Saxon and the fiery Malay were +matched in combat. + +The violent clash caused no look of surprise to flutter across the faces +of the American soldiers; all knew that the outbreak was coming, all had +waited with expectant excitement for the impending conflict. To the +intoxicated native victory against the Spanish seemed too certain to be +wrested from him by the conquering American; he had long smarted under +the goading reflection that "the wreath of the conquerer" had been +snatched away at the moment when it seemed almost within his grasp. This +bitter knowledge irritated and maddened him, until he only awaited an +opportunity to spring at the throat of his imaginary foe and wrench from +him what he considered his own. He remembered the long years of +wretchedness under Spanish tyranny and oppression. He suspected that his +new masters would prove even more overbearing than his late persecutors. +He had not forgotten the daring rush for liberty which his ancestors had +made. Their blood coursed through his veins and he determined that he +would not relinquish the struggle without one last bold dash for the +coveted goal. + +It was not alone a love for liberty which spurred onward the dark horde +which followed the red banner of Aguinaldo. Since 1896 they had striven +with their ancient enemy, with the hope that they might tear from him +all his wealth. Their leader had with subtle diplomacy urged on his wary +braves with the thought that when they battered down the walls of Manila +all that it contained would be theirs to loot and ravage. They loved +liberty, but they loved the gold which it would bring still more. So +they looked with hungry eyes when they saw the Americano enter the city +of their dreams and close the gate against the black hosts who sought +entrance to plunder and steal. + +During the few months preceding the outbreak the Filipinos had become +less friendly to their late allies. "La Independencia," the official +organ of the insurgents, frequently came out with loud denunciations +against the Americans and called the sullen natives to action against +the hated usurpers. It was not an uncommon occurrence to see the walls +of public buildings patched over with "proclamos," signed by Aguinaldo, +almost openly declaring war against the Americans and asserting the +rights of the Tagalans to their independence. + +The fourteen blockhouses which had been the Spanish line of defense had +been allowed to fall into the hands of the Filipinos, who converted them +into a strong offensive and defensive work. When by chance an American +strayed beyond these fortifications, the attitude of the native sentries +was often violent and abusive. Eventually no soldiers were permitted to +go outside of the territory bounded by our outposts, and the Malay line +of muskets tightened around the city like the arm of a colossal dragon. +Repeatedly there were war alarms, and for several days the men not on +duty were kept in barracks. At times the Tagalans at the pumping station +shut off the water supply merely as an insolent challenge and an +indication of what they were able to do. On certain parts of the line +the Filipinos were seen building new intrenchments and reinforcing the +old ones. + +For several weeks natives had been concentrating around the Santa Mesa, +and Lieutenant Webb was sent out to the Nebraska camp with the left +platoon of Battery A to strengthen the Nebraska position. The Santa Mesa +road was looked upon by the multitude of Aguinaldo as the natural +gateway to Manila. It was at the San Juan Del Monte bridge that they +had sought in vain to pound their way into the Spanish lines on many a +desperate battle night. One of the Utah guns occupied the very gun pit +which had been used by the Castilians as a defense from which their +cannon barked back defiance to the onrushing fanatical hordes. + +Often there were wrangles between Colonel Stotsenberg and the Tagalan +officers regarding the line of outposts which the native forces should +occupy. Several times the Colonel averted hostilities by a judicious +yielding to minor points. Ultimately at the San Juan bridge a stalwart +American sentry and a diminutive Tagalan paced in parallel lines. The +Filipinos seemed anxious to aggravate the Americans into an act of +hostility, and rigorous orders were issued to prevent such an +occurrence. Night after night the native warriors clustered about one +end of the bridge and uttered curses at the silent Nebraskan outpost. +Before the outbreak actually took place several times our sentries were +forced back by a howling mob of drunken Malays. + +One native officer was particularly violent. Not a night passed but that +he gathered a crowd of inebriated Tagalans and tramped down to the +bridge for the purpose of scoffing and hurling vile epithets at the +taciturn American posted there. They were encouraged by the lenient and +apparently submissive attitude of the Americans whom they had begun to +look upon as arrant cowards, who could be wheedled and whipped about as +they chose. + +On the night when the signal shot sang out in the darkness and the +battle came, the same haughty officer was coming down towards the +American line to repeat his abusive conduct, when the sharp voice of the +sentry rang out as a warning to halt. He persistently advanced and at +the same time launched some vehement Tagalan curses at the outpost. The +next instant he lay dead with a bullet through his heart; the report +startled the still night air and an insurrection was born. + +All that night the thunders of the united American forces in action were +wafted to the Cuartel. The natives were so close that some of the +bullets pattered against the walls of the building and some even struck +the Hotel De Oriente, nearer town. When the commissary wagons probed +their way out to the belligerent front they were fired upon from the +houses lining the streets. Every nipa hut in which a private family +lived became an arsenal. + +The trouble had been anticipated and every officer knew what portion he +was expected to defend. Ten minutes after the news arrived in the +Cuartel, the heavy guns of Utah rumbled over the streets to different +parts of the field. + +Those under Major Grant rushed out into the night and were instantly +under a vigorous fire near the woods of Caloocan. Captain Wedgewood +disappeared in the blackness and took up the appointed position on the +Balic Balic road near Sampaloe cemetery. The guns under Lieutenant +Seaman dashed out of the barracks and a few moments later their deep +bass was added to the Satanic roar. On McLeod's hill surrounded by the +Nebraskans two guns under Lieutenant Webb menaced the plain below. + +At Santa Mesa the fight began. Three minutes after the opening flash the +Nebraskan camp was deserted. As the outposts slowly returned the +regiment swept onward to the fray, and soon the angry rattle of the +"Long Toms" answered back the viperous "ping" of the Mauser. + +The sound of the first shot had hardly ceased echoing upon the hill when +the Tagalans, jubilant, confident, flew for the bridge; their onrush was +met with a volley from the Nebraskans. Then from Caloocan and Sampaloe +the din of multitudinous musketry fired in unison, waved over the hill; +then the awful thunder of the guns of the fleet pulverized the enemy's +bulwarks at Malate swelled over the plain. Occasionally a lull came in +the fight and then as if gathering strength by inaction the tumult broke +forth with increased fury. In the darkness it was impossible for the +Utah guns to accomplish anything, as the location of the infantry could +not be exactly distinguished. So all night the men tugged and toiled to +get the pieces in position, that they might take part in the encounter +at dawn. The fifth section gun held a commanding position on the right +and the sixth section was stationed directly in front of McLeod's house, +from which point it could sweep the enemy's line from Blockhouse No. 7 +on the north to the Catholic convent on the south. + +Just as the first streaks of dawn dappled the east, the two big guns +belched over the plain and the fight began. During the night the +relative positions of the opposing forces had not been changed. The +maddened Filipinos made a renewed attempt to cross the bridge and +penetrate the Nebraska line, that they might gain their coveted +goal--the city of their dreams. The aim of the two guns was concentrated +upon this point. Twice the Tagalans with frenzied courage charged up the +bridge, only to be torn to pieces by the shrieking shells and the deadly +bullets. With desperate energy they hauled an artillery piece into +position on the bridge, but this was demolished by a single shell from +one of our guns. + +The position of the artillery became perilous; the insurgents centered a +galling fire upon the big guns, with the hope of ridding themselves of +this new terror. The leaden missiles rained from three points, +Blockhouse No. 7, the bridge and the convent. Every time one of the +cannon roared over the hill, she raised a vicious hail of bullets from +the enemy. Three minutes after the conflict began Corporal John G. Young +received a fatal wound in the lungs. Almost immediately after Private +Wilhelm I. Goodman fell dead with a bullet through his brain. + +Instantly men rushed in to fill their places, but the position of the +gun had become so dangerous that Lieutenant Webb ordered it removed to a +more sheltered point, at the north of the house. In the face of a heavy +fire the men lifted the piece out of the pit and rolled it to the +station designated. This ended the casualty list of the artillery for +that day. Both guns now shelled the enemy at Blockhouse No. 7 and the +San Juan Del Monte Church, until the two guns under Lieutenant Gibbs +came up. The skilled aim of the two gunners and the superb courage of +Lieutenant Webb and Sergeants Fisher and Robinson were greatly +commended. + +Shortly before 11 o'clock two Nordenfelt guns under Lieutenant Gibbs +arrived at the hill and under the orders of Colonel Smith of the +Tennesseeans advanced up the Santa Mesa road. The Tagalans were still in +strong force in the woods to the right of the road, and, as the two guns +moved forward, they received a pelting fire from this locality. + +The guns dashed up the road and swung into action on the bridge. The +forces then began an advance up the road, running twenty and thirty +yards at a time, supported by the infantry from Tennessee. After a half +hour of sharp fighting the Tagalans fled before the cannister and +shrapnel of the big guns and the bullets of the Tennesseeans, and thus +the hills as far as the Deposito were won. Meanwhile, a battalion of +Tennesseeans had deployed out to the left and taken the Deposito, and +the two guns were moved to this point. + +The Tennesseans left the Nebraskans in charge of the Deposito and +disappeared off to the right. Late that night Lieutenant Webb and the +fatigued warriors of Santa Mesa joined Lieutenant Gibbs at the Deposito, +where they bivouacked with the prospect on the morrow of an advance upon +the pumping station, four miles beyond. + +The movement upon the pumping station was not easily accomplished; there +were several sharp skirmishes on the way. Though the power of the +insurgents seemed to have been broken on the previous day, there were +some in whom the spirit of resistance was not entirely extinguished and +they contested the march of the Americans with vigor. When the move was +made on the morning of the 6th the artillery was under the personal +command of Major Young. A straggling line of infantry deployed on either +side of the road and with the artillery in the rear the forward movement +began. Scarcely half a mile from the Deposito the moving column +encountered a small body of Tagalans, who opened fire. Once more the +angry guns pealed forth in menacing thunder and the terror-stricken +natives retreated for the kind shelter of the bamboo thickets beyond. +Two similar skirmishes happened farther up the road. About a mile and a +half from the Deposito the mutilated body of Dr. Harry A. Young was +found lying by the side of a ventilator. Some distance back the body of +his horse had been discovered. Major Young was the first to locate this +gory evidence, which mutely told the tragic story of the end of Dr. +Young. All the clothing had been rent from the body, a bullet hole was +in his forehead, and a bolo wound from the elbow of the left arm to the +waist told the tragic story of how he died. The supposition is that the +Doctor was surprised on his way to the Deposito, where he had an +appointment with Major Young, and took the wrong road, which led him to +a grim death in the Tagalan territory. A few minutes later, while the +body was being conveyed to Manila, the Major calmly commanded his men in +a rush with the enemy, in which eighty of them were killed. This +exhibition of splendid courage was ever after an inspiration to the +Utahn when he felt like being disheartened. + +Gradually the uncoiled infantry line pushed back the recalcitrant +natives, and late in the morning the heights above the beautiful +Mariquina valley were reached. Here the artillery was placed in +position, and, with the Mariquina Church steeple as a target, the town +was bombarded. Now and then a shuddering shrapnel was sent shrieking +after fugitive bands of Tagalans, who made all haste for the protecting +shelter of the mountain on the opposite side of the valley. + +From that place they were content to look with dismay upon the +death-dealing monsters which frowned from the hill above the bulwarks. + +When the first platoon of Battery A, under Captain Wedgewood, sped out +into the gloom on the night of the 4th it took up a position in the +Balic Balic road near the Cemetario de Sampaloe. All night long the two +guns were under a straggling fire from the Filipinos, who at this place +held Blockhouse No. 5, about 300 yards to our front, and a diminutive +stone church which was located off to the right of our position. The +section two gun was placed inside the Cemetario, but that of section +one remained outside, where it was exposed to the enemy's fire. + +At 3 a.m. from two points the Malays centered a vicious fusilade upon +the artillery, which remained inactive owing to the obscurity of the +Tagalan line of defense. No. 1 gun was moved back about 100 yards to a +more sheltered station by the cemetery. Just as the first streaks of +dawn appeared in the east the two guns blazed toward the blockhouse and +the small church, in which were a large number of natives. +Simultaneously the Colorado infantry swung into position and with a +withering fire slowly advanced upon the enemy. Several well-directed +shells sent the Filipinos flying from the blockhouse and a few more +accurately trained shots annihilated the little church. As the Tagalans +moved from their cover they fell many deep before the blasting volleys +of the invincible Coloradoans. + +As the natives fled from the church, the artillery turned its attention +to Blockhouse No. 4, 1700 yards distant, and while the South Dakotans +made a wonderful charge they demolished this wooden bulwark. Next the +big guns were ordered to shatter Blockhouse No. 6, but before they could +be brought into play against this point the insurgents had disappeared +into the woods with the swift-moving Colorado infantrymen hard on their +track. On the 6th the platoon was moved to a position left of Blockhouse +No. 7. On this part of the line it remained until March 23rd, when it +was ordered to Caloocan to take part in the fierce engagement at that +point when the whole line charged the enemy's works on March 25th. + +The damage inflicted on the natives of Sampaloe was very considerable. +Over a hundred bodies were buried there and in many a battered form +could be seen that ripping course of a shrapnel. General Hale personally +praised the work of Sergeants Emil Johnson and W.E. Kneass, who were in +immediate charge of the two rifles. + +The guns of Battery B took a position on the left of the line to the +south of Caloocan on the night of the war alarm. Second Lieutenant +Seaman went out on the Caloocan road with one 3.2 gun. Major Grant left +the Cuartel with three 3.2-inch guns, and after leaving one at Bilibid +Prison took the remaining two up the rugged Bulum Bugan road as far as +Lazaro Hospital. Emplacements were made under a spattering fire from the +enemy at this point, facing the Chinese Hospital and the Binondo +Cemetery, in both of which places the Tagalans were strongly lodged. +Only an occasional shot blazed towards the enemy during the night, but +from a commanding position the artillery fire began at dawn with +destructive and terrifying results. Besides driving the +sturdily-intrenched Tagalans back, the Utah attack entirely covered the +simultaneous advance of the Tenth Pennsylvania and South Dakota +infantry. + +The advance of the slowly-moving regiment was irresistable and the +natives fell back from their position after a stubborn fight. All that +day the Malay resisted the American advance with fanatical frenzy. The +artillery moved forward at the same moment, but many times was delayed +by burning huts. After an advance of about 400 yards they again joined +the infantry line, but they had arrived at a conspicuous and dangerous +position on the road, where for thirty minutes they fought desperately +in the open under a heavy fire from the Filipino intrenchments. It was +here that Major Bell of General McArthur's staff rode up and requested +Major Grant to move up beyond the Chinese Hospital, where the Tagalans +in a fierce engagement were inflicting heavy damage on the infantry. +Almost at the same moment Colonel Wallace sent word that a company of +the Tenth Pennsylvanians had been cut off to the left, and Lieutenant +Critchlow was sent with one gun up the Leco road to its assistance. The +remaining guns tore the woods in front of the advancing infantry and +cleared the way for the Pennsylvanians and South Dakotans, so that the +right wing advanced at this point almost without a casualty. Still +towards Caloocan the artillery advanced with the musketeers, and beyond +the Cemetery Church the big guns shelled the woods to the left of La +Loma in front of the advancing Third United States Artillery (infantry) +and Twentieth Kansas. Just when the Tagalans were fleeing, bleak with +terror, from the artillery shells; when Colonel Funston, like a young +Jove, was pounding his way irresistibly up from the left, and when +everything looked auspicious for an easy dash into Caloocan, word came +from General MacArthur that the firing should cease. The spires of +Caloocan were then almost in view, and there is an opinion that had +General MacArthur not feared that the line would grow too thin by a +further advance Funston would have taken Caloocan that night, with many +railway cars and many supplies, and with the saving of many lives which +went out on the next advance when the Filipinos had had time to bulwark +themselves behind their wonderful intrenchments. + +On the same day the guns were moved to a position close to La Loma +Church. Later two Nordenfelt guns arrived, one of Battery A, and were +stationed first at Blockhouse No. 3 and afterwards east of La Loma +Church and in front of the left battalion of the South Dakota infantry. +These were commanded by Lieutenant Critchlow. + +Meanwhile Lieutenant Seaman withstood a destructive fire on the Caloocan +road. Early in the fight he was reinforced at the suggestion of the +division commander by the addition of another gun. Major Young took +personal command of the Nordenfelt which arrived there late that night. +Frequently in the encounter the natives rushed up to within 150 yards of +our position, from which they went reeling back before the awful thunder +of the big guns. At times the powder-begrimed Utahns were in advance of +the main line, carrying death into the very teeth of the foe. So fierce +was the conflict that Major Young had the gun manipulated in short +reliefs, and this shortened the casualty list of our organization. +Corporal Wardlaw and Private Peter Anderson sustained wounds while +serving their pieces in this manner. The natives trained two big guns on +our position and fired fifteen ineffective shots from them. Next day the +two guns supported the Kansas troops in their advance upon the Filipino +intrenchments and Blockhouse No. 1. As the swift-moving column charged +the enemy's line the two rifles tore great gaps into this wooden +structure and plowed furrows into the wonderfully-constructed +earthworks. When the insurgents had fled before the deadly volleys of +the Kansans one gun was stationed at the blockhouse and the other at the +Binondo Cemetery. Here they remained until February 10th, when they took +part in the demonstration against Caloocan. + +The next three days Major Grant's three guns did nothing except to fire +occasionally at some enthusiastic Filipino sharpshooters. On the 11th a +general advance was made by the Montana and the Kansas infantry and the +Third United States Artillery. The artillery force consisted of two guns +under Lieutenant Seaman on the hill to the left, two guns under +Lieutenant Fleming of the Sixth United States Artillery on the railroad, +Lieutenant Critchlow with two Nordenfelts at Blockhouse No. 2, and Grant +with three 3.2-inch B. and L. rifles at La Loma Church. The prearranged +signal for the attack was to be a bombardment by the navy accompanied by +a similar action by Major Young's artillery force. The big guns pounded +shell against the native defenses, and sent shrapnel singing into the +woods surrounding the town, and under the somewhat ineffectual, but +loudly-thundering labors of the fleet the infantry column hurried +forward, and the Tagalans gradually swayed back. As the enemy retreated +the aim of the guns was directed higher and several of these iron +messengers went crashing into the town. Some remarkably good work was +performed by our gunners on this day. It is said that a small body of +Filipinos could be seen reinforcing the intrenchments at the gate of the +Caloocan Cemetery. A Utah gunner saw this, and turned his piece on the +gate and shortly after a shell shuddered through the air on its +2600-yard journey. When the smoke cleared away, gate, Filipinos and war +weapons strewed the ground for many yards. + +Major Bell with a flanking column of Montanas deployed through a ravine +on the right. Suddenly a long, rope-like column of natives whipped out +of the fringe of the woods and quickly coiled around the company. Major +Young saw the predicament in which the Americans were placed, and soon +the murderous shells fell in the midst of the column, which broke into +fragments and disappeared the way it had come. The next day Major Bell +was lavish in his praise of the batteries, and several British officers +who were watching the progress of the fight complimented the gunners on +their expert and effective gunnery. + +During the attack on Caloocan Lieutenant Seaman followed with the +infantry as far as the flames from the burning houses would permit and +pulled the gun through Caloocan to a position on the Kansas line. On the +11th guns were moved to a position on a hillside near the residence of +Mr. Higgins near Caloocan at a place where he commanded the causeway +between Caloocan and Malabon. At this point the two guns were joined by +a platoon of the Sixth Artillery and a 3.6 mortar under Corporal Boshard +of Battery B. + +[Illustration: LIEUT. GIBBS' SECTION AT FT. MACARTHUR.] + +At this time Utah soldiers on different parts of the line manned +thirty-two pieces of artillery, including 3.2-inch B.L. rifles, +Hotchkiss revolving cannon, Hotchkiss mountain guns, Maxim Nordenfelts +captured from the Spanish, Mortars, Colt's rapid-fire (Browning's) gun, +a navy field piece, navy six-pounder and Gatling guns of various +calibers. + +After Caloocan was taken possession of by the troops scarcely any +fighting was indulged in until March 25th, when an advance was made. +Except for occasional incursions into the enemy's territory for the +purpose of driving back harassing sharpshooters there was a practical +cessation of hostilities at the waterworks. At this time the line over +which our guns were stationed extended from Malabon to Mariquina. At +Caloocan a severe engagement occurred on the 23rd of February. A large +force of insurgents came rushing down from the hill towards our outposts +and finally established themselves within 150 yards of the American +lines. It was during this period that some of them were able to +penetrate the American position and steal their way into Manila to take +part in the burning of the Tondo district. This band was under the +leadership of a bold and gallant chief named Zandico. While Tondo was +disappearing in flames and sharp hand-to-hand skirmishes were taking +place between these Filipino desperadoes and the American police a +furious altercation was going on between the darkly-outlined bulwarks of +the two armies. During this attack sixty men of the Kansas and Montana +regiments alone were killed and wounded. + +The work of the sharpshooters showed the watchful alertness of the +enemy. Whenever one of these riflemen espied a piece of American anatomy +there was a report and a still messenger of death went skimming through +the air. Frequently one of the large guns had to be employed to repress +the zeal of one of these ubiquitous Malays. While repairing a breach in +the gun pit Lieutenant Seaman received a wound in the leg, Corporal +Southers was shot in the hip and Private Hill sustained a serious wound +in the back. + +About this time existed as remarkable a truce as was ever patched up +between belligerent forces. Some Filipino statesmen came down from +Malabon to see Aguinaldo, and as they carried a flag of truce firing +from our side ceased. The natives signified their desire to talk and +Colonel Funston and Major Young went half way to meet them. The +Tagalans then made known their proposition, which was that there should +be no firing between the two forces at that point for a period of ten +days. Colonel Funston assented. This was directly in front of the Kansas +line. The insurgents rigidly adhered to their promise, and while the +Springfields and Mausers were angrily barking in the vicinity of the +railroad track no messenger of war sped across the space in front of the +Kansans. + + * * * * * + +The four guns under Lieutenant Gibbs and Webb lifted to a commanding +position on the hill above the waterworks, menaced the valley below. +Frequently they boomed from the mountains as a warning to the curious +natives down on the wide plain of the San Mateo. The encounters which +took place between the Americans and the Tagals at this place are +illustrative of the peculiar mode of warfare carried on by the natives. +Not a few times our forces made invasions in the enemy's country at +Mariquina under the protection of the guns and drove his army into the +foothills on the opposite side of the valley, only to find him back in +his old position before nightfall with his camp fires piercing the gloom +of the valley as darkness settled in. + +These successive defeats seemed to have no power in dampening the ardor +of the ducky warriors of the plains. They continued to make invasions on +the American territory, and frequently waylaid belated American troops. +Up to March 25th the infantry force was not sufficiently large to hold +the country which had been taken. Four times the town of Mariquina was +captured in this style. Finally, by some peculiar decision of fate, a +battalion of Coloradoans descended into the valley and after dislodging +the enemy set fire to the hideous nipa huts. Thereafter fewer skirmishes +occurred in this locality. The white and shining church steeple arose +above the blackened ruins as a ghostly monument of the work of war. + +About four days after the occupancy of the waterworks by the American +troops Colonel Stotsenberg with a small body of the infantry scoured the +Mariquina plain, but though he met with some heated skirmishes and +drove the enemy back, there was no visible results from his excursion. +The artillery was first used in an advance on February 17th, when the +two Nordenfelt guns were taken down the Mariquina road by Lieutenant +Gibbs. None of the Utah men were hurt on this occasion, although the +natives fought stubbornly at short range and several men and officers of +the Nebraska regiment were wounded. Meanwhile General Montenegro, known +as one of the fiercest Filipino chiefs, had congregated his forces in +the woods southwest of the pumping station towards Pasig Lake and +Cainta. A plan was formed for surrounding the insurgents and the +Nebraska and Washington infantry and the two Maxim Nordenfelts took part +in the engagement. The artillery worked with the Nebraskans and shelled +the woods. Then there was a simultaneous advance from two sides by the +regiments. The Washingtons did their work well and the shells from the +guns were effective, but for once the Nebraskans failed in their usual +dash and came up too late to cut off the retreat of the enemy and +prevent his escape. + +[Illustration: GUN AT PUMPING STATION FIRING ON MARIQUINA.] + +Again on the 24th the two Nordenfelts under Lieutenant Webb moved down +the Mariquina road, and did excellent work in aiding the Nebraskans to +drive the natives back towards San Mateo. The B. and L. rifles from the +hill fired into bodies of natives to the left of Mariquina Church on +this occasion, and the death roster of the insurgents for that day was +very great. A revolving Hotchkiss under Corporal Hesburg, located close +to the Deposito, also inflicted severe damage on the natives. Still the +enemy at this point was alert and aggressive. The next day Major Mulford +went scouting with a small force to the right of Mariquina. Soon after +he reached the valley he was completely surrounded by the insurgents. +Then the big guns on the hill sent bursting shells fast into the +Filipino ranks and soon they retired stubbornly into the woods. Several +of Major Mulford's men were killed or wounded, and he stated afterwards +that the Utah guns had saved himself and party. This skirmish proved +that the natives were gathering there in a larger and more formidable +force, and this circumstances led to the burning of Mariquina. All night +the flames from the bamboo huts and old Spanish mansions illumined the +valley, and when the troops descended the next morning they found that +all the south and the greater part of the north end of the city were +entirely destroyed. + +There was comparative quietude after that until March 6th, when the +natives began to resume the annoying fire on the infantry, and an +artillery demonstration became imperative. As the insurgent attack came +about daylight, the guns under Lieutenant Gibbs bombarded the valley +from the hill, driving the enemy northward. Another large force of the +Tagalans swept down upon the Nebraskan outposts on the left and a deadly +affray commenced. Reinforcements were rushed to the aid of the stricken +sentries, who were gradually forced back by the superior numbers of the +assaulting party. Sergeant Ford Fisher with the fifth section gun dashed +out of the camp to the front. For three-quarters of a mile the +diminutive Filipinos horses with which the guns had lately been equipped +sped down the ridges under a galling fire. On the brow of the hill the +gun whirled into action long enough to drive the enemy back a few +hundred yards. Again the piece limbered up and rattled over the hard +lava road for a new position. The Tagalans soon centered a murderous +fire from three points upon the big gun as a desperate measure to +annihilate this new terror. A horse ridden by Private Engler was shot +down, but was able to recover himself sufficiently to gain the shelter +of a small gulch a few yards farther on. From its shelter the big gun +pounded over the road to another gulch which had been deserted just a +few minutes previously by a company of Nebraskans. The heavy limber +chest was left at the foot of the hill and on their hands and knees the +men pushed the piece forward until the bore of the gun gleamed down the +slope. A heavy volley answered from the plain below. Ford Fisher said +afterwards that he saw a Filipino sharpshooter behind a rock fire six +times point blank at the gunner as he was sighting the piece. Suddenly +the roar of a cannon tore down the hill. The Tagalans answered it with a +fiendish yell and came steadily onward. The men on the gun worked like +Trojans, but they could not force the Malays back. Just as it seemed as +if the gun would have to retire the tall white figure of Colonel +Stotsenberg could be seen with galloping steed coming up the hill. +Instantly the wavering infantry line tightened. The Colonel's pistol +flashed in the sunlight, and the whole column swung up the eminence to +victory. The voice of the big gun bellowed back its notes of defiance +and the haughty foe fled in terror. + +During the encounter Corporal McDonald with a revolving Hotchkiss cannon +performed some excellent service on the right in aiding the Oregon +infantry. Most of the fighting had been done at from 100 to 150 yards +range. The casualty list of the Nebraskans was heavy, and an immense +number of Filipinos was killed. The infantry followed the retreating +natives for three miles. + +On the 7th, in conjunction with the river fleet, the guns aided the +Nebraska, Wyoming and Washington infantry in forcing the enemy through +the woods towards Guadaloupe and Pasig Lake. The guns under Captain +Wedgewood shelled the insurgents to the south of San Juan del Monte and +aided the infantry very materially in its advance. The gunboats +hammered the natives on the left bank of the river and sent them +scurrying into the woods beyond Guadaloupe. + +It was decided to take the town of Mariquina on the 16th of March, and +Major Young with the left platoon of Battery A shelled the woods to the +north and west of the town so effectively that when the infantry forces +entered the place they found it deserted. + +This ended the fighting in that vicinity until the general advance of +March 25th. + +[Illustration: UTAH GUNS ON MANILA & DAGUPAN RAILWAY EN ROUTE FOR THE +FRONT.] + +On March 25th began that remarkable advance which never ended until the +native forces were driven beyond Calumpit and San Fernando into the +hills north of San Isidro and Tarlac. The American forces had long been +inactive gathering strength for the difficulties before them, and now +that this strength had been mustered they were eager for the fray. The +plan was for the commands of Generals H.G. Otis and Hale to swing around +to the right and cut off the retreat of the enemy from that quarter, +while General Wheaton's brigade was to strike the foe in front and not +move forward until the other forces had had sufficient time to +straighten out the line. A large body of the insurgents had assembled +at Malabon. The entire preparation had been made for the capture of this +force. + +Otis's brigade on the left consisted in the order given of the Kansas, +the Third Artillery (infantry), and the Montana regiment; in the center +was the divisional artillery under Major Young and then troops of the +Fourth United States Cavalry, and on the right was Hale's command, +containing the Tenth Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Nebraska regiments. +The Nebraskans were on the extreme right, while the Kansans formed the +pivotal regiment. + +The artillery designated to take part in the forward movement were two +B. and L. rifles, under command of Lieutenant Critchlow; two B.L. rifles +of the Sixth United States Artillery, under Lieutenant Fleming, and an +automatic gun under command of Ensign Davis of the navy. On the evening +of the 24th Lieutenant Fleming's guns were removed from the old +intrenchment in front of Fort MacArthur, and were replaced by two B. and +L. rifles under Lieutenant Gibbs of Battery A, who had formerly been +stationed in front of the Colorado line at Sampaloe. Major Grant at this +period was no longer in immediate command of Battery B, as he had been +detailed as commander of the river gunboats on February 17th. During the +period of waiting the Government mules had arrived and the rifles under +Lieutenants Critchlow and Fleming were now equipped for the journey into +the jungle. + +Few artillery exploits can compare in dash and daring with that +performed by Lieutenant Naylor out on the right of the line early in the +morning of the 25th. Many brave and reckless deeds with guns at close +range were done by artillery forces on other occasions in the Filipino +campaign, but it is hardly probable that any field pieces have been +rushed so far beyond infantry support as they were on this day before +the enemy at San Francisco del Monte. + +Lieutenant Naylor's position lay in a sunken road at a point where the +lines of the Tenth Pennsylvania and South Dakota regiments joined. For a +distance of about 800 yards the road, which had been constructed by the +Spanish, extended toward the Tagalan earthworks. At the point the road +abruptly ends, and there is a plat of hard ground. Fifty yards farther +on a rude barricade had been erected as a shelter for the native +outposts, and a hundred yards in advance of this the enemy's strong line +of earthworks widened out across the top of a gently rising eminence. +This position had been accurately located several days previously by a +reconnoitering party. + +Early in the morning the guns moved to the end of the sunken road and +began the perilous journey up this narrow defile. With Lieutenant Naylor +were Captain Crainbuhl and Lieutenant Perry of General Hale's staff and +a detachment of eight men of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment under +charge of a sergeant. Every one knew the danger that accompanied an +expedition of this character, and there was silence as perfect as that +of a tomb, save when one of the wheels of the heavy guns rumbled in a +rut. A few hundred yards from the camp they crossed a small stream and, +as the road broadened at this place, there was ample room to unlimber +the pieces. This was done so that there would be no delay when the time +for action should come. The pieces were placed in front and the two +limbers followed. At the end of the road the squad of infantry deployed +as skirmishers to drive back the Filipino sentries. Then the guns were +rushed up on the flat; two shells shrieked through the air towards the +insurgent intrenchments, which loomed up darkly on the hill, and the +bombardment began. At the first bark of the big guns the native outposts +fled precipitately for the protection of the heavier works on the summit +of the knoll. The roaring monsters now hurled a perfect stream of iron +into the place, and after responding feebly for a few minutes the foe +retired in haste across the San Juan river towards San Francisco del +Monte. The artillery advanced to the stream and sent shells flying after +them until it became too hazardous to continue the bombardment, owing to +the approach of our troops. Down the causeway over which the Tagalans +fled in their mad desire to escape whole squads of Filipinos lay. As the +guns had made the advance almost entirely unaided by the infantry it +was purely an artillery charge, and to the artillery belonged the +victory. General Hale rode up a few minutes later and personally +complimented Lieutenant Naylor upon the ability with which he had +handled his men in this successful maneuver. + +As the guns were unprovided with mules they were unable to proceed and +retired to their former position. + +The engagement opened up by Lieutenant Naylor's men on the right found +an echoing response from the guns of Lieutenants Critchlow and Fleming. +As they were to continue the advance their general course lay along the +railroad track, which stretches entirely across Luzon Island from Manila +to Dagupan. Just after dawn on the 25th the infantry moved forward about +700 yards ahead of the artillery, which followed the Novaliches road. A +strong force of the enemy was encountered heavily intrenched in a +position commanding the Novaliches and Malinta roads. The infantry swung +into line and attempted to force back the Tagalans, who stubbornly +resisted the attack of our column. Two large guns were soon brought into +play and the natives gradually retired. An examination later showed that +the defenses of the insurgents were remarkably constructed; in some +cases the main breastworks were twenty feet thick. The first day's +fighting had taught them a lesson by which they had profited. + +General MacArthur gave orders for the artillery to remain with him +during the advance, as it was impossible to move over the ridges. A +troop of the Fourth Cavalry, under Major Rucker, also remained with the +General. In the afternoon the artillery had turned down a small valley +toward the bed of the Pulilan river. The infantry had entirely +disappeared from the division commander's view, owing to a mountain +which lay between our forces and the artillery position. The general +whereabouts of our troops could be ascertained by the battle-sound, but +occasionally this died away as the moving column advanced. The General +sent forward one of his aids with a view of re-establishing our lines; +but he was fired upon and compelled to retire. The troops of cavalry +then dismounted and deploying as skirmishers soon dislodged the enemy. +Soon heavy firing was heard and an orderly rushed back asking for +reinforcements. The General sent word back that he had no reinforcements +to give. Just then Major Bell rode up and said he wished one of the Utah +guns and the General authorized Major Young to take one of the big +rifles and a Browning gun under Ensign Davis. + +Majors Bell and Young went forward to locate a position for the pieces. +They discovered that where the road crosses the river the banks of the +Pulilan rise to an almost perpendicular height of nearly fifteen feet. A +road a little distance above, so small that it could only be utilized +for carometas, crosses the river a short distance beyond the dismantled +bridge. On the right abutment of the bridge the Filipinos had +constructed a very formidable breastwork of earth and stone, and the +heavy steel beam of the bridge was arranged above this so as to leave a +long slot for the rifles the whole length of the work. This menaced the +surrounding approaches. A short distance below this was a boiler and +engine-house and on the other side of the river and lower down was a +remarkable field work. It extended along the river a distance of two +hundred feet, and was constructed with the same wonderful skill as the +smaller one at the bridge abutment. It had the same long slot flaring +outward about eighteen inches and the upper part of the work was +substantially held by bamboo flooring. + +The two Majors left the artillery piece and went forward to discover a +good site for the big gun. Major Young selected a place just under the +brow of the hill. The enemy was only 100 yards beyond, but our exact +location was screened from his view by a thick undergrowth of bamboo. A +heavy stone wall was used as a shelter for the men. Meanwhile the +cavalry stood a terrific fire. Out of less than forty men who took part +in the encounter nine were killed and wounded, a casualty list of almost +one-fourth of their number. The guns rushed into action. Major Young +directed that the Colt's automatic be turned on the slots to protect the +big gun. At the first boom of the rifle all the attention of the +insurgents was turned upon the crews working the piece, but the bamboo +screen kept them from taking accurate aim. Of the three shells fired by +Corporal Don Johnson, two struck immediately in the slot holes and burst +in the interior, doing considerable damage to the bamboo shed and above +all terrifying the dusky warriors, who turned and fled. The spitting +Colts and breaking shrapnel followed them with deadly effect. The +artillery then lumbered up and dashed to a position on the hill, from +which the boiler-house could be bombarded with annihilating effect. The +cavalry had stood a heavy fire during all this time at a range of +seventy-five yards, and when the beam had been examined after the enemy +had been driven out it showed the marks of eighty-nine cavalry bullets. + +That night the weary troops rested on the banks of the river. The next +morning, March 26th, an early advance was made upon the insurgents' +position at Malinta and Polo. It was here the moving column met the +advancing lines of General Wheaton, and then it was learned that he had +marched forward simultaneously with Hale's flying command, and that the +wily native had had ample time to flee out of Malabon and his old +position at Caloocan. So the projected coup had failed. Lieutenant Gibbs +with the right platoon of Battery A and one gun of Battery B and a +mortar bombarded Malabon and the surrounding country. When the shelling +ceased the Oregon regiment charged over the open and assaulted the +enemy's works, which were taken after a stubborn fight. The routed +Tagalans fled along the railroad track towards Malinta. + +One gun under Lieutenant Seaman accompanied Wheaton on this march as far +as the foot of the hill leading to Malinta, and was unloaded from the +car under a shower of Mauser bullets. Private Parker J. Hall of Battery +B was wounded at this point while standing on the track. A few shells +were fired into distant intrenched position on the hill, but when +Wheaton resumed his advance early in the morning the B. and L. rifle was +returned to its position at Fort MacArthur. It was during the advance up +the hill a few moments later that the gallant, white-haired General +Egbert, veteran of many battles, was fatally shot through the stomach. + +In the meantime the artillery with General MacArthur's division +continued the march up the road close by the railway line. While the +artillery was sending shell fast into the Filipino position at Malinta +and Meycayauan, and occupying their attention, General Hale executed a +rather brilliant flank movement and forced the enemy to retreat with +considerable loss. When the march was resumed on the 27th, the artillery +was moved up to a position just behind the first battalion of the Kansas +regiment, while all the rest of Otis's brigade remained in the rear. + +[Illustration: FIRST PLATOON. BATTERY A, READY TO MOVE TO MALOLOS.] + +When General MacArthur's division moved forward on March 25th, General +Hall, with the Colorado and Minnesota regiments, moved down the +Mariquina valley towards the San Francisco del Monte, where the bullets +of the South Dakotas and Lieutenant Naylor's shells were battering +against the walls. General Hall's advance was so warmly contested that +it became necessary for the guns on the hill to bombard the city and +surrounding woods to the north and west. The infantry was then able to +press forward and drive the natives back from the valley toward San +Mateo. + +On the 31st of March General Hall essayed a more extended advance, and +on this occasion his forces consisted of the Fourth and Twenty-third +regular infantry, the Minnesota and Colorado regiments and two Utah B. +and L. rifles, commanded by Captain Wedgewood. The movement began at +dawn. The regulars came from the South and the Minnesotas and +Coloradoans around the north of Mariquina. The town was entered before +the enemy had begun to fire. The attack was sudden and effective, and as +the natives began to retreat a gun under Sergeant Nystrom and another +close by the Mariquina Church commanded by Captain Wedgewood played +vigorously on their ranks. The infantry followed the natives six miles, +and from the hills overlooking the city San Mateo was bombarded by the +two guns. + +The natives were again in retreat when a telegram arrived from Otis, +which showed that he feared the natives might be preparing to make +another entrance into Manila. It read: "Wheaton has engaged enemy at +Malolos and taken that place. A very small force of the enemy was there. +Withdraw all your forces which are moving towards San Mateo and bring +them back to La Loma Church." It was a wearisome march to La Loma after +the fatigue of the day's campaign, and when the men arrived there with +the guns they were forced to sleep among the graves of the churchyard +without blankets and in a pelting rain. The next day the guns were +ordered back to their old position above Mariquina, where they remained +until relieved by the Sixth United States Infantry, when they joined the +rest of the command at San Fernando. + +On April 27th our forces met the Filipinos on the banks of the Marilao +river, on which occasion the noses of the big guns were pushed to within +fifty yards of the native earthworks. The guns employed were two under +Lieutenant Critchlow, a platoon of Dyer's light battery and Colt's +automatic under Ensign Davis. The Kansans under Major Metcalf had +deployed on the left and approached the river, but they were forced back +by the heavy fire of the insurgents, who had cut away the intervening +trees to give a clear sweep for their rifles. The whole north side of +the river had been cleverly and completely intrenched so that it formed +an almost impregnable fortification when attacked from the front. The +causeway up which the artillery had to advance was commanded by the +insurgent infantry. Across the river where the infantry first engaged +the enemy, the natives were about 800 yards distant. Major Young went +forward with Ensign Davis to locate a good position for the guns. While +there General Funston came up and stated he had seen quite a number of +cascos further down the river, and that if Major Young would protect his +men with an artillery fire he would be able to cross the river and flank +the enemy. This was agreed to, and a company of Kansans accompanied the +guns as a support. Lieutenant Critchlow's guns were quickly turned upon +the earthworks. As the big rifles roared across the stream the small +arms and the Colt's automatic centered a withering fire on the +intrenchments to keep the enemy's fire inaccurate. This vigorous +demonstration terrified the Tagalans and soon several white flags +appeared fluttering above the trenches. The firing ceased and the +Filipinos were ordered to stand up. Some few of them reluctantly showed +themselves, but the greater number ran through the get-away ditch and +vanished in the dark fringe of the bamboo forest. Lieutenant Coulter of +the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment with an enlisted man stripped and swam +the river and walked directly into the enemy's trenches. The two naked +men took as many rifles as they could hold from the defeated Malays. By +this time Colonel Funston, who had crossed the river, came up and took +some thirty natives prisoners. + +As the bridge crossing a branch of the Marilao river at this point had +been destroyed by the insurgents, the artillery moved to a new position +by the railroad track until a new bridge could be constructed by the +engineers. Just as night came on the natives were seen to emerge in a +large force from the woods and move towards our lines. Soon the entire +American host was sturdily engaged in repelling the attack. In the dark +it was impossible to exactly locate our infantry, but Major Young, at a +venture, directed several shots over our column at a range of from 2000 +to 2500 yards. The Filipinos soon retreated. It was afterwards learned +that these shells had fallen in the midst of the attacking force. + +This spirited encounter was the subject of a special report of the chief +of artillery to the division commander in which Lieutenant Critchlow and +the cannoneers received special mention for their gallantry. + +That night a pontoon bridge was built across the river and on the +morning of the 28th the artillery moved across and encamped during the +succeeding day and night in the suburbs of Malolos. An advance of only a +short distance had been made the next morning when a body of the enemy +was encountered at Bocaue. Here it was necessary to cross the Santa Mone +river. This was attempted with some difficulty, as only the guns could +be taken over on the bridge and the mules had to be swum across. The +pieces and accoutrements across, the artillery immediately went into +action against the long lines of Filipinos. A railroad train in the +hands of the insurgents could be seen in the distance and some natives +were busily engaged in applying torches to the engine-house. A few +shells were sent screaming in that direction and the engineer needed no +further orders to speed with all dispatch toward the north country. +Again the guns were limbered up and the force advanced to the Bagoa +river, where it was again necessary to drag the guns across the shaky +bridge and force the reluctant mules to swim. + +By this time the infantry had pushed some distance ahead, and suddenly +there was heavy firing near another dismantled bridge close to the +Guiguinta. Both the town and the bridge had been burned by the +insurgents, and as soon as the infantry force crossed the railway track +it was greeted with such a heavy fire that there were thirty casualties +within a few minutes. The artillery came forward, as it had done before +in many desperate fights, at the critical moment. The mules were +unhitched and the cannoneers dashed with two of the guns across the +shattered bridge and began firing from the top of the track. The +insurgent fire came directly down the railroad grade. Private Pender was +shot through the hip while working at the gun. In a few moments the +shrapnel had torn the Filipino earthworks and in the semi-darkness the +dusky figures of the Filipinos could be seen in retreat. The river which +barred the way was crossed the next day. + +When evening fell on the 30th, the towers of Malolos, the insurgent +capital, where a few months before Don Emilio Aguinaldo had been crowned +president of the Filipino republic, were almost within view. A long line +of Filipino intrenchments defended the approaches to the city. All eyes +had been turned from the beginning of the insurrection toward Malolos, +and here it was expected that on the morrow Aguinaldo, with a host of +his black warriors around him, would make a desperate effort to resist +the aggression of the American troops. The four big rifles and the +Colt's automatic were moved into a position at dusk close to a deserted +line of intrenchments south of Malolos. Majors Bell and Young, later in +the evening, went forward to locate a position for constructing +emplacements for the guns. Suddenly there was a long flash from a low +line of Filipino intrenchments 1000 yards to the front. They saw the +flash in time to guard themselves by the shelter of a rice stack from +the pattering bullets. Their mission by this time was accomplished, for +they had discovered a strong position for the rifles just within a +circle of bamboo trees from which there was an easy view of the enemy's +works. + +Late that night, in the tropic darkness of the overhanging trees, a line +of men, carrying picks and spades, trudged out slowly from the +encampment. They were guided by First Sergeant John Anderson of Battery +B. Soon the rice stack where the emplacements were to be made could be +seen through the gloom. The work was begun quietly, for the Filipinos in +the distance were known to be on the alert. An axe struck sharply +against a bamboo and a pick dinned resoundingly in the hard earth. Every +one looked searchingly into the distance, where a response was looked +for from a hundred guns. Major Young stated that he had posted a lookout +near by so that when he called "flash" the men could take care of +themselves as they saw fit before the winged bullets arrived. So the +work went on. When the earth had been reared about one foot, the lookout +suddenly called "flash" and twenty men dropped to the ground. But there +was no report and no bullets came. The lookout had seen some restless +Filipino lighting a cigarette. The intrenchments were ready shortly +after midnight, and before dawn on the morning of the 31st the guns were +moved into position. The insurgents formed a belligerent half-circle +around the city, and were prepared to advance from three sides when the +roar of one of the big guns gave the signal to move. When the light came +it brought into bright relief the heavy earthworks of the enemy, and a +body of soldiers was observed standing idly on the railroad track about +ten hundred yards away. Suddenly the yawning big guns roared over the +plain and a shell burst over the Filipino intrenchments. There was a +brief response. The vigorous click-click of the automatic joined in with +the roar of the big guns. Within an hour the infantrymen were advancing +upon the outer works of the city from three sides, and the Filipinos +could be seen fleeing down the railroad grade. They were followed by +bullets from rapid-fire guns and several shells were sent into the +insurgents city at a range of four kilometers. Afterwards it was learned +that the natives had been driven from their two lines of intrenchments, +which were 1000 yards apart, a fact which clearly indicated the accuracy +of the firing. As soon as the enemy was dispersed the pieces were +limbered and while one section took the winding course of the Malolos +road into the city the other went by way of the railroad. For several +thousands yards in front of Malolos the track had been torn up by the +insurgents and the gun which went up the track had great difficulty in +passing. At one place where the bridge had been destroyed it was +necessary to replace a large number of ties which had been hurriedly +thrown into a body of water near by. + +All morning a long curling line of smoke could be seen from the distance +arising from the heart of the city. When the artillery swept into the +city side by side with the rigid column of infantry they found half the +place in ruins; the great church which had been used as a congressional +hall was fading in the flame. The American had found the city a burning +Moscow and the people, like the patriotic Russians, had applied the +torch to the capital upon which they had centered their fondest dreams. +The soldiers trooped into city, mud-bespattered and weary, and commented +in loud tones of surprise on their peaceful entry into a city where they +had looked for the bloodiest strife of the insurrection. The artillery +made a striking appearance as the big mules galloped over the evacuated +town. The guns were parked in the plaza before the Hall of Congress of +the insurgent capital, and Major MacArthur accorded to Major Young the +honor of raising the first American flag over the walls of the rebel +capital. It may be added here that several weeks later the Utah band +played patriotic airs in the hall where but a short time ago Aguinaldo +was declared president of the Philippines. + +[Illustration: UTAH GUNS IN PARK, AT CONGRESSIONAL HALL, MALOLOS.] + +The troops remained for several days inactive at Malolos to recuperate +after the rigors of the long march. During this time the two guns +commanded by Lieutenant Gibbs at Caloocan were brought to Malolos by +rail, and Captain Wedgewood took charge of them, while Lieutenant Gibbs +returned to the two platoons stationed at the waterworks. + +On April 7th a reconnoitering expedition went out to investigate the +enemy's position to the east of Quingua in the vicinity of Bag Bag. +Major Bell commanded the party, which consisted of a troop of the Fourth +Cavalry, a Hotchkiss revolving cannon and one Hotchkiss mountain gun, in +charge of John A. Anderson. They found a place where the river could be +forded and discovered that the insurgents were strongly intrenched on +the banks of the Bag Bag river. The country at this time was heavily +timbered and the party was able to return unnoticed by the enemy. + +A severe battle occurred on April 23rd as the forces closed in on +Quingua. A reconnoitering party of cavalry encountered a large body of +insurgents and the fire was so withering that Major Bell was forced to +retire. Reinforcements of infantry were promptly called for and soon the +Nebraskans moved forward to the fray. The fight lasted several hours, +and the infantry and cavalry were forced to endure a heavy fire out in +the open from a long line of Filipinos intrenchments hidden in a line of +underbrush and trees. It was during this engagement that the gallant +Stotsenberg was killed while rallying his men for the charge over the +open. The artillery did not arrive until 11 o'clock, when two rifles, +one from each battery under Captain Wedgewood and Lieutenant Critchlow +came to the front and as usual soon ended the argument. Private D.J. +Davis of Battery A was shot through the fleshy part of the leg, and +while standing twenty yards behind the piece Captain Wedgewood was +wounded in the hand and stomach by a flying piece of copper from the +defective gun breech. The artillery occupied a position at one hundred +yards range during this stubbornly fought engagement. The guns were +partially sheltered by the foliage of a clump of trees to the left of +the Pulilan road and the Nebraska infantry. Firing from the artillery +was plainly effective, and after forty-five minutes of continual +bombardment the insurgents retired over the Pulilan road toward Bag +Bag. + +During this engagement Lieutenant Fleming of the Sixth United States +Artillery arrived from Malolos with one of his own and a Battery B gun, +manned by a Utah detachment, and did valuable service at a +one-thousand-yard range. As the natives retreated in columns they +afforded a conspicuous target and bursting shrapnel tore large holes in +the retiring lines. Private Abplanalp of Battery B, one of the drivers, +was shot through the hand and arm while in the rear of the firing line. + +This was considered to be as fierce a fight as that in which the rough +riders won their way to glory at Las Guasimas. At that point three +regiments were engaged and there were seventy casualties. At Quingua +there were only five hundred Americans against a large body of +insurgents and sixty of these were killed or wounded. General Gregoria +del Pilar, the dashing young Filipino leader, who had previously visited +General Otis for the purpose of arranging terms of peace, commanded the +dusky warriors at this place. Though he was forced to retreat he took +upon himself the credit of killing Colonel Stotsenberg, and afterwards +boasted that he had slain one thousand Americans in the engagement. + +The next morning Lieutenant Fleming with two big rifles and a Hotchkiss +revolving cannon, in charge of Gunner Corporal M.C. Jensen, forded the +Quingua river, a tributary of the Rio Chico, which in turn draws its +waters from the Rio Grande de Pampanga, at Calumpit. The remainder of +the artillery, consisting of a platoon of Battery A, under Lieutenant +Naylor, and one gun under Lieutenant Critchlow, went on down the Pulilan +road toward Bag Bag. There was a sharp encounter on this road, during +which a body of the enemy about a thousand yards to the right attempted +a flank movement, but a few shots from the big guns and the Hotchkiss +forced them to change their course. The guns directly under Major Young +on the other side of the river became involved about three hundred yards +south of the enemy's long low line of earthworks at Bag Rag. Their +intrenchments occupied the strip of land at the junction of the Rio +Chico and the Bag Bag rivers. When a reconnoitering party visited this +place on April 7th the plain surrounding the Bag Bag was covered with +bamboo and underbrush, but now all the plain was as clean and level as +if it had been swept by a cyclone. Thus the intrenched Malays had +cleared a spot which commanded the plains for miles around. + +Infantry and artillery advanced from both sides of the Quingua--Hale +with Fleming on the other side and Wheaton with Utah to the south. Soon +the artillery was engaged on the Pulilan road, 225 yards from the enemy. +At this time the infantry force was fifty yards in the rear, where it +was masked from the enemy but could render no important assistance. The +fire from the Tagalan intrenchments was murderous. While the artillery +fire was as rapid as possible at least two responsive volleys came from +the intrenchments after each shot. Private Max Madison fell, killed +instantly, early in the action; Private Frederick Bumiller received a +fatal wound through the hips. Two other cannoneers were hit in their +attire by glance balls and all three of the big guns were cut with +Mausers. In Lieutenant Critchlow's single detachment of eight men five +were struck--two killed and one seriously wounded. Wheaton's line +meanwhile bore in from the left and the artillery swung forward with the +line until they were almost on the opposite bank from the enemy. The +armored train, equipped with Gatlings revolving cannon, pulled up at +this point and turned loose its armament upon the enemy at a 200-yard +range. The insurgents stubbornly fell back under the terrific fire. + +On the opposite bank Corporal Jensen and his crew, sixty yards from the +enemy's position, were ripping the low intrenchments with the revolving +cannon. His position was perilous and his gallant fight soon ended. He +was pierced through the stomach with a bullet and on the next day died +from the wound. Lieutenant Fleming, in his report to the chief of +artillery, says of him: "I desire especially to mention Corporal M.C. +Jensen for gallantry in this action. His fearlessness undoubtedly cost +him his life." He also recommends in this report that Corporal Jensen be +awarded a certificate of merit. + +Calumpit is a city which the insurgents looked upon as invulnerable. Its +huts and stone bridges are on both sides of the Rio Grande de +Pampanga--the broadest and longest river in Luzon. It was here a few +months before that the insurgents captured many thousand Spanish +prisoners with all their arms, and they were prepared to vigorously +contest the advance of the American troops. + +The guns of Utah and the two big rifles of Lieutenant Fleming were on +the south side of the Bag Bag, and it is only a mile from here to the +Filipino stronghold. The advance began early on the morning of the 27th. +A platoon under Lieutenant Naylor, who had been in charge of Battery A +pieces since the wounding of Captain Wedgewood, one gun under Lieutenant +Critchlow, Fleming's two guns and a Hotchkiss in charge of Corporal +Bjarnson were pushed by hand over a bridge hastily constructed over the +waters of the Bag Bag. The clattering din of the infantry could soon be +heard in altercation with the insurgents at the front. The insurgents, +behind intrenchments, were sending volleys fast into the Americans from +the north bank of the Pampanga. It was observed that the long bridge had +been partially destroyed and the rails torn from the track for several +hundred yards. The heavy iron beams of the bridge were placed above the +two lines of intrenchments. Iron rails supported the ponderous beams, +and between them was formed a long slot for Filipino rifles. + +The three big Utah guns were rushed to a position on the right of the +station, about 100 yards from the enemy, and where there was partial +protection from a nipa hut. Earthworks were quickly thrown up and to +divert the enemy's attention while this was going on, a squad of Montana +men kept up a constant fire from a position immediately in front of the +artillery. Bullets came in sheets from the Filipino position. A Montana +sharpshooter, shot through the head, fell dead at the foot of the +half-made emplacement. Fleming's guns pointed through an aperture broken +through the solid brick walls of the station facing the half-demolished +bridge. Further off to the left Corporal Bjarnson with the revolving +Hotchkiss was with the line of Kansas infantry under Colonel Funston. +Out on the left Colonel Funston was performing the famed and intrepid +feat by which he was able to cross the river. Protected by the swift +fire of the revolving Hotchkiss, a Kansas man with a rope swam the swift +moving waters of the Pampanga and fastened one end to the base of a +bamboo tree. Then Funston with about forty of his men crossed the river +on hastily constructed rafts, guided by the long ropes. Suddenly this +small body of warriors charged and attacked the insurgents on the left +flank. The insurgents who had valiantly and stubbornly held their +position, were terrorized by the unexpected onslaught, and the whole +line in the east side of the bridge sprang from the intrenchment and +fled northward along the railroad embankment. Natives were strewn thick +upon the banks of the river as they ran. A mounted Filipino officer was +shot through the heart as he stood with flashing sword vainly trying to +rally his confused and fleeing troops. The Tagalans to the right were +touched with consternation and fled from their bulwarks. And so during +this one hour Colonel Funston performed the most dashing deed of the war +and the Malay hosts were driven from their strongest defense. Fifteen +hundred American soldiers in this battle contested with 12,000 +intrenched warriors of Luzon, and won by their prowess and the strategy +of a gallant leader. + +The two brigades were allowed to rest for several days on the sunny +banks of the Pampanga. On May 14th the troops began the march toward San +Fernando, which lies green and low at the base of Mt. Arayat, which can +be seen for many miles around. The artillery, with the mules, crossed +the river on rafts. Wheaton advanced up the railroad track while Hale's +brigade strung out over the Apalit road. + +A revolving Hotchkiss cannon and one Gatling gun, manned by Battery B +detachments, were mounted on trucks. This moving battery was commanded +by Lieutenant Naylor. As the troops approached Santo Tomas the +insurgents were discovered, intrenched on both sides of the railroad. As +the infantry engaged them on the right, Lieutenant Naylor's machine +guns played on the thin line of smoke curling above the Filipino +intrenchment. As the infantry pressed them on the right they retreated +over the railroad towards a long line of intrenchments, and the bullets +from the Gatling fell among them here faster than autumn leaves. Colonel +Funston, at the head of his troops, took the fire line of intrenchments +on the left of the track and moved down on the Tagalans, who had +constructed a long line of intrenchments parallel with the railway. They +were beaten back by the Kansas men, but in this charge Colonel Funston +fell, having sustained a slight wound in the arm. During this engagement +General Luna, most renowned of the Filipino chiefs, was wounded in the +arm, and as there was only a light infantry fire, the opinion prevailed +that this was inflicted by Lieutenant Naylor's fast-clicking Gatling +gun. General Wheaton personally praised Lieutenant Naylor for his work +in the Santo Tomas battle, and afterwards in his report recommended him +for meritorious service. + +Over on the right up the Apalit road Captain Wedgewood and Lieutenant +Critchlow were encountering difficulties. The insurgents had constructed +pitfalls in the road. They were thinly covered with a layer of leaves +and earth and the wayward feet of mule and soldier were menaced beneath +with sharp pointed wedges of bamboo. These were discovered early in the +march and no accidents resulted from them. There was some brisk fighting +on this end of the line and the big guns shelled the insurgents on the +opposite side of the river. The whole of the next day was consumed in +transporting the artillery and equipage across the river on a raft +constructed by the engineers, and on May 6th they entered San Fernando. + +This fair city was half destroyed by flames, and when the troops entered +no lingering black warriors could be found. They had all retreated +farther north, following in the general direction of the railway. +Major-General MacArthur's headquarters were established near the center +of that part of the city which was untouched by the flames, and close by +the Utah guns were parked. Later one of the big guns was utilized for +outpost duty, a rather remarkable use for artillery. Every night after +the Filipinos had begun to gather again near the city one of the pieces +with a gun crew would go down a sunken road and watch all night with the +farthest outposts of the infantry. + +During this period Major-General Otis had issued an order offering +thirty pesos to every Filipino warrior who would return his rifle to the +American authorities. On May 23rd Major Bell went on an expedition up +the railway track for the purpose of posting up the order, and took with +him two troops of the Fourth Cavalry and a revolving Hotchkiss gun, +manned by Sergeant Emil Johnson and Corporal Hesburg of Battery A and +Private Martin of Battery B. All the men were mounted and the cannon +equipped with a small Filipino horse, so that if necessary a hasty +retreat could be made. They proceeded up the railway track, and notices +were duly and conspicuously left at Bacalor and Quiuag. Just as the +forces reached the outskirts of Santa Rita they were fired on by a large +body of insurgents, who were heavily intrenched around the city. The +revolving cannon was used effectively and Major Bell and his men went +into action five times, but the insurgent attack was too fierce for the +small force and it was obliged to retreat. With a whoop of joy the +Filipinos rose from their trenches in pursuit, cheering loudly as they +came. They followed for five miles through Bacalor, and as far back as +their old intrenchments surrounding San Fernando. The rather meagre +encouragement of having been able to chase a small troop of cavalry +seemed to give the Tagalans at this time an idea that they had the whole +American force in retreat. + +During the night word was brought to General MacArthur that the +Filipinos were preparing to make an attack early the next morning. At +dawn the Montana and Kansas regiments and a platoon under Lieutenant +Naylor went out to meet them. The Filipinos were in force in their old +position to the northwest. The Kansas went through some cornfields on +the left and the Montanas through a sunken road to the right. The +artillery remained in a concealed position in the center and waited +until the two regiments had moved up on the startled natives from both +flanks. As the insurgents retreated in confusion the big guns played on +the scattered ranks. A large number of the natives were killed during +this clever maneuver and thirty of their rifles were captured. + +The Tagalans when on the warpath are persistent. The next day they +occupied intrenchments farther to the north. They were again driven back +and this time they took up a position towards Mexico and in front of the +Iowa troops. + +During the next few days the Malay hordes came toward San Fernando from +all sides. Eventually their forces completely surrounded the city. +General MacArthur watched their plans, saw them tearing up the earth for +intrenchments and waited. It was apparent that they were preparing to +march with crushing force upon the American troops. + +The cloud burst on June 16th. Just at that time, when the Americans were +not looking for them, the Tagalans descended on the town. Captain Fred +Wheeler was out on a plain drilling a troop of the Fourth United States +Cavalry. It was in the morning and there was a heavy mist. One of +Captain Wheeler's men informed him that he could see the "niggers" +coming. The Captain could see nothing and sent for his glasses, but +before they arrived the long skirmish line of the Tagalans could be seen +emerging like spectres from the mist. Then there was a remarkable +spectacle--the Fourth Cavalry and the Tagalan warriors racing for the +same intrenchments. The cavalrymen arrived first and there the battle +began. + +The natives came in from four sides. The outposts waited in the old +Filipino intrenchments and on some parts of the line the attacked +Tagalans were allowed to approach within 200 yards. Most of the guns, +when the fight began were located close to MacArthur's headquarters, but +they were soon on all parts of the line. When the attack by the +Filipinos began the gun under command of Lieutenant Naylor was on its +way to the outposts. It had been the custom to take the gun there just +before dawn and bring it back immediately after darkness came. The +advancing Filipinos began firing before the gun was in position. +Corporal Hanson was in charge at the time, and the rifle was at once +rushed to the emplacement. Word came at the same hour to Lieutenant +Naylor, who was officer of the outpost, and he went through a heavy fire +down the road leading to the intrenchment. When he arrived there the +Filipinos were within three hundred and fifty yards and were advancing +over the rice ridges at a rapid gait. The Lieutenant had a shell sent +into the approaching insurgents, who seemed astounded to find that the +artillery occupied such an advanced position. When nine shells had been +sent into their line, the Filipinos gradually drew back and were not +seen any more on this part of the line during the fight. + +[Illustration: PREPARING FOR AN ENGAGEMENT.] + +The Seventeenth and Twenty-second Infantry were the support on this end +of the line, which faced to the north. + +On the west, east and part of the north line were the Kansas and Montana +infantry. It was to this point that the two guns of Lieutenant Gibbs +were moved when the firing began, and here the guns inflicted severe +damage on the islanders. Another gun of Battery B was also placed near +this part of the line under Lieutenant Hines, but it was unnecessary +from this position to use the artillery. + +This fight was the first time the American soldiers during the whole +campaign had repulsed an attack from behind intrenchments, and they laid +back and smiled as the black men approached and then passed out some +volleys that made the whole advancing line reel. When the Tagalans began +to retreat under the awakened storm, the Americans followed, and as the +Filipinos recoiled from one regiment they were broken against another. A +company of the Twentieth Infantry located near Santo Tomas was almost +cut off by the advancing column of the enemy, and a company of the +Montana men was sent to its assistance. The fight lasted nearly two +hours and the Filipino loss amounted to several hundred. The only +casualty on the American side was a slight wound received by a Montana +man, which shows clearly what the Americans could do in a contest with a +black man under conditions more or less equal. Colonel Funston stated +afterwards that a shell from one of Lieutenant Gibbs's guns had killed +fifteen Filipinos. + +The burying of dead Filipinos the next day was a tragic sight. +Sixty-four were engulfed in one trench. They were brought up in caribou +carts, and the American pulled them off with ropes and deposited them in +the common grave. + +There was another fight on the 22nd, but the Filipinos seemed to have +lost their dash and courage of a few days before, and on this occasion +the artillery was not called out. + +A few days later word came that the Utah battalion was ordered home, and +on the 24th day of June the Utah men boarded the train for Manila and +were carried away from the smoke of war and the darkly fought +battlefields of the East. + + * * * * * + +Sergeant John A. Anderson with one gun of Battery B and a rifle of the +Sixth Artillery was in the flying column of General Lawton, who left a +path of ashes around the Pampanga province and finally drove the +insurgents from San Isidro with his detachment on the 21st of March and +arrived on the same day at Bocaue. The order to march came on the 23rd +and the Sergeant was given a position on the left of the Thirteenth +Minnesotas. From the brow of the hill above Norzagaray the guns began +shelling at 1500 yards. The front line was silenced but at this point +the natives made an effort to turn the right flank, and it was necessary +to throw many shrapnel into the advancing insurgents column before it +turned. The next day Norzagaray was entered after the place had been +shelled, and during this slight advance the artillery was in action five +times. Colonel Sommers personally commended the detachment on the +accuracy of its gunnery and its promptness. On the 25th Ongaut was +burned and on the 26th there was an engagement which lasted for some +time below Baliuag. San Maguel was taken on the 4th, and on the 13th a +few shells were thrown into San Isidro, but the insurgents, after +repeated defeats, showed small resistance here and soon retreated. + +On the 24th the artillery arrived with the infantry at Candaba, and the +detachment remained quartered here until the order arrived for the Utah +men to return to Manila. The plan of Lawton's campaign was for his +troops to drive the insurgents towards Candaba, where they could be met +by the advancing forces under Major Kobbe and the river gunboats. But +when General Lawton came down to Candaba there were none but American +soldiers there as the insurgents forces had disappeared in the interior. + +Shortly after the arrival in Malolos the Utah men were joined by +Corporal Dusenbury and two other men of Battery B. They with a revolving +Hotchkiss cannon were picked up by General Wheaton early in his advance +from Caloocan, and were highly praised by the General for the skill and +efficiency they had shown in many dangerous places. General Wheaton +showed his appreciation of the work of the guns by attaching several +regular and Oregon infantrymen to the pieces, in order that they could +be carried over rough places with the greatest possible dispatch. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +THE GUNBOATS. + + +No history of the Utah batteries will be complete without a narrative of +the exploits of the gunboats. While the land forces performed their +duties with great honor and are to be commended in every way possible, +it must be remembered that a portion of the men were fighting on the +water and did work of such a character that they won especial mention +from those in charge when the big guns were hurling death and the +Gatlings were barking fire at the opposing army. + +At first the proposition of building gunboats was not at all popular +with the authorities. Some opposed the scheme on the grounds that it +could not be successfully accomplished with the limited means at hand +and the rivers of Luzon to contend with. However, later developments +attested that those who were the originators of the plan showed greater +wisdom than their opponents. + +Sometime prior to the breaking out of hostilities between the American +forces and the natives General Otis conceived the idea of employing +gunboats on the rivers and lakes for the purpose of opening up lines of +communication between difficult portions of our own lines. The fact that +the rivers were shallow was the one serious objection to the project, +but this difficulty was eliminated by the adoption of light draught +boats. The nature of the country in the vicinity of Manila and the other +towns where the heaviest fighting took place is such that it was +apparent to those who were aware of these conditions that this craft +might be engaged in protecting the advance of the infantry and +artillery; could hold the hostile bands in check until favorable +positions could be taken, and be of wonderful service in the campaign. + +The first vessel to engage in this kind of work was the "Laguna de Bay," +which has made a reputation never to be forgotten so long as the history +of the war in the Philippines remains familiar to the American mind. +This vessel is doubtless as well known as the "Olympia," the flagship of +gallant Admiral Dewey, and while there are those who fail to recall the +fact that the "Boston" or the "Raleigh" took part in the attack on the +Spanish in the bay of Manila, it is safe to assert that the operation of +the "Laguna de Bay" and her sister craft will ever be fresh in the minds +of those who have made even a casual study of the events which took +place during the campaign carried on by the brave men from the youngest +State in the Republic. + +The "Laguna de Bay," the first converted gunboat, was placed in +commission on January, 1899. She was formerly used by the Spanish as an +excursion boat on the body of water from which she derived her name and +prior to the fall of Manila had been captured by the Filipinos and +turned over to the United States. She was by no means a small craft +considering her environments--shallow rivers and muddy bayous. She was +140 feet in length, 40-foot beam with a draught of four feet. When she +was fitted out it was decided to give her some protection for the men, +so her main deck, the upper deck, the pilot house and the Gatling +battery, were protected by a double sheeting of steel. The many bullet +marks on this light armor demonstrated afterwards the wisdom of this +policy. At this point it may not be out of order to interpolate the fact +that her companion gunboats were similarly protected, which accounts for +the small list of casualties. + +The armament of the gunboat consisted of two three-inch marine guns, two +1.65 Hotchkiss revolving cannon and four Gatlings. At first Lieutenant +R.C. Naylor was in charge of the guns, while Captain Randolph of the +Third United States Artillery commanded the vessel. In addition to the +men from the Utah batteries, several were detailed from the various +regiments to act as sailors, riflemen and cannoneers. + +The boats which were added to the fleet were the "Oeste," the "Napindan" +and the "Cavadonga." The last went into commission on May 6th and was +commanded by Lieutenant William C. Webb. The crews of the vessel were +made up of members of the Utah batteries and men from the Twenty-third +United States Infantry, the First South Dakota Infantry and the Third +United States Battery. + +On the morning of February 5th the "Laguna de Bay" steamed up the Pasig +to the town of Santa Ana while the Nebraska, California and Washington +troops assaulted the enemy from the land. Twenty minutes after the boat +turned her guns upon the town the principal buildings were in flames and +the stricken garrison made all haste toward San Pedro Macati and +Guadaloupe. Next she turned her attention to those portions of the enemy +stationed in Bacoor and Mandaloya. Her forward guns tore great gaps in +the enemy's earthworks and her Gatlings raked the trenches with so +galling a fire that the foe was sent flying towards the woods in the +region of Pasig with the Nebraska Infantry in speedy pursuit. The +following morning the boat passed Santa Ana, where two three-inch Krupp +guns had been captured by the Idaho troops, and reconnoitered the native +position in the woods beyond. Late that afternoon she returned to Manila +and replenished her coal bunkers, when she resumed her old position at +the Nebraska landing. + +March 7th the gunboat again passed Santa Ana and went up as far as +Guadaloupe, where the First California was quartered. General Anderson +came up the river in a launch and a consultation was held as to future +operations. Nothing of moment happened that day, but on the morrow +General King arrived on his way to Pasig for the purpose of demanding +the surrender of the town. He desired the "Laguna de Bay" to await his +return. A vigilant patrol was kept up that evening and during the night +three shots were fired by sentries from the boat. The day following was +uneventful, but on the 10th the "Oeste," which was towing a casco, came +alongside and stated that Colonel Stotsenberg had sent word that the +insurgents were massing west of the camp of the Nebraska regiment. + +It was on the 14th that word was received from Colonel DuBois of the +Idaho regiment to hurry up stream at all speed. This was done and an +effort made to anchor off the mouth of the Pateros, where the infantry +fire was very brisk. Here it was that Lieutenant Harting met his death. +Harting with four men got aboard and the line was dropped when the boat +sank, being swept almost immediately under the gunwale of the "Laguna de +Bay." The three men forward grasped the gunwale and were saved, but the +officer and the fourth man went down stream. Though the Lieutenant was a +good swimmer, no sign of him could be seen. He was heavily laden with +revolver, belt and ammunition. Lieutenant Larson jumped overboard to +rescue him, but was unable to get even a glimpse of him. His body was +found two days later near General Otis's headquarters. The fourth man +escaped by swimming ashore. + +By order of the Commanding General February 16th, Major Grant took +command of the river force and Captain Randolph rejoined his regiment. +The next day an assiduous fire was directed against San Pedro Macati +with telling effect. + +The commanders now decided that in case the forces stationed at +Guadaloupe should be too strongly pressed by the enemy they should fall +back to San Pedro Macati, setting fire to the convent and other +principal buildings as they returned. In this instance the gunboat was +to steam up above Guadaloupe. On Sunday, February 19th, this very thing +was done though the insurgents as yet had made no advance. The soldiers +left the convent after firing it. As the gunboat moved up the stream she +met with a determined resistance. The opposing force repeatedly assailed +her, but her Gatlings finally compelled them to withdraw. An +unsuccessful effort was made to explode a quantity of nitro-glycerine in +the convent by the use of percussion shell. The boat then advanced +nearer the town where it engaged the insurgents on both sides of the +river. Every gun now played upon the enemy's lines. In the course of +twenty minutes twenty-five three-inch shells, 4200 Gatling, 1500 +Krag-Jorgenson and 800 Springfields were expended. This spirited defense +caused the prudent native to withdraw to a country less subject to +leaden bullets, and the boat dropped down stream. In the afternoon +Admiral Dewey visited the "Laguna de Bay" in quest of information, and +while he was securing what he came after a Filipino sharpshooter began +taking pot shots at the Admiral, who, being unprotected, decided he was +far enough inside the enemy's lines and turned back. + +At San Felipe Lieutenant Naylor was sent ashore on the following day to +cut down some trees and burn some huts so the view of the boats' gunners +would not be obstructed, which duty was performed under a straggling +fire. + +Admiral Dewey visited the gunboats on the 21st, stating he would send +two rapid-fire guns for the "Laguna de Bay." That was the object of his +visit, which was short. The same day General King and his staff came +aboard and were taken up the stream. Word was soon afterward received +that the Wyoming battalion was going to advance on the enemy near +Guadaloupe on the left of the river early the following morning but as +the gunboat was not in a position to aid in the expedition she remained +inactive when the firing began the next morning. + +On the day following Lieutenant Naylor again landed with a small force +of men at San Felipe, where he set fire to the buildings and cut down +trees which would have obstructed the view. Nothing occurred until the +night of the 25th, when desultory firing was heard at San Felipe, and +following this matters were unusually quiet until the night of March +1st. That day the insurgents were encountered at San Pedro Macati and +the Gatlings, the three-inch and the 1.65-inch guns were brought into +action. During the firing Sergeant Shea received a slight wound in the +hand. A three-inch gun was disabled in this engagement. Two days later +another conflict took place at the same point resulting in the complete +defeat of the enemy, who was forced from his position after a severe +bombardment. + +The morning of March 4th opened cloudy with "Laguna de Bay" at San +Pedro. A sharp skirmish soon began. The natives held their position for +some time but were finally compelled to give way before the superior +strength of the Americans. Under orders from General Wheaton the gunboat +followed them and directed a deadly fire into the woods on both sides +of the river. During the fight, which lasted several hours, the boat was +frequently struck by the bullets of the enemy. It was during this +encounter that Private John Toiza of the Third Artillery laid down his +life. He was shot in the left breast, the bullet passing downward +through his heart, killing him instantly. A shell also lodged in the +1.65-inch gun, disabling it for the time. + +On March 5th Admiral Dewey again came alongside and stated that General +Otis had declared he believed he would keep the gunboats down the stream +if they did not cease fighting so much. Then the Admiral added with +emphasis, "We ought to have three such boats." + +Two days later when Hale's brigade made an advance upon the insurgents +on the left, and the natives were hurried with great speed toward +Mariquina and the San Mateo river, the "Laguna de Bay" again performed +excellent service in flanking them and turning their left wing against +our right. + +Very early on the morning of March 13th the battle of Guadaloupe and +Pasig opened, the attention of the guns on the boat being centered on +Guadaloupe. Meanwhile Wheaton advanced his troops on the right to +Patteros and along the Pasig. The advance to Guadaloupe began along the +river with the gunboat in the vanguard. Two insurgents partially +concealed in the bushes on the banks were taken prisoners and turned +over to the Twenty-third Infantry. Sunken cascos, loaded with rock, were +frequently encountered, but the boat avoided them with only a little +delay. Generals Anderson and Wheaton moved up from the right and the +gunboat started up the stream. Near the Mariquina river they met with a +fierce fire from both sides of the stream but no one on the boat was +injured. Two Filipino launches were noticed but they got away. A casco +was found in which were the clothing of some Filipino officer and men. +The wearers had escaped. + +On the day following there was a brisk engagement at Pasig in which the +town was bombarded with good effect, some thirty of the enemy being +killed, while the remainder were sent flying in all directions. + +Nothing of interest occurred until Wednesday, March 15th, when a casco +manned by natives was chased down the river. She was overhauled but not +until her crew had jumped overboard and swam ashore. The "Laguna de Bay" +raised a white flag for the purpose of investigating, but the insurgents +instead of recognizing it pivoted a sharp small rim fire upon the boat +which answered with a heavy rain of shell and shrapnel. + +Two days later an expedition, led by the gunboats, headed for Morong on +the opposite side of the lake. Lieutenant Webb with a Gatling and +twenty-four men went ashore to make a reconnoissance. This small +detachment was followed by three infantrymen under Captain Pratt. Upon +the advance of the Americans the enemy retreated quickly across the +plain and disappeared in the shades of the mountains beyond. One +thousand bushels of rice and three cascos were captured at this place +and a letter from General Pilar directing a general advance on Pasig was +also found. But few inhabitants remained in the town and upon +questioning them it was learned that the Filipinos had several large +launches on the Pagsanyan river. + +Major Grant had long been working to interest General Lawton in favor of +an expedition against Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is situated on the eastern +shores of the lake just behind the point of a mountain which juts out +into the water. She is the agricultural center of all the rich land on +the eastern side of the island of Luzon. All the smaller towns of the +surrounding country look up to her. She is the emporium to which all the +farmers and travelers and merchants resort and from which they reap a +bounteous harvest. + +The insurgents had long since seized upon this important place as it +furnished an inexhaustible supply of food for their armies. Besides +being far out of the way and difficult of approach, she became the +military station to which the famished and fatigued insurgents looked +for support and rest. Major Grant early noticed the importance of the +town and thereafter he labored incessantly to bring about its capture by +the Americans. Finally, on the 18th, he succeeded in getting a fleet of +gunboats, launches and cascos headed that way. Captain Pratt and +Lieutenant Franklin attempted to make a landing on the shore in front of +the town, but they failed as the water was too shallow. Five miles +farther up the beach they made a profitable landing at the mouth of the +Pagsanyan river. However, as this was blocked with obstructions of +bamboo and rock, no effort was made to sail up the stream until three +days had elapsed. Then the impediment was removed. + +During the time which intervened between the 21st and the 28th little +was done with the exception of attending to some needed repairs on the +boat. On the 28th the gunboat advanced to the south of the Balucan +river, where another delay was caused by the obstructions placed there +by the natives. The country skirting this place was thickly covered with +brush and low trees, very much like bayou. When about a mile and a half +up the stream the enemy opened fire at a range of about 500 yards, which +was returned by the guns on the boat. The fire was heavy and the +insurgents evidently concluded that they were too close for comfort, for +their fire slackened materially in a very short time. The "Laguna de +Bay" and the "Napindan" then came down the stream. As the latter started +to follow the larger boat the pilot was hit in the hand by a bullet and +before he could recover himself the little craft had run aground. When +the "Laguna de Bay" went to her assistance she also struck a bar and was +held fast. The boats were compelled to remain here under fire until the +tide came in and floated them off. + +The work of the gunboats was without extraordinary interest until April +8th. On that day the fleet steamed up Pasig with twenty cascos and seven +launches in tow. One thousand five hundred men, with two days' rations, +two light artillery guns and necessary horses, composed the expedition, +which was commanded by General Lawton. Among the troops were detachments +from the Fourth United States Cavalry, the Fourteenth United States +Infantry, the North Dakota, Idaho and Washington volunteers, the Sixth +Artillery and the Signal Corps. This force reached Jalajala on the 9th +and then awaited the arrival of the entire fleet. The place of +advancement and attack--Santa Cruz--was mapped out and then the fleet +steamed ahead. About five miles from Santa Cruz the "Napindan" ran into +a point close to the shore and opened fire. Here the works were +silenced, after which the troops landed. Under cover of the guns of the +"Oeste" other men also disembarked. With Lawton aboard, the "Laguna de +Bay" advanced toward the town approaching to within 300 yards of the +shore. Some troops in cascos were put ashore. After a survey of the +situation the boats went out into deep water and advanced from the +right, while the troops encamped to the west of the town. + +The next day a general advance began at daylight. The American forces +came up to the enemy's position and opened fire. This was a signal for +action on the part of the boats and after moving in closer they opened a +heavy fire on the insurgent works. The troops placed south and west +under General Lawton drove the natives northward while those posted +along the shore of the river, aided by the guns on the boats, did +considerable damage. Large bodies of the natives broke for a place of +safety and while attempting to escape through a marshy open field many +of them were killed. Shells actually mowed them down in heaps. By this +time the lines of the infantry had been completely formed for an advance +and the gunboats ceased their work. Shortly afterward our forces took +possession of the town, and a message was received from Lawton saying he +had established his headquarters in the church. + +On the 11th the boats steamed up the lake and ran close to the shore +near the mouth of the Pagsanyan river, where they opened fire on the +town of Lumbaog, toward which the land forces were advancing. This fire +was kept up until the infantry reached the place and took it. A message +was received from General Lawton to the effect that he had captured the +town of Pagsanyan; also that six launches had been captured there and +were at the town. The "Cavadonga" at this time sailed up and relieved +the "Oeste." The guns were on the hills north of Orani and after a time +the infantry took possession, for a flag from the church tower called +for a boat to be sent to that place. The "Laguna de Bay" responded, went +up the river and shelled Paite and Sinilaon until darkness ended her +usefulness for that day. The troops had in the meantime checked the +native advance and camped at Paite. + +From this time until May 7th little was done by the boats. A greater +part of the time was spent in making necessary repairs. On the last +mentioned date a Macabebe named Soteros Gatdula reported for duty as +pilot, and under his direction the fleet steamed across the bay to the +mouth of the Rio Grande. Passing up this stream the boats shelled the +towns of Guagua and Sexmoan. At the former place a fire had been started +and a launch in the river was observed to be in flames. A party was sent +out to try to save this craft, but she proved to be of little value and +the attempt was abandoned. Two Spaniards claiming to have been held as +prisoners by the natives, and a Filipino suspect were taken aboard. + +It was decided early in May to make an effort to pierce the waters of +the Rio Grande de Pampanga, which leads to Calumpit and beyond far into +the heart of the enemy's country. The first efforts to search out the +channel were made by the "Cavadonga" on May 9th. Soteros Gatdula, a +Macabebe pilot, was directed by General Otis to undertake the task and +the "Cavadonga" started on the cruise into the unknown waters early in +the morning. Near the mouth of the river the boat suddenly went aground, +and when the tide rose, and early in the day the boat was joined by the +"Laguna de Bay." The channel was then located by the Macabebe and there +was no further difficulty in forcing a passage up the wide waters of the +river, the largest on Luzon Island. For a long distance up the river the +territory is occupied by the Macabebes, the ancient and traditional +enemies of the Tagalan race. A large crowd of these friendly natives was +on the shores of the river as the boats passed up and they filled the +air with cheers and cries of "Viva los Americanos," which the soldiers +replied to in variegated and wonderfully woven Filipino phrases. One +obstruction was met in the river consisting of cocoanut poles, but the +Macabebes assisted in removing these from the path of the boats. Without +having fired a shot, early in the afternoon the boats arrived at +Calumpit, where troops of the infantry were stationed. + +On May 14th the "Cavadonga" was sent out on a reconnoitering expedition +up the river. On the way up Sexmoan and Apilit were passed, and it was +observed that all the natives fled from the river as soon as the gunboat +approached. The country is heavily timbered on both sides of the river, +and there was no evidence of a hostile attitude on the part of the +natives until the boat swung round the curve leading to San Luiz. Almost +through the entire distance the shores were lined with Filipino +intrenchments, but it was discovered that these were unoccupied. +Lieutenant Webb was out on the bow capstan, entirely unsheltered by the +meagre 3-16-inch armor with which the craft was encased. Just as a curve +was rounded in front of San Luiz a long line of straw hats and the bores +of fifty rifles were seen facing the boat from the port side, no more +than fifty yards away. Lieutenant Webb was scanning the opposite shore +with his glasses, when the lookout discovered the enemy on the port +side. Sergeant Ford Fisher called out a sudden warning to the Lieutenant +and reached out towards him. Just then the volley came. Fisher reeled +backward with a bullet piercing his brain. Instantly the bow one-pounder +and the Gatling gun on the port side tore the Filipino intrenchments. +Bullets pelted fast against the slight armor of the cruiser. Fred +Mitchell, one of the men at the Gatling gun, was wounded in the hand. +The "Cavadonga" turned round almost where it stood and slowly moved +back, and during a wonderful skirmish in which the native and American +frequently fired in each other's faces at a range of twenty yards, raked +the Filipino works with the fast-firing machine guns. The fighting only +lasted thirty minutes. + +When it was over Ford Fisher, who was still breathing, was placed on +board the "Oceania," which had remained about two hundred yards in the +rear during the fighting, and almost at the moment he was laid on the +craft he expired. The "Oceania" sped quickly down the river with the +dead body of the Sergeant, but frequently the "Cavadonga" stopped to +suppress the desultory fire from the natives who had fled during the +early part of the action. It was learned afterwards from the "padre" at +San Luiz that fifty insurgents had been killed during the engagement, +and when the Utah men arrived there a few days later a long line of new +graves in the walled cemetery told a tragic story of the ending of the +fight. + +On the evening of this day the Seventeenth Regular Infantry and a +battalion of the Ninth Infantry advanced up the Rio Grande from Calumpit +over the old Apilit road under the leadership of Major Kobbe of the +Third United States Artillery. Early the next morning the "Laguna de +Bay" and "Cavadonga" started up the river and most of the way kept +within view of the troops on the shore. Occasionally the gunboats moved +ahead and daring scouts could be seen calmly looking into vacated +Filipino intrenchments. The enemy was encountered several times along +the shore as far as San Luiz and all intrenchments were bombarded by the +"Laguna de Bay" some distance to prevent a repetition of the disastrous +surprise of the day before. When San Luiz was neared white flags could +be seen floating everywhere, and on arriving there it was discovered +that the whole body of insurgents had disappeared into the interior. The +boats remained at this position during the night, and early the next +morning resumed the advance ahead of the infantry up the waters of the +Pampanga. During this journey large numbers of Filipinos were met in +cascos with their families and all their earthly possessions, making +their way down the stream. About noon the boats reached Candaba without +a hostile shot having been fired during the whole day. Here Major Grant +was met by the Mayor of the city, who stated that he had forced the +soldiers to evacuate in order to prevent the bombardment of the town and +the subsequent loss of life among the people of whom he was guardian. An +evidence of the hasty departure of the natives was found upon entering +the town, for a guard list giving the names of the officers and +enlisted men of the guard was found posted on the walls of the town +hall. + +This ended the fighting record of the gunboats under a Utah commander. +From this period until June 24th the boats were utilized in carrying +supplies and towing soldiers, laden cascos and wounded men up and down +the Pampanga. On May 24th the rebel commissioners, General Gregoria del +Pilar and Colonel Actia, who had gone to Manila to negotiate peace with +General Otis after the crushing defeat of the insurgents at Calumpit, +were taken on the gunboats and conveyed as far as Candaba. They had +expressed a wish to go by way of the gunboats, as they had no desire to +cross the insurgents' lines at San Fernando because General Luna was in +command at that place and there was strife between the two Generals. +Pilar showed great interest in the armament of the "Laguna" and said he +would give all his wealth for one of the three-inch guns. The "Oceania" +was sent ahead with instructions to all the commanding officers to make +as large a display as possible. At San Luiz the instructions were not +complied with and as the "Laguna" passed one officer and four men were +falling in for guard. General Gregoria smiled. Farther up the river the +case was different. Where they were in the habit of posting but one +guard there was an officer and twenty men. This was repeated at all the +other stations until Candaba was reached. General Gregoria's smile had +faded, and he remarked that the Americans kept the country better +patrolled than he had imagined. The General and Colonel were landed at +Candaba and under an escort of Americans disappeared in the distant +green line of woods. + +On May 24th it was known among all the Utah men that their days of +fighting were over, and on this date Major Grant was relieved of his +command of the river boat fleet. And so ended, for Utah, the career of +these wonderful ironclad river machines. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +THE HOME COMING. + + +While the fighting Utah batterymen were still living in the nipa huts at +San Fernando and Baliaug and repelling the attacks of the dusky Tagalan +braves at Candaba and Morong from General Otis an order came to the +Cuartel. It had an unpretentious look--that slip of paper; but it +carried a message of great importance to the belligerent Utahn than any +he had received since the thunders of war shook the earth on the night +of February 4th. It told the artilleryman to gather all his portable +utensils and board the United States transport "Hancock," which lay idly +in the bay waiting orders to weigh anchor and steam for America. + +Almost a week passed before the scattered batteries were assembled +within the familiar walls of the Cuartel. The main body at San Fernando +turned over its guns to the famous Third Artillery and arrived safely at +the quarters over the Manila and Dagupan railroad; Lieutenant Seaman's +detachment at Baliaug dropped its war machinery and made all possible +speed to Manila; Lieutenant Webb's detail on the "Cavadonga" for the +first time turned its back on the enemy and fled for the protecting +walls of the barracks. When these battle-begrimed veterans reached the +quarters there was such a demonstration as the old walls had never seen +before. The old scenes of order disappeared, the rigors of discipline +were relaxed, and chaos reigned. Everything was made subservient to the +one all-absorbing topic, "Home." The sturdy soldier doffed his war +attire and donned his peaceful garb. The renowned Utah band paraded the +streets in holiday dress and, with the blare of brass, proclaimed the +happy news to the nut-brown maid. The stalwart warriors danced and sang +to the music of that soul-lifting song, "A Hot Time in the Old Town +Tonight." The jubilant battle hero collected his ordnance and other war +trappings and handed them over to the ordnance officer while he +exchanged looks of mutual doubt and suspicion with that important +personage. The weary and worn Utahn bade adieu to the dreamy-eyed damsel +of the East with many expressions of fond attachment and love; then +mustered his heterogeneous troop of relics and curiosities and joined +the Nebraska regiment on the "Hancock." Two days later the officers +steamed over from the gay apartments of the "Baltimore" in a brightly +decorated launch and walked aboard the big boat. Finally a goodly supply +of canned beef and antiquated swine were hoisted on the vessel and the +Captain gave orders for the sailing flag to be put to the breeze. This +was on July 1st. + +When the official contingent was safely housed in spacious staterooms it +was learned that quite a change had taken place in the roster of that +worthy body. The shoulders of Captain Grant were adorned with the gold +leaf of a Major; Lieutenant Critchlow had been elevated to a Captaincy; +Lieutenant Naylor wore the single bar of a First Lieutenant, and First +Sergeant John A. Anderson of Battery B shone in the glowing uniform of a +Second Lieutenant. Major Young sent a letter bidding farewell to the +Utahns and expressing his disappointment at not being able to accompany +the batteries home. + +The batteryman entertained no high opinion of the Government transport. +He had become acquainted with the luxuries which Uncle Sam provides the +defenders of his broad acres. He had already learned how elaborately the +American Government furnishes apartments for its soldiers and food for +its larder. So, after he had landed safely on the main deck and +deposited his knapsack and monkeys, he was not surprised when the order +came for him to take his goods and chattels and repair to the forward +hold. He entered the gangway and descended four flights of stairs +without any misgiving or hesitation. He threaded his way through the +labyrinthian passage of his subaqueous home with a skill equal to that +displayed by the blind fish of the Mammoth Cave. He beheld the +wonderfully constructed bunks which glowed specter-like in the +semi-darkness without evincing the least disappointment. Later when one +of these had been assigned as his sole property during the voyage he +accepted it and its diminutive proportions without a murmur and +philosophically concluded that the Government either thought he had +diminished in stature while on the islands or intended to reduce his +dimensions on the way home. Thus the Utah warrior was quartered. The +celerity with which he adapted himself to his environments clearly +exhibited his excellent training. He quickly disposed of the problem of +how to shorten his linear measurements to four feet eight inches by +placing himself diagonally across his bed. The posture thus assumed was +not unlike that of a "Skeleton in Armor." When his joints became cramped +he straightened himself out by throwing his soles against the head of +his neighbor, who instantly developed a remarkable vocabulary of +explosives anent Hades, Paradise, Satan, etc. + +Mess time on the "Hancock" was not an occasion of the greatest felicity +to the returning volunteers. Their epicurean tastes could not totally +harmonize with bogus coffee and cows that had a flavor strangely akin to +that of horse flesh. When the bugle shrilly proclaimed the dinner hour +the men formed in a long serpentine line and displayed their skill in +keeping their equilibrium and at the same time holding their place in +the procession. The rattle of Government tinware, upon which the soldier +had inscribed many strange hieroglyphics descriptive of his adventures, +served as a musical entertainment in lieu of the melody furnished at all +other times by the combined efforts of the Utah and Nebraska bands. They +facetiously derided the commissary sergeant who had long since become +calloused to all sneering remarks made by the ordinary defender of the +flag; for in case of any exceedingly hostile demonstration he was armed +with a long cleaver and several carefully concealed bolos. They made +comments, too, not at all flattering to the bill of fare, about "gold +fish" and "slum-gullion" and ancient swine, but they "wasted their venom +on a file." The cooks, also, came in for a share of the complimentary +criticisms, for they were not blessed with a superabundance of skill in +the culinary art. Occasionally the voice of a volunteer was raised in +loud-mouthed protest over the meagerness of his own supply of food and +the apparent excessiveness which adorned the plate of his associate. +This always ended in a peculiar panegyric on the merits of a person who +had a "stand in" or a "pull" with the officers. When the ravenous Utahn +was handed his cheer the bestower very kindly warned him not to taste or +smell the victuals, as such an act would be attendant with serious +injury to his appetite; so he merely devoured the contents of his plate +with his eyes and passed them on to his gastronomical organs with no +further ceremony. + +A small portion of the forward deck was allotted to the batteries to be +used as a messhall, lounging apartment, etc. It was here the +battle-scarred veterans collected at meal times and dispatched their +slender store. As the Pacific is not always so peaceful as its name, +this pleasing task was not at all times accomplished with ease. When on +a boat tipped to an angle of 60 degrees, a Japanese juggler would find +some difficulty in conjuring his body to remain in an upright position +and simultaneously inducing a seething plate of soup to abide in a +placid state; yet the uninitiated volunteers contrived to perform this +daring feat three times a day. The many strange figures which they +described in their endeavors to execute these occult tricks would have +done justice to the most skillful acrobat. Frequently, as the vessel +gave an extra lurch, the insecure warrior proceeded with all possible +speed to the side of the boat and deposited his food and eating utensils +on the surface of the sad sea waves amid the execrations of those whom +he had the good fortune to come in contact with on his hasty trip and +the jibes of his appreciative audience. At this same place the +mendacious batterymen gathered in the warm afternoons to tell sea +serpent legends and fairy stories about some great event which had never +happened in the trenches. When this supply had been exhausted they began +forthwith to dilate upon the virtues of the most famous officers until +those worthies would have been unable to recognize their own characters +had they been confronted with them in their garnished garb. Once in a +very great while an officer strolled down from the aristocratic +atmosphere of the saloon dining hall and watched the feeding of the +enlisted drove with a superior grace. To convince the famished soldiers +that they were getting a redundant quantity of food, he sometimes called +for a [text missing in original.] There was always a good heap of hash +left to show the astonished men that they were merely chronic kickers. +Then the well-fed comedian adjourned to his spacious saloon and offered +an apology to his offended stomach by supplying it with an abundance of +all that the steamer carried. + +The one great comfort to the fagging spirits of the Utahn was the +battery fund. Through the darkest days of war his dying hopes were +revived by visions of what the future held in store for him by the aid +of this phantom. It was to the despairing volunteer what mirage is to +the thirsty traveler of the desert. The fund represented the combined +contributions of the soldiers, benevolent persons and charitable +institutions. Besides this a fabulous sum was added by the artillery +canteen which exchanged beer for the Utes' money and, in addition to +what it contributed towards the battery fund, provided turkeys and +succotash for the Thanksgiving and Christmas banquets. When it was +announced that this enormous sum was to be expended for dainties on the +way home the joy of the batteryman knew no limits. Spectre dinners of +mutton, cakes and pies arose in his mind with a suddenness that would +have startled the most ardent disbeliever in ghosts. Without the aid of +Pluto he called up all the spirits of meals long dead and fed on them +till the marvelous distribution should take place. And it was not long +in coming. One morning, accompanied by the stentorian voice of the bugle +Judge Williams, heavily laden with a huge cargo of jam, hove in sight. +Then were many whispered comments made about the quantity which each man +was to receive. The Judge soon stopped this and shortly after there was +a hum of satisfaction all along the deck as the men made way with this +delicacy. Now the gastronomy of the warrior lived and flourished under +the rigors of army hardtack and navy beans, but it collapsed at once +when introduced to Jamesson's jam. There was a sudden epidemic of cramps +throughout the entire organization, but the ever victorious commissary +sergeant soon stamped this out by the judicious application of some +French mustard, which had been purchased by the battery fund. And thus +the men of Utah were fed. + +Meanwhile the swift "Hancock" steamed out of Manila bay and speeded +toward Japan. Two days out she passed the beautiful Island of Formosa, +and in three days more the vessel came in sight of Nagasaki, the leading +coaling station of the Flowery Kingdom. Just at dusk the pilot boarded +the vessel and directed her safely through the narrow channel into the +land-locked harbor. Next morning all the soldiers were given shore leave +for the day and San-pans--the native craft--were provided to take the +men ashore. Here the Utahn explored the country in the jin-rickisha--a +two-wheeled vehicle which is drawn by the cabby himself, who as soon as +he has settled to his satisfaction the price to be paid, ambles off at a +gentle speed. If the Island of Kiusiu appeared beautiful as the boat +approached it in the waning twilight it seemed doubly so in the glory of +the morning sun. It is a land where poetry breathes as freely as the +gentle zephyrs blow from the summit of Mount Olympus; it is a land where +women are as fair as the daughters of Niobe. The pretty terraced hills +adorned with Pagan temples are rich in the odor of the spice and pine; +the pellucid lakes and bays gather a silver purity from the very crest +of the mountain; and as one gazes upon this beauty and simple grandeur +he imagines that it was just such influences as these that stirred the +soul of Hellas when she pictured Aphrodite springing out of the sea or +Neptune riding in his chariot of shells with a gay company of Tritons +and Nymphs. Three days, owing to a raging typhoon, the vessel was +delayed in coaling, but after the storm had spent its force the coaling +was resumed and the transport put to sea. On the 11th the ships arrived +at Muji, the key to the southern end of the inland sea. Here Japan's +military power is fully shown. Huge guns bristle from every hill, dark +warships stud the clear waters of the ocean and soldiers deck the peaks. +The sharp green cliffs in the inland sea chop off into the water and +from every one of these of any importance a cannon menacingly points. +Both entrances to the place are controlled by powerful fortresses which +command the open sea for a distance of twelve miles. In such a way has +the Mikado prepared for any war emergency. Two days after sighting Muji +the "Hancock" dropped anchor in the harbor of Yokahama. The visit here +lasted three days, during which the Utahns took a trip to Tokio and saw +of what the outside wall of the Emperor's palace is composed. At +Yokahama the batterymen spent the time in visiting the European portion +of the town and learning all they could about the flavor of the Japanese +foods. On the 16th the vessel lifted her ponderous anchor and pointed +her prow eastward. + +The only exciting incident during the entire voyage happened at +Nagasaki, when the first officer attempted to use corporal punishment on +the ship's quartermaster who had been ashore and in addition to getting +drunk had succeeded in breaking his kneepan. While he was getting his +wound attended to in the ship's hospital the big burly mate descended +the gangway and struck him a violent blow in the face. Not content with +this brutal treatment the monster had the poor wretch placed in irons +and dragged up the ship's ladder. Just as this procession landed on the +upper deck the soldiers rose unto a man and stopped the performance amid +cries of "throw him overboard." Surprised and astounded at this +interference the worthy officer demanded of the mob if they knew they +were mutinying. To which several of the leaders answered they knew not +under what legal nomenclature such a demonstration could be classed but +that they would carry out their threat to the letter if the castigation +should proceed. At this the cowed dignitary retreated in haste to the +security of his cabin. + +The "Hancock" was generally regarded as a fast boat. This may have been +true twenty years before the Nebraskans and Utahns boarded her, but +there were those who doubted the truth of such an assertion. During her +infancy on the Atlantic the boat had struck an iceberg and succeeded in +breaking forty feet off her bow. Since then she has been subject to +periodical disturbances in her interior, consequently her owners +patiently awaited the advent of war, knowing that the United States +Government would purchase her for the transport service at an early +opportunity. It is needless to say she eventually found her way into the +Pacific. On leaving Manila it was the intention of the "Hancock" to +break her own record of eighteen days between San Francisco and that +port. Her new record of thirty days had not yet been announced in the +newspapers. As a matter of fact she did happen to break her machinery +and delay the expedition six hours, causing a break in the fond hopes +which the soldiers had built up. + +There was one death during the trip over, Richard Ralph of Battery B, +who died at Nagasaki of typhoid fever on the 15th of July. Corporal +George Williams of the same organization was also left at the same point +owing to a severe attack of the dysentery. Both men were Englishmen and +had enlisted at Eureka. Otherwise the health of the batteries was good. + +The big prow of the "Hancock" loomed up darkly on the night of the 29th +in San Francisco harbor and rested at anchor. The long sea journey was +over. Until very late that night, long after taps had sounded sharply +over the waters of the harbor, the soldiers clustered around the deck of +the ship, heard the megaphone dialogues between the newspaper tugs and +the transport, and looked with longing eyes and hearts that beat with +joy at the gleaming lights of San Francisco. + +Many friends from Utah arrived on tugs during the next day, when the +transport was still in quarantine, and there was a generous greeting +when the transport moved up to the dock on the morning of the 30th. The +whole of this day was spent by the soldiers in exchanging greeting with +friends and in preparing their property for transportation to the +Presidio. + +It was on the morning of the 31st that the soldiers were permitted for +the first time to descend from the transport and walk again, after +sixteen months of absence in the Orient, upon the shores of the United +States. + +The battalions marched up the streets of San Francisco behind the +veterans of the Nebraska regiment, the center of a tremendous +demonstration. At the Presidio they were given quarters on the slopes to +the left of the Presidio road. The patriotic sentiments and generous +feelings of the citizens had been further shown, as the slopes of the +hills were lined with large Sibley tents, each equipped with a stove as +protection from the chilly mists that creep up by night from the bay. +There were also frame buildings for use as offices and a large kitchen +and mess room, commodiously and thoroughly equipped for comfort and +convenience. + +The citizens of Utah in the meantime had been active in preparations for +receiving the native warriors. On August 8th, Adjutant-General Charles +S. Burton and Colonel Bruback, members of the Governor's staff, and +representing the citizens' committee, arrived at the Presidio and used +every effort in providing for the further comfort of the men and +arranging for their early departure to their homes in Utah. It was +learned that a special train had been chartered by the citizens to +convey the volunteers to Utah, and to the fund necessary for this +purpose Collis P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific had contributed +$2500. + +The date for the muster out of the Utah troops was fixed by the +headquarters of the Department of California as August 16th, and +notwithstanding the efforts of General Burton and Major Grant to have +this time extended, General Shafter was unable to give an extension of +time. This left but a short period for the immense labor of closing the +affairs of the battery and the intricate details of the muster out. The +Captains of the batteries and a large clerical force were kept working +almost continuously from the day of the arrival at the Presidio, and +late on the night of the 15th they had the gratification, after toilsome +days and sleepless nights, of putting the final touch to the muster out +rolls. The next morning the rolls went to the paymaster. The labors of +the Utah volunteers in the army of the Republic were over. + +Some time before this, on August 5th, the men passed the final physical +examination, and the general condition of the command was found to be +extraordinarily good. Then the men were ready for the last function of +muster out. + +The next day the paymaster's wagon rattled up the Presidio slope. Then +the soldiers performed the last act of their soldier career. One by one +they marched into the small official frame building where the paymaster +fingered his gold. As the veterans came out, each hand laden with gold, +there was upon each face an iridescent smile, not only because of the +augmented wealth, but for the reason that each one knew that for him the +last bugle call had sounded, that his breast would no longer swell under +the blue of the United States uniform. In two hours the soldiers had all +left the Presidio, officers were shaking hands with the men over the +bridged chasm of official dignity, and up on the slope of the Presidio +the Sibley tents were ransacked and deserted. + +That night the men of Utah slept in the hotels of San Francisco and +dreamed of the morrow. + +On the night of the 16th the transport "Warren" arrived, bearing among +its passengers Major Richard W. Young, late chieftain of the batteries, +who had come, much to the satisfaction of the men, in time to join his +old war comrades in the homegoing. + +The ferry which was to carry the soldiers to Oakland was ready before +noon on the 17th, and early in the afternoon the engine of the special +train gave a few premonitory puffs and the train full of returning +warriors was moving towards Utah. The cars consisted of tourist sleepers +for the men and a buffet Pullman for the officers and their friends. +Across the center car a streamer stretched, bearing the words, "The Utah +Batteries." + +Crowds gather at all the stations on the route and cheer the warriors. +There was some delay, but nothing of special import occurred during the +trip. + +Early on the 19th the soldiers were able to see for the first time the +towering blue mountains of Utah and the splendor of her sunshine. It was +nearly noon when the train drew up at the Ogden station, and the +soldiers looked out over the heads of a cheering multitude and listened +to shrill whistles signalling a joyous welcome. The reception here only +lasted an hour, but was cordial in the extreme, and out on the Ogden +park a tempting lunch was served by fair women of Ogden. Lieutenant +George A. Seaman, formerly of Ogden, was given an ovation as he stepped +down from the platform of the car. A special car conveying the Governor +and a large party met the volunteers. + +Two hours later the jubilation was complete. The volunteers saw at first +a crowd and then a throng. They saw flaming streamers, flags fluttering +and hats waving; they heard the diaphanous shriek of the steam whistles, +the blaring of bands and the din of thousands cheering--all mingled in +one chorus of praise and rejoicing. There were hurried handshakes and +greetings and policemen's voices raised in fierce altercation with the +crowd. + +Soon with the cavalrymen and the engineers and the national guardsmen +the batterymen had struggled into line. Horses were in waiting at the +station for the officers and all were mounted in the parade. When the +order to march could be heard through the tumult, the procession moved +through a gayly decked arch at the station, and Majors Young and Grant +rode side by side at the head of the battalion. + +The crowd became more dense as the march continued towards Main street, +and as far as Liberty Park thousands thronged the avenues. Excited +relatives made a military formation impossible by rushing into the ranks +to grasp the hand of a veteran. + +At the Park the day's ceremonies were held. There were speeches by the +Governor and the two Majors, and here the silver medals which the +Legislature decided should be presented to the fighting sons of the +State were awarded. With the conclusion of the formal exercises, the +volunteers were led to an elaborately prepared lunch on beflowered +tables beneath the shadows of the locust trees, and while refreshments +were being taken fair maidens who ministered at the feast pinned badges +on the breasts of the modest volunteers. + +That night the celebration reached its full blazonry. The city glowed +and sparkled; gayly-bedecked, her flaunting colors were aurioled in the +lustres of the night; like an imperial palace, awaiting the return of +victorious princes, the lights gleamed and burned into the darkness; and +in the center a luminous monument, glowing like the smile of an +archangel, stood in vivid brightness the arch of triumph. + +When the men of Utah batteries passed out into the darkness that night +from the dazzle of color they knew that the glamor of the victorious +home-coming, the shouts and the jubilation were over. Yet there was +peace in their hearts and on their breast was a badge of honor from a +grateful people. And when they slept that night there were in their +dreams no spectral visions of distant battlefields. All that was +closed. + + + + +OFFICERS OF THE BATTERIES. + + +MAJOR RICHARD W. YOUNG. + +[Illustration: MAJOR RICHARD W. YOUNG.] + +Major Richard W. Young, who left Utah as the ranking officer of the two +batteries, being at that time Captain of Battery A, and who was +afterward appointed Major commanding the battalion and still later +selected as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Manila, is a +native of this State, having been born April 19, 1858, his parents being +Joseph A. Young (deceased), a son of the late Brigham Young, President +of the Mormon Church, and Margaret Whitehead Young, who still survives +her husband. + +Major Young is a trained military man, having been educated at the +military academy at West Point. For a time after his graduation he was a +member of the staff of Major-General Hancock, at that time commanding +the Department of the East. Later he acted as Judge-Advocate in the army +and conducted the Swaim court-martial, which was a case celebrated at +that time. He was then transferred to the Third Artillery and stationed +here with his battery at Fort Douglas. He resigned the service to take +up the practice of law, which he engaged in until he was selected as +manager of the Herald, a place which he filled acceptably for some time, +when he again resigned to practice law. + +At the outbreak of the war with Spain he tendered his services to the +Government and was later selected by the Governor of Utah to command +Battery A. At Camp Kent he was the ranking officer and had entire charge +of its affairs. + +His services in the Philippines were of such a distinguished character +that he was breveted Major by the President and later promoted to the +complete rank. + +When the batteries' term of service was nearly completed, he was +designated by Major-General Otis as Associate Justice of the Supreme +Court of Manila and came home with the volunteers to enjoy a vacation. + +Major Young is the author of a standard work on military law written +while he was a Lieutenant in the regular army. He is an able young man +and one well liked and respected. He is exceedingly popular here in this +city and State and outside of it. + +His married life has been very happy. Eight children have been born to +him and Mrs. Young, seven of whom are living. + + +MAJOR FRANK A. GRANT. + +[Illustration: MAJOR FRANK A. GRANT.] + +Frank A. Grant, who went away from Salt Lake City with the bars of a +Captain, came home with the gold leaves of a Major in his shoulder +strap. He is not a native of this State, but was born in Kingston, +Ontario, forty-four years ago. He received his education at the +military college of his native city and graduated therefrom. After +leaving school he came to the United States, where he became a citizen, +and settling at Detroit was engaged by one of the large steamship +companies in the capacity of pilot. He was a well trained man in his +business and followed the occupation for a period of ten years. He has +lived in Utah for ten years. During that time he was engaged in real +estate and insurance business, in both of which he made great successes. + +At the time of the breaking out of hostilities he was a member of the +National Guard of Utah, being Colonel of the First Infantry. Previous to +this time he had held a position as staff officer on the brigade +commander's staff, and was always a valuable man in military matters. It +was due principally to his efforts that Troop C was organized in this +city and made a success. + +Governor Wells commissioned him as Captain of Battery B, and with that +rank he went into the field. Like Major Young he was breveted by the +President for distinguished service and later was promoted to the full +rank of Major, coming home in command of the battalion. + +As commander of the river fleet Major Grant performed excellent service, +his expedition up the Rio Grande de Pampanga being especially well +carried out. Since his return he has gone into his old business--that of +insurance--and expresses himself as having had enough of military life. +He is married and has six children. + + +CAPTAIN E.A. WEDGEWOOD. + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN E.A. WEDGEWOOD.] + +Captain E.A. Wedgewood, who was promoted to the command of Battery A +after the promotion of Major Young, left the State as First Lieutenant +of Battery B. He is a native of Massachusetts, about forty years of age +and an attorney-at-law, being the junior partner of the firm of Rawlins, +Thurman, Hurd & Wedgewood. Immediately prior to his coming to Utah he +had served as Sheriff for several terms in the State of Nebraska. He +selected Provo for his home on coming to Utah and after entering the law +office of George Sutherland in that city and being admitted to the bar, +associated himself with Hon. S.R. Thurman. Later on the present firm was +formed. + +Captain Wedgewood was the officer sent back from San Francisco to Utah +to recruit 104 men in order to bring the batteries to their full +strength. Upon returning to San Francisco the party embarked and joined +the commands in Manila. + +Captain Wedgewood was a member of the National Guard prior to the time +of his enlistment, being Captain of the Provo company at the State +encampment the year previous. He is said to be a most versatile +character and can do anything from playing the violin to patching a sail +or pleading a case in court. It was expected he would rejoin the +National Guard, but it is learned he has had enough of military honors +and will engage in the practice of his profession with a view to reaping +shekels for use in his old age. + + +CAPTAIN JOHN F. CRITCHLOW. + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN JOHN F. CRITCHLOW.] + +Captain John F. Critchlow left the State with the batteries a Second +Lieutenant. He came back here leading Battery B. His promotion was due +to distinguished service performed while abroad. He was specially +recommended for gallantry by Major Young and for coolness on the field +under circumstances of the most trying character. + +Captain Critchlow was born in Tonawanda, N.Y., in 1867, and is only 32 +years of age. He attended the Rochester University and after graduating +from that institution went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he +studied medicine for several years, graduating in 1894 with the degree +of M.D. For the next year and a half he was in the German hospital at +Philadelphia, where he was enabled to obtain a practical insight into +the mysteries of materia medica, and upon leaving there he came to this +city, where his brother, E.B. Critchlow, a prominent attorney, was +already established in business. + +Dr. Critchlow became a member of the National Guard some time after his +arrival, being attached to the medical staff with the rank of First +Lieutenant. He proved to be a valuable and efficient member, always on +the alert and endeared himself to all his associates. + +When the call was made for troops he enlisted in Battery B and was made +a Second Lieutenant in that organization. + +His services in the Philippines were valuable. On the night attack of +the Spanish it was Lieutenant Critchlow who brought the ammunition to +the firing line at the time when it was most needed. In every place to +which he was assigned he was always at the fore and his conspicuous +bravery was the subject of special commendation, as has been related. +Upon the promotion of Captain Grant to the rank of Major, he was +advanced to that of Captain, coming home in command of the organization +with which he went out as a Second Lieutenant. + + +LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. GIBBS. + +[Illustration: LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. GIBBS.] + +First Lieutenant George W. Gibbs of Battery A is a well-known character +in this State, in Montana and in Massachusetts, his old home, where he +was born. His father was a veteran of the War of the Rebellion and +George was a member of the order in Montana, having been department +commander with the rank of colonel. He has always been interested in +matters appertaining to the National Guard; was a member of an infantry +regiment in Massachusetts, a Captain of a troop of cavalry in Montana +and Captain of Battery A, N.G.U., and Major of the battalion at the +outbreak of hostilities with Spain. + +He was at one time chief of the fire department in Helena and was a +member of the Salt Lake City department at the time W.A. Stanton was its +chief, being captain of the chemical. He afterwards served as Deputy +Sheriff when Harvey Hardy was at the head of that department. + +Gibbs is forty-one years of age and married. Two children, a boy and a +girl, are the result of a union with a most estimable lady. + +Prior to coming to this city and before he went to Montana he was in +Colorado, where he was employed as a sheriff's officer, serving with +distinction. He spent some time in San Francisco, where he was in the +employ of one of the leading traction companies. + + +LIEUTENANT RAYMOND C. NAYLOR. + +[Illustration: LIEUTENANT RAYMOND C. NAYLOR.] + +Lieutenant Raymond C. Naylor was born in Salt Lake City in 1873. His +early education was received in the public schools of Utah. Later he +attended the University of Utah, from which he graduated with honor. As +a student he took a prominent part in athletics and military training, +being a member of the baseball team as well as captain of one of the +companies of students then taking military drill under Lieutenant +Wright. He afterward taught school for several years and was engaged in +that labor in Centerville when the war broke out. Those who knew him +well were not surprised when he stepped to the front and offered his +service to his country along with others who were willing to brave any +peril in defense of their country's honor. Lieutenant Naylor had long +associated himself with the National Guard, in which he was Captain for +two years. He afterwards was promoted Major and at the breaking out of +hostilities he was filling the office of Assistant Inspector General +with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. + +When the batteries were organized Governor Wells appointed him a Second +Lieutenant of Battery A, which position he filled with such distinction +that he was promoted First Lieutenant. + +As an officer Lieutenant Naylor won the respect and admiration of both +officers and men. His interest in behalf of the privates gained for him +a popularity which was not surpassed by any of the officers in the +batteries. + + +LIEUTENANT ORRIN R. GROW. + +[Illustration: LIEUTENANT ORRIN R. GROW.] + +Second Lieutenant Orrin R. Grow, the youngest commissioned officer of +the Utah batteries at the time of their departure for the Philippines, +was born in Salt Lake City October 20, 1873. As a boy he received his +education in the public schools of Salt Lake City and afterwards he +attended the University of Utah several years, but he did not remain +long enough to graduate. While at the University he took military +training under Lieutenant Wright and after leaving that institution he +joined the Denhalter Rifles as bugler. He soon was promoted Sergeant and +subsequently Lieutenant. + +When the Denhalters joined the National Guard in 1892 Mr. Grow went with +them and was unanimously chosen captain of Company A, First Infantry, +N.G.U. Later he was chosen Major, a position which he held with credit +until the breaking out of hostilities. His ability was recognized by +Governor Wells, who appointed him a Second Lieutenant of Battery B when +that organization was mustered in. Lieutenant Grow went with his battery +to the Philippines, and during the fighting at Malate distinguished +himself. During January, 1899, he returned home owing to serious +illness. His early departure from the island prevented him from winning +greater honors in the insurrection, as his ability was displayed in the +Spanish-American war. + + +LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. WEBB. + +[Illustration: LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. WEBB.] + +Along with the many native sons of Utah who joined the ranks in defense +of their country there were some who were born on foreign soil. Such a +man was Lieutenant William C. Webb, who was born in England March 13, +1873. In his early youth Webb attended the schools of his native country +and while he was yet a youth he accompanied his parents when they +emigrated to Utah. + +Lieutenant Webb early associated himself with military affairs, as he +was a member of the Denhalter Rifles, and when that organization lost +its identity in the National Guard he became one of the most active +workers in the new service. When Captain Grow of Company A became Major +of the First Battalion, First Infantry, N.G.U., Webb was unanimously +chosen Captain of that company. He held this position until he was +appointed a Second Lieutenant of Battery A by Governor Wells. + +When the Utah volunteers left for Manila Lieutenant Webb accompanied +them. He took part in the Malate campaign, where he showed promise of +that brilliant work which he later accomplished in the Filipino +outbreak. At the breaking out of the insurrection he had charge of the +left platoon of Battery A at Santa Mesa hill. His fearlessness and +daring at that place won for him the universal admiration of his men. +Later he was placed in command of the river gunboat "Cavadonga," and +during all the fierce fighting of that little boat he manipulated her +with remarkable skill. + +Lieutenant Webb, on account of his exceptional work, was recommended for +a Lieutenancy in the regular army, a position which he will undoubtedly +accept. + + +LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. SEAMAN. + +[Illustration: LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. SEAMAN.] + +Lieutenant George A. Seaman, who went away as a Corporal of Battery A, +and came back with the "straps" of a Second Lieutenant, was born in the +little town of Morgan, twenty-nine years ago. While he was yet a boy his +parents moved to Ogden, where he secured the foundation of the education +which was later enlarged upon at the State University. He remained at +that institution four years, graduating with honor in 1892. While +obtaining his mental training he was a member of the University +Battalion, in which organization he acquitted himself so well that his +name was placed upon the honorary roll at Washington. It was also during +his college career that he became acquainted with Miss Lottie Fox, +daughter of Jesse W. Fox. Between them sprang up a mutual attachment, +which was later consummated at the altar. Shortly afterwards Lieutenant +Seaman moved with his wife to Bountiful, where he took up school +teaching as a profession. He showed an efficiency in his work which won +the esteem of all his patrons and pupils. When the call for soldiers was +made his blood was of that order which impelled him to drop the master's +rod and take up the sword in defense of his country. + +Having enlisted he set to work to familiarizing himself with all the +tactics pertaining to artillery warfare, and soon made himself +acquainted with military science. His studious habits and his morality +soon commended him to his superior officers who recommended him for the +first vacancy which occurred. He was appointed Second Lieutenant of +Battery B, which position he held with honor until the mustering out of +the battalion. + + +LIEUTENANT FRANK T. HINES. + +[Illustration: LIEUTENANT FRANK T. HINES.] + +Lieutenant Frank T. Hines, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Hines, was +born twenty-one years ago in Salt Lake City. He attended the city +schools from which he graduated in 1896. For several years thereafter he +was employed at Mercur and later entered the Agricultural College. It +was while at the college that Mr. Hines learned to like the military +life which he subsequently led for a short period. + +When the country called for volunteers he enlisted in Captain Grant's +battery as a private, but he was soon appointed duty sergeant. The +latter position he filled very creditably and when a vacancy occurred by +reason of the resignation of Lieutenant Grow, he was elevated to the +Second Lieutenancy, which office he held until the batteries were +discharged. + + +LIEUTENANT JOHN A. ANDERSON. + +[Illustration: LIEUTENANT JOHN A. ANDERSON.] + +Lieutenant John A. Anderson, one of the few who worked his way up by +sheer force of ability, was born in Smithfield, Cache county, Utah, +twenty-five years ago. He received his education in the district school +of his native town, and later went to work as a millman, the occupation +which he followed at the breaking out of the war. + +When the batteries went away he was a duty sergeant of Battery B, in +which capacity he earned the position which he afterwards secured. It +was Sergeant Anderson who had charge of that section of the Utah +Battalion which accompanied General Lawton in his expedition in the +interior as far as San Isidro. Following his return he was appointed +First Sergeant of Battery B, and just before the organization left the +island he received his commission as second lieutenant. Lieutenant +Anderson was a brave, efficient man, and one who won the respect of all +who knew him. + + +SERGEANT HARRY A. YOUNG. + +[Illustration: SERGEANT HARRY A. YOUNG.] + +Sergeant Harry A. Young, son of the late Lorenzo D. Young, was born in +Salt Lake City February 24, 1865. During his boyhood he attended the +public school of his native town, and afterwards he spent several years +in the Utah University, where he evinced a great liking to medicine. +During 1884-85 he filled a mission to the Northern States. Soon after +his return he went East and entered the medical department of Columbia +College. He graduated from this institution with distinguished honors +and great future promise to his profession. He established himself in +Salt Lake City, where he succeeded in building up quite an extensive +practice in a short time. The blood of a patriot flowed through the +veins of Dr. Young and when his country needed his service he cheerfully +joined the ranks and was appointed Quartermaster-Sergeant of Battery A, +a position which he filled with great credit. When the Utah volunteers +embarked for Manila Sergeant Young went with them and took part in the +fighting against the Spaniards. Although his service as a doctor was not +required, Dr. Young was continually in the front administering to the +wants of the wounded men. Subsequently he participated in the fighting +of the Tagalan outbreak, and it was while he was bravely at the front in +search of opportunities to perform deeds of mercy that he met with his +death at the hand of the enemy on February 6, 1899. + +Those who were intimately acquainted with Dr. Young knew his sterling +worth and admired his manhood. He ever walked in the path of right, +unmindful of the opinions of the world. What he considered to be his +duty he did with unswerving honesty. He was diligent and studious and +applied himself with untiring energy to his books. As a soldier the +batterymen will remember his unceasing efforts to better their +condition. During the five tedious months of barrack life when others +were idly waiting, he devoted himself to his chosen profession. Had +Sergeant Harry A. Young lived two days longer he would have received his +commission as a surgeon in the United States army. + + +SERGEANT FORD FISHER. + +[Illustration: SERGEANT FORD FISHER.] + +Sergeant Ford Fisher, who bravely gave up his life in his country's +defense, was born at Seaford, Delaware, twenty-three years ago. He was +the son of I.M. Fisher of Salt Lake City. At an early age Ford, as he +was better known among his associates, came to Salt Lake City with his +parents. Here he attended the city High School, from which he graduated +with high honors. While at the High School he was noted for his +efficiency in mathematics and here he developed a liking for civil +engineering, which he later studied at the Washington State University. +For some time prior to the breaking out of hostilities with Spain he had +associated himself with the National Guard, and when the President's +call came too much patriotic blood flowed through his veins to admit of +any second appeal, and he enlisted with the batteries. + +Major Young soon became acquainted with the young man's military ability +and he was appointed drill sergeant at Camp Kent. When the batteries +departed for the Philippines he went with them and distinguished himself +for his gallantry in the Malate campaign. Later during the insurrection +he took part with the other Utah men in many a fierce conflict with the +insurgents until he was stricken down by the enemy's bullet while +heroically defending his position at San Luiz on May 14, 1899. + +The Utah artillerymen remember the stalwart figure of Sergeant Fisher as +it loomed up in the forefront at Santa Mesa, Mariquina and Sexmoan. He +was an inspiration to the wavering spirits of the Utahn in twenty hard +encounters. His voice ever sounded as a note of cheer and his ringing +command never failed to infuse with new life. Always attending to his +duties he expected the same of others; his soul was too great to stoop +to the level of anything base; his heart was honest and open and free. +He was a pleasant companion and a true friend. He was blessed with an +abundance of original humor which made him doubly loved by the soldiers +during the lonely hours of barrack life. + +At the time of his death Sergeant Fisher was first in line of promotion, +as he had been recommended for the next commission by Major Young. + + + + +ROSTER + +BATTALION UTAH LIGHT ARTILLERY, U.S.V. + +MAJOR FRANK A. GRANT, Commanding.[1] + +BATTERY A. + +OFFICERS. + +Captain, E.A. WEDGEWOOD Salt Lake City + Wounded April 23, 1899. +First Lieutenant, GEORGE W. GIBBS Salt Lake City +Second Lieutenant, WILLIAM C. WEBB Salt Lake City +Second Lieutenant, JOHN A. ANDERSON Logan + +SERGEANTS. + +First, JOSEPH O. NYSTROM Salt Lake City +Quartermaster, ADNEBYTH L. WILLIAMS Salt Lake City +Veterinary, JOHN H. MEREDITH Kaysville +EMIL LEHMAN Salt Lake City +EMIL V. JOHNSON Salt Lake City +ARTHUR W. BROWN Salt Lake City +WILLIAM E. KNEAS Salt Lake City +CHARLES R. MABEY Bountiful +MARK E. BEZZANT Pleasant Grove + +CORPORALS. + +GEO. S. BACKMAN Salt Lake City +NOBLE A. McDONNEL Salt Lake City +WM. JACOBSON Salt Lake City +NELSON E. MARGETTS Salt Lake City +THOMAS COLLINS Salt Lake City +WM. NELSON, JR Salt Lake City +JOHN R. WOOLSEY Kaysville +PETER JENSEN Newton +SAMUEL HESBURG Salt Lake City +LINDSEY HUDSON Salt Lake City +EDWARD G. WOOD Logan +LEONARD DUFFIN Salt Lake City +FRANK T. HARMER Springville +THOMAS HOLLBERG Salt Lake City +EDGAR W. STOUT Halliday +WM. T. DENN Nephi + +FARRIERS. + +JULIUS W. SORENSEN Salt Lake City +WM. G. McCOMIE Salt Lake City + +ARTIFICERS. + +BURIAH WILKINS Coalville +HIELE M. MADSON Gunnison + +SADDLER. + +VICTOR E. MARTHINI Park City + +WAGONER. + +JAS W. ALLRED Ephraim + +MUSICIANS. + +ELMER G. THOMAS Salt Lake City +CHARLES W. KROGH Salt Lake City + +PRIVATES. + +ALDRACH, WILL F. Clear Lake +ANDERSON, JOSEPH F. Ephraim +ANDERSON, LOUIS P. Ephraim +ARCHER, DAVID G. Salt Lake City +BAGGE, JOHN R. Salt Lake City +BEAN, HARRY J. Salt Lake City +BEEMUS, JOHN W. Gunnison +BENSON, PETER J. Provo +BERLIN, JOHN H. American Fork +BOSTWICK, ROBERT L. Salt Lake City +BRADFORD, ARCHIBALD. Murray +BYWATER, CALEB J. Salt Lake City +CAMPBELL, JOHN W. Salt Lake City +CAULKINS, HAROLD L. Salt Lake City +CHRISTENSEN, PARLEY B. Ephraim +CHRISTENSEN, THEODOR Salt Lake City +CURTIS, CLARENCE S. Salt Lake City +DAVIS, DAVID J. Salt Lake City + Wounded April 23, 1899. +DOTY, GEORGE E. Richmond +DUFFIN, GEORGE Salt Lake City +EARL, WILLIAM Centerville +EDWARDS, WILLIAM Salt Lake City +EKSTRAND, ALFRED Salt Lake City +ELLIS, WILLIAM G. Salt Lake City +EMERY, FRANK W. Park City +ENGLER, GEORGE W. Ogden +FERRIS, EVERETT B. Salt Lake City +FISHER, GEORGE R. Salt Lake City +FRANKENFIELD, GEORGE Salt Lake City +FUNK, EZRA S. Sterling +GILROY, JACK Salt Lake City +GLEDHILL, LEO N. Gunnison +GRIFFITHS, WALTER F. Salt Lake City +GUNN, THOMAS S. Salt Lake City +HARRIS, GEORGE Salt Lake City +HENNEFER, WILLIAM H. Salt Lake City +HOPE, CHESTER J.T. Salt Lake City +HOWELLS, EPHRAIM B. Park City +HUBER, JACOB Provo +HUGHES, THOMAS J. Park City +HUMPHREY, ANER O. Springville +INGOLDSBY, JOHN E. Salt Lake City +IVINS, JOSEPH C. Salt Lake City +JENICKE, CHARLES G. Salt Lake City +JONES, HENRY O. Newton +KAHN, LOUIS E. Salt Lake City +KEARSLEY, RICHARD. Salt Lake City +KENNER, RAY Sterling + Wounded accidentally April 21, 1899. +KIDDER, RALPH Salt Lake City +KING, MURRAY E. Kingston +LARSON, WARREN Ephraim +LEAVER, WILLIAM H. Salt Lake City + Wounded July 31, 1898. +LEE, JAMES A. Salt Lake City +LOUDER, ARTHUR L. Nephi +LOWRY, ERNEST E. Sterling +LYNGBERG, AUGUST E. Salt Lake City +MEYERS, JOSEPH J. Salt Lake City +MORGAN, JOSEPH H. Park City +MORTENSEN, DAVID Salt Lake City +McKAY, DANIEL Salt Lake City +McLAUGHLIN, WILLIAM F. Park City +NICHOLSON, ANGUS Salt Lake City +NIELSON, JAS. P. Eureka +NIELSON, NIELS Pleasant Grove +NOBLE, GEORGE W. Salt Lake City +OHMER, ARTHUR F. Rawlins, Wyoming +PERRET, WILLIAM E. Salt Lake City +PETERSON, CHARLES Salt Lake City +PETERSON, FRANK C. Ogden +PETERSON LOUIS C. Salt Lake City +PHILLIPS, MANNIE C. Salt Lake City +QUINN, JAMES Park City +RADEMACHER, AUGUST Ogden +RASMUSSEN, SEVEREN Park City +RAUSCHER, EDWARD W. Nephi +RICHMOND, WILLIAM Provo +ROBINSON, WILLIAM J. Park City +ROBISON, JOHN L. Pleasant Grove +RYAN, MICHAEL F. Salt Lake City +RYVER, WILLIAM A. Salt Lake City +SELMER, EMIL F. Salt Lake City + Wounded April 26, 1899. +SLEATER, HAROLD E. Salt Lake City +SMITH, THOMAS R. Logan +SORENSON, HANS Salt Lake City +SORENSON, JOSEPH F. Salt Lake City +SORENSON, KNUD Eureka +STATEN, STANLEY Springville +STOUT, CHARLES S. Salt Lake City +TIPTON, WILLIAM Springville +TOMPKINS, ODELL D. Mystic, Conn. +TRIPP, FRANCIS B. Salt Lake City +VINCENT, FRANK A. Salt Lake City +WALQUIST, CHARLES A. Salt Lake City +WEBER, GEORGE E. Park City +WILLIAMS, ALBERT R. Salt Lake City +WONNACOTT, JAMES E. Salt Lake City +WYCHERLEY, SAMUEL A. Salt Lake City +ZAHLER, JOHN F. Bountiful + +[Footnote 1: Major Richard W. Young, who originally commanded the +battalion, resigned to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of +the Philippines and Major Frank A. Grant superceded him as commander of +the batteries.] + +HONORABLY DISCHARGED. + +First Sergeant, D.H. WELLS Salt Lake City + October 31, 1898. +Sergeant, A.L. ROBINSON Mt. Pleasant + April 3, 1899. +Corporal, WILLARD CALL Bountiful + December 14, 1898. +Corporal, LEWIS P. HANSON Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Corporal, WM. D. RITER Salt Lake City + October 31, 1898. +Corporal, JOHN B. ROGERS Salt Lake City + June 29, 1899. +Corporal, GEO. A. SEAMAN Bountiful + November 24, 1898. +Corporal, FRANK B. SHELLY Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Farrier, W.M. CLAWSON Kaysville + May 18, 1899. +Farrier, H.P. HANSEN Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Artificer, V.A. SMITH Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Private, ETHAN E. ALLEN Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Private, WM. W. BURNETT San Jose, Cal. + February 24, 1899. +Private, A.C. CAFFALL Salt Lake City + July 7, 1899. +Private, THEO. CLEGHORN Salt Lake City + May 11, 1899. +Private, JAS. W. CONNELL Salt Lake City + April 10, 1899. +Private, A.H. FICHTNER Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Private, P.B. FREDERICKSON Eureka + June 28, 1899. +Private, GEORGE GRANTHAM American Fork + June 28, 1899. +Private, JOSEPH J. HOLBROOK Bountiful + December 14, 1898. +Private, ELMER JOHNSON Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899 +Private, J.B. LICKLEDERER Salt Lake City + July 7, 1899. +Private, HERBERT L. MEYERS San Francisco, Cal. + June 28, 1899. +Private, ISAAC E. LITTRELL Berkeley, Cal. + June 28, 1899. +Private, THEODORE NEWMAN Salt Lake City + April 10, 1899. +Private, FRANK E. PETERS Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Private, W.I. ROWLAND Salt Lake City + February 1, 1899. +Private, ISAAC RUSSELL Salt Lake City + January 18, 1899. +Private, BISMARCK SNYDER Park City + December 14, 1898. +Private, A.L. THOMAS, JR. Salt Lake City + June 12, 1898. +Private, JOHN A. TILSON Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Private, FRANCIS TUTTLE Bountiful + September 21, 1898. +Private, CHAS. E. VARIAN Salt Lake City + December 14, 1898. +Private, E.P. WALKER Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. + + + + +ROLL OF HONOR. + +KILLED IN ACTION. + +Quartermaster-Sergeant, HARRY A. YOUNG Salt Lake City + February 6, 1899. +Sergeant, FORD FISHER Salt Lake City + May 14, 1899. +Corporal, JOHN G. YOUNG Salt Lake City + February 5, 1899. +Private, WILHELM G. GOODMAN Salt Lake City + February 5, 1899. + +DIED OF DISEASE. + +Corporal, GEORGE O. LARSON Dover + December 10, 1898. +Corporal, JOHN T. KENNEDY Park City + March 15, 1899. +Private, OSCAR A. FENINGER Park City + June 5, 1899. +Private, CHARLES PARSONS Salt Lake City + April 20, 1899. + +BATTERY B. + +OFFICERS. + +Captain, JOHN F. CRITCHLOW Salt Lake City +First Lieutenant, RAYMOND C. NAYLOR Salt Lake City +Second Lieutenant, GEORGE A. SEAMAN Bountiful + Wounded April 11, 1899. +Second Lieutenant, FRANK T. HINES (Batt. Adjt.) Salt Lake City + +SERGEANTS. + +First, JOHN U. BUCHI Provo +Quartermaster, JAMES K. BURCH Ogden +Veterinary, FELIX BACHMAN Provo +LOUIS N. FEHR Salt Lake City +ROBERT STEWART Plain City +JOHN A. BOSHARD Provo +GEORGE B. WARDLAW Ogden + Wounded February 4, 1899. +ANDREW PETERSON, JR. Manti + Wounded March 11, 1899. +HARVEY DUSENBERRY Provo + +CORPORALS. + +JAMES J. RYAN Mercur +CHARLES C. CLAPPER Mercur +THEODORE L. GENTER Salt Lake City +NEPHI OTTESON Manti +HENRY L. SOUTHER Mercur + Wounded March 24, 1899. +DON C. JOHNSON Springville +FRANK H. COULTER Ogden +JAS. W. MERANDA Eureka +JAMES M. DUNN Tooele +JNO. FLANNIGAN Mammoth +RICHARD L. BUSH Logan +GEORGE WILLIAMS Salt Lake City +FRANK J. UTZ Mercur +STEPHEN BJARNSON Spanish Fork +PHILLIP SCHOEBER Salina +WILLARD H. FARNES Salt Lake City +FRANK WICKERSHAM Salt Lake City + +ARTIFICERS. + +FRANK DILLINGHAM Eureka +LEE A. CURTIS Ogden + +WAGONER. + +ANTONE LITJEROTH Provo + +MUSICIANS. + +JOSEPH WESSLER + +MORTON T. GOODWIN Heber City + +PRIVATES. + +ABPLANALP, JOHN D. Heber + Wounded April 24, 1899. +ACKARET, MAHLON H. Ogden +ALEXANDER, ROBERT Salt Lake City +ANDERSON, DAVID M. Peterson +ANDERSON, PETER Richfield +AUSTIN, BERT W. Bingham +BAKER, JOHN Eureka +BEESLEY, JOHN W. Provo +BENZON, GLENN Salt Lake City +BILLINGS, CLAUD G. Eureka +BJARNSON, EINER Spanish Fork +BORKMAN, ARTHUR Mercur +BRAMAN, JOHN Bingham + Wounded April 26, 1899. +BRIDGMAN, JOHN D. Salt Lake City +BURTON, RAY S. Salt Lake City +CARR, JOSEPH W. Ogden +CARLSON, GUST Salt Lake City +CHAMBERLIN, VIRGIL L. Ogden +CHATLIN, EUGENE Castle Gate +CHAFFIN, MILLARD Salt Lake City +CHRISTENSEN, THEODORE Salt Lake City +COLLETT, RALPH Salt Lake City +COLLINS, WM. J. Salt Lake City +CONOVER, ROBT. F. Provo +CORAY, DON R. Provo +CRAGER, FRED H. Salt Lake City +DALGETY, JOHN Eureka +DALIMORE, PHILLIP Lehi +DUNCAN, ELMER Heber +DECKER, LEO Salt Lake City +DOYLE, JOSEPH Mammoth +DUNNING, DANIEL A. Provo +EDDY, LOUIS B. Eureka +ELLIS, ALFRED Silver City +EVANS, WILLARD Salt Lake City +FOWLER, GEORGE Salt Lake City +FORCELAND, CHARLES G. Salt Lake City +GRAVES, NED C. Salt Lake City +GREEN, LOREN C. American Fork +HALL, PARKER J. Ogden + Wounded March 25, 1899. +HALL, WALTER S. West Portage +HARDIE, FRANCIS R. Salt Lake City +HEATHERLY, CHARLES Salt Lake City +HERBERTZ, PETER Castle Gate +HOGAN, JOHN Ogden +HAGGAN, THOMAS A., JR. Manti +HOLDAWAY, PARLEY P. Provo +HOBKINS, EVERITT E. Provo +HUBERT, WELMER E. Salt Lake City +HUGHES, JOHN W. Eureka +JENSEN, HANS Hyde Park +KELL, JOHN V. Eureka +KLENKE, HENDRECH Salt Lake City +KING, SAMUEL Eureka +KNAUSS, WM. G. Salt Lake City +LARSEN, G.R. Manti +LAWSON, D.V. Joseph +LEONARD, THOMAS Eureka +LEWIS, SAMUEL C. Salt Lake City +MARTIN, FRED S. Salt Lake City +McCABE, JAMES Eureka +McCARTY, LEONARD Manti +McCUBBIN, WILLIAM Salt Lake City +MOIR, GEORGE Salt Lake City +MORTON, JOHN W. Provo +MORTON, MILTON Provo +NEILSON, ANDREW P. Spanish Fork +NORRIS, JOHN D. Denver, Colorado +OLSEN, PETER Logan +OLSEN, REINHART Milton +PENNINGTON, LOUIS P. Brigham +PRATT, ERNEST M. Salt Lake City +QUICK, MARSHALL Provo +RAE, ALEX Provo +RAE, WILLIAM Provo +REEDALL, THOMAS Salt Lake City +REES, GEORGE Silver City +REID, ROBERT Salt Lake City +ROBERTS, EDWARD J. Salt Lake City +ROWLAND, GEORGE E. Eureka +SAVAGE, WM. H. Eureka +SCHAUPP, FREW W. Eureka +SCOTT, HYRUM C. Provo +SHEARER, WM. H. Salt Lake City +SMITH, JEROME Tooele +SMITH, SIDNEY J. Salt Lake City +SMITH, HARRY Salt Lake City +SNOW, JUNIUS C. Provo +SNYDER, HARRY S. Provo +TATE, JNO. P. Tooele +TAYLOR, GEORGE Eureka +TURNER, MORONI Heber +TYREE, SAMUEL P. Ogden +VANCE, JOHN R. Eureka +VAN SYCKLE, BENJ. Ogden +WALTERS, ALBERT N. Ogden +WALTERS, JOSEPH W. Ogden +WINKLER, JOSEPH G. Salt Lake City +WRIGHT, WILLIAM A. Salt Lake City +YATES, JAMES K. Diamond +WHEELER, GEORGE Ogden +ZOLLINGER, JOHN D. Providence + +HONORABLY DISCHARGED. + +Second Lieutenant, ORRIN R. GROW Salt Lake City +First Sergeant, J.A. ANDERSON Logan + Discharged June 29, to accept commission as Second Lieutenant. +Quartermaster-Sergeant, CHAS. ASPLUND Fairview + June 23, 1899. +Sergeant, ALBERT ST. MORRIS Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Sergeant, HORACE E. COOLIDGE Manti + March 22, 1899. +Corporal, WM. Q. ANDERSON Logan + Wounded August 24, 1898. + December 15, 1898. +Corporal, JOHN T. DONNELLAN Salt Lake City + March 17, 1899. +Corporal, JACOB A. HEISS Salt Lake City + December 1, 1898. +Corporal, E.V. DE MONTALVO Mercur + January 21, 1899. +Musician, JOS. F. GRANT Salt Lake City + January 11, 1899. +Saddler, LOUIS MILLER Ogden + November 15, 1898. +Farrier, FRED D. SWEET Ogden + April 11, 1899. +Private, GODFREY J. BLUTH Ogden + February 12, 1899. +Private, F.D. CHATTERTON Salt Lake City + January 21, 1899. +Private, JASPER D. CURTIS Eureka + June 23, 1899. +Private, ROSEY P. FLORANCE Ogden + December 30, 1898. +Private, CHARLES S. HILL Wellington + June 28, 1899. +Private, BARR W. MUSSER Salt Lake City + January 17, 1899. +Private, JOHN A. PENDER Ogden + Wounded March 30, 1899. + May 5, 1899. +Private, THOMAS SHULL Mammoth + June 28, 1899. +Private, THOS. W. THORNBURG Ogden + June 28, 1899. +Private, FREDERICK BLAKE Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Private, AUGUSTUS BRANSCOM Ogden + June 28, 1899. +Private, WILLIAM CROOKS Eureka + June 28, 1899. +Private, JOHN FERGUSON Park City + January 15, 1899. +Private, CHAS. I. FOX Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. +Private, GEORGE LACEY Manti + January 10, 1899. +Private, DON C. MUSSER Salt Lake City + January 17, 1899. +Private, NEPHI REESE Silver City + November 11, 1898. +Private, GEO. SIMMONS Salt Lake City + June 23, 1899. +Private, CHRIS WAGNER Salt Lake City + March 13, 1899. +Private, CARLOS YOUNG Salt Lake City + June 28, 1899. + + +ROLL OF HONOR. + +KILLED IN ACTION. + +Corporal, MORITZ C. JENSEN Castle Gate + April 26, 1899. +Private, FREDERICK BUMILLER Salt Lake City + April 26, 1899. +Private, MAX MADISON Mercur + April 25, 1899. +Private, GEO. H. HUDSON Mercur + August 25, 1898. + +DIED OF DISEASE. + +Private, RICHARD H. RALPH Eureka + July 21, 1899. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Utah Batteries: A History, by Charles R. 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