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"THE  FIGHTING  TWENTIETH." 

History  and  Official  Souvenir  of 
the  Twentieth  Kansas  Regiment. 

Publication  authorized  by  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  non-partisan 
reception  committee  appointed  by 
Governor  Stanley  from  tlie  state  at 
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Story  of  the  "  Fighting  Twentieth  "  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 


THE  records  of  the  War  Department  show  that  the  Twentieth  regiment  of  Kansas  volunteers  sailed  from  San  Francisco  on  the 
steamship  "Indiana"  on  the  27th  of  October,  1898,  and  on  the  steamship  "Newport"  on  the  9th  of  November,  1898,  arriving 
at  Manila  on  the  Ist  and  6th  days  of  December  following:  that  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  actual  battle,  sustaining  losses  by 

death  or  wounds,  on  each  of  the  following  davs,  viz.:  The  4th,  fith,  7th,  10th,  11th, 
12th,  17th,  2M,  24th,  26th  and  28th  of  February,  1899:  the  11th,  12th,  13th,  23d,  24th, 
S.'ith,  26th,  27th,  29th  and  31st  of  March;  the  2rjth  and  2Gth  of  April;  the  4th  and 
24th  of  May,  and  the  16th  and  22d  of  June.  Their  participation  in  engagements  is 
specially  mentioned  in  cablegrams  from  General  Otis  on  the  8th  of  February,  the  28th 
of  April,  and  the  25th  of  May,  1899. 

The  regiment  left  the  Philippines  for  home  on  the  3d  of  September,  1899,  just  six- 
months  after  it  was  entitled  to  be  discharged  from  service  under  the  act  of  Congress. 

The  greater  part  of  the  engagements  above  mennoned  were  fought,  and  mo.st  of 
the  losses  of  life  were  incurred,  at  a  time  when  there  was  no  obligation  for  further  serv- 
ice resting  upon  the  members  of  the  regiment,  except  that  which  was  self-imposed 
upon  them  by  their  own  love  of  country  and  their  detemiination  to  maintain  the  right- 
ful sovereignty  of  the  United  States  and  the  honor  of  its  flag. 

The  character  of  the  regiment's  services  in  the  field  is  well  indicated  by  the  follow- 
ing recommendations  for  brevet  promotions  made  by  Major-General  Arthur  MacArthur, 


commanding  the  second  division  of  the  Eighth  Army  Corps,  and  ajiproved  by  Major- 
General  Elwell  S.  Otis,  commanding  the  Corps.     I  quote  from  the  official  document: 


ELIHU  ROOT,  Secretary  of  War, 


"  Frederick  Funston,  Bri»?a(li< 
I  Fttr)  GalluDt  and  meritorious  set  ,      _, 

February  4th  to  July  1,  1899;  particularly  for  dariDR  courage  at  the  passaKe  of  the  Rio  Urande  do  la 
Pampanga,  May  27,  1899,  while  Colonel  a)th  Kansas  Vols." 

"  Wilder  S.  Motcalf ,  Colonel,  20th  Kansas  Vols.,  to  be  Brigadier-General,  by  brevet.  (  Fori  Gal- 
lant and  meritorious  services  throughout  the  campaign  against  Filipino  insurgents,  from  February  4tb 
to  July  I,  1899,  during  which  period  ho  was  wounded  on  two  separate  occasions." 

The  officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the  regiment  e.vhibited  the  same  high  quality  of 
liravery  and  efficiency  which  characterized  their  commanders. 

I  beg  to  join  with  the  people  of  Kansas  in  welcoming  to  their  homes  these  citizen- 
soldiers,  so  worthy  of  the  heroic  origin  and  patriotic  history  of  their  state. 

ELIHU  ROOT. 


"Crowning  Glory  of  tbe  Closing  Century;* 


444 


A   TBIBUTE    FEOM    HON.    J.    L.    BRISTOW,    OF    KANSAS, 
FOUKTH   ASSISTANT  POSTMASTEE-C 


'T^HE  soldiers  of  Napoleon  enjoyed  the  reflected  glory  of  their 
matchless  general.  England's  soldiers  are  honored  because  of 
the  mighty  empire  which  their  valor  has  won  and  sustains.  The 
American  soldier  is  loved  and  revered  because  of  the  principles 
for  which  he  fights.  The  soldiers  of  the  Spanish  -  American  war 
have  broken  down  the  doors  of  medieval  superstition,  and  per- 
mitted millions  of  serfs  to  breathe  the  free  air  of  modern  civiliza- 
tion. Their  heroic  achievments  are  the  crowning  glory  of  the 
closing  century. 

In  these  great  achievements  the  Twentietli  Kan.sas  has  performed 
a  conspicuous  part.  It  has  won  the  plaudits  of  the  Nation.  To 
have  been  a  soldier  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas  at  Manila  is  a  rare 
honor.  Kansas  is  proud  of  the  Twentieth.  It  has  gallantly  upheld 
the  honor  of  our  country,  and  courageously  maintained  the  luster 
of  American  arms.  It  has  shed  glory  upon  the  State,  and  a  patri- 
otic people,  with  joyous  acclaim,  welcome  its  return  from  the  fields 
of  victory. 


JOSEPH  L.  BRISTOW, 
Fourtli  Assistant  Postmaster-General. 


¥¥¥ 


BRIGADIER- 
GENERAL 
FREDERICK 
FUNSTON. 


Battles  of  ths  "Fighting  Twentieth. 


Advance  on  the  enemy,  February  5. 

Independent  skirmish,  February  7. 

Caloocan,  February  10. 

Tulijan,  March  25. 

Malinta,  March  26. 

Poli,  March  27. 

Marilao,  March  28. 

Bigoa,  March  29. 

Guiginto,  March  29. 

.\dvance  on  Malolos,  March  30  and  .'51. 

Defense  of  Malolos,  three  weeks. 

Hagbag  river,  April  25. 

Calumpit,  April  26. 

f  irand  river,  April  27. 

Santo  Tomas,  May  i. 

San  Fernando,  May  6. 

liacolor,  May  13. 

Santa  Rita,  May  15. 

1  )efense  of  San  Fernando,  May  25. 


Ware's  Tribute  in  Verse. 


I  have  got  a  wealthy  neighbor 

Who  is  living  without  labor  — 
Who  has  cash  and  bonds  and  stocks  and  stuff,  and  asks  me  out  to  dine; 

And  I  have  another  neighbor, 

Living  by  the  hardest  labor. 
Who's  got  a  Twentieth  Kansas  boy  out  on  the  fighting  line. 

There's  no  fun  in  being  weary, 

But  if  you  should  put  the  query, 
"Which  of  these  two  people's  places  would  you  take?"  well,  I  opine, 

Not  the  man  that's  got  the  money. 

But  the  man  that's  got  the  sonny  — 
Got  the  snorting,  rip-cavorting  boy  down  on  the  fighting  line. 

— Eugene  F.  Ware. 


Governor  Stanley  Praises  the  Twentieth. 

Points  out  that  its  Splendid  Distinction  was   Won  after  the  Term  of  Enlistment  had  Expired. 


The  members  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas  regiment  have  been  volun- 
teer soldiers  in  an  unusual  and  splendid  sense.  They  enlisted  for  the 
Spanish-American  war.  By  the  terms  of  their  enlistment  their  period 
of  service  expired  when  the  Spanish-American  treaty  of  peace  was 
signed.  Every  member  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas  regiment  had  a  right 
to  lay  down  his  arms  and  demand  transportation  home  when  the  treaty 
of  peace  with  Spain  was  concluded,  but  the  thought  of  quitting  in  the 
face  of  a  fight  never  entered  the  mind  of  a  Kansas  soldier.  The  flag 
needed  defenders,  and  the  Kansas  soldiers  remained  voluntarily  to  de- 
fend it.  Not  a  man  faltered,  not  a  man  stood  upon  his  right  to  quit, 
but  with  that  devotion  to  duty  which  has  characterized  the  whole 
history  of  American  freeman  and  made  for  the  undying  glory  of  the 
American  soldiery  they  went  on  until  their  lives  and  their  services  were 
no  longer  needed.  The  s|)lendid  distinction  the  Twentieth  Kansas  has 
won  has  been  won  while  fighting  after  the  term  of  enlistment  had  ex- 
pired. It  is  a  great  regiment.  All  Kansas  is  proud  of  it;  and  what 
Kansas  is  proud  of  is  good  enough,  and  will  pass  muster  in  any  com- 
munity on  earth. 


8 


"  The  Raggedy  Kansas  Man. " 


By    LIEUT.-COL.  E.  C.   LITTLE. 


OH,  the  flags  are  in  the  windows  and  the  folks  are  in  the 
street, 
And  I  hear  a  bugle  call  that  never  blew  retreat. 
And  the  girls  begin  to  cry  and  the  men  begin  to  cheer  — 
The  Twentieth  !    The  Twentieth  !     The  Kansas  boys  are  here. 

CHORUS. 

Oh,  the  raggedy  man,  ihe  raggedy  man, 
He  swam  a  bit  and  forward  ran  — 
The  raggedy,  raggedy  Kansas  man. 

There's  lads  who  crossed  the  Tuliahan  and  fought  at  Malabon, 
And  chased  the  Tagal  bolos  through  the  jungles  of  Luzon ; 
By  yonder  dark-stained  blouses  and  dusty  suits  of  brown  — 
The  "  raggedy  men  from  Kansas  "  again  have  come  to  town. 

There's  Eddie  White  and  Trembley,  who  swam  the  Rio  Grande, 
And  sprinkled  on  its  farther  bank  a  touch  of  Kansas  sand; 
There's  Adna  Clarke  and  sixteen  men  held  Tondo  road  at  night 
When  flashing  of  the  cannon  set  the  dusky  way  alight. 

Malolos  and  Bocaue's  trench  know  the  Kansas  yell ; 
San  Fernando  and  San  Tomas  the  Kansas  story  swell ; 


They've  Kansas  day  at  Bacolor,  and  where'er  these  rifles  roam  — 
To  a  thousand  Kansas  mothers  they  bring  their  valor  home. 

Upon  the  bridge  at  Marilao  they  left  their  hero  dead. 
Where  swift  and  sharp  the  Mausers  death's  angry  message  sped. 
Oh,  "they  didn't  know  a  lemon  and  they  didn't  know  the  tide," 
But  half  a  world  a-watching  knows  how  the  Kansans  died. 

At  Guiguinto's  fiercest  battle,  yon  flag  in  honor  flew ; 
What  roaring  rifles  kept  it,  all  Luna's  army  knew ; 
And  high  it  swung  o'er  Caloocan,  Bag-Bag,  and  Marilao  — 
"Those  raggedy  Pops  from  Kansas,"  'fore  God  they're  heroes 
now. 

They  swarmed  o'er  swamp  and  rice  field  with  battle  all  aflame; 
Beneath  the  mystic  Southern  Cross  they  wrote  the  Kansas 

name ; 
And  so  from  tropic  forest,  return  o'er  ocean  wide 
To  Kansas  wives  and  sweethearts  who  wait  with  loving  pride. 

For  the  raggedy  man,  the  raggedy  man. 
Who  swam  and  fought  and  forward  ran  — 
"  Rock  Chalk,  Jayhawk  !  "  —  the  Kansas  man. 


Roll  of  Honor. 


KILLED    IN    BATTLE. 


Alfred  C.  Alford,  first  lieutenant  company  B,  Lawrence;  killed 
in  action  February  7,  1899. 

Albi^rt  S.  Anibal,  private  company  G,  Independence;  killed  in 
action  March  2.'),  1899. 

Orlin  L.  Birlevv,  musician  company  G,  Independence;  killed  in 
action  March  29,  1899. 

Morris  .J.  Cohen,  sergeant  company  B,  San  Francisco;  killed 
in  action  March  2.3,  1899. 

William  Carroll,  private  Company  D,  Frontenac;  killed  in  ac- 
tion March  27,  1899. 

Curran  Craig,  private  company  E,  Garnett;  died  of  wounds 
March  2G,  1899. 

Alva  L.  Dix,  private  company  G,  Independence;  killed  in  ac- 
tion March  29,  1899. 

David  S.  Elliott,  captain  company  G,  Coffeyville;  killed  in  ac- 
tion February-  28,  1899. 

Troy  E.  Fairchild,  private  company  B,  McCune;  killed  in  ac- 
tion March  26,  1899. 

Ivers  J.  Howard,  private  company  B,  San  Francisco;  killed  in 
action  February  10,  1899. 

.Vdrian  Hatfield,  private  company  I,  Topeka:  died  of  wounds 
March  30,  1899. 

Larry  Jones,  private  company  D,  Pittsburg;  died  of  wounds 
February  25,  1899. 

Orville  R.  Knight,  private  company  F,  Pittsburg;  died  of 
wounds  February  2.'),  1899. 

.James  W.  Kline,  private  company  L,  Kansas  City,  Kan.: 
killed  in  action  March  1.3,  1899. 

William  Keeney,  private  company  I,  Topeka;  killed  in  action 
March  28,  1899. 

Oscar  Mallicott,  private  company  K,  Virgil;  died  of  wounds 
February  21,  1899. 

Resil  Manahan,  private  company  A,  Topeka;  killed  in  action 
April  2(3,  1899. 


George  H.  Monroe,  private  company  F,  Marinette,  Wis.;  killed 
in  action  February  23,  1899. 

John  C.  Muhr,  private  company  E,  Westphalia;  died  of 
wounds  March  2.5,  1899. 

Henry  H.  Morrison,  private  company  M,  Salina;  died  of 
wounds  April  28,  1899. 

William  A.  McTaggart,  second  lieutenant  company  G,  Inde- 
pendence; killed  in  action  May  4,  1899. 

Howard  Olds,  private  company  I,  Fort  Scott;  died  of  wounds 
February  26,  1899. 

Charles  Pratt,  private  company  E,  New  Cambria;  killed  in 
action  Februar)'  5,  1899. 

Hiram  L.  Plummer,  private  company  E,  Garnett;  killed  in  ac- 
tion March  25,  1899. 

Alonzo  B.  Ricketts,  private  comi)any  I,  Stanton;  killed  in  ac- 
tion February  10,  1899. 

Ernest  Ryan,  private  company  L,  Abilene;  died  of  wounds 
May  25,  1899. 

Jay  Sheldon,  sergeant  company  I,  Osawatomie;  died  of 
wounds  February  9,  1899. 

John  Sherrer,  private  company  ii,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  killed 
in  action  March  27,  1899. 

William  Sullivan,  private  company  .A.,  Topeka;  killed  in  action 
May  24,  1899. 

Oscar  G.  Thome,  private  company  L,  La  Cygne;  killed  in  ac- 
tion March  11,  1899. 

Albert  H.  Terry,  private  company  L,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;  died 
of  wounds  April  29,  1899. 

Joseph  A.  Wahl,  private  company  H,  Lawrence;  died  of 
wounds  March  31,  1899. 

Martin  .\.  Wilcox,  private  company  H,  Lawrence;  killed  in 
action  March  29,  1899. 

Samu(^l  M.  Wilson,  private  company  M,  Salina;  killed  in  ac- 
tion May  i,  1899. 


Roll  of  Honor. 


DIED    OF    DISEASE. 


Lewis  R.  Badger,  private  company  F,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;  died 

January  10,  1899. 
William  H.  Basil,  private  company  F,  Fort  Scott;  died  Janu- 
ary 6,  1899. 
Sim  F.  Barber,  private  company  L,  Abilene;  died  March  27, 

1899. 
Etoyl  P.  Blair,  private  company  A,  Topeka;  died  January  11, 

1899. 
John  H.  Bartlett,  private  company  F,  Watson;  died  July  14, 

1898. 
Isaac  G.  Cooper,  corporal  company  B,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;  died 

February  1,  1899. 
David  L.  Campbell,  private  company  L,  Junction  City;  died 

January  19,  1899. 
Bert  Cornett,  private  company  E,  Toronto;  died  January  ,3, 

1899. 
Raymond  B.  Dawes,  private  company  C,  Leavenworth;  died 

at  Honolulu,  November  22,  1898. 
Dallas  Day,  private  company  I,  Topeka;   died  November  2, 

1898. 
Louis  Ferguson,  private  company  B,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;  died 

December  24,  1898. 
Albert  Fergus,  private  company  E,  Yates  Center;  died  June 

17,  1898. 
Cecil  Flowers,  private  company  L,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;  died 

July  22,  1898. 
Charles  Graves,  private  company  C,  Centralia;  died  Novem- 
ber 25,  1898. 
Clifford  H.  Greenough,  private  company  L,  Bennington;  died 

June  24,  1898. 
Powhattan    Hackett,  private   company  F,  Fort   Scott;    died 

January  9,  1899. 


Norman  E.  Hand,  private  company  L,  Abilene;  died  January 
18,  1899. 

Edward  R.  Hook,  private  company  H,  Lawrence;  died  Sep- 
tember 1.3,  1899. 

John  M.  Ingenthron,  private  company  L,  Wa  Keeney ;  died  at 
Yokohama  on  way  home. 

Robert  M.  Lee,  private  company  F,  Manhattan ;  died  on  trans- 
port Tartar,  between  Manila  and  Hong  Kong. 

Fred  Ma.xwell,  private  company  K,  Richmond;  died  February 
2,  1899. 

Louis  Moon,  private  company  B,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;  died  June 
24,  1898. 

Fred  Maxfleld,  private  company  B,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;  died 
June  i;5,  1899. 

Wilson  H.  McAllister,  corporal  company  M,  Salina;  died  June 
24,  1898. 

Elmer  Mclntvre,  private  company  E,  Neosho  Falls;  died  Au- 
gust 24,  1898. 

Guy  Nebegall,  private  company  I,  Newton;  died  May  .3,  1899. 

Harry  Pepper,  private  company  I ,  Topeka  ;  died  June  26, 1898. 

Edward  A.  Rethemeyer,  private  company  A,  Topeka;  died 
January  8,  1899. 

Benjamin  W.  Squires,  private  company  L,  Junction  City ;  died 
January  14,  1899. 

Charles  B.  Snodgrass,  private  company  B,  Winters,  Cal.;  died 
February  2,  1899. 

William  Vancil,  private  company  I,  Fort  Scott;  died  on  trans- 
port Indiana,  December  7,  1898. 

James  Wardick,  private  company  E ;  died  at  military  hospital, 
San  Francisco,  October  10,  1899. 

John  D.  Young,  private  company  A,  Wamego;  died  January 
15,  1899. 


GENERAL  SHAFTER.  UENERAL  FUNSTUN,  COLONEL  METCALF  AND  UOVEUSOK  STANLEY   UEVIEWINU  THE  REGIMENT. 


A  Tribute  to  the  Volunteers. 

''Not  (lie  Brigadier,  not  the  Colonel,  or  subalterns  a,lone,  but  the  great  American  General  —  the  private  soldier." 

BY  JOSEPH   G.  WATERS. 

PROTECTED  by  the  Constitution,  proud  and  arrogant  by  two  hundred  years  of  rule,  Slavery  at  last  defiantly  challenged  the 
future  of  this  great  Republic.     The  shotted  guns  ceased  their  roar.     The  answer  came  from  the  desert.     It  was  an  empire 
of  liberty. 

From  our  borders  went  a  lone  crusader,  mighty  only  in  his  cause,  to  battle  it;  lifting  his  dying  eyes,  he  saw  victory  dangling 
from  the  swaying  noose  of  a  gallows  tree,  that  even  this  near  by  seems  touched  with  the  immortal  grace  of  Calvary. 

■  The  pioneers  of  the  state  came  here  in  the  cause  of  liberty.  No  lure  of  wealth,  no  promise  nor  portent  that  oftenest  causes 
adventure  or  change  of  home.  The  state  was  part  of  a  barren,  untenanted  plain,  without  forest,  a  baked  soil,  no  seed  time  nor 
harvest. 

Here  commenced  the  struggle  that  finally  sent  our  boys  to  the  Philippines.  Here  was  the  first  drum-beat  against  slavery, 
the  first  human  wall  to  oppose  its  further  advance. 

For  the  first  time  in  a  thousand  years  there  was  dew  on  the  wild  grass.  It  was  the  blood  of  our  slain.  As  time  parts  the 
shadows,  it  shall  be  the  chrism  of  all  our  acres.  We  should  not  wait  for  slow-moving  centuries.  Whether  history  has  already 
chronicled  upon  its  page  these  scenes  of  conflict  in  Kansas,  they  still  are  sacred.  We  need  not  journey  to  build  a  shrine  nor  debate 
where  to  set  a  monument. 

The  state  heard  the  first  call  for  troops.  The  guns  had  not  ceased  firing  on  Sumter  before  our  troops  were  on  the  march. 
The  state  gave  regiments  when  it  could  illy  spare  men.  Thousands  of  our  young  men  left  for  the  front.  Bright  eyes,  rosy  cheeks, 
springing  steps,  strong  arms,  and  brave  hearts.  Abounding  with  ambition.  Great  loves  filled  their  souls.  Youths,  in  whose  lives 
the  day  never  ended  and  the  night  never  forgot  its  stars.  Whether  they  came  back  and  are  now  wrecked,  palsied  with  years,  or 
stricken  with  the  incurable  infirmities  of  old  age,  or  the  long  years  resting  under  the  turf  once  sodden  with  their  blood,  somewhere, 
covered  by  the  Nation's  green,  or  beneath  the  ocean,  fast  asleep,  in  their  youth,  their  beauty  and  bloom,  they  can  never  forget  the 
kiss  of  a  mother's  good-by,  the  last  view  at  the  turn  of  the  lane,  the  stir  of  drums,  the  wave  of  handkerchiefs,  and  all  earth  blinded 
with  their  tears. 

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Forgive  me,  brave  boys  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas  Regiment.  I  have  limned  the  wrong  scene.  My  poor  pencil  has  drawn  the 
wrong  picture.     It  is  your  going,  your  coming,  not  mine  nor  your  fathers' ! 

The  story  has  long  been  told.  It  has  eaten  into  the  life-blood  of  this  magnificent  Republic.  Their  battles  were  the  Nation's, 
their  victories  for  all  mankind.  In  the  fulness  of  time,  when  the  appetite  was  no  longer  whetted  for  sacrifice,  the  bugles  died 
away  and  the  drums  rolled  no  more  the  rally,  the  charge,  the  fight;  and  no  more  kept  beat  to  the  rattle  of  clods  upon  the  coffin  of 
a  soldier.  Peace  began  her  victories.  On  these  treeless  plains  came  the  great  woods.  The  parched  soil  took  on  its  first  vernal 
robes.  The  rains  came,  each  season  went  its  round,  and  for  a  lifetime  the  Autumns  bended  their  branches  with  the  great  white 
harvests  of  Peace.  Great  orchards  up  the  divides.  Grapes  cluster  on  the  sunniest  slopes.  Herds  belly  deep  in  clover.  The  flow 
of  Nile  for  all  the  centuries  is  in  our  granaries  to-day.  All  the  fat  years  of  Egypt  are  in  our  bins.  The  visitor  who  treads  the 
tufted  floors  of  Kansas  imagines  they  are  the  velvets  of  Paradise. 

The  state  has  accomplished  more  than  harvest  wealth.  It  has  wiser  and  better  laws  than  any  state  or  sovereignty  has  ever 
had.  They  are  merciful,  just,  and  Christian.  No  man  is  condemned  on  suspicion,  and  we  hurl  anathema  to  those  who  do.  The 
wife  is  partner  of  her  husband,  and  his  heir,  and  no  longer  obscured  by  his  shadow.  The  homestead  is  capacious  enough  to 
shelter  the  brood,  it  matters  not  how  big  the  family  may  be,  and  no  adversity  can  touch  it  if  the  good  woman  refuses  to  sign  the 
mortgage.  We  have  injected  blood  into  the  iron-clad  common  law.  Our  helpless  are  the  apple  of  our  eye.  On  every  crowning 
summit  rises  a  schoolhouse,  and  through  the  timber,  over  the  swell,  far  down  the  valley,  streams  the  flag  our  brave  boys  have 
borne  across  ten  thousand  ocean  leagues,  and  returned  glowing  with  honor  and  victory. 

The  captains  of  our  schools  are  our  great  generals  of  patriotism.  Here  is  bred  the  tumult,  the  passion,  the  riot,  the  love,  for 
the  land,  its  laws,  its  homes. 

Up  in  the  steeples,  far  and  away,  jangle  the  Sabbath  bells,  stately,  solemn  and  grand,  ebbing  and  flowing  among  the  bees 
that  loiter  in  the  clover,  over  the  meadows,  and  down  the  valleys  that  race  with  the  streams  their  seaward  way.  Processions  of 
children  on  every  highway  trudge  to  school  and  lengthen  the  morning  with  ten  thousand  miles  of  childhood  song,  and  fret  the 
state's  expanse  with  innocent  gabble  or  happiest  glee.  A  million  and  a  half  of  patriotic,  intelligent  citizens;  a  mere  footstep,  here 
and  there,  of  millions  yet  to  be.  Our  people  blaze  their  own  roads.  They  shape  precedent.  They  smile  at  their  own  mistakes. 
Tliey  are  enamored  of  the  skirmish  line.  The  state  stands  with  her  schoolhouses  and  churches  upon  the  crest.  She  gazes 
upward  into  the  sky.  The  dial  shows  but  dawn.  This  is  the  mother,  and  how  well  she  deserves  the  mightiest  sons.  She  has 
them;  they  have  just  returned  from  the  Philippines. 

Brothers,  this  is  a  holy  soil,  and  the  future  of  our  state  is  the  holiest  trust.  The  .\rk  of  the  Covenant  rests  upon  our  soil. 
Danger  hides  and  peril  is  far  away  so  long  as  she  musters  such  battalions.     As  one  man,  with  one  voice,  the  state  welcomes  them 

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home.  As  one  sweetheart,  with  one  love,  she  plants  the  kiss  of  benediction  on  their  foreheads.  They  have  marched  through  fire 
and  flood.  They  have  not  weighed  danger  nor  counted  odds.  Their  valor  is  on  the  universal  lip.  Their  glory  is  not  a  matter  of 
race.  They  have  been  over  strange  seas,  under  strange  skies,  with  strange  peoples.  They  have  lit  an  archipelago  with  the  fires 
of  liberty  and  law.  They  have  held  up  the  flag  to  the  south  seas.  The  under  world  has  caught  the  meaning  of  its  stars.  It  has 
been  a  blossoming  rod  to  benighted  races,  their  one  cure,  their  one  hope,  their  only  redemption. 

In  all  their  voyaging,  as  the  ship  might  sail,  as  waves  might  drift,  or  gales  might  drive;  through  ocean  doldrums  or  its 
typhoons  and  midnight  tempests;  through  long  nights  where  glittered  stars  they  never  saw  before;  as  they  beheld  the  great 
morning  spread  its  crimson  shafts,  or  the  sun  burn  its  way  down  ocean  depths;  as  the  porpoise  played,  or  as  they  watched  the 
phosphorescent  glow ;  as  they  buried  our  dead  at  sea,  a  plunge  into  eternity ;  as  they  rode  into  Manila  Bay;  as  they  stood  alone 
on  sentry;  through  jungle,  across  rivers,  climbing  the  broken  beam,  ou  the  firing  line,  in  the  thick  of  battle,  in  hospital,  sick, 
wounded  or  dying,  there  has  not  been  a  moment  the  mother  forgot  her  sons.  There  has  not  been  an  hour,  waking  or  sleeping, 
that  the  good  people  of  this  state  have  not  wrestled  with  the  good  angels,  to  guard  them  and  bless  them.  They  have  encompassed 
them  on  every  hand  with  their  love.  They  have  given  them  tears  that  shone  with  their  glory  as  beaded  dews  with  morning  sun. 
They  have  returned  home.  What  a  delicious  word!  Each  one  knows  its  tears,  its  joy,  its  glory,  who  was  on  the  frail  planks  for 
thirty  days,  and  then  saw  the  harbor  lights  at  the  Golden  Gate. 

Not  the  brigadier,  not  the  colonel,  the  captains  or  subalterns  alone,  but  above  and  beyond  them,  the  one  great  American 
general,  the  private  soldier  who,  standing  in  the  shadow  of  his  own  gun,  nameless  and  unseen,  flashed  a  blaze  of  glory  over  a 
continent,  and  set  a  new  sun  in  the  sky  for  all  people,  all  times,  all  seas,  and  all  lands.  When,  in  stone  and  story,  in  speech  and 
song,  the  great  millions  of  Kansans  yet  to  be,  shall  be  told  of  Calumpit  and  Bagbag  river;  the  fights  from  Caloocan  to  San  Fer- 
nando, the  broken  beam,  what  victories  and  all,  a  generous  envy  will  swell  their  souls,  to  dare  and  do  and  die  in  other  days  of 
battle,  which  God  grant  may  never  come !  If  the  state  were  Rome  a  fillet  might  crown  each  brow ;  some  gracious  Caesar  bestow  his 
nod,  and  an  Arch  of  Triumph  be  built  by  slaves  to  honor  them.  It  is  another  time  and  another  land.  Each  a  C':esar,  sovereign 
as  Augustus,  coming  home  in  triumph,  to  the  accustomed  place  of  hearth,  and  love,  and  home. 


Events  in  Twentieth  Kansas  History. 


1898. 


Apr.  26-  Governor  Lcedy  called  for  troops. 
M.xv   13— Officially  mustered  into  service. 

16— Regiment  left  Topeka. 

20— Arrived  at  San  Francisco. 
Ai'G.    b — Changed  from  Camp  Merritt  to  Camp  Merriam. 
Oct.  27— Second  and  third  battalions  sailed  for  Manila  in  trans- 


portlndiana;  arrivedat HonoluluNovember5;  left 
November  5,  and  arrived  at  Manila  December  1. 
-First  battalion  embarked  at  San  Francisco  on  trans- 
port Newport;  arrived  at  Honolulu  November  16: 
left  November  19,  and  arrived  at  Manila  Decem- 
ber 6. 


1899. 


Feu.  4 
7- 
10 


Mar.  24 
25- 


-Removed  from  quarters  in  tobacco  warehouse  to  camp 

formerly  occupied  by  Wyoming  troops. 
-Ordered  to  the  front,  north  of  Manila. 
-Lieut.  Alfred  C.  Alford  killed  in  an  advance. 
-Kansas  troops  first  to  enter  Caloocan. 
-Insurgents'  attack  on  Caloocan  repulsed. 
Capt.  David  S.  Elliott  killed. 
-.\dvance  from  Caloocan  began. 
-Regiment  swam  the  Tulijan  river  and  captured  a 

blockhouse. 
-Engagements  at  Malinta  and  Meycuayan. 
-Band  of  Kansans  swam  river  at  Marilao  and  captured 

earth-works  on  other  side,  taking  eighty  prisoners. 
-Major  (now  Colonel  i  Metcalf  slightly  wounded. 
-Kansas  regiment  first  to  enter  Malolos,  the  insurgent 

capital. 


Mar.  .31 — Captain  Watson  severely  wounded. 
Apr.  24 — Advance  against  Calumpit  began. 

25 — Captain    Boltwood's  company  crossed   the  Bagbag 

river  under  fire. 
27— Privates  White  and  Trembley  swam  the  Rio  Grande, 
carrying  ropes  with  which  to  draw  rafts  across. 
May     4— Colonel  Funston  promoted  to  be  brigadier  general. 
.5— Major  Metcalf  appointed  colonel  to  succeed  Funston. 
5— Lieut.  W.  A.  McTaggart  killed  in  the  advance  against 
Santo  Tomas. 
JiNE   1 — Rainy  season  began. 
Sept.  6 — Regiment  sailed  for  home. 
Oct.  10— Reached  San  Francisco. 

28— Final  muster-out. 
Nov,    2— Grand  reception  at  Topeka  by  the  people  of  Kansas. 


History  of  the  ''Fighting  Twentieth." 

Something  of  the  Achievements  of  the  Kansas  Volunteers  during  the  Eighteen  Months 

of  Army  Service. 

DURING  the  thirty-eight  years  she  has  belonged  to  the  sisterhood  of  states,  Kansas  has  never  been  half  so  proud  of  any- 
thing as  she  is  of  the  "Fighting  Twentieth"  regiment.  When  soldiers  were  needed  to  defend  the  flag  the  sons  of  Kansas 
volunteered.  They  have  fought  the  good  fight,  they  have  kept  the  faith,  and  they  return  conquerors  and  more  than  conquerors. 
They  have  been  put  to  the  test  of  flood  and  sword  and  fire,  and  the  test  establishes  100  per  cent,  of  patriotism  and  valor.  No 
warriors  in  this  pr.any  age  have  displayed  greater  daring  in  battle,  and  no  soldiery  returning  to  the  walks  of  civil  life  are  entitled 
to  greater  honors  in  peace. 

So  much  has  been  written  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas  regiment,  and  so  much  is  yet  to  be  written,  that  a  record  of  its  achieve- 
ments in  a  volume  of  this  size  must  needs  be  inadequate.  Eight  months  in  the  trenches,  on  the  firing  line  and  leading  charges 
over  swamps  and  through  jungles  on  the  other  side  of  the  globe  is  not  a  story  to  be  told  in  a  few  lines.  It  has  been  fruitful  in 
experience,  rich  in  adventure,  pathetic  in  hardships,  and  cruel  in  disease  and  death.  But  no  discomfort  has  daunted  the  ardor 
of  those  sturdy  Kansas  boys,  and  no  peril  has  restrained  them.  It  is  a  matter  of  record  that  the  only  trouble  the  Kansans 
have  caused  their  superior  officers  has  arisen  through  the  tendency  to  get  too  far  in  advance  of  the  others.  They  were  first  in  war- 
let  it  be  written  also  that  they  are  first  in  peace  and  first  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  Kansas. 

There  has  never  been  anything  of  the  tin  soldier  about  the  Twentieth.  It  has  never  been  arrayed  in  gaudy  togs  with  gilt 
braid,  tinsel,  and  plumes.  It  has  never  gone  forth  to  sham  battle  for  the  edification  of  a  grand-stand.  Its  fighting  has  been  real 
fighting,  and  hardships  began  with  the  day  of  enlistment.  There  was  a  downpour  of  dreary  rain  almost  every  day  during  the  stay 
at  Camp  Leedy,  in  the  Topeka  fair-grounds.  The  soldiers  were  wretchedly  equipped  in  tents,  blankets,  clothing,  provisions,  and 
other  essentials  to  camp  comfort.  When  they  enlisted  most  of  the  young  men  came  in  their  poorest  clothing,  for  they  expected  a 
grateful  government  to  furnish  them  with  uniforms  forthwith.  When  they  reached  San  Francisco  the  red  tape  of  the  War  Depart- 
ment had  not  been  sufficiently  untangled  to  vouchsafe  uniforms  to  the  regiment.  It  is  fortunate  that  the  coat  does  not  make  the 
man,  for  the  Twentieth,  when  it  arrived  at  San  Francisco,  certainly  did  not  offer  the  outward  appearance  of  an  ideal  soldiery. 
Regiments  on  all  sides  were  more  fortunately  equipped,  and  the  Kansas  boys  who  have  since  won  fame  and  glory  were  then  objects 
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CAMP  SCENE  IN  SAN  FKANOISCO. 


of  ridicule  and  jest.  The  daily  newspapers  of  San  Francisco  referred  to  them  facetiously  as  the  "Kansas  scarecrows,"  and 
reporters  wrote  "humorous"  pieces  about  them.  This  sentiment,  to  some  extent,  was  imparted  to  the  commanding  officers  of  the 
camp,  and  the  Jayhawkers  were  contemptuously  assigned  to  space  on  the  sand  lots. 

Such  treatment  as  they  received  at  San  Francisco,  and  in  a  lesser  degree  at  Topeka,  would  have  disheartened  a  less  sturdy 
regiment.  Their  pride  and  their  temper  were  sorely  tested,  but  they  accepted  all  the  jibes  and  abuse  with  equanimity,  and  de- 
voted their  whole  time  to  becoming  good  soldiers.  During  the  tedious  days  of  waiting  at  the  Presidio  they  were  drilled  and  dis- 
ciplined. The  officers  studied  manuals  and  tactics  and  made  themselves  proficient  in  the  military  code,  while  the  privates,  like 
Tommy  Atkins,  were  taught  "how  to  walk  and  where  to  put  his  feet,"  and  other  more  essential  items  in  transforming  the  citizen 
into  the  soldier.  The  Kansans  worked  hard,  behaved  themselves,  and  attended  strictly  to  their  own  business.  After  five  months 
of  this  treatment  the  Kansas  volunteers  were,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  regulars.  There  was  no  more  "fit"  regiment  in  the 
service. 

The  Twentieth  was  the  first  regiment  ever  mustered  into  government  service  from  Kansas  that  did  not  have  one  man  in  it 
who  signed  his  name  with  "his  mark."  The  cross  did  not  appear  on  the  muster-rolls.  Proof  of  the  material  composing  the 
Twentieth  Kansas  was  given  in  the  six  months  the  regiment  spent  in  America,  as  all  trials  and  tribulations  were  faced  by  the 
soldier,  as  he  has  since  faced  Filipino  bullets,  with  patient,  silent  courage,  with  self-sacrificing,  unboastful  heroism  of  the  true 
American  brand.  In  justice  to  those  who  were  slow  to  appreciate  the  Twentieth  Kansas  until  it  had  fought  its  way  to  fame,  it 
should  be  said  that  the  splendid  and  elaborate  ovations  which  the  boya  are  receiving  wherever  they  go  may  be  accepted  as  ample 
atonement  for  the  neglect  of  eighteen  months  ago. 

On  April  20,  1898,  when  this  government  delivered  its  ultimatum  to  Spain  and  it  was  known  that  war  would  be  inevitable,  the 
average  Kansas  youth  began  to  have  a  faint  conception  of  what  war  meant.  His  father  had  been  a  fighter  before  him  and  his 
stories  of  the  civil  war  had  served  to  pass  the  time  around  many  a  winter's  fire,  but  it  took  the  condition  immediately  following 
the  issuance  of  the  ultimatum  to  Spain  to  bring  the  son  to  a  realization  of  what  the  father  had  seen.  The  days  immediately  fol- 
lowing the  cabling  of  the  ultimatum  to  Spain  were  filled  with  lively  times  in  Kansas.  The  farmers  drove  to  the  nearest  town  to 
hear  the  latest  news  and  the  young  men  filled  the  county-seats  in  the  hope  of  getting  a  chance  to  offer  their  services  to  the  govern- 
ment for  the  conflict  which  they  knew  must  ensue.  On  April  22,  Governor  John  W.  Leedy  announced  that  he  would  appoint  Fred. 
Funston  to  be  colonel  of  the  first  regiment  raised  by  Kansas.  This  appointment  met  with  general  approval  in  Kansas,  as  Funston 
was  known  to  have  a  better  knowledge  of  Cuba  and  the  Cubans  than  any  man  in  Kansas.  It  was  then  expected  that  the  fighting 
would  largely  be  confined  to  that  island.  Fred.  Funston  had  but  recently  returned  from  Cuba,  where  he  had  enlisted  in  the 
Cuban  army  as  a  private  and  risen  to  the  position  of  chief  of  artilleiy  of  General  Garcia's  army. 

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TWENTIETH   KANSAS  AT  THE  PRESIDIO  UATE. 


On  April  23,  President  McKinley  issued  a  call  for  125,000  volunteers,  and  on  April  26  Governor  Leedy  issued  a  proclamation 
calling  for  three  regiments  of  volunteers  and  naming  the  recruiting  stations  in  the  state.  Then  arose  a  controversy  between  Gov- 
ernor Leedy  and  Secretary  of  War  Alger  as  to  where  the  regiments  should  be  mustered  into  the  federal  service.  The  government 
favored  Leavenworth  and  Governor  Leedy  was  determined  that  it  should  be  Topeka,  for  the  reason,  he  said,  "I  want  them  here 
where  I  can  look  after  them  and  see  what  they  want."    Secretary  Alger  finally  permitted  the  troops  to  be  mustered  in  at  Topeka. 

On  April  30,  the  day  before  the  battle  of  Manila,  the  first  company  marched  out  to  Camp  Leedy,  south  of  Topeka.  This  was 
company  A  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas,  which  had  been  organized  in  Topeka  on  April  29.  The  day  was  wet  and  chilly.  The  com- 
pany reached  camp  at  about  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  the  tents  for  the  ninety  men  who  composed  it  were  pitched  at  noon. 
The  afternoon  was  devoted  to  pitching  the  tents  for  the  Kansas  City,  Kan.,  company,  B,  which  arrived  before  supper  time.  For 
the  next  two  weeks  companies  were  arriving  at  Camp  Leedy  on  almost  every  train.  Tents  were  pitched,  ditches  dug,  and  the  con- 
dition of  the  soldiers  made  as  comfgrtable  as  possible.  Officers  who  had  left  the  farm,  the  school-room  and  the  printing-office  but 
two  weeks  before  spent  their  time  qualifying  themselves  to  teach  the  duties  of  a  soldier  to  the  privates. 

As  the  crowd  of  recruits  began  to  form  into  regiments,  the  subject  of  the  numbering  of  the  regiments  came  up  for  discussion. 
The  old  soldiers  of  the  state  asked  that  the  first  regiment  be  numbered  the  Twentieth,  because  Kansas  had  mustered  nineteen 
regiments  during  the  civil  war.  Out  of  deference  to  their  wishes,  Funston's  regiment  was  numbered  the  Twentieth.  Colonel 
Funston  returned  from  Washington  on  May  11.  He  had  been  called  before  the  Board  of  Strategy  to  give  information  of  the  to- 
pography of  Cuba.  When  he  returned,  the  companies  which  were  to  compose  his  regiment  were  announced.  They  were  the  com- 
panies recruited  in  Topeka  (A),  Kansas  City  (B),  Leavenworth  (C),  Pittsburg  (D),  Leroy  (E),  Fort  Scott  (F),  Independence  (G), 
Lawrence  (H),  Paola  (I),  Osawatomie  (K),  Abilene  (L),  and  Salina  (M). 

By  this  time  the  War  Department  had  practically  decided  that  the  Twentieth  regiment  should  go  to  the  Philippines,  and 
Colonel  Funston  was  eager  to  start.  On  May  11  the  colonel  received  a  telegram  calling  him  to  Tampa  for  service  on  the  staff  of 
General  Miles.  After  securing  permission  from  Governor  Leedy  to  turn  the  command  of  the  regiment  over  to  Lieut.-Col.  E.  C. 
Little,  Funston  set  out  for  Tampa.  The  Twentieth  regiment  spent  sixteen  days  in  Camp  Leedy,  and  of  that  time  there  were 
but  two  days  when  it  was  not  raining.  The  soldiers  were  very  poorly  equipped  in  the  way  of  blankets,  shoes,  and  clothing. 
Their  condition  was  pitiable,  and  would  have  been  disheartening  to  a  less  hardy  body  of  men.  The  regiment  was  officially 
mustered  into  the  United  States  service  May  13.  It  then  seemed  likely  that  the  regiment  would  be  relieved  of  its  miserable 
condition.  The  government,  however,  gave  no  relief.  The  men  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas  did  not  complain,  however.  Far  from 
advertising  any  feeling  of  injustice,  it  was  only  wrung  from  them  by  the  most  tactful  questioning. 

On  May  16,  at  daylight,  the  regiment  broke  camp  and  loaded  the  tents  and  other  equipment  on  wagons  to  be  hauled  to  the 

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GENERAL  MERRIAM  REVIEWING  THE  KANSAS  REGIMENT. 


train.  Orders  had  been  received  for  the  regiment  to  go  immediately  to  San  Francisco  and  from  there  to  the  Philippines.  Owing 
to  a  disagreement  between  the  commissary  departments  of  the  Twentieth  and  Twenty-first  regiments,  the  Twentieth,  with  all  its 
other  troubles,  started  to  San  Francisco  with  barely  enough  travel  rations  to  last  it  on  the  trip.  The  regiment  boarded  the 
Union  Pacific  train  at  three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  and  started  for  San  Francisco.  It  arrived  there  May  20  and  spent  the  next 
five  months  at  the  Pacific  coast  rendezvous. 

FIVE    MONTHS   IN    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

For  more  than  five  months,  from  May  20  to  October  27,  the  Twentieth  was  kept  at  San  Francisco.  Its  stay  at  the  Presidio  is 
best  described  in  an  article  from  the  pen  of  William  A.  Snow,  in  the  Kansas  City  Star  of  October  11.  It  was  written  by  Mr.  Snow 
two  days  before  his  death.     A  portion  of  it  follows : 


Had  not  the  men  who  compose  the  Twentieth  Kansas  regi- 
ment been  subjected  to  a  few  peculiar,  not  to  say  distressing, 
circumstances  before  their  departure  for  the  Philippines  they 
could  not  appreciate  to  the  full  the  triumph  of  their  return. 
It  is  only  through  struggle  that  a  Kansan  finally  attains  the 
stars.  He  would  spurn  to  achieve  glory  other  than  by  the  es- 
tablished route  laid  down  in  the  motto  of  his  state. 

It  is  probable  that  the  Kansans  remember  their  march  of 
a  year  ago.  May  20,  1898.  The  men  had  paid  no  attention  to 
costume  then.  They  had  come  westward  to  fight  and  they 
cared  not  how  they  looked.  San  Francisco  was  to  them  only 
a  temporary  stopping  place,  and  they  were  not  on  exhibition. 
Only  four  of  the  entire  twelve  companies  had  about  them  any 
suggestion  of  the  army  blue.  There  was  a  wonderful  variety 
of  travel-stained  and  wrinkled  civilian  clothes,  with  nothing 
to  distinguish  officers  from  privates.  Light-colored  canvas 
cartridge  belts  were  buckled  around  faded  cutaway  coats, 
about  peculiar  sack  coats,  and  over  ancient  cloth  of  many 
hues.    Grimy,  unshaven  faces  completed  the  suggestion  of  a 


hasty  departure  from  home  and  a  rough-and-ready  willingness 
to  appear  "any  old  way ' '  pending  the  coming  of  the  government 
outfits  for  which  the  plainsmen  could  not  wait  in  their  eager- 
ness to  be  at  the  front.  They  tumbled  out  of  their  cars  at  the 
Oakland  mole  like  shipwrecked  seamen  cast  upon  a  friendly 
shore.  Lined  up  by  companies  they  responded  to  roll-call  and 
took  orders  from  men  who  stood  apart  so  that  their  rank 
might  be  distinct  in  the  motley  array  of  rifle  bearers. 

The  Kansans  were  a  rich  find  for  the  newspaper  men. 
Writers  for  the  San  Francisco  papers  had  been  dealing  in  he- 
roics for  so  long  that  their  store  was  well-nigh  exhausted. 
They  welcomed  the  Kansas  men  as  fit  subjects  for  burlesque, 
and  treated  them  accordingly.  They  called  them  the  "dudes 
from  the  plains,"  but,  withal,  they  recognized  them  as  men 
who  would  not  flinch  in  the  face  of  danger.  And  now  the 
eager  space  grabber  forget  the  truth ! 

"  Many  of  these  men  from  the  prairie  never  saw  a  respect- 
able mountain  until  they  crossed  the  Rockies,"  said  the  San 
Francisco  Chronicle,  "and  were  never  in  sight  or  smell  of  tide 


GROUP  OF  FIELD  AM)  STAFF  OFFICERS,  BEFORE  LEAVING*  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


water  before.  The  belated  Kansans  slept  at  Sixteenth  street 
station  Friday  night.  When  they  went  to  sleep  the  waters  of 
the  bay  were  lapping  the  rocks  of  the  embankment.  When 
they  awoke  the  tide  was  out  and  there  was  a  wide  expanse  of 
mud.     The  commanding  officer  called  to  a  sentry : 

"'Hello!  Where's  all  that  water  that  was  out  there  last 
night  ? ' 

"  'Darned  if  I  know,'  responded  the  equally  puzzled  sentry. 

"Another  lad  from  the  plains  has  never  seen  a  lemon.  Upon 
receiving  one  at  the  ferry  he  declined  to  eat  it  and  said  he  was 
'  going  to  send  it  to  the  folks.'  Every  one  noted  that  the  Kan- 
sans have  their  hats  fastened  to  their  heads  with  elastics,  hav- 
ing come  from  the  land  where  the  strong  wind  blows.  Several 
of  their  companies,  lacking  uniforms,  wear  the  homespun  and 
overalls  of  the  farm,  nondescript  hats,  and  some  of  them  are 
wearing  Connemara  caps  pulled  down  over  their  ears  in  typ- 
ical cyclone  fashion.  Only  the  cartridge  belts,  with  the  '  U. 
S.'  on  the  buckles,  and  the  guns  in  their  unaccustomed  fingers 
proclaim  them  as  belonging  to  Uncle  Sam. 

"Most  of  the  Kansans  are  the  newest  recruits,  and  the  drill- 
ing of  them  will  require  limitless  patience.  They  are  blondes, 
chiefly,  with  brown  skins  and  light  hair,  the  one  burnd  by  the 
sun,  the  other  bleached.  Their  eyes  have  a  far-away  look,  as 
of  men  who  remember  the  grasshopper,  the  army-worm,  and 
other  things  that  make  living  tough  in  Kansas.  The  high 
cheek  bones  tell  of  the  Scandinavian  blood  that  is  in  them. 
They  do  not  look  the  sort  of  men  to  be  afraid.  There  are  whole 
companies  of  them  who  do  not  know  the  meaning  of  a  single 
command.    They  have  the  record  on  the  way  out  of  looting 


everything  that  came  their  way.  They  played  the  grasshop- 
per role  they  know  so  well,  and  ale  up  everything  on  their  line 
of  march. 

"One  company  was  slow  in  the  line,  and  the  captain  re- 
marked: 'All  set,  boys?  Well,  come  along.'  And  with  this 
informal  command  the  company  moved  off  at  a  dog  trot. 

"  Several  of  the  men  complained  of  sore  feet,  and  from  under 
the  edge  of  one  tent  appeared  a  pair  of  huge  understandings, 
guiltless  of  shoes  or  stockings.  The  owner  was  washing  them 
in  the  rain." 

But  for  all  of  the  Kansans'  lack  of  uniform  and  drill  they 
were  cheered  again  and  again  as  they  marched  up  Market 
street  on  their  way  to  Camp  Merritt.  It  was  after  reaching 
camp  that  an  incident  occurred  that  first  gratified  and  later 
wounded  the  pride  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  Little,  who  was 
then  in  command,  Colonel  Funston,  being  in  Tampa,  Fla.  A 
woman  reporter  visited  camp  and  was  "shown  around  "  by  the 
e.x-consul  to  Cairo.  She  returned  to  the  office  and  wrote  a 
"roast."  The  lieutenant  colonel  was  very  wroth  at  what  he 
termed  a  violation  of  military  etiquette.  He  threatened  to  ex- 
clude the  reporter  from  the  Kansas  lines,  and  soon  Little's 
warfare  with  the  newspapers  became  a  byword. 

After  this  the  public  learned  of  all  the  queer  points  in 
which  the  Jayhawkers  excelled.  The  Kansas  camp  came  to 
be  visited  by  the  idle  and  the  curious  as  if  it  were  a  menagerie 
of  unique  specimens.  The  Kansas  boys  were  quick  to  "catch 
on,"  and  the  crowd  looking  for  strange  sights  never  failed  to 
find  a  plenty  of  them.  One  Kansan  attracted  great  attention 
by  the  curious  manner  in  which  he  ate  broth  with  his  fingers. 


LAST  PARADE  OF  THE  K4NSANS  BEFORE  LEAVING  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


A  sorry-looking  volunteer,  in  a  suit  of  many  seasons,  when 
asked  who  his  tailor  was,  replied,  that  they  "did  n't  have  none 
of  them  things  in  Kansas."  All  of  these  curious  observations 
and  many  more  were  duly  printed,  and  the  gentler  folk  of  the 
city  began  to  send  missionaries  to  the  Kansas  camp.  Besides 
the  missionaries  came  another  class  which  the  plainsmen 
greeted  with  acclamations.  Pretty  young  women  with  kind 
hearts  and  baskets  of  good  things  under  their  arms  made  daily 
visits  along  the  Kansas  line,  passing  fruit  and  dainties  over  the 
fence  to  hungry  soldier  lads.  Indeed,  the  constant  banqueting 
made  the  camp  look  like  one  great  picnic  ground.  Then  sub- 
scriptions were  taken  up  among  the  good  people  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  great  boxes  of  suitings,  shoes  and  stockings  arrived 
in  camp.  All  the  suits  were  not  of  the  same  material  and 
pattern,  however,  and  though  they  served  to  keep  out  the  cold 
better  than  the  rags  which  were  now  discarded,  they  still  gave 
to  the  Kansas  troops  a  motley  appearance.  About  this  time 
we  find  carefully  noted  in  the  San  Francisco  press  that  at  the 
suggestion  of  Mrs.  Spear,  wife  of  the  collector  of  the  port, 
L/ieutenant  Colonel  Little  had  engaged  the  services  of  two 
military  tailors,  "so  that  the  Kansas  boys  might  present  the 
natty  appearance  of  their  brother  volunteers." 

Soon  afterwards  the  first  instalment  of  government  sup- 
plies arrived.  There  was  much  red-tape  attending  the  distri- 
bution of  government  supplies,  but  Lieutenant  Colonel  Little 
would  have  none  of  that.  "  Here,  you  fellows,  you  need  these 
things;  just  break  open  the  boxes  and  help  yourselves,"  was 
his  generous  command. 

And  right  gleefully  the  soldiers  looted  the  boxes,  some  of 


them  carrying  off  several  pairs  of  shoes  and  several  suits  of 
clothes  of  various  sizes,  while  others  got  nothing  at  all. 

On  Decoration  Day  San  Francisco  arranged  a  great  parade, 
and  all  the  regiments  in  Camp  Merritt  were  to  participate. 
The  Kansans,  however,  were  overlooked  in  the  invitation,  pre- 
sumably on  account  of  their  unsoldier-Iike  appearance.  This 
was  "the  most  unkindest  cut  of  all"  to  the  patriotic  Kansas 
volunteers.  They  made  no  complaint,  however,  but  quietly 
held  a  service  of  their  own. 

The  arrival  of  General  King  found  the  regiment  in  a  de- 
plorable condition.  The  Kansas  boys  did  not  know  the  com- 
manding officer  of  the  brigade.  General  King  was  somewhat 
surprised  and  shocked,  therefore,  on  his  appearance  on  the 
Kansas  line  to  find  the  sentries  perched  on  fence  rails  whit- 
tling, unconscious  of  the  presence  of  a  superior  officer.  The 
general  looked  at  them  in  astonished  silence,  expecting  them 
to  come  out  of  their  dream  and  salute,  but  never  a  salute  got 
he.  Out  of  all  patience,  he  ranged  them  in  a  row  and  made 
them  salute  him  for  an  hour.  But  this  was  not  the  worst ;  he 
found  many  of  the  officers  lacking  in  military  etiquette,  and 
he  also  took  a  turn  at  giving  them  instruction,  ranging  them 
in  a  line  in  front  of  the  Kansas  camp. 

The  old  Bay  district  was  soon  found  inadaptable  for  a  mili- 
tary camp,  and  one  after  another  the  regiments  of  volunteers 
were  removed  to  the  Presidio,  but  it  did  not  seem  to  concern 
the  military  board  what  became  of  Kansas,  and  the  Twentieth 
was  left  to  the  sand- and  slime  and  unsanitary  surroundings  of 
Camp  Merritt.  Any  sort  of  treatment  seemed  good  enough 
for  Kansas,  and  the  sick-hearted  volunteers  saw  themselves 


VS^'''*-      w  IT*.  ««» 


««i)S%  --;^y'*'-«fv>  -rr>--i>  '9^, 


BREAKING  CAMP  AT  THE  PRESIDIO  TO  BOARD  THE  TRANSPORT. 


assigned  to  dirty  camping  places,  which  other  more-favored 
regiments  and  newer  to  the  service  had  spurned.  The  Twen- 
tieth Kansas  was  among  the  last  of  the  regiments  to  be  as- 
signed to  the  high  ground  at  the  Presidio.  It  is  little  wonder 
that  the  Kansas  soldiers  became  reckless  and  "  ran  the  guards  " 
every  night,  and  did  penance,  toiling  at  their  drill  in  the  filled 
sand  of  the  old  Bay  district  every  day.  To  add  to  their  misery 
measles  broke  out  in  camp  and  became  epidemic.  On  June  17 
the  first  deaths  occurred — Orville  H.  Knight,  of  Fort  Scott, 
pneumonia,  and  Albert  Fergus,  Yates  Center,  spinal  meningi- 
tis. It  was  on  this  same  day  that  the  arrival  of  Col.  Freder- 
ick Funston  brought  good  cheer  to  the  drooping  spirits  of  the 
men.  Just  a  week  after  the  colonel's  arrival  Brigadier  Gen- 
eral King  said:  "It  may  interest  the  public  to  know  that  the 
Twentieth  Kansas  regiment  is  improving  every  day  under  its 
new  commander.  Colonel  Funston.  Every  morning  now  he  is 
going  to  take  his  men  out  on  the  hills  for  e.xtended  order  drills 
and  target  practice." 

The  Kansans  were   consumed   with   anxiety  to  be  at  the 
front  and  worked  at  drill  with  feverish  energy.     It  was  gener- 


ally understood  that  Kansas  would  go  on  the  third  expedition, 
but  this  departed  without  the  men  from  the  Sunflower  state. 
With  the  coming  of  every  transport  the  Kansans  expected  to 
be  assigned,  but  as  transport  after  transport  sailed  with  its 
quota  of  fighting  men,  as  regiment  after  regiment  that  had 
come  to  San  Francisco  long  after  the  Twentieth  departed  for 
the  scene  of  action,  the  Kansans  came  almost  to  lose  hope  of 
reaching  the  Philippines.  At  last,  after  five  months  of  wait- 
ing, the  regiment  was  assigoed  to  the  Indiana  and  the  New- 
port, sailing  October  27  and  November  8,  respectively.  The 
Kansans,  who  had  been  among  the  first  to  reach  the  place  of 
mobilization,  were  the  last  to  go.  But  the  departure  was  none 
the  less  gay  on  that  account,  for  the  Jayhawkers,  after  all 
their  woes,  were  to  see  active  service  at  last. 

But  now  that  the  world  has  the  record  of  the  fighting 
Twentieth  Kansas,  there  is  nothing  too  good  for  the  boys  on 
their  return.  San  Francisco  is  anxious  to  make  amends  for 
burlesque  and  caricature  which  were  so  freely  offered  to  Fun- 
ston's  men  a  year  ago.  No  regiment  received  a  warmer  greet- 
ing than  did  the  Twentieth  Kansas. 


The  long-delayed  order  from  the  War  Department  assigning  the  Twentieth  Kansas  to  service  in  the  Philippines  was  received 
with  demonstrations  of  delight.  The  regiment  was  in  prime  condition,  and  the  assignment  appealed  to  the  adventuresome  spirit  of 
the  Jayhawkers.  On  October  27  the  second  and  third  battalions  broke  camp  and  boarded  the  transport  Indiana.  The  first 
battalion  did  not  sail  until  November  1.  The  voyage  across  the  Pacific  ocean  was  not  particularly  noteworthy.  Some  seasickness 
there  was,  but  the  Kansas  boys  bore  up  under  it  with  the  same  measure  of  fortitude  that  they  had  displayed  on  previous 
occasions,  and  which  they  manifested  at  every  subsequent  engagement  in  Luzon.  The  transports  stopped  four  days  at  Honolulu, 
and  the  patriotic  Americans  of  the  islands  were  lavish  in  the  hospitality  shown  the  young  Kansans.  The  few  days  passed  at 
Honolulu  are  one  of  the  brightest  pages  in  the  regiment's  book  of  remembrance. 


KANSAS  SOLDIERS  ON  BOARD  TRANSPORT,  BOUND  FOR  MANILA. 


THE  TWENTIETH    IN   THE    PHILIPPINE    ISLANDS. 

Like  Dewey,  the  transport  Indiana  arrived  at  Manila  bay  early  in  the  morning,  on  December  1,  having  on  board  the  second 
and  third  battalions  of  the  Twentieth.  The  first  battalion,  on  the  transport  Newport,  arrived  six  days  later.  The  regiment  dis- 
embarked without  much  delay,  and  went  into  quarters  in  a  large  building  formerly  used  as  a  tobacco  warehouse.  On  January  23 
they  moved  from  the  old  warehouse  quarters  to  the  campground  formerly  occupied  by  the  Wyoming  troops.  During  the  next 
eleven  days  they  were  hourly  in  expectation  of  orders  to  go  to  the  front  to  defend  the  city  of  Manila  against  the  threatened  attack 
of  the  insurgents.  The  order  came  on  February  i,  and  the  Kansans  were  assigned  to  an  important  position  north  of  Manila.  On  ■ 
this  day  occurred  the  opening  engagement  between  the  American  troops  and  the  insurgents.  It  was  little  more  than  a  skirmish, 
but  it  was  sufficient  to  show  what  manner  of  men  the  Twentieth  Kansas  men  were.  There  was  not  an  officer  or  a  private  but 
appeared  to  delight  in  battle.     It  was  the  test,  and  no  "yellow"  was  found.    From  this  time  on  the  regiment  was  given  little  rest. 

It  was  about  this  time  that  the  "Kansas  scarecrows"  became  known  as  the  "fighting  Twentieth."  The  Jayhawkers  appar- 
ently took  to  fighting  like  a  duck  takes  to  water.  The  trouble  was  always  to  keep  the  Kansans  back — they  went  ahead  too  fast, 
and  fleet  were  those  who  kept  up.  It  used  to  be  that  when  the  Spaniards  were  fighting  the  insurgents  they  would  go  out  in  the 
jungle,  light  their  cigarettes,  exchange  a  dozen  shots,  retreat,  and  spend  the  next  three  weeks  talking  about  it.  This  was  the 
Spaniard's  idea  of  a  "campaign."  The  Kansans  introduced  a  different  kind  of  campaign.  The  scriptural  injunction,  "pray 
without  ceasing,"  they  adapted  to  "fight  without  ceasing."  A  regiment  that  swam  rivers  as  easily  as  it  dashed  across  the  open 
was  an  innovation  to  the  natives.  A  regiment  that  scaled  trestles,  and  went  into  battle  giving  the  Kansas  university  yell,  "Rock 
Chalk,  Jayhawk,  K.  U.,"  was  something  appalling  to  the  "little  brown  brothers,"  who  were  accustomed  to  nothing  fiercer  than 
Spanish  warfare,  accompanied  by  Spanish  marksmanship  and  Spanish  cigarettes. 

February  7  the  Kansans  were  ordered  to  attack  the  insurgents'  position  before  its  front.  The  work  necessitated  an  advance 
against  a  strongly  protected  position  in  a  dense  jungle.  The  charge  was  brilliant,  the  enemy  being  driven  like  chaff  and  the 
Kansans  penetrating  the  very  heart  of  Caloocan  before  they  could  be  recalled.  In  this  attack  Kansas  lost  its  first  commissioned 
officer,  Lieut.  Alfred  C.  Alford,  of  Lawrence,  who  fell  while  bravely  leading  his  company.  His  death  was  a  serious  blow,  as  he 
was  not  only  a  popular  officer,  but  also  possessed  a  military  knowledge  far  in  advance  of  the  ordinary  citizen  soldier. 

It  was  discovered  on  February  9  that  the  enemy  was  massing  in  front  of  MacArthur's  line,  and  on  the  afternoon  of  February  10 
orders  were  issued  for  the  dislodgment  of  the  native  forces.  The  advance  commenced  at  3:40  p.m.,  with  Kansas  in  the  lead. 
Across  the  open  swept  Funston's  boys,  driving  the  natives  from  their  earthworks,  and  at  six  o'clock  the  insurgent  position  with 
the  railroad  line  was  in  the  hands  of  the  Americans.  That  night  the  line  of  the  "fighting  Twentieth "  was  established  at  Caloocan 
amidst  the  ruins  of  the  town,  which  the  insurgents  had  fired  before  their  retreat.     At  this  point  the  Kansas  boys  proceeded  to 

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LEAVING  THE  GOLDEN  GATE-GOOD-BY  TO  NATIVE  LAND. 


entrench  themselves,  and  there  awaited  orders  for  a  further  advance.  Here,  before  Caloooan,  Kansas  was  several  times  attacked, 
an  exceptionally  strong  effort  being  made  by  the  natives  on  the  night  of  February  22.  This  attack  was  intended  to  break  the 
American  line  so  that  the  natives  might  enter  Manila.  It  did  not  take  long  to  drive  the  Filipinos  back.  They  retreated  in 
disorder  and  with  heavy  loss.  Hardly  a  day  passed  without  some  minor  engagement,  and  the  Kansans  were  constantly  exposed 
to  the  fire  of  native  sharpshooters.  In  one  of  these  skirmishes,  on  February  27,  Capt.  David  S.  Elliott,  of  company  G,  was  killed. 
He  was  one  of  the  bravest,  most  competent  and  most  popular  officers  in  the  regiment.  He  was  a  civil  war  veteran,  had  been  a 
county  officer  in  Montgomery  county,  and  had  edited  a  newspaper  at  Independence. 

The  Kansans  remained  entrenched  in  Caloocan  until  March  25.  It  had  been  known  for  some  days  that  a  decisive  movement 
of  some  sort  was  contemplated,  and  on  the  25th  the  advance  began,  with  Kansas  in  the  lead.  The  Filipinos  were  strongly  in- 
trenched, but  Funston's  men  charged  line  after  line  of  earthworks,  leaving  many  dead  Tagals  in  every  trench.  At  one  point  they 
were  brought  directly  under  a  heavy  fire  from  a  blockhouse  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  Tulijan  river.  It  was  necessary  to  take 
the  blockhouse,  but  no  bridge  was  at  hand.  Rafts  were  made  from  logs  hastily  chopped,  and  on  them  enough  of  the  Kansans 
crossed  to  make  the  expedition  successful.  Dripping,  but  with  ardor  undampened,  the  cheering  men  from  the  prairie  charged  the 
blockhouse  and  the  entrenchments  surrounding  it.  The  Filipinos,  thoroughly  terrified  by  such  an  exhibition  of  bravery,  fled  in 
dismay  without  further  resistance. 

This  was  the  first  day's  work  in  the  advance  on  Malolos,  the  insurgent  capital.  On  March  26  there  were  engagements  at 
Malinta  and  Meycuayan,  in  which  the  Kansans  again  demonstrated  their  bravery.  At  Marilao  the  rebels  made  a  determined  stand 
on  the  north  side  of  the  river,  and  it  was  necessary  for  the  Kansans  to  cross  to  the  other  side,  in  order  to  engage  them.  The  river 
was  too  deep  to  ford,  so  General  Funston  and  a  few  picked  men  swam  the  river,  charged  the  works  on  the  other  side  and  took 
eighty  prisoners.  It  was  the  publication  of  this  exploit  that  made  Colonel  Funston  famous  and  had  much  to  do  with  his  reward  — 
a  brigadier  general's  commission.  It  was  an  instance  of  daring  that  justly  delights  the  public  mind  and  in  popular  fancy  made 
Fred  Funston,  like  Hobson,  one  of  the  picturesque  heroes  of  the  war. 

The  "fighting  Twentieth"  rested  only  one  night  in  Marilao.  There  was  more  fighting  to  be  done.  In  the  skirmishes  during 
the  next  few  days  both  Colonel  Funston  and  Major  Metcalf  were  slightly  wounded.  March  30,  the  Kansans,  at  the  head  of  the 
flying  column,  reached  Malolos,  another  Filipino  "capital."  The  next  day  the  Kansans  were  first  to  enter  the  city.  Here  they 
remained  for  nearly  a  month.  It  was  not  until  April  24  that  Generals  Wheaton,  Hale  and  MacArthur  began  the  advance  on 
Calumpit.  It  was  in  this  final  campaign  that  the  Twentieth  Kansas  performed  more  glorious  feats  and  added  new  honor  to  the 
name  of  their  state.  Early  in  the  morning  the  Kansans  reached  the  Bagbag  river.  The  insurgents  had  destroyed  the  bridge  and 
constructed  strong  fortifications  on  the  other  side.  Colonel  Funston  called  for  volunteers  to  cross  the  river,  and  there  were  plenty. 
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DISMANTLED  BKIUQE  OVER  THE  HAUHAU   KIVEK,   WHICH  THE  KANSANS  CROSSED  UNDER  FIRE. 


FuDston,  Lieut.  Colin  H.  Ball  and  four  privates  crawled  along  the  iron  girders  of  the  dismantled  bridge.  When  the  end  of  this 
was  reached  they  plunged  into  the  water  below  and  swam  to  the  opposite  shore.  The  insurgents  bolted  their  strongest  position 
and  fled,  leaving  the  Kansans  a  clear  field  to  advance.  At  nightfall  on  April  25  Old  Glory  was  run  up  in  the  center  of  the  town. 
The  Kansans,  headed  by  Colonel  Funston,  were  the  first  to  enter  Calumpit. 

The  exploit  of  crossing  the  dismantled  bridge  across  the  Bagbag  is  best  told  by  Lieutenant  Ball  himself.  In  a  statement  to 
a  correspondent  for  the  Topeka  Capital  he  said : 

"Owing  to  the  excitement  and  confusion  which  always  attend  an  event  of  this  character,  it  would  be  impossible  to  estimate 
the  particular  acts  of  individuals.  I  would  not  attempt  to  say  who  all  crossed  the  river  at  this  time  under  fire,  for  fear  of  doing 
some  deserving  soldier  a  grave  injustice. 

"The  popular  impression  is  that  General  Funston  called  for  volunteers  in  this  particular  instance,  but  such  is  not  the  case. 
The  facts  in  the  matter,  as  I  recall  them,  are  as  follows: 

"The  Twentieth  Kansas  infantry  was  halted  under  cover  of  the  timber  three-quarters  of  a  mile  from  the  Bagbag  to  wait 
for  the  armored  car  to  open  and  drive  the  enemy  from  its  fortified  position  at  the  farther  end  of  the  bridge.  Shortly  after  the  car 
opened  the  engagement  General  Funston  ordered  me  to  take  a  scouting  party  across  the  open  country  to  the  river,  and  ascertain 
whether  there  was  any  of  the  enemy  on  our  side.  I  was  to  select  my  own  men.  I  accordingly  took  with  me  four  men  of  my  own 
company  on  whose  good  judgment,  coolness  and  intrepidity  I  could  rely.  They  were  Corporal  Arthur  Ferguson,  Norman  Ramsey, 
Edward  Cornett,  and  Woodruff.  We  crossed  the  open  field  and  reached  the  river  in  safety,  leaving  the  American  line  nearly  a 
mile  in  the  rear.  We  made  our  way  carefully  up  the  stream  until  nearly  opposite  the  fortification  on  the  other  bank,  from  which 
the  enemy  was  maintaining  a  steady  fire  at  the  armored  car.  This  car  had  the  most  of  the  enemy's  attention,  so  that  my  party 
was  able  to  maintain  a  careful  fire  at  the  portholes  in  the  Filipino  entrenchment.  At  this  time  but  eighty  yards  of  water  lay 
between  us  and  the  insurgents.     The  American  line  was  nearly  a  mile  in  the  rear. 

"We  had  been  interesting  the  Filipinos  for  probably  twenty  minutes  when  company  K  came  from  the  timber  in  open  order, 
advancing  toward  the  river.  Genera!  Funston  was  with  the  company,  and  after  they  joined  us  on  the  river  bank  the  enemy  quit 
the  armored  car  and  gave  us  the  full  benefit  of  the  car.  At  this  time  company  K  and  my  party  were  lying  flat  on  the  river  bank 
and  the  fire  was  quite  heavy.     The  general  ran  up  to  me  and  asked : 

"  'How  the  devil  can  I  get  across?'  _Lvy'«!>3o5<& 

"  'Swim,'  I  replied. 

"  '  Can't  we  get  some  bamboo  poles  and  put  them  over  that  broken  span  ? '  he  asked. 

"  I  told  him  I  would  see,  and  ran  over  to  the  end  of  the  bridge.     I  moved  the  first  squad  of  A  company  and  my  own  four  men 


THREE  "KANSAS   CORN-FED"  FIGHTERS. 


LIEUTENANT  AGNEW.  CAPTAIN  BISHOP.  CAPTAIN  GLASGOW. 


up  to  the  end  of  the  bridge  and  then  ran  out  on  the  structure.  The  insurgents  had  removed  the  ties  and  all  the  woodwork,  so 
that  we  made  our  way  along  the  top  of  the  iron  girder.  Arriving  at  the  end  of  the  broken  span,  I  removed  a  rubber  poncho  from 
my  shoulders  and  slid  down  an  iron  rod  into  the  water,  followed  by  the  men  one  at  a  time.  We  swam  from  here  to  the  bank,  proba- 
bly a  distance  of  forty  feet. 

"  The  first  enlisted  man  whom  I  saw  after  gaining  the  opposite  bank  was  Ray  Enslow,  first  sergeant  of  K  company.  Corporal 
Ferguson  and  Privates  Ramsey  and  Cornett  and  Trumpeter  Barshfleld  were  over  in  a  moment,  and  there  may  have  been  others.  I 
did  not,  at  that  time,  deem  it  important  to  note  these  facts.    Within  a  very  short  time  the  bank  was  swarming  with  soldiers. 

"General  Funston  came  on  the  bridge  with  the  first  men  but  stopped  at  the  end  to  remove  his  boots,  and  when  I  turned 
around  from  the  top  of  the  enemy's  parapet,  he  greeted  me,  dripping  wet  from  head  to  foot." 

The  Filipinos  were  hotly  pursued  to  the  Rio  Grande  river  beyond  Calumpit  to  the  north.  Without  rest  the  Kansana  pushed 
ahead,  and  on  April  27  the  river  was  reached.  On  the  other  side  lay  Apolit,  and  between  the  town  and  the  river  was  a  seemingly 
impregnable  stronghold,  garrisoned  by  General  Luna  and  the  pick  of  Aguinaldo's  army. 

The  Kansans  had  had  too  much  experience  in  crossing  rivers  to  be  kept  back,  and  too  poor  a  respect  for  native  resistance  to 
fear  the  result.  Rafts  were  made,  each  capable  of  holding  ten  men.  When  they  were  completed  two  soldiers  from  Kansas 
City,  Kan.,  privates  White  and  Trembly,  swam  the  river  with  ropes  with  which  to  tow  the  rafts  across.  They  were  under  fire  the 
entire  distance,  but  reached  the  opposite  shore  safely.     Other  rafts  followed  them,  and  the  natives  fled  pell-mell  with  heavy  loss. 

In  the  last  engagement  in  which  the  Kansans  participated — the  taking  of  Santo  Tomas,  on  May  5  —  Lieut.  William  A. 
McTaggart  was  among  the  killed.  He  was  a  son  of  the  late  Senator  Dan.  McTaggart,  of  Montgomery  county,  and  was  a  splendid 
young  man.     The  following  day  Kansas'  line  advanced  to  San  Fernando,  from  which  Aguinaldo  hurriedly  removed  his  capital. 

Until  its  final  recall  to  Manila,  the  "fighting  Twentieth"  maintained  its  position  as  a  portion  of  General  Funston's  brigade, 
being  repeatedly  engaged  with  bands  of  insurrectos,  who  from  time  to  time  made  futile  attempts  to  break  through  the  invin- 
cible line  formed  by  these  men  in  brown  from  our  Kansas  prairies.     Every  skirmish  told  some  new  story  of  Kansas  bravery. 

AS  TOLD   IN   THE   OFFICIAL   KEPORTS. 

The  operations  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas  regiment  during  the  Philippine  campaign  are  best  told  by  the  official  reports  made  to 
the  War  Department  by  Colonel  (now  General)  Funston  and  his  successor.  Colonel  Metcalf.  These  reports  are  models  of  military 
brevity  and  as  such  are  entitled  to  be  preserved.  They  are  noteworthy  not  only  for  their  brevity,  but  also  for  their  modesty.  They 
go  much  farther  into  detail  than  any  mere  sketch  of  the  regiment's  operations  could  well  go,  and  give  a  more  accurate  insight  into 
its  brilliant  achievements  than  can  be  obtained  from  any  other  source.     The  reports  follow. 

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BRIDGE  FROM  .WHICH  THE  FIRST  SHOT  OF  THE  PHILIPPINE  WAR  WAS  FIKED. 


OFFICIAL   REPORT  FOR  FEBRUARY. 

About  ten  p.  m.,  February  i,  orders  were  received  for 
the  regiment  to  take  the  field,  in  accordance  with  a  pre- 
viously arranged  plan,  and  the  second  and  third  battalions, 
under  the  regimental  commander,  at  once  proceeded  to  the 
scene  of  hostilities  at  the  Kansas  outposts  at  the  extreme  left 
of  the  American  lines,  where  the  enemy  were  held  in  check  by 
the  outpost  guard  of  two  officers  and  sixty  men.  Line  was 
quickly  formed,  and  fire  opened  upon  the  insurgents.  The 
fire  was  returned,  and  a  heavy  exchange  of  rifle  shots  main- 
tained until  daylight,  and  intermittently  until  noon  of  the  5th 
inst. ,  when  an  advance  of  the  entire  brigade  line  was  ordered 
and  immediately  executed,  the  first  battalion  having  mean- 
while joined  the  command.  The  enemy  were  quickly  driven 
back  past  two  lines  of  entrenchments  to  their  blockhouse, 
about  two  miles  north  of  Manila,  from  which  point  a  retreat 
was  ordered;  the  line  fell  back  about  1000  yards  in  an  orderly 
manner,  but  retook  the  position  without  opposition  the  follow- 
ing morning. 

On  the  7th  inst.  the  regimental  commander  asked  and  ob- 
tained permission  to  attack  the  insurgent  forces  in  our  front, 
and  moved  against  them  with  four  companies,  C,  I,  B,  and  E, 
driving  them  from  their  position  with  heavy  loss  after  a  sharp 
fight  of  about  forty-five  minutes. 

At  three  p.  m.,  February  10,  orders  were  received  to  take  the 
town  of  Caloocan,  in  conjunction  with  the  First  Montana  vol- 
unteers, and  the  Third  United  States  artillery;  the  left  flank 
was  protected  by  two  companies  of  the  First  Idaho  volunteers. 


and  the  line  reinforced  by  two  guns  each  of  the  Utah  light 
artillery  and  the  Sixth  United  States  artillery.  After  a  half 
hour's  shelling  of  the  town  by  the  fleet,  the  advance  began 
gradually  swinging  to  the  right,  and  drove  the  enemy  with 
heavy  loss  through  and  beyond  the  town,  where  the  line  was 
halted  and  formed  for  the  night.  The  following  day  position 
was  taken  about  half  a  mile  beyond  Caloocan  church,  where 
the  command  still  lies  entrenched  in  face  of  a  continuous  fire 
from  the  enemy  in  front  and  on  the  left,  the  latter  from  the 
town  of  Malabon. 

In  all  of  these  engagements,  the  troops  of  this  command, 
most  of  whom  were  under  fire  for  the  first  time,  behaved  in 
the  most  excellent  manner,  advancing  in  the  face  of  heavy  fire 
steadily  and  without  flinching.  To  the  inferior  marksmanship 
of  the  insurgents  is  attributed  the  comparatively  small  per- 
centage of  casualties,  a  major  portion  of  which  are  slight. — 

FuNSTON. 

REPORT  FOR   MARCH. 

The  command  remained  in  the  trenches  of  Caloocan  until 
evening  of  March  24,  1899,  when  it  was  moved  to  La  Loma 
church,  about  one  mile  southeast.  At  6:30  a.  m.,  March  2.5, 
1899,  the  advance  began,  this  regiment  in  center  of  brigade 
line,  the  entire  division  gradually  swinging  to  the  left  until 
stopped  at  the  Tulijan  river,  where  the  enemy  was  strongly 
entrenched  on  the  north  bank.  Crossing  under  the  enemy's 
fire  was  finally  accomplished  by  company  E,  under  command 
of  Captain  Watson,  driving  the  enemy  from  their  position,  and 
the  entire  command  passed  to  the  opposite  bank  about  noon. 
No  further  opposition  was  met  with  and  position  was  taken  for 


the  night  At  seven  a.  m.  the  following  day  the  advance  was  continued  with  little  resistance  from  the  insurgents,  until  the 
Manila-Dagupan  railway  was  crossed  near  Polo  station.  Later  in  the  day  line  was  formed  for  the  night  about  one  mile  north  of 
station,  the  third  battalion  in  rear.  On  the  27th  the  command  moved  forward  at  seven  a.  m.,  passing  through  the  town  of  Mey- 
cauayan  and  halting  just  beyond  for  dinner.  Shortly  after  noon  companies  H  and  I  were  called  into  action  on  left  of  road, 
engaging  the  enemy  across  the  Marilao  river.  It  was  found  impossible  to  dislodge  them,  and  the  regimental  command,  with 
One  platoon  of  company  C,  crossed  river  on  left 
and  attacked  in  rear,  taking  twenty-eight  prison- 
ers and  rifles,  besides  killed  and  wounded.  This 
platoon  returned,  and  command  moved  down  river 
and  crossed  at  the  town  of  Marilao  in  time  to  par- 
ticipate in  engagement  with  the  insurgents,  who 
attempted  to  advance  but  were  driven  back,  and 
position  taken  for  the  night  just  north  of  river. 

No  move  was  made  on  the  28th.     March  29  the 

line  moved  forward  at  six  A.  M.,  this  regiment  on 

right  of  brigade  line  and  to  left  of  railroad  track, 

the  third  battalion  in  support.     The  enemy  were 

engaged  within  a  mile  and  quickly  driven  back 

across   the   Santa   Marva,   Bigoa,   and    Guiginto 

rivers,  halting  for  about  two  hours  just  south  of 

the  town  of  Bigoa.     Just  north  of  the  Guiginto 

river  the  advance  was  checked  by  a  spirited  fire 

from  the  enemy.     Line  was  quickly  formed,  and 

the   fire    silenced    after   a   hard    fight   of    about 

twenty  minutes.     The  line  remained  in  this  posi- 
tion until  2:30  P.  M.,  March  30,  when  the  advance 

was  continued,  with   the  first   battalion   in  sup- 
port, to  the  main  road  into  Malolos,  where,  some 

resistance  being  met  with,  the  line  was  halted  for 


Just  before  the  charge  at  Caloocan. 


the  night,  and  preparations  made  to  advance  on  the  town  the 
following  day. 

In  all  of  these  engagements  the  men  of  this  command  con- 
tinued to  exhibit  the  soldierly  qualities  heretofore  character- 
istic of  their  services,  encountering  the  numerous  difficulties 
of  the  campaign  with  patience,  fortitude,  and  endurance. — 
Fdnston. 

report  for  april. 

On  the  31st  of  March  the  regiment,  on  the  right  of  the  brigade 
line  and  west  of  the  Manila-Dagupan  railway,  advanced  upon 
the  city  of  Malolos.  The  regimental  commander,  with  a  small 
party  from  company  E,  moved  in  front  of  the  command  and 
was  the  first  to  enter  the  public  square  of  the  city,  meeting 
with  little  resistance.  Line  was  formed  about  a  mile  north  of 
Malolos,  and  no  further  move  was  made  until  April  25,  when 
active  operations  were  again  resumed,  and  the  command  moved, 
in  conjunction  with  the  First  Montana,  against  the  Filipino 
entrenchments  on  the  north  bank  of  the  Bagbag  river.  Line 
was  halted  about  half  a  mile  from  same,  and,  after  a  spirited 
shelling  of  the  works  by  the  armored  train,  company  K  ad- 
vanced to  the  river  and  drove  the  enemy  from  their  position 
after  a  few  minutes'  fire.  Position  was  taken  for  the  night 
on  south  bank  of  river,  and  on  the  26th  the  advance  was  re- 
sumed until  opposite  the  town  of  Calumpit. 

After  a  continuous  fire  maintained  for  the  balance  of  the 
day,  a  portion  of  the  27th,  it  was  found  impossible  to  force  the 
passage  at  the  railroad,  and  the  regimental  commander,  with 
forty-five  men  from  various  companies,  crossed  the  river  about 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  below  the  bridge  and  attacked  the  enemy 


in  the  rear,  quickly  driving  them  from  their  position.  Mean- 
while the  balance  of  the  regiment,  together  with  the  Montana 
regiment,  crossed  the  river  on  the  railroad  bridge,  and  the 
enemy  were  rapidly  pressed  northward  through  the  town  of 
Apolit,  at  which  place  the  regiment  is  now  located. 

The  enemy's  loss  in  these  engagements  was  very  heavy  in 
killed  and  wounded,  while  the  total  casualties  in  this  command 
were  one  killed  and  fourteen  wounded,  three  of  whom  have 
since  died. — Funston. 

REPORT   FOR  MAY. 

The  regiment,  in  conjunction  with  the  First  Montana,  left 
Apolit  early  on  the  morning  of  May  4,  marching  northward 
along  the  Manila-Dagupan  railway,  crossing  several  streams 
by  means  of  railway  bridges,  until  at  about  nine  a.  m.  the  third 
battalion,  which  was  leading  the  advance,  encountered  the 
enemy,  who  were  entrenched  on  the  north  side  of  the  Santo 
Tomas  river,  and  engaged  them.  Company  H,  supporting  a 
battery  consisting  of  one  Hotchkiss  and  one  Gatling  gun,  de- 
ployed on  the  right  of  the  railroad,  and  later  company  C  de- 
ployed on  the  right  of  company  H.  After  considerable  firing, 
company  I  was  ordered  to  relieve  company  H,  whose  supply  of 
ammunition  was  short.  Company  D  advanced  along  the  rail- 
road, firing  on  the  enemy  to  the  left.  After  about  an  hour's 
engagement  the  enemy  retreated  to  their  trenches  north  of 
the  Santo  Tomas  railroad  station,  where  they  made  a  stronger 
stand.  Companies  C,  D,  and  I,  having  crossed  the  bridge,  of 
which  one  span  had  been  cut  and  dropped  into  the  river,  ad- 
vanced and,  being  reinforced  by  companies  G  and  E,  of  the 
second  battalion,  a  charge  was  made,  dislodging  the  enemy 


and  driving  them  from  the  field.  That  night  and  the  follow- 
ing day  the  regiment  rested  at  Santo  Tomas,  and  on  May  6 
entered  San  Fernando. 

On  the  evening  of  May  8  outposts  were  attacked,  the  engage- 
ment lasting  about  one  hour,  in  which  companies  B,  C,  D,  H, 
I  and  M  took  part. 

The  regiment  left  quarters  at  8:. 30  a.  m..  May  24,  under  com- 
mand of  Major  Whitman,  to  engage  the  enemy  west  of  San 
Fernando,  the  third  battalion  being  left  in  reserve.  The  first 
and  second  battalions  made  a  detour  to  the  right,  moving 
under  cover  of  the  woods,  the  leading  company  arriving  within 
about  liJO  yards  of  the  enemy's  entrenchments  before  being 
discovered.  The  first  battalion,  consisting  of  companies  A, 
IJ,  and  L,  deployed,  and  attacked  the  enemy  from  the  front. 
The  .second  battalion,  companies  E,  G,  K,  and  M,  deploying 
at  nearly  right  angles  to  the  line  of  entrenchments,  and  the 
first  battalion,  gradually  swinging  to  the  left,  drove  the 
enemy  in  a  southerly  direction  along  the  trench,  completely 
routing  them,  and  compelling  them  to  retreat  in  disorder,  the 
first  battalion  following  them  through  and  beyond  Bacolor. 

At  six  A.  M.,  May  25,  a  reconnoissanco  party,  consisting  of 
companies  D,  H,  and  one  platoon  of  I,  together  with  two  com- 
panies of  First  Montana,  under  General  Funston,  left  San 
Fernando,  passing  through  Bacolor  to  Santa  Rita,  engaging 
the  enemy  in  a  skirmish  for  about  an  hour  at  the  latter  place, 
returning  to  San  Fernando  at  about  four  v.  M.,  at  which  time, 
the  outpost  being  threatened  on  the  north,  companies  A,  B,  C, 
D,  E,  F,  G,  I,  and  L,  reinforced,  the  enemy  were  engaged  and 
driven  north  beyond  Calumpit,  our  forces  returning  from  there. 


On  the  morning  of  May  26,  the  outpost  being  attacked,  com- 
panies B  and  F  were  sent  to  reinforce  company  L,  on  duty  at 
the  outpost.  The  engagement  lasted  about  half  an  hour.  No 
casualties. — Metca  lf. 

REPORT   FOR   JUNE. 

Up  to  the  morning  of  June  16  all  was  quiet  on  the  outpost, 
although  a  portion  of  the  regiment  was  sent  out  on  various 


nights  to  reinforce  the  companies  on  duty  at  the  front,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  there  were  rumors  to  the  effect  that  the  in- 
surgents would  attack  the  city  of  San  Fernando,  where  the 
regiment  was  stationed. 

On  the  morning  of  June  16  a  large  body  of  insurgents  at- 
tacked the  Montana  and  Kansas  line,  the  attack  extending 
around  the  city.  Companies  D  and  G  were  on  duty  at  the 
outpost,  and  were  reinforced  by  C  and  H,  followed  shortly  by 
the  entire  regiment.  Companies  C  and  E,  under  command  of 
Major  Bishop,  moving  north  under  cover  of  a  strip  of  timber, 
surprised  a  body  of  insurgents,  and  moving  by  the  left  flank 
drove  the  enemy  to  the  west  and  north  in  disorder,  killing  and 
wounding  many.     Casualties,  one  private,  severe. 

After  about  an  hour's  engagement  the  enemy  was  repulsed, 
and  retreated  with  considerable  loss. 

The  forces  at  San  Fernando  were  again  attacked  on  the 
night  of  June  22,  the  firing  commencing  on  the  east  of  the 
city,  very  heavily,  but  upon  reaching  our  line  the  attack  was 
only  half-hearted,  the  insurgents  being  easily  and  quickly  re- 
pulsed. 

On  June  24  the  first  and  third  battalions,  and  on  the  2.'5th 
the  second  battalion,  left  San  Fernando  and  returned  to  Ma- 
nila, the  regiment  having  been  on  the  line  since  February  4, 
or  140  days.  The  first  and  third  battalions  went  into  quarters 
at  Cuartel  de  Espana,  and  the  second  at  Cuartel  del  Fortin, 
where  they  are  now  stationed.  Since  our  arrival  in  Manila 
the  regiment  has  been  performing  provost-guard  duty,  having 
been  temporarily  assigned  for  duty  to  the  provost  guard. — 
Metcalp. 


REPOET  FOR  JULY. 
On  the  12th  of  July  companies  C,  D,  H,  and  I,  composing 
the  third  battalion  of  the  regiment,  were  sent  to  Paranaque, 
P.  I.,  to  join  General  Lawton's  division,  where  they  arrived  at 
two  p.  M.  of  that  date,  relieving  a  detachment  of  the  Four- 
teenth United  States  infantry. —  Metcalf. 


RBTUKN   OF  THE  KANSAS  HBROES. 

By  the  terms  of  the  enlistment  the  members  of  the  "fighting  Twentieth"  were  entitled  to  their  discharge  papers  when  the 
treaty  of  peace  was  signed  between  the  United  States  and  Spain.  At  that  time  things  were  in  a  serious  condition  in  the  Philip- 
pines. The  Kansas  boys,  filled  with  patriotism  and  love  of  country,  waived  their  rights  under  the  enlistment  agreement  and  noti- 
fied the  War  Department  that  they  would  remain  in  the  field  until  sufficient  reinforcements  could  reach  the  islands  from  the  United 
States.  In  the  meantime  people  at  home  became  anxious  about  the  Kansas  heroes.  They  felt  that  the  regiment  had  done  its  full 
duty  and  was  entitled  to  come  back.  The  War  Department  hurried  reinforcements  to  the  Philippines  as  fast  as  possible,  and  when 
the  Twentieth  felt  that  it  could  be  spared  from  the  scene  of  war  it  prepared  for  its  departure  from  Manila. 

After  an  active  campaign  of  over  eleven  months  it  embarked  on  the  transport  Tartar  for  home  September  3, 1899.  On  the  day 
of  sailing  the  numerical  strength  of  the  regiment  was  708  men  and  41  officers.  These  were  all  that  were  left  of  the  regiment  which 
left  for  San  Francisco  in  May,  1898. 

On  board  the  Tartar,  besides  the  command  under  Colonel  Metcalf,  was  General  Funston,  formerly  colonel  of  the  regiment. 
Colonel  Little  was  in  Japan,  as  was  also  Lieutenant  Whisner,  who  expected  to  join  the  regiment  upon  its  arrival  at  Yokohama. 

The  homeward  journey  began  on  the  afternoon  of  September  3,  and  the  Tartar  sailed  into  the  harbor  at  Hong  Kong  three  days 
later.  Here  the  transport  was  put  into  dry  dock  where  extensive  repairs  were  made.  The  regiment  spent  the  time  on  shore, 
where  the  Kansans  enjoyed  the  hospitality  of  the  British  troops. 

The  Britons  proposed  a  shooting  contest,  which  was  quickly  accepted  by  the  Kansans,  and  although  the  men  from  the  trenches 
were  beaten,  the  Englishmen  generously  acknowledged  that  their  victory  was  due  to  the  superiority  of  their  guns. 

At  Hong  Kong  the  Kansas  baud  made  a  great  hit  and  concerts  were  given  each  day,  which  were  loudly  praised  by  the  English 
colony. 

United  States  Consul  General  Wildman  and  Lieutenant  Hobson  entertained  several  of  the  officers  of  the  Twentieth,  and  their 
courtesy  was  reciprocated  by  General  Funston,  who  gave  an  informal  luncheon  on  board  the  Tartar. 

The  date  set  for  leaving  Hong  Kong  was  September  1.3,  and  on  that  day  the  Kansans  were  ordered  on  board.  Everything  was 
put  in  order  for  sailing  and  the  Tartar's  nose  was  pointed  outward,  when  a  most  vexatious  incident  occurred,  which  might  have 
taken  an  international  turn  had  not  public  sentiment  in  Hong  Kong  finally  overcome  the  exalted  obstinacy  of  an  officious  harbor- 
master. 

The  transport  was  not  given  clearance  papers,  without  which  she  could  not  leave  Hong  Kong  harbor.  In  vain  did  Colonel 
Metcalf  plead  that  the  harbor-master  had  no  right  to  delay  the  homeward  voyage  of  the  soldiers.  The  harbor-master  claimed  that 
the  transport  was  overcrowded.    There  was  no  complaint  among  the  Kansans,  and  the  whole  trouble  was  stirred  up  by  the  volun- 

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teer  regulars  aboard  who  found  their  accommodations  somewhat  too  limited  for  their  personal  convenience  and  who  sought  to  gain 
greater  comfort  on  the  voyage  by  getting  rid  of  a  portion  of  the  Twentieth  regiment. 

In  his  provoking  dilemma,  Colonel  Metcalf  wired  the  state  department  at  Washington,  but  before  an  answer  came  the  harbor- 
master changed  his  mind  and  allowed  the  Tartar  to  leave. 

It  was  at  Hong  Kong  that  Corporal  Robert  M.  Lee,  company  F,  died  of  dysentry.  The  body  was  embalmed  and  brought 
home.     Lee  lived  at  Manhattan,  Kan. 

On  the  way  from  Hong  Kong  to  Yokohama  the  health  of  the  regiment  rapidly  improved.  When  the  beautiful  Japanese  sea- 
port was  reached  a  day's  delay  in  landing  was  caused  by  the  exasperating  delay  of  the  health  officers  in  visitingf  the  transport  and 
passing  on  the  health  of  the  command. 

At  last  the  troops  were  allowed  to  land,  and  in  a  few  hours  hundreds  of  the  Kansas  boys  were  on  the  trains  bound  for  Tokio, 
the  capital  of  Japan.  Here  they  were  elaborately  entertained  by  the  American  colony.  On  the  morning  of  September  25,  the  Tar- 
tar ran  out  of  the  harbor  of  Yokohama  and  started  on  her  trip  to  San  Francisco. 

Before  leaving  Yokohama,  two  deaths  occurred,  both  privates.  John  M.  Ingenthron,  of  company  L,  died  of  dysentery,  and 
John  S.  Bowman,  of  the  Fourteenth  infantry,  succumbed  to  the  same  disease. 

For  several  days  out  from  Yokohama  the  sea  was  quite  rough  and  many  suffered  keenly,  but  after  the  first  squally  weather 
was  passed  the  trip  was  made  in  comfort.  Every  one  seemed  to  improve  wonderfully,  stimulated  by  the  bracing  sea  air  and  the 
prospect  of  once  again  seeing  home  and  friends. 

When,  on  the  evening  of  October  10,  the  transport  Tartar  was  sighted  off  Golden  Gate,  tugs  bearing  Governor  Stanley,  State 
Treasurer  Grimes  and  other  distinguished  Kansans,  and  many  newspaper  correspondents,  hastened  to  greet  the  returning  heroes. 
A  high  sea  prevailed  at  the  time  and  the  tugs  were  piloted  to  the  transport  under  great  difficulty.  It  was  at  this  time,  when 
cheers  from  a  thousand  throats  were  conveying  glad  welcome,  that  a  pathetic  incident  occurred  which  east  a  gloom  over  the  happy 
occasion.  William  A.  Snow,  a  newspaper  correspondent,  and  son  of  Chancellor  Snow,  of  the  Kansas  university,  was  swept  overboard 
from  the  deck  of  the  newspaper  boat  and  drowned.  He  was  endeavoring  to  receive  dispatches  from  the  Tartar  and  died  in  the  per- 
formance of  his  duty. 

Quarantine  regulations  required  the  regiment  to  remain  on  shipboard  over  night.  They  landed  the  next  day  and  marched  to 
the  Presidio,  where  they  were  to  be  mustered  out  of  the  service.  The  journey  from  the  wharf  to  the  camp  ground  was  a  continuous 
ovation,  and  the  Kansans  received  greater  evidences  of  public  enthusiasm  than  any  regiment  that  had  preceded  them,  excepting, 
possibly,  the  California  regiment.  The  people  of  the  Pacific  slope  were  lavish  in  their  hospitality,  and  no  effort  was  spared  to 
make  the  interval  before  the  final  muster-out  as  pleasant  as  possible. 

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THE  TWENTIETH  MARCHIiNG  OX  VAN  NESS  AVENUE.  SAN  FRANCISCO.  AFTER  ITS  RETURN. 
ColoDel  Metcalf  in  the  lead. 


Colonel  Funston's  promotion  to  be  brigadier  general  was  received  not  only  in  Kansas  but  all  over  the  country  with  expressions 
of  approval.  The  Kansas  colonel,  more  than  any  other  man  identified  with  the  Philippine  campaign,  filled  the  role  of  popular  hero. 
The  element  both  of  daring  and  romance  entered  into  his  achievements,  and  made  him  as  much  of  an  idol  as  Hobson  was  after  the 
Santiago  campaign. 

The  greatest  honor  that  can  be  bestowed  upon  a  soldier  is  honorable  mention  by  a  commanding  general  and  a  meda  1  for  bravery 
from  congress.  Gen.  Lloyd  Wheaton,  who  commanded  the  brigade  of  which  the  Kansas  regiment  was  a  part,  made  special  mention 
of  several  officers  and  privates  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas.  It  is  assumed  that  the  recommendation  will  carry  with  it  a  congressional 
medal.  In  his  report  General  Wheaton  says:  "  I  respectfully  invite  attention  to  the  gallant  conduct  of  Col.  Frederick  Funston, 
now  brigadier  general  United  States  volunteers,  during  these  operations ;  also,  the  very  efficient  services  and  meritorious  conduct 
of  Lieut.  Col.  Robert  B.  Wallace,  commanding  First  Montana  volunteer  infantry,  and  of  Maj,  Richard  W.  Young,  Utah  light 
artillery,  for  the  courage  and  skill  with  which  he  directed  the  operations  of  his  guns.  The  extraordinary  and  most  gallant  conduct 
of  Private  Edward  White,  company  B,  Twentieth  Kansas  volunteer  infantry,  and  that  of  W.  B.  Trembly,  same  company  and  regi- 
ment, in  swimming  the  Rio  Grande  in  face  of  the  enemy's  fire  and  fastening  a  rope  to  a  stake  in  his  occupied  works,  is  worthy  of 
high  commendation  and  reward.  The  conduct  of  Lieut.  C.  H.  Ball  and  of  Sergeants  Emerson  and  Barshfield  and  Corp.  A.  M. 
Ferguson,  of  company  E,  Twentieth  Kansas  volunteer  infantry,  in  swimming  the  Bagbag  with  Colonel  Funston,  under  the  fire  of 
the  enemy,  is  worthy  of  reward  and  of  great  praise." 

The  Twentieth  Kansas  has  a  most  remarkable  record  in  the  matter  of  desertions.  Of  the  1.300  who  enlisted  in  the  regiment, 
only  four  deserted.  Their  names,  according  to  the  official  report,  are;  Jackson  Copeland,  John  Boyle,  Fred.  Lambers,  and  Louis 
Arwood.  Probably  no  other  regiment  in  the  world  ever  had  such  a  record.  During  the  civil  war  Kansas  had  just  as  loyal  men  in 
her  regiments  as  any  state  in  the  union,  yet  her  desertions  ran  from  four  to  twenty  per  cent.  By  regiments,  the  desertions  in  the 
civil  war  were:  First  infantry,  238;  Second  infantry  (three  months'  service),  6;  Second  infantry,  191;  Fifth  cavalry,  96;  Sixth 
cavalry,  130;  Seventh  cavalry,  226;  Eighth  infantry,  128;  Ninth  cavalry,  89;  Tenth  infantry,  75;  Eleventh  cavalry,  24;  Twelfth 
infantry,  38;  Thirteenth  infantry,  126;  Fourteenth  cavalry,  157;  Fifteenth  cavalry,  154;  Sixteenth  cavalry,  135;  First  infantry 
(colored),  62;  Second  infantry  (colored),  63;  First  battery,  19;  Second  battery,  13;  Third  battery,  17;  colored  battery  (inde- 
pendent), 4;  total,  1988. 


Official  List  of  tlie  Wounded. 


According  to  all  the  available  records  in  the  Adjutant-General's  office,  the  following  is  a  complete  list  of  officers  and  privates 
of  the  Twentieth  regiment  who  were  wounded  in  the  Philippine  campaign : 

Thad  Q.  Alderman,  private,  Co.  F,  Mar.  29. 
William  C.  Albright,  captain  Co.  C,  Mas  2. 
Alvir  Allison,  private,  Co.  K,  Mar.  29. 
Fred  Atchison,  private,  Co.  Q,  Mar.  9. 
Elmer  H.  Ashcraft,  private,  Co.  E.  May  24. 
John  E.  Ballou,  private,  Co.  I,  Mar.  29. 
George  H.  Battorsby,  privat<>,  Co.  M,  Feb.  5. 
James  H.  Bennett,  private,  Co.  D.  Feb.  5. 
Charles  Bennett,  private,  Co.  M,  Feb.  11. 
William  C.  Barker,  private,  Co.  E,  Feb.  10. 
Trolando  Blesh,  private,  Co.  L,  Feb.  23. 
Samuel  F.  Barton,  private,  Co.  E.  Mar.  24. 
James  H.  Bryant,  private,  Co.  E,  Mar.  25. 
Colin  H.  Ball,  second  lieutenant  Co.  E,  April  27. 
William  H.  Bishop,  captain  Co.  M,  April  2». 
Wm.  A.  Callahan,  Brst  lieutenant  Co.  L,  Feb.  24. 
Charles  M.  Christy,  captain  Co.  E,  Feb.  10. 
Raymond  Clark,  private,  Co.  D,  Feb.  5. 
Daniel  Conway,  private,  Co.  F,  Feb.  4. 
Fred  Carter,  private,  Co.  E,  Mar.  29. 
Edward  Crane,  private,  Co.  B,  Mar.  29. 
Ernest  Criss,  corporal,  Co.  H,  Mar.  29. 
Adna  G.  Clarke,  captain  Co.  H,  Mar.  25. 
George  H.  Cravens,  private,  Co.  E,  Mar.  25. 
Chris  Clapp,  private,  Co.  I,  Mar.  25. 
Ben  Concnman,  musician.  Mar.  25. 
Daniel  Conway,  private,  Co,  F,  Feb.  5. 
R.  E.  Clark,  private,  Co.  H,  Feb.  23. 
George  B.  Dailey,  private,  Co.  K,  Mar.  29. 
Jos.  Dewald,  sergeant,  Co.  K,  Mar.  30  and  Apr.  25. 
Thomas  J.  Davidson,  private,  Co.  H,  Mar.  22. 
Albert  Dooley,  corporal,  Co.  M,  May  24. 
William  A.  Ebert,  private,  Co.  F,  M^ar.  29. 
Andrew  W.  Evans,  private,  Co.  E,  Mar.  2.5. 
William  Eckworth,  private,  Co.  M,  June  21. 
Ernest  Fritz,  private,  Co.  I,  Feb.  7. 


Courtland  Fleming,  mutfician.  Ma 
Frederick  Funston,  brigadier-general.  May  4. 
E.  E.  Qormlej',  private,  Co.  H,  Feb.  13. 
Michael  H.  Oarrity,  private,  Co.  L,  Mar.  29. 


John  Gillilan,  private,  Co.  B,  Feb.  7. 
Bert  Hanson,  corporal,  Co.  K,  Feb.  10. 
Harvey  S.  Harris,  private,  Co.  B,  Feb.  10. 
David  M.  Horkmans,  corporal,  Co.  H,  Feb.  10. 
Frank  Huling,  private,  Co.  K,  Feb.  7.  accidental. 
Daniel  S.  Hewitt,  private,  Co.  A,  Feb.  7. 
Charles  Hammond,  private,  Co.  F,  Feb.  5. 
James  E.  Histed,  artificer  Co.  D,  Mar.  24. 
James  Hammersby,  corporal,  Co.  G,  Mar.  29. 
Edward  R.  Hook,  private,  Co.  H,  Mar.  25. 
Joseph  H.  Heflin,  private,  Co.  E,  Mar.  25. 
Arthur  C.  Howe,  private,  Co.  C,  Mar.  12. 
Walter  A.  Hubbard,  private,  Co.  K,  April  2«. 
Edward  H.  Harris,  private,  Co.  K,  April  27. 
Arthur  HoUingshead,  private,  Co.  E,  May  24. 
Harry  L.  Johnson,  private,  Co.  C,  Mar.  29. 
Charles  A.  Kelson,  artificer  Co.  B,  Feb.  7. 
Ira  Keithley,  sergeant,  Co.  D,  Feb.  12. 
Harvey  G.  Kuhns,  corporal,  Co.  L,  Mar.  29. 
Walter  Kemp,  private,  Co.  F,  Mar.  29. 
Lyle  L.  Knox,  private,  Co.  I,  April  27. 
James  W.  Kershner,  sergeant,  Co.  A,  April  27. 
Ernest  Kincaid,  corporal,  Co.  K,  April  28. 
E.  C.  Little,  lieutenant  colonel,  accidental. 


vv .  El.  uiiiMiu.  privuie,  \ju,  r,  reu.  ,). 

Alex  Mitchell,  private,  Co.  B,  Feb.  11. 
John  O.  Morse,  sergeant,  Co.  K,  Feb.  10. 
James  S.  Mills,  private,  Co.  E,  Feb.  10. 
Joseph  W.  Murray,  sergeant,  Co.  L,  Mar.  29. 
Wilder  S.  Metcalf,  colonel.  Mar.  29. 
Wesley  I.  Mathews,  private,  Co.  Q,  Mar.  25. 
George  Meyer,  private,  Co.  K,  Mar.  25. 
Arthur  K.  Moore,  private,  Co.  H,  May  7. 
William  McDougal,  private,  Co.  F. 
William  McGrew,  private,  Co.  1,  Feb.  7. 
William  A.  Nelson,  private,  Co.  F,  Feb.  4. 
George  C.  Nichols,  sergeant,  Co.  D,  Mar.  25. 
Oscar  Nesbitt,  private,  Co.  K,  April  27. 


Orvilld  Parker,  private,  do.  G,'  Mar.  25. 
Charles  M.  Pease,  private.  Co.  B,  Mar.  24. 
Larrance  Page,  private,  Co.  H.  Mar.  27. 
Robert  Parker,  second  lieutenant  Co.  K,  May  24. 
John  E.  Riley,  private,  Co.  C.  Feb.  27. 
William  M.  Rumbley,  corporal,  Co.  I,  Mar.  U. 
Fred  Recob.  corporal,  Co.  A,  Mar.  27. 
Henry  Radcliff,  private,  Co.  F,  Mar.  29. 
Louis  J.  Rouse,  private.  Co.  B. 
James  A.  Robison,  sergeant,  Co.  D. 
James  F.  Rice,  private.  Co.  D,  Mar.  29. 
Herbert  Sands,  corporal^Co.  F,  Feb.  23. 
C.  H.  Scott,  private,  Co,  H,  Feb.  24. 
Albert  Shaugbnessy,  private,  Co.  E,  Mar.  29. 
W.  M.  Smith,  private,  Co.  B,  Mar.  29. 
Claude  Spurlock,  corporal,  Co,  B,  Mar.  29. 
Lester  Sitzer,  private,  Co.  L,  Mar.  29. 
Frank  Stewart,  private,  Co.  A.  Mar.  27. 
George  W.  Stephens,  private.  Co.  G. 
Arthur  C.  Snow,  sergeant,  Co.  K,  April  26. 
Joseph  Scott,  private,  Co.  I,  April  27. 
Frank  C.  Sample,  corporal,  Co.  C. 
Peter  M.  Sorensen,  private,  Co.  B,  May  24. 
William  Tnll,  private,  Co.  1,  Mar.  25. 
Charles  W.  Tozier,  sergeant,  Co.  L,  May  24. 
Elmer  Drie,  private,  Co.  B,  Feb.  10. 
Edward  D.  Willing,  corporal,  Co.  B,  Feb.  10. 
John  M.  Webber,  private,  Co.  I,  Feb.  23. 
William  Wolf,  private,  Co.  L,  Feb.  23. 
William  J.  Watson,  captain,  Co.  E,  Mar.  29. 
Charles  A.  Waters,  private,  Co.  E.  Mar.  29. 
Todd  L.  Wagoner,  musician,  Co.  F,  Mar.  30. 
Walter  A.  Wyatt,  private,  Co.  L,  Mar.  29. 
T.  Jerome  Weigant,  private,  Co.  C.  Mar.  25. 
Charles  A.  Wood  worth,  sergeant,  Co.  A,  April  28. 
Cassius  E.Warner,  sergt.  major,  field  and  staff. 
Losson  Whitaker,  private,  Co.  B.  April  27. 
Edward  Ziebel,  private,  Co.  M,  Feb.  4. 


Roster  of  the  Regiment. 

Personnel  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas,  revised  to  the  time  of  Its  muster-out. 


When  the  Twentieth  Kansas  regiment  arrived  in  San  Francisco,  on  its  return  from  the  Philippines,  the 
roster  was  given  as  follows : 


Brigadier-General,  Frederick  Funston,  promoted  from  colonel 
to  brigadier-general  May  9,  1899. 

FIELD    AND    STAFF. 

Colenel,  Wilder  S.  Metcalf,  promoted  from  major  May  9, 
1899;  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Edward  C.  Little;  Major,  Frank 
Whitman;  Major,  Charles  I.  Martin,  promoted  from  captain 
July  22,  1899;  Adjutant,  Cassius  E.  Warner,  promoted  to 
second  lieutenant  May  9,  1899,  on  staff  of  General  Funston 
from  May  24  to  August  16,  1899,  promoted  to  first  lieutenant 
and  appointed  adjutant  September  2,  1899;  Quartermaster, 
Walter  P.  Hull,  appointed  July  9,  1898;  Major  John  A.  Raf- 
ter, surgeon;  Captain  H.  D.  Smith,  assistant  surgeon;  Cap- 
tain Charles  S.  Huffman,  assistant  surgeon;  Chaplain,  John 
G.  Schlieman. 

Resigned:  Quartermaster  Lafayette  C.  Smith,  July  9, 1899; 
Adjutant  Wm.  A.  Deford,  August  27,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist :  Major  W.  H.  Bishop,  promoted  from 
captain  to  major  May  9,  1899,  discharged  August  11,  1899, 
major  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volunteer  infantry. 

Wounded  in  action;  Colonel  Frederick  Funston,  left  hand, 
Santa  Tomas,  May  4,  1899,  returned  to  duty  May  13,  1899; 
Major  Wilder  S.  Metcalf,  ear,  Caloocan,  February  23,  1899 


( not  off  duty ) ,  right  foot,  Bigoa,  March  29,  1899,  returned  to 
duty  May  23,  1899. 

Accidentally  wounded:  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edward  C.  Lit- 
tle, leg,  Kansas  outpost,  January  17,  1899,  returned  to  duty 
March  14,  1899. 

NON-COMMISSIONED    STAFF. 

Sergeant  Major,  Harry  W.  Brent,  appointed  September  3, 
1899;  Quartermaster  Sergeant,  Wilfred  W.  Nelson,  appointed 
August  1,  1899. 

Wounded  in  action:  Sergeant  Major  C.  E.  Warner,  hand. 
May  4,  1899,  San  Tomas,  returned  to  duty  May  24,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Quartermaster  Sergeant  George  W. 
Winterburn,  first  lieutenant  Eleventh  United  States  volun- 
teer cavalry. 

Dishonorably  discharged:  Quartermaster  Sergeant  James 
A.  Young,  August  25,  1898. 

HOSPITAL    CORPS. 

Hospital  Stewards:  Volney  T.  Boaz,  Elmer  Butler,  John  K. 
Buchanan,  appointed  September  3,  1899;  Privates  William  S. 
Clark,  Homer  J.  Robeson,  Howard  S.  Street,  Clark  Marsh, 
W.  W.  Howell. 


COLONEL  WILDER  S.  METCALF, 


LIEUTENANT  COLONEL  EDWAKD  C.  LITTLE. 


Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila:  Hospital  Steward 
J.  E.  Chantain,  Private  Carl  H.  Fry. 

Discharged  and  returning  by  way  of  New  York:  Hospital 
Steward  Seth  A.  Hammel,  Devere  Rafter. 

Discharged  and  returned  with  regiment:  Private  Horace 
Hobart. 

Discharged  in  San  Francisco,  disability :  Hospital  Stewards 
William  E.  Hungerford,  Coryell  Faulkner:  Privates  John  L. 
Low,  James  M.  Padon,  Elbert  S.  Bird,  William  Nelson. 


Chief  Musician,  Erve  C.  Strickland;  Principal  Musicians 
Edgar  Tucker,  George  Ellison;  Drum  Major,  James  L.  Wil- 
cox; Privates  Samuel  F.  Barton,  Frank  H.  Bellamy,  Bert  S. 
Berry,  Clare  A.  Coe,  Ben.  T.  Conchman,  Carl  H.  Dreyer,  Ar- 
thur E.  Ellison,  Courtland  Fleming,  James  M.  Grantham, 
Claude  H.  Helman,  Roy  S.  Haynes,  Elmer  C.  Lucas,  John  W. 
Miner,  H.  A.  Stamm,  John  Wassburg,  Ollie  J.  Canfield,  Wil- 
fred B.  Helm,  Alfred  B.  Copen,  Frank  Gassett. 

Discharged,  disability :  Principal  Musician  Lynn  L.  Hilli- 
ker,  November  16,  1898 ;  Privates  Sidney  A.  Henman,  Septem- 
ber 12,  1898 ;  Edward  Lieurance,  September  26,  1898 ;  O.  L. 
Mcintosh,  November  16,  1898;  Gordon  W.  Parks,  November 
15,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Thirty-seventh  United  States  vol- 
unteer infantry.  Chief  Musician  C.  E.  Gormley,  Principal  Mu- 
sioian  William  F.  Mafley,  Private  Walter  V.  Bourke. 

Killed  in  action:  Private  Orlin  L.  Birlew,  Guiginto,  March 
29,  1899,  buried  on  Battery  Knoll,  grave  No.  150. 

Wounded  in  action:  Private  Samuel  F.  Barton,  leg,  Caloo- 
can,  March  2i,  1899,  returned  to  duty  June  26,  1899.  Private 
Courtland  Fleming,  abdomen,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899,  re- 
turned to  duty  June  26,  1899.  Private  Benj.  T.  Conchman, 
lung,  Santo  Tomas,  May  i,  1899,  returned  to  duty  June  26, 1899. 


Company  A. 

Captain  Clad  Hamilton,  promoted  to  second  lieutenant  July 
9,  1899,  to  first  lieutenant  May  19,  1899,  to  captain  August 
12,  1899;  First  Lieutenant  Frank  J.  Frank;  Second  Lieuten- 
ant J.  J.  Deeming,  promoted  July  22,  1899. 

Removed  for  inefficiency :  Captain  John  E.  Towers,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Captain  E.  L.  Glasgow,  promoted 
to  captain  March  4,  1899;  discharged  July  23,  1899:  captain 
Eleventh  United  States  volunteer  cavalry.  Second  Lieuten- 
ant John  J.  Haisch,  promoted  to  second  lieutenant  July  22, 
1899;  discharged  August  27,  1899;  first  lieutenant  Thirty- 
sixth  United  States  volunteer  infantry. 

Enlisted  men  with  company:  First  Sergeant  Charles  A. 
Woolforth;  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Emory  A.  Bailey;  Ser- 
geants Samuel  J.  White,  Joseph  H.  Segraves,  S.  K.  Wisner; 
Corporals  Francis  M.  Pribble,  Charles  E.  Cole,  Milo  L.  La- 
ment, Walter  E.  French,  Edwin  Barrett,  Ellis  G.  Davis, 
George  W.  Lewis,  Joseph  P.  Redinger;  Cook  William  Fleck- 
inger;  Artificer  Tunis  Arnold;  Musician  Frank  L.  Spitts; 
Privates  Harry  Adams,  Walter  J.  Arnold,  Charles  E.  Ander- 
son, Edward  L.  Banks,  Harry  Chandler,  Walter  J.  Coleman, 
James  M.  Coleman,  Albert  R.  Cotton,  Charles  R.  Fish,  Fred 
Graft,  John  J.  Hambert,  Fred  Humphries,  Jerome  E.  John- 
stone, Ernest  E.  Kirk,  Lewis  G.  Laws,  James  D.  Leahey, 
Arthur  Long,  Percy  McCooi,  Clarence  McDowell,  Frank  Mc- 
Fadden,  Isaac  R.  McKinney ,  Herbert  P.  Miller,  Charles  Peters, 
Edward  L.  Pinkerton,  John  Stephene,  Marcus  J.  Smith,  Will- 
iam B.  Smith,  Edwin  W.  Shread,  Walter  L.  Sherburne,  Wal- 
ter Swartz,  Roy  Timmons,  Herbert  W.  Turner,  Losson  B. 
Whitaker,  Elmer  L.  Wilkinson,  Frank  W.  Zook. 

Wounded  sent  to  San  Francisco:  Sergeant  Fred.  A.  Recob, 
thigh ;  Marilao,  March  27,  1899. 

Sick  sent  to  San  Francisco;   Harry  E.  Wagnar,  wagoner- 


Privates  Charlps  H.  Reasoner,  J.  C.  Springstead,  Butler  J. 
Haskins,  Relief;  Corporal  Clarence  Sharon,  Privates  Frank 
A.  Smith,  George  H.  Helwig,  Guy  W.  Ludington,  Morgan  City. 

Discharged  in  San  Francisco,  disability :  Sergeant  Orville 
S.  Taylor,  Privates  Joseph  C.  Spendlove,  Frank  J.  Keaghen, 
William  L.  Garretson,  Raymond  Slater,  Arthur  Snapp,  Theo- 
dore Sutton,  Henry  Wingfield,  August,  1898;  Privates  Edward 
H.  Brennen,  Thomas  E.  Lawrence,  Theodore  Q.  Whitted, 
George  W.  Turner,  Eugene  Willett,  September,  1898;  Privates 
Harry  H.  Banks,  Walter  C.  Campbell,  Henry  McKinney,  Fred 
Shaufele,  October,  1898:  Wagoner  Mitchell  Bundy,  Privates 
William  F.  Ayres,  Frank  Francis,  November,  1898;  Private 
George  W.  Lemly,  February,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reenlist,  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volunteer 
infantry;  Corporals  Terrenee  Montgomery,  John  J.  Johnston, 
Charles  A.  Waters;  Eleventh  United  States  cavalry.  First 
Sergeant  Joseph  W.  Morris,  first  lieutenant. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila :  Sergeant  Harry  Jones, 
Corporals  Charles  Muller,  Steve  S.  Kirby ;  Privates  James  W. 
Kershner,  Ira  M.  Payne,  Wilbur  Mason. 

Discharged  and  returning  V)y  way  of  New  York:  Sergeant 
Robert  D.  Maxwell,  Corporal  Charles  B.  Ramsey. 

Discharged  and  returning  with  regiment:  Private  Edwin  A. 
Myers. 

Deserted:    Private  John  R.  Boyd,  October  22,  1898. 

Died  of  disease:  Private  Edward  A.  Rethmeyer,  January  8, 
1899,  .smallpox,  buried  Paco  cemetery,  grave  No.  123;  Private 
Etcyl  P.  Blair,  January  11,  1899,  smallpox,  buried  Paco  ceme- 
tery, grave  No.  129:  Private  John  D.  Young,  January  13, 1899, 
smallpox,  Paco  cemetery,  grave  No.  131. 

Killed  in  action:  Private  Resil  Manahan,  Calumpit,  April 
26,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  229;  Private  William  Sul- 
livan, Bacalor,  May  24,  1899,  National  cemetery.  No.  11. 


Lieut.  Jacob  Wbisner, 


Capt.  Clad  Hami.ton. 


Slightly  wounded,  not  reported:  Corporal  John  J.  Haisch, 
February  4,  1899;  Private  Edwin  W.  Shread,  June  IG,  1899; 
First  Sergeant  J.  J.  Deeming. 

Wounded  in  action:  Private  James  W.  Kershner,  thigh, 
Caloocan,  February  10,  1899,  not  otf  duty,  shoulder,  Bagbag 
river,  April  2(j,  returned  to  duty  May  2(j,  1899;  Private  Ira  M. 
Payne,  arm,  Caloocan,  February  1.'!,  returned  to  duty  June  1, 
1899:  Private  Frank  Steward,  forehead,  Tulijan  river,  March 
2"!,  1899,  returned  to  duty  April  C,  1899;  Private  Charles  A. 
Waters,  forehead,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899,  returned  to  duty 
April  11,  1899;  Sergeant  Charles  A.  Woolworth,  abdomen, 
Apolit,  April  27,  1899,  returned  to  duty  May  14,  1899;  Private 
Losson  B.  Whitaker,  body,  Apolit,  April  27,  1899,  returned  to 
duty  June  2.3,  1899. 


Now  on  sick  report:  Private  Walter  L.  Sherburne,  July  2i, 
1899,  chronic  gastritis,  serious;  Private  Walter  C  Swartz, 
August  18, 1899,  chronic  gastritis,  serious;  Private  William  R. 
Smith,  chronic  gastritis,  convalescent. 

Discharged  by  favor:  Private  Jesse  S.  Fairleigh,  July  11, 
1899,  returned  on  Warren,  July  15,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reenlist.  Thirty-seventh  United  States  vol- 
unteer infantry:  Sergeant  Frank  Auswald,  first  lieutenant; 
Privates  Edward  Barrett,  Charles  Dingle,  Bert  K.  Donohue, 
William  F.  Densing,  John  H.  Gallagher,  James  M.  McFar- 
land,  Hugh  McMeachin,  Stephen  Munich,  Claude  S.  Phillips, 
Sylvester  F.  Rothwell,  Lewis  J.  Rouse,  Elmer  Urie. 

Company  B. 

Captain  Charles  B.  Walker,  appointed  regimental  adjutant, 
August  28,  1898,  promoted  to  captain  August  17,  1899.  First 
Lieutenant  J.  R.  Whisner,  promoted  to  second  lieutenant  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1899,  to  first  lieutenant  August  17,  1899.  Second 
Lieutenant  Ben  E.  Northrup,  promoted  August  17,  1899. 

Killed  in  action:  First  Lieutenant  Alfred  C.  Alford,  before 
Caloocan,  February  7, 1899,  buried  Lawrence,  Kan.  Promoted 
to  first  lieutenant  September  5,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Captain  Fred  E.  Buchan,  .July  30, 
1899,  to  accept  commission  as  second  lieutenant  in  the  regular 
army.  Left  Manila  April  19,  1899,  to  accompany  wife's  body 
to  the  United  States. 

Enlisted  men  with  company :  First  Sergeant  Fred  D.  Heisler, 
Quartermaster  Sergeant  Harry  G.  Smith;  Sergeants  Judd  N. 
Bridgman,  Claude  Spurlock,  Arthur  Page  Jackson,  Lemuel  D. 
Cummins;  Corporals  Fred  A  Hecker,  Bain  Dennis,  James  H. 
Cook,  Peter  J.  Nugent,  Jacob  Hammar,  Robert  T.  Boyd,  Peter 
M.  Sorenson,  Orno  E.  Tyler,  William  B.  Trembley;  Cook 
George  W.  Orr;  Artificer  John  A.  Johnson;  Wagoner  Dana 
C.  Pease;  Musicians  Otis  U.  Groff,  George  Bethemeyer;  Pri- 


vates Charles  T.  Baker,  Frederick  A.  Cook,  Henry  Clarence 
Chase,  Richard  Mapes  Jesse  Helm,  Harvey  I.  Harris,  William 
R.  Hinkle,  Charles  H.  Holman,  William  H.  Hoffman,  Daniel 
S.  Hewitt,  William  L.  Johnson,  Robert  S.  Johnson,  Michael 
Jupetich,  Charles  I.  Lowry,  Spurgeon  Matson,  Alexander  M. 
Mitchell,  Charles  M.  Pease,  Harley  Pearson,  Thomas  E.  Ride- 
nour,  Wilson  B.  Smith,  William  J.  Saunders,  Charles  Win- 
gert,  James  E.  Williamson,  John  Woodward. 

Wounded,  sent  home  on  Morgan  City:  Artificer  Charles  A. 
Kelson,  arm,  Caloocan,  February  7,  1899:  Private  John  Gilli- 
lan,  both  legs,  Caloocan,  February  7,  1899;  Private  Edward 
Crane,  arm,  Guiginto,  March  25, 1899.  On  Indiana:  Corporal 
Edward  D.  Walling,  arm,  Caloocan,  February  10,  1899. 

Sick,  sent  home;  Privates  Marvin  J.  Powell,  Relief ;  Charles 
D.  Wait,  Morgan  City. 

Discharged,  San  Francisco,  disability:  Privates  William  A. 
Crowell,  E.  McLeachin,  Edwin  B.  Hoppin,  Monty  Yeakey, 
Frank  A.  Schellhardt,  Frank  L.  Heller,  John  M.  Hoyle,  Au- 
gust, 1898;  Corporal  Charles  K.  Wood,  Privates  G.  E.  Bur- 
rows, Charles  Debeque,  Edward  W.  Ellis,  September,  1898; 
Corporals  Frank  E.  Vanfos.sen,  John  N.  Benson;  Privates 
Francis  McCray,  George  F.  Voss,  Harry  Lancaster,  George  M. 
Davison,  Elmer  D.  Mabry,  Hugh  H.  Smart,  Bert  J.  Stuart, 
October,  1898;  Sergeant  Eugene  Davies,  Privates  Charles  W. 
Folyle,  Lewis  H.  Youser,  George  C.  Robinson,  Benjamin  F. 
Zimmerman,  Jacob  Guff,  November,  1898;  Private  John  W. 
Prince,  December,  1898;  Private  William  L.  Litchfield,  Feb- 
ruary, 1899. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila:  Privates  Frank  Free- 
man, Percy  Gibson,  Michael  J.  Lambert. 

Discharged  to  return  with  regiment ;   Private  Edward  White. 

Died  of  disease:  Private  Louis  Moon,  June  23,  1898,  spinal 
meningitis,  buried  San  Francisco ;  Private  Louis  Wren  Fergu- 
son, December  24,  1898,  fever,  Manila,  buried  Paco,  grave  No. 
112;  Artificer  Isaac  C.  Cooper,  January  31,  1899,  smallpox, 


rw  KNTIKTll   KANSAS  CAMP  SCENE  NORTH  OF  CALOOCAN. 


Paco  cemetery,  No.  143;  Private  Charles  B.  Snodgrass,  Febru- 
ary 1,  1899,  smallpox,  Paco,  No.  14.5;  Private  Leroy  Maxfield, 
June  13,  1899,  diphtheria.  National  cemetery.  No.  56;  Cook 
Frederick  Sharland,  September  1,  1899,  cerebral  meningitis. 
National  cemetery.  No.  201. 

Killed  in  action:  Sergeant  Morris  J.  Cohen,  Caloocan, 
March  23,  1899,  Battery  Knoll,  No.  95;  Private  Ivers  J.  How- 
ard, Caloocan,  February  10,  1899,  Battery  Knoll,  No.  31. 

Wounded  in  action:  Sergeant  Claude  Spurlock,  stomach, 
Guiginto,  March  29,  1899,  returned  to  duty  April  5,  1899;  Pri- 
vate Daniel  S.  Hewitt,  leg,  February  7,  1899,  returned  to  duty 
March  1,  1899;  Private  Elmer  Urie,  leg,  Caloocan,  February 
7,  1899,  returned  to  duty  April  15,  1899;  Private  Harvey  S. 
Harris,  leg,  Caloocan,  February,  10,  1899,  returned  to  duty 
April  20,  1899;  Private  Charles  Pease,  leg,  Guiginto,  March 
29,  1899,  not  off  duty;  Private  Peter  Sorenson,  shoulder,  Baca- 
lor,  May  23, 1899,  returned  to  duty  June  26, 1899;  Private  Alex- 
ander M.  Mitchell,  arm,  Malabon,  February  11,  1899,  returned 
to  duty  March,  1899;  Private  Wilson  B.  Smith,  hand,  Guiginto, 
March  29,  1899,  not  off  duty. 

Slightly  wounded,  not  reported:  Private  John  H.  Gallagher, 
March  29,  1899. 

Deserted:  Private  Louis  Arwood,  Topeka;  Private  Jackson 
C.  Copeland,  San  Francisco. 

On  sick  report:  Corporal  Peter  M.  Sorenson,  May  24,  1899, 
gunshot  wound,  convalescent;  Private  Michael  Jupetich,  Au- 
gust 22,  1899,  gastritis,  convalescent;  Private  Harley  Pearson, 
September  4,  1899,  gastritis,  not  serious. 

Company  C. 

Captain  William  S.  Albright.  First  Lieutenant  Samuel  G. 
Hopkins,  promoted  to  second  lieutenant  February  13,  1899,  to 
first  lieutenant  August  12,  1899.  Second  Lieutenant  John  M. 
Waste,  promoted  September  2,  1899. 


Wounded  in  action :  Captain  Albright,  thigh,  Santo  Tomas, 
May  4,  1899;  returned  to  duty  company  May  31,  1899. 

Resigned:   First  Lieutenant  Harry  H.  Seckler,  May  8, 1899. 

Enlisted  men  with  company :  First  Sergeant  Ralph  H. 
Leavitt,  Quartermaster  Sergeant  William  Cornatzer,  Sergeants 
George  S.  Few,  Charles  I.  Sparks,  E.  Mordant;  Corporals 
Fred  D.  Carpenter,  Frank  Dittman,  John  S.  Crooks,  Fred 
Boeppler,  Arthur  Mays,  Clarence  F.  Myers,  Jay  Thomas, 
Jacob  Vogler,  Elmer  Elkins,  William  Suberkrup;  Wagoner 
George  B. Clark ;  Musician  Thomas  D.Cole;  Privates  William 
W.  Baker,  Frank  Barbour,  Frederick  W.  Buckmaster,  Robert 
C.  Churchill,  William  A.  Conkling,  Claude  Croft,  Jacob 
Devries,  Eli  C.  Dresser,  John  Eckert,  George  Frost,  P.  C. 
Goff,  Adolph  Hensle,  Lewis  B.  Howard,  Harry  E.  Nansen, 
Henry  L.  Johnson,  Robert  D.  Keifer,  Edward  Killery,  William 
P.  King,  William  Lawson,  Martin  W.  Lyman,  William  J.  Ma- 
loney,  Owen  Meredith,  William  McCormick,  James  L.  Mc- 
Pherson,  Walter  S.  Moonlight,  Joseph  S.  Raybourn,  Roy  B. 
Richard,  Charles  E.  Singleton,  Hiram  W.  Stevenson,  Fred 
Stewart,  Oliver  Tillquist,  Park  C.  Trueblood,  Richard  Flan- 
nigan. 

Wounded,  sent  home  on  Relief:  Private  Arthur  C.  Howe, 
head,  Caloocan.  March  13,  1899;  Private  William  Lauden- 
schlager,  knee,  Santo  Tomas,  May  4,  1899. 

Sick,  sent  home:  Artificer  John  Kennedy,  Privates  William 
E.  Ledger,  Edward  L.  McClure,  Morgan  City;  Sergeant  Joseph 
Besser,  Corporal  Albion  C.  Nelson,  Privates  James  F.  Pinzon, 
William  B.  Sprage,  William  W.  Taylor,  on  Relief. 

Discharged,  San  Francisco,  disability :  Musician  James  B. 
Hines,  Privates  William  M.  Birdsall,  George  W.  Lucas,  Jona- 
than Loar,  August,  1898;  Private  Isaac  M.  Lewis,  September, 
1898;  Privates  William  Bickford,  Arthur  Ridgely,  Harvey 
Sherman,  October,  1898;  Privates  Taylor  Foster,  T.  Quacken- 
bush,  Maurice  C.  Sherman,  Thomas  J.  Bell,  November,  1898; 
Private  Malcolm  E.  Purvis,  December,  1898;  Privates  Charles 


Capt.  W.  S.  Albright. 

M.  Crane,  Francis  E.  Hftad,  Emmett  Fleming,  January,  1899; 
Corporal  Carl  Delfs,  Privates  Charles  A.  Hund,  Miles  A. 
Sweeney,  Albert  W.  Welday,  February,  1899;  Private  John  E. 
Watson,  March,  1899. 

Ui.scharged  to  reenlist:  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volun- 
teer infantry.  Private  William  L.  Hawson  ;  Eleventh  United 
States  volunteer  cavalry.  First  Sergeant  John  P.  Richard.son, 
Corporal  Silas  E.  Davis,  Privates  Edwin  E.  Ferris,  Ralph  E. 
McDowell,  George  Schamnia,  Arthur  Ginger. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila:  Sergeant  Aubrey  S. 
Edwards,  Privates  Frank  B.  Frank,  Ralph  S.  Gehrett,  James 
E.  Riley. 


.'Vccidentally  left  behind  in  Yokohama:  Private  Frank  Slay- 
bough. 

Died  of  disease:    Private  Raymond  B.  Dawes,  November  22, 

1898,  typhoid  fever,  Honolulu,  buried  Leavenworth,  Kan.; 
Private  Charles  Graves,  November  23,  1898,  typhoid  fever, 
Honolulu,  buried  Centralia,  Kan. 

Wounded  in  action:  Private  James  E.  Riley,  head,  Caloo- 
can,  February  24,  1899,  returned  to  duty  March  20,  1899;  Pri- 
vate William  MeCormick,  body,  Malinta,  March  26,  1899, 
returned  to  duty  March  30,  1899;  Private  Henry  L.  Johnson, 
leg,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899,  returned  to  duty  A|)ril  18,  1899. 

On  sick  report:  Private  John  Eckert,  August  22,  1899,  gas- 
tritis, fair  condition;    Private  Oliver  Tillquist,  September  11, 

1899,  dysentery. 

Coinitaiiy  1>. 

Captain  William  J.  Watson,  promoted  to  captain  March  23, 
1899.  First  Lieutenant  Burton  .J.  Mitchell,  promoted  to  sec- 
ond lieutenant  March  2.S,  1899,  to  first  lieutenant  August  12, 
1899.  Second  Lieutenant  Oscar  B.  Woolley,  promoted  July 
22,  1899. 

Resigned:  Second  Lieutenant  Thomas  K.  Richey,  Septem- 
ber 12,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reonlist:  Captain  H.  B.  Orwig,  July  12, 1899, 
major  Thirty-seventh  United  States  volunteer  infantry. 

Enlisted  men  with  company :  First  Sergeant  Frederick  Mer- 
riweather;  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Charles  C.  Harming;  Ser- 
geants William  H.  Morris,  Willie  D.  Bogan;  Corjiorals  Fred 
\.  Gerken,  George  W.  Barker,  Edward  Pease,  John  Seely, 
Charles  A.  Wiman,  James  E.  McFarland,  Richard  Jones, 
Edwin  Michel,  Frank  A.  Swaim,  Guy  .'\.  Coover,  George  0. 
Camblin,  Reuben  N.  Maf^eson;  Cook  Marion  Berryhill;  Ar- 
tificer James  E.  Histed;  Wagoner  Oscar  Reever;  Musicians 
Iram  J.  Hyson,  Mark  J.  Painton;  Privates  Fred  Ball,  Robert 
Barnes,  William  E.   Baker,  Charles  M.   Brown,  Charles  M. 


Buchanan,  Benjamin  Carpenter,  Joseph  Cushenberry,  Prank 
Doss,  Western  E.  Doughty,  Albert  Frick,  Edward  Fuller, 
Elmer  D.  Goodwin,  Lauren  V.  Harris,  Hugh  Kelly,  Wilmor 
Koontz,  Roy  Lawhead,  William  W.  McGie,  Charles  H.  Mitch- 
ell, Lewis  Moore,  Bert  Neet,  Benjamin  Peach,  Oscar  C.  Pin- 
grey,  James  F.  Rice,  Amandus  A.  Seager,  Shelton  R.  Snow, 
John  Spence,  Benton  E.  Townsend,  Harwood  Van  Brunt, 
James  E.  Wheat,  Joseph  Wheat. 

Wounded,  sent  home  on  Morgan  City:  Sergeant  George  C. 
Nichols,  thorax,  Tulijan  river,  March  25,  1899:  Sergeant 
Joseph  A.  Robinson,  thigh,  Santo  Tomas,  May  4,  1899. 

Discharged, disability, San  Francisco:  Sergeant  William  F. 
Kelly:  Corporal  Frank  J.  Anderson  :  Privates  Harry  Culbert- 
son,  George  W.  Wallace,  John  F.  Thornton,  Joseph  Millocha, 
September,  1898.  Corporal  Leonard  Boyd:  Artificer  Edward 
Bowen;  Privates  Robert  L.  Sharp,  George  Schoeppert,  Alex- 
ander Calhoun,  October,  1898.  Privates  John  R.  Wright, 
Surtes  Ridley,  November,  1898.  Private  John  Harris,  Feb- 
ruary, 1899.  Trumpeter  Charles  E.  Ingles,  Private  Homer  B. 
Lenmaster,  March,  1899.  Private  Charles  H.  Zimmerman, 
April,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volun- 
teer infantry,  Private  .John  C.  Lotley;  Thirty-seventh  United 
States  volunteer  infantry.  First  Sergeant  Ira  Keithley,  first 
lieutenant,  Corporals  Edwin  M.  Scott,  Lloyd  Weltraer,  Ray- 
mond Clark,  Privates  Cal  K.  Shoemaker,  Ernest  L.  Hoffman ; 
Eleventh  United  States  volunteer  cavalry,  Corporal  James  II. 
Bennett,  Private  Charles  B.  Wetner. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila :  Corporal  Clinton 
Roberts;  Privates  John  F.  Bagley,  Edward  R.  Carleton,  Clark 
E.  Dewitt,  Arthur  E.  Drake,  Wiley  Koontz. 

Discharged  and  remaining  with  the  regiment:  Musicians 
AUie  Nichols,  Peter  Wirnsberge. 

Killed  in  action:  Private  Larry  Jones,  head,  Caloocan,  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  61 ;   Private  Troy  E. 


Fairchild,  head.  Polo,  March  26,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll, 
No.  134;  Private  William  Carroll,  head,  Marilao,  March  29, 
1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  131. 

Wounded  in  action  :  Corporal  Raymond  Clark,  February  4, 
1899,  head,  returned  to  duty  February  5,  1899:  Sergeant  Ira 
Keithly,  side,  Caloocan,  March  12,  1899,  not  off  duty;  Artifi- 
cer James  E.  Histed,  neck,  Caloocan,  March  24, 1899,  returned 
to  duty  June  26, 1899;  Private  James  F.  Rice,  knee,  Guiginto, 
March  29,  1899,  returned  to  duty  May  4, 1899;  Corporal  James 
H.  Bennett,  February  5,  1899,  arm,  not  off  duty;  Private 
Walter  Hughes,  shoulder,  Tulijan  river,  March  25,  1899,  not 
off  duty. 

Slightly  wounded,  not  reported:  Private  Benjamin  Peach, 
May  4,  1899. 

On  sick  report:  Private  Elmer  Goodwin,  July  11,  hernia,  fair 
condition;  Private  James  Wheat,  July  6,  1899,  gastritis,  con- 
valescent. 

Company  E. 

Captain  Albert  H.  Krause.  First  Lieutenant  Robert  S. 
Parker,  promoted  to  first  lieutenant  July  22,  1899.  Second 
Lieutenant  John  Q.  Teft,  promoted  August  12,  1899. 

Resigned:  Second  Lieutenant  Philip  S.  Ray,  August  27, 
1899;  Captain  Charles  M.  Christy,  March  11,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Captain  Daniel  F.  Craig,  promoted 
to  captain  May  9,  1899,  discharged  July  12,  1899;  captain 
Thirty-sixth  United  States  volunteer  infantry.  First  Lieu- 
tenant John  W.  Haus.sermann,  promoted  to  first  lieutenant 
March  4,  1899,  discharged  September  1,  1899;  unassigned. 

Wounded  in  action:  Captain  William  J.  Watson,  lungs, 
Guiginto,  March  29,  1899;  sent  home.  Relief.  Second  Lieu- 
tenant Colin  H.  Ball,  jaw,  Rio  Grande  river,  April  26,  1899; 
sent  home,  Relief. 

Enlisted  men  with  company:    First  Sergeant  Edward  D. 


ARRIVAL  OF  THE  KANSAS  RECEPTION  COMMITTEE  AT  THE  TRANSPORT  TARTAR. 


Johnson,  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Oakley  D.  Thomas;  Ser- 
geants William  Barber,  Lloyd  B.  Watt,  Jesse  H.  Hempshire, 
Lloyd  N.  Currier;  Corporals  Robert  Frick,  William  M.  Lane, 
Thomas  B.  Cobb,  George  W.  Landis,  Clarence  B.  Hamilton, 
John  E.  Cornett,  Frank  O.  Jamison,  John  V.  Paxton,  Norman 
F.  Ramsey,  George  O.  Rice,  Charles  W.  Whittington,  Abra- 
ham C.  Woodruff;  Cook  Carl  Sutton;  Artificer  John  T.  Hef- 
lin;  Wagoner  Fred  D.  Sparks;  Musician  Arthur  Vanslyke; 
Privates  John  W.  Dotts,  A.  W.  Evans,  A.  H.  FuUington,  Allen 
P.  Furgeson,  James  B.  Gillespie,  Frank  D.  Hartwell,  Rufus 
H.  Hedges,  Frederick  Heiter,  Oliver  F.  H.  Henderson,  Charles 
B.  Jackson,  Winfield  E.  Jackson,  John  T.  Jamieson,  Clifford 
Jones,  Dudley  Keefer,  John  H.  Lee,  Clyde  Miller,  Peter  J. 
Moore,  William  Moore,  Harry  Morris,  Francis  T.  Newell,  Delos 
M.  Porter,  Ralph  L.  Roberts,  Orlando  B.  Spencer,  Frank  R. 
Stewart,  Chris  Swisher,  Walter  D.  Vance,  Sidney  White, 
Eugene  D.  Whittington,  Edward  C.  Wilson. 

Wounded,  sent  home  on  Morgan  City:  Private  Elmer  Ash- 
craft,  neck,  Bacalor,  May  24,  1899;  Private  Fred  L.  Carter, 
arm,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899;  Private  James  S.  Mills,  leg, 
Caloocan,  February  10,  1899;  Private  Albert  Shaughnessy, 
knee,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899.  On  Relief:  Private  Arthur 
Hollingshead,  side,  Bacalor,  May  24,  1899. 

Sick,  sent  home:  Privates  Frank  E.  Dorman,  Charles  Ham- 
ilton, Morgan  City;  Privates  John  H.  Hay,  Edward  T.  Hemp- 
hill, Gus  R.  Hamilton,  Norman  A.  Rupe,  Indiana. 

Discharged  and  sent  home:  Private  Joseph  Mardick,  disa- 
bility, August  10,  1899,  City  of  Para. 

Discharged  in  San  Francisco,  disability:  Wagoner  James 
Madison,  Privates  William  Klinger,  Charles  G.  Morton,  Au- 
gust, 1898;  Corporal  Guy  J.  Farrell,  Private  Jfejhn  D.  Spencer, 
September,  1898;  Private  Frank  E.  McCoy,  October,  1898; 
Privates  Jack  Donaldson,  Wesley  Fegler,  Harvey  D.  Morris, 
August  Remler,  November,  1898;  Private  Thomas  F.  Lairson, 
July,  1898. 


Transferred  to  United  States  signal  corps:  Private  Herman 
Rudrow,  August  27,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist  in  Thirty-sixth  United  States  vol^in- 
teer  infantry:  Sergeant  Arthur  M.  Ferguson,  first  lieutenant; 
John  M.  Craig,  James  A.  Lewis,  Thomas  J.  Antrim,  James  H. 
Bryant,  James  J.  Corkhill,  Charley  Sidorsky ;  Corporals  John 
H.  Fox,  Louis  J.  Ingwersen;  Musician  Peter  Epp;  Privates 
Conway  Baker,  Newton  A.  Baker,  John  W.  Corkhill,  William 
Dilliner,  Joseph  F.  Harrington,  Albert  W.  Kindler.  Eleventh 
United  States  volunteer  cavalry:  Corporal  George  H.  Cravens, 
Sergeant  James  W.  Hale,  Private  Sim  Stevens. 

Discharged  and  returning  with  regiment:   Wagoner  William 

B.  Hutchinson,  Private  Lincoln  Endsley,  Sergeant  Harley  O. 
Summons. 

Died  of  disease:  Private  Bert  Cornett,  January  3,  1899, 
smallpox,  buried  Paco,  No.  117;  Private  Albert  Ferguson, 
June  16,  1898,  spinal  meningitis,  buried  Yates  Center,  Kan.; 
Private  Elmer  Mclntyre,  August  24,  1898,  pneumonia,  buried 
San  Francisco. 

Killed  in  action:  Private  Curran  C.  Craig,  Tulijan  river, 
March  25,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  101;  Private  John 

C.  Muhr,  Caloocan,  March  24,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll, 
No.  94 ;  Private  Hiram  L.  Plummer,  Tulijan  river,  March  25, 
1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  112. 

Wounded  in  action:  Sergeant  William  C.  Barber,  leg,  Ca- 
loocan, February  10,  1899,  returned  to  duty  April  24,  1899; 
Corporal  James  H.  Bryant,  arm,  Tulijan  river,  March  25, 
1899,  returned  to  duty  July  7,  1899;  Private  Andrew  W. 
Evans,  neck,  Tulijan  river,  March  25,  1899,  returned  to  duty 
April  5,  1899:  Private  Joseph  H.  Heflin,  knee,  Tulijan  river, 
March  25,  1899,  not  fully  recovered;  Private  George  H.  Cra- 
vens, Tulijan  river,  March  25,  1899,  returned  to  duty  May  14, 
1899. 

Slightly  wounded,   not  reported:    Private  Thomas  J.  An- 


Capt.  Albert  H.  Krause. 

trim,  February  4,  1899;  Private  John  H.  Fox,  February  5, 
1899;  Captain  Charles  M.  Christy,  Caloocan,  February  10, 1899. 
Now  on  sick  report:  Private  Chris  C.  Swisher,  August  ti, 
1899,  dobe  itch;  Private  Artemus  Fullington,  September  5, 
1899,  dobe  itch;  Private  Joseph  Heflin,  March  25,  1899,  gun- 
shot wound,  stiff  knee,  not  serious;  Private  Eugene  Whit- 
tington,  September  5,  1899,  varicocele;  Corporal  Thomas  B. 
Cobb,  September  5,  1899,  gastritis;  Sergeant  Lloyd  B.  Wyatt, 
September  5,  1899,  malarial  fever,  convalescent;  Sergeant  W. 
C.  Barber,  September  12,  1899,  diarrhea,  convalescent;  Pri- 
vate A.  W.  Evans,  September  13,  1899,  gastritis,  convalescent; 
Private  Allen  P.  Ferguson,  September  12,  1899,  dobe  itch. 


Company  F. 

Captain  Harry  W.  Shideler,  promoted  to  first  lieutenant 
March  23,  1899,  to  captain  July  24, 1899;  First  Lieutenant  Or- 
lando J.  Burton,  promoted  to  second  lieutenant  November  21, 
1898,  to  first  lieutenant  August  28,  1899;  Second  Lieutenant 
Benjamin  H.  Kerfoot,  promoted  September  2,  1899. 

Discharged  to  rei-nlist:  First  Lieutenant  William  A.  Green, 
August  11,  1899,  captain  Eleventh  United  States  volunteer  in- 
fantry. 

Enlisted  men  with  company:  First  Sergeant  William  H. 
Blatchley;  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Charles  McMains;  Ser- 
geants Harry  Brown,  Arthur  Snyder,  Carroll  Phenicie,  George 
E.  Moore;  Corporals  John  Matthews,  Herbert  Sands,  John 
H.  Foote,  James  W.  French,  Joe  Miller,  Leman  T.  Cowles, 
Charles  Heuser,  John  E.  Lindwuist,  Charles  W.  Barnes, 
William  A.  .Anderson,  John  Pellegrino,  William  Nelson;  Cook 
James  Luke;  Artificer  James  Mellinger;  Wagoner  Thomas 
Kelley;  Musicians  William  E.  Hays,  Todd  L.  Wagoner:  Pri- 
vates Thad  G.  Aldennan,  Welcome  N.  Bender,  Ulysses  S.  G. 
Brown,  Oscar  Burcham,  Judson  Bumcrot,  Charles  L.  Bigham, 
Crawford  Blair,  Hubert  Cairns,  Daniel  Conway,  Perry  E. 
Durie,  Charles  Davis,  Richard  Debarrows,  William  L.  Fowler, 
Elijah  Fuqua,  Gustavus  H.  Koch,  Walter  Kemji,  John  Love, 
Wood  E.  Milton,  Roy  A.  Maxwell,  Clark  E.  Messenger,  Mi- 
chael P.  Menehan,  Robert  McFadyn,  James  H.  Orr,  John  L. 
Peete,  Charles  W.  Reynolds,  Frank  H.  Reeds,  Guy  Rea,  Ar- 
thur V.  Snodgrass,  Max  Scheffer,  Henry  E.  Thomas,  Sylves- 
ter Turner,  William  E.  True,  .\lbert  Ury,  Eddie  Woods. 

Wounded,  sent  home :  Private  William  McDougal,  shoulder, 
Santo  Tomas,  May  4,  1899,  Relief;  Private  Henry  Ratliffe, 
both  legs,  Santa*  Maria  river,  March  29,  1899,  Morgan  City. 

Discharged  from  San  Francisco,  disability :  Corporal  Jesse 
B.  Thomas,  July,  1898;  Sergeant  John  Richards,  Privates 
Frederick  Culk,  Walter  E.  Howerton,  Charles  E.  Pendleton, 


Sinclair  Wimmer,  Prank  Jones,  F.  Isaiah  Noel,  Frank  Rea, 
September,  1898;  Private  Frank  L.  Richards,  November,  1898. 

Discharged  by  favor:  Private  Joseph  Barker,  July  3,  1899; 
Carlos  L.  Matteson,  Fred  D   Peck,  November  16,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reonllst:  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volun- 
teer infantry  —  Sergeants  Olof  J.  Asplund,  James  Quesenbery, 
Private  Joseph  Miller;  Thirty-seventh  United  States  volunteer 
infantry  —  Sergeants  William  S.  Bales,  Edwin  M.  Pabra;  Elev- 
enth United  States  volunteer  cavalry — Sergeants  James  W. 
Reynolds,  Fred  Clendenning. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila :  Corporals  William  G. 
McCann,  George  Pruett;  Privates  William  Ebert,  Millard 
Earnes,  Charles  E.  Elder,  George  F.  Hedenberg,  Frank  C. 
Hagerman,  Harvey  R.  Larkins,  Wilber  F.  Miller. 

Dishonorably  discharged:  Private  Ernest  K.  Thompson, 
June  28,  1899,  returning  to  fill  unexpired  prison  sentence. 

Discharged  and  returning  on  City  of  Paris:  Corporal  Har- 
lin  J.  Woodward,  August  25,  1899. 

Discharged,  disability  incurred  in  action:  Private  Charles 
Hammond,  wounded  February  5,  1899,  discharged  April  27, 
1899. 

Died  of  disease:  Private  John  Bartlett,  July  1.3, 1898,  spinal 
meningitis,  buried  San  Francisco;  Private  Orville  R.  Knight, 
June  16, 1898,  measles,  buried  San  Francisco;  Private  William 
H.  Bash,  January  6, 1899,  smallpox,  buried  Paco,  No.  118 :  Pri- 
vate Louis  R.  Badger,  January  10, 1899,  smallpox,  buried  Paco, 
No.  125 ;  Private  Powhattan  F.  Hackett,  January  9, 1899,  small- 
pox, buried  Paco,  No.  121 :  Corporal  Robert  M.  Lee,  September 
6,  1899,  dysentery,  on  board  Tartar,  Hong  Kong. 

Killed  in  action :  Musician  Oscar  G.  Thorn,  Caloocan,  March 
11,  1899,  buried  Paco,  section  11,  niche  3;  Private  George  H. 
Munroe,  Caloocan,  February  23,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll, 
No.  .36;  Private  Howard  Olds,  Caloocan,  February  25,  1899, 
buried  Paco,  section  74,  niche  2. 


Wounded  in  action :  Corporal  Herbert  Sands,  foot,  February 
5,  1899,  returned  to  duty  February  9,  1899;  Wagoner  E.  Clark 
Messenger,  hand,  February  5, 1899,  returned  to  duty  February 
19,  1899;  Private  Thad  G.  Alberman,  leg,  Santa  Maria  river, 
March  29,  1899,  returned  to  duty  June  10, 1899;  Private  Daniel 
Conway,  shoulder,  February  5,  1899,  returned  to  duty  March 
21,  1899;  Private  William  A.  Ebert,  side,  Santa  Maria  river, 
March  29,  1899,  returned  to  duty  May  3,  1899;  Private  Walter 
Kemp,  abdomen,  Santa  Maria  river,  March  29,  1899,  returned 
to  duty  May  15, 1899;  Private  Wood  E.  Miller,  arm,  February 
5, 1899,  not  off  duty ;  Private  Todd  L.  Wagoner,  leg,  Guiginto, 
March  29, 1899,  returned  to  duty  May  15, 1899 ;  Private  William 
Nelson,  arm,  February  5,  1899,  returned  to  duty  February  5, 
1899. 

Now  on  .sick  report:  Private  Welcome  N.  Bender,  June  15, 
1899,  typhoid  fever,  convalescent;  Corporal  Joseph  Miller, 
September  4,  1899,  malarial  fever,  convalescent;  Corporal  Jo- 
seph Foot,  September  5,  1899,  malarial  fever,  convalescent ; 
Sergeant  Carroll  Phenicie,  September  18, 1899,  dysentery,  con- 
valescent. 

Company  G. 

Captain  Howard  A.  Scott,  promoted  to  captain  February  12, 
1899;  First  Lieutenant  William  A.  Callahan,  promoted  to  first 
lieutenant  February  12, 1899;  Second  Lieutenant  Chauncey  S. 
Pratt,  promoted  August  16,  1899. 

Killed  in  action:  Captain  David  S.  Elliott,  Caloocan,  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1899,  buried  Coffey ville,  Kan.;  Second  Lieutenant 
William  A.  McTaggart,  Santo  Tomas,  May  4,  1899,  buried 
Battery  Knoll,  No.  244;  Private  Albert  S.  Anibal,  Tulijan 
river,  March  25,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  109;  Cook 
John  Sherrer,  Marilao,  March  27,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll, 
No.  129;  Private  Alva  L.  Dix,  Guiginto,  March  29, 1899,  buried 
Battery  Knoll,  No.  149. 

Enlisted  men  with  company:    First  Sergeant  William  C. 


Milliken,  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Fred  Sexton;  Sergeants 
Frank  A.  Long,  Robert  Lewis,  William  Clark;  Corporals 
Charles  A.  McNulty,  James  W.  McCuUy,  James  Fitzmorris, 
Charles  E.  Squire," Cyrus  R.  Anderson,  Bruce  Stryker,  Otto 
R.  Grubb,  Orville  E.  Scurr:  Cook  Charles  E.  Myrtle;  Artificer 
Clifford  W.  Hinson:  Wagoner  Fred  L.  Tyler;  Musician  Lon- 
dora  E.  Hudson;  Privates  Jesse  E.  Baker,  Charles  H.  Beam, 
Albert  P.  Brooks,  Frank  W.  Brown,  Artie  A.  Bond,  Charles 
E.  Buck,  Charles  A.  Caldwell,  George  F.  Crane,  Ora  A.  Deetz, 
George  A.  Evans,  George  A.  Ferrell,  John  S.  Forcum,  John  C. 
Gillam,  George  A.  Guess,  Edward  Heckman,  Austin  Hesler, 
Ray  J.  Heuston,  John  S.  Hoagland,  James  L  Jefferies,  John 
W.  Jones,  Arthur  F.  Johnson,  Charles  A.  Jackson,  Philip 
Kinnan,  Willis  E.  Love,  Michael  Liebert,  Thomas  E.  LoUey, 
George  C.  Lowrance,  Abram  W.  Long,  Oren  A.  Mason,  Wes- 
ley L.  Matthews,  Bert  Moore,  Charles  C.  McDonald,  Ed  H. 
Murphy,  Charles  A.  O'Brien,  Oliver  E.  Patton,  Commodore 
A.  Parer,  Alonzo  B.  Roberts,  John  S.  Richardson,  Albert  M. 
Shipley,  Robert  D.  Slack,  John  L.  Stryker,  Thomas  J.  Straub, 
Henry  M.  Salathiel,  John  W.  Summer,  jr.,  Taylor  Storm,  F. 
Joseph,  E.  Timmons,  Flavel  Z.  Truax,  Isaac  D.  Vanmeter, 
Wallace  W.  White,  Frank  M.  Wilmoth,  Charles  O.  Waters. 

Wounded,  sent  home  on  Morgan  City;  Private  Orville  E. 
Parker,  shoulder,  Tulijan  river,  March  '2!),  1899;  Private  Fred 
Atchinson,  leg,  Giiiginto,  March  29,  1899;  Corporal  James  E. 
Hammerberg,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899. 

Sick,  sent  home  on  Morgan  City;  Corporals  Peter  Duffy, 
Alex  R.  Hunt;  Privates  Compton  R.  Hall,  Marion  Smith, 
John  B.  Ellis. 

Absent  on  sick  leave;  Private  Henry  M.  Bentley,  since  Sep- 
tember 10,  1898. 

Discharged  in  San  Francisco,  dis,ability;  Quartermaster 
Sergeant  Ulysses  G.  Way,  Privates  William  Dexter,  George 
W.  Stephens,  Albert  A.  Stinson,  Corporal  Byron  J.  Stubble- 
field,  September,  1898;  Privates  Arthur  H.  Kee,  William  E. 


Sexton,  October,  1898 ;  Privates  John  R.  Craig,  Lewis  C.  Ly- 
barger,  November,  1898. 

Discharged  by  favor;  Wagoner  Alfred  H.  Calvin,  January, 
1899,  San  Francisco;  Sergeant  John  B.  Elliott,  Corporal 
James  R.  Elliott,  March,  1899,  Manila;  Private  William  H. 
Dewitt,  March,  1899,  San  Francisco;  Private  Floyd  M.  Wil- 
son, April,  1899,  Manila. 

Discharged  to  recnlist:  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volun- 
teer infantry.  Private  Martin  Rinza;  Eleventh  United  States 
volunteer  cavalry.  Private  Vernie  J.  Edwards. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila;  Corporal  Roscoe  E. 
Barber;  Musician  Emil  G.  Etzold. 


Wounded  in  action ;  Private  Wesley  I.  Matthews,  forehead, 
Tulijan  river,  March  25, 1899,  returned  to  duty  March  28, 1899. 

Slightly  wounded,  not  reported:  Corporal  James  M.  Mc- 
Cully,  hand,  March  25,  1899;  Private  Ed  Murphy,  back, 
March  25,  1899;  Private  Charles  A.  Jackson,  neck.  May  4, 
1899;  Private  Isaac  Vanmeter,  groin.  May  25,  1899;  Private 
Austin  Hesler,  lip,  April  26,  1899. 

Now  on  sick  report:  Private  Philip  Kinnan,  diarrhea,  Sep- 
tember 1,  1899,  convalescent;  Private  Taylor  Storm,  diarrhea, 
September  25,  1899. 

Coinpauy  H. 

Captain  Adna  G.  Clarke;  First  Lieutenant  E.  Guy  Simp- 
son, promoted  to  second  lieutenant  March  4,  1899,  to  lirst  lieu- 
tenant August  20,  1899;  Second  Lieutenant  Philip  Fox,  pro- 
moted to  second   lieutenant  August  19,  1899. 

Wounded  in  action  :  Captain  Adna  G.  Clarke,  right  shoul- 
der, Tulijan  river,  March  25,  1899,  sent  home  on  Relief. 

Enlisted  men  with  company :  First  Sergeant  William  P. 
Steele,  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Charles  H.  Simpson, Sergeants 
Albert  O.  Oliver,  Francis  L.  Courtney,  Ernest  Criss,  John  A. 
McKittrick;  Corporals  Eugene  Parrot,  Walter  S.  Drisdale, 
Elliott  Hook,  William  F.  Osborne,  Charles  F.  Rice,  Clay  An- 
derson, James  M.  Painter,  Harry  G.  Davis,  Claude  D.  Brown, 
Fred  E.  Fox,  Tilton  C.  Good;  Cook  Claud  R.  Dicker;  Artifi- 
cer Harry  L.  Lipsey;  Wagoner  Derwood  E.  Quackenbush; 
Musician  William  S.  Heydt;  Privates  Frederick  B.  Ahlstrom, 
Arthur  F.  Allen,  Alvin  Bale,  Denver  W.  Bale,  Elmer  L.  Ben- 
son, Oscar  C.  Brownlee,  Robert  M.  Church,  Clarence  L.  Cole, 
Charles  E.  Cooke,  Robert  G.  Cornell,  Arthur  H.  Gibson,  Roy 
R.  Gibson,  Lome  Hargis,  Frank  A.  Hubner,  Joseph  Iliff, 
Thomas  F.  Ireland,  Joseph  B.  Kendall,  Charles  A.  King, 
Bert  W.  Kuhn,  William  E.  Leis,  Clarence  Martin,  Frank 
Martin,  George  Amesser,  Charles  O.  Morrow,  John  W.  Mor- 
row, Orry  W.  Owens,  Joseph  W.  Ozias,  Larrance  Page,  Frank 


W.  Pearce,  Thomas  B.  Raybourn,  Edward  N.  Reno,  Harry 
Selig,  William  M.  Shaffer,  Albert  J.  Snyder,  Joseph  N.  Spill- 
man,  James  Welch,  Silas  C.  Willey,  John  A.  Wakefield. 

Wounded,  sent  home:  Corporal  David M.  Horkmans,  Caloo- 
can,  February  10,  1899,  discharged  April  23, 1899;  loss  of  right 
eye. 

Wounded,  discharged,  San  Francisco,  April  2.3,  1899:  Pri- 
vate Campbell  Scott,  arm,  Caloocan,  February  24,  1899,  Re- 
lief: Private  Edward  R.  Hook,  neck.  La  Loma  church,  March 
25,  1899,  Sheridan ;  Corporal  Benjamin  F.  Oliver,  leg,  Santo 
Tomas,  May  4,  1899;  Private  Thomas  J.  Davidson,  leg.  May  4, 
1899,  Santo  Tomas;  Private  Arthur  K.  Moore,  hand,  May  4, 
1899,  Santo  Tomas. 

Sick,  sent  home:  Musician  Harry  R.  Watkins,  Private  Aus- 
tin R.  Mills,  Relief;  Musician  Robert  E.  Pippin,  Morgan  City; 
Private  George  A.  Conkey,  Sheridan. 

Discharged,  San  Francisco,  disability:  Privates  Wilburn 
Haynes,  William  M.  Hook,  Fletcher  A.  White,  Charles  W. 
Harris,  September,  1898;  Privates  Otis  H.  Chase,  William  H. 
Sewick,  December,  1898;   Private  Bert  Gilley,  January,  1899. 

Dishonorably  discharged:  Private  Albert  C.  Farmer,  Sep- 
tember 15,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volun- 
teer infantry.  Corporal  John  A.  Huntsman;  Privates  Frank 
Allen,  Clarence  Ames,  Peter  F.  Fleming,  Albert  S.  Emmett, 
Frank  C.  Chapman;  Eleventh  United  States  volunteer  cav- 
alry. Sergeant  Otto  W.  Rethorst,  first  lieutenant;  Privates 
William  B.  Fearing,  Everett  A.  Gourley,  George  F.  Shirar, 
Robert  F.  Clark. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila:  Sergeant  Rufo  A. 
Hazen,  Cook  Frank  W.  Siler,  Privates  Ernest  L.  Ozias,  James 
E.  Northrup. 

Discharged  and  returned  with  the  regiment:  Private  John 
M.  Steele. 


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RAPID  TRANSIT  IN  THE  PHILLIPINES. 


NIPA  HOUSE  AND  RICE  FIELD. 


Killed  in  action:  Private  Joseph  A.  Wahl,  Marilao,  March 
27,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  163;  Private  Merton  A. 
Wilcox,  Santo  Tomas,  May  4,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll, 
No.  245. 

Wounded  in  action:  Private  Larrance  Page,  foot,  Guiginto, 
March  27,  1899,  returned  to  duty  April  1,  1899;  Corporal 
Ernest  Criss,  Marilao,  shoulder,  March  29,  1899,  returned  to 
duty  April  13,  1899. 

Slightly  wounded,  not  reported:  Private  Charles  E.  Cook, 
February  27, 1899;  Captain  Albert  H.  Krause,  March  29, 1899. 

On  sick  report:  Lieutenant  Philip  Fox,  August  31,  1899, 
gastritis,  convalescent;  Private  Frank  Martin,  June  4,  1899, 
gastritis,  serious,  entered  general  hospital,  San  Francisco; 
Private  Joseph  S.  Ozias,  June  4,  1899,  gastritis,  convalescent. 

Coiiipaiiy  I. 

Captain  Charles  S.  Flanders;  First  Lieutenant  Aaron  B. 
Conley,  promoted  to  second  lieutenant  May  21,  1899,  to  first 
lieutenant  August  19,  1899;  Second  Lieutenant  Charles  B. 
Barsfleld,  promoted  August  20,  1899. 

Resigned:  Second  Lieutenant  Arden  W.  Flanders,  Septem- 
ber 24,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  First  Lieutenant  Ernest  H.  Agnew, 
promoted  to  first  lieutenant  July  9,  1898,  discharged  August 
11, 1898,  captain  Eleventh  United  States  cavalry ;  Second  Lieu- 
tenant Frederick  R.  Dodge,  promoted  September  24, 1898,  dis- 
charged August  1,  1899,  captain  Thirty-sixth  United  States 
volunteer  infantry. 

Enlisted  men  with  company :  First  Sergeant  Edward  W. 
Smith;  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Order  Christian;  Sergeants 
Richard  Seaver,  Nathaniel  J.  Foster,  Sidney  B.  Sublette,  Ira  N. 
Bryan;  Corporals  Cyrus  B.  Ricketts,  Scott  Gard,  Roe  Wright, 
Alfred  R.  Thome,  William  A.  Thompson,  John  M.  Webber, 


Samuel  J.  Shively;  Artificer  Charles  Minick;  Wagoner  James 
R.  Cree;  Musician  Charles  Fields;  Privates  Fred.  K.  Barrett, 
George  H.  Billings,  William  H.  Bradbury,  Hayes  Ball,  W.  T. 
Breckinridge,  Fred.  Beckley,  John  B.  Carpenter,  Frank  S. 
Crane,  Roy  G.  Dever,  Thomas  A.  Dunn,  George  W.  Flack,  Er- 
nest Fretz,  Frank  A.  Forner,  Fred.  H.  Hand,  Ed.  L.  Herriman, 
Edward  L.  Long,  David  B.  Kiser,  John  A.  Mills,  George  W. 
Mills,  James  E.  Marshall,  Clifford  R.  McCarley,  Bert  E.  Miller, 
William  B.  McCord,  Samuel  O'Hara,  Martin  Overmeyer,  Will- 
iam H.  Putnam,  Charles  E.  Robinson,  Walter  E.  Rainey,  Theo. 
E.  Shaffer,  Hiram  Snyder,  Fuller  H.  Swearengen,  William  C. 
Shaw,  James  H.  Shaw,  James  W.  Seaver,  Charles  E.  Smelt- 
zer,  Albert  Vanderveer,  Dell  Waters,  Carl  M.  West,  Merrill 
Winchester,  Edwin  H.  Weed,  Edward  J.  Young. 

Wounded,  sent  home  on  Relief :  Private  William  T.  McGrew, 
body,  February  7,  1899;  Private  William  Tull,  leg,  Tulijan 
river,  March  25,  1899;  Private  John  E.  Ballon,  arm,  Bigaa, 
March  29, 1899.  On  Morgan  City :  Corporal  William  M.  Rum- 
bley,  hand,  Caloocan,  March  12,  1899;  Private  Lyle  L.  Knox, 
back,  Rio  Grande  river,  April  26,  1899;  Private  Joseph  Scott, 
body,  Rio  Grande  river,  April  26, 1899;  Private  Chris  W.  Clapp, 
stomach,  May  6,  1899,  Santo  Tomas  river. 

Sick,  sent  home:  Musician  Jackson  A.  Shively,  Privates  Er- 
nest Jordan,  Charles  L.  Werner,  Relief;  Corporal  John  M. 
Webber,  Privates  Louis  E.  CofBeld,  John  W.  Meek,  Morgan 
City. 

Di-scharged,  San  Francisco,  disability:  Private  Oscar 
Schmidlin,  August,  1898;  Private  Arthur  L.  Ashley,  Septem- 
ber, 1898;  Sergeant  Elmer  Gray,  Corporal  Ellas  Brandebery, 
Private  Alex.  Demarr,  October,  1898:  Private  Augustus  Long, 
November,  1898;  Private  Herbert  E.  Whitaker,  December, 
1898;  Private  Lee  Gamber,  January,  1899;  Private  Charles 
Yazell,  March,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volunteer 
infantry,  Corporal  Norris  Ball,  Privates  Roy  Griswold,  John  N. 


65 


Capt.  A.  a.  Ciarke. 


Capt.  Geo.  N.  Wats 


Edwards,  Alfred  N.  Penninger;  Eleventh  United  States  vol- 
unteer cavalry,  Private  Samuel  C.  Bell. 

Discharged  and  returning  with  regiment:  Private  James  M. 
Branum. 

Left  in  hospital  in  Manila:  Corporal  Charles  Ro-ssman,  Au- 
gust 15,  1899,  first  reserve  hospital,  malarial  fever,  convales- 
cent.   . 

Died  of  disease:  Private  Harris  Pepper,  June  26,  1898,  con- 
sumption, buried  San  Francisco;  Private  Dallas  Day,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1898,  spinal  meningitis,  buried  San  Francisco:  Private 
William  Vancil,  Dpcenjbfir  7.  1898,  Manila  bay,  typhoid  fever. 


buried  Paco,  No.  106;  Private  Guy  Nebergall,  May  3,  1899, 
bowel  complaint,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  243. 

Killed  in  action:  Sergeant  Jay  Sheldon,  Caloocan,  Febru- 
ary 7, 1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  23;  Private  AlonzoRick- 
etts,  Caloocan,  February  10,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No. 
20;  Private  Adrian  E.  Hatfield,  Marilao,  March  27, 1899,  buried 
Battery  Knoll,  No.  146;  Private  William  Keeney,  Mariiao, 
March  27,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  130. 

Wounded  in  action;  Private  Ernest  Fretz,  leg,  Caloocan, 
February  5,  returned  to  duty  March  7,  1899;  Corporal  John 
M.  Webber,  hand,  February  22,  1899,  not  otT  duty. 

Slightly  wounded,  not  reported:  Sergeant  Order  Christian, 
February  .5,  1899:  Captain  C.  S.  Flanders,  February  10,  1899; 
Private  Frank  A.  Forner,  March  29,  1899;  Corporal  Charles 
Rossman,  May  4,  1899. 

Now  on  sick  report:  Private  David  V.  Kiser,  June  5,  1899, 
dysentery,  convalescent:  Private  Samuel  O'Hara,  June  25, 
1899,  rheumatism;  Private  Martin  Overmeyer,  August  15,1899, 
gastritis,  convalescent;  Private  William  Breckenridge,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1899,  gastritis,  convalescent:  Private  George  W.  Mills, 
September  3, 1899,  gastritis,  very  serious,  entered  general  hos- 
pital, San  Francisco. 

Company  K. 

Captain  Edmund  Boltwood,  First  Lieutenant  John  F.  Hall, 
Second  Lieutenant  Colin  H.  Ball. 

Wounded  in  action:  Second  Lieutenant  Robert  S.Parker, 
leg,  Bacolor,  May  24,  1899,  returned  to  duty  August  1,  1899. 

Enlisted  men  with  company :  First  Sergeant  Joseph  Dewald: 
Quartermaster  Sergeant  Harold  B.  Reed:  Sergeants  John  O. 
Morse,  Walter  P.  Smith.  George  B.  Dailey:  Corporals  William 
W.  SchotTner,  Lorillard  Wickham,  Ernest  Kincaid,  Fred  Black, 
Francis  M.  Crane,  Jesse  D.  Eggleston,  Harry  Keckler,  Frank 
McQuaid,  James  Powers,  Charles  E.  Steale,  Ralph  Weaver; 


Cook  William  E.  Sullivan ;  Wagoner  George  Bolton ;  Musicians 
Aaron  Jones,  John  E.  White;  Privates  John  O.  Alderman, 
Oscar  Barney,  Ray  F.  Beeler,  Albert  L.  Baur,  James  W.  Byrd, 
Elia  Basel,  Grant  A.  Crumley,  Harold  Chambers,  Walter  L. 
Ellis,  Julius  B.  Gott,  Roy  Hawkins,  Richard  D.  D.  Holland, 
John  P.  Hopkins,  George  H.  Hudson,  Jacob  Hartley,  Milton 
W.  Hogaboom,  Alexander  Halbrook,  Harry  F.  Heck,  Leslie  J. 
Kincaid,  Frank  E.  Lucas,  Lee  A.  Limes,  George  Myer,  James 
S.  Nesbitt,  Oscar  Nesbitt,  W.  Walton,  John  W.  White,  Ernest 
Wagoner,  Albert  V.  Whitejer,  I.  Rusk,  Dwight  L.  Rainey, 
George  M.  Sponsler,  Isaac  L.  Table. 

Wounded,  sent  home  on  Relief:  First  Sergeant  Albert  C. 
Hanson,  shoulder,  Caloocan,  February  10, 1899.  Morgan  City : 
Corporal  Elvie  Allison,  foot,  May  4,  1899,  Santa  Tomas;  Pri- 
vate Frank  A.  Huling,  knee,  Caloocan,  February  10,  1899; 
Private  Walter  A.  Hubbard,  ankle.  Ragbag  river,  April  26, 
1899;  Private  Edward  E.  Harris,  leg,  Calumpit,  April  26, 1899. 

Sick,  sent  home:  Artificer  William  H.  Scheer,  Morgan  City. 

Discharged,  San  Francisco,  disability:  Privates  Raymond 
Bowman,  Rolla  A.  Wagstaflf,  July,  1898;  Corporals  Raymond 
E.  Elder,  Allen  M.  Hoover,  Privates  Ernest  Banhea,  Robert 
S.  Brooks,  Newell  R.  Kirkham,  Jacob  Townsley,  Leroy  G. 
Taylor,  September,  1898;  Privates  George  Brinker,  William 
Cline,  Charles  L.  Willey,  October,  1898;  Privates  Charles  D. 
Prather,  John  H.  Williams,  December,  1898;  Private  M. 
Hartshorn,  January  11,  1899;  Sergeant  John  W.  Engle,  Pri- 
vates Edgar  Fultz,  Walter  B.  M.  Jones,  Allen  B.  Simmons, 
November,  1898. 

Discharged  to  reenlist :  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volunteer 
infantry — Privates  Will  Cooper,  Elijah  Simpson,  Arthur  C. 
Snow;  Thirty-seventh  United  States  infantry.  Private  Joseph 
A.  Johnston;  Eleventh  United  States  volunteer  cavalry.  First 
Sergeant  Raymond  S.  Enslow,  first  lieutenant;  Quartermaster 
Sergeant  Irvin  V.  Todd,  Sergeant  Frank  Gaskill,  Corporal 
Charles  C.   Crane,   Privates  Pearl  E.   Hampton,   Christian 


Grossman,  Harris  O.  Hiskin,  Fountain  M.  Wilson,  Donald 
Thorne,  Lisle  McElhinney. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila:  Private  Harry  D. 
Cessna. 

Transferred  to  United  States  signal  corps:  Corporal  Ernest 
L.  Moore. 

Died  of  disease :  Private  Fred  Maxfield,  February  2,  1899, 
smallpox,  buried  Paco,  No.  223. 

Killed  in  action:  Corporal  Oscar  Mallicott,  Caloocan,  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  60. 

Wounded  in  action ;  First  Sergeant  Joseph  Dewald,  arm, 
Guiginto,  March  29, 1899,  returned  to  duty  April  1.3, 1899,  neck, 
Bagbag  river,  April  25,  not  off  duty;  Sergeant  .John  O.  Morse, 
head,  Caloocan,  February  10,  1899,  returned  to  duty  April  27, 
1899,  not  off  duty :  Private  Harry  Keckler,  leg,  San  B'ernando, 
June  16,  1899,  not  otf  duty;  Private  George  Myer,  stomach, 
Tulijan  river,  March  25,  1899,  not  off  duty;  Private  Oscar 
Nesbitt,  wrist,  April  27,  1899,  not  off  duty;  Private  Arthur  C. 
Snow,  arm,  Bagbag  river,  April  25, 1899,  returned  to  duty  May 
9,  1899. 

Shghtly  wounded,  not  reported:  Captain  Edmund  Boltwood, 
February  10, 1899;  First  Sergeant  Raymond  S.  Enslow,  March 
29,  1899;  Private  William  W.  Schoffner,  March  29,  1899;  Pri- 
vate Jesse  D.  Eggleston,  February  4,  1899;  Private  Ralph 
Weaver,  March  26,  1899;  Private  Harold  V.  Chambers,  April 
27,  1899. 

Now  on  sick  report:  Private  George  Myer,  August  1,  1899, 
hernia ;  Corporal  W.  W.  Schoffner,  September  1, 1899,  malarial 
fever,  convalescent;  Private  Harold  V.  Chambers,  September 
3,  1899,  gastritis,  serious;  Wagoner  George  L.  Bolton,  Sep- 
tember 11,  1899,  gastritis,  convalescent,  entered  general  hos- 
pital, San  Francisco;  Corporal  Frank  McQuaid,  September  17, 
1899,  diarrhea,  convalescent,  entered  general  hospital,  San 
Francisco. 


MI'A   HUT  AM'    IIVNANA  TREES  NEAR   MANILA. 


WOUNDED  KANSANS  IN  THE  HOSPITAL. 


Company  L. 

Captain  George  N.  Watson;  First  Lieutenant  Ervin  B.  Sho- 
walter,  promoted  to  first  lieutenant  February  19, 1899;  Second 
Lieutenant  John  C.  Murphy,  promoted  May  9,  1899. 

Wounded  in  action ;  Lieutenant  William  A.  Callahan,  Caloo- 
can,  February  24,  1899;  returned  to  duty  March  26,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reonlist:  Captain  Edgar  A.  Fry,  promoted 
to  captain  July  22,  1899,  discharged  August  14,  1899;  captain 
Thirty-sixth  United  States  volunteer  infantry. 

Enlisted  men  with  company:  First  Sergeant  Charles  I. 
Dodge;  Quartermaster  Sergeant  Patrick  J.  Kelly:  Sergeants 
George  C.  Seilhammer,  Charles  W.  Tozier,  .Joseph  W.  Mur- 
ray, David  W.  Lozier;  Corporals  James  F.  Cooper,  Harvey  G. 
Kuhns,  D.  Frederick  Degitz,  Frederick  M.  Vanmeter,  Coe 
Gibson,  Harry  G.  Lightner,  William  J.  Rumolden,  Carey  O. 
Amsbaugh,  Charles  A.  Sherwood,  Carl  McRuU,  Walter  A. 
Wyatt;  Lance  Corporal  Gustavus  Gallup;  Cook  Edwin  H. 
Miller;  Artificer  Josiah  Fitts;  Wagoner  J.  F.  Barnardo;  Musi- 
cians Trolando  Blesh,  Earl  Smith;  Privates  Adolph  Abrams, 
Alpheus  A.  Bigelow,  Orrin  O.  Blesh,  Earl  Bohannon,  Benja- 
min P.  Burton,  Lucien  A.  Chase,  John  Dunlap,  Henry  Dunn, 
George  E.  Gamble,  Charles  L.  Grogon,  Wyatt  Hagen,  Charles 
A.  Hurd,  Simon  Urvine,  F.  G.  Breen,  William  A.  Kerns,  Al- 
bert Kurtze,  Charles  O.  Lambing,  Homer  L.  Limbird,  Gilbert 
Mayor,  Fred  H.  Myer,  Charles  Milam,  George  W.  Pfrehm, 
Robert  E.  Price,  Charles  F.  Rarabo,  Will  M.  Raynor,  Charles 
Schindler,  Frank  O.  Schopp,  William  C.  Seaton,  Edward  T. 
Simmons,  Edwin  Smith,  Joseph  Stephens,  Albert  R.  Stute- 
ville,  Guy  Tate,  Simpson  Taylor,  George  Troost,  Noble  B. 
Urie,  Fred  Ziegler. 

Wounded,  sent  home,  Morgan  City ;  Private  Michael  Gar- 
rity,  legs,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899;  Private  Leslie  G.  Selzer, 
arm,  Marilao,  March  27,  1899;  Private  William  Wolf,  leg,  Ca- 
loocan,  February  23,  1899. 


Sick,  sent  home:  Privates  Fred  Arkell,  George  S.  Beckner, 
Morgan  City ;  Privates  Lambert  P.  Steinmetz,  James  W.  Wil- 
ton, Relief. 

Discharged,  San  Francisco,  disability:  Privates  Robert  Rich- 
ardson, Samuel  Utterback,  September,  1898:  First  Sergeant 
William  C.  Foley,  Corporal  Farrar  Field,  October,  1899;  Pri- 
vates Robert  Phiffer,  Harry  E.  Kuhns,  Arthur  Wolf,  Decem- 
ber, 1898;  Privates  Fred  H.  Kane,  Grant  Schoop,  March,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reonlist;  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volun- 
teer infantry —  Privates  Peter  A.  Griffin,  Henry  M.  Parr,  George 
A.  Peters,  Bert  M.  Hart,  William  F.  Maxey;  Eleventh  United 
States  volunteer  cavalry  —  First  Sergeant  Joseph  Schule. 

Discharged  and  remaining  in  Manila;  Sergeant  Harry  S. 
Hooper,  Private  Francis  Marsh. 

Discharged  and  returning  with  regiment:  Sergeant  Thomas 
W.  Fritts,  Corporal  Charles  Johnson,  Private  Orlando  F. 
Baldwin. 

Discharged  and  returning  on  Coptic:  Corporal  Frank  Boss- 
heimer.  Corporal  John  W.  Terry. 

Transferred  to  United  States  signal  corps;  Private  Carl 
Myers. 

Dishonorably  discharged;  Private  Henry  L.  Neidert,  return- 
ing to  serve  out  unexpired  term  of  imprisonment  in  Alcatraz 
prison. 

Died  of  disease;  Private  Clifford  Greenough,  June  24,  1898, 
spinal  meningitis,  buried  San  Francisco :  Private  Cecil  Flow- 
ers, July  24,  1898,  pneumonia,  buried  San  Francisco;  Private 
Benjamin  W.  Squires,  January  14, 1899,  smallpox,  buried  Paco, 
No.  1.30;  Private  Norman  E.  Hand,  .January  18, 1899,  smallpox, 
buried  Paco,  No.  1.33  ;  Private  David  Campbell,  January  29, 
1899,  smallpox,  buried  Paco,  No.  1.34;  Private  Sim  Barber, 
February  27,  1899,  smallpox,  buried  Paco,  No.  180;  Private 
John  M.  Ingenthron,  dysentery,  September  21,  1899,  on  board 
Tartar. 


Cant.  Edgar  A.  Fry. 
Formerly  of  company  L;  dis- 
charged to  reenlist. 


Capt.  Edward  J.  Hardy. 


Killed  in  action:  Private  James  Kline,  Caloocan,  March  13, 
1899,  buried  Paco,  No.  71:  Private  Albert  11.  Terry,  Rio 
Grande,  April  27,  1899,  buried  Paco,  No.  2.37;  Private  Ernest 
Ryan,  Bacalor,  May  24,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  13. 

Wounded  in  action:  Sergeant  Charles  W.  Tozier,  head,  Ba- 
calor, May  24,  1899,  returned  to  duty  June  17,  1899;  Sergeant 
Joseph  W.  Murray,  knee,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899,  returned 
to  duty  June  11,  1899;  Corporal  Harvey  G.  Kuhns,  shoulder, 
Guiginto,  March  29, 1899,  returned  to  duty  April  1,  1899;  Mu- 
sician Trolando  Blesh,  leg,  Caloocan,  February  23,  1899,  re- 
turned to  duty  April  21,  1899;  Private  Walter  A.  Wyatt,  arm, 
Marilao,  March  29,  1899,  returned  to  duty  April  1,  1899;    Cor- 


poral Carey  O.  Amsbaugh,  head,  Guiginto,  March  29,  1899, 
not  off  duty.  Slightlv  wounded,  not  reported:  Captain  Edgar 
A.  Fry,  February  23,  "l899. 

Now  on  sick  report:  Sergeant  Charles  Seilhammer,  Septem- 
ber 13, 1899,  diarrhea,  convalescent;  Sergeant  Joseph  Murray, 
entered  general  hospital,  San  Francisco. 

Company  M. 

Captain  Edward  J.  Hardy,  promoted  second  lieutenant  Sep- 
tember 3,  1898,  to  first  lieutenant  May  9,  1899,  to  captain  Au- 
gust 12,  1899.  First  Lieutenant  E.  A.  Huddleston,  promoted 
to  first  lieutenant  July  24,  1899.  Second  Lieutenant  Charles 
L.  Sampson,  promoted  August  20,  1899. 

Wounded  in  action :  Captain  W.  H.  Bishop,  leg,  Rio  Grande 
river,  April  2(5,  1899,  returned  to  duty  May  24,  1899. 

Enlisted  men  with  company:  First  Sergeant  John  L.  King, 
Quartermaster  Sergeant  Arthur  M.  Falconer,  Sergeants  Clyde 
G.  Wilson,  Elmer  Brick.  William  E.  George,  Nels  M.  Nelson; 
Corporals  W.  Elmer  Kelley,  Ernest  B.  Taylor,  Henrj-  C.  Rupp, 
Charles  Bishop,  Lawrence  L.  Bradley,  Harry  L.  Neff,  Noah 
R.  Prible,  Emery  Adams,  F.  Briggs,  Frank  Carlson,  Gayfree 
Ellison;  Cook  Samuel  R.  Clark,  Artificer  Frank  D.  Moshe, 
Wagoner  Horace  A.  Stahl,  Musicians  Harry  T.  Todd,  Ira  1). 
Shepperd:  Privates  Adolph  Anderson,  George  M.  Battersby, 
Charles  H.  Benner,  Warren  J.  Bradley,  Charles  W.  Bennett, 
Herman  C.  Colgrove,  Henry  C.  Clark,  Palmer  W.  Cook,  Fred 

A.  Cunningham,  Charles  E.  Crosson,  Harvey  O.  Davis,  Will- 
iam Eickworth,  Arthur  F.  Ford,  John  W.  Frantz,  Charles 

B.  Halderman,  John  Hanson,  Walter  A..  Hooper,  Francis  C. 
Harrington,  Loring  Hammond,  Fred  W.  Huston,  James  Jear- 
doe,  Harry  J.  Kaufman,  Clarence  E.  Kent,  James  W.  King, 
Oliver  Kissling,  John  M.  Lander,  John  I.  Laird,  Emra  Lar- 
kin,  Willard  M.  Lundhwer,  Ralph  Loofbourrow,  John  C.  Mar- 
tin, William  H.  Miller,  Sidney  M.  Morrison,  Nels  C.  Nelson, 
Jay  Owen,  Perry  A.  Powell,  Willard  H.  Prush,  Albert  C.  Sha- 


fer,  Herman  W.  Schumaker,  George  F.  Smith,  Jesse' Snead, 
Edgar  Stribling,  George  L.  Swartz,  George  D.  Tipton,  Orville 
W.  Wood,  Edward  C.  Ziebell,  Edwin  Laird,  Daniel  R.  Rhodes. 

Wounded,  sent  home:  Corporal  Albert  Dooley,  leg,  Balcor, 
May  24,  1899,  Relief. 

Sick,  sent  home :  Private  John  F.  Quick,  Relief;  Privates 
Lamont  Hubble,  William  J.  Hall,  Richard  Lundquist,  Morgan 
City;  Private  George  W.  Smith,  Sheridan. 

Left  in  hospital,  Manila:  Private  George  J.  Conrad,  first 
reserve,  malarial  fever;  Private  Wilber  F.  Hutchinson,  Cor- 
regidor  island,  fever. 

Discharged,  San  Francisco,  disability:  Privates  John  Sehlotz, 
Charles  Carlson,  William  Hunt,  September,  1898;  Sergeant 
Charles  Kleinhaus,  Private  Joe  E.  Brottom.  October,  1898: 
Private  James  P.  Cummins,  November,  1898. 

Discharged,  Manila,  disability:  Private  A.  M.  Cummins, 
January,  1899. 

Discharged  to  reenlist:  Thirty-sixth  United  States  volun- 
teer infantry,  Private  Olaf  Larson;  Thirty-seventh  United 
States  volunteer  infantry.  Privates  Rolio  E.  Kent,  George  F. 
Gaskill;  Eleventh  United  States  volunteer  cavalry.  Sergeants 
William  Saindon,  H.  Richard  Kent,  Privates  William  A.  Bell, 
Parry  M.  Prouse,  William  A.  Whitman. 

Discharged  and  returned  with  regiment:  Privates  Claude 
V.  Kinter,  John  M.  Padgett. 

Discharged  and  returning  t>ia  New  York:  Sergeant  Albert 
S.  Brockway. 

Died  of  disease:  Corporal  Wilson  H.  McAlister,  fever,  July 
9,  1899,  buried  in  Cloud  county,  Kansas. 

Killed  in  action :  Private  Charles  Pratt,  February  5,  1899, 
buried  Paco,  No.  25;  Private  Samuel  M.  Wilson,  Guiginto, 
March  29,  1899,  buried  Battery  Knoll,  No.  2.35. 

Wounded  in  action:  Private  Edward  C.  Ziebel,  head,  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1899,  returned  to  duty  March  1, 1899;  Private  George 


M.  Eattersby,  arm,  February  5,  1899,  returned  to  duty  March 
1,  1899;  Private  Charles  B.  Bennett,  thigh,  February  10,1899, 
not  off  duty;  Private  Sidney  M.  Morrison,  leg,  Caloocan,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1899,  returned  to  duty  May  20,  1899. 

Slightly  wounded,  not  reported:  Sergeant  Charles  L.  Samp- 
son, February  5,  1899;  Private  Charles  E.  Crosson,  February 
4,  1899;  Private  Gayfree  Ellison,  February  10,  1899;  Sergeant 
John  L.  King,  February  10, 1899 ;  Corporal  Elmer  Brick,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1899;  Private  John  Padgett,  March 29, 1899;  Private 
Fred  W.  Huson,  May  24,  1899. 

On  sick  report : '  Private  Charles  Benner,  September  4,  1899, 
diarrhea,  convalescent;  Private  Arthur  Ford,  diarrhea,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1899,  convalescent;  Private  Edward C.  Ziebell,  Sep- 
tember 10,  1899,  malarial  fever,  convalescent. 

Suniinary. 

The  following  is  the  report  of  the  regimental  adjutant  made 
on  the  day  the  regiment  landed: 

Aggregate  strength  of  regiment,  original  muster,  officers  and 
men,  1011;  number  of  recruits  added,  312;  maximum  strength, 
1322. 

Officers:  Killed  in  action,  3;  resigned,  7;  removed,  1;  dis- 
charged to  reenlist,  11;  wounded,  sent  home,  3. 

Enlisted  men :  Transferred  to  other  organizations,  3;  killed 
in  action,  .304  diedof  disease,  33;  discharged  for  disability,  188; 
discharged  by  favor,  9;  discharged  to  remain  in  Manila,  40; 
discharged  and  returning  with  regiment,  15;  discharged  and 
returning  by  way  of  New  York,  7;  dishonorably  discharged,  4 ; 
deserted,  3;  wounded,  sent  home,  44;  sick,  sent  home,  52. 

Officers  wounded  in  action,  11 ;  officers  slightly  wounded,  not 
reported,  5;  officers  on  sick  report,  1. 

Enlisted  men  wounded  in  action,  108;  enlisted  men  slightly 
wounded,  not  reported,  31;  left  in  hospital,  Manila,  3;  on  sick 
report,  41. 


TWENTIETH  KANSAS 
MARCHINH  ON 
MARKET  STREET, 
SAN  FRANCISCO, 
AFTER  ITS  RETURN 
FROM  THE 
PHILIPPINE  ISLANDS, 


From  the  Man  who  Organized  the  Twentieth. 

Ex-Governor  Leedy  says  the  Regiment's  Achievements  have  Justified  his  Course. 


EX-GOVERNOR  JOHN  VV.  LEEDY. 


In  the  organization  of  the  Kansas  volunteers  two  things  were  sought  to  be  accom- 
plished. First,  to  show  that  volunteers  were  superior  to  regulars  as  an  actual  fighting 
force  in  time  of  war.  That  while  regulars,  who  largely  consist  of  men  who  would 
rather  fight  a  little  than  to  work  for  a  living,  may  be  best  to  police  the  country  and 
put  down  the  small  disturbances  which  may  occur,  yet  the  motives  that  induce  them 
to  enlist  and  the  material  of  which  they  are  composed  make  it  impossible  that  they 
should  be  the  equal  of  volunteers,  who  would  not  serve  in  the  army  in  time  of  peace 
on  any  condition,  and  who  serve  in  time  of  war  from  higher  motives.  Second,  that 
Kansas  could  not  only  furnish  volunteers  that  were  better  than  regulars,  but  that  she 
could  furnish  volunteers  better  than  any  other  state  would  furnish. 

To  accomplish  this  it  was  found  necessary  to  disorganize  the  militia,  in  order  to 
throw  out  the  poor  material  and  replace  it  with  good.  This  brought  a  storm  of  criti- 
cism from  military  men,  as  well  as  civilians,  and  whether  it  was  justifiable  or  not  I 
leave  others  to  judge.  But  that  it  brought  the  result  sought  to  be  obtained  I  believe 
will  not  be  disputed  in  any  quarter.  The  Twentieth  Kansas  outshone  all  others, 
whether  volunteer  or  regular,  and  their  bearing  to-day  is  a  sufficient  answer  to  all  the 
vilification  and  abuse  heaped  upon  them  by  the  people  who  are  to-day  shouting  their 
praises  with  the  hope  of  obtaining  a  little  reflected  glory.  They  also  heaped  coals  of 
fire  on  the  heads  of  the  national  administration  for  the  studied  neglect  with  which 
they  were  treated  at  San  Francisco,  by  the  unfaltering  manner  in  which  they  took 
the  lead  the  day  they  landed  at  Manila  and  held  it  until  they  were  ordered  from  the 
firing  line.  JOHN  W.  LEEDY. 

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GENERAL  FUNSTON, 
GOVERNOR  STANLEY. 
COLONEL  METCALF. 

ON  BOARD  THE 
TRANSPORT  TARTAR, 
AT  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Tributes  from  Prominent  Kansans. 

Congressmen,  State  Officers  and  Others  Join  in  Praising  tlie  Twentietli  Regiment. 


PROM    LUCIEN    BAKER,    UNITED    STATES    SENATOR. 

The  "Fighting  Twentieth"  has  made  every  citizen  of  our  state  prouder  to  call  himself  a  Kansan.  It  has  added  new  glory  to 
the  flag  and  won  a  lasting  place  in  history  for  itself.  Patriots  are  the  best  fighters  in  the  world,  and  every  officer  and  private  in 
the  Twentieth  Kansas  regiment  is  a  patriot.    Hence  they  were  invincible. 

FROM    W.    J.    BAILEY,    CONGRESSMAN    AT   LARGE. 

Raised  in  the  Kansas  atmosphere,  surcharged  with  the  elements  which  make  men  great,  and  inheriting  in  perfection  the 
dauntless  courage,  the  brilliant  dash  and  pure  patriotism  of  a  fearless  and  heroic  ancestry,  the  Twentieth  Kansas  regiment  has 
made  for  itself  a  record  marvelous  and  surprising  to  all  but  Kansans ;  a  record  of  such  surpassing  glory  that,  in  the  annals  of  brave 
deeds  done,  it  will  receive  most  conspicuous  mention;  a  record  that  has  merited  for  it  every  testimonial  of  love  and  esteem  and 
appreciation  which  grateful  citizens  can  bestow. 

FROM    CONGRESSMAN    CHARLES   CURTIS. 

When  I  visited  President  McKinley  in  August,  1898,  and  requested  that  the  Twentieth  Kansas  be  sent  to  Manila,  I  told  him 
all  the  members  of  the  regiment  needed  was  an  opportunity;  they  were  given  that  opportunity.  By  their  endurance,  hard  fight- 
ing at  the  front,  and  bravery,  they  have  challenged  the  admiration  and  won  the  applause  of  the  civilized  world.  They  left  Kansas 
a  little  over  a  year  ago,  fresh  from  the  plow,  shop,  store,  college,  and  various  walks  of  life;  they  return  a  regiment  of  veterans,  and 
we  are  all  proud  of  them.  No  braver  boys  ever  shouldered  their  muskets;  and  while  regiments  of  other  states  fought  to  uphold 
the  honor  of  our  country  in  a  war  for  humanity,  no  regiment  attracted  the  attention  in  that  war  that  the  Twentieth  Kansas  did. 
Kansas  had  reason  to  be  proud  of  her  soldiers  from  '61  to  '65,  and  Kansas  has  reason  to  be  proud  of  the  triumphs  of  General  Fun- 
ston  and  the  gallant  Twentieth  Kansas. 

FROM    CONGRESSMAN    J.  D.  BOWERSOCK. 

It  has  been  truly  said  that  our  victory  over  Spain  was  largely  due  to  the  character  of  "  the  men  behind  the  guns."  In  char- 
acter, capacity  and  attainments  it  is  doubtful  if  any  volunteer  regiment  was  ever  in  the  field  which  could  justly  take  precedence 

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over  the  Twentieth  Kansas.  The  skimmed  milk  o£  Europe  settles  largely  in  the  East.  The  unskimmed  milk  of  the  East  comes 
west,  and  the  generations  which  rise  in  the  West  are  the  cream  of  the  nation.  From  this  cream,  when  the  call  to  arms  was  made, 
came  the  Twentieth  Kansas.  Comparisons  are  usually  odious,  but  no  regiment  which  went  from  the  United  States  to  the  Spanish 
war  would  object  to  being  compared  with  the  Twentieth  Kansas.  Pennsylvania  sent  a  regiment  of  favored  sons:  Minnesota  con- 
tributed brave  men;  Nebraska's  best  blood  was  freely  offered;  other  states  voluntarily  laid  on  the  altar  of  the  nation  the  flower 
of  their  youth  and  manhood;  but  it  remained  for  Kansas  to  place  in  the  field  a  regiment  whose  colonel  won  a  star,  and  whose 
record  from  first  officer  to  last  man  on  the  roll  deservedly  is  one  of  the  brightest  and  best  on  the  pages  of  the  glorious  history  of 
the  greatest  nation  on  earth. 

FROM    CONGRESSMAN    CHESTER    I.    LONG. 

If  the  Twentieth  Kansas  had  done  all  its  fighting  during  the  term  of  its  enlistment,  its  members  would  only  have  done  their 
duty  as  soldiers,  but  their  greatest  work  was  done  afterwards,  and  in  this  they  showed  that  they  were  patriots  as  well.  The  coun- 
try recently  welcomed  Admiral  Dewey  on  his  return  from  the  scene  of  his  glorious  victory.  Kansas  will  shortly  welcome  General 
Funston  and  his  splendid  regiment.  The  plaudits  of  the  people  of  this  great  state  are  but  slight  tribute  to  these  heroes.  They 
willingly  assisted  the  President  in  suppre.s3ing  the  Filipino  insurrection.  The  fought  to  secure  peace  and  order  in  the  islands  that 
came  to  us  as  the  fruits  of  war,  and  it  is  well  that  the  state  and  nation  should  royally  welcome  these  gallant  soldiers  to  patriotic 
Kansas. 

FROM   CONGRESSMAN   J.    M.    MILLER. 

The  history  of  the  armies  of  the  world  furnishes  no  parallel,  in  the  way  of  brilliant  and  gallant  achievements  of  a  single  regi- 
ment of  soldiers,  to  the  record  made  by  the  "  Fighting  Twentieth  "  Kansas  regiment  in  the  Philippines.  Some  of  the  fiercest  en- 
counters in  which  this  regiment  was  engaged  occurred  at  a  time  when  the  only  incentive  the  men  had  to  keep  them  on  the  firing 
line  was  their  desire  to  uphold  the  honor  of  their  country  and  its  flag.     Their  record  is  one  of  which  the  whole  state  is  justly  proud. 

FROM    WILLIAM    C.  HOOK,    JUDGE   OK   THE    UNITED    STATES    DISTRICT    COURT. 

No  one  doubted  for  a  moment,  a  year  ago,  that  the  Twentieth  Kan.sas  would  give  a  good  account  of  itself,  but  few  of  us  even 
dreamed  that  its  achievements  would  be  such  as  to  astonish  the  world.  The  Kansas  soldiers  have  displayed  a  measure  of  fortitude 
in  camp  and  valor  in  battle  that  has  not  been  exceeded  by  warriors  of  this  or  any  age.  Not  only  have  they  done  their  whole  duty 
as  patriots,  but  they  have  done  more.  Their  feats  of  daring  have  nearly  all  occurred  since  their  term  of  enlistment  expired.  They 
fought  and  bled  and  died  after  they  were  at  liberty  to  return  home.  For  these  reasons,  we  all  say,  "  Nothing  is  too  good  for  the 
Twentieth." 

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FKOM   FRANK    DOSTER,    CHIEF   JUSTICE   OF   THE   SUPREME    COURT. 

The  Twentieth  Kansas  has  given  this  state  a  better  right  than  any  other  in  the  sisterhood  of  the  union  to  be  called  the  mother 
state  of  soldiers.  It  has  won  for  itself  a  long-lasting  name  for  gallantry  in  battle  and  devotion  to  soldierly  duty.  Returning  to  the 
walks  of  peace,  its  individual  members,  as  citizens,  can  add  to  its  fame  by  allowing  to  their  friends  and  neighbors,  without  contumely, 
aspersion  of  patriotism,  or  harsh  disputation,  the  right  to  pass  judgment  upon  the  worthiness  of  the  conflict  in  which  they  engaged 
and  the  value  to  the  country  and  to  mankind  of  the  victories  they  won. 

FROM    EX-CONGRESSMAN    CASE   BRODERICK,  OF    HOLTON. 

From  the  beginning,  Kansas  has  not  faltered  when  there  was  a  right  to  assert  or  a  call  to  arms.  In  the  dark  days  of  the  civil 
war  Kansas  never  waited  for  a  draft,  but  her  citizens  volunteered  to  fill  each  quota  of  soldiers  due  until  the  clouds  of  battle  passed 
by.  It  is  a  proud  thing  to  know  that  the  government  will  never  have  to  draft  a  soldier  from  Kansas  while  a  trace  of  the  spirit  of 
her  pioneers  remains.  The  Twentieth  Kansas  is  the  first  regiment  enrolled  largely  from  native  sons  that  has  had  an  opportunity 
to  demonstrate  its  endurance  and  heroism  in  the  presence  of  an  enemy.  Others  have  volunteered  their  services  and  manifested  in 
every  way  their  patriotic  solicitude,  but,  through  no  fault  of  theirs,  failed  to  reach  the  fighting  lines.  The  Twenty-first,  Twenty- 
Fecond,  and  Twenty-third,  three  well-equipped  and  splendid  regiments,  would  have  made  enviable  records  had  they  been  called  to 
the  front.  More  fortunate  was  the  Twentieth.  It  made  its  way  to  the  trenches  and  to  the  battle-fields,  met  the  enemy,  and 
covered  itself  with  renown.  Proud  of  these  boys  because  they  are  Kansans;  proud  because  they  are  heroes  and  because  of  their 
splendid  achievements,  we  heartily  welcome  them  home,  and  give  our  best  wishes  for  their  future  success  and  happiness. 

FROM    GEORliE   A.    CLARK,    SECRETARY    OF    STATE. 

The  record  of  the  "Fighting  Twentieth  "  in  the  Philippines  has  been  one  of  fortitude,  valor,  and  brilliant  achievements.  The 
people  of  Kansas  are  proud  of  it.  The  regiment  has  done  more  to  advertise  Kansas  favorably  than  anything  in  recent  years.  A 
state  that  can  produce  such  sons  must  needs  be  great.     No  honors  the  state  can  bestow  are  too  great  for  the  returning  heroes. 

FROM    FRANK    E.    GRIMES,    STATE  TREASURER. 

I  take  infinite  pride  in  the  Twentieth  Kansas.  The  stories  which  drifted  over  the  seas  telling  of  their  matchless  valor  in  far-oflf 
lands  thrilled  my  heart  with  pride.  Of  course,  we  Kansans  were  not  surprised  that  "our  boys"  should  set  the  world  afire  if  they 
were  given  the  chance,  but  we  are  rejoicing  indeed  that  they  were  given  the  opportunity  to  test  their  speed  and  mettle,  and  that 
they  gloriously  surpassed  our  fondest  e.xpectations.  I  have  read  of  the  Persian  Immortals,  the  Turkish  Janissaries,  the  Roman 
Tenth  Legion,  the  British  Black  Watch,  and  Napoleon's  Old  Guard,  but  for  the  magnitude  of  their  achievements  in  one  brief  cam- 

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paign  the  record  of  the  "  Fighting  Twentieth  "  surpasses  them  all.     It  was  the  proudest  moment  of  my  life  when  I  was  permitteil 
to  be  among  the  first  to  bid  them  "  Welcome  home!  "  in  San  Francisco  harbor,  and  to  witness  their  return  to  their  native  land. 

FROM    GEORGE    E.  COLE,    AUDITOR   OF    STATE. 

What  more  can  I  say,  than  that  they  have  to  the  fullest  measure  fulfilled  my  ideal  of  the  modern  American  soldier.  They 
have  set  a  new  mark  that  will  be  difficult  to  reach  by  those  who  follow.  There  was  no  emergency  that  they  did  not  meet:  no  duty 
left  undone.  Future  historians  will  place  the  Twentieth  Kansas  on  an  equal  footing  with  all  the  heroes  of  ancient  and  modern 
soldiery.  Patriotism  is  the  highest  sentiment  of  man  and  the  last  refuge  of  the  scoundrel.  The  world's  greatest  heroes  are  her 
soldiers.  The  imperishable  renown  won  for  Kansas  by  the  gallant  Twentieth  gives  her  a  mighty  boost  toward  the  beckoning  stars 
and  adds  new  names  to  the  world's  heroes.  Kansans,  one  and  all,  admire  them,  and  will  show  it  by  a  magnificent  demonstration, 
after  which  let  us  all  find  them  something  to  do.     A  Twentieth  honorable  discharge  is  the  highest  recommendation. 

FROM    FRANK    NELSON,    SUPERINTENDENT   OF    INSTRUCTION. 

The  Kansas  soldiers,  fighting  for  country  and  for  humanity  in  the  Philippines,  have  added  much  to  that  larger  and  broader 
creed  which  has  become  a  part  of  our  national  character  and  which  is  destined  to  touch  and  change  the  civilization  of  all  the  na- 
tions of  the  world.     The  best  is  not  too  good  for  the  boys  of  the  "  Fighting  Twentieth." 

FROM    A.  HENLEY,    OK    LAWRENCE. 

When  more  than  a  year  ago  we  bade  our  boys  farewell,  it  was  with  little  thought  that  when  they  returned  it  would  be  with 
crowns  of  glory  that  will  not  wither.  We  knew  the  stuff  of  which  they  were  made ;  we  knew  the  school  of  experience  in  which 
they  had  learned;  we  knew  that  when  the  war  clouds  had  darkened  the  land  in  the  past  their  ancestors  had  gone  forth  to 
battle  undaunted  by  war's  alarms,  and  had  won  victories  at  which  the  world  wondered;  and  we  knew  what  our  boys  would  do 
should  opportunity  offer;  and  when  opportunity  came  they  did  not  allow  it  to  pass  unaccepted.  When  first  they  entered  San 
Francisco  they  were  ragged,  untrained,  awkward  squad.s;  when  the  (iolden  Gate  opened  to  receive  them  upon  their  return  they 
were  veterans,  skilled  warriors  — soldiers  that  a  C;esar,  a  Hannibal,  a  Napoleon,  might  have  longed  to  command.  Without  a  blot 
or  a  stain  upon  its  fair  name  the  regiment  returns  to  us,  and  we  gladly  give  honors  for  the  living,  while  tears  for  the  brave  dead 
come  unbidden  even  in  the  gladness  of  the  welcome.  They  come  back  to  us,  those  boys  of  ours,  crowned  with  the  garlands  of 
victory,  proudly  conscious  of  a  duty  well  done,  and  the  whole  great  nation  bows  down  in  grateful  acknowledgment  of  the  bravery 
of  the  Kansas  heroes. 

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Credit  where  Credit  is  Due. 


In  conclusion,  the  compilers  of  this  volume  desire  to  express  thanks  to  those  who  have  aided  in  its  preparation.  Of  necessity 
the  matter  has  been  collected  in  haste,  and  such  minor  inaccuracies  as  have  crept  in  will  be  corrected  in  a  subsequent  edition. 

Credit  is  due  to  Clarence  Hall,  of  Lawrence,  Charles  M.  Harger,  of  Abilene,  William  Biddle,  of  Leavenworth,  H.  J.  Allen,  of 
Ottawa,  Charles  Blood  and  Sidney  Whisner,  of  Kansas  City.Kan.,  Mr.  Beebe.of  Salina,and  S.  McMurty,  of  Coffeyville,  for  photo- 
graphs of  the  regimental  officers.  Credit  for  the  roster  is  due  to  the  Kansas  City  Star,  whose  correspondent,  John  M.  Steele,  has 
been  the  Twentieth's  historian  since  it  was  mustered  in.  The  Kansas  City  Times  and  Journal  have  also  contributed  towards  the 
data  used.     None  of  these  newspapers,  however,  is  in  any  way  identified  with  this  publication. 

The  tributes  from  President  McKinley  and  Secretary  Root  are  features  of  special  interest,  for  it  is  seldom  indeed  that  men  in 
such  exalted  offices  condescend  to  go  on  record  for  purposes  of  this  kind.  Joseph  L.  Bristow,  Governor  Stanley  and  ex-Governor 
Leedy  are  also  to  be  thanked  for  contributing  to  the  Souvenir's  success.  As  for  Joseph  G.  Waters  and  Eugene  F.  Ware,  the 
gratitude  of  the  regiment,  in  addition  to  our  own  gratitude,  is  theirs. 


KANSAS  TEOOPS  DISEMUARKI> 


FROM    THE    TKA.NSPOBT    I^■    M.l 

79 


TRANSFORMIiNG  KANSAS  CITIZENS  INTO  KANSAS  SOLDIERS,  SAN  FRANCISCO,  JULY 


THE  LEADING 

Department  Store 

OF  KANSAS. 


713   KANSAS  AVENUE  715 
TOPEKA. 


Dewey  went  a  gunnin'  down  iu  Manila  bay, 

An'  he  captured  Spanish  guns  and  boats  'fore  they  could  get  away  ; 

Gallant  Kansans  cheer  for  Dewey  as  loyal  soldiers  should. 

Do  u  use  it  on  u  r  table  ?    If  u  do  not  now  u  should. 

Tlfiwuy  Hais  anil  BrealM  Bacoi. 

Unrivaled  !    Unequaled  !    Unexcelled  ! 

The  triumph  of  the  curer's  art. 
Manufactured  exclusively  by 

SCHWAEZSCHILD  &  SULZBEE&ER  CO., 


NEW  YORK. 


KANSAS  CITY. 


W.   D.   JUDD. 


T.  L,  EWAN. 


Storage  capacity,  300,000  bushels, 
Transfer  capacity,  100  cars  per  day. 
Shelling  capacity,  30  cars  per  day. 

TELEPHONE  291. 

THE  CAPITOL  ELEVATOR, 

NORTH  TOPEKA,  KANSAS. 

The  largest  and  best  equipped  elevator  in  Kansas. 

STORAGE  AT  REASONABLE  RATES. 


ARMOUR  PACKING  COMPANY, 

KANSAS  CITY,  MO.,  U.  S.  A. 


We  operate  a  complete  plant.     All  the  resources  of  science  and  mechanics  are  at  our  service.     All  the  skilful  precautions 
known  to  the  curer's  art  are  employed  in  the  preparation  of  our 


FOOD  PRODUCTS. 


Our    packages    bear   the    "HELMEX     BRAND"    which    is    a    certain    ffuaranty    of   excellence.      Some    of    our 
specialties  are: 

White  Label  Lard.  Excelsior  Farm  Sausage. 

Helmet  Leaf  Lard.  Helmet  Brand  Canned  Meats. 

White  Label  Soups.  Gold  Band  Hams  and  Bacon. 

Silver  Churn  Butterine. 

^^^^^ARMOUR  PACKING  COMPANY, 


Kansas  produces  big  things. 


SILK  SOAP 

FOR  HOUSEHOLD 
AND  LAUNDRY... 


La  Rosa  Boiquet, 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH,  IS, 
LIKE  HER  REGIMENT,  NOTED 
WHEREVER  FOUND  FOR  DO- 
ING ITS  DUTY. 


MANUFACTURED  BY 

PEET  BROS.  MANIFACTIRING  CO., 

KANSAS  CITY,  I.  S.  A. 


2261  battles 

Fougnt  during  the 
Civil  War, 


But  that  is  not  one  per  cent,  of  the  number 
of  fights  that  widows  and  orphans  of  those 
who   neglected    insurance    have   had   with 


The  JBtna  Life 

INSURANCE  COMPANY, 
OF  HARTFORD,  CONN., 


Is  the  only  company  in  the  world  that  has  paid  constantly  in- 
creasing dividends  to  its  policy-holders  for  the  last  twenty-si.'j 
consecutive  years.     Write  for  particulars  to 

L.  B.  BAILEY,  Manager, 

605  New  England  BIdg., 
KANSAS  CITY,  MO. 
'Phone  1473. 


Agents  wanted  all  over  Kansas. 


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SPARKS  BROS.  MULE  and  HORSE  CO., 


WHOLESALE  AND   RETAIL  DEALERS 


MULES  AND  HORSES. 


A   GOOD   SELECTION    OF  ALL  GRADES   ALWAYS    ON    HAND. 

CORRESPONDENCE   SOLICITED. 

TELEPHONE  1148. 

KANSAS    CITY    STOCK   YARDS.  KANSAS    CITY,     MO. 


FINEST  EQUIPPED, 
MOST  MODERN, 
AND  BEST  FACILITIES. 


The   Kansas  City  market,  owing  to  its  central  location,  offers 


Buyers  from  the 
ARMOUR   PACKING   COMPANY. 
SWIFT  &  COMPANY. 

SCHWARZSCHILD  &  SULZBERGER  CO. 
JACOB   OOLD    PACKING  COMPANY. 
GEO.  FOWLER,  SON  &  CO.,  Ltd. 
CUDAHY    PACKING   COMPANY. 

Principal  Buy   rs  for  Export 

and  Domestic  Markets 

in  Constant  Attendance. 


GREATER   ADVANTAGES 

THAN    ANY    OTHER. 


TWENTY-TWO  RAILROADS 

CENTER  AT  THESE  YARDS. 


Larpst  Stocier  M  Feeder  Market  in  tie  Worll 


Official  receipts  for  1898. . 
Siold  in  Kansas  City,  1898. 


1,846,233 
1,757,163 


3,672,909 
3,596,828 


980,303 
815,580 


C.  F.  MORSE, 

Ci.-Pres.  and  General  Manager. 


E.  E.  RICHARDSON,         H.  P.  CHILD, 

Secretary  and  Treasurer.  Asst.  General 


EUGENE  RUST, 

Traffic  Manager. 


If  so, 

stop  at 

the 


National  Hotel. 

I  Under  New  Management.) 

THE  MOST  CENTRALLY  LOCATED   HOTEL 
IN  THE  CITY. 

^^  •  CHAS.  L.  WOOD, 

$2  and  $2.50  per  day.  M«n«ger. 


^bcnix  Ifnsurance 
dompanv 


OF 


Brooklyn,  New  York, 


Has  for  many  years  written  a  larger  mercantile  business 
in  Kansas  and  Oklahonia  and  Indian  Territories  than  any 
other  Fire  Insurance  Company  operating  in  said  field,  and, 
to  facilitate  the  transaction  of  its  business,  maintains  a  de- 
partment office  at 

110  WEST  SIXTH  AVENUE, 

TOPEKA, 

where  our  agents,  patrons  and  friends  are  invited  to  call. 

G.  A.  BAILEY,  State  Agent, 

TOPEKA,  KAN. 


BEN.   L.  WELCH. 


CHAS.  A.  WELCH. 


aSen.  %.  Melcb  &  Co., 


Liue  Stock  Coipipissioo  Ageots. 


We  guarantee  Market  Prices  on 

Consignments  of 

CATTLE,  HOGS  and  SHEEP, 

and  Satisfaction  in  the 

Buying  of  Stocker  or  Feeding 

Cattle  and  Sheep. 


Money  advanced  to  responsible 
parties  at  lowest  rates.  Accu- 
rate market  advices  by  mail  or 
wire  gladly  furnished  customers 
and  prospective  patrons  on  appli- 
cation. 


I^elejjlnone    1-5S    Hlckoi-y. 


Offices,  78,  79,  80,  Live  Stock  Exchange,      KANSAS  CITY,  U.  S.  A. 


at 


Copeland 


TOPEKA 
KAN. 


$2  per  day  and 
upward. 


FIRST-CLASS    IN 
EVERY  RESPECT. 


J.   C.    GORDON, 

PROPRIETOR. 

H.  P.  Knight 


HOTEL 
THROOP. 

Topeka, 
Kan. 


$2.00  and 
$2.50 

Per  day. 


I.  W.  DOOLITTLE, 


Thomas  S.  Krdtz,  President.  Frank  J.  Gould,  Treasurer. 

Geo.  J.  GoDLD,  Vice  President.  Joab  Mulvane,  2d  Vice  President. 

Frank  Vincent,  Sec,  and  Gen'l  Manager. 


The  Hutchinson-Kansas  Salt  Co, 


GENERAL  OFFICE,  HUTCHINSON,  KaN. 


Manufacture  s  and  Jobbers 

in  all  Grades  of  Salt. 


Capacity,  4000  barrels  per  clay. 
I  Dairy  and  Table  Salt  a  Spocialty. 


JM^I»TI^E>TOE>. 


Sole  Maoufacturers  of  the  celebrated 

R.  S.  V.  P.  Table  Salt, 


which  was  awarded 
Oiild  Medal  at  llie  World's  Fair  in  Chicago,  1893, 

Gold  Medal  at  the  Trans-Mississippi  Exposition,  Omaha, 
First  Premium  San  Francisco  Exposition, 
First  Premium  luwa  State  Fair, 

First  Premium  St.  Joseph  Fai 


BENJ.  H.  KERFOOT. 


R.  S.  V.  P.  Salt  is  now  being  marketed  in  the  Philippine 
Islands  and  Cuba. 


With  us  the  curing  and  preparing  of  meat  has 
become  an  art,  and  we  invite  the  criti- 
cism of  all  epicurean  connois- 
seurs to  our  famous 
brand  of 

"MISTLETOE." 
««« 

Here  are  our  leaders : 

Sugar  Cured  f)m. 
Sugar  Cured  BreaKfast  Bacon. 
Kettle  Rendered  Card. 
Breakfast  Sausage. 

"They  tickle  your  palate." 

GEO.  FOWLER,  SON  &  CO., 

(LIMITED,! 

KANSAS  CITY,  U.  S.  A. 


The  Everlastinq  Fame 

of  the  ''TWENTIETH  KANSAS" 

shall  go  down  to  history 
printed  upoa  one  of 

The  Everlastinq  Brands 

of  paper  made  by  the 

J.  W.  Butler 
Paper  Company, 

CHICAGO. 


CARLTON  &  ROSE, 

Photo=Engra  vers 
and  Eectrotypers. 


Welcome  to  our 

HEROES, 

The  Boys  of  the  Fighting  Twentieth  Kansas. 


ORIGINAL 


DESIGNERS  AND 


High-Class 
Engravers 


BY  THE 


617 

Kansas 

Ave. 


ymt/S^m^mcp. 


Topeka 
Kan. 


HaIf=Tone  and  Zinc  Etching 
Processes. 


TEL.  1632. 
1016  WYANDOnE  ST. 


KANSAS  CITY,  MO. 


The  H.  D.  Lee  Mercantile  Company, 


IMPORTERS, 
MANUFACTURERS, 
AND  JOBBERS. 


The  Largest 

and  Most  Complete  Plant 

in  Kansas. 


SALINA,  KANSAS. 


Ask  Your  Grocer 


XceBranb" 

Fruits,  Vegetables, 
Roasted  Coffee, 
Japan  Teas, 
Baking  Powder, 
Corn-starch, 
Soda, 

Ground  Spices, 
and  Flavoring  Extracts. 


Our  Trade-mark  a  Criterion  for 
HIGH  GRADE,  PURE  GOODS. 


All  Goods  Bearing  our  Trade-mark 

ARE  FINEST  QUALITY  PRODUCED. 


When  in  Kansas  City  visit  the 


l)Ub  Saloon, 


1042  Un'on  Avenue,  Opposite  Union  Depot. 


VERY  BEST  GOODS, 
CHOICE  CIGARS. 


A  special  invitation  is  hereby  extended 

to  the  returning  members  of  the  Twentieth  Kansas. 


John  A.  Ford, 


Sunny  Slope 


Berefords, 


300  l)ead  for  Sale, 

150  Bulls,  and 

150  Cows  and  l)eifm. 


PROPRIETOR. 


•  •  • 

lUnti  for  what  you  want.    Prices  reasonable. 

ADDRESS, 

C.  A.  STAN  NAN  D, 

EMPORIA,   KAN. 


H.  A.  McCRARY  CIGAR  CO., 

Distributors  for  the  most  pop- 
ular broad-leaf,  Havana-filled 

CIGARS 

on  the  market  — 


"MY  FRIEND  THE  PRINCE," 
"LORDPALMERSTON." 


The  very  best  domestic,  Sumatra  wrapped 
cigar  called 

"BECKET." 


Ask  your  dealer  for  them.    We  guarantee 
satisfaction. 

H.  A.  McCMRY  CIGAR  CO., 

No.  I  I  West  Ninth  Street, 
KANSAS  CITY,  MO. 

Branch,  815  Walnut  St. 


H.  A.  McCRARY, 

"THE  TICKET-BROKER," 

Cuts  the  rates  on  all  roads.    Sells  regular  tick- 
ets at  reduced  rates. 


Established  sixteen  years, 
and  everybody  knows  he 
is  responsible  for  what  he 
contracts. 


STEAMSHIP  AGENT  FOR 
ALL  EUROPEAN  LINES 

H.  A.  McCRARY. 


Main:   1022  UNION  AVE.,  Tel.  1430. 
Opposite  Union  Depot. 

Branch:   11  W.  NINTH  ST.,  Tel.  1485. 
Near  Junction. 


A  Live  Company  for  Live  Men: 

The  Kansas  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company, 

THE  only  old-line  life  company  organized  and  chartered  in  the  state.  Up-to-date  forms  of  Life  and  Invests 
ment  policies  issued.  Every  policy  contract  is  registered  in  the  State  Insurance  Department,  and 
secured  by  a  deposit  with  the  State  of  Kansas  in  approved,  interest-bearing  securities,  amounting  to  the  full 
reserve.  The  policies  issued  by  the  Kansas  Mutual  Life  are  easy  to  sell,  for  they  furnish  absolute  security  and 
embody  all  that  is  good  in  life  insurance.  The  Company  has  paid  toils  policy-holders  over  $1,250,000  in 
death  claims,  dividends,  and  surrender  values.    Unusual  opportunities  for  live  agents.    Correspondence  solicited. 

Address  J.  P.  DAVIS,  President,  Topeka,  Kan. 


KELLY,  FOOTE  &  CO., 

Attorneys  and  Brokers. 

Do  a  General  Brokerage  Business. 

Bonds,   Real  Estate,  Gas  Plants,  Electric  Light 

Plants,  Street  Railways,  and  Water 

Works  bought  and  sold. 

Private  Funds  Carefully  and  Profitably  Invested. 

Municipal  Bonds  refunded  at  lowest  rates  of  interest. 


CENTRAL  NATIONAL  BANK  BUILDING, 

Correspondence  solicited.  TOPEKA,  KANSAS. 


P.  J.  HEDDERMAN, 


FORMERLY  OF  THE   KANSAS  CrTY  STOCK   YARDS,  WILL 

BE   PLEASED  TO  SEE  HIS  OLD   FRIENDS 

AT   HIS   NEW 


CAFE  AND  SAMPLE  ROOM. 


1112-14  WALNUT  STREET, 


KANSAS    CITY,    MO. 


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Kansas 

in  the 

Philippines 

Is  making  a  reputation  for  courage  and  patri- 
otism that  stirs  our  blood. 

Kansas  in  the  Cornfields, 

Wheatfields  and  orchards  has  already  made  a 
reputation  for  gigantic  yields  that  astonishes 
the  world.  Oil  wells,  coal,  lead  and  salt  mines 
furnish  a  basis  for  industrial  development. 

Send  for  free  copy  of 

"What's  the  Matter 

With  Kansas?"  and  for  information  about 
homeseekers'  excursion  tickets  via  Santa  Fe 
Route. 

Address  W.  J.  Black,  G.  P.  A., 

The  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railway, 


PERSONALLY 
CONDUCTED 


Tourist  Excursions 


i-EKKLY    TO 


CALIFORNIA, 


WEEKLY    TO 


CHICAGO 
EASTERN    POINTS. 


Accompany  these  excursii 
for  the  lowest  ratu  tickets 


ailable  in  these 


Popular  Pullman  Tourist  Cars. 

For  foil  description  of  tliis  service  and  the  bene- 
fits given  its  patrons,  also  dates  of  excursions 
and  rates,  see  your  local  ticket  agent  or  add: 


John  Sebastian.  Q.  P.A., 
Chicago,  lU. 

E.  W.  Thompson,  A.  G.  P.  A.. 
Topeka,  Kan. 


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THE   TWENTIETH    KANSAS    HANK,