The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12

which was held by five companies of the
Eighteenth Infantry. -Four companies OF
the First Tennessee under Colonel Chill
ders and Major Cheatham were sent to
their assistance. Crossing the Jaro River
and coming in on the enemy's right flank
they soon had them routed and running
from the field, with loss of $50 killed and
q proportionate number wounded. Again
the Tennessee boys came out unscathed
Frequent short brushes with smaller
bodies of the enemy filled up the rest of
the time of their stay on Panay, but they
never again had the satisfaction of having
any considerable body stand and make a
fight. The eagerness of the boys to fight
was shown by the incident which elected
such warm praise from President Nc
Kinley The part of the regiment at Ioilo
had been taken on board the transport,
which then called at Cebu for the de-
tachment stationed at that place. All
were aboard and the vessel. which was
about to start for Manila on its way
home, when they learned that an expedi-
ton was about to be undertaken against q
large force Of the insurgents strongly in
trenched in the mountains near Ell Pardo.
Their proffered services being accepted by
General Snyder, the whole regiment dis
embarked and again took the aeld The
Insurgents were soon dislodged two forts,
with several cannon and a number of in
trenched positions being taken. In his
cable report Of the affair General Otis
says: 1.-The insurgents overwhelmingly
defeated, TennesseeanS taking prominent
part" The work being finished. they 1e-
turned to Cebu, re-embarked on the trans
port and started again for homo, grudg-
ing nothing of the extra duty which they
The regiment has been most fortunate
in the matter of casualties. having lost but
two men on the field. but up to the time
of sailing for home there had been
twenty-five deaths in its ranks and ono
man killed by mistake, two-thirds Of the
deaths occurring before 1t left the United
States and eight in the Philippines, in
Guiding the chaplain. Captain Lewis ]:
Leland, who, with six of the men, Jied Of
The men Of the Tennessee Regiment
have received nothing but words OF
praise from their commanders and their
comrades Besides General Otis and two
division commanders. they served under
the immediate command of four different
brigadier generals, and one and all have
officially given them the very highest
Kansas boys and others with whom
they camped, and the Nebraskas, the
Utahs, volunteers like themselves, as well
as the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Regu-
lars, with whom they stood on battle line,
and all others who came IN contact with
them, whether in camp or in the field,
see boys" They have done and well done
their full duty. They have won new
glory and honor not only for their own
State but for their whole section as well,
for the First Tennessee was the only
regiment from the South that went to the
Philippines and the only one from the
South that got into the field of action be-
fore the peace protocol was signed, and
the whole South shares with Tennessee
the feeling of honest pride for the gallant
record Of the First Tennessee Regiment.
The Tennessee Regiment mustered 1000
men and fifty-eight officers when II land
ed at Manila in December last. 1t num-
bered forty-three officers and SIG men
when it boarded the transport to return
home. Major B. F. Cheatham, with q
number of line officers and 153 OF the
men, remained in the service Of the
United States and in the Philippines
forming, with some additions from the
Eighteenth Infantry, a battalion of one OF
the new regiments commanded by Colonel
r. B. Wallace, late Of the Twentieth
Kansas.