Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-11-09

them. AT San Francisco they drilled and
learned the duties of a soldier and prepared for
the sterner duties that lay before them without
murmur or complaint. From this on Wilson
and Bakers history is one. Nov. 3, they went
on board the transport Pennsylvania bound for
the Philippine Islands. Tribute by mother
of Fifty-First boys:
4 ship has sailed out from Golden Gate,
She is heavily laden with human freight;
More precious by far than gold
OF the klondyke regions with wealth untold.
We will watch and pray,
We will hunger all day
For news of the ship that sailed away.
We will bid them God speed
Through our binding tears,
For she carries our volunteers
While she sails far out on the ocean deep,
That God in his mercy this regiment keep
vii! be our daily and hourly oi prayer aye care
We will watch and We'll pray,
We will hunger all day
For news of the ship that has sailed away,
For she carries our boys to the government
lent
The 51st Iowa Regiment.
God bless that ship on her voyage grand,
Guide her in safety to foreign land,
In all time and all places prove ever true
! We will watch and We'll pray,
We will hunger all day
For news OF the ship that has sailed away.
For she carries our boys to the Philippines
sent
The 51st Iowa Regiment
The Pennsylvania sailed into Manila Bay,
December I, 1898. They were held on board
until about the 26th and were then ordered to
Iloilo under Gen. Miller. They were kept on
board until about February End, when they
were returned to Manila where they were
landed at Cavite, February 6. after being on
board ship 95 days Here they guarded the ar
senal stores until Feb. 10, when the first battal.
ion was ordered to duty the south firing
line with the 14th U S. Regulars where they
lay in the trenches and did scouting duty until
April 16. On one scout q member of Company
H, was wounded and captured by the enemy
| they were then ordered to the north line at
Malolos. The second and third battalion
| cleaned the insurgents out of San Rogue with
loss of one wounded. Here a certain young
soldies grew hungry for pork. He went forth
| bravely to hunt Mr.. Porker. He found him
next move, soldier up a tree, porker guard.
Sequel, no pork for dinner. April IA, first and
second battalions were ordered to north firing
line under Gen. Macarthur. andassigned to Hale
brigade About the last of March, fifteen dar-
| ing spirits of Co. L took French leave, went to
Manila and from there walked 20 miles to the
firing line to get in fight. l will let one of
them tell it: II happened to be with Bob Daily.
We walked all day in the hot sun to the fighting
line passing wagon trains, hospital wagons and
| artillery. 1t was something grand to see and
we thanked stars we had taken French
leave. We finally rounded up in Co. E, goth
Kansas, under the gallant Funston They were
| ordered across bridge raked by the enemy S
guns. 1 grabbed a wounded mans gun and
ammunition and crossed the bridge with the
| second company to cross, and awry we went,
| bullets whistling all around us. Five were
! killed on the bridge and many wounded. We
| kept up heavy firing all day and routed the
| enemy from trench and field. We found Thos.
| Daily and our first sergeant and Van Slyke,
Reed, Casey, Green and Hawharth. All had
| been in the thickest of the fight, also Harker
| and Parker. We will all be punished and fined,
but do not care. We did not come out here to
be policemen and we thought it would be our
| last chance for fight" Can any old soldier
| recall such an instance in his company l
| think not. Such bravery is seldom heard of.
| There was no Atkinson blood in these boys.
Grand heroes all. April %, Major Hume was
| ordered to take Cos. E and l., second battalion,
! and of G and of the third and go toward Quin.
| qua to help Bells scouts, overlook a troop of
| 4th cavalry and battalion of LIST Nebraska in.
fantry. The scouts, followed by Co. l., were
| advancing cautiously when there came crash
OF Mauser rifles and a ring of metal. CO. l.
sought Mother Earth and crawled to a rice
| ridge within 200 yards of the enemy and went to
work with will E. G and l were ordered up.
| The heat was fearful. The Nebraskas came up
with artillery and worked with will on the
| left. The natives flew for tall timber, the
troops entered the city and Quingua was ours
hpf tl,n 20 H., ~
senberg and several brave boys of Nebraska, al
| so the wounding of three of Co. l. and two of
Co. of the 51st, and several were Frustrated
by heat. But another glorious victory was won,
the hardest in this campaign. The first battal.
ion Joined us during the night, also the gallant
First South Dakota. The boys outran the COM
mssary SO they were short on rations, but long
on patriotism; but all bore their hunger in true
soleier spirit. AT 8 a. m the brigade was cross
ing the river in a bamboo foot bridge and
marched for Pullian, the Dakotas in the lead.
Two miles out they met the enemy and after a
short but decisive fight they went forward leav-
ing thirty good natives in the trenches, with a
few of their own number dead lind wounded
The first and second battalion of the 51st, were
ordered to advance and the movement was in
progress with the first battalion on the line
when there was roar of musketry to the right
The companies opened fire. Co. NJ formed at
right angles with right of line and poured in an
effective fire, assisted by two companies of the
third battalion In twenty minutes the 5lst
swung around and moved forward with the
brigade. The scouts passed over the scene OF
the fight and reported 80 good natives as re-
suit of our short stay. Co. NJ had two wounded
and Cos. c and D one each. The line was
pushed forward without rest or stop for water
until about p m. when search for water and
eatables was made. Wells were found, but not
deep, and many drank water that was hall
mud, but the boys did not complain. Proceed