The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-23
REGULARS FOR
MANILA. LEAVE
ON THE SHERMAN
Sixth Regiment Now
on the Way.
COL. KELLOGG IN COMMAND
BROADER GENERAL BATES,
U. S. ", A PASSENGER.
Soldier Boys Who Scaled the Fence at
the Wharf Had to Be Rounded
Up by a Corporals
Guard.
COL. KELLOGG IN COMMAND
BROADER GENERAL BATES.
U. S. ", A PASSENGER.

The transport Sherman sailed for the
seat OF war last night Earlier in the
day the news of the arrival of the War
rem at Manila was received. After dis
charging her cargo for the fleet it is ex-
pected the Warren will be sent to Iloilo
with the soldiers she has aboard to re-
heVe the California boys. If all goes
well the latter should be on their way
nome in week or ten days and in that
event may be looked for the first week
in July
The Sherman has aboard 400 men of the
Sixth Infantry and about 100 recruits.
They are in command of Colonel Edgar
X Kellogg and are about as fine a lot
OF men as have ever sailed from San
FRANCISCO. With the exception of Com
panles c, d and 1, the regiment arrived
at Folsom street wharf early in the day
and were at once marched aboard the
transport. During the afternoon the
missing companies and the recruits were
brought around from the Preside on the
quartermasters steamer General Nc
Dowell and were also put aboard.
1t was almost impossible to keep the
soldiers on the wharf. In twos and
threes and sometimes in half-doZens they
scaled the fence built by the Govern
ment~and made their escape They pa
tronized the saloons in the vicinity until
corporaIS guard rounded them up and
put them aboard again. When it comes
to the Grants turn to sail in a few DAYS
the soldiers will not find it so easy to get
out for last drink. Posts have been run
up over the fence and three rows of
parbed wire are to be strung along, them
Any man who can get over that barbed
wire will have richly earned his drink
There are not hundred of the old
Sixth among the men who went aboard
the Sherman yesterday. 1t was only a
skeleton regiment when it reached Cuba
at the outbreak of the war Some com
others had not a fourth of their fighting
strength. In all 4S0 men answered the
roll call before the first fight. When the
war was over and the Sixth returned to
the roll call. Since then the regiment has
been recruited up to its full strength.
Lieutenant Robert J. Maxey OF, Com
pany + received his baptism of fire in
Cuba. When the war broke out he was
cadet at West Point. He was gaZetted
to the Sixth and came out of the battle
of San Juan Hill a first lieutenant Early
in the fighting Lieutenant MaXey threw
away his sword and adopted the rifle as
his weapon. With it he did great execu-
ton and the chances are that he will do
the same thing again when he reaches
the Philippines, if the war is not over.
One of the Sixth Will be left behind.
When the regiment came over from Oak
land, John GuSting of Company b had to
be taken to the Harbor Hospital. A cur
sorry examination by Dr. Hopper showed
that he was suffering from typhoid fever
and the authorities at the PreSidio were
at once notified. There was some delay
in removing the sick man, as Gustng was
not on the roll of Company B. It APP
pears that he formerly belonged to the
Second Nebraska volunteers and when
they were mustered out he enlisted
Texas with the Sixth.
The officers of the Sixth are Colonel Ed
gar r. Kellogg, Lieutenant Colonel Chas.
w Miner, Majors F. a. Whitney and W.
H. II. Crowell and Captains George B.
Walker, B. A. Byrne, Charles Byrne Ze-
rah w. Torrey, Reuben B. Turner, L. w.
kennon, Charles G.. Morton, John H. Bea-
com, Omar Bundy, E. F. Iaggart, B. w.
Atkinson and w. L. Simpson.
Brigadier General John c. Bates, U. S.
He will have for aid-de-camp Captain
Samuel E. Smiley General Bates com
manded a brigade at Ell Caney and was
in position on the left line at San Juan
Hill