The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07

commander of the Minnesota regiment,
who later met death on the field of
battle saw Petersen's work on this &C.
casion. Il take off my hat to that cor
poral, he said. His GOODNESS i'm action,
his logged determination TO go forward
in the face of a cruel fire. entitle him
10 a commission and a medal of
honor"
Corporal Meranda's Feat.
At Maasin, in March, Corporal ]. w.
<Meranda OF battery IS earned the
warmest praise from Colonel Somers
of the Nebraska regiment, as we'll as
the officers of the Minnesota command.
At a range of SEQ yards, while the bull
lets were coming so thickly that, as a
soldier said, One might have swung a
cup around and got il filled with lead, y
Corporal Meranda put three shells into
a large body of F'ilipinos and so de-
moralized them that they fed in a
panic when the infantry charged.
1t was through the good work of
such men as Meranda and Petersen"
says Lieutenant Anderson, modeStly,
that 1 was able 10 get my commits
SION
Lieutenant Anderson does not tell
about the feats he performed as SER
geant in charge of a section of the
Utah artillery with Lawton's flying bri-
gade. He does not tell how, on March
%. in the face of fire that appalled,
even the veterans. he helped drag a
gun through a dense bamboo thicket
TO point within $50 yards of the Fill
pino lines. Neither does he tell how,
when the gun had been placed in posi-
ton, shell was fired under his direc
ton that trimmed off the top of an in
surgent breastwork and burst in the
middle of a group of rebels. That shell
made some good FilipinoS, according to
the army standard.
II and its successors made ii impos-
sible for the insurgents to maintain the
position they occupied at this time. A
lieutenant from one of the foreign pow
ers happened to be with Sergeant An
derson's section. He said he had Start
ed with the artillery because he thought
It would fi>t at long range. and he
would, therefore, be comparatively
safe. In future. though, he declared
that rather than stay with Utah bat
terry he would join a storming party
of infantry, because it would be a lot
safer.
Praise For Grant.
While Major Grant can't say enough
in praise of his men, the volunteers are
equally enthusiastic over their COM
mander-in-ch Major Grant is not
a dress parade officer" said one of the
much of a showing on a parade ground,
but You ought to see him in action. He
is quick to see what is wanted, and
quicker to have that very thing done.
Il have watched him under fire. and
he was usually the coolest man on the
line. More than once l have seen bull
lets kick up the dust at his feet, or
bury themselves in trees he might be
standing in front of and not more than
half an inch from his head. He never
paid any more attention to them than
If they had been grasshoppers.
When Grant was ordered TO relieve
Captain Randolph on the Laguna de
Bay, he proceeded to whoop things up.
The very first day he went further up
than Randolph had ever been, and the
way he poured il into the rebs was a
caution. There was a big difference
between him and Randolph, too. in
their treatment of the men.
For instance. once when the Lasuna
de Bay came back under Randolph the
men jumped over the sides of the boat
for bath. Ii made Randolph mad
and he made the men put on white
clothes and go through an inspection.
The first day Grant got through
work he said: Boys, you'd better
tumble in and take a swim. We've had
a hot day of it You can bet the boys
tumbled in and they'd do anything for
Grant"