Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-12
|BY[RS REPORT MADE
Adjutant General Of the Iowa Guard
Reports For the Biennial
Period.
Valuable Document on Account Of
Its History Of the Recent
War.
Service Of the Iowa Troops in the
War With Spain Mar.
rated.

Adjt. Gen. I3yers for the biennial period
ending November 30, 1899, has just left
1.-the hands of the state binder. In a his
torical wayi IT is one of the most vail
ua bic documents ever emerged from the
adjutant generals Office, as it fully
covers the spanish-American war
Iperiod and deals exhaustively with this
subject in so far asNithe Iowa troops
were concerned therein.
Authority has been given for the pub
lslication of a large edition of this re-
lsport and it is the intention that every
Iowa volunteer shall be furnished with
copy. Volunteers living outside the
state or those who have changed their.
residence since enlistment will be
mailed copies on forwarding their adj
lsdresses to the adjutant generals de-
| partment.
The volume contains sketches Of the
service seen -oy each of the Iowa or gan ,
izations. Col. John G. Loper's report
/ 10 the adjutant general, covering the
4 history of the Fifty-first regiment. is an
Interesting one. After telling of the ex-
\ periences of the regiment from the time
sit was mustered in up to the landing at
SGavite and the ordering OF the regiment
/ TO AIalolos, Col Loper describes the
campaign hat followed in these words:
\ Week pa sed. then the Campaign
7 that resulted in he fall of Calumpit
and the taking of San Fernando
opened The advance on Galumpir was
4 planned to begin on Monday, April "a.
I Fighting Was precfpitated a day before
this, however. a party of scouts ane. a
I small body of he Fourth cavalry, un-
der Mai. Bell. became entangled With
/ a strong force of the enemy, we'll post
led behind trenches at Quinga. six miles
east and north of NIalolos, A baftal-
Jon of the Fifty first Iowa under Major
Hume Companies f, l.. G.. and. i, and
the First Nebraska regiment. hurried
up to 81 pport the scouts and cavalry. A
hot action followed. resulting In the
4 rout of the insurgents from their works
4 and The capture of Quingua by the
Americans. The day was intensely hot,
and in the open rice fields the men suf-
j fered greatly For three hours the
truggle lasted. Then the Filipinos were
\ forced from their position
Several men We're wounded. in the ac-
ton al Quingua. Lieutenant Colonel
Miller, with Companies NJ. X and b,
ca me Up in time to join Major Hume's
command and participate in the fight.
That night the entire regiment was
concentrated at Quingua. The first bat
4 TALON reached the town at 2 O'clock a.
m. The Second and Third battalions
maintained a. strong outpost in and
bout the place. At daylbreak Hale s
4 entire brigade crossed the Bagbag river
near Quingua, after slight resistance,
and moved down parallel with the RICH,
4 bank of that stream toward Caiumpit
i The firing line, from two to three miles
4 in length. swept the country clean as II
i advanced. The Iowatroops were on tlle
Isextreme right, the ThirG battalion, un-
der Major Moore. being IN support. In
4 the course of a toilsonie days work, un-
4 der broiling sun. the brigade fought
Il its way thru miles Of RICE fields and
II jungies. beset with trenches Near the
Etown of Pulilan, short distance from
i Quingua, the right of the regiment en-
countered a strong force. 1t was routed
s and eighty aFilipinos killed, aftera brisk
Sengage cement. in which the Second and
Third battalions and Company ID Of the
4 First battalion took part. Towards eve
a ming the First battalion, Companies HI
4 F. A and ID, under Major Duggan
Joined, the. South Dakotans in driving
4 a body of the enemy our of a long
Itrench. reaching far out from the Bag.
d bag river, four miles from Calunpit
Here Maj. Duggan was wounded in tbs
81 arm, making six casualties in tbs
& course of the day. That night the regi-
ment bivouacked along the lately cap.
q tured trenches.
AT daybreak Hale's forces drew neal
. the defenses of Calumpit. The lins
Swung TO the left the greater part of this
distance. This compelled the lowe
troops to cover more territory than thu
left--nuch of 1t swamp and jungle
with great rapidity. AT 10 O'clock Hale:
:. and Wheaton's brigades We're ready fol
the joint attack.
The artillery with both abrigades
& Iopened, and from the whole line. lyins
1 in the corn fields along the Panpangs
branch in front of the defenses, g
heavy musketry fire was soon thunder.
J. ing forth. The Iowans pressed close Il
1.-the river bank, and. owing to the pecu.
liar bend of the stream here, the Sec.
I ond battalion and the right of the FRS
were enabled to pour in an efficien
!; fire. AT first the answering storm Of
lead was heavy, but the insurgent:
sIscould not stand the struggle and fet
from their trenches with great loss.
The trenches and defenses of Calum
/ pit were the most formidable encoun
:. tered up to date. They were covered
J, and portholed Some were built up Will
, railroad iron and ties and the insurg-
ents had boosted they could not bt
taken. The loss was small, three being
wounded.
The regiment went into temporar,
quarters at Calumpit. April 20 the FRS
battalion went TO l3ocaue, fifteen mile:
from Manila. The next day 1t escorted
an important wagon and pack train
part of the distance--ren miles-out L
Lawton's force, near the mountains.
Mays1, after hard marching, the bat
talon returned to Calumpit May
!. and the entire regiment assisted ii
clearing the country around Quingua
where the insurgents We're supposed Il
be gathering. No resistance was ME
and the expedition returned, crossing
. the Rio Grande de Pampanga and halt
ed at Apalit, Just beyond the stream
n and the next railroad station after Ca
T lumpit.
May the division advanced on Sa2
Fernando, the insurgents capital. nh,
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