The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-27
BOYS OF The 45TH.
Captain LOye Only Representative
of the Old Thirteenth.
HIS WORK IN CLEANING BUHI
sketch of the Regiments Movements
on the IsIand-Many Minne-
sofa Officers.

Special to The Journal.
San Francisco, Cal, May 27.-The ar
rival of the Sheridan was an occasion for
rejoicing among numerous Minnesota and
northwestern families. The good ship
brought the Forty-1fth United States vol
unteer infantry, which was recruited at
Fort Smelling, with the exception of two
companies recruited at Vancouver bar
racks, Washington. About one hundred
enlisted men are from Minnesota. while
the rest are from Iowa, Wisconsin, Illi-
nofs, the Dakotas and Montana.
John n. Loye, captain of Company !,
whose home is in Red Wing, is the only
officer from the old famous Thirteenth
Minnesota. Captain Loye saw much hard
service in the Philippines during his prev
ious enlistment, when he was battalion
sergeant major The knowledge Of the
country and its people, gained during that
service, made him an especially valuable
man for the work which deYOlved upon
him during the past year.
OF the things that Captain Loye did,
that which attracted the most attention
among the natives, was the white washing
of every fence and building in the town
Of Buhi. In a month, the former insight
ly place, with its old weather. beaten huts,
its newly thatched houses, dirty looking
stone churches and government buildings,
took on a clean appearance which at once
won many natives over to the American
side, for they looked upon the transforma-
tion as a miracle performed by the
Americana Captain The white City"
at once gained a reputation in the prov
ince which attracted much trade and new
inhabitants who desired to live in so re-
freshing surroundings.
The Forty-fifth infantry sailed from
San Francisco in November, 1899, arriv-
ing in Manila on Dec. %, ten days after
General Lawton's death. The regiment
went into camp at lie Iona church and
had one or two warm engagements which
gave the men their baptism of fire. With
in two weeks they were relieved by the
Forty-second and went to old Camp
Dewey, the peanut field on which the
Thirteenth Minnesota spent a damp seven
days in August, 1898. Then under COM
mand of General Bates, the regiment
acting as a unit, a campaign was begun
through Bakor, linus and the southern
part of CaYite province, which finally
brought the regiment to a small town
overlooking the entrance to Manila bay,
and just opposite Corrigedor Island.
After a week spent in camp, the march
was resumed through to Batangas prov
ince and on TO the Cammerines, where,
in February, 1899, the various companies
took stations in the larger towns to pre-
are in the hemp belt and it was necessary
to afford thorough protection to those
engaged in the gathering Of that article
Over eleven months were spent there
the regiment finally going to Manila on
the transport Tartar to remain until
ordered home.
Among the officers of the regiment from
Minnesota are First Lieutenant W. A.
Edwards, who held a like rank in the
Fifteenth Minnesota; First Lieutenant
Allen G. Blaker, formerly of the Twelfth
Minnesota, who has remained in the
islands, being captain of the port at Diet;
Charles E. n. Howard, second lieutenant;
Captain E. c. Montfort of st. Paul, a
captain in the Fourteenth Minnesota;
Captain Dan w. Hand, who commanded a
battalion in the Fifteenth and again, ow-
ing to the detail Of the lieutenant colonel
of the Forty-fifth, has been in command
of a battalion for over ten months.
Officers from other states who are
known to former Thirteenth officers, are
Captain z. o. Warwick of the Second