Evening star., 1902-01-15
THE WEST INDIAN MEDALS
NUMBER NECESSARY ESTIMATED AT
SEVENTY-FIvE HUNDRED.
One Will BE Bestowed on Every Of
ncer and Man who Participated
in That Campaign.

Seventy-five hundred medals is the esti-
mate of Navy Department officials for the
number of these tokens of recognition
which are shortly to be ordered for the Off
GERS and men who participated in the MEM
orable West Indian naval campaign of the
Spanish-Ameriean war. AS pointed out by
the naval board on awards in It's report
some months ago. West Indian campaign
medal will be bestowed upon each and every
officer and man who was in that campaign.
The board has recently been engaged in
deciding upon a number of engagements to
be singled out for special commemoration,
participation in which will mean an extra
gold bar for each, to be attached to the
West Indian campaign medal.
OF course the battle of Santiago bay
heads the list of these, and now the board
has decided upon the following additional
engagements which, in It's opinion, merit
special distinctions:
Cienfuegos. Maytl1, 1898; Cardenas, May
II, 1898: Santiago (cabe cutting expedi-
tion) May IS, 1898; three days fight at
Guantanamo. June II, II and 13, 1898;
Manzanillo, June 30, 1898; Nipe Bay, July
81, 1898: Manzanillo, July 1s, 1898, and
ManZanilO. August II, 1898.
In this state of affairs Lieut. Commander
Lucien Young and Lieut.. Carl w. Jungen
will have the most distinguished looking
medals. Lieut.. Commander Young, in COM
mand of the Hist, played an important part
in the engagements at Manzanillo on June
30 July 1S, and in the bombardment of that
place on August II, and Lieut.. Jungen won
warm approval with the Wompatuck in the
cable-cutting expedition at Santiago on
May 49, and in the ManZanillo engage
ments on June 80 and July Is. Thus these
officers will each have attached to their
campaign medals two bars, inscribed with
the names and dates of the engagements
mentioned.
In order to give general idea of the dis
trfbution of the bars. it may be stated that
the Marblehead and the gunboat Nashville
We're the vessels engaged in the affair at
Cienfuegos on May II, which consisted OF
the cutting of the telegraph cables of the
eastern side of ColoradoS point, at the en-
trance to the harbor and a bombardment
At Cardenas, on the same day, were the
Machias Wilmington, Hudson and Wins
low. The cutting of the Santiago-Jamaica
ca BILE on the 18th of May was accomplished
by the St. Louis and the Wompatuck
while Captain McCal1a's landing forces and
the marines under Colonel Huntington par
ticipated in the three days fight at Guam
tanamo on June II, II and 13.
At Nipe bay on July 21 were the Annapo-
lis the Topeka, the Wasp and the Leyden,
and the vessels engaged in the fights at
Manzanillo We're: June 80, the Hist, Hor-
net, Wompatuck. Scorpion and Osceola;
July Is, the Wilmington commanded by
Captain c.. c. Todd, the Scorpion, Hornet,
Hist, Wompatuck and Helena; August II,
the Newark. Hist, Suwanee, Alvarado
Commanded by Lieutenant Victor Blue,
Osceola and ReSolute.
The Navy Department being now official
ly supplied with list of the engagements
to be commemorated by bars, the bureau of
navigation has now been called upon to
prepare a list of the officers and men who
are entitled to receive them, so that orders
for both the medals and the bars can go
forward as soon as possible.