The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-07-09
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
PLANS FOR MEETING IN
.MANKATO SOON
Gathering to Be Held July 10,
10 and 20; Outline of
Program

On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
July 18. 10 and 20, the comrades of
Glen II. Campbell Camp No. 10 Of
Mankato will be host to the comrades
and ladies of the camps and auxili-
aries Of the sixteenth annual en-
campment of the department of Min
nesota United Spanish War veter-
ans.
The present organization Of United
Spanish War veterans is the result of
the amalgamation in 1904 of organi-
zatfons known az Spanish War Vet
Grams, the Spanish American War
Veterans, the Service Men of the
Spanish War, the Legion of Spanish
War Veterans and the Society of the
Veteran Army of the Philippines.
The close of the Spanish War
found nearly every skirmish resulting
in an organization to perpetuate the
much as their interests were in com
mon the present organization was the
result.
The organization is composed Of
soldiers, sailors and marines who
served in the Spanish War, the Phil
lippins Insurrection, and the Boxer
Rebellion, who served between the
dates of the declaration of war in
April, 1898, and the signing of the
protocol July 4, 1902
Only honorably discharged men are
eligible to the organization.
The present membership is about
10000 comrades id camps in the
United States, Alaska Philippine
Islands, Cuba and Hawaii and the
Panama Canal zone.
The department of Minnesota has
camps in Redwing, st. Paul, Fort
Smelling, Winona, Duluth, Minneapo-
lis, Waseca, Austin, New Ulm, CHS
holm, Albert Lea, Mankato, Willmar,
Mortified. .
Colonel Roosevelt camp was re-
81, was installed at Litch1eld, while
the newest camp just organized at
Alexandria has been named after the
late Commander in Chief Carl C. Van
Dyke, who was born in that city.
The following are the present OFF,
GERS of the department:
Department Commander-C. w.
Ketcham, Minneapolis.
Senior Vice Department Command
er-George Koenig, Mankato.
Junior Vice Department Command
Err. D. Burns, st. Paul.
Department Adjutant--E. R. Ben
son, Minneapolis.
Assistant Department Adjutapt-H.
H. Mix, Minneapolis.
Department Quartermaster-N. P.
Nelson, Minneapolis.
Department Marshall. w. Wall
ace, Minneapolis.
Department Chief Of staff-William
Clemens, Chisholm.
Department Chaplain-Rev. John
G.. Schaibly, Duluth.
Department Surgeon-Dr. G. E..
French, Duluth.
Depart m emit Inspector-Henry
Theilke, ST. Paul.
Department Historian-Gust Koe-
schel, Winona.
Department Judge Advocate
Matthias Baldwin. Minneapolis.
Department Musician II d W ar d
Ario, Mankato.
Legislative Committee-G eorg e
Moeler and Hugo v. Koch, st. Paul,
and ]. B. Gibson, Duluth.
Representative of the Soldiers
st. Paul
The Department of Minnesota aux
Hilary of the United Spanish War
Veterans will hold their encampment
at the same time and place. About
three hundred comrades and ladies
representing the organization are
expected to attend this encamp-
The Department of Minnesota had
up until the death of Carl c. Van
Dyke, comrades who were members
of congress from Minnesota Carl G.
Van Dyke, Franklin Ellsworth, Sgd
ney Anderson.
These encampments bring togeth-
er men who served in every volunteer
regiment Of the Spanish War, and
has a service camp at Fort Smelling
composed of regulars and ex- CIRCULARS
many of whom are still in the serv-
ice
During the World War this camp
had sixty seven Of its 1T members
in the service, the majority Of whom
served in the 28th Infantry, which
first American offensive at Cantigny.
The regiment went into action on the
night of May q, 1918, and when the
regiment was relieved on the night
of May 80, over one-half of the Off
GERS and one third of the men who
had gone into the attack were miss
ing from the ranks. Sixty four Of
ficers being killed or wounded and
1,131 men.
The Department Commander c. w.
Ketcham of Minneapolis served in
COupduy Po04ku AiiihOio NoAuhIOOA
Infantry and was in General Fitz-
hughes corps. Lees corps, the Sew
enth being stationed at MORO Castle
at Havana when Lee was sent to
Cuba with the army of occupation.
He was there when the Spanish flag
gave way to Old Glory. Charles
stay was short at Moro, however.
inasmuch as he and his bunky were
taken down with yellow fever. his
"Bunky" succumbed to the dread dis
ease the fourth day.
The department has man who
served with Colonel Funston in the
Twentieth Kansas, and participated
in the capture of Aguinaldo.
Mankato has a comrade at the head
Of the local camp who will be able to
talk over old times during the Boxer
Rebellion when the Ninth Infantry
of regulars entered the Forbidden
City. Frank e. Smith. state railroad
inspector, was sergeant in that
regiment.
The department has the distinction
of having q comrade who helped to
raise the Ill fated Battleship Maine
which was blown up in Havana Har-
Dor, February Is, 1898. v. E. Pathoude
State Boiler inspector was a mem
Der Of the u. s. Engineer Corps which
was assigned to that task
Ole G. Sanstad, a past department
commander of the u. s. w. V. was q
member of the South Dakota reg-
rRant which covered itself with glory