. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. .This increase in the number of vessels Inought the max-imum fighting force from sixty-eight to one hundredninety-six. The war was progressing with great strides, both on theland and on the sea. Our soLliers and our sailors weretransported to the scenes
. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. .This increase in the number of vessels Inought the max-imum fighting force from sixty-eight to one hundredninety-six. The war was progressing with great strides, both on theland and on the sea. Our soLliers and our sailors weretransported to the scenes of conflict in both the Old Worldand the New. The area of Spanish rule was slowly butsurely contracting and it was but a question of a few weeksat the most when they would be driven from many of theirpossessions. History was being made rapidly and everyman who was aiding in bringing success to the Ameri-. COL. THEO. Manila Bay ano San Juan ISO C!»n forces took a great pride in his work. The officialsat Washington were ever on tli(> alert, more tlian halfexpecting the Spanish government wouhl succeed in se-curing tlie assistance of some foreign power in their l;e-half. l)ut fortunately for us. and [)ossil)ly for themselvesall of the ])o\vers took a neutral stand and left the op-posing governments to settle the question between them-selves. The first test of tlu tighting (pialities of the opposingforces occurretl on the first day of May. CommodoreDewey, on that day. destroyed the Spanish fl-et in Ma-nila bay without the loss of a man on the part of ourforces, while the S[)anish loss was three hundred eightyone men killed and wounded. The downfall of the cityof Manila did not occur for some time, not until after thearrival of General Merritt.: on the fifteenth day of Augustthe city capitulated and the American flag was floated tothe breeze over Spanish soil. On May
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