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Show "DEWEY OF THE ARMY." The Title That Captain Grant, of Ctah, Has Earned. Manila Bay, May 14. Captain Grant of the Utah battery, whose success in managing the army gunboats, Laguna de Bay and C'avadonga, has won for him the sobriquet of "The Dewey of the Army," has been put in command of the recently-purchased Spanish gunboats whose arms the Insurgents captured. These vessels are now being prepared for operations on the rivers and along the coast. The arming of the gunboats is being pushed with all diligence. Fresh troops are beginning to go to the front. Two battalions of the Seventeenth Sev-enteenth infantry (regulars) that had been holding the lines about the city of Manila, will join General MacAr-thur's MacAr-thur's division at San Fernando, and and one battalion of the same regiment regi-ment will reinforce Major-General Lawton's division near Bacolor. These troops will be replaced by the Twenty-first Twenty-first infantry regiment, which arrived from the United States on the transport trans-port Hancock Thursday. |