Show THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR OF 1898 AND 1899 continued from first page and the boys had to suffer the consequences but there Is always something to liven up the dark side for here the utah batteries received the credit of inventing the artillery charge of course they had to advance their canon by hand mr olsen and mr anderson enlisted listoe in ogden april 29 1898 they were sworn into the army in salt lake city may 8 and 9 left salt lake city may and arrived in san francisco may 21 from then until june 14 it was wa drill drill drill on that day da they entered tram transports ports and sailed for manila arrived there july 17 went ashore july 22 the first battle opened on july 31 and august 1 there they received their baptism by fire and from then on until august 13 when the city was taken it was continual scrapping under a tropical sun and moon we had plenty of water from above and below it rained ly for about abou t a month arid it would have been hard to find dry clothes among the soldiers I 1 A souvenir from the morgan co boys in the philippine islands was presented to the morgan county court by D M anderson and olson it was sent from manila as a christmas greeting in dec 1898 it is kept in the clerks office at the court house veterans of foreign wars organization was organized by spanish american veterans in 1899 but they are now greatly outnumbered by other war veterans these veterans are now passing off very rapidly and before long they will all be gone to the same old resting place we all have to see information given by olson arranged by M H C |