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bushes while the men continued the
fight dispersed the enemy and took
possession of the town Many of the
soldiers wept when they learned of
their commanders death He was the
only American killed in the fight
though several of the officers and men
were wounded
The death of General Lawton caused
profound sorrow throughout the army
He had been known for nearly forty
years as one of the most fearless fight
ers In the service Next to General
Custer who fell In the awful fight oa
the Little Big Horn In 1876 Lawton
was esteemed the most daring fighter
on the plains A grateful country la
proud to honor him The president of
the United States who watched Law
ton at El Caney and Santiago and
knew his worth from personal observa
tion was proud to accept the Invita
tion from the citizens of Indianapolis
to take part In the unveiling of the me
morial
Genaral Westons Exploit
General John F Weston who many
years later became commissary gener
al of subsistence was a cavalry major
In 1864 He captured a Confederate
transport on the Tallapoosa river In
Alabama With six followers each
man having his revolver strapped on
top of his head to keep the powder dry
he swam into the stream and took the
captain of the transport prisoner
through a clever ruse This deed made
him a medal of honor man
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By DANIEL B SKITT
Copyright 1907 by T E McGrath
DAY in Indianapo
lis this year is made memora
ble by the unveiling of a
statue of Major General Hen
ry Ware Lawton President Roosevelt
participating General Lawton was
the most conspicuous victim of the
war in the Philippines He was killed
during a battle at San Mateo near Ma
nila Dec 19 1899
The statue is a bronze figure of Gen
eral Lawton In uniform Daniel Ches
ter French of New York and Andrew
OConner now living In Paris were
the sculptors The statue and stone
pedestal cost between 25000 and 30
000 raised by popular subscription
most of it from friends and admirers
of General Lawton in Indiana his
home state The movement to erect
the memorial was started shortly after
the death of the general
The career of General Lawton makes
a brilliant page in American military
history For thirty seven years he was
soldier of the United States He
served In the civil war in the Spanish
American war in the Filipino uprising
and through several severe Indian
campaigns on the western plains He
was what is sometimes described as a
born soldier In fact he never follow
ed any other calling
Just a week after the attack on Fort
Sumter In 1861 Henry W Lawton en
listed in the volunteer service He was
but eighteen years of age His first
service was as a private and sergeant
in an Indiana infantry regiment and
he was promoted rapidly for gallant
fighting Congress voted him a medal
of honor for gallantry In action in the
fighting before Atlanta in 1864 Before
the end of the war he was a brevet
colonel When the war closed Colonel
Lawton retired for a few months but
In July 1866 he entered the regular
army as a second lieutenant in an in
fantry regiment He remained In the
regular army until his death by a Fili
pino bullet more than thirty three years
later At the time of his death his rank
in the regular army was that of a colo
nel but the war department clerks at
Washington were preparing his com
mission as a brigadier general in the
regular service when the news reached
the department that he had been killed
in battle
In 1871 Lawton was transferred to
the Fourth cavalry He fought the
Sioux the Utes and other hostile Indian
tribes and in 1886 performed one of the
most notable exploits In plains warfare
history by rounding up and capturing
a fierce Apache chief old Geronimor
who had given the government more
trouble than any other Indian on rec
ord General Miles selected Captain
Lawton to lead an expedition of picked
men into Mexico against Geronimo and
his band of bloodthirsty Apaches Law
ton visited the chief in his camp and
planned for his surrender This was
one of the most daring ventures in In
dian war annals Some of the older
army officers still discuss It with won
der
At Santiago Lawton with the rank
of brigadier general of volunteers com
manded the second division of the Fifth
army corps doing valuable service in
the several engagements leading to the
capture of the Cuban city He was
made a major general of volunteers
less than a week after the fall of San
tiago for gallantry at El Caney
General Lawtons service In the Phil
ippines was notably brilliant He be
gan his work there early in 1899 In
July he was placed in command at
Manila He immediately began a cam-
palgn with the object of capturing
General Agulnaldo the Filipino leader
It was much like the Indian fighting
with which Lawton was so familiar
Various small engagements were
fought the Filipinos frequently hiding
In the jungles and shooting from am
bush General Lawton captured San
Isidro the capital of the Filipino gov
ernment at the time and chased Agul
naldo from place to place
About the middle of December the
general led a force of something mora
ihau a thousand soldiers against a Fil
ipino stronghold at the town of San
Mateo fifteen miles from Manila Gen
eral Lawton and his staff made the
trip on horseback in one night over
almost impassable mountains in a
heavy rainstorm The horses slipped
and slid down the hills and ravines
and the men arrived on the river bank
opposite San Mateo drenched and mud
dy but full of fighting spirit
When the engagement began Gen
eral Lawton wearing a white helmet
and a yellow raincoat was a conspicu
ous target ne was in fact the most
conspicuous target In the army being
six feet three Inches tall and a big
man at that He Insisted against the
advice of his staff upon going on the
firing line He was standing in front
of the firing line the men being prone
in the grass when one of his staff offi
cers observed that the Filipino sharp
shooters were trying to pick the gen
eral off Bullets struck the ground
near his feet The staff officer remon
strated with the general for exposing
himself but Lawtons well known con
tempt for bullets caused him to regard
the warning lightly A little later he
cried I am shot and clutched at his
breast He fell Into the arms of the
officer and died instantly
General Lawtons body was borne to
the rear and placed In a clump of
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The Civil War
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By WALTON WILLIAMS
American civil war was the
greatest conflict at arms in the
history of the human race The
American Revolutionary war
which lasted nearly twice us long was
a series of mere skirmishes compared
with the struggle of the early sixties
Battles were fought during the civil
war now known only to the mustiest
of historians or to local tradition or
recollection which exceeded in the
forces engaged and surpassed in the
carnage resulting some of the most im
portant actions during the struggle for
Independence The number of battles
fought greatly exceeded the number
Incident to any single European war
The firing line was a thousand miles
long Nearly 4000000 men were en
gaged More than 500000 men were
killed in action or died from wounds
or disease In practically every re
spect the war of 1861 65 was the big
gest and bloodiest of all time
This stupendous struggle embraced
so many ramifications of incident that
a complete history of the whole Is ut
terly impossible Historians have been
able only to hit the high spots for
want of space and lack of time and
endurance to sift and chronicle all the
interesting facts
We do not know even how many bat
tles were fought This can be only ap
proximated In the governments
Chronological List of Battles the
number exceeds 2200 But the bureau
of pensions has an alphabetical list of
engagements including skirmishes and
such other minor actions as were deem
ed sufficiently important to note This
list contains more than 6800 engage
ments
About 2800000 Union soldiers were
enlisted during the war The Confed
erate records are very incomplete
many of them having been lost or de
stroyed It Is estimated that the num
bers engaged on that side of the con
flict were not far short of 700000 men
These figures do not Include the con
siderable numbers of Irregular com
batants on each side many of whom
were not officially enrolled
War department records show 359
528 deaths from all causes in the Un
ion armies during the war In propor
tion to strength of forces engaged the
Confederate losses were equally se
vere In the absence of definite records
any estimate however must be a mere
guess In the Union armies 67058
men were killed In battle 43012 died
of wounds received in action and 224
586 died of disease Incident to service
Of those killed in battle 4142 were
commissioned officers The number of
Union men who died while prisoners
of war was 29498 United States mil
itary authorities executed 267 men and
-would have executed many more but
for the humane Intervention of Abra
ham Lincoln The Confederates exe
cuted four officers and sixty men of
the Union forces
It is a most remarkable fact that in
the four years of this mighty conflict
only one man was executed for polit
ical reasons by a Union general In
New Orleans a man named Mumford
pulled down a flag of the United States
after the city had been captured but
before it was occupied by the Federal
forces General Benjamin F Butler
who was In command of the occupying
force caused Mumford to be hanged
Where Lincoln Put tho Whetstone
A soldier at whose house when a boy
Lincoln paused in his tramps in Illinois
and who lent him a whetstone to sharp
en his jackknife met him during the
war in Washington Lincoln spoke of
using the whetstone
drawled out the old soldier
Whatever did you do with the whet
stone I never could find It We
Mowed mebbe you took it along with
you No no I put it on top of the j
gatepost that high one Mebbe you
did Nobody else could have reached
It and none of us ever thought to look
there for It There It was found where
it was placed fifteen years before The j
soldier reported the fact to the preai
dent
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Uncle Sam Giving Away Farms
On June 2G 1907 tho Government
will open to homestead 33000 acres of
irrigated land in the Yellowstone Valley
near Billings Montana This is the
first time that the Government has
opened land by this method having
built the ditches the laterals telephone
system electrical plant etc for all of
the tract before allowing any of the
land to be entered The water is now
ready to turn on and those who are
lucky enough to draw one of these
irrigated farms will be made independ
ent for life
These lands known as the Huntley
Project lands are among the richest
and most productive lands in the north
west and will successfully grow all
kinds of grain root and forage crops
and any men who is able to rent a farm
is able to take one of these irrigated
homesteads and be assured of success
It is hard to estimate the value of these
lands as similar lands in the same
locality last year netted the farmers
who raised sugar beets as much as 25
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