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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1899
Page
3
A detailed roster compiled by Adjutant General English records 1,038 Montana volunteers with 12 killed in action 11 died of wounds 15 died of disease 102 wounded and one drowned. The list names officers and enlisted men from Anaconda Butte Helena Bozeman Livingston and other towns with notes on units and service locations including Manila Cavite and San Francisco.
Major J W Drennan of Bozeman died in Manila on June 24. A Civil War veteran who joined the Eighty eighth New York in 1862 he later served in the Twenty second United States Infantry Ninth Infantry and Twentieth Cavalry. He spent most of his career in the West and rose to commissary sergeant at Fort Ellis. His trusted accounting led to lasting confidence from officers.
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