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SOLDIERING IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSHugh Hamman Writes an Interesting Story of His Trip to the PhilippinesI will try and give you some items of army life so far as I have experience. In company with my father and Dr. E. K. Schurtz, on the morning of August, 3, we went to Ft. Wayne on the T. C. I. arriving there at 7:40 a. m. We found the U. S. recruiting station and I enlisted in the U. S. Cavalry under recruiting Sergt. A.L. Seiler. I remained in Ft. Wayne paying my board until the next Tuesday.There were two young men, Wm. Finley, of Alliance, 0., and Harold C. Hall, of Bay City, Mich., who enlisted with me in the same branch of the service. Monday a captain of the regular army came from Toledo and gave us a light examination and signed the papers made out by the recruiting sergeant and then ordered us to be vaccinated after which he sent us to the U. S. barracks at Columbus, O., where we were given a medical examination and sworn into the U. S. service and our training in military science commenced.I remained at the barracks one month and eleven days when I was detailed as one of 68 men assigned to the 2nd Cavalry stationed in the Philippines. We left Columbus, Sept. 24, 1910, for San Francisco on a special train and there were 254 soldiers on the train all going to the same destination, some for the 6th Inf., some for the 3rd Inf., some for the 1st Field Art., and 68 for the 2nd Cav.Our route was over the T. 0. C. to Toledo, thence via L. S. M. S. to Chicago, passing Waterloo at 4:30 p. m. the same day. From Chicago we came via Kansas City, Pueblo, Col., Ogden, Utah, over the C. R. I. and Denver Kio Grande, thence the Southern Pacific to San Francisco. We stopped four hours in Kansas City and marched up town. (We came through Illinois, Iowa, Kan- j sas and Nebraska. The corn did not look so well as in Ohio and Indiana but . there was corn as far as the eye could , reach through the prairie states and for ( long distances not a tree was to be | seen and few houses, there was nothing to obstruct the vision as far as the eye could reach. The grain had all been ( threshed and strawstacks in every di- ( rection.^ imi . ,
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Waterloo Press
Waterloo, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 19, 1911
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