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II Memorial Museum
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Military
related issues, on the war and home fronts - years 1881 thru
1900
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“From Iowa To The
Philippines, A History of Company M,
Fifty-First
Iowa Infantry Volunteers”
by Joseph I.
Markey, published by the Thomas D. Murphy Company,
Red Oak
Iowa, 1900.
An account of the experiences of soldiers in Company
M
(Red Oak, Iowa), and Company
B (Villisca, Iowa, and other communities),
during
the American-Filipino Insurrection.
Click on the following link to access the 320 pp book
online:
http://friendsofallencounty.org/military/philippines/search_iowaphilippines.php
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The photo above is likely related to Company M
departing for Des Moines,
on 26 APR 1898, prior to service in the
Philippines. Markey (see above)
writes on page 48: "At the depot an immense
crowd had congregated.
There could not have been less than
4,000 and possibly 5,000 people
around the depot platform. The
company marched upon the platform
and filed into their coach, not
without great difficulty, as the crush of
friends trying to
say a last good-by broke the line in many places.
Never before
had such a demonstration been seen in Red Oak."
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Company M,
Fifty-First Iowa Infantry Volunteers,
prior to departure for the Philippines in NOV 1898.
Roster of Company
M (.pdf)
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A brief
history of the 51st Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the
Philippine Insurrection,
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American Troops on
ramparts at Manila, Philippines,
during
the Spanish-American War, 21 APR 1898 - 13 AUG 1898
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Preparations for welcoming home to Red Oak, Iowa,
troops returning from the Philippines, 1899
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RECONCILIATION.
Word
over all, beautiful as the sky,
Beautiful
that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be
utterly lost,
That
the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly
wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
For
my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead,
I
look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin -- I
draw
near,
Bend down
and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the
coffin.
---- Walt
Whitman, Leaves of
Grass, 1891-92
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