Elmore Nelson Page 4

1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

Corporal Elmore Nelson

Brothers-in-arms of Company H

Elmore Nelson

From Elmore's application for a passport in June, 1922.

His signature is across the bottom of the photograph.

From: U.S. Passport Applications, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Philippines, 1907-1925 ;
Volume #: Volume 70: Passport Applications- Philippine Islands
via Ancestry.com

The following are handwritten copies of letters and affidavits sent to Elmore
by his former comrades of Company H.

The above affidavit was written by Michael L. Donohoe who served alongside
Elmore Nelson in Company H in Cuba and the Philippines.

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The above affidavit was written by Charles E. Rankin who served alongside
Elmore Nelson in Company H in Cuba and the Philippines. The handwriting in this document
appears to be different from the other letter posted on these pages from Rankin and may be
a copy produced by Elmore for his files.

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The above letter was written by Lafayette E. Mosier.

Mosier was from Indiana and enlisted as a Private in Company H 22nd Infantry in August 1895. He served alongside
Elmore Nelson in Cuba and was discharged at Camp Wikoff, New York when the Regiment was there in quarantine
upon returning from Cuba in August 1898.

In the letter Mosier mentions a "Sargt Schafer." This is in reference to August Schafer who was born in
Germany in 1867. Schafer enlisted as a Private in Company H 22nd Infantry in 1895 and served alongside of
Elmore Nelson in Cuba. After being discharged from Company H as a Sergeant at Camp Wikoff in August 1898
Schafer enlisted in the Artillery where he served a long career eventually becoming an Ordnance Sergeant in the
Post Non Commissioned Staff section of the Army.

The name of the other Sergeant Mosier refers to is illegible.

The passage " ... you remember Ferris don't you you know he was taken Away from the Co over ther while we were
at Santiago sick and never did see him again ..." is in reference to Private Lorenzo B. Ferris of Company H 22nd Infantry.
Obviously Mosier did not know that Ferris died of illness near Siboney, Cuba on August 15, 1898.

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