1st Battalion 22nd Infantry AAR 1899 Pt 2

The 22nd Infantry on operations in the Philippines, bayonets fixed, anticipating close quarters combat.

The following are taken from the Congressional Serial Set of 1900-
Report of Operations of the 2nd Division, Eighth Army Corps,
from May 31, 1899, to April 6, 1900

The reports cover activities of the 22nd Infantry during the months of
September, October, and December 1899.

2nd Lieutenant George S. Simonds,
who commanded the gunboat Oeste,
and gave the above report.

Simonds graduated from the US Military Academy
in 1895, and would spend some 43 years in the Army.
Sixteen of those years he served with the 22nd Infantry.

He rose to the rank of Major General,
and in 1935 was the Deputy Chief of Staff
of the Army.

During the year 1899 the following losses were incurred by the 22nd Infantry.
Places of birth are listed when known.

DOD = Died Of Disease
( A catch-all phrase used in the 19th Century to denote any non-battle death)

Harry Clay Egbert.....03/26/1899 - Colonel - KIA - Regimental Commander - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Killed at Malinta
Edward Miller.....09/19/1899 - Sergeant-major - DOD - Newark, New Jersey - Died on transport Newport enroute to U.S.

Charles Slemmons.....01/06/1899 - Private - DOD - Leslie, Kentucky - Died from Spinal meningitis at Fort Crook, Nebraska
Frank B. Johnston.....10/06/1899 - Private - DOD - Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio - Died from accidental gunshot
Dimitric C. Buck.....12/05/1899 - Private - DOD - St. Petersburg, Russia - Died from Dysentery
Kenneth M. Rodenberger.....12/08/1899 - Private - DOD - Oroville, California - Died from Malaria

John Snider.....01/27/1899 - Private- DOD - Daviess County, Indiana - Died from Spinal Meningitis
George E. Stewart.....03/13/1899 - Private - KIA - Ionia County, Michigan - Killed near Guadalupe
John M. McCall.....09/06/1899 - Private - DOD - Daviess County, Indiana - Died from General Peritonitis
John H. Kelly.....12/20/1899 - Private - KIA - London, England - Killed near Quiangan

Bert Pope.....09/30/1899 - Private- DOD - Marshall, Illinois - Died at hospital in Manila from Measles
Samuel H. Alexander.....10/01/1899 - Private - DOD - Montgomery County, Kentucky - Died from Chronic Dysentery
Charles O. Rainwater.....11/28/1899 - Private - DOD - Pulaski County, Kentucky - Died from Typhoid
Shelby H. Taylor.....12/07/1899 - Private - DOD - Harrison County, Kentucky - Died from Acute Diarrhea
George Lehfeld.....12/27/1899 - Private - DOD - Hudson County, New Jersey - Died from Typhoid

George A. Abbott.....02/01/1899 - Corporal - DOD- Halifax, Canada - Fell overboard from the transport Senator during a storm
Wesley J. Hennessy.....03/13/1899 - Private- KIA - Hamilton County, Ohio - Killed near Guadalupe
Ira Wayne Cox.....08/12/1899 - Private - DOW - Webster County, Kentucky - Died of wounds near San Luis

Charles W. Fredericks.....03/18/1899 - Private - KIA - Carlisle, Pennsylvania - Killed near Taguig
John Smith.....03/18/1899 - Private - KIA - Killed near Taguig
Denny Hayes.....05/22/1899 - Private - DOD - Chicago, Illinois - Died from Malaria - sometimes listed as Dennis T. Hayes
Arthur Hollenbach.....12/15/1899 - Private - DOD - Wellington, Ohio - Died from Tuberculosis

Charlie Milkowski.....05/25/1899 - Corporal - DOD - Died from Typhoid
George J. Marks.....11/08/1899 - Private - DOD - Battle Creek, Michigan - Drowned in Rio Grande de la Pampanga river near Cabanatuan
George H. H. McLean.....12/05/1899 - Private - DOD - Died from Intestinal Intussusception

William Swift.....01/13/1899 - Private - DOD - Cooperstown, New York - Died from Typhoid at Fort Crook, Nebraska
Paul R. Gatzke.....01/18/1899 - Sergeant - DOD - Ripon, Wisconsin - Died from Cerebro spinal meningitis at Fort Crook, Nebraska
Clarence R. Overton.....03/02/1899 - Private - DOD - Lagrange County, Indiana - Died on the transport Ohio from Spinal Meningitis
John Corbett.....05/14/1899 - Private - DOD - Burlington, Vermont - Died from Typhoid
Lawrence C. McCray.....06/01/1899 - Corporal - DOD - Lena, Indiana - Accidental drowning
Thomas J. Burchill.....07/26/1899 - Private - DOD - Boston, Massachusetts - Died from Malaria
George Steiger.....09/16/1899 - Cook - DOD - Buffalo, New York - Died from Chronic Dysentery

Carl A. Carlson.....05/20/1899 - Private - DOW - Christiana, Norway - Wounded 05/18/1899
Robert Haeffele.....10/16/1899 - DOD - Germany - Died from Malaria
James Harrington.....11/10/1899 - Private - DOD - Manchester, New Hampshire - Died from Chronic dysentery on board transport Sherman
Edward H. Bliler.....12/09/1899 - DOD - Clinton, Ohio - Died from Nephritis

James T. Larkin.....02/06/1899 - Private - DOD - Cameron, Virginia - Died on the transport Ohio
John Miller.....03/26/1899 - Private - KIA - Killed at Malinta

Wynne P. Munson.....03/13/1899 - Corporal - KIA - Killed near Guadalupe - First name also "Winnie"
Murray McCoslin.....07/18/1899 - Private - DOD - Died aboard transport U.S.A.T. Morgan City from Phthisis Pulmonalis
William S. Houck.....08/27/1899 - Private - DOD - Nottingham, Ohio - Died from Chronic Gastro Enteritis
Ephriam S. Yoder.....10/19/1899 - Corporal - DOW - Smithville, Ohio - Killed at San Isidro
John R. Williams.....10/22/1899 - Private - DOD - Youngstown, Ohio - Died from Pneumonia
Herman H. Stone.....10/27/1899 - Private - KIA - Northboro, Massachusetts - Killed near Santa Rosa
Jacob Abel.....11/16/1899 - Private - DOD - Norwich, England - Died from Malaria
Thomas Smith.....11/26/1899 - Private - DOD - Died from Acute Dysentery
Herbert G. Horr.....11/28/1899 - Private - DOD - Maysville, Missouri - Died from Malaria
George W. Rogers.....12/02/1899 - DOD - Fleming County, Kentucky - Died from Malaria
George Magann.....12/18/1899 - Private - DOD - Charlestown, Massachusetts - Died from Acute dysentery
Joseph A. Scites.....12/21/1899 - Private - DOD - Lincoln County, West Virginia - Died from Dysentery

Charles F. Brooke.....03/26/1899 - 1st Sergeant - KIA - London, England - Killed at Malinta
Henry Langford.....05/18/1899 - Corporal - KIA - Missouri - Killed at San Fernando
John Neil.....11/15/1899 - Private - KIA - Lambertsville, New Jersey - Killed at Bayombong in captivity as POW

Henry W. Johnson.....03/18/1899 - Private - KIA - Rock Island, Illinois - Killed near Taguig
Thomas S. Ralph.....09/01/1899 - Private - DOD - Illinois - Died from Typhoid

Returns from Regular Army Infantry Regiments, June 1821–December 1916. NARA microfilm publication M665
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.