The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles

by James Edgar Allen; John J. Reidy

FIRST.

Manila, May 4, 1902.

To General Davis:

Order that the following message of the President of the United States be read to every company and troop in your Brigade. It will be published in Division Orders for the information of other commanders, and as a special mark and tribute to the assaulting force of the Battle of Bayan.

(Sgd.) Chaffee.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

Washington, D. C., May 5, 1902.

To General Chaffee,
Manila.

Accept for the Army under your command, and express to General Davis and Colonel Baldwin especially, my congratulations and thanks for the splendid courage and fidelity which has again carried our flag to victory. Your fellow countrymen at home will ever reverence the memory of the fallen, and be faithful to the survivors, who have themselves been faithful unto death for their country's sake.

(Sgd.) Theodore Roosevelt.