Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1899 — "BLOODY TENTH" AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

"BLOODY TENTH" AT HOME.

Pennsylvania Volunteers Back from the Philippines. The Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers passed through Chicago Sunday afternoon on their way home from the Philippines. Bronzed by the tropical sun and \inured to war by service first in Cuba against the Spaniards and later in the far away Philippines against the wily forces of Aguinaldo, the boys of the “Bloody Tenth,” Pennsylvania’s pride, were cheered at every station as their train sped on its way to Pittsburg. Col- Sanborn had extended the Pennsylvanians an invitation to stop over in Chicago as guests of the First Illinois infantry, but Col. Barnett found this impossible, and the three sections of the troop train were delayed only long enough to make the transfer from the Chicago and Northwestern to the Pennsylvania line. The regiment roll contained 756 names —733 privates and twenty-three officers. It lost twenty-one men in the Orient, fifteen being killed in battle and six dying of fever. The occasion of the Tenth regiment’s home-coming was made a holiday throughout a big section of western Pennsylvania. Pittsburg and Allegheny were thronged with hundreds of thousands of persons who came to welcome the heroes home. President McKinley was there, as was Maj. Gens. Merritt and Greene. Gov. Stone delivered the formal address at Schenley Park, and the countless throng then singled out the soldiers and proceeded to make an idol of each, irrespective of rank. The President reviewed the regiment and made a speech. More than $50,000 was spent to make the welcome a royal one.