Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — Death of Gen. Lawton. [ARTICLE]

Death of Gen. Lawton.

Gen. Henry W. Lawton, Indiana’s greatest general, and the real hero of the war in the Philippines, was shot Tuesday, and instantly killed. He was attacking a small band of Filipinos at San Mateo, and with his usual utter disregard of danger, was walking back and forth in front of his firing line, when one of the bullets from the enemy’s sharp-shooters pierced his breast, causing instant death. He served with distinction in the war of the rebellion, in long years of Indian warfare, in the war with Spain in Cuba, and in the war in the Philippines. He belonged to Indiana, and went into the civil war from this state, his first enlistment being in the 9th regiment, in which so many Jasper county men served, and of which our own Gen. Milroy was the first colonel. Lawton was in a Fort Wayne company. He soon left the 9th to accept a commission in another regiment.