District Villa Gayoso-Con. Adam Beakly. Juan Hambeeling. Guillermo Hamberling. Estavan de Alva. Jorge Cleare. Enrique Platner. Jacobo Hufman. Clemente Dyson. Juan Dyson. Justo Humphreys. Andres Wadkins. Edmundo Johnson. Roberto Crayton. Tomas Daniels. Maria Shepman. Tomas Adams. Abraam Glason. Guillermo Adams. Enrique Green. Bernabe Isenhoot. Miguel Fake. Juan Fake. Jacobo Crumholf. Tomas Robeson. Jorge Forman. Jaime Johns. Estavan Cole. Samuel Karr. Ismy Forman. Jaime Cole el viejo. Solomon Cole. Benjamin Still. Abner Marvill. District Villa Gayoso-Con. Juan Zeines. Guillermo Cole. Jacobo Stampley. Jaime Cole el joven. Ricardo Harrison. Benito Truly. Groves Muris. Hugh Bell. Guillermo Thomas. Tarpley Bayly. District of Santa Catalina. Jephta Higdon. La Vuida Calvet. Guillermo Daniels. Ricardo Dun. Isac Tabor. Ricardo Ellis. La Vuida Carpenter. District of Santa Catalina-Con. | District of Santa Catalina-Con. Tomas Kelly. Miguel Doren. Andres Bell. Jese Withers. Jaime McIntire. Moises Bonner el Viejo. Moises Bonner el joven. Jose Bonner. Enrique Manadue el joven. Juan Vaucheret. Jose Vaucheret. Jose Vaucheret. Windsor Pips. Abner Pips. Juan Conarrod Strong. Emanuel Madden. Roberto Cotton, Miguel Pamer. Juan Scoggins. Juan Shonauer. Guillermo Henderson. Eliza Ophill. Francisco Anderson. Jose Bernard. Jorge Fitzgerald. Jaime Fitzgerald. Daniel Crafton. Polser Shilling. *Jaime Ferry. Guillermo Barland. Bernardo Lintot. David Williams. Benjamin Momanto. Sutton Banks. Antonio Grass. Estavan Mays. Tomas Rule. Alexandro Moore. Adam Bingman. Eunice MacIntoche. Guillermo MacIntoche. Guillermo Smith. Philetus Smith, Juan Bisland. Jaime Wade. Guillermo Owens. Tomas Jordan. Jaime Bonner. Juan Kenrick. Juan Osberry. Roberto Todd. Ricardo Adaams. Federico Man. Carlos King. Israel Leonard. * More likely Terry District of Santa Catalina-Con. | District of Santa Catalina-Con. David Mulkey. Guillermo Gillaspie. Carlos Kayson. Ishamer Andrews. Jacobo Percey. La Vuida Cobberston. Daniel Huilker. Ezekiel Dwet. Jose Duncan. Tomas Jackson. Andres Scandling. Eduardo MacCable. Juan Wilson. Tomas Freman. Ricardo Swezy. Guillermo Weake. Ricardo Bell. Reuben Gibson. Abram Horton. La Muger de Jeremias Guillermo Elliott. Jose Harrison. Juan Ferguson. Juan De Bready. Kedow Rabby. District of Santa Catalina-Con. | District of Santa Clara-Con. Carlos Carter. Roberto Carter. Jose Perkins. Juan Elmore. NOTE-The spelling of names is given as recorded in official records. However, it is well to note that many of the officials of that time were uneducated Spanish officers, and English names, as well as Spanish and French, were corrupted in the spelling. i HISTORY OF COMPANY "C," SECOND MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. BY JAMES MALCOLM ROBERTSHAW. It is now over seventeen years since the company disbanded. Time passes rapidly and memory is faulty, and, unless we preserve by record what heretofore has been in the custody of memory, a true knowledge of an event in which the youth of Washington county participated, may be found wanting and irrecoverable. c I will commence with a brief history of our local military company, the "Delta Guards," subsequently known after reorganization as Company "C." This company was organized April 1, 1895, and the object at the time was more or less a local necessity, aside from which its claims were attractive to the youth of the community for other reasons. In the first place, it assured the members of the company an annual summer vacation in the way of an encampment in the vicinity of some town or city of the state where arrangements were always made to entertain the soldiers in a festive manner. One of the principal features of such entertainments were dances each evening, in which a majority of the soldier boys would participate, and by them considered great successes; for, while their brass buttons were in evidence, the civilians had to take a second place, and so it was with everything else. The manual duties of the company were virtually nominal, except to insure proper training in drills for such occasions. In a few words, it was a company of good fellows, friends who enjoyed each other's society. However, this great round of pleasure did not last; the war clouds could be seen gathering on the horizon |