Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Iowa
October 26, 1899

Warm Welcome Accorded The Fifty-First Iowa At San Francisco Monday

Will be Mustered Out and Start for Home in Two or Three Weeks.

San Francisco, Oct. 23. The transport Senator, which arrived here yesterday, with the Fifty-first Iowa, came to the dock today. The soldiers were landed and marched to the ferry depot, where an elaborate breakfast was served. Governor Shaw and may other prominent Iowans were present and speeches appropriate to the occasion were delivered. After breakfast the men lined up for the march to Presidio. The march through the streets of the city was accomplished under the same enthusiastic condition which greeted other returning regiments. The men were cheered all along the line. Each man was decorated with flowers and flags. The camping ground formerly occupied by the Montana regiment will shelter the Iowans until they are mustered out, probably in two or three weeks.

The Fifty-first regiment has lost forty-one men by death. Forty-one homes will not be gladdened when the regiment returns to Iowa. Some died in San Francisco, some in Manilla and some at sea. They were brave young Iowa boys, whose lives would have been of use for many years in many places. They chose to offer it to their country and their country took it. They will never be forgotten by the state in which they served. Those upon whom their loss falls heaviest have the one great consolation of knowing it was because of their patriotism and bravery they met their death.