August 8.-Transport Meade sailed from Manila for San Francisco with headquarters and Companies A, B, C, D, G, H, I, K, L, and M, Fifteenth Infantry, 35 officers and 870 men. Col. H. C. Ward, Fifteenth Infantry, commanding. August 12.-Transport Lawton arrived at San Francisco from Manila with 4 companies Sixteenth Infantry and Third Squadron, Third Cavalry. August 13.--Transport Crook arrived at San Francisco from Manila with headquarters and 7 companies Twenty-fifth Infantry. August 17.-Transport Kilpatrick sailed from Manila for San Francisco with 34 officers and 318 enlisted men. September 1.-Transport Sheridan sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 18 officers and 61 enlisted men-Hospital Corps, recruits, and casuals. September 4.-Transport Sherman sailed from Manila for San Francisco with 45 officers and 273 sick, casuals, and discharged, enlisted men; detained at Nagasaki, Japan, until September 20 on account of sickness aboard. September 6.-Transport Buford arrived at San Francisco from Manila, with headquarters, Second and Third Battalions, Eighth Infantry; Companies E and F, Fifteenth Infantry, and Company G, Twenty-fifth Infantry. September 11-Transport Meade arrived at San Francisco with headquarters and 10 companies, Fifteenth Infantry. September 14.-Transport Kilpatrick arrived at San Francisco from Manila with 34 officers and 318 sick, discharged, and short-term, enlisted men. September 16.-Transport Crook sailed from San Francisco for Manila with 15 officers and 20 enlisted men. September 16.-Transport Logan sailed from Manila for San Francisco with headquarters and Troops F, G, H, K, L, and M, Ninth Cavalry-19 officers and 569 enlisted men-Brigadier-General Grant and 21 officers, 3 contract surgeons, and 360 Hospital Corps, sick, etc., enlisted men. September 20.-Transport Sherman sailed from Nagasaki, Japan, for San Francisco (For troops on board, see entry of September 4.) October 1.-Transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco for Manila, via Honolulu and Guam, with Lieutenant-General Miles and 24 officers, 1 dental surgeon, 27 Hospital Corps men, 4 Signal Corps men, and 29 casuals. October 6.-Transport Sheridan sailed from Manila for San Francisco with Troops A, B, C, D, E, and I, Ninth Cavalry-503 enlisted men-432 casuals, sick, etc., enlisted men. October 13.-Transport Logan arrived at San Francisco from Manila with headquarters and 6 troops, Ninth Cavalry; Brigadier-General Grant and 21 officers, 3 contract surgeons, and 360 Hospital Corps, sick, etc., enlisted men. The insular service of all the organizations of the Army in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines, from June, 1898, to October 1, 1902, with dates of departure from, and return to, the United States, is shown in the following table: |