WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5, 1902.
TO GENERAL CHAFFEE,
MANILA.

Accept for the Army under your command, and express to General Davis
and Colonel Baldwin especially, my congratulations and thanks for
the splendid courage and fidelity which has again carried our flag
to victory. Your fellow countrymen at home will ever reverence the
memory of the fallen, and be faithful to the survivors, who have
themselves been faithful unto death for their country's sake.

(Sgd.) THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

SECOND.

MANILA, May 4, 1902.
TO GENERAL DAVIS:

Please accept my congratulations for yourself, and express to
Colonel Baldwin and all the officers and men engaged in the Battle
of May 2, my high appreciation of their bravery, gallantry and
soldiery conduct. My congratulations to both officers and men. I
sincerely regret the death of some and the wounding of others. Let
no comfort be withheld from the latter that can be supplied them.

(Sgd.) GENERAL A. R. CHAFFEE,
Commanding Philippines.

THIRD.

CEBU, May 4, 1902.
TO GENERAL DAVIS:

My sincere congratulations to Baldwin, and to the officers and men
engaged yesterday. Also to yourself for your energetic and skillful
conduct of the whole affair, from first to last. It was necessary to
give the Moros a lesson, and it seems to have been done in such a
manner that it will not have to be repeated.

(Sgd.) BRIGADIER GENERAL WADE.

FOURTH.

REMARKS OF GENERAL GEORGE W. DAVIS.

SOLDIERS:

Words at my command fail to convey an adequate expression of
admiration for the gallantry and self-sacrifice which I saw
displayed by the assaulting lines and investing cordon on the 2nd of
May. The memory of this sanguinary action will be treasured by all
participants and observers as long as they live. For the 27th
Infantry and the 25th Battery of Field Artillery, Bayan will always
be an inspiration. At this moment of exaltation and triumph do not
forget the vanquished foe, whose persistent gallantry commanded the
admiration of all who saw the magnificent defens