Excerpt from History of the Operations of the First Nebraska Infantry, U. S. V. In the Campaign in the Philippine Islands: Compiled From Data Furnished by Our Correspondent Who Was With the Regiment Throughout the Campaigns and From Official Records of the Regiment and the Official Reports of Brigadier-General Irving Hale Company B of Fullerton, Nance County, was organized by George T. Meikel john, the present Assistant Secretary of War, in April, 1891. J. T. Smith was its first Captain. In 1896, Robert G. Adams was elected Captain, J. T. Smith First Lieutenant, and Joseph A. Storch, Second Lieutenant. Subsequently William H. Oury, who had been Captain of the Pershing Rifles, was commissioned Captain by the Governor, and the company was recruited with excellent material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.