May 30, 2025 – During the Philippine Insurrection and the Spanish American War in the late 1890s, many North Dakotans quickly volunteered for duty, and they were sent to a strange and different land in the Philippines, where they endured harsh conditions. Private William G. Lamb of Hamilton wrote this letter home a month before his death: “We fellows came 10,700 miles looking for a scrap, a...
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