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.