It was mustered out of federal service on 1 November 1899 at San Francisco, CA. The First Washington spent a week in Japan en route back to America. The regiment was cited for valorous conduct at the Battle of Santa Ana. In what is known officially as the Philippine Insurrection and also known as the Philippine-American War, the 1st Washington participated in the Manila campaign as well as seeing additional action against the Filipino insurgents on the island of Luzon in 1899. The regiment was dispatched to the Philippines where it was assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, VIII Corps. The Washington National Guardsmen were then reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Regiment, Washington Volunteer Infantry. Among them were ten companies of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Battalions of the Washington National Guard mustered into federal service 6- at Tacoma. To reinforce these units, the War Department mustered National Guard units into federal service.
Elements of the Filipino army, who wanted independence and resented the seizure of their islands by the United States, began hostilities against U.S. Philippine Insurrection 1898-1902ĭuring the War with Spain the United States seized the Philippine Islands in 1898. The 161st Infantry was first organized on 9 March 1886 as the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Infantry Regiment (on 7 April 1887) from existing independent militia companies which traced their origins back to 1855 when the Federal Government granted permission to the Washington Territory to raise a voluntary militia to defend settlers against attacks by the Yakima Indians.
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