As units of the Utah Volunteers began to arrive home, Governor Heber Wells proclaimed the arrival day of Batteries A and B--19 August 1898--a holiday. A special "arch of triumph" was placed at 200 South and Main streets in Salt Lake City; a parade, with almost all of the volunteers represented, marched through Salt Lake City; and festivities and speeches at Liberty Park honored the soldiers.

See: Charles R. Mabey, The Utah Batteries: A History (1900); A. Prentiss, ed., The History of the Utah Volunteers in the Spanish American War and in the Philippine Islands (1900); Michael J. Clark, "Improbable Ambassadors: Black Soldiers at Fort Douglas, 1896-99," Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Summer 1978).

Richard C. Roberts