He married Irene A. Bainbridge, daughter of Augustus H. Bainbridge, 12 September 1901, in Asheville, North Carolina.
Alga P. Berry went to normal school at Salina, Kansas. He was appointed on 15 June 1892 as a cadet to West Point after failing to gain an appointment to Annapolis. He was a member of the West Point football team. He graduated from West Point in 1896, number eighteen in a class of sixty-three members.
He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and sent to Fort Sill where he stayed until the Spainish-American War broke out. He landed at Daiquiri, Cuba on 23 June. In a post card to his mother he said, "I suppose I shall receive my baptism of fire tomorrow." He was in the battle at Santiago de Cuba on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of July and was brevited 1st Lieutenant for gallantry in that battle.
On 26 September 1899 he was appointed battalion adjutant and on 14 October 1899 he was appointed aid de camp to General Wilson and acting ordinance officer and inspector of small arms practice for the department.
He sailed with his regiment , the 10th U.S. Infantry, to the Philippines, leaving San Francisco in March 1901. He was promoted to a Capitancy on 22 April 1901. On his return he married Miss Irene A. Bainbridge, daughter of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Augustus H. Bainbridge, after which he was a recruiting Officer and stationed at Kansas City, Missouri in 1902 and 1903.
Alga Berry made three successful trips on the U.S.A.T. Buford as transport quarter-master in 1904. On 18 September 1904 he was transferred to the Sheridan, the largest military transport in the service and made several successful trips. Then came that awful story of last March and eight months of suffering and worry--you have heard one side,--here is my dearboy's last letter:
Vancouver, Wash.,
Nov. 1, 1905,
Dear Mother,
I am awfully sorry the news papers there got that stuff in about me. As usual they have the thing all mixed up. The charges against me are not intentional attack on a woman at all. The charges are drunkeness, and the facts are, and I proved by five witnesses that I was very sick all afternoon and evening: that I took three different kinds of medicine, including an overdose of bromide, but I could not go to sleep, and after 12 o'clock at nite went and got some whiskey from an officer and took three drinks, and went back to my bed. Irene says that shortly after I came back to my I seemed to lose all conciousness, and she couldn't do a thing with nor keep me in the room I wandered around the ship and into an open door of a stateroom occupied by a woman. I never spoke to her or noticed her in any way and she got out and told an officer I was there. He found me there groping around on...the floor on my hands and knees.
We showed clearly before the court my condition was because on account of being sick and of the mixture of different things I had taken to get relief, but the court was strongly prejudiced against me by a lot of nasty rumors all from that rumor of colored blood, and we have just learned that they have sentenced me to be dismissed.
The papers all have to go to Washington and have to be confirmed by the President before the sentence goes into effect. Irene and the Colonel are going on to see the secretary of war and the president and try to get the proceedings disapproved, but as he has no political pull, nor you folks nor I have none it looks as if I would lose my commission.
They tried to get me to resign last spring, but I have not intentionally done anything I should be dismissed for and I propose to fight it out until the last.
I wish you or I knew our Congressman or one of our Kansas Senators so we could get them to see the President in my behalf. The papers in my case will not get before the President for about three weeks, so if its possible to get our Congressman or Senators to do anything it's time to get at them. See Mr. Wm. Baker and get his advice and see what he can do. I still have confidence of coming out all right, for I can't believe that they can hold a man accountable to drunkeness when it was caused by illness and medicine taken for illness. Then too, I have a very fine record behind me, as testified to before the court by twenty-seven officers, generals, colonels, and not one word against my record until I went on the trasnport. All the action against me was started through jealousy of my being is the position of Transport quartermaster.
It will probably be a month yet before my case is finished at Washington and Well, all we can do is hope for the best and get all the influence possible to bear on the President.
Affectionately,
Alga.
Alga's wife and her father went to Washington to see the President but failed to see him. I wrote a letter to the President and sent him Alga's postcards written in the trenches at Santiago but they failed to reach him.
Alga was an affectionate and obedient son, a loving brother and a devoted husband. His love for his mother knew no bounds.
On November 30, 1905, after receiving word of the final disposition of his case, Alga Berry shot himself in the heart with his service revolver. Alga, as indicated by his letter to his mother felt that much of the charges against him were generated by jealousy of the other officers of the Sheridan. Alga certainly maintained his innocence and retained counsel to intervene with the president on his behalf, which too was to no avail.
Alga P. Berry went to normal school at Salina, Kansas. He was appointed on 15 June 1892 as a cadet to West Point after failing to gain an appointment to Annapolis. He was a member of the West Point football team. He graduated from West Point in 1896, number eighteen in a class of sixty-three members.
He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and sent to Fort Sill where he stayed until the Spainish-American War broke out. He landed at Daiquiri, Cuba on 23 June. In a post card to his mother he said, "I suppose I shall receive my baptism of fire tomorrow." He was in the battle at Santiago de Cuba on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of July and was brevited 1st Lieutenant for gallantry in that battle.
On 26 September 1899 he was appointed battalion adjutant and on 14 October 1899 he was appointed aid de camp to General Wilson and acting ordinance officer and inspector of small arms practice for the department.
He sailed with his regiment , the 10th U.S. Infantry, to the Philippines, leaving San Francisco in March 1901. He was promoted to a Capitancy on 22 April 1901. On his return he married Miss Irene A. Bainbridge, daughter of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Augustus H. Bainbridge, after which he was a recruiting Officer and stationed at Kansas City, Missouri in 1902 and 1903.
Alga Berry made three successful trips on the U.S.A.T. Buford as transport quarter-master in 1904. On 18 September 1904 he was transferred to the Sheridan, the largest military transport in the service and made several successful trips. Then came that awful story of last March and eight months of suffering and worry--you have heard one side,--here is my dearboy's last letter:
Vancouver, Wash.,
Nov. 1, 1905,
Dear Mother,
I am awfully sorry the news papers there got that stuff in about me. As usual they have the thing all mixed up. The charges against me are not intentional attack on a woman at all. The charges are drunkeness, and the facts are, and I proved by five witnesses that I was very sick all afternoon and evening: that I took three different kinds of medicine, including an overdose of bromide, but I could not go to sleep, and after 12 o'clock at nite went and got some whiskey from an officer and took three drinks, and went back to my bed. Irene says that shortly after I came back to my I seemed to lose all conciousness, and she couldn't do a thing with nor keep me in the room I wandered around the ship and into an open door of a stateroom occupied by a woman. I never spoke to her or noticed her in any way and she got out and told an officer I was there. He found me there groping around on...the floor on my hands and knees.
We showed clearly before the court my condition was because on account of being sick and of the mixture of different things I had taken to get relief, but the court was strongly prejudiced against me by a lot of nasty rumors all from that rumor of colored blood, and we have just learned that they have sentenced me to be dismissed.
The papers all have to go to Washington and have to be confirmed by the President before the sentence goes into effect. Irene and the Colonel are going on to see the secretary of war and the president and try to get the proceedings disapproved, but as he has no political pull, nor you folks nor I have none it looks as if I would lose my commission.
They tried to get me to resign last spring, but I have not intentionally done anything I should be dismissed for and I propose to fight it out until the last.
I wish you or I knew our Congressman or one of our Kansas Senators so we could get them to see the President in my behalf. The papers in my case will not get before the President for about three weeks, so if its possible to get our Congressman or Senators to do anything it's time to get at them. See Mr. Wm. Baker and get his advice and see what he can do. I still have confidence of coming out all right, for I can't believe that they can hold a man accountable to drunkeness when it was caused by illness and medicine taken for illness. Then too, I have a very fine record behind me, as testified to before the court by twenty-seven officers, generals, colonels, and not one word against my record until I went on the trasnport. All the action against me was started through jealousy of my being is the position of Transport quartermaster.
It will probably be a month yet before my case is finished at Washington and Well, all we can do is hope for the best and get all the influence possible to bear on the President.
Affectionately,
Alga.
Alga's wife and her father went to Washington to see the President but failed to see him. I wrote a letter to the President and sent him Alga's postcards written in the trenches at Santiago but they failed to reach him.
Alga was an affectionate and obedient son, a loving brother and a devoted husband. His love for his mother knew no bounds.
On November 30, 1905, after receiving word of the final disposition of his case, Alga Berry shot himself in the heart with his service revolver. Alga, as indicated by his letter to his mother felt that much of the charges against him were generated by jealousy of the other officers of the Sheridan. Alga certainly maintained his innocence and retained counsel to intervene with the president on his behalf, which too was to no avail.
He married Irene A. Bainbridge, daughter of Augustus H. Bainbridge, 12 September 1901, in Asheville, North Carolina.
Alga P. Berry went to normal school at Salina, Kansas. He was appointed on 15 June 1892 as a cadet to West Point after failing to gain an appointment to Annapolis. He was a member of the West Point football team. He graduated from West Point in 1896, number eighteen in a class of sixty-three members.
He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and sent to Fort Sill where he stayed until the Spainish-American War broke out. He landed at Daiquiri, Cuba on 23 June. In a post card to his mother he said, "I suppose I shall receive my baptism of fire tomorrow." He was in the battle at Santiago de Cuba on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of July and was brevited 1st Lieutenant for gallantry in that battle.
On 26 September 1899 he was appointed battalion adjutant and on 14 October 1899 he was appointed aid de camp to General Wilson and acting ordinance officer and inspector of small arms practice for the department.
He sailed with his regiment , the 10th U.S. Infantry, to the Philippines, leaving San Francisco in March 1901. He was promoted to a Capitancy on 22 April 1901. On his return he married Miss Irene A. Bainbridge, daughter of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Augustus H. Bainbridge, after which he was a recruiting Officer and stationed at Kansas City, Missouri in 1902 and 1903.
Alga Berry made three successful trips on the U.S.A.T. Buford as transport quarter-master in 1904. On 18 September 1904 he was transferred to the Sheridan, the largest military transport in the service and made several successful trips. Then came that awful story of last March and eight months of suffering and worry--you have heard one side,--here is my dearboy's last letter:
Vancouver, Wash.,
Nov. 1, 1905,
Dear Mother,
I am awfully sorry the news papers there got that stuff in about me. As usual they have the thing all mixed up. The charges against me are not intentional attack on a woman at all. The charges are drunkeness, and the facts are, and I proved by five witnesses that I was very sick all afternoon and evening: that I took three different kinds of medicine, including an overdose of bromide, but I could not go to sleep, and after 12 o'clock at nite went and got some whiskey from an officer and took three drinks, and went back to my bed. Irene says that shortly after I came back to my I seemed to lose all conciousness, and she couldn't do a thing with nor keep me in the room I wandered around the ship and into an open door of a stateroom occupied by a woman. I never spoke to her or noticed her in any way and she got out and told an officer I was there. He found me there groping around on...the floor on my hands and knees.
We showed clearly before the court my condition was because on account of being sick and of the mixture of different things I had taken to get relief, but the court was strongly prejudiced against me by a lot of nasty rumors all from that rumor of colored blood, and we have just learned that they have sentenced me to be dismissed.
The papers all have to go to Washington and have to be confirmed by the President before the sentence goes into effect. Irene and the Colonel are going on to see the secretary of war and the president and try to get the proceedings disapproved, but as he has no political pull, nor you folks nor I have none it looks as if I would lose my commission.
They tried to get me to resign last spring, but I have not intentionally done anything I should be dismissed for and I propose to fight it out until the last.
I wish you or I knew our Congressman or one of our Kansas Senators so we could get them to see the President in my behalf. The papers in my case will not get before the President for about three weeks, so if its possible to get our Congressman or Senators to do anything it's time to get at them. See Mr. Wm. Baker and get his advice and see what he can do. I still have confidence of coming out all right, for I can't believe that they can hold a man accountable to drunkeness when it was caused by illness and medicine taken for illness. Then too, I have a very fine record behind me, as testified to before the court by twenty-seven officers, generals, colonels, and not one word against my record until I went on the trasnport. All the action against me was started through jealousy of my being is the position of Transport quartermaster.
It will probably be a month yet before my case is finished at Washington and Well, all we can do is hope for the best and get all the influence possible to bear on the President.
Affectionately,
Alga.
Alga's wife and her father went to Washington to see the President but failed to see him. I wrote a letter to the President and sent him Alga's postcards written in the trenches at Santiago but they failed to reach him.
Alga was an affectionate and obedient son, a loving brother and a devoted husband. His love for his mother knew no bounds.
On November 30, 1905, after receiving word of the final disposition of his case, Alga Berry shot himself in the heart with his service revolver. Alga, as indicated by his letter to his mother felt that much of the charges against him were generated by jealousy of the other officers of the Sheridan. Alga certainly maintained his innocence and retained counsel to intervene with the president on his behalf, which too was to no avail.
Alga P. Berry went to normal school at Salina, Kansas. He was appointed on 15 June 1892 as a cadet to West Point after failing to gain an appointment to Annapolis. He was a member of the West Point football team. He graduated from West Point in 1896, number eighteen in a class of sixty-three members.
He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and sent to Fort Sill where he stayed until the Spainish-American War broke out. He landed at Daiquiri, Cuba on 23 June. In a post card to his mother he said, "I suppose I shall receive my baptism of fire tomorrow." He was in the battle at Santiago de Cuba on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of July and was brevited 1st Lieutenant for gallantry in that battle.
On 26 September 1899 he was appointed battalion adjutant and on 14 October 1899 he was appointed aid de camp to General Wilson and acting ordinance officer and inspector of small arms practice for the department.
He sailed with his regiment , the 10th U.S. Infantry, to the Philippines, leaving San Francisco in March 1901. He was promoted to a Capitancy on 22 April 1901. On his return he married Miss Irene A. Bainbridge, daughter of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Augustus H. Bainbridge, after which he was a recruiting Officer and stationed at Kansas City, Missouri in 1902 and 1903.
Alga Berry made three successful trips on the U.S.A.T. Buford as transport quarter-master in 1904. On 18 September 1904 he was transferred to the Sheridan, the largest military transport in the service and made several successful trips. Then came that awful story of last March and eight months of suffering and worry--you have heard one side,--here is my dearboy's last letter:
Vancouver, Wash.,
Nov. 1, 1905,
Dear Mother,
I am awfully sorry the news papers there got that stuff in about me. As usual they have the thing all mixed up. The charges against me are not intentional attack on a woman at all. The charges are drunkeness, and the facts are, and I proved by five witnesses that I was very sick all afternoon and evening: that I took three different kinds of medicine, including an overdose of bromide, but I could not go to sleep, and after 12 o'clock at nite went and got some whiskey from an officer and took three drinks, and went back to my bed. Irene says that shortly after I came back to my I seemed to lose all conciousness, and she couldn't do a thing with nor keep me in the room I wandered around the ship and into an open door of a stateroom occupied by a woman. I never spoke to her or noticed her in any way and she got out and told an officer I was there. He found me there groping around on...the floor on my hands and knees.
We showed clearly before the court my condition was because on account of being sick and of the mixture of different things I had taken to get relief, but the court was strongly prejudiced against me by a lot of nasty rumors all from that rumor of colored blood, and we have just learned that they have sentenced me to be dismissed.
The papers all have to go to Washington and have to be confirmed by the President before the sentence goes into effect. Irene and the Colonel are going on to see the secretary of war and the president and try to get the proceedings disapproved, but as he has no political pull, nor you folks nor I have none it looks as if I would lose my commission.
They tried to get me to resign last spring, but I have not intentionally done anything I should be dismissed for and I propose to fight it out until the last.
I wish you or I knew our Congressman or one of our Kansas Senators so we could get them to see the President in my behalf. The papers in my case will not get before the President for about three weeks, so if its possible to get our Congressman or Senators to do anything it's time to get at them. See Mr. Wm. Baker and get his advice and see what he can do. I still have confidence of coming out all right, for I can't believe that they can hold a man accountable to drunkeness when it was caused by illness and medicine taken for illness. Then too, I have a very fine record behind me, as testified to before the court by twenty-seven officers, generals, colonels, and not one word against my record until I went on the trasnport. All the action against me was started through jealousy of my being is the position of Transport quartermaster.
It will probably be a month yet before my case is finished at Washington and Well, all we can do is hope for the best and get all the influence possible to bear on the President.
Affectionately,
Alga.
Alga's wife and her father went to Washington to see the President but failed to see him. I wrote a letter to the President and sent him Alga's postcards written in the trenches at Santiago but they failed to reach him.
Alga was an affectionate and obedient son, a loving brother and a devoted husband. His love for his mother knew no bounds.
On November 30, 1905, after receiving word of the final disposition of his case, Alga Berry shot himself in the heart with his service revolver. Alga, as indicated by his letter to his mother felt that much of the charges against him were generated by jealousy of the other officers of the Sheridan. Alga certainly maintained his innocence and retained counsel to intervene with the president on his behalf, which too was to no avail.
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