The Boys: 1st North Dakota Volunteers in the Philippines

The Boys draws on the diaries and writings of North Dakota s enlisted men and officers, and other participants and witnesses, to tell the story of the 1st North Dakota Regiment of Volunteers. Sent to the Philippines to fight in the War with Spain, the Volunteers ended up fighting the Filipinos they had gone to free from Spain's oppressive rule. The Boys also traces the increasingly contentious debate in the U.S. over America s new role as a colonialist nation. Maps, photos, endnotes, and appendices help explain and preserve the regiment s history.