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Barth, Christ (Christoph), C/SGT.
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Home Town Waldorf, Baden
Last Address Marion, Marion County, Ohio
Date of Passing Feb 05, 1923
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Color Sergeant Christ Barth was born in Germany in 1865 and had immigrated with his family to the United States in 1881 settling in Marion County, Ohio.
In 1887 Christ Enlisted with Company H, 2nd Cavalry Regiment and served as a musician until 1892 when he was discharged.
On 20 April 1892 Christ again enlisted this time assigned to Company F, 22nd Infantry Regiment where he also served as a musician. In 1897 Christ was promoted to First Sergeant and transferred to Company L, 22nd Infantry where he remained until 1908.
1908 saw First Sergeant Barth sent to Fort William H. Seward, Alaska Territory where he was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant until 1909 when he was made Color Sergeant both times serving with 22nd Infantry Regimental Headquarters.
On 16 June 1910 Color Sergeant Barth retired with 23 years of service having seen campaigns in Indian territory, Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars as well as humanitarian duties in San Francisco following the great earthquake of 1906.
Upon Returning home to Ohio Christ married Lydia Ambrust in November 1910, who had also immigrated from Germany. The couple remained in Ohio and Christ worked with a steel company.
Christ and Lydia had traveled to Germany in 1915 and again following WWI to visit family whom they were worried about following the war.
in 1923 Color Sergeant Christ Barth passed away in Ohio at which time Lydia returned to her family in Germany where several years later she also passed.
Christ's burial location in Ohio is unknown at this time.
Philippine - American War
From Month/Year
January / 1899
To Month/Year
December / 1902
Description The Philippine–American War (Spanish: Guerra Filipino-Estadounidense, Filipino: Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano) (1899–1902) was an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic (Spanish: República Filipina) and the United States.
The conflict arose when First Philippine Republic objected to the terms of the Treaty of Paris under which the United States took possession of the Philippines from Spain ending the Spanish–American War. The war was a continuation of the Philippine struggle for independence that began in 1896 with the Philippine Revolution.
Fighting erupted between United States and the Philippine Republic forces on February 4, 1899, and quickly escalated into the 1899 Second Battle of Manila. On June 2, 1899, the First Philippine Republic officially declared war against the United States. The war officially ended on July 2, 1902, with a victory for the United States. However, some Philippine groups led by veterans of the Katipunan continued to battle the American forces. Among those leaders was General Macario Sacay, a veteran Katipunan member who assumed the presidency of the proclaimed "Tagalog Republic", formed in 1902 after the capture of President Emilio Aguinaldo. Other groups, including the Moro people and Pulahanes people, continued hostilities in remote areas and islands until their final defeat a decade later at the Battle of Bud Bagsak on June 15, 1913.
The war and occupation by the U.S. would change the cultural landscape of the islands, as people dealt with an estimated 34,000 to 220,000 Philippine casualties (with more civilians dying from disease and hunger brought about by war), disestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines (as a "state Church" – as previously in Spain), and the introduction of the English language in the islands as the primary language of government, education, business, industrial and increasingly in future decades among families and educated individuals.
Under the 1902 "Philippine Organic Act", passed by the United States Congress, Filipinos were initially given very limited self-government, including the right to vote for some elected officials such as an elected Philippine Assembly, but it was not until 14 years later with the 1916 Philippine Autonomy Act, (or "Jones Act") passed by the United States Congress, during the administration of Democratic 28th President, Woodrow Wilson, that the U.S. officially promised eventual independence, along with more Philippine control in the meantime over the Philippines. The 1934 Philippine Independence Act created in the following year the Commonwealth of the Philippines, a limited form of independence, and established a process ending in Philippine independence (originally scheduled for 1944, but interrupted and delayed by World War II). Finally in 1946, following World War II and the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, the United States granted independence through the Treaty of Manila concluded between the two governments and nations.