The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-10-03
THE GRANT IS HERE
With Fourteen Hundred
More Troops.
Has q Fine Band Of Twenty-Five
Pieces L,st OF Officers and
Some Of Tn ,,r RsoCrds,

One of the finest-looking bodies OF
soldiers that has been seen In Homo
lulu arrived here last night in the
United States transport Grant. 1t was
the Twenty-sixth Volunteer Regiment
from Plattsburg barracks, on Lake
Champlain,. New York. and is under
the command of Colonel Edmund Rice
The segment has been recruited TO the
full limit, and carries in addition q
number of extra men. The men wear
khaki suits, including helmets. Their
band numbers nearly twenty-five
pieces and is q fine musical organiza-
ton. On the staff Of Colonel Rice are
Adjutant and Chief of Stan Captain
John W. Boardman; surgeon, Major
Charles F. Mason; first assistant sur
geon, Captain Frank A. Washburn;
second assistant surgeon, First Lieu
tenant r. s. Griswold; quartermaster,
Captain r. A. Whipple; commissary
officer, First Lieutenant Frank E. Ed
wards. The three majors are Joseph
p. Dickman, Edward d. Anderson and
Frank A. Cook. At present the regi-
ment Is without q lieutenant colonel.
Colonel Duvall, who was appointed to
that position, received orders after the
regiment had left for the West to re-
main In the East and recruit q regi-
ment OF colored troops, of which he
win be given command. In cOnse-
Quence there will be promotions for all
NJ a ~ hn
and the necessary orders to that effect
are anxiOusly awaited.
OF the 1850 and odd men in the reg
iment 400 are from Massachusetts
Many are from New York, a good num-
Der from Rhode Island and the bal
ance from other New England States.
Colonel Rice is a Massachusetts man,
but some Of the officers are from New
York. The regiment Is one of the first
ten to be organized for service in the
Philippines. Few Of the soldiers, ex-
cept the 0fiicers-most of whom are
regular army men-have seen service
before. The regiment has been in SER
vice for about eight weeks, the re-
cruiting having been conducted at
Plattsburg barracks. The organization
left the barracks on September 8, but
accepted the invitation of the Govern
or of Massachusetts, to be enter tanned
for two days at Boston, and from there
went to Providence to enjoy the hospi-
tally Of the Governor and State OF
Rhode Island for several days.
Colonel Rice has a splendid record
as soldier. He served with the Nine
teenth Massachusetts, through all OF
the hard fighting in Virginia in the
Civil War, and advanced from a cap
tain to the command of his regiment
being made colonel at 20 years Of age
He wa4 wounded several times, and
had an exciting escape from the Con-
federates, who had placed him in a
b0x-car. Together with some other
prisoners. Colonel Rice cut his way
out Of the side OF the car and escaped
to the Union lines. At the close of the
Civil War he entered the regular army
and during the Spanish war was pro-
NOTED to be colonel of the Sixth Mas
sachusetts Regiment by Major General
Miles, with the consent of the Presi-
dent In the person of First Lieuten-
ant James p. Glare Of Company B
Colonel Jones has a reminder of his
Civil War career. as Lieutenant Glare
ia the only man In the Twenty-sixth
who served under Colonel Rice In the
old Nineteenth Massachusetts,.