The age-herald., 1899-09-10
NEGRO REGIMENTS
 ARE CALLED FOR
Two Will be Utilized With White
 Field Officers.
TIE FULL COMPLEMENT I
Robert Gage, Late Captain in the Third Alabama Volunteers, Named as a Company. Officer in the
 Forty-Ninth

Washington, September 9-An order for
 the organization of two colored regiments
 was issued from the war department to-
 day All of the field officers of these two
 regiments are white men now in the regu-
 lar army. All of the company officers are
 colored men who served in the war with
 Spain in either the regular or the volun-
 teers. Tine regiments will be designated
 the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth volun-
 teer infantry. The Forty-eighth will be
 organized al Fort Thomas, Ky, and the
 Fcrty-ninth at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
 The full complement of officers have
 been selected, and the following are the
 field officers:
 Forty-eighth Regiment-Colonel William
 P, Duval, captain First artillery; Lieuten-
 ant Colonel Thaddius W. Jones, captain
 Tenth cavalry; Majors Sedgwick Rice, first
 lieutenant Seventh cavalry; Alexander L..
 Dade, first lieutenant Third cavalry; John
 Howard, first lieutenant Ninth infantry
 Forty-ninth Regiment-Colonel William
 H. Beck, captain Tenth cavalry; Lieuten-
 ant Colonel Arthur c. Ducat, Twenty
 fourth infantry. Majors, Ernest Hinds,
 first lieutenant Second artillery; George w. kirkman, captain Twenty third infantry; James E. Brett, captain Twenty-fourth in- f9mtry
 Following are the company officers Forty-eighth regiment-Captains, John Buck, first sergeant troop B, Tenth cavalry; Thomas Campbell, late first lieutenant company l., Seventh United States volun- teers; William N. Brown, sergeant major Ninth cavalry; Charter P. Johnston, Tenth cavalry; Thomas Grant, Iatet first lieuten-
 ant company F, Tenth United States VOL
 unteers; Robert B. Rudd late captain
 company A, Ninth battalion, Ohio volun-
 teers; James E. Hamlin, late captain
 Third North Carolina volunteers Stephan Starr, late second lieutenant, Tenth United States volunteers; Peter McGowan, first sergeant troop E. Tenth cavalry: William H. A. Allen. sergeant Ninth infantry; Charles O. Thomas, late lieutenant, Eighth United States volunteers: John Henderson
 squadron sergeant, Ninth cavalry; Jerry M. White late first lieutenant. TWenty-third Kansas; James F. Powell, late second lieu tenant, Indiana volunteers; H. B. Brown. late nrst lieutenant, Third North Carolina infantry; H. J. Parker late first sergeant. Tenth United States volunteers: Jacob c. smith, late second lieutenant, Ninth United states volunteers; John w. Brown Iate second lieutenant. Ninth United States vol unteers; Charles c. Caldwell, late first heutenant, company B, Ninth Ohio battal- ion volunteers
 Second lieutenants: Walter Greene. first | sergeant, Company K, Tenth cavalry: G. | B. Turner, commissary sergeant, Tenth | cavalry; Joseph Moore, first lieutenant | Company H, Eeighteh U. s. V; J. B. Cole man. late first lieutenant, Company E. 1 Seventh U. $. ". Lincoln Washington, sergeant major Ninth cavalry; David B. | Jeffers, late second lieutenant, Tenth IT. S. | "; Wilson Ballard, late second lieuten- | ant, Ninth battalion, Ohio volunteers; Joe | C. Andrews, private, Company L, Sixth | Massachusetts volunteers; Frank B. Chish Olun late Driyata COnnauV I, iyt Ma | sachusetts volunteers; John K. Rice late l first lieutenant. Sixth Virginia volunteers; | George W. Taylor, non-commissioned of | ficer, Third North Carolina volunteers: N | Marison, late sergeant, Third Alabama volunteers.
 Following are the company officers for l the Forty-ninth regiment:
 Captains: Wm. B. Edwards, sergeant | Company A, Tenth cavalry; Charles w | Jeerson, first sergeant, Company B. Ninth | cavalry: Floyd H. Crumbly, late first lieu | tenant, Company A, Tenth U. s. "; Ed ward L. Baker, late first lieutenant, Com | pany B, Tenth U. s. ": John c. Proctor, | late first lieutenant, Eighth U. S. "; | Emanuel D. Bass. late first lieutenant | Company D, Ninth battalion, Ohio vol | unteers; William M. Hawkins, late captain l Twenty-third Kansas volunteers; Benja- l min Graves, late captain, Sixth Virginia 1 volunteers; William R. Staff, sergeant l major Twenty fourth infantry; F. R. Stew l ard, late second lieutenant. Eighth U. S. | "; Robert G. Wood, late second lieutenant, Ninth U. s. "; Robert Gage, late captain, Third Alabama volunteers.