The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-11
NEGRO OFFICERS
Forty-ninth Regiment on
the Warren.
Staff Officers are White Compa
Men who Won their Straps.

The model troopship Warren carry
ing Two battalions, headquarters, stan
| and baud of 20 pieces of the 49th Vol
unteer Regiment, arrived in port at
nine o'clock Saturday morning, seven
days out from San Francisco. The
voyage down was fraught with few in
cidents and no stormy weather was en-
countered. The Forty-ninth is n OF
the two new colored regiments of the
Volunteer Infantry service and was
rendezvoused at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo.
WHITE AND COLORED OFFICERS.
A novelty in the personnel of the
regiment is the combination of white
and colored officers and is the first
| colored regiment which has been sent
10 the seat OIL war with colored officers.
The staff officers, and battalion Off
| GERS are white while the line officers
are colored. Fully 60 per cent of these
latter had seen active service in Cuba,
and most of them are promoted from
the ranks of the Twenty-fourth and
Tw~enty-ffth Regiments for c%onspicu-
Gus and distinguished g~allantry in the
Santiago campaign.
WHAT BRAVERY WON.
Their prowess, perfect discipline and
bravery in the face of heavy fire won
for them words of praise from their
commanders in the field, and the Pres
ident expressed himself by appointing
many of them as officers in the i'm
mune regiments. Upon the %organiza-
ton of the colored volunteer regiments,
the colored soldiers who had won their
spurs were given compissions as
| Captains, First and Second Lieuten-
ants in these two regiments.
HAVE SEEN SERVICE.
Many of the men of the Forty-ninth
were in active service in the Santiago
campaigns, there being organized last
year several colored regiments of State
| NOlUliItt1S llOIh Ill olu 1
Carolina beside the Ter regiments
of immunes.
Colonel w. H. Beck commands the
regiment, and served with the Tenth
Cavalry at Santiago as a captain. Col
onel Beck was for many years in
charge of the Uncompaghre R%eserva-
ton, neal Fort Duchesne, Utah, where
part of his former regiment was sta
toned. His distinguished gallantry at
San Juan Hill gained for him the Col
| onelcy of the Forty-ninth.
Lieutenant Colonel Ducat was in
Honolulu last Spring when his old regi-
ment, the Twenty-fourth, was en- route
to Manila. Receiving orders here to
report to General Shafter he returned
to San Francisco and was appointed an
aide upon the Generals staff, later re-
ceiving his appointment to the Forty
ninth. Captain Duoat vas one of the
most seriously wounded men at San
tiago, being shot through the groin
and both legs. His powerful constitu-
ton and splendid physique carried him
through safely and he is again in per-
feet health.
OFFICERS OF REGIMENT.
The roster of the Forty-ninth Regi-
ment officers is: Colonel w. H. Beck,
commanding; Lieut.. Col. Ducat, Majors
c. R. Johnson, E. Kinds, Captain R.
Gage, Adjutant; Major T. E. Evins,
Surgeon; Capt. G.. Smith, @. NJ, Lieut..
w. P. Pritchard, Bait, Adjutant; Lieut..
l, NJ. Moloney, Bait. Adjutant: Lieut..
w. c. Warmstey, Surgeon; Captains
Jefferson, Staff, Campbell, Crembly,
Baas, Proctor, Steward, Edwards,
Lieutenants Jordan, Blaney, w. H.
Butler, Thomas, Perry, T. C. Butler,
Spurlock, Gilmer, Walls, Cough, Perea,
Payne, Hayes, Dickerson, Campbell,
Wheaton and II. w. Smith, A. A. Sur
geOn.
STREET PARADE.
Khaki uniforms were issued to the
men upon arrival in port and shortly
afterward headed by it's fine band, the
regiment paraded the streets. They
are a we'll behaved lot of men, and obey
their colored officers implicitly.