The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-02-16

the white soldiers. Connecticut. how.
ever, had one complete company Of
colored soldiers, and Rhode Island
complete regiment. According to an
official report, there were in the Army,
under Gen. Washingtons immediate
command, on the oath Of August, 177S, .
rs colored soldiers. 1t is estimated
that there was an average of 80 col
ored soldiers in each white regiment,
This does not appear to include the
colored troops furnished by Connec'
ticut, New York, New Hampshire,
and Rhode Island There were alto.
gether about 5000 colored soldiers.
Some of the most heroic deeds OF
the War of Independence were per
formed by colored men. The first
martyr in the Boston massacre, March
5, 177O, was Crispus AttuX. The
Black Legion, organized in 1873 in
Santo Domingo by Count D'Estaing,
consisted Of 500 young freemen-
blacks and muattoes. At the seige
of Savannah on the 9th of October,
1873, this legion. by covering the re-
treat and repulsing the charge Of the
/ British, saved the defeated American
and French Army from humiliation.
A large number of colored sailors
were in the Navy during the War OF
| 1872. 1t is estimated that onetenth
of the crews that manned the vessels
on the Great Lakes were colored.
They served faithfully in all the bat
ties of the Great lakes, and in the
Battle of Lake Erie rendered very eff
fective service. In the celebrated pic
ture of Perry's victory on Lake Erie
is seen colored sailor.
; Gen. Andrew Jackson, September
i, 81, 1914, issued a call to the free col
r ored men of Louisiana to enlist. Al
= result 500 of them were organize
. into two battalions. These battalion'
D distinguished themselves in the Bat
tie of New Orleans. The Legislature
4 of New York, October "a, 1914, author
q lied the raising Of two regiments o
f men of color AS a result, 1000 co
v ored men were enlisted and sent fol
l. ward to the Army at Sacketts Harbol
t One hundred and seventy-eigh
!. thousand nine hundred and seventy
!, five colored soldiers were enlisted /
!. the War of the Rebellion, The HRS
,. colored regiments to be organize
{; were the First South Carolina,
# which the first enlistments were mad
D. Nav g. 1862; the First Louisian
!. Native Guards, September q, 1862
9 the Fifty.fourth Massachusetts, Fe
n ruary 8, 1862; the Second CAROLYN
n Volunteers, February %, 1863.
Il July %, 1866, Congress passed
S, law that coored regiments should
u part of the Regular Army. TT
Mt Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and II
K. Thirty.eighth, Thirty-ninth, Forfeit
n and Forty-fiIst Regiments OF INFANT
of were organized. March 3, 1869, co
st solidation act was passed, and Il
A. Thirty-eighth and Forty-first were
organized as the Twenty-fourth Re-
nd ment of Infantry; the Thirty-nin
ng and Fortieth, were reorganized as
Twenty-fifth Regiment of lnfantl
r. The Ninth and Tenth Cavalry won I
he reputation of being the best lndi
CT fighters on the frontier
ee- At the outbreak Of the SPANS
m American War in 1898 the four C
ole ored regiments were among the II
IN troops ordered to the front. he
'rl- again they won great distinction
IN their bravery and daring. Color
in soldiers took more conspicuous p
I've in the Spanish American War than
ear anv previous war waged by
i. United States. At the first battle
Ne Cuba, Las Guasimas, the Tenth q
OF airy played an important part by CT
at ing to the support of Col. Theod
sh- Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.
ex Twenty-fifth Infantry took pro
HIS nent part in the Battle Of Ell Can
cen The Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and
Twenty-fourth Infantry rendered hi
lor ic service in the famous Battle OF
etu- Juan Hill.
90 /. 1t appears from the official
S =, cords that the following named
~, D unteer organizations, afficered VIII
INV NV or in part by colored men, served
,or ~ the War with Spain:
lo oIn Third Regimen Alabama Infant
oi0 Eighth Regiment Illinois Infant
, Companies A and B, First RegiH
~ U.s. Indiana Infantry.
lect Company l., Sixth Regiment n
tho sachussetts Infantry
the Twenty-third Regiment Kansas
heir fantry.
nv, Third Regiment North Carolina
bred fantry.
Ninth Baltimore Ohio Infantry
s OF Sixth Regiment Virginia Infantr
ally Seventh Regiment United st
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