The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-07-13
NEGRO RECORDS
IN MANY WARS
Uncle Sam Negro Troops
In Hottest Battles
Always Brave In
stances Cited.
New York World.

New York World
The Negroes status in all the wars
in which the United States has been
engaged has been that of loyalty to
the cause, and in the present war 1t
will be the same, said Captain Hamil-
ton Herman Blunt, late of the Ninth
Infantry, U. S. ", and the Forty-ninth
United States Infantry.
Captain Blunt was one of the fac
tors in the organization of the origi-
nal New York Negro regiment, now
the Fifteenth National Guard Regi-
ment, and in the Spanish-American
War he was the first Negro officer to
command a military post in Cuba,
Afterward he saw service in the Phil
ippines, where he was a captain in
the Forty-ninth Infantry, and in 1900
personally captured Major Hoquin
Cepedes, Aquinaldo's secretary and
spy, at Perenacgui, Luzon.
Beginning with the American Re-
volution," said Captain Blunt, "the
first blood shed was that of a Negro
seaman, Crispus Attacks, on Boston
b. Common. He led the charge against
D., the British which awakened the
. slumbering fires of patriotism in the
S colonies, and this, notwithstanding
1 that quasislavery existed,
I'm the Revolutionary army were
u $1,000 Negro troops. Though half
u slaves they fought for the indepen
Il dence of the colonies and this, not
y outstanding that quasi-slavery eX,
- listed
. 'Ln the Revolutionary army were
|. 5000 Negro troops. Though half
slaves they fought for the indepen
n dence of the colonies. Their action
10 in battle in the little American navy
a. in 1898, though only half trained, was
+ wonderful, and they also gave good
f. account Of themselves with Commo-
ID dore Lawrence and with Decatur in
O. the war with Tripoli.
IL in the War of 1912 Commodore
t. Lawrence was commanding the
al American warship chesapeake, He
re sailed out of Boston harbor with half
IS. Of his crew composed of Negro sail
Is ors, and attacked the British frigate
at Shannon off Massachusetts Bay. A
is Negro bugler the orderly of Commo
IN dore Lawrence, sounded the attack
IA which was against tremendous odds
IT. Lawrence shouted his last order
a though wounded fatally, to his Ne
IN. gro orderly that he might transmit i
it to the crew: Don't give up the ship!
IN The bodies of the Commodore ant
re his Negro bugler were buried side b!
to side at Halifax with military honors
he "The Native Louisiana Zouaves lee
CT hn n
M Chaimette under General Jackson a
ty New Orleans in 1872, defeating Lore
he Pakenham, commander Of the British
lor forces. The victory ended the wa
eet and destroyed, the last British con
ge- tention of right to SEARCH and seiz
ate American merchantmen ON, the higl
ms seas.
mt On the war with Mexico in 1874
an six Negroes were in the Alamo For
Ill scene of the famous massacre,
% in the Civil War Negro soldie
ro ~ was factor in achieving Union VII
1ua tory. despite the decision of Suprem
Iis' Court Justice fancy in the bred Scot
30 40 case. In the wake of this decision o
,ne this decision Lincoln issued his ca
for volunteers for the Union and wa
nv answered by 100000 brave men an
d. patriots, who gave good account {
~ themselves, as at Fort Pillow unde
oos Colonel Shaw, of the Fifty-fourth Ma
NJ sachusetts Regiment. Colonel Sha
On fell, and he and many of his soldier
or were buried in the trenches aroun
the fort. A request was made thu
the body of Shaw be given to til
Union forces for burial The answC
IN was: We have buried him with h
the niggers who led the charge
ub- Port Hudson, La, at Vicksburg, wit
MS. Sherman in his march through Geo
gia, with Sheridan through the Sh
nandoah Valley and under Gener
Grant at Richmond the same stori,
TO are told Of the Negroes valor al
loyalty.
"At the outbreak of the SPANS
to American War President McKinlt
ess called for volunteers and IN ansW
has 10000 Negroes marched side by si'
ars with 100000 white comrades. Tv
,tlv hundred and forty Negro officers we
accepted and mustered into the Sc
. oo vice, to serve the United States
onS two hemispheres. The Ninth al
Tenth Cavalry Regiments, the TIVE
ty-fourth and Fifth Infantry Re
ments led the charge on San Jul
Hill and extricated the Rough
ders and Colonel Roosevelt from
~, Spanish ambush, and were instrumt
~, tai in sweeping the last vestige
1he Spanish domain from the hemisphe
war, In the navy, under Admiral Dew
he Negro seamen, gunners and gunne
. mates, gave a good account of the
"i' selves at Manila Bay In Admit
the lSchleys fleet off Cuba many of
s of chief men behind the guns were
hut groes.
ean. ''In 1916 Negro troopers of
Tenth Cavalry, under General Per
tne ing, led the troops after crossing
'uiy, Rio Grande into Mexico.
10y "And now comes the great univ
yin, sal conflict, in which 40 nations a
Ii !" peoples are involved In this cont
.,., the American Negro citizens
put with the President and Governm
IN of the United States, and all rae
out idiosyncrasies and hatred and pre-
AGA dices should be buried forever.
MID Cabinets of the Entente nations
rec pledged to accord Justice to all CT
,hllo munities and peoples at the con,
ana sion of this conflict on the basis
hem equality to all races, regardless
he affinity, creed or color"
tne CAPTAIN Blunt was appointed F.
lrins Lieutenant by President McKin
loth- and assigned to the Ninth Infantry