The Colored Regulars in the United States Army

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THE COLORED REGULARS

IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY
With a Sketch of the History of the Colored American, and an Account
of His Services in the Wars of the Country, from the Period of the
Revolutionary War to 1899.
INTRODUCTORY LETTER FROM
Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles Commanding the Army of the
United States.
* * * * *
By CHAPLAIN T.G. STEWARD, D.D., Twenty-fifth U.S. Infantry.
Philadelphia A.M.E. Book Concern, 631 Pine Street.
1904
[Illustration: Chaplain T.G. Steward, D.D.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER I.
--SKETCH OF SOCIAL HISTORY.
The Importation of the Africans. Character of the Colored Population
in 1860. Colored Population in British West Indian Possessions. Free
Colored People of the South. Free Colored People of the North. Notes.
21
CHAPTER II.
--THE AMERICAN NEGRO AND THE MILITARY SPIRIT.

Early Literature of Negro Soldiers. Negro Soldiers in the War of the
Revolution. The War of 1812. Negro Insurrections. Negro Troops in
the Civil War. Notes. 57
CHAPTER III.
--THE BLACK REGULARS OF THE ARMY OF INVASION IN
THE SPANISH WAR.
Organization of Negro Regiments in the Regular Army. First
Movement in the War. Chickamauga and Tampa. Notes. 84
CHAPTER IV.
--BRIEF SKETCH OF SPANISH HISTORY. 107
CHAPTER V.
--PASSAGE, LANDING, AND FIRST BATTLE IN CUBA.
The Tenth Cavalry at Guasimas. The "Rescue of the Rough Riders."
Was there an Ambush? Notes. 116
CHAPTER VI.
--THE BATTLE OF EL CANEY.
The Capture of the Stone Fort by the Twenty-fifth Infantry. 150
CHAPTER VII.
--SAN JUAN.
Cavalry Division: The Ninth and Tenth Regiments. Kent's Division:
The Twenty-fourth Infantry. Forming under fire. A Gallant Charge. 191
CHAPTER VIII.

--SAN JUAN (Continued).
Kent's Division. The Twenty-fourth Infantry. Forming Under Fire. A
Gallant Charge. 208
CHAPTER IX.
--THE SURRENDER AND AFTERWARDS.
In the Trenches. The Twenty-fourth in the Fever Camp. Are Negro
Soldiers Immune? Camp Wikoff. 220
CHAPTER X.
--REVIEW AND REFLECTIONS.
Gallantry of the Black Regulars. Diary of Sergeant Major E.L. Baker,
Tenth Cavalry. 236
CHAPTER XI.
--THE COLORED VOLUNTEERS.
The Ninth Ohio Battalion. Eighth Illinois. Twenty-third Kansas. Third
North Carolina. Sixth Virginia. Third Alabama. The Immunes. 282
CHAPTER XII.
--COLORED OFFICERS.
By Captain Frank R. Steward, A.B., LL.B., Harvard, 49th U. S.
Volunteer Infantry. 299
APPENDIX. 328

PREFACE.

The material out of which the story of the COLORED REGULARS has
been constructed has been collected with great pains, and upon it has
been expended a serious amount of labor and care. All the movements
of the Cuban campaign, and particularly of the battles, have been
carefully studied by the aid of official reports, and conversations and
correspondence with those who participated in them. The work has
been performed with an earnest desire to obtain and present the truth,
hoping that the reader will be inspired by it to a more profound respect
for the brave and skilled black men who passed through that severe
baptism of fire and suffering, contributing their full share to their
country's honor.
It is also becoming in this place to mention with gratitude the
encouragement given by the War Department both in granting me the
time in which to do the work, and also in supplying me with documents
and furnishing other facilities. By this enlightened course on the part of
the Department great aid has been given to historical science, and,
incidentally, very important service rendered to the cause of freedom
and humanity. A struggling people has been helped and further glory
reflected upon the Government. The President, himself, has manifested
a kindly interest in the work, and has wished that the story of the black
soldiers should be told to the world. The interest of the Commanding
General of the Army is shown in his letter.
Thus encouraged from official sources and receiving the most hearty
words of cheer from friends, of whom none has been more potent or
more earnest than Bishop B.W. Arnett, D.D., of the African M.E.
Church, I have, after five months of severe labor, about completed my
task, so far as I find it in my power to complete it; and trusting that the
majesty and interest of