HIGHEST COLORED OFFICERS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY A Brunette General
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Through all the wars these States have gone, A million Colored their parts have borne, But never a General has one been made: Yet, Lafayette’s France have them so paid, For character there out-points darkest shade. Colored taxes are yearly in dollars fed To help in the drilling of West Point’s tread: On kinder treatments Negroes should have dined, Who rarely got there and mostly resigned. If length of service and training thorough, And physical fitness without a blur Mark Colored soldiers for station anew, “Uncle Sam,” they would fill them both brave and true; These nephews who never have treasoned you. —Harrison.
Those who have been appointed the highest Colored officers in the United States Regular Army are as follows:
Colonel Charles Young (retired) Tenth Cavalry. Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth (retired) deceased, Chaplain, Twenty-fourth Infantry. Lieutentant Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Ninth Cavalry. Lieutenant Colonel John E. Green, Militia Attache, Monrovia, Liberia. Major William T. Anderson (retired) Chaplain, Tenth Cavalry. Major John R. Lynch (retired) Paymaster. Major Richard R. Wright, Paymaster, 1898, Spanish-American War. Major George W. Prioleau, Chaplain, Twenty-fifth Infantry. Captain W. E. Gladden, Chaplain, (retired) Twenty-fourth Infantry. Captain T. G. Steward, Chaplain retired, Twenty-fifth Infantry. Captain Oscar J. W. Scott, Chaplain, Tenth Cavalry. Major Louis A. Carter, Chaplain, Ninth Cavalry. First Lieutenant A. W. Thomas, Chaplain Twenty-fourth Infantry.
Those who held the highest Colored commissions above captains in the United States Army during the World War are as follows:
“Colonels:
Franklin A. Denison, 370th Infantry; Charles Young retired.
Lieutenant Colonels:
Ollie B. Davis, 9th Cavalry; Otis B. Duncan, 370th Infantry; John E. Green, Military Attache, Monrovia, Liberia.
Majors:
“Thomas B. Campbell; Milton T. Dean, 317th Ammunition Train; John C. Fulton, 372nd Infantry; William B. Gould, Jr., National Guard; Charles L. Hunt, 370th Infantry; William H. Jackson, 369th Infantry; Thomas H. Moffatt, 371st Infantry; Adam E. Patterson, Judge Advocate, 92nd Division; Rufus M. Stokes, 370th Infantry; James E. Walker, 372nd Infantry; Arthur Williams, 370th Infantry.”
(The above list of officers’ names are quoted from Work’s Negro Year Book, edition 1918-1919, pages 223-228.)