Shawnee County Military
Shawnee County Men in the Spanish-American War
23rd KANSAS REGIMENT (primarily made up of African-American men)
John M. Brown,
major; Charles S. Sunday, assistant surgeon; Theophilus T. Jones, sergeant
major; James F. White, hospital steward; George W. Jackson, leader of regimental band; Charles A. Brown, William A. Brooks, Benjamin Burton, Virgil Chatman, Thomas Jackson, Simeon McCarroll, Leander Northington,
Robert Parks, Hollie E. Searcie and William Vaughn, members of band.
Company A � Captain William Reynolds, 1st Lieuts. Thomas McAdoo and
Henry Taylor; 2nd Lieutenant Oscar Overr; Quartermaster Sergeants Arthur C. Harris and Robert Maddox; Sergeants Charles Birdwhistle, M. W.
J. Brown, Paul L. Caldwell, Benjamin H. Bailey, Benjamin F. Perkins and
James Harper; Corporals James E. Turner, James Harris. Alfred Lewis,
Charles W. Ford, William Ellis, Robert H. Todd, Marcus J. Owens, Clarence Bradshaw, D. L. Wadlington, Thomas Tyler, Henry C. Horton, Presley
Reynolds, Fred Collins, Robert J. Rector and John W. Johnson. Privates �
Bert Bell, Isaiah Brown, James Buford, Lewis Butts, James Carvey, Grant
Crosswy, Abe Ellis, Albert Etherly, Walter Ewing, Zeroha Ewing, Robert
Garvin, Edward Gentry, Franc D. Glenn, George W. Gayden, William Goff,
Charles H. Hedge, John M. Hightower, Edgar Holloway, Oscar W. Horton,
Bedford B. Hunter, James Hooper, Edward I. Henderson, W. W. Jackson,
George Jones, Thomas Jackson, Charles A. Jackson, Bert King, John Lawson,
Virdell Link, Isaac A. Long, Robert Marshall, J. R. Martin, Lee A. Martin,
Lemuel Martin, John McCrow, Allen A. Miller, Sidney Miller, John Moore,
Robert C. Morgan. Sandy Mothell, Benjamin McCowan, William D. Nixon,
William G. Northington, John A. Overr, Ellison Owens, Colonel Parker,
Thomas Parker, Samuel Patten, Alfred J. Payne, Benjamin F. Payne,
Mitchell Pennington, Edward Pillow, Charles Pillow, Robert Ransom, John
Rider, Walter Rosson, John B. Radford, Charles Slaughter, John Small,
Charles Sneed, William Solomon, H. M. Spradley, H. S. Taborn, Frank
Thomas, J. W. Thompson, Arthur Todd, George Trice, Henry Walker, Robert Walters, William Wheatman, William Williams, Edward D. Wilson,
James C. Wilson, George W. Wheeler, George W. Weddington, Henry Young
and Manning Youngman.
Company B � James King, lieutenant ; John Banks
and Charles Gooden, sergeants ; John A. Gregg, quartermaster sergeant ;
Pearl J. Porter and J. W. Thomas, corporals; Fred D. Kuykendall. musician. Privates � Abraham Thomas, Charles Alexander, Arthur Albriton, George
Batty, J. G. Bowers, Luther Bryant, William Buchanan, Spotwood Ellis,
Noah E. Freeman, Bert Hester, Edward Parks, A. W. Porter. Jr., Robert
Reed and William Thornton.
Company D � Van Boyd, William Ewing,
Ernest Jordan and William Shaw.
Company E � John Medina, Joseph Milford, George Murphy and Frank West.
Company F � Sergeant George E.
Payne and Charles F. Seals.
Company G � Corporal Joseph Crump and Addison Parker.
Company H � Sergeants David E. Overr, Albert W. Link and
Albert Martin; Corporals David Pierre and William E. Thompson; George
Anderson, James Brown, O. D. Dupree, William Finley, James Grant, Andrew Jamison, George Jordan, Albert Jordan, Albert E. Jordan, Thomas
Jackson, Edward Moss, James Murdock, John North, John S. Stamp, H. M.
Spradley, Aaron R. Thompson and Willis White.
History--This regiment was a model organization, and while not
called upon the firing line its whole duty was promptly and efficiently performed. After being mustered in at Topeka in July, 1898, it went to New
York and sailed from there August 25th on the steamer "Vigilancia" for
Santiago, Cuba, arriving there August 31st. It was in camp at San Luis
from September 1, 1898, to February 28, 1899, and sailed from Santiago
March 1st for Newport News, Virginia, arriving there March 6th. On the
10th of March it proceeded by rail to Fort Leavenworth and was mustered
out on April 10, 1899.
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