Rosters of Officers of the Tennessee Regiments in the Spanish-American War


Regimental Officers of the First Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Infantry

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William C. Smith............Colonel
Gracy Childers..............Colonel
Albert B. Bayless...........Lieutenant Colonel
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham..Major
John G. McGuire.............Major
William J. Whitmore.........Major
Alvan c. Gillem.............Major
Richard A. Barr.............Major and Surgeon
Reynold M. Kirby-Smith......Captain and Assistant Surgeon
Percy L. Jones..............Captain and Assistant Surgeon
Lewis J. Leyland............Captain and Chaplain
Frank M. Wells..............Captain and Chaplain
James K. Polk...............1st Lieutenant and Adjutant
Nelson Coffman..............1st Lieutenant and Adjutant
Cave Johnson................1st Lieutenant and Quatermaster
Patrick L. Hacker...........1st Lieutenant and Quatermaster
Andrew J. Duncan............1st Lieutenant and Quatermaster
James W. Moore..............2nd Lieutenant and Quatermaster

COMPANY A
George Reed.................Captain
William A. Alexander........1st Lieutenant
Jacob E. Kunz...............2nd Lieutenant
Charles M. McLester.........2nd Lieutenant(discharged August 11, 1899

COMPANY B
Robert M. Milan.............Captain
Austin W. Cabler............1st Lieutenant
Mark G. Faker...............2nd Lieutenant
E.S. Fowler.................1st Lieutenant(resigned October 15, 1898)
R.O. Ragsdale...............1st Lieutenant(discharged July 18, 1899)
Alvin K. Baskette...........2nd Lieutenant(discharged July 18, 1899)
William J. Whitthorne.......Captain(appointed Judge Inferior Court, December 24, 1898)

COMPANY C
Alfred J. Law...............Captain
Robert E. Martin............1st Lieutenant
James T. Quarles............2nd Lieutenant
Henry R. Richmond...........Captain(discharged July 29, 1899)

COMPANY D

William J. Gilbrith.........Captain
Edwin C. McNeal.............1st Lieutenant
Edson E. McNealy............2nd Lieutenant
Joe B. Cocke................2nd Lieutenant(discharged July 15, 1899)

COMPANY E
James T. Hager..............Captain
S.Morgan Williams...........1st Lieutenant
Nick Malone.................2nd Lieutenant

COMPANY F
James K. Polk...............Captain
Henry H. Eastman............1st Lieutenant
Thomas E. Halbert...........2nd Lieutenant
Robert M. Milan.............1st Lieutenant(promoted to Captain, July 24, 1899)
Alvan C. Gillem.............Captain(promoted to Major, August 21, 1899

COMPANY G
Hugh Sparkman...............Captain
Thomas F. Bates.............1st Lieutenant
Frank Blackmon..............2nd Lieutenant
Hugh B. Myers...............Captain(discharged July 17, 1899)

COMPANY H
Gaston O'Brien..............Captain
Charles B. Ewing............1st Lieutenant
J.Willis Burks..............2nd Lieutenant
Cave Johnson................1st Lieutenant(discharged May 15, 1899
Winston Pilcher.............1st Lieutenant(discharged July 29, 1899
Charles C. Winnia...........2nd Lieutenant(appointed August 14, 1899
Andrew J. Duncan............1st Lieutenant(appointed Regimental Quatermaster, May 29, 1898)
Pat L. Slacker..............2nd Lieutenant(appointed Regimantal Quatermaster March 28, 1899
William Caruthers...........2nd Lieutenant(appointed 1st Lieutenant, August 14, 1899

COMPANY I
Leon Caraway................Captain
Ernest B. Bowles............1st Lieutenant
Nick K. Givens..............Captain(discharged July 15, 1899
James W. Moore..............2nd Lieutenant(discharged July 24, 1899

COMPANY K
Samuel O. Murphy............Captain
Nixon N. Pickard............1st Lieutenant
Charles A. Richardson.......2nd Lieutenant
John C. Patton..............1st Lieutenant(discharged July 24, 1899

COMPANY L
Charles Van Leer............Captain
William Caruthers...........1st Lieutenant
William F. Cooper...........2nd Lieutenant(discharged July 8, 1899
Sam Van Leer................Captain(discharged July 15, 1899)
William T. Vaughn...........2nd Lieutenant(discharged July 15, 1899
Winston Pilcher.............2nd Lieutenant(transferred to Company H, First Tennessee, June 12, 1899)

COMPANY M

Sheffeld Clark..............Captain
Martin Dismukes.............1st Lieutenant
Robert N. Gooch.............2nd Lieutenant
Albert J. Bright............1st Lieutenant(discharged July 15, 1899)