Kansas. Regiments known as the Immunes, being
immune to Yellow fever, were formed with
colored lieutenants and white captains and field
officers, and called the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th
United States Volunteers. In addition to those
there were the 6th Virginia with colored lieutenants and the 3rd Alabama with white officers. Indiana had two companies attached to the 8th
Immunes. None of the Negro volunteer companies reached the front in time to take part in
battle. The 8th Illinois formed a part of the
Army of Occupation and was noted for its policing and cleaning up of Santiago. Colonel John
R. Marshall, commanding the 8th Illinois, and
Major Charles Young, a regular army commander, both colored, were in charge of the battalion.
The colored regular army regiments took a brilliant part in the war. The first regiment ordered to the front was the 24th Infantry. Negro soldiers were in the battles around Santiago. The Tenth Cavalry made an effective attack at Las Quasimas and at El Caney on July 1 they saved Roosevelt's Rough Riders from annihilation. The 24th Infantry volunteered in the Yellow fever epidemic and cleaned the camp in one day. Review of Reviews says: “One of the most gratifying incidents of the Spanish War has been the
