Lake Charles Rifles CoG 1st Reg. Spanish American War. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Contributed by Margaret Moore. The following information was obtained from a chart on the wall of the Veterans Administation office in the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Soldier's Memorial Spanish - American War of 1898 Louisiana Volunteer Infantry Lake Charles Rifles Company G First Regiment Organized at Lake Charles, La. October 14, 1894. Mustered into the United States Service at New Orleans, La. May 9, 1898. Colonel Commanding - William L. Stevens Major Commanding 3d Battalion - S. Arthur Knapp Company Officers Captain - Lucius O'Bryan 1st Lieut. - Charles R. Kearney 2nd Lieut. - George H. Rock First Sergeant - William L. Bradley Quartermaster Sergeant - William L. Neibart Sergeants Ernest W. Clement Edgar N. Collins F. Daniel O'Bryan Arthur S. Bryan - Regimental Color Sergeant Corporals Artificer Robert F. O'Bryan William W. Perry Joe McKinney Hector McKinnon Joseph Moore Wagoner Mark D. Wentz Ben C. Beardsley Holston Le Bleu Privates Anderson, Thomas Moore, Fred I. Baker, John B. Morgan, Robert Barker, Ira E. McCrone, Robert Barrow, Robert J. McKinney, Lewis Basquez, Joe G. Newton, Frank M. Belden, Thomas Nicholas, Henry P. Beyer, Dan A. Norred, Edward J. Brown, Elmer K. Parsons, Charles D., Jr. Burnett, William C. Peirce, Edward L. Carr, Henry Perry, James Carter, Claude C. Pete rs, Walter L. Carter, John E. Price, Frederick H. Cohen, Nathan Price, Harry Colleps, Cordelle Reid, Henry A. Collins, Andrew S. Roberts, William G. Cooper, Percy Ryan, Joseph L. Delaney, Charles Sallier, Joseph Dolan, Patrick Schilz, Charles S. Elender, Simon Schneider, Daniel Gage, John F. Shaddock, William B. Gentry, Ernest M. Shaw, Robert J. Gidlow, John W. Singleton, John P. Gilmore, Van E. Sloane, Paul M. Hamby, Monroe G. Solomon, Godfrey C. Hamilton, Charles E. Spencer, Thomas A. Harper, William A. Spiers, Clarence K. Harrington, Edward W. Stewart, William B. Harrington, William Sturdevant, Damon P. Jinks, Isaac M. St. Clair, Auguetus Lanier, John B. Taylor, Arthur F. Lary, Robert C. Thompson, Berdell LeBlanc, John B. Thompson, Frank E. LeBleu, Polignac D. Tillmon, Henry N. Linch, James A. True, George W. Love, Charles H. Truitt, Arthur F. Lyons, John H. Wells, Reuben F. Manson, David W. White, Thomas D. Marchman, Charles D. Whitman, Winfield C. Marchman, Robert L. Wilson, John D. Maryman, John A. Wilson, John J. Mayoh, Bert Young, Robert W. Mercer, J. William Zierath, George A. Miller, McVay Transferred Atkins, Thomas - transferred Co H Taylor, Geroge - transferred to Band Wentz, John T. - transferred to Band Hutchins, George F. - transferred to Hospital Corps Medus, Henry - transferred to Hospital Corps Eckart, Henry - transferred to Band Died Miller, Scott M. - Died at Miami, Fl. 18 July 1898