It was not mustered into the service.
Company L.Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, was a Negro company serving in a white regiment.

John L.Waller, deceased, a Negro formerly United States Consul to Madagascar, was a captain in the Kansas regiment.
About one hundred Negro second-lieutenants were commissioned in the volunteer force during the Spanish-American war.

There was a Negro paymaster, Major John R.Lynch of Mississippi, and two Negro chaplains, the Rev.C.T.Walker of Georgia and the Rev.Richard Carroll of South Carolina.
Owing to the briefness of the campaign in Cuba, most of the service of Negro troops devolved upon the Regulars who were fit and ready.

But all troops were at mobilization or training bases and willing and anxious to serve.

No pages in the history of this country are more replete with the record of good fighting, military efficiency and soldierly conduct, than those recording the story of Negro troops in Cuba.