The following men saw service in the Spanish American War. All were from Sedgwick County, the majority being Wichitans. The company was made up entirely of African-Americans.

Company E, 23rd Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Mustered into Service, Wichita, Kansas, July 14, 1898

Officers and Staff:
Samuel W. Jones, Captain; William A. Bettis, First Lieutenant; William Green, Second Lieutenant; Charles E. Stewart, First Sergeant; Thomas A. Dupart, Quartermaster Sergeant; Giles Anderson, Second Sergeant; Henry Sheairills, Third Sergeant; Harry Holmes, Fourth Sergeant; Thomas H. White, Fifth Sergeant; Napoleon Starnes, Artificer; Henry W. Gilbert, Wagoner

Corporals:
William H. Stell; John McBride, Edgar Franklin, Charles Staten, James Gage, James W. Turner, Isaac McAfee, Frank E. Green, James W. Thompson, Lee Toms, George E. Cowen and Leonard C. Martin

Musicians:
Wallace Bernal and Bert Burns

Privates:
John B. Anderson, Mack Anderson, William Allen, William K. Arnold, Benjamin Barnes, James Barnes, Frank Barber, Lewis Bass, John Bell, James H. Bransen, Henry Brayden, James B. Brown, William A. Brown, Alfred Buford, Henry Bynum, Thomas W. Campbell, William Carter, Charles Childs, David Chinneth, Anderson Crump, Peter C. Danforth, Henry C. Dixon, James Dozier, Edward Drain, Ora Earle, Clarence Estes, Samuel Farmer, Richard Fintch, Ollie Finley, Leroy Franklin, George W. Gardner, George Garr, Ceabron Greenwood, Samuel Hall, Thomas Harris, Charles Herring, Duff Herrington, Ben Hickey, Clifford Hill, John Hoard, Elliott Holmes, John T. Howard, Walter H. Howard, John Hudson, Allen Jackson, James C. Jackson, Joseph Johnson, McDonald Johnson, Stanton James, Frank K. Jones, William M. Love, John E. Majors, William Masir, John R. Martin, Abraham McAfee, Fred Martin, Walter Marshall, Henry I. Meredith, John Midina, Joseph Millford, George Murphy, William Weely, William Overstreet, Nelson S. Patterson, James Porter, Bevley M. Perry, Frank H. Ray, Henry Roeark, Eugene Reed, Ky Richards, Andy Simms, Henry Robinson, Lewis Robinson, John A. Rodgers, Samuel Sheairills, Dallas Thurman, Jones Vaughn, David Washington, James Warren, Frank West, Horace G. Wilder, Eugene R. Whitted, Charles Williams and Joseph Williams.