Spanish-American War and Business Ventures
Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Tyson desired to return to active military duty. Appointed a colonel by President William McKinley, he organized and trained the 6th Regiment U.S. Volunteer Infantry in the Summer of 1898. In October, he and his unit were shipped to Puerto Rico, where they garrisoned the Arecibo area on the northern half of the island. As the war wound down in February 1899, Tyson's unit was ordered to Savannah, Georgia, where they were mustered out a month later.
Back in Knoxville, Tyson returned to private law practice, and organized the Knoxville Cotton Mills, which would grow to become one of Knoxville's major textile companies in the early 20th century. In 1907, he chaired a conference in Nashville that issued a call for reform in child labor practices across the South. Nevertheless, a photograph by National Child Labor Committee photographer Lewis Hine showed several dozen children employed at a Knoxville Cotton Mills factory in December 1910.
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