[2] During his second term in Congress, Colson was known as a supporter of President McKinley's administration, but often voted with Democrats on regional issues.

In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Colson left his position in Congress to become colonel of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.

[1] In 1899, Colson was shot in the arm by a fellow officer, Lieutenant Ethelbert Dudley Scott.

[1] On January 16, 1900, Colson got in a pistol fight with Scott in a hotel lobby in Frankfort, Kentucky.

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