- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A chronicle of the first generation of black soldiers to serve in the US Army with images from more than a century of African American military history.
From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation's defense. This book breathes new vitality into a stirring subject, emphasizing the role men who have come to be known as "buffalo soldiers" played in opening the Trans-Mississippi West. This concise overview reveals a cast of characters as big as the land they served. More than150 images painstakingly gathered over nearly a half century from public and private collections enhance the written word as windows to the past. Now, 150 years after Congress authorized African Americans to serve in the Regular Army, the reader literally can peer into the eyes of formerly enslaved men who bravely bought their freedom on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, then trekked westward, carried the "Stars and Stripes" to the Caribbean, and pursued Pancho Villa into Mexico with John "Black Jack" Pershing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword
- Map
- Acknowledgments and Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Do you Think I’ll Make a Soldier? African American Fighting Men, 1775–1865
- Chapter 2: Pack Up Your Saddle: Black Regulars, 1866–1897
- Chapter 3: No Place Like Home: Garrison Life
- Chapter 4: They Look Like Men: Enlisted Ranks
- Chapter 5: Cadet Gray and Army Blue: West Point and Officers
- Chapter 6: Christian Soldiers: Chaplains
- Chapter 7: Hot Time in the Old Town: From the Spanish-American War to Desegregation, 1898–1948
- Chapter 8: Buffalo Soldiers—When Will They Call You a Man? History and Heritage
- References
- Index
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