On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier presents carefully documented biographical information on thousands of black servicemen, giving the researcher not only glimpses of individual lives but also documentation of the variety of African-American experiences within and outside the army.
They were U.S. Army soldiers. Just a few years earlier, some had been slaves. Several thousand African Americans served as soldiers in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War in the latter part of the 19th century. They were known as buffalo soldiers, believed to have been named by Indians who had seen a similarity ...
The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their military service, their social lives, and their interactions with western civilian communities, it uses the words of the soldiers themselves and of ...
This supplement presents over 2,000 new and nearly 1,000 revised biographies of black servicemen, giving the researcher not only glimpses of individual lives but also documentation of the variety of African-American experiences within and outside the army.
The history of Fort Robinson, Nebraska is much more than a record of battles. The post was a community whose residentsofficers with their wives and children, married enlisted men and their families, and the single men in the barracks - lived in close physical proximity but under substantially different conditions. Divided by military rank and ...
African American soldiers distinguished themselves for valour during the Civil War and their service in defence of the Union went a long way toward securing the civil rights of all black Americans after the war. Enhanced by an extensive foreword by Frank N. Schubert, chief of Joint Operational History for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an expert on ...
This book marks an important anniversary in the history of our development as a nation. In 1838 Congress established the Corps of Topographical Engineers, an organization whose main purpose was the peacetime fostering of economic growth and national cohesion. This small dedicated group of officers contributed to the development of many aspects of ...
CMH Publication 70-30. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and TheresaL. Kraus. Discusses the United States Army's role in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense ...
'It is fine social as well as military history, and offers valuable insights into fort and town - the army's equivalent of town and gown. The triumphs and trials of black soldiers in the frontier period also receive important illumination' - Robert M. Utley, author of "Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891". 'To my ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: U.S. Army Office of the Chief of Engineers
Date Published: 1979
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: US Army Corps of Engineers
Date Published: 1987
Description: Softcover. Very Good condition. Light edgewear, otherwise a Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
Date Published: 2003
Description: As New in As New jacket. 281pp, illus, index, map. Collection of documents that illuminates the lives and experiences of African Americans who served in the Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. [O5/401] read more
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Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Calvary, 1867-1898: Black and White Together
