The buffalo soldiers : their epic story and major campaigns / Debra J. Sheffer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sheffer, Debra J. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
Subjects:
African American soldiers > History.
United States. > Army > African American troops > History.
Physical Description:xxii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Thanks, but no thanks: Black service in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Seminole wars
  • The Civil War and postwar occupation: "gentlemen, the question is settled; Negroes will fight"
  • New beginnings and new trials: creation, organization, and overview
  • A different kind of war: the Ninth Cavalry
  • "Ready and forward": the Tenth Cavalry
  • "'neath the coat of army blue": the Twenty-Fourth Infantry
  • Honest and faithful service: the Twenty-Fifth Infantry
  • Cuba, the Philippines, and Mexico
  • "Black is not a color of the rainbow": World War I
  • Epilogue: World War II and the Korean War.