Unburied lives : the historical archaeology of buffalo soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869-1875 / Laurie A. Wilkie.

"According to the accounts of two white officers, on the evening of November 20, 1872, Corporal Daniel Talliafero, of the segregated Black 9th cavalry, was shot to death by an officer's wife while attempting to break into her sleeping apartment at the military post of Fort Davis, Texas. Historians w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilkie, Laurie A., 1968- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2021.
Subjects:	African American soldiers > Texas > Fort Davis (Fort) > History > 19th century. United States. > Army > African American troops > History > 19th century. Fort Davis (Tex. : Fort) > Antiquities.
Physical Description:	xxi, 274 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Chapter one. Black soldiering matters at Fort Davis : taking an archaeological approach to frontier life
Chapter two. Corporal Williams's tent : frontier military spaces
Chapter three. Private Stevenson's pocketknife and Company K's tumbler
Chapter four. Sergeant Hewey's stick
Chapter five. Private Johnson's letters
Chapter six. Sergeant Sample's eyesight
Chapter seven. Daniel Tallifero's cap.