A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unrecognized. This Book Buffalo Soldiers Stovall does a credible job of briefly tracing the history of the famous African-American calvary units known as the Buffalo Soldiers. Final chapters focus on the other famous African-American fighting units such as the Hell Fighters and the Tuskegee Airmen.
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This Book Buffalo Soldiers Held captive by the Kiowa and then bartered to a white buffalo hunter, Augustus Sharps is freed in 1869 by troopers of the all-black Tenth U.S. Cavalry, in which he enlists. 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 nineteenth century. Twenty-three of these men won the nation's highest award for personal bravery, the Medal of Honor. Black Valor brings the lives of these soldiers into sharp focus.