Voices of the Buffalo Soldier
Subtitle: records, reports, and recollections of military life and service in the West
By: [edited by] Frank N. Schubert.
Contributors: Schubert, Frank N.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.; United States. Army -- Biography.; African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.; African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.; African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources.; Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 -- Sources.; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Sources.; West (U.S.) -- Race relations -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.; Biography.
Description: "This collection of documents illuminates the lives and experiences of the 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ILLUSTRATIONS / ix; title: MAPS /X; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS /xi; title: INTRODUCTION /1; title: 1 A NEW KIND OF SOLDIER FOR THE POST-CIVIL WAR REGULAR ARMY / 5; title: 2 FIRST SKIRMISHES WITH PLAINS TRIBES / 8; title: 3 THE 10TH CAVALRY IN THE SUMMER OF 1867: FIRST BATTLES AND FIRST; title: CASUALTY /12; title: 4 SERGEANT SHELVIN SHROPSHIRE'S OBSERVATIONS ON SERVICE IN KANSAS / 21; title: 5 THE BATTLE AT BEECHER ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1878 / 23; title: 6 THE 9TH CAVALRY IN TEXAS: MUTINY AT SAN PEDRO SPRINGS, TEXAS, APRIL 1867 /31; title: 7 WILLIAM CATHAY/CATHAY WILLIAMS: A WOMAN IN THE 38TH INFANTRY / 33; title: 8 SERGEANT EMANUEL STANCE AND THE MEDAL OF HONOR / 36; title: 9 RECOLLECTIONS OF ACTIVE SERVICE IN TEXAS, BY SERGEANT JACOB WILKS, 9TH CAVALRY / 40; title: 10 THE EARLIEST KNOWN DOCUMENTED USE OF THE NAME "BUFFALO SOLDIERS" / 47; title: 11 TWO OLD SOLDIERS RECALL THEIR YOUTH AND SERVICE IN THE 25TH; title: INFANTRY, 1870-1880 / 50; title: 12 CAPTAIN J. LEE HUMFREVILLE'S COURT-MARTIAL CONVICTION, 1874 / 55; title: 13 A RESOLUTION OF MOURNING / 63; title: 14 PERRY HAYMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS OF SERVICE WITH THE 10TH CAVALRY / 65; title: 15 LIEUTENANT JOHN LAPHAM BULLIS'S REPORT ON THE HEROIC BEHAVIOR OF; title: THREE SEMINOLE-NEGRO SCOUTS / 70; title: 16 SERGEANT JOHN MARSHALL OF THE 10TH CAVALRY REPORTS ON A SCOUT; title: FROM FORT CONCHO, TEXAS / 73; title: 17 DESTROYING INDIAN VILLAGES / 75; title: 18 BORDERLAND OPERATIONS: CATTLE THIEVES AND CIVIL AUTHORITIES / 77; title: 19 BORDERLAND OPERATIONS: DEPREDATIONS AND REFUGE / 79; title: 20 A CHAPLAIN'S REPORT: DISCIPLINE, MORALS, AND EDUCATION / 85; title: 21 LIEUTENANT HENRY FLIPPER'S COMPETENCE, CHARACTER, AND TREATMENT; title: BY OTHER OFFCERS / 87; title: 22 COMPLAINT ABOUT DISCRIMINATION IN SELECTION OF SERGEANTS TO; title: NONCOMMISSIONED STAFF POSITIONS / 91; title: 23 COLONEL GEORGE F. HAMILTON'S CHRONOLOGY OF THE 9TH CAVALRY; title: DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICTORIO AND NANA / 93; title: 24 LIEUTENANT GEORGE R. BURNETT'S ACCOUNT OF A FIREFIGHT BETWEEN THE; title: 9TH CAVALRY AND NANA'S BAND IN AUGUST 1881 / 100; title: 25 THE 10TH CAVALRY IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICTORIO / 107; title: 26 COLONEL GEORGE ANDREWS PLEADS FOR A CHANGE OF STATION FOR THE 25TH INFANTRY /108; title: 27 A BORDERLAND LOVE TRIANGLE: WHITE OFFICER, BLACK SOLDIER, AND LATINO WOMAN / 111; title: 28 ENCOUNTER WITH RACISM: THE 10TH CAVALRY AT SAN ANGELO, TEXAS /114; title: 29 A SOLDIER'S LOVE LETTERS / 123; title: 30 JOHN HOWERTON'S ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY / 127; title: 31 MOSEs GREEN'S COURT-MARTIAL, FORT RENO, INDIAN TERRITORY, 1883 / 129; title: 32 STATEMENT BY PRIVATE EDWARD HAMILTON, TROOP C, 9TH CAVALRY / 137; title: 33 LIEUTENANT POWHATTAN H. CLARKE AND THE RESCUE OF CORPORAL EDWARD SCOTT /139; title: 34 FIFTEEN HARD YEARS: SERGEANT JOHN CASEY'S SERVICE IN THE 10TH CAVALRY /141; title: 35 24TH INFANTRY SOLDIERS CENSURE SOME OF THEIR OWN / 149; title: 36 DON RICKEY'S NOTES ON INTERVIEWS WITH SIMPSON MANN / 153; title: 37 PROTECTING THE PAYROLL / 159; title: 38 WILLIAM WILSON, COURAGE UNDER FIRE, AND DESERTION / 163; title: 39 THE POETRY OF PRIVATE W. H. PRATHER OF I TROOP, 9TH CAVALRY / 170; title: 40 CHAPLAIN THEOPHILUS G. STEWARD ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER /173; title: 41 THE SUGGS AFFRAY, JUNE 1892 /174; title: 42 CHAPLAIN HENRY V. PLUMMER ON LIFE AT FORT ROBINSON AND HIS RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL DUTIES / 175; title: 43 SERGEANT BARNEY MCKAY AND "500 SOLDIERS WITH THE BULLET OR TORCH" /177; title: 44 RECOLLECTIONS OF A RECRUIT / 188; title: 45 A 24TH INFANTRY MASQUERADE BALL / 198; title: 46 THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT JOHN HANKS ALEXANDER / 200; title: 47 A MATTER OF COMPLEXION / 204; title: 48 CHAPLAIN ALLEN ALLENSWORTH AND THE POST SCHOOL / 206; title: 49 A"GLORIOUS CALLING" /208; title: 50 CHAPLAIN GEORGE PRIOLEAU ON A SEGREGATED RAILROAD CAR THROUGH TEXAS / 214; title: 51 BENJAMIN O. DAVIS QUALIFIES FOR A COMMISSION IN THE ARMY / 217; title: 52 DIFFERING VIEWS OF GARRISON LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY / 221; title: 53 THE NAMES OF A SOLDIER / 226; title: 54 MARY CHURCH TERRELL, "A SKETCH OF MINGO SAUNDERS" / 238; title: 55 THE RACIAL CLIMATE IN BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, AFTER THE SHOOTING INCIDENT / 244; title: 56 CHARLES YOUNG AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE / 247; title: 57 VIOLET CRAGG'S PENSION REQUEST / 248; title: 58 ENDURING PATRIOTISM /252; title: 59 AN ARMY WIDOW'S LOT / 255; title: 60 FROM BUFFALO SOLDIERS TO CLERGYMEN / 256; title: NOTES / 258; title: INDEX / 273.