The buffalo soldiers
Subtitle: their epic story and major campaigns
By: Debra J. Sheffer
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781440829826; 9781440829833
Subjects: African American soldiers; History; African American troops; United States. Army; United States
Description: This narrative focuses on the Buffalo Soldiers, tracing the legacy of black military service and its social, economic, and political impact from the colonial era through the end of the 19th century.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thanks, but no thanks: Black service in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Seminole wars; title: The Civil War and postwar occupation: "gentlemen, the question is settled; Negroes will fight"; title: New beginnings and new trials: creation, organization, and overview; title: A different kind of war: the Ninth Cavalry; title: "Ready and forward": the Tenth Cavalry; title: "'neath the coat of army blue": the Twenty-Fourth Infantry; title: Honest and faithful service: the Twenty-Fifth Infantry; title: Cuba, the Philippines, and Mexico; title: "Black is not a color of the rainbow": World War I; title: Epilogue: World War II and the Korean War.