Table of Contents
ContentsIllustrations
Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A new kind of soldier for the post-Civil War Regular Army
Chapter 2: First skirmishes with Plains tribes
Chapter 3: The 10th Cavalry in the summer of 1867: first battles and first casualty
Chapter 4: Sergeant Shelvin Shropshire's observations on service in Kansas
Chapter 5: The battle at Beecher Island, September 1878
Chapter 6: The 9th Cavalry in Texas: mutiny at San Pedro Springs, Texas, April 1867
Chapter 7: William Cathay/Cathay Williams: a woman in the 38th Infantry
Chapter 8: Sergeant Emanuel Stance and the Medal of Honor
Chapter 9: Recollections of active service in Texas, by Sergeant Jacob Wilks, 9th Cavalry
Chapter 10: The earliest known documented use of the name "Buffalo Soldiers"
Chapter 11: Two old soldiers recall their youth and service in the 25th Infantry, 1870-1880
Chapter 12: Captain J. Lee Humfreville's court-martial conviction, 1874
Chapter 13: A resolution of mourning
Chapter 14: Perry Hayman's recollections of service with the 10th Cavalry
Chapter 15: Lieutenant John Lapham Bullis's report on the heroic behavior of four Seminole-Negro scouts
Chapter 16: Sergeant John Marshall of the 10th Cavalry reports on a scout from Fort Concho, Texas
Chapter 17: Destroying Indian villages
Chapter 18: Borderland operations: cattle thieves and civil authorities
Chapter 19: Borderland operations: depredations and refuge
Chapter 20: A chaplain's report: discipline, morals, and education
Chapter 21: Lieutenant Henry Flipper's competence, character, and treatment by other officers
Chapter 22: Complaint about discrimination in selection of sergeants to noncommissioned staff positions
Chapter 23: Colonel George F. Hamilton's chronology of the 9th Cavalry during the campaign against Victorio
Chapter 24: Lieutenant George R. Burnett's account of a firefight between the 9th Cavalry and Nana's band in August 1881
Chapter 25: The 10th Cavalry in the campaign against Victorio
Chapter 26: Colonel George Andrews pleads for a change of station for the 25th Infantry
Chapter 27: A borderland love triangle: white officer, black soldier, and Latino woman
Chapter 28: Encounter with racism: the 10th Cavalry at San Angelo, Texas
Chapter 29: A soldier's love letters
Chapter 30: John Howerton's escape from slavery
Chapter 31: Moses Green's court-martial, Fort Reno, Indian Territory, 1883
Chapter 32: Statement by Private Edward Hamilton, Troop C, 9th Cavalry
Chapter 33: Lieutenant Powhattan H. Clarke and the rescue of Corporal Edward Scott
Chapter 34: Fifteen hard years: Sergeant John Casey's service in the 10th Cavalry
Chapter 35: 24th Infantry soldiers censure some of their own
Chapter 36: Don Rickey's notes on interviews with Simpson Mann
Chapter 37: Protecting the payroll
Chapter 38: William Wilson, courage under fire, and desertion
Chapter 39: The poetry of Private W. H. Prather of I Troop, 9th Cavalry
Chapter 40: Chaplain Theophilus G. Steward on his relationship with the regimental commander
Chapter 41: The Suggs affray, June 1892
Chapter 42: Chaplain Henry V. Plummer on life at Fort Robinson and his religious and educational duties
Chapter 43: Sergeant Barney McKay and "500 Soldiers with the Bullet or Torch"
Chapter 44: Recollections of a recruit
Chapter 45: A 24th Infantry masquerade ball
Chapter 46: The death of Lieutenant John Hanks Alexander
Chapter 47: A matter of complexion
Chapter 48: Chaplain Allen Allensworth and the post school
Chapter 49: A "glorious calling"
Chapter 50: Chaplain George Prioleau on a segregated railroad car through Texas
Chapter 51: Benjamin O. Davis qualifies for a commission in the Army
Chapter 52: Differing views of garrison life at the turn of the century
Chapter 53: The names of a soldier
Chapter 54: Mary Church Terrell, "A Sketch of Mingo Saunders"
Chapter 55: The racial climate in Brownsville, Texas, after the shooting incident
Chapter 56: Charles Young and African American heritage
Chapter 57: Violet Cragg's pension request
Chapter 58: Enduring patriotism
Chapter 59: An Army widow's lot
Chapter 60: From Buffalo Soldiers to clergymen
Notes
Index