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Fighting for Uncle Sam : buffalo soldiers in the frontier army / John P. Langellier.
- Title
- Fighting for Uncle Sam : buffalo soldiers in the frontier army / John P. Langellier.
- Author
- Langellier, John P. (John Phillip)
- Publication
- Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., [2016]
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E185.63 .L36 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 221 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm
- Summary
- From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation's defense. This book breathes new vitality into a stirring subject, emphasizing the role men who have come to be known as "buffalo soldiers" played in opening the Trans-Mississippi West. This concise overview reveals a cast of characters as big as the land they served. Over 150 images painstakingly gathered nearly a half century from public and private collections enhance the written word as windows to the past. Now, 150 years after Congress authorized blacks to serve in the Regular Army the reader literally can peer into the eyes of formerly enslaved men who bravely bought their freedom on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, then trekked westward, carried the "Stars and Stripes" to the Caribbean, and pursued Pancho Villa into Mexico with John "Black Jack" Pershing.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Pictorial works
- Military history
- History.
- Military history.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Do you think I'll make a soldier? African American fighting men, 1775-1865 -- Pack up your saddle: Black regulars, 1866-1897 -- No place like home: Garrison life -- They look like men: enlisted ranks -- Cadet gray and Army blue: West Point Officers -- Christian soldiers; Chaplains -- Hot time in the old town: From the Spanish-American War to desegregation, 1898-1948 -- Buffalo soldiers-when will they call you a man? History and heritage for further reading.
- ISBN
- 076435079X
- 9780764350795
- LCCN
- ^^2015957317
- OCLC
- 927401888
- SCSB-12489161
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library