Voices of the Buffalo Soldier : records, reports, and recollections of military life and service in the West - 20160731 frey50; Schubert, Frank N. (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008)
Machine generated contents note: ILLUSTRATIONS / ix -- MAPS /X -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS /xi -- INTRODUCTION /1 -- 1 A NEW KIND OF SOLDIER FOR THE POST-CIVIL WAR REGULAR ARMY / 5 -- 2 FIRST SKIRMISHES WITH PLAINS TRIBES / 8 -- 3 THE 10TH CAVALRY IN THE SUMMER OF 1867: FIRST BATTLES AND FIRST -- CASUALTY /12 -- 4 SERGEANT SHELVIN SHROPSHIRE'S OBSERVATIONS ON SERVICE IN KANSAS / 21 -- 5 THE BATTLE AT BEECHER ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1878 / 23 -- 6 THE 9TH CAVALRY IN TEXAS: MUTINY AT SAN PEDRO SPRINGS, TEXAS, APRIL 1867 /31 -- 7 WILLIAM CATHAY/CATHAY WILLIAMS: A WOMAN IN THE 38TH INFANTRY / 33 -- 8 SERGEANT EMANUEL STANCE AND THE MEDAL OF HONOR / 36 -- 9 RECOLLECTIONS OF ACTIVE SERVICE IN TEXAS, BY SERGEANT JACOB WILKS, 9TH CAVALRY / 40 -- 10 THE EARLIEST KNOWN DOCUMENTED USE OF THE NAME "BUFFALO SOLDIERS" / 47 -- 11 TWO OLD SOLDIERS RECALL THEIR YOUTH AND SERVICE IN THE 25TH -- INFANTRY, 1870-1880 / 50 -- 12 CAPTAIN J. LEE HUMFREVILLE'S COURT-MARTIAL CONVICTION, 1874 / 55 -- 13 A RESOLUTION OF MOURNING / 63 -- 14 PERRY HAYMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS OF SERVICE WITH THE 10TH CAVALRY / 65 -- 15 LIEUTENANT JOHN LAPHAM BULLIS'S REPORT ON THE HEROIC BEHAVIOR OF -- THREE SEMINOLE-NEGRO SCOUTS / 70 -- 16 SERGEANT JOHN MARSHALL OF THE 10TH CAVALRY REPORTS ON A SCOUT -- FROM FORT CONCHO, TEXAS / 73 -- 17 DESTROYING INDIAN VILLAGES / 75 -- 18 BORDERLAND OPERATIONS: CATTLE THIEVES AND CIVIL AUTHORITIES / 77 -- 19 BORDERLAND OPERATIONS: DEPREDATIONS AND REFUGE / 79 -- 20 A CHAPLAIN'S REPORT: DISCIPLINE, MORALS, AND EDUCATION / 85 -- 21 LIEUTENANT HENRY FLIPPER'S COMPETENCE, CHARACTER, AND TREATMENT --BY OTHER OfficeRS / 87 --22 COMPLAINT ABOUT DISCRIMINATION IN SELECTION OF SERGEANTS TO -- NONCOMMISSIONED STAFF POSITIONS / 91 -- 23 COLONEL GEORGE F. HAMILTON'S CHRONOLOGY OF THE 9TH CAVALRY -- DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICTORIO AND NANA / 93 -- 24 LIEUTENANT GEORGE R. BURNETT'S ACCOUNT OF A FIREFIGHT BETWEEN THE -- 9TH CAVALRY AND NANA'S BAND IN AUGUST 1881 / 100 -- 25 THE 10TH CAVALRY IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICTORIO / 107 -- 26 COLONEL GEORGE ANDREWS PLEADS FOR A CHANGE OF STATION FOR THE 25TH INFANTRY /108 -- 27 A BORDERLAND LOVE TRIANGLE: WHITE OFFICER, BLACK SOLDIER, AND LATINO WOMAN / 111 -- 28 ENCOUNTER WITH RACISM: THE 10TH CAVALRY AT SAN ANGELO, TEXAS /114 -- 29 A SOLDIER'S LOVE LETTERS / 123 -- 30 JOHN HOWERTON'S ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY / 127 -- 31 MOSEs GREEN'S COURT-MARTIAL, FORT RENO, INDIAN TERRITORY, 1883 / 129 -- 32 STATEMENT BY PRIVATE EDWARD HAMILTON, TROOP C, 9TH CAVALRY / 137 -- 33 LIEUTENANT POWHATTAN H. CLARKE AND THE RESCUE OF CORPORAL EDWARD SCOTT /139 -- 34 FIFTEEN HARD YEARS: SERGEANT JOHN CASEY'S SERVICE IN THE 10TH CAVALRY /141 -- 35 24TH INFANTRY SOLDIERS CENSURE SOME OF THEIR OWN / 149 -- 36 DON RICKEY'S NOTES ON INTERVIEWS WITH SIMPSON MANN / 153 -- 37 PROTECTING THE PAYROLL / 159 -- 38 WILLIAM WILSON, COURAGE UNDER FIRE, AND DESERTION / 163 -- 39 THE POETRY OF PRIVATE W.H. PRATHER OF I TROOP, 9TH CAVALRY / 170 -- 40 CHAPLAIN THEOPHILUS G. STEWARD ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER /173 -- 41 THE SUGGS AFFRAY, JUNE 1892 /174 -- 42 CHAPLAIN HENRY V. PLUMMER ON LIFE AT FORT ROBINSON AND HIS RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL DUTIES / 175 -- 43 SERGEANT BARNEY MCKAY AND "500 SOLDIERS WITH THE BULLET OR TORCH" /177 -- 44 RECOLLECTIONS OF A RECRUIT / 188 -- 45 A 24TH INFANTRY MASQUERADE BALL / 198 -- 46 THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT JOHN HANKS ALEXANDER / 200 -- 47 A MATTER OF COMPLEXION / 204 -- 48 CHAPLAIN ALLEN ALLENSWORTH AND THE POST SCHOOL / 206 --49 A"GLORIOUS CALLING" /208 -- 50 CHAPLAIN GEORGE PRIOLEAU ON A SEGREGATED RAILROAD CAR THROUGH TEXAS / 214 -- 51 BENJAMIN O. DAVIS QUALIFIES FOR A COMMISSION IN THE ARMY / 217 -- 52 DIFFERING VIEWS OF GARRISON LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY / 221 -- 53 THE NAMES OF A SOLDIER / 226 -- 54 MARY CHURCH TERRELL, "A SKETCH OF MINGO SAUNDERS" / 238 -- 55 THE RACIAL CLIMATE IN BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, AFTER THE SHOOTING INCIDENT / 244 -- 56 CHARLES YOUNG AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE / 247 -- 57 VIOLET CRAGG'S PENSION REQUEST / 248 -- 58 ENDURING PATRIOTISM /252 -- 59 AN ARMY WIDOW'S LOT / 255 -- 60 FROM BUFFALO SOLDIERS TO CLERGYMEN / 256 -- NOTES / 258 -- INDEX / 273.
Keywords: United States. -- Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century; United States. -- Army; African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; African American soldiers -- West (U.S.); African Americans -- West (U.S.); Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890; West (U.S.) -- Race relations