Fighting for Uncle Sam : buffalo soldiers in the frontier army / John P. Langellier.
"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 over nearly a half century from public and private collections enhance the written word as windows to the past. Now, 150 yeasrs 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." -- Provided by the Publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780764350795 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Publisher: Atglen, Pennsylvania : Schiffer Publishing Ltd., [2016]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index. |
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Shelby Co PL - Shelbyville Main Library | 355.008 LAN (Text) | 78731000495211 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |