Description: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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army. To get started finding Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army
Description: 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army. To get started finding Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.