Voices of the Buffalo Soldier : records, reports, and recollections of military life and service in the West by Schubert, Frank N instant download

Voices of the Buffalo Soldier : records, reports, and recollections of military life and service in the West by Schubert, Frank N instant download

xi, 281 p. : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, 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 OFFCERS / 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…