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Author : L. J. Bothma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Buffalo Battalion written by L. J. Bothma and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Henry Nankivell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803283794
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Soldier Regiment written by John Henry Nankivell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal recollections and official documents record the history, service, exploits, travels, traditions, and battles with racism experienced by one of the units comprising a black infantry regiment from 1869 to 1926.
Author : Brian G. Shellum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803268033
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment written by Brian G. Shellum and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864–1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attaché, the first African American officer to command a Regular Army regiment, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment tells the story of the man who—willingly or not—served as a standard-bearer for his race in the officer corps for nearly thirty years, and who, if not for racial prejudice, would have become the first African American general. Brian G. Shellum describes how, during his remarkable army career, Young was shuffled among the few assignments deemed suitable for a black officer in a white man’s army—the Buffalo Soldier regiments, an African American college, and diplomatic posts in black republics such as Liberia. Nonetheless, he used his experience to establish himself as an exceptional cavalry officer. He was a colonel on the eve of the United States’ entry into World War I, when serious medical problems and racial intolerance denied him command and ended his career. Shellum’s book seeks to restore a hero to the ranks of military history; at the same time, it informs our understanding of the role of race in the history of the American military.
Author : T.G. Steward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486780570
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Soldiers written by T.G. Steward and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history by a chaplain of the Twenty-fifth Infantry includes firsthand accounts of the Spanish-American War as well as an overview of African-American contributions to prior wars and conflicts.
Author : Hondon B. Hargrove
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621519
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Soldiers in Italy written by Hondon B. Hargrove and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 92nd Infantry ("Buffalo") Division was the last segregated (all-black) U.S. Army division and the only black division to fight in World War II in Europe. The few media references to the division have reflected generally unfavorable contemporary evaluations by white commanders. The present work reflects an analysis of numerous records and interviews that refute the negative impressions and demonstrate that these 13,500 soldiers gained their share of victories under hardships no others were expected to meet.
Author : Priscilla T Graham
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365885127
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Soldiers written by Priscilla T Graham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo Soldiers is a visual presentation of Buffalo Soldiers throughout American history including photos of Confederate and Union Soldiers. The book also offers a glimpse of the Buffalo Soldiers' 150th Anniversary held in Houston, Texas on July 30, 2016.
Author : E. B. Hogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Buffalo written by E. B. Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the life and military career of Walter Potts, the oldest documented soldier of the 92nd "Buffalo" Division in World War I.
Author : Frank N. Schubert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781442201934
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Black Valor written by Frank N. Schubert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were U.S. Army soldiers. Just a few years earlier, some had been slaves. Several thousand African Americans served as soldiers in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War in the latter part of the nineteenth century. They were known as buffalo soldiers, believed to have been named by Indians who had seen a similarity between the coarse hair and dark skin of the soldiers and the coats of the buffalo. Twenty-three of these men won the nation's highest award for personal bravery, the Medal of Honor. Black Valor brings the lives of these soldiers into sharp focus. Their remarkable stories are told in the collected biography. Derived from extensive historical research, Black Valor will enrich and inspire readers with its tales of trials and courage.
Author : Frank N. Schubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Buffalo Soldier written by Frank N. Schubert and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their military service, their social lives, and their interactions with western civilian communities, it uses the words of the soldiers themselves and of contemporary observers, some friendly and some not. The book draws on a wide variety of periodicals, military records, and letters. It covers such key topics as the legislative origin of the inclusion of black soldiers in the army, the campaigns in which the Buffalo Soldiers fought, their daily lives and interactions with white communities, the few black chaplains and line officers who were permitted to serve, and the bravery of some Buffalo Soldier heroes. All students of the frontier army as well as aficionados with a special interest in the Buffalo Soldiers will find this an invaluable publication.
Author : Thomas St. John Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Buffalo Soldiers written by Thomas St. John Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Cohn
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1936236419
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Black Warriors: the Buffalo Soldiers of World War Ii written by Gordon Cohn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II, author Ivan J. Houston recounts his experiences, when, as a nineteen-year-old California college student, he entered the US Army and served with the 3rd Battalion, 370th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division of the US Fifth Army from 1943 to 1945. Drawn from minute-by-minute records of the units activities compiled by Houston during his deployment in Italy, this account describes both the historic encounters and the achievements of his fellow black soldiers during this breakthrough period in American military history. It tells of how the Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside other American troops, including Japanese Americans and soldiers from Great Britain, Brazil, South Africa, and India. With photos and maps included, Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II provides a compelling, firsthand account of the segregated Buffalo Soldiers experiences while they fought not only the power of the Nazi war machine but also racism and the widely held belief they were not up to the task. Their achievements prove otherwise.
Author : the late Forrestine C. Hooker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190289805
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Child of the Fighting Tenth written by the late Forrestine C. Hooker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir by Forrestine Cooper Hooker details her childhood and young adulthood in the midst of the frontier cavalry. Hooker's father, Charles Cooper, was an officer in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, one of two regiments with black troops, known as the Buffalo Soldiers, commanded by white officers. Hooker's stories capture the drama of growing up in the frontier army, the Indian wars on the plains, the Geronimo campaign in the Southwest and Mexico, her love for the regiment and the Buffalo Soldiers, their admiration for her, and even her lost love for a dashing young cavalry officer. Her narrative is by turns compelling, charming, humorous, and warm. As Laura Ingalls Wilder depicted farm life on the frontier, so Forrestine Cooper Hooker depicts army life.
Author : Ollen Hunt
Publisher : Publishing Consultants
ISBN 13 : 9781594330445
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Soldier written by Ollen Hunt and published by Publishing Consultants. This book was released on 2022-09-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early black infantry regiments were nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by Native Americans, symbolizing the respect they had for the African-American soldier's bravery and valor. For more than 150 years these descendants of kings and queens, chiefs, leaders, and people of Africa have distinguished themselves with desire, dedication, and discipline. Ollen Hunt, one of the last Buffalo Soldiers, writes in this book about what America has done for him, and what he has done for America. His story is one of desire, dedication, and discipline; of bravery and valor. Throughout his life Ollen has distinguished himself: in the Civilian Conservation Corp, US Army, business, husband and father, and community leader. He has been a true soldier in every aspect of his life. He's shown that regardless of humble beginnings, prejudice, war, and other handicaps and hardships of life, a man can succeed if he adopts the attitude of the early Buffalo Soldier's slogan: deeds, not words! Buffalo Soldier is an uplifting biography and an example of hope for young and old alike.
Author : Jan Breytenbach
Publisher : Galago Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Buffalo Soldiers written by Jan Breytenbach and published by Galago Pub.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Piet Nortje
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1770201432
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book 32 Battalion written by Piet Nortje and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every war has at least one - a unit so different, so daring, that it becomes the stuff of which legends are made and heroes are born. Among the South African forces fighting in Angola from 1975 to 1989, that unit was 32 Battalion. Founded in utmost secrecy from the vanquished remnants of a foreign rebel movement, undefeated in 12 years of front-line battle, feared by enemies that included both conventional Cuban armies and Namibian guerrilla fighters, the Buffalo Soldiers became the South African army’s best combat unit since World War II, with no fewer than 13 members winning the highest decoration for bravery under fire. But when peace broke out in southern Africa, the victors of Savate became the victims of sophistry. Their fate and future determined by politicians who understood little and cared less about this truly unique fraternity, 32 Battalion ceased to exist in 1993, its short history and long list of battle honours known only to those whose enemies called them Os Terriveis - the Terrible Ones. Now, for the first time, the story of 32 Battalion can be told in full, with neither adornment nor apology, by one of its longest-serving members. The book draws from top secret documents, revealing information that has never been made public before. Also included are rare photographs that evoke the colourful, and often controversial, history of 32 Battalion, as well as detailed maps depicting specific operations and deployments.
Author : U. S. Military
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549819209
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Complete Guide to the Buffalo Soldiers written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique compendium of ten authoritative documents detailing the history of the Buffalo Soldiers. Contents include: Origins of the Buffalo Soldiers; Buffalo Soldiers: The Formation of the Tenth Cavalry Regiment from September 1866 to August 1867; Buffalo Soldiers - The Formation of the Ninth Cavalry Regiment: July 1866 - March 1867; The Role of the Buffalo Soldiers During the Spanish-American War; Buffalo Soldiers: The Formation of the Twenty-Fourth Infantry Regiment: October 1866 - June 1871; The Roots of the Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1866 and Again in 1931-1940; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Records Pertaining to the Military Service of Buffalo Soldiers; Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth in the 1930s and Early 1940s - Knapp Interviews; Public Law 109-152 109th Congress: Monuments Memorial; Excerpt from Historic Context for the African-American Military Experience: The West. In 1866, Congress established six all-Black regiments, each of about 1000 soldiers, to help rebuild the country after the Civil War and to patrol the remote western frontier. These regiments were the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st Infantry. The four infantry regiments reorganized to form the 24th and 25th Infantry in 1869. Although the pay was low for the time, only $13 a month, many African Americans enlisted because they could make more in the military than elsewhere, and it offered more dignity than typically could be attained in civilian life. According to legend, Native Americans called the Black cavalry troops "buffalo soldiers" because of their dark curly hair, which resembled a buffalo's coat. Aware of the buffalo's fierce bravery and fighting spirit, the African American troops accepted the name with pride and honor. Buffalo Soldiers played an important role in protecting settlers, building forts and roads, and mapping the wilderness as the U.S. settled and developed the West. Although the Buffalo Soldiers are best known for engaging conflicts with the region's native people, they also fought Mexican and Anglo bandits, escorted stage coaches and paymasters, and on one occasion, stood between Indian peoples and Texas militia. By the 1890s, Black soldiers comprised 20 percent of America's frontier cavalry and performed exemplary service within a military that remained segregated until President Harry S. Truman finally ordered it integrated in 1948. By the end of the Indian Wars, 18 Medals of Honor and 12 Certificates of Merit were awarded to Buffalo Soldiers for their valor, endurance, and courage. African American units had the lowest desertion rate in the Army. By the end of the 19th century, the Spanish empire was crumbling as two of its island colonies, Cuba and the Philippines, struggled for independence. After the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously exploded in Cuba's Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, the U.S. President and Congress yielded to popular sentiment and declared war on Spain. Military campaigns soon began on both islands. Seasoned troops of the 9th Cavalry were among the first to arrive in Cuba, where they and the 10th Cavalry fought beside Theodore Roosevelt's volunteer "Rough Riders," helping them to storm San Juan Hill. During the seven-month war, five Buffalo Soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor and 28 received Certificates of Merit. While these men fought colonialism overseas, their families at home suffered from racial discrimination, lynchings, and riots.
Author : Joe Wilson, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669996
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II written by Joe Wilson, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941, the U.S. Army activated the 758th Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit. By December 1944 they were fighting the Axis in Northern Italy, from the Ligurian Sea through the Po Valley and into the Apennine Mountains, where they helped breach the Gothic Line--the Germans' last major defensive line of the Italian Campaign. After the war the 758th was deactivated but was reformed as the 64th Tank Battalion, keeping their distinguished insignia, a tusked elephant head over the motto "We Pierce." They entered the Korean War still segregated but returned fully integrated (though discrimination continued internally). Through the years, they fought with almost every American tank--the Stuart, the Sherman, the Pershing, the Patton and today's Abrams. Victorious over two fascist (and racist) regimes, many black servicemen returned home to what they hoped would be a more tolerant nation. Most were bitterly disappointed--segregation was still the law of the land. For many, disappointment became a determination to fight discrimination with the same resolve that had defeated the Axis.
