Black Regulars, 1866-1898

Name: Black Regulars, 1866-1898
Price: 7.99 USD
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ISBN: 9780806133409

ISBN-10: 0806133406

ISBN-13: 9780806133409

Edition: 2001

Authors: William A. Dobak, Thomas D. Phillips

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Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American West for the next three decades, the promise of the Reconstruction era gave way to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. But black men found a degree of equality in the service: the army treated them no worse than it did their white counterparts. The Black Regularsuses army correspondence, court martial transcripts, and pension applications to tell who these men were often in their own words: how they were recruited and how their officers were selected; how the black regiments survived hostile Congressional hearings and stringent budget cuts; how…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 12/15/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

William A. Dobak received his PhD in American Studies from theUniversity of Kansas in 1995, and is now an authority on the history of blacksoldiers in the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian and author, hehas worked at the National Archives and the U.S. Center of Military History.