Leckie, William H

Describes the achievements and social conditions of the African-American soldiers who stayed in the United States Army after the Civil War.

Grierson became a cavalry officer during the Civil War and then became the commander of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers and black enlisted men.

Chronicles the lives and experiences of the buffalo soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments in the American west and examines the social issues faced by the African-American soldier in the nineteenth century.