Brief Description:
Originally published: The colored regulars in the United States Army. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1904.

Table of Contents:
Introductory. -- Chapter I. Sketch of Social History. -- The Importation of the Africans. -- Character of the Colored Population in 1860. -- Colored Population in British West Indian Possessions. -- Free Colored People of the South. -- Free Colored People of the North. -- Notes -- Chapter II. The American Negro and the Military Spirit. -- Early Literature of Negro Soldiers. -- Negro Soldiers in the War of the Revolution. -- The War of 1812. -- Negro Insurrections. -- Negro Troops in the Civil War. -- Notes. -- Chapter III. The Black Regulars of the Army of Invasion in the Spanish War. -- Organization of Negro Regiments in the Regular Army. -- First Movement in the War. -- Chickamauga and Tampa. -- Notes. -- Chapter IV. Brief Sketch of Spanish History. -- Chapter V. Passage, Landing, and First Battle in Cuba. -- The Tenth Cavalry at Guasimas. -- The Rescue of the Rough Riders. -- Was there an Ambush? Notes. -- Chapter VI. The Battle of El Caney. -- The Capture of the Stone Fort by the Twenty-fifth Infantry. -- Chapter VII. San Juan. -- Cavalry Division: The Ninth and Tenth Regiments. -- Kent's Division: The Twenty-fourth Infantry. -- Forming under fire. -- A Gallant Charge. -- Chapter VIII. San Juan (Continued). -- Kent's Division. -- The Twenty-fourth Infantry. -- Forming Under Fire. -- A Gallant Charge. -- Chapter IX. The Surrender and Afterwards. -- In the Trenches. -- The Twenty-fourth in the Fever Camp. -- Are Negro -- Soldiers Immune? Camp Wikoff. -- Chapter X. Review and Reflections. -- Gallantry of the Black Regulars. -- Diary of Sergeant Major E. L. Baker. -- Tenth Cavalry. -- Chapter XI. The Colored Volunteers. -- The Ninth Ohio Battalion. -- Eighth Illinois. -- Twenty-third Kansas. -- Third North Carolina. -- Sixth Virginia. -- Third Alabama. -- The Immunes. -- Chapter XII. Colored Officers. -- By Captain Frank R. Steward, A. B., LL. B., Harvard, 49th U. S. Volunteer Infantry. -- Appendix.

Biographical Note:
Theophilus Gould Steward (1843-1924) was an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and chaplain to the Twenty-fifth U.S. Colored Infantry. For 17 years he was a Professor of History, French, and Logic at Wilberforce University.

Publisher Marketing:
Formed in 1866, the African-American army units known as Buffalo Soldiers acquired near-mythical status for their fortitude and courage. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the Buffalo Soldiers were among the first units to depart for Cuba. Dr. T. G. Steward, who served as chaplain of the Twenty-fifth infantry for 16 years, wrote this fascinating firsthand account of the Cuban campaign.