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Title: The Colored Regulars in the United States Army

Author: T. G. Steward

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Language: English

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THE COLORED REGULARS

IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY

With a Sketch of the History of the Colored American, and an Account of
His Services in the Wars of the Country, from the
Period of the Revolutionary War to 1899.

INTRODUCTORY LETTER FROM

Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles
Commanding the Army of the United States.

* * * * *

By CHAPLAIN T.G. STEWARD, D.D.,
Twenty-fifth U.S. Infantry.

Philadelphia
A.M.E. Book Concern,
631 Pine Street.

1904

[Illustration: Chaplain T.G. Steward, D.D.]

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.
21

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. 57

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. 84

CHAPTER IV.--BRIEF SKETCH OF SPANISH HISTORY. 107

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. 116

CHAPTER VI.--THE BATTLE OF EL CANEY.

The Captur