Pre-Owned Cathy Williams: From Slave to Buffalo Soldier (Hardcover) 0811703401 9780811703406

Few Americans today, black or white, know about the incredible life of Cathy Williams. From her beginnings as a slave in Independence, Missouri, to her enlistment with Company A, 38th U.S. Infantry, in November 1866, the story of this remarkable woman deserves to finally be told. By disguising herself as a man and assuming the name William Cathay, Williams became a 'buffalo soldier,' serving in one of the six black units formed following the Civil War. Her story tells us much about prevailing attitudes toward both race and gender in post-Civil War America. AUTHOR: "Phillip Thomas Tucker is the chief historian of the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. He is the author of several books on the Civil War including The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain, winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman Award, Burnside's Bridge: The Climactic Struggle of the 2nd and 20th Georgia at Antietam Creek (0-8117-0199-9), and The Final Fury: Palmito Ranch, The Last Battle of the Civil War (0-8117-0652-4). He has also co-edited, with Jeffrey Smith, The 1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis (0-8117-1271-0). " 10 b/w photographs