Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams [Recurso electrónico] : Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry / by Robert W. Lull.
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- 9781574415124
- Williams, James M. (James Monroe), 1833-1907
- United States. Army. Cavalry, 8th -- Biography
- United States. Army. Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment, 1st (1863-1864) -- Biography
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
- Generals -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
- E467.1.W73+
Includes bibliographical references.
Bleeding Kansas, border ruffians, and Jayhawkers -- Williams, Lane's brigade, and the Civil War -- The First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry -- They "fought like tigers:" Island Mound, Missouri -- The regiment: "a day of great rejoicing," and grim reality at Sherwood -- Into Indian territory: first Battle of Cabin Creek -- The Battle of Honey Springs, Indian Territory -- The Red River campaign and the Camden Expedition -- The Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas -- Confederate atrocities and Steele's retreat -- A brigade, another massacre, and second Cabin Creek -- Back to Arkansas, a promotion, peace, and transition -- West into Indian wars with the Eighth Cavalry -- Campaigning: Fort Whipple, Arizona -- Recuperation, a family, and Fort Selden, New Mexico -- Fort Bayard, New Mexico -- Frontier ranching, congressional accolades, and redemption -- Conclusion.
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