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Civil War general and Indian fighter James M. Williams : leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lull, Robert W., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:War and the Southwest series ; no. 12.
Subjects:
Williams, James M. > (James Monroe), > 1833-1907.
United States. > Army. > Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment, 1st (1863-1864) > Biography.
United States. > Army. > Cavalry, 8th > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.