List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lesley J. Gordon and Andrew J. Huebner
1. “Let Us Be Men and Texas Will Triumph”: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Texas Revolution
Patrick T. Troester
2. Red Soldiers in Gray: Enlisting Confederate Choctaw Soldiers in the American Civil War
Fay A. Yarbrough
3. African American Military Service and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Amanda Bellows
4. “It Is Not the Policy nor the Interest of the South to Destroy the Negro”: Black Prisoners of War and the Intersection of Race, Property, and Law in the Confederacy
Caroline Wood Newhall
5. Race and Region in Post–Civil War US Army Recruiting
Kevin Adams
6. Robert Brown Elliott: Assistant Adjutant General, National Guard, South Carolina
Gregory Mixon
7. “A Class of People Far Superior”: White Soldiers, Civilians, and Perceptions of Race and Class in the Spanish-American War
Kari L. Boyd-Weisenberger
8. The Problem with Wolves: American Servicemen’s Sexuality across the Two World Wars
Michele Curran Cornell
9. Gender, Sexual Orientation, and the US Military
Heather Marie Stur
Epilogue: African Americans, World War I, and the Boundaries of Military History
Chad L. Williams
Notes
Further Reading
Contributors
Index