Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bleeding Kansas, Border Ruffians, and Jayhawkers
2. Williams, Lane’s Brigade, and the Civil War
3. The First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment
4. They “Fought Like Tigers:” Island Mound, Missouri
5. The Regiment: “A Day of Great Rejoicing,” and Grim Reality at Sherwood
6. Into Indian Territory: First Battle of Cabin Creek
7. The Battle of Honey Springs, Indian Territory
8. The Red River Campaign and the Camden Expedition
9. The Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas
10. Confederate Atrocities and Steele’s Retreat
11. A Brigade, Another Massacre, and Second Cabin Creek
12. Back to Arkansas: Final Campaigns, Promotion, Peace, and Transition
13. Indian Wars in the West with the Eighth Cavalry
14. Campaigning: Fort Whipple, Arizona Territory
15. Recuperation, a New Family, and Fort Selden, New Mexico
16. Fort Bayard, New Mexico Territory
17. Frontier Ranching, Congressional Accolades, and Redemption
18. Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
