[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reading List and Research[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Individual Study
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- “Rescue at Pine Ridge” Erich Hicks (Fiction)
- “Black, Buckskin, and Blue” Art T. Burton
- “Voices of the Buffalo Soldier -Records, Reports, Recollections of Military Life in the West” Frank N. Schubert
- “Buffalo Soldiers in the West -A Black Soldiers Anthology” Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searks
- “Soldiers on Horseback” W.E. Butterworth
- “Spurs to Glory” James M. Merrill
- “Buffalo Soldiers” Tom Willard (Fiction)
- “The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West” William H. Leckie & Shirley A. Leckie
- “Comrades of Color: Buffalo Soldiers in the West 1866-1917″ Quintard Taylor
Researching Cavalry Soldiers
RECORDS OF CAVALRYMAN
U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA)
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001
To request military service records, visit
http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/get-service-records.html
and follow the steps indicated.
U.S. ARMY MILITARY HISTORY INSTITUTE
Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania 17013
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/index.cfm
NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER
9700 Page Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63132 (314) 538-4261
http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/
The National Personnel Records Center has all the U.S. Army Morning Reports, Regimental Returns or Personnel Rosters from Nov. 1, 1912 to 1974 and all subsequent reports (including SIDPERS reports) after Morning Reports were discontinued. All rosters for Army and Army Air Corps units for the years 1944, 1945, 1946 were destroyed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]