Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This important work by the Army recognizes and highlights the contributions of African Americans to the military history of the United States. This is accomplis

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been time

The first regular army regiments of African Americans were authorized by Congress in July 1866, and African American soldiers have played an important role in t

The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation. In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass p

In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo soldiers, and th