Johnson, a Black lawyer and educator in North Carolina, explains the causes of the war with Spain and then records the service of the Black regiments, the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry, at Las Guásimas, El Caney and San Juan Hill, with letters, tributes and newspaper accounts of their courage.
An important 1899 record of soldiers whose part in the war was often written out of popular accounts. Download the free EPUB.