African American soldiers -- History
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
- "This is a War for the Utter Extinction of Slavery": The Civil War Letters of James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, Hospital Steward, 1st Michigan Colored Infantry (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2020), by James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, ed. by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)
- The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "A Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life" (Chicago: Printed for the author, 1858), by James Roberts (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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Filed under: African American soldiers- Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 (Washington: Center of Military History, 2001), by Morris J. MacGregor (PDF at US Army CMH)
- Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 (Washington: Center of Military History, 1981), by Morris J. MacGregor
- Listen, Brother! (New York: World View Publishers, 1968), by Robert F. Williams
- The American Negro Soldier With the Red Hand of France (Boston: The Cornhill Co., 1921), by Monroe Mason and Arthur Furr (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Black Man's Burden, or, The Horrors of Southern Lynchings: The Most Thrilling Exposé of Southern Lawlessness Ever Presented to the American People (Olean, NY: Olean Evening Spirit, 1902), by Irenas J. Palmer, contrib. by Julius Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (c1919), by Emmett J. Scott
- A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
- Opinions of the Early Presidents, and of the Fathers of the Republic, Upon Slavery, and Upon Negroes as Men and Soldiers (Loyal Publication Society #18; New York: Wm. C. Bryant and Co., printers, 1863)
- Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A United States Army "Scottsboro Case", by Vito Marcantonio and William H. Hastie (PDF page images at MSU)
- A'Bout Face (partial serial archives)
- Plea of the Negro Soldier, and a Hundred Other Poems (Easthampton, MA: Press of Enterprise Printing Co., c1908), by Charles Frederick White
- Warriors of Color (c1995), by Harold Ray Sayre (page images at Portal to Texas History)
- Reminiscences of Service with Colored Troops in the Army of the Cumberland, 1863-65 (Providence: Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1885), by T. J. Morgan
- Warriors of Color (c1995), by Harold Ray Sayre (page images at Portal to Texas History)
- Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea (Washington: Center of Military History, Department of the Army, 1996), by William T. Bowers, George L. MacGarrigle, and William M. Hammond
- Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
- Kansas in the Sixties (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1911), by S. J. Crawford
- Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Private Soldier Under Washington (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902), by Charles Knowles Bolton
- Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (Stillwater, OK: Barbed Wire Press, c1991), by Bill O'Neal (page images at Portal to Texas History)
- The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of Revolution (Boston: J. K. Wiggin and W. P. Lunt, 1866), by Herman Mann, ed. by John Adams Vinton
- A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier; Interspersed With Anecdotes of Incidents That Occurred Within His Own Observation (Hallowell, ME: Printed by Glazier, Masters and Co., 1830), by Joseph Plumb Martin
- An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, During His Captivity With the Indians, in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58 and '59 (Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1870), by James Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Army Life in a Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
- Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Biography of Maurice F. O'Connell: The Story of an American Hero, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by James Norman Hall (Gutenberg text)
- Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution, by Robert K. Wright and Morris J. MacGregor (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)
- The Taste of War: Soldiering in World War II, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
- With Sabre and Scalpel: The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon, by John A. Wyeth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Two Boys in the Civil War and After, by W. R. Houghton and M. B. Houghton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Connecticut Soldiers in the Pequot War of 1637 (1913), by James Shepard (PDF at unl.edu)
- Johnny Cobb, Confederate Aristocrat (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1964), by Horace Montgomery (PDF at Georgia)
- Two Boys in the Civil War and After, by W. R. Houghton and M. B. Houghton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children, by B. M. Zettler (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- "Morgan's Men": A Narrative of Personal Experiences, by Henry Lane Stone (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade, by Lot D. Young (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- History of Corporal Fess Whitaker, by Fess Whitaker (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More, by Wharton J. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of Owen Johnston Hopkins, a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Owen Johnston Hopkins, ed. by Otto F. Bond (PDF at Ohio State)
- Life in the Confederate Army... and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life, by Arthur Peronneau Ford and Marion Johnstone Ford (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Humorous Incidents of the Civil War, by A. C. McLeary (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
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