item: #1 of 5
          id: 16598
      author: Sweeney, William Allison
       title: History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico
        date: None
       words: 110026
      flesch: 66
     summary: With the exception of those specified as from the United States Army or the National Guard, all came from civilian life: Cleve L. Abbott, first lieutenant, Watertown, S.D. Joseph L. Abernethy, first lieutenant, Prairie View, Tex. Ewart G. Abner, second lieutenant, Conroe, Tex. Charles J. Adams, first lieutenant, Selma, Ala. Aurelious P. Alberga, first lieutenant, San Francisco, Calif. Ira L. Aldridge, second lieutenant, New York, N.Y. Edward I. Alexander, first lieutenant, Jacksonville, Fla. Fritz W. Alexander, second lieutenant, Donaldsville, Ga.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; 370th; = =; action; allies; american; army; artillery; attack; august; battalion; battle; black; boys; british; camp; captain; chapter; charles; chicago; city; colonel; command; commander; company; country; croix; cross; d.c; day; days; distinguished; division; draft; duty; enemy; europe; field; fighting; fire; following; forces; france; french; general; george; german; good; government; guerre; gun; guns; hand; henry; history; home; illinois; illustration; infantry; james; john; johnson; july; june; left; lieutenant; lieutenant colonel; life; line; machine; major; march; men; miles; military; nation; national; negro; negroes; new; north; november; number; october; officers; organization; people; place; point; president; pvt; race; record; regiment; right; second; secretary; sector; september; sergt; service; soldiers; south; spirit; states; time; total; training; troops; u.s; united; units; war; washington; way; west; white; william; work; world; world war; years; york
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 16750
      author: Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)
       title: The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
        date: None
       words: 110107
      flesch: 63
     summary: In 1827 the first newspaper published on this continent by colored men issued from its office in New York. When the troublous times of 1860 came and white men were fleeing to Canada, colored men remained at their posts.
    keywords: action; advance; american; arms; army; attack; battalion; battle; black; brigade; camp; caney; captain; cavalry; children; city; colonel; command; commander; commanding; companies; company; country; cuba; day; days; division; enemy; field; fifth; fifth infantry; fire; firing; following; force; fort; fourth; general; good; hill; infantry; juan; july; left; lieutenant; line; major; men; miles; military; morning; negro; new; ninth; officers; order; people; place; position; regiment; regular; report; right; rough; santiago; second; sergeant; service; slave; soldier; south; spain; spanish; states; tenth; time; troops; united; war; way; white; work; years; young
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 31256
      author: Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)
       title: How the Black St. Domingo Legion Saved the Patriot Army in the Siege of Savannah, 1779 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 5
        date: None
       words: 5328
      flesch: 61
     summary: The engineers were now of the opinion that a speedy reduction of the city could not be accomplished by regular approaches; and the naval officers were very anxious about the fleet, both because of the dangers to which it was exposed from the sea, and also because, with so many men ashore it was in especial danger of being attacked and captured by British men-of-war. Madiou, another Haytian historian of the highest respectability says: A crowd of young men, black and colored, enlisted with the French troops and left for the continent.
    keywords: american; french; general; left; men; redoubt; right; river; savannah; troops
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 31339
      author: Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)
       title: The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War
        date: None
       words: 190648
      flesch: 66
     summary: Why should not the negro contribute whatever is in his power for the cause in which he is as deeply interested as other men? The Government makes use of mules, horses, uneducated white men in the defence of its institutions; why should not the negro contribute whatever is in his power, for the cause in which he is as deeply interested as other men?
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; american; answer; april; arms; army; artillery; attack; battery; battle; black; brave; brigade; british; butler; camp; captain; carolina; cavalry; charge; city; colonel; colored; column; command; commanding; companies; company; confederate; congress; corps; country; day; days; dead; death; department; division; duty; enemy; field; fighting; fire; flag; following; force; fort; freedom; general; good; government; grant; guard; guns; head; infantry; island; james; july; june; left; liberty; lieutenant; line; little; louisiana; major; march; miles; military; morning; negro; negroes; new; north; number; officers; order; organization; orleans; people; petersburg; phalanx; phalanx regiment; place; point; position; president; prisoners; public; question; race; ranks; rear; rebel; regiment; report; right; river; road; second; service; shot; slavery; slaves; soldiers; south; states; time; troops; union; united; virginia; volunteers; war; washington; way; white; work; wounded; years
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 6764
      author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
       title: Army Life in a Black Regiment
        date: None
       words: 88261
      flesch: 69
     summary: Severe penalties would be wasted on these people, accustomed as they have been to the most violent passions on the part of white men; but a mild inexorableness tells on them, just as it does on any other children. Surrounded by mean, cajoling, insinuating white men and women who were all that and worse, I was quite ready to appreciate the quality he thus proclaimed.
    keywords: army; baby; beaufort; black; boat; camp; captain; carolina; colonel; colored; come; command; company; course; day; days; department; drill; duty; enemy; fire; florida; force; general; good; government; guard; half; hand; head; home; house; john; land; left; life; look; lord; man; march; men; miles; military; morning; negro; new; night; officers; order; pay; people; picket; point; rebel; regiment; river; round; saxton; sergeant; service; small; soldiers; south; thing; thought; time; town; troops; war; water; way; white; work; young
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