Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1993
Abstract
I began this book with the hope that I would learn more about the black military experience in New Mexico. Unfortunately, I did not. Perhaps had I read the bibliographic essay first, I would not have been as disappointed as I was upon concluding Mr. Billington's work. For in that essay he says: "Sources other than the official military records do not exist or are almost impossible to track down. The diaries, memoirs, and personal letters that help fill out the story of the white soldiers are essentially nonexistent for blacks. Few of the remaining entries in this bibliographical essay focus on black soldiers specifically. In reading the following pages, the reader should keep in mind that almost all of the sources mentioned are supplementary to the official records."
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:1 (Winter 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.