Tag: Black Soldiers

• Books I’ve Known and Loved (2)

  Just because you’re nice doesn’t mean you’re going to be popular. This is what General Ben Grierson must have said to console himself. A hero of the Civil War, Grierson commanded the Buffalo Soldiers out West against Victorio and his Apache warriors after the war, but do you think that would have gotten him some…

  Adrienne Morris

  May 14, 2014

  Books I’ve Known and Loved, Buffalo, History, The Unknowable Past, The House on Tenafly Road, Writing

  19th century 1900’s, Apache, Black Soldiers, Books, Civil War, Indians, Marriage, military, United States History, US, Writers, Writing

• Forgotten Men and Mules Set To Music

  Here’s what happens when you visit a military museum instead of going on a Christmas house tour in December: the usual melancholy of a fallen world. I promise next week will be all sweetness and light!

  Adrienne Morris

  December 12, 2013

  Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, Moving Pictures

  animals, B&W Documentary, Black Soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters, Mules in War, Old Film Footage, Parades, war