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Cathy Williams
from slave to Buffalo Soldier
By Tucker, Phillip Thomas
- ISBN
- 978-0-81170-340-6
- Publisher
- Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2002
The prize-winning author of The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain here tells the remarkable tale of Pvt. William Cathay of Company A, 38th U.S. Infantry, who in fact was a big-boned, 5' 7" black woman named Cathy Williams. Tracing Williams through often-spotty records from her birth as a slave near Independence, MO, to her final days as a businesswoman in Trinidad, CO, Tucker extends the narrative to i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
