Cathy Williams
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Women in the United States military have received more recognition than ever in recent years, but women also played vital roles in battles and campaigns of previous generations. Cathy Williams served as Pvt. William Cathay from 1866 to 1868 with the famed Buffalo Soldiers who patrolled the 900-mile Santa Fe Trail. Tucker traces her life from her birth as a slave near Independence, Missouri, to her service in Company A, 38th U.S. Infantry, one of the six black units formed following the Civil War. Cathy Williams remains the only known African American woman to have served as a Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars. Her remarkable story continues to represent a triumph of the human spirit.
Phillip Thomas Tucker earned his doctorate in American History from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1990. He spent more than two decades working as a historian for the Department of Defense, and now writes fulltime at his southern Maryland home in Upper Marlboro.
Dr. Tucker specializes in breaking new ground in multiple fields of American history and overturning outdated views, myths, and stereotypes. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books devoted to a wide variety of subjects about the American experience, with a special focus on the Irish, the American Civil War, the American Revolutionary War, and Texas. His book The Confederacy’s Fighting Chaplain: Father John B. Bannon was awarded the Douglas Southall Freeman Award for the best book in Southern history (1993).