The Last Buffalo Soldier - Book Six

My aunt Esther did not speak to me for three days before I went.

Book Six of the Freeman Legacy Saga.

For five books Thomas Freeman has stood in the doorway of this story and pointed at other men: Isaiah and the first uniform, Caleb on the plains, Sarah and her press, Joseph branded at Brownsville, Eli at Houston. Now it is his turn. Against the silence of the aunt who has buried more of this family’s soldiers than she has married or borne, he walks up to the recruiting table and joins the 24th Infantry.

The hungry years. A war the Army will not let Black soldiers fight, and then does, across the water and into the caves. The occupation, and a uniform coming home. Then the order that ends segregation on paper, and a new war in Korea where the old regiment wins one of the first victories and carries the old suspicions up hills with numbers for names.

This is the story of the last years of the Buffalo Soldiers, told by one of the last of them, and of the keeping he carried in his pack the whole way.

Twenty-eight chapters, from the recruiting table to the door she held, with a historical afterword that separates fact from fiction.

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