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3 volumes. Comprising: Crawford, Samuel J. Kansas in the Sixties. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1911. 441 pp. Illustrated. Original cloth. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on half-title, Topeka, Kansas, 1911. Weber, John B. Autobiography of John B. Weber. Buffalo, New York: 1924. 286 pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, gilt titles. No. 54 of 100 copies, signed and inscribed by Weber on copyright page. (Spine gilt faded; moderate cover soiling) Morgan, Thomas J. Reminiscences of Service with Colored Troops in the Army of the Cumberland, 1863-1865. Personal Narratives, Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, Vol.5. Providence: 1885. 52 pp. 8x6", original wrappers. (Wrappers chipped at edges) All three of these men commanded Black regiments, facing the prejudice that existed everywhere in the Union Army, against colored troops, who were dismissed as undisciplined cowards. Crawford, shortly before being elected the War Governor of Kansas, was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Kansas (Colored) Infantry. He led his troops in battle near Little Rock, Arkansas, capturing a rebel artillery battery, while Crawford himself had his horse shot from under him. John Weber and Thomas Morgan enlisted in the Infantry as Privates and rose to high rank in command of Black regiments. Weber, before his 21st birthday, was appointed Colonel of a “Corps d’Afrique” in Louisiana, one of the first recruitment of Black soldiers, many being former plantation slaves. Morgan, a passionate proponent of Black enlistment, was commissioned to organize the 14th Colored Infantry in Tennessee, and over the opposition of military professionals, led his troops into action in Georgia and Tennessee. Later in life, appointed US Commissioner of Indian Affairs, he fervently advocated the need to Americanize Indians and absorb them into white society reflecting his similar views about the racial integration of African Americans.