| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier. By Philip Thomas Tucker. (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002. xiv + 258 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95.)

Born a slave in 1844, near Independence, Missouri, Cathy Williams eventually served for two years as one of the remarkable black soldiers of the United States Army. In Cathy Williams, Philip Thomas Tucker unravels her unique story. However, because little information is actually known about the life and career of Cathy Williams (William Cathay), Tucker adds considerable material that fills space but does not add much to the story, and he is forced too often to use the word "probably" when depicting aspects of Williams's life. 1

Williams's relationship to the United States military began during the Civil War in the fall of 1861, when a Union regiment occupied Missouri, and soon acquired black ex-slaves, including Cathy Williams, as contraband. Williams served as a laundress, and eventually as a cook, for the 8^th Indiana as it marched and fought through Missouri into Arkansas and Mississippi. In the fall of 1864, she was sent across the nation to Washington, D. C., thence to the Shenandoah Valley, and for the last months of the war to Savannah, Georgia, where the 8^th Indiana was mustered out of service in August 1865. . . .

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