(SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.) STEWARD, T.G. The Colored Regulars in the United States Army. Frontispiece. 344 pages. 8vo, red cloth lettered in white; covers faded with much of the white lettering faded on the spine; internally fresh, non-authorial signature dated 1905 on the end-paper. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1904
first edition of a scarce book on the so-called 'immunes', the Negro troops of the Spanish American War. It was thought by many in the white military high command that Negro soldiers, because of their African genes, would be immune to tropical diseases, malaria in particular, which was decimating American troops in Cuba and the Philippines. Of course they were no more immune than their white comrades. This book gives a brief history of colored troops in American conflicts, but is basically a history of the 9th and 10th Regiments that fought so bravely at San Juan Hill.
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