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Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War

By Jeffrey T. Sammons, Jr. Morrow John

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About the book

When on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: ""I'm an American, and I never retreat."" The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of the Harlem Rattlers, the African-American combat unit that grew out of the 15th New York National Guard, who were said to have never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground that had been taken. It also, in its insistence on American identity, po...Show more

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9780700621385

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published year

2015

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1

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Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War

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Paperback

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