This work paved the way for the exploration of the black military experience in other wars. This edition, with a new foreword by Herman Hattaway and bibliographical essay by the author, makes available once again a pioneering work that will be especially useful for scholars and students of Civil War, black, and military history.

    Cunningham's Doctors in Gray, George Worthington Adams' Doctors In Blue, originally published more than forty years ago and now available for the first time in paperback, remains the definitive work on the medical history of the Union army.