EDWIN GREEN'S CITY DIRECTORY OF THE INHABITANTS, INSTITUTIONS, MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, BUSINESS FIRMS, ETC., IN THE CITY OF LEAVENWORTH, FOR 1878-9; TOGETHER WITH AN ABSTRACT OF STATE COLLECTION LAWS, COURT CALENDAR, &C., OF KANSAS AND COLORADO. ALSO UNITED STATES POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF KANSAS [Leavenworth, Kansas] AFRO-AMERICANA,AMERICANA,CIVIL WAR,MILITARY,TRADE

8vo. 192, 32, 193-197, [1- advertisement] pp, plus broadsheet adhering to rear pastedown, entitled "List of Organized Counties in the State of Kansas, With the Names of Their Respective County Seats, 1879" [12-1/4" x 7-1/4," folded to fit]. A 32-page illustrated furniture catalogue for Abernathy Brothers of Leavenworth, Kansas is inserted between pp. 192 and 193. Small printed business card of P.S. Noble, Adjutant General State of Kansas laid down on front board, with inscription "Presented by Maj. Shreve." Inscribed on front pastedown by A. P. Shreve to P.S Noble, 1878. Original brown cloth-backed printed and illustrated boards [rebacked, original spine laid down]. Inner hinges reinforced. Bookplate with withdrawal stamp of historical society on front pastedown; rubberstamp on title page (stamped "withdrawn"). Clean text, with names of numerous "colored" residents who had belonged to the Buffalo Soldiers' 10th Cavalry of African-American soldiers, formed at Fort Leavenworth in 1866. Except as noted Very Good. This is the rare first Edwin Green Directory of Ft. Leavenworth. Its first owner, A. P. Shreve, listed here as a bookkeeper, had been paymaster for a Union regiment during the Civil War. Peter S. Noble, to whom Shreve gave this book, was Adjutant General of Kansas in 1878 when a strike on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe RR activated his militia. The Topeka Daily Bulletin "reported that the militia comprised only 'able bodied white male citizens' and that black men could therefore 'stay in out of the wet.' The Colored Citizen claimed that when any black Kansan 'went forward to serve in behalf of the State, [he] was waived [sic] back by the Governor as the Constitution of the State . . . barred colored men from becoming soldiers.' The newly appointed adjutant general, Colonel Peter S. Noble, publicly denied this allegation, maintaining that 'No colored man was refused upon any pretext . . . , on the contrary, I tried to induce several colored men to enlist at that time.' A few weeks later, this issue attracted the attention of the New York Times, which commented that Kansas s constitution made 'white male citizens alone competent to serve in the State Militia, and the colored men are asking the Legislature to amend it at the next session'." [Cunningham & Ferrell, "The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas 1864 1901." U MO Press. Online unomaha.edu/military-and-veteran-services.] The 10th Cavalry of African-American soldiers, formed at Ft. Leavenworth in 1866, "was one of the original 'Buffalo Soldier' regiments in the post - Civil War Regular Army" [Wikipedia]. It was "comprised of freemen, formerly enslaved individuals, and Civil War veterans" [online National Park Service, "Fort Leavenworth and the Establishment of the 10th Cavalry"] There are many names in this directory denoted as "col'd" that match up with names of men in the 10th Cavalry. A sampling includes: John Brown, laborer; John Taylor, broommaker; William Taylor, blacksmith; Henry Allen, whitewasher; Andrew Alexander, laborer; George Washington, screwsetter or stone driller; John Williams, laborer; Charles Anderson, laborer; Andrew Jackson, miner; Henry Jones, laborer; Henry Moore, pressman; James Anderson, teamster; William Jones, barber or laborer; Samuel Lee, laborer; John Logan, waiter; Isaac Marshall, packer; John Moore, laborer or driver; James Taylor, miner; James Williams, laborer; Jerry Williams, blacksmith; Joliet W. [J.W.] Williams, hairdress; Alfred Goodman, saddler; George Walker, saloon; Edward Washington, plasterer. [Rosters of names taken from Williams McMiller, Anita, Major (P), USAB.S.: "Buffalo Soldiers: The Formation Of the Tenth Cavalry Regiment from September 1866 To August 1867." A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; 1990. Accessed at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA229157.pdf, October, 2025.] Leavenworth became home to nearly a fifth of the African-Americans in Kansas: a substantial num