Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper was born a slave February 21, 1856 in Thomasville, Ga.to the parents of Festus and Issabella Buckhalter Flipper, Sr. Lt. Flipper spent his early years in Thomasville, Ga. and during the Civil War lived in Macon and Atlanta, Ga. Lt. Flipper was taught to read in 1864 by another slave who taught school at night. In late 1865, Lt. Flipper attended a succession of schools established by the American Missionary Association.
 

The Buffalo Soldiers
In the years nearing the end of the Civil War, black soldiers who wanted to remain in the U. S. Army came under bitter opposition in the United States Senate. Although they had made significant contributions to the Union military effort during the War, few whites seemed to want blacks in the peacetime army. Nevertheless, in 1866, Congress elected to organize the blacks into six new units called the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments and the 38th through 41st Infantry Regiments. All six regiments were the Buffalo Soldiers, but it is the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments which scholars most closely associate with the name, probably because they were mobil on horseback. No intention, however, is meant to slight the infantry’s achievements.
 

"FREEDOM FIGHTERS"
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS
in the
THE CIVIL WAR
By Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
 LEST WE FORGET

 UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS - CIVIL WAR

The Fight for Equal Rights: 
Black Soldiers in the Civil War
 

THE NEGRO IN THE REGULAR ARMY
by Oswald Garrison Villard 
 

The U.S. Cavalry Versus The Indians
1832 through 1898 
 

Georgia - 1 organization
 1st Battalion Infantry

 Blacks in Georgia During the Civil War

 1st. SC USCT

 Regimental Histories

 Sherpa Guides | Georgia | Civil War | Andersonville

United States Resources: Georgia
 ROOTS-L Databases and Files

University of Georgia Library 
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ 
Georgia Newspaper Project 
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/aboutgnp.html 

Russell Library Manuscript Collections 
http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/russell.html 

Georgia Historical Organizations and Resources Directory 
http://www.SOS.State.Ga.US/archives/ghrab/dir/dir.htm 

Georgia's Slave Population in Legal Records: Where and How to Look 
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gapike/slave.htm 
Written by David E. Paterson, this site gives helpful information on how to research slave ancestry using courthouse records.

 The Georgiana Collection