dudley cornish taught at a state teacher's college in kansas. and because of the lack of travel funds when he wrote the book, "the sable arm" was researched and written before sputnik even. his main reliance, cornish's main reliance. trips to the kansas state historical society. he visited the national archives enough to consult some colored troops bureau material in the general's records, but that was about it. i discovered a couple of years later when i was in the middle of the manuscript the answer to my question why. at that point, i was writing about the raising of black regiments in the north and had come to th presentation of reg mental colors to the 20th u.s. colored infantry in new york city and that regiment taking ship for new york city. cornish uses this incident and a long quote from "the new york times" that appeared the next day in "the times." only eight months after the new york draft riots, "the times" wrote, a regiment of black soldiers fully armed was headed for the theater of war. it is only by such occasions that we can at a