This work identified 396 Black men who did enlist in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and another 52 men who may have been Black due to their physical descriptions as found in their enlistment papers.

This work identified 455 Black men who enlisted in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and another 662 Blacks who served as militiamen in a number of state militias. This book is an expanded version of the author's original work, Black Regulars in the War of 1812, which was first published in 2015.