Talk:Cathay Williams

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 January 2021 and 7 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Leojem6.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 16:58, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Cathay Williams. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070927151552/http://www.aframnews.com/html/2003-03-26/lead3.htm to http://www.aframnews.com/html/2003-03-26/lead3.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 05:02, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Photograph
I found this image of a supposed photograph of Cathay Williams, but I can't find a source:(https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/nr9wc6/rare_picture_of_a_black_female_union_soldier_1862/)

I'd like to upload it and add it to her info box but I need to find a source and be sure it's 100% her.

Any help would be appreciated. Benjamin.P.L (talk) 9:11, September 26, 2021 (UTC)


 * more info was in the state mental hospital from 1897-1911, when she died and was buried as William Cather in a pauper's grave in Rosemont Cemetery in Pueblo. :  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.153.148.230 (talk) 05:33, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Condition at discharge: discovered?
So here's something that bothers me. I have seen in books references to William Cathay/Cathay Williams being discovered by a surgeon, hence being discharged from the Army. They cite nothing, or they cite Charlotte K. Mock's book "Bridges". I have not read Bridges, so I do not know where she got her information, but others have cited her book.

DeAnne Blanton wrote an article titled "Cathay Williams: Black Woman Soldier, 1866-1868" in Minerva: Quarterly Report of Women and the Military 10 (Fall/Winter 1992]: 1-12, that states that Cathay Williams was not discovered, or else that would have been mentioned in the discharge papers. Or if she was, nobody officially noted it in any government records.  Blanton also reviewed other military records and found none that referred to Cathay Williams being discovered.  So what is the source of that claim that she was discovered?  The Wikipedia article does not source its claim.

However, DeAnne Blanton made a credible claim that Cathay Williams was not discovered. So should the Wikipedia article be amended to note that? If she was not discovered, it feels like Wikipedia is pushing bad history by claiming she was.

97.123.107.172 (talk) 05:24, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Removed Civil War section
I removed the Civil War section because it claimed that Cathay Williams may have been the same person as Finis Cathay in the 32nd Missouri Infantry Regiment. However, this appears to be an all-white unit, as units with African Americans were not founded until later, and were always designated as "colored" in their names. For info on the history of Black units in the Civil War in Missouri, see Missouri's Secretary of State Digital Heritage website. Tanyarothphd (talk) 14:07, 22 March 2024 (UTC)