The Colored Regulars in the United States Army (Esprios Classics)

Theophilus Gould Steward (April 17, 1843 - January 11, 1924) was an American author, educator, and clergyman. He was a U. S. Army chaplain and Buffalo Soldier of 25th U. S. Colored Infantry. Steward was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1863. Following the Civil War, Steward helped organize the A. M. E. Church in South Carolina and Georgia. He was also active in Reconstruction politics in Georgia. Steward moved from South Carolina to pastor the AME church in Macon, Georgia March 17, 1868. After the church was burned in a mysterious fire, he literally and figuratively built a new AME church.