Relates the life of Major Augustus Sharps, 10th Regiment, United States Cavalry (Colored), as he fights in wars with Indians, suffers the hardships of frontier life, and endures lower pay and fewer privileges than his white counterparts.

Adrian Samuel Sharps has always led a military life, so when the United States joins World War II, he takes the sabre his father and grandfather carried into war and joins the Tuskegee Airmen, becoming one of the first African-American combat pilots in the Air Force.