The Topic:  Buffalo Soldiers

Easier - Buffalo Soldiers was a name given to two cavalry regiments and two infantry regiments. These United States Army units were made up entirely of African American soldiers.

 

Harder - In 1866 two U.S. Army African American regiments were formed, the 9th and 10th cavalries. Members of these two cavalry units and two all-black infantry regiments, the 24th and 25th, came to be called Buffalo Soldiers. By 1867, the first Buffalo Soldier units were sent to the West to fight Indians and protect settlers, cattle herds, and railroad crews. Indians gave the troops the name of Buffalo Soldiers, probably because their short, dark, curly hair resembled the mane of the buffalo. In the 1950s, Buffalo Soldier regiments were disbanded when all military services were integrated.

 

Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Huachuca (Huachuca Illustrated) 

http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/comment/huachuca/HI1-00index.htm

This series of articles tries to convey what it was like to be a soldier along the Mexican border from 1913 to 1939, especially an African-American soldier.

 

Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier 

http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html

Here you find information on the African American soldiers.

 

Buffalo Soldiers - America's Unsung Heroes (BuffaloSoldiers.Net) 

http://www.buffalosoldiers.net/

This site links to tons of information about buffalo soldiers. You can also find photos here.

Another Buffalo Soldiers Links-site:

2) Buffalo Soldiers http://blackarchives.org/links/soldiers.htm

 

Texas Buffalo Soldiers History (Texas Parks and Wildlife) 

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/admin/buffalo/bf_history_toc.htm

Learn about the black soldiers of the 9th & 10th Cavalry and the 24th & 25th Infantry Regiments and their "Outstanding" Acts of Valor during the Indian Wars Campaign.

 

Website by Kids for Kids

Buffalo Soldiers (ThinkQuest Junior) 

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4087/

This website covers the Buffalo Soldiers' history from post Civil War regiments through World War II.

 

Buffalo Soldiers Project at Austin Learning Academy 

http://www.alaweb.org/studentfolder/studentfiles/buffalo/buffalo.htm

Students researched the Texas Buffalo Soldiers on the Internet and interviewed Ken Pollard of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Then they compared and contrasted campouts today with campouts of the Buffalo Soldiers in the 1800s. What they found is at this website.

 

More Buffalo Soldier Websites

Buffalo Soldiers & Indian Wars 

http://www.buffalosoldier.net/

This website developed by Stanford L. Davis contains historical photos and good information about the history of the Buffalo Soldier and Davis' great-grandfather, sergeant Henry Parker.

 

Buffalo Soldiers: Lest We Forget 

http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/buf_sol.htm

Find lots of information about the 9th and 10th cavalry and the 24th and 25th infantry units that were stationed at Fort Davis, Texas - plus lots more.

 

Female Buffalo Soldier 

http://www.buffalosoldier.net/CathayWilliamsFemaleBuffaloSoldierWithDocuments.htm

This website presents the story of Cathay Williams/William Cathay, soldier from 1866. 1868, the only known female soldier in the regiments.

Related Website:

2) Female Buffalo Soldier lived life of excitement and inspiration.

http://www.majorcox.com/columns/buffalo.htm

 

Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper 

http://www.mobeetie.com/pages/flipper.htm

Here you can learn about America's first black West Point graduate and first commissioned black officer; the Fort Davis 'buffalo soldier" who was unjustly coutmartialed, and recently pardoned by President Clinton on February 19, 1999.

Other Sites About Henry O. Flipper:

2) Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper http://www.rose.net/flipper.htm

3) Henry O. Flipper: West Point Pioneer http://www.aog.usma.edu/Pubs/Register/Flipper.htm

4) Henry Flipper http://charter.uchicago.edu/AAH/flipper.htm

 

Shadows in the Range of Light 

http://www.wilderness.net/wildlink/shadowsoldier/ho_homenofl_fram.html

Nearly 400 African-Americans traveled from California Presidios to the Sierra Nevada at the turn of the last century. Only one image and a handful of documents record their existence.

See If You Can Help Solve the Mystery:

2) Mystery http://www.wilderness.net/wildlink/shadowsoldier/ho_mystery.html

 

Websites for Teachers

Buffalo Soldiers at DiscoverySchool.com (Grades 6-12) 

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/rediscoveringamerica-

buffalosoldiers/index.html

Students learn about African American soldiers and how they played a major role in the American military in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

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Jim Crow Laws	reconstruction	segregation	freed slave	Native American
Apache	racism	fort	Spanish American War	Philippine Insurrection
Mexican Expedition	World War I	World War II	U.S. Army	Korean Conflict
San Juan Hill	western frontier	U.S.-Mexican border	escort	telegraph
regiment	trooper	Rio Grande	garrison	Butterfield Stage Line