| Also known as the 9th & 10th Calvarys, the "Buffalo Soldiers" (a name coined by the American Indians), had the undaunted task of defending this great country against the Indians("Each oprressed"). .........After the Civil War these Black Calvary's were formed to protect the white settlements and frontiersmen. Ironically, these soldiers faced much hostility and oppression from the very western settlers they protected. It is also very displeasing to note that many, if not all, Western Movies do not even reflect that there were such groups serving our country. Their were four black regiments created, the Ninth & Tenth Calvary and the Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry, each of whom were controlled by white officers. The Ninth Calvary was organized in New Orleans Louisiana. The Tenth Calvary was formed in 1866 at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Both the Twenty-Fourth and Twenty Fifth Infantry were created in 1869 in Louisiana from scattered remnents of other regiments. |
| Find out more about African American Heroes : * The Black West by William Loren Katz A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States. |
