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Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier. First African American graduate of West Point First African American officer Posted to the 10 th U.S. Calvary. Henry O. Flipper. 10 th Calvary 3 rd African American graduate of West Point Highest ranking African American Officer of his time.
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First African American graduate of West Point First African American officer Posted to the 10th U.S. Calvary Henry O. Flipper
10th Calvary 3rd African American graduate of West Point Highest ranking African American Officer of his time. 1916 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young
A slave from Independence, MO Enlisted into the army after serving as a cook during the Civil War Discharged after discovered a woman Denied disability and pension Cathay Williams
Former slave from Maryland Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor Augustus Walley
Medal of Honor recipient 10th Calvary Pompey Factor
10th Calvary Apache Wars 1876-1889
Colonel Grierson • Colonel of the 10th Cavalry • Promoted to BrigadiereGeneral shortly before he retired
Colonel Grierson As pictured in Harper’s Weekly, 1863 after a successful Civil War campaign in Louisiana
Renty Grayson 1910 one of the many scouts used to track and find Indian raiders and villages Seminole-Negro Scouts
1899- US Infantry Buffalo Soldiers • American War in Cuba
Disbanded • The 9th and 10th Calvaries were disbanded in WWII, but “Buffalo Soldiers” continued to serve until the last segregated unit that fought in the Korean War. • In 2005, Mark Matthews died at the age of 111 as the oldest Buffalo Soldier.
Who remains? • Dr. William H. Waddell IV by some accounts, was the last living Buffalo Soldier.
Frederick Jackson Turner wrote that westward movement created a series of frontiers. Here Boone leads settlers to Kentucky, Turner's first frontier. Source: "Daniel Boone leading settlers through the Cumberland Gap." Painting by George Caleb Bingham at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Impact
White accounts of western settlement show a white heroin and Indians as aggressors What have you learned about Buffalo Soldiers that might make a different hero? Source: 100 Posters of Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Jack Rennert. Impact cont. . .
Junction City, KS Ft. Bliss, TX Ft. Leavenworth, KS Cheyenne, WY