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We are the Buffalo Soldiers and Troopers Motorcycle Club of Central Virginia and would like to thank you for taking the time to visit our site. We hope you will find our site to be both educational as well as informative. We ride with pride to tell the story of the heroic efforts of the Original Buffalo Soldiers, the proud men and woman of the Ninth and Tenth Calvary of the United States Army and to instill that pride in our youth and throughout local communities. We strive to enhance our local communities by supporting local charities. We are a member of the National Association of Buffalo Soldiers and Troopers Motorcycle Club (NABSTMC).
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Buffalo Soldiers Heritage
An act of U.S. Congress approved on July 28, 1866 authorized the formation of two peacetime regiments of cavalry composed of "colored" men. On September 21, 1866 the 9th Cavalry Regiment was activated at Greenville, LA and the 10th Cavalry was activated at Fort Leavenworth, KS. Two other regiments of Infantry were also formed - 24th and 25th Infantry. All regiments were trained and equipped for a long and proud history. Recruits were made up of former slaves, freemen, and veterans of the Civil War - all volunteers. The pay for enlisted men was $13.00 per month with food, clothing, shelter, and medical care provided for free.
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"It is not your environment, it is you - the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life."
~ Benjamin E. Mays
History African Americans have served in the United States Army since the Revolutionary War. They were segregated in all black units until the Korean War. In 1866, Congress approved legislation creating six all African-American Army Regimentsqa: the 2nd Cavalry, 9th and 10th; and the 4th Infantry, 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st.
These units represented the first African-American professional soldiers in a peace-time Army. Some were former slaves; others had served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Another reorganization of the Army a short time later led to the merger of the four infantry regiments into two units: the 24th and 25th Infantry.
Its believed the nickname Buffalo Soldiers was given to the 10th Cavalry by Cheyenne warriors out of respect for their fierce fighting in 1867. In time, all African-American Soldiers became known as Buffalo Soldiers. Despite second-class treatment these soldiers made up first-rate regiments of the highest caliber and had the lowest desertion rate in the Army.
From the late 1800s to early 1900s, the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments were assigned to the harshest and most desolate posts. They were sent to subdue Mexican Revolutionaries, Outlaws, Comancheros, Rustlers, and hostile Native Americans. They explored and mapped the Southwest, strung telegraph lines, rode escort for Wagon Trains and mail shipments, and established frontier outposts around which future towns and cities grew. All four units fought in the Indian Wars of the American West and were, in part, responsible for the defeat of Geronimo, the Apache leader Victorio, William Billy the Kid Bonner, and Mexican bandit Francisco Pancho Villa.
The contributions were recognized in 1992 when The Buffalo Soldier Monument was dedicated at Fort Leavenworth, KS; the brainchild of then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell. The monument honors the African-American soldiers who served in the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments. They fought valiantly for their country and many died in the colors of the U.S. Cavalry. Yet they are the most unrecognized and deserving of all American Military Units.
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Funfact # 1
In the early 1980's, the then Deputy Commanding General, General Collin Powell, who was newly assigned to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was searching for a barber in the downtown area. He wandered into a shop owned by an old man who called himself "Old Sarge" When Gen. Powell asked the man his full name, he responded Jalester Linton, 10th Cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers. As they chatted, Powell asked the man if there were any monuments to the Buffalo Soldiers, there in the place of origin of the Buffalo Soldiers. "Old Sarge" replied that there were two streets named the 9th and 10th Cavalry Avenue. Upon looking for these "monuments", Gen. Powell found two old decrepit signs, on two dirt roads, in a trailer park. Upon seeing this, and remembering all the other memorials dedicated to Military Soldiers, Gen. Powell made the creation of a Buffalo Soldier monument his crusade. He envisioned a "Buffalo Soldier Monument", over-looking the Missouri River, with a Cavalry man facing West, headed for the future.
General Powell, then went to work on the funding, and received a 250,000.00 dollar pledge from TV Guides publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. With this, ground was broken on July 28th, 1990, and on July 25, 1992 the Buffalo Soldier Monument was dedicated at Fort Leavenworth. Eddie Dixion, an African-American artist, created the Sculpture...
On this day, General Powell, the first African-American to Chair the Joints Chiefs of Staff, stated that he had a "feeling, a duty to those black troops who had eased my way, and made it possible for me." Gen. Powell went on to recognize the two "Stars" of the day....Sergeant William Harrington, and First Sergeant Elisha Kearse...both were 95 years old. As General Powell shook their hands, he stated, "I felt connected to my past, to Lieutenant Flipper, and to the blacks that fought on the Western Plains, and those who charged up San Jan Hill, and to all the Buffalo Soldiers that are all but invisible to history".
