“Buffalo Soldiers”

First Sgt. Augustus Walley, a Reisterstown native, awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery at Cuchillo Negro Mountain, New Mexico.

Dedicated on the 100th anniversary of The Spanish-American War July 13, 1998.

Marker is at the intersection of Cockey’s Mill Road ...

Buffalo Soldier Memorial

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United States Army

The Chief of Staff

October 27, 2000

The Junction City - Fort Riley Community and the Buffalo Soldiers

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Junction City-Fort Riley community and the Buffalo Soldiers, present and past, ...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody

1846 - 1917

Isaac and Mary Cody and family arrived in the Leavenworth area June 10, 1854, and built a seven-room log cabin in Salt Creek Valley, just north of Fort Leavenworth. Bill was 9 years old, the only son in ...

The Buffalo Trace

Crossed White River at a nearby ford. It was made by migrating buffalo herds. The trace ran from Vincennes to Louisville and was the only through trail in pioneer days.

Marker is on Indiana Route 61 north of Riverwood Drive, on ...

Buffalo Park

The City of Flagstaff purchased this land in 1959 from the United States Forest Service.

In 1964, James Potter, Sr., long-time resident, entrepreneur and Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce President, led the effort to form a non-profit organization, lease the site from ...

Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Robinson

Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry regiments (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years and played an important role in northwestern Nebraska's history. Organized in 1866, the regiments first served in the ...

Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi and International Expositi

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody held the first official performance of his Wild West show just half a mile northeast of here on May 19, 1883. Eight thousand people attended the premiere at the Omaha Driving Park near Eighteenth and ...

Alfred Martin Ray Buffalo Solder

Circa 1849 - 1917

On July 1, 1898, Lt. Ray planted the United States flag on San Juan Hill, Cuba, amid a hail of enemy bullets during the Spanish American War. For his heroic courage in action. Ray received a battlefield ...

The Buffalo Soldiers in Tampa Heights

1898

African-Americans have served valiantly in all of America's wars. Although black soldiers fought and died in previous conflicts, they were not permitted to enlist as army regulars until after the Civil War. Organized into separate infantry and cavalry units, ...

Buffalo Trace Distillery

Free House

In the early days of whiskey production, a tax was levied on the product as soon as it left the still. Knowing that bourbon improved through aging, distilleries convinced the government that the tax should not fall due until ...