Spanish-American War, Buffalo Soldiers, 9th Cavalry, 1898

Entitled: Ninth U.S. Cavalry - famous Colored Regiment - Draw Sabers! regiment of African-American soldiers on horseback. Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the US 10th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army. This nickname was given to the Negro Cavalry by the Native American tribes they fought in the Indian Wars. The term became synonymous with all of the African-American regiments formed in 1866: 9th Cavalry Regiment, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 24th Infantry Regiment, and 25th Infantry Regiment. The Buffalo Soldiers were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular Army. The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the US, the result of US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The ten week war was fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. US naval power proved decisive, allowing expeditionary forces to disembark in Cuba against a Spanish garrison already brought to its knees by nationwide Cuban insurgent attacks and further wasted by yellow fever. The result was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, negotiated on terms favorable to the US, which allowed it temporary control of Cuba, and ceded ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine islands. Cropped stereograph, Strohmeyer and Wyman, 1898

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All-black Buffalo Calvary Cropped Negro Negroes Ninth Segregated Spanish-american Stereograph Wyman

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