Suggested Links

Updated Jan 2, 2004

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Buffalo Soldiers
Buffalo Soldiers: Lest We Forget by Bennie McRae Jr
Portraits in Black: Lest We Forget by Bennie McRae Jr
A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience Steven D. Smith and James A. Zeidler (USACERL)
BuffaloSoldiers.Net: "The Definitive Source For These Unsung Heros"
Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier: International Museum of the Horse
Buffalo Soldiers At The Presidio NPS: Fort Mason [Offline]
Buffalo Soldiers At Sequoia NPS: Charles Young At Sequoia National Park [Offline]
Buffalo Soldiers At Alcatraz Museum of the City of San Francisco
Black Participation In The Spanish-American War AN OVERVIEW: By Anthony L. Powell
Buffalo Soldiers of The Sierra Nevada Buffalo Soldier Project Shelton Johnson
Buffalo Soldiers In Utah Territory Wild West, Feb 2000 By Robert Foster [Offline]
The Wheels of War: American History, April 1999 By Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer [Offline]
Fort Huachucha Illustrated: Vol 1, 1993 by James Finley
Fort Huachucha Illustrated: Vol 2, 1993 by James Finley
Post Returns: Fort Larned, Kansas -1868 [Offline]
The Military Horse: Military saddles and more, including an authoritative discussion forum.
After Action Reports: 1-3 July 1898 Spanish-American War
Life of Black Army Chaplains: Plummer, Allensworth, Steward, et al
Port Chicago Mutiny

Other African American Sites
African American Studies
Stagecoach Mary
Black History Pages
Up From Slavery
Confessions of Nat Turner
PBS: Africans in America

Resources

Finding Military Records, general hints
Using National Archives NARA to obtain records
National Personel Records Center
US Army War College Carlisle Barracks
US Army Center for Military History
NTIS U.S. Department of Commerce

Civil War Sites

The American Civil War Homepage
Civil War Center U.S. Civil War Center
Native Guard: Louisiana Native Guard
5th USCC: 5th Regiment US Colored Cavalry [Updated URL]
Independent Colored Kansas Battery
National Museum of Civil War MedicineCivil War Medicine
Miliken's Bend

BBS/Forums

The Military Horse Forums
Yahoo: Buffalo Soldiers Club
Yahoo: Buffalo Soldiers Reeenactors Club

Living Historians/Reenactors

54th Infantry: 54th Mass Volunteer Infantry, Co B
9th Cavalry: 9th Memorial Cavalry (Atlanta chapter)
54th Infantry: 54th Mass Volunteer Infantry, Co I
1st South Carolina: 1st South Carolina Infantry (US)
8th USCT: 8th United States Colored Infantry Homepage [Offline]
37th Texas: Texas Cavalry 37th Terrell's (CS)
102nd USCT: First Michigan Colored Infantry
Buffalo Soldiers: Nicodemus Buffalo Soldiers [Company F, 10th]
Buffalo Soldiers: Buffalo Soldier Society of New Mexico [Company A, 9th]
Buffalo Soldiers of Northern California
reenactor.Net Reenactor.Net
Reenactors World Reenactors World [Offline]
Directory US Regular Army Reenacting Unit Directory
Marching and Chowder Society General Miles Marching and Chowder Society
NW Historical Military Society Northwest Historical Military Society Web Site [Offline]

Associations/Organizations
9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association: Los Angeles Chapter
9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association: Sacramento Chapter
9th Memorial Cavalry
9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association: Kansas Chapter
9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association: Baltimore Chapter
9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association: Atlanta Chapter [Offline]
9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association: Buffalo Soldier Memorial Association of El Paso
The U. S. Cavalry Association: Fort Riley, Kansas
Center for Military History: Medal of Honor Citations -- Indian Wars
OIW: Order of the Indian Wars
NIWA: National Indian Wars Association Inc.
Vision Quest
National Buffalo Soldier Museum
US Army Quartermaster Museum

Forts
Fort Douglas: Fort Douglas Military Museum
Fort Ethan Allen: Buffalo Soldiers at Ft. Ethan Allen, Vermont 1909-1913
Fort Hays: Old Historic Fort Hays [Offline]
Fort Hays: Fort Hays Kansas State Historical Society
Fort Harker: Fort Harker-Kanapolis Kansas [Offline]
Fort Harker: Fort Harker Kansas State Historical Society
Fort Gibson: Fort Gibson Historic Site
Fort Riley: Fort Riley History [Offline]
Fort Larned National Historic Site [Offline]
Fort Snelling: Fort Snelling
Fort Smith Fort Smith National Historic Site
Washita Battlefield Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Fort Point Fort Point National Historic Site
Fort Selden Fort Selden New Mexico Territory
Fort Davis Fort Davis
History of Old Fort Sill Fort Sill

Bibliographies
Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier: International Museum of the Horse
Frontier Forts of Kansas: A Selected Bibliography: Kansas State Historical Society
Texas Buffalo Soldiers Bibliograpy: Texas Parks and Wildlife
African Americans in Military History: Air University Library, Maxwell AFB, AL