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Post by joewiggs on Mar 4, 2010 22:02:31 GMT -5
Here is an interesting tidbit I would like to share: "occasionally frontier officers devised their own off-beat punishments. An officer of the tenth Cavalry had two quarreling troopers whip each other with mule whips, and when one of them later tried to shoot him, the officer made the man sergeant for showing his courage." I am eternally grateful that I was born in the twentieth Century.  |
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Post by melani on Mar 24, 2010 23:53:47 GMT -5
No kidding. I could see doing something creative to settle a dispute, but mule whips seems rather counterproductive--would tend to injure the men, I would think. Those guys really went nuts from boredom out there.
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Post by joewiggs on Mar 26, 2010 21:03:01 GMT -5
"but bullwhips seem rather counterproductive."
Malani, stop, you'er killing me! You'er killing me I tell you! ;D
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Post by joewiggs on May 14, 2010 10:20:16 GMT -5
The Tenth Cavalry had the lowest desertion rate in the Army, though their army posts were usually situated in the roughest country in the west.
These men were so brave and fought so well that their Indian foes called them "Buffalo Soldiers." Their commander, Col. Benjamin H. Grierson opined that the name was given to them because the Indians respected men who fought bravely and were considered to be powerful;a direct correlation to their much revered buffalo.
Others say that it was because of a similar texture between the soldier's hair and the hair around a buffalo's neck.
Two members of the 7th. Cav. refused commissions with the tenth. Can you name them?
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Post by joewiggs on Nov 2, 2012 8:48:48 GMT -5
In 1866, Congress authorized four regiments - two cavalry (the 9th and 10th) and two infantry 9the 24th and the 25th)- comprising African-Americans to assist with in the hostilities in the West. Most were former slaves and illiterate, which made them dependent upon white leadership, but they were known for their discipline, good humor, physical endurance, sobriety, and an ability to face adversity.
the Plains Indians used the respectable term Buffalo Soldiers to describe the black cavalryman, believing their shot, curly hair resembled the coat of a buffalo, which to them was a sacred animal
Black cavalrymen served in desolate posts under more primitive conditions than whites and were issued secondhand gear and worn-out horses-castoffs from white regiments -but stood fewer court-martial for drunkenness and had one of the lowest of desertion in the cavalry.
a total of eighteen black soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for their bravery fighting Indians.
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