Remembering New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers
author: Dornan, Ellen K. (Boogie Mama)
source date: 2023
availability: web

Feature on Buffalo Soldiers in New Mexico by Ellen K. Dornan. Covers the formation of black regiments after the Civil War — 57th and 125th Infantry arriving in 1866 at Fort Stanton and Fort Selden; the 24th and 25th Infantry and 9th and 10th Cavalry serving across forts including Fort Bayard, Fort Craig, Fort Cummings, Fort McRae, Fort Selden, Fort Stanton, Fort Tularosa, and Fort Wingate; the 9th Cavalry's role in Victorio's War and the Lincoln County War; Geronimo's surrender in 1886; the laundress quarters at Fort Stanton built by the 9th Cavalry in 1876; Black troops founding Blackdom, the first African American community in New Mexico Territory, near Roswell; details drawn from a commemoration project between the New Mexico Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club and the Daughters of the American Revolution creating audio eulogies for Buffalo Soldiers buried in Albuquerque's Fairview Cemetery.