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Wham, Bam, Thank You Uncle Sam!

by | Nov 1, 2010 | Inside History

Uncle Sam's Buffalo Soldiers vs. Mormon Outlaws
May 11, 1889 Riding in a dougherty (canopied ambulance), U.S. Army Paymaster Maj. Joseph Washington Wham (rhymes with bomb) is on his way to pay “all troops in the muster of April 30.” His route includes Forts Huachuca, Bowie, Grant, Thomas and Apache, and the San Carlos Agency in Arizona. Having successfully paid the soldiers at Forts Bowie and Grant, Wham and his Buffalo


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