When did the Army invert its chevrons and why was that done? Bob Rooks (Fort Worth, Texas) Chevrons are the stripes on a uniform arm that denote...
Brothers in Arms, Henry Rifles and Tepees
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Call in the Buffalo Soldiers! Black troopers became teachers at West Point
In the early 1900s, the U.S. Army had a problem. Most of its West Point cadets lacked the experience and discipline to develop riding skills....
Opening Shot – A Mammoth Moment
The U.S. Army tested bicycles for the first time in the West in 1896 with the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps, one of the four Buffalo Soldier...
Smallpox Among the Plains Indians Did the U.S. Army intentionally infect the Indians to cause the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1837?
A few years ago an activist wrote a revisionist history about the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1837 claiming the U.S. Army deliberately infected a...
Apache Agent Believing that the Indians would respond better if they were able to govern themselves, he organized a police force of Apache...
During the mid-1870s the federal government began using churches to staff the reservations in Arizona. The two most successful converters, the...