Buffalo Soldiers Infantry Cavalry G Magnets

Features all the basic units of the initial Buffalo Soldier units. 9th Cavalry 10th Cavalry 24th Infantry 25th Infantry 38th Infantry 39th Infantry 40th Infantry 41st Infantry with their respective unit guidons displayed including the namesake of the soldiers

The 39th Infantry and the 9th Cavalry, both organized in New Orleans. The 39th and 40th were reorganized as the 24th, with headquarters at Fort Clark, Texas, in April 1869.

The 39th Infantry and the 9th Cavalry, both organized in New Orleans. The 39th and 40th were reorganized as the 24th, with headquarters at Fort Clark, Texas, in April 1869.

The Army was authorized to raise two regiments of black cavalry (the 9th and 10th (Colored) Cavalry) and four regiments of black infantry (the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st (Colored) Infantry). Orders sent to Maj. Gens. William T. Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan to raise four of these regiments. In Sherman’s Military Division of the Missouri, the 38th Infantry organized at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, and the 10th Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., while Sheridan’s Department of the Gulf provided the 39th Infantry and the 9th Cavalry, both organized in New Orleans.