April 5, 2024
US ARMY PATCH - 9TH CAVALRY REGIMENT
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This is a nice clean cut edge patch.The 9th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army, 1st Cavalry Division, which in turn is a component of the Third Corps. The regiment is currently stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. The regiment was constituted 28 July 1866 in the Regular Army as Company F, 9th Cavalry. On 3 August 1866 General Philip Sheridan was ordered to raise one African-American ("coloured") cavalry regiment, to be called the 9th Cavalry Regiment. The regiment was organized on 21 September 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was initially commanded by Colonel Edward Hatch. The new recruits were from Louisville, Kentucky. They were veterans of the Civil War. The men enlisted for five years and received $13 per month, plus room, board and clothing. Later they were dubbed "Buffalo Soldiers". The regiment's motto was, and remains, "We Can, We Will". The first task of the regiment was to maintain law and order in Texas. At the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, the regiment defeated a combined force of Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, Brulé, and Oglala Sioux Indians. The regiment went to New Mexico Military District, which covered parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Texas, and participated in the Apache Wars from 1875 to 1881. That service included the Battle of Tularosa with Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio in May
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