Remembering the (too often uncompensated) sacrifice of Black veterans

By: Dwight Hobbes

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: May 25, 2026

Words: 978

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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The all-Black 25th U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers, garrisoned at Fort Snelling in the 1880s.

At the time, Fort Snelling served as a “staging and supply base for campaigns against Native American nations in the West,” according to the Minnesota Historical Society,

The Buffalo Soldier Museum reports that during the era of the Indian Wars, about 20% of the U.S. Cavalry troopers were Black, and they fought …

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