Military Conflict – Indian Wars
The Black Maroons of Florida (1693-1850)
The Black Maroons of Florida, also known as Black Seminoles, Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen, were a community derived from...
Colonel Joseph Louis Cook (ca. 1737-1814)
Joseph Louis Cook was an Afro-Iroquois leader and a Commissioned Officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War....
Walter Lawson (1862-1917)
Walter Lawson was a Buffalo Soldier, a private with the 25th Infantry Regiment of the US Calvary. Lawson was born...
25th Infantry Regiment (1866-1947)
When the U.S. Army was reorganized on July 28, 1866 for peacetime service after the American Civil War, six regiments were set aside...
Battle of Lake Okeechobee (1837)
On Christmas Day, 1837, during the Second Seminole War, the Africans and Native Americans comprising Florida’s Seminole Nation defeated a...
William Robison (1821-1899)
Image Ownership: Haggin Museum, Stockton, California California pioneer, expressman, and civil rights worker William Robison was born a slave in...
24th Infantry Regiment (1866-1951)
When the U.S. Army was reorganized on July 28, 1866, for peacetime service after the American Civil War, six regiments...
10th Cavalry Regiment (1866-1944)
The 10th Cavalry was one of the original six regiments of the regular army set aside for black enlisted men. ...
9th Cavalry Regiment (1866-1944)
The 9th Cavalry was one of the original six regiments of the regular U.S. Army set aside for black enlisted...
