After the 9th Cavalry and 41st Infantry Buffalo Soldiers were formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, they were dispatched to Texas to protect the frontier. They traveled on Morgan Line’s steamships that took them across the Gulf of Mexico to Indianola, Texas - a major Texas seaport at the time. From there, the 9th Cavalry marched over 150 miles to San Antonio, while the 41st Calvary traveled nearly 250 miles to the Mexican border at Brownsville. The trip by ship and the following long marches inland were just the beginning of the tough and important job these soldiers would do on the Texas frontier.

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