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"In 1877, John Bigelow Jr. and seventy-five other cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after which he chronicled his experiences, observations, opinions, and musings as a young Cavalry lieutenant in Texas. Sixty of the new lieutenants, including Bigelow and seventeen others who were assigned to black regiments called Buffalo Soldiers, soon departed for the frontier where they were scattered over numerous small and often ramshackle posts and camps. Their work of training soldiers, exploring and patrolling wilderness areas, protecting the mail, travelers, and settlers, chasing and sporadically clashing with unpacified Indians, and enforcing federal ...
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Contains the full text to a journal that appeared in serial form in Outing Magazine from April to July, 1886, that chronicled the experiences of Lt. John Bigelow, Jr. and his comrades-in-arms in the Negro Tenth Cavalry's campaign against the Apaches.