Buffalo Soldiers at San Juan Hill

Charge of the First and Tenth Cavalry
2d Brigade, Cavalry Division
Cuba, 1898
by Howard Chandler Christy

Buffalo Soldiers at San Juan Hill
(A paper prepared and presented by Dr. Frank N. Schubert at the 1998 Conference of Army Historians; posted here with his permission)

25th Infantry and the Rough Riders
at San Juan Hill, 1898
Artist Unknown

After Action Reports — Buffalo Soldiers in Cuba, 1-3 July 1898
extracted from The Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1898, Report of the Major-General Commanding the Army, Washington, D.C., 1898

• 2d Squadron, 9th Cavalry
• Troop H, 9th Cavalry

• 2d Brigade, Cavalry Division, Report of Colonel Leonard Wood, First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
• 2d Brigade, Cavalry Division, Report of Lieutenant Colonel T.A. Baldwin, 10th U.S. Cavalry
• 10th Cavalry, Report of Lieutenant Colonel T.A. Baldwin, July 1898
• 10th Cavalry, Report of Lieutenant Colonel T.A. Baldwin, 20 July 1898
• 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry
• Troop A, 10th Cavalry
• Troop B, 10th Cavalry
• Troop C, 10th Cavalry
• Troop D, 10th Cavalry, Report of Lieutenant A.E. Kennington, 5 July 1898
• Troop D, 10th Cavalry, Report of Captain John Bigelow, Jr., 19 December 1898
• Troop F, 10th Cavalry
• Troop I, 10th Cavalry
• Troop M, 10th Cavalry
• Gun Detachment, 2d Cavalry Brigade
• Hotchkiss Gun Detachment, 2d Cavalry Brigade
• Assistant Surgeon, 10th Cavalry

• 3d Brigade, 1st Division
• 24th Infantry, Report of Captain A.C. Markley, 5 July 1898
• 24th Infantry, Report of Captain A.C. Markley, 7 July 1898
• 2d Battalion, 24th Infantry, Report of Captain Henry Wygant, 5 July 1898
• 2d Battalion, 24th Infantry, Report of Captain Henry Wygant, 4 October 1898
• Company A, 24th Infantry
• Company C, 24th Infantry
• Company D, 24th Infantry

• 25th Infantry, Report of Lieutenant Colonel A.S. Daggett, 5 July 1898
• 25th Infantry, Report of Lieutenant Colonel A.S. Daggett, 16 July 1898
• 25th Infantry, Report of Lieutenant Colonel A.S. Daggett, 22 August 1898