Historic Fairview Cemetery will commemorate National Buffalo Soldiers Day on Saturday July 26, 2025, beginning at 9 am. Officially recognized in 1992, it commemorates the 1866 formation of six cavalry and infantry regiments of African American soldiers after Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act. Buffalo Soldiers were African American soldiers who served on the Western Frontier after the Civil War. The name Buffalo Soldiers is said to have two different origins. The first is that the Native Americans called them that, as the soldiers’ dark curly hair resembled the fur of a buffalo. Another is that they fought so valiantly that Native Americans revered them as they did the buffalo. The Buffalo Soldiers fought in battles to defend American Westward Expansion, built roads, acted as National Park rangers, and also fought in both world wars and other conflicts.
Source: https://teachersfirst.com/blog/2020/07/celebrate-buffalo-soldiers-day/