Sharon A. Kennedy Ph.D.: Author, Speaker, Independent researcher, Freelance writer
Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025,
2:30pm – 3:30pm,
ASA Koffler Great Room and Zoom
After the Civil War, Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act that included Black infantry and cavalry regiments, later called Buffalo Soldiers by the Indians they fought. After a decade of engaging in Indian Wars on the Plains, twelve of the 10th regiment were eventually reassigned to the Arizona Territory where Apache Geronimo was on the run to Mexico, and General George Crook had devised a campaign to place soldiers along all southern rivers, streams, and creeks to thwart Geronimo’s ability to have access to water on his return to Arizona. While two troops of the 10th were encamped in Bonita Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains, they constructed a 10-foot tall stone monument dedicated to slain President James Abram Garfield. Sharon Kennedy will tell the little-known story of those troops and that monument.
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