Thanks. We will use this.I would like to know their route.When my papers are available to me again (after I move into my house--big mistake renovating an historic structure)I will be able to pick out the route. As the Comanches first used the term " Buffalo Soldiers" these guys would have been the first Black troops they saw, if they came by the Red River route rather than the Santa Fe Trail. Thanks again. Earl Pittman (Fort Stanton Foundation)