25th Infantry Regiment
Modern Era, United States, Infantry
The 25th Infantry Regiment was another of the Army's historic Buffalo Soldier regiments. Created in the post-Civil War Regular Army, it served in frontier campaigns, garrison duty, and later overseas assignments. The regiment is especially remembered for its disciplined field service and for notable episodes such as the bicycle corps experiment of the 1890s.
Its twentieth-century story reflects both the opportunities and limits placed on Black regiments in the segregated Army. The 25th Infantry served at home and abroad, contributed to the Army's imperial-era and early modern missions, and remained part of the long institutional history that eventually led toward desegregation.
Today the regiment survives primarily as a historical lineage rather than an active field regiment, but it remains central to any serious account of the Buffalo Soldiers and the evolution of the U.S. Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Battalion Page
A dedicated battalion subpage now collects the regiment's known battalion icons and short sketches for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions. Open the 25th Infantry Regiment Battalions page.