This Date in History: September 10

The United States Army organized the U.S. Seventh Cavalry Regiment on September 10, 1866 at Fort Riley, Kansas as part of the expansion of the Regular Army, after the massive demobilization of the predominantly volunteer Union Army of the Civil War.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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On September 10, 1876, Captain Anson Mills and a force from the U.S. Third Cavalry Regiment captured a Minneconjou village at the “Battle of Slim Buttes.”  (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)

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On Monday, September 10, 1945, U.S. Army official executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods hanged U.S. Army Private Henry C. Philpot at the Loire Disciplinary Training Center at Le Mans, France for the crime of murder.  (The Fifth Field: The Story of the 96 American Soldiers Sentenced to Death and Executed in Europe and North Africa in World War II)