Blackhorse Association - Product Details

CLOSE OUT WHILE SUPPLY LASTS! (10 cards in the set) Outside of Card: "The Deployment" U.S.A.T. Buford, NY, December 1901, Inside of Card: Samar 1902 Banner - Text: In December 1901, the regiment deployed to the jungles of the Philippines. Its mission was to help neutralize insurrectionist forces that were trying to seize power. It was there in 1902, in the Samar campaign, the Regiment earned its first battle streamer. embroidered "Samar 1902" It was also there that the regiment suffered its first trooper killed in action: Private Clarence L. Gibbs, who was shot 4 March 1902 by guerrilla forces who ambushed a U.S. wagon train. The regiment returned to the U.S. on 12 March 1904. (10 Cards and Envelopes - $1.00 for set) Inscription: Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year