On a national Park service site, https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-twenty-fifth-infantry-bicycle-corps.htm there is an interesting story about the Twenty-Fifth Infantry Bicycle Corps. The 25th infantry was a regiment of the Buffalo Soldiers, and the bicycle corps was an experiment for moving troops by bicycle. Of interest here on WikiTree, the article gives the names of participants in the corps:
Forty soldiers from the Twenty-Fifth Infantry volunteered for the Bicycle Corps. Lt. Moss made selections based on riding ability, reliability, and general physical fitness. From the previous Bicycle Corps, Privates Elwood Forman, Frank L. Johnson, William Proctor, and the mechanic Pvt. John Findley were selected once again. William Haynes was promoted to Corporal (Cpl.) and returned as well. He joined Sergeant (Sgt.) Mingo Sanders and Cpl. Abram Martin as the noncommissioned officers of the group. The other soldiers selected were Musician Elias Johnson, Privates George Scott, Hiram L. B. Dingman, Travis Bridges, John Cook, Richard Rout, Eugene Jones, Sam Johnson, William Williamson, Sam Williamson, John H. Wilson, Samuel Reid, and Francis Button. Lt. Moss described the group as “bubbling over with enthusiasm... about as fine a looking and well-disciplined a lot as could be found anywhere in the United States Army.”
