Fine white dust and the smell of gunpowder fill the air as A Company, Tenth U.S. Cavalry regroups and forms into columns as it prepares to move out after the battle.The "Buffalo Soldiers" have just finished their first major engagement with the Chiricahua Apache renegade Victorio. Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson issues orders to Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper to keep Victorio bottled up near the Rio Grande.