This study reviews the history of the black regular army infantry regiments formed after the civil war. It tracks the origins, movements, deployments and campai
"This study reviews the history of the black regular army infantry regiments formed after the Civil War. It tracks the origins, movements, deployments and campa
Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American West for the f
In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo soldiers, and th