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Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West

Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unrecognized.

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adult
Length
medium · 290 pages

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