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Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
Lindsey Graham
Instead, he took the same position with the all-white 7th Cavalry. And recruitment was not just difficult for officers. Even in New Orleans, Louisiana, where large numbers of Black Civil War veterans lived, recruiters for the 9th Cavalry faced an uphill battle in the fall of 1866. The previous summer, a white mob attacked dozens of Black protesters peacefully marching for voting rights.
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