Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1

1329.795 - 1352.663 Lindsey Graham

At least 50 Black residents were killed, many of them war veterans. Only months later, the city was still reeling from the violence, and white hostility to Black men in uniform persisted. But despite white resistance, recruiters managed to enlist roughly 800 men into the 9th Cavalry. One of those men was 19-year-old Emanuel Stantz, who became one of the first to enroll in October 1866.