Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1

677.762 - 700.874 Lindsey Graham

Some 120,000 of them were still stationed in the South even after the war ended. Many of them had enlisted in 1863 for three-year terms, and their white officers deemed their terms incomplete. But the Army also kept the black soldiers in service for practical reasons. Army officials knew that most of the soldiers were former slaves who faced an uncertain future once they mustered out.