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813.271 - 835.444 Lindsey Graham

This tension and violence between black soldiers and white civilians made the long-term future of black men in the Army uncertain. By the spring of 1866, a year had passed since the end of the Civil War, and most USCT regiments had been disbanded. Now the debate turned to the question of whether black men would have a permanent place in the regular peacetime Army, and resistance was fierce.