Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1

903.45 - 926.337 Lindsey Graham

In the end, the Republican majority in Congress prevailed, and on July 28, 1866, Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act, authorizing the creation of 30 new Army regiments. This included six new segregated regiments of Black troops, two cavalry regiments, the 9th and 10th, and four infantry regiments that within three years would be consolidated into two, the 24th and the 25th.