An Essay On The Buffalo Soldiers

The Buffalo Soldiers was mostly known as the African American Cavalry who was in war of the American army during 1867-1896. They were on the frontier fighting against the Indians. The Buffalo soldiers was the black African American who fighted for the United States Army but not beside the whites. The Indians called African American Buffalo Solders because their strength, ability of a buffalo, and also they had similar texture in the hair of a buffalo that hung of the back of a buffalo neck. When they won’t fighting against the Indians, They helped build forts, railroads work, and also as travel stagecoaches, helped protect others such as travelers and settlers . They were treated harshly; they weren’t receiving good conditions of things that they need to stay healthy as they need to be.
The act that the government passed in July of 1862 was an uprising to starting off the Buffalo Soldiers success. Then Abraham Lincoln Passed The Law To free All African American Slaves on January 1 1863, ,which made most of African American men thinking that joining the army would help them gain freedom and that would be a better life instead of taking time to learn how to read or write. After Abraham Lincoln Passed the law approximately 180,000 was serving in the USA Union Army. The Buffalo Soldiers started with nothing surviving off spoiled food, half working low class weapons, and also not having any First-Aid kit to fix up anybody that was hurting and injury/damage. Even doe The Buffalo Soldiers were serving the country, doing good, helping out the USA with wars they were still poorly. Mans would go 48Hours without eating because people still had racial thoughts about the African Americans when traveling thru different city getting ready for ...

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... up in tents and fort but the Indians usually sneak up and try to burn the tent with the buffalo soldiers inside of the tents sleeping also the white from the same country of theirs would still do the same. That would upset the African American but they couldn’t speak on much because nothing won’t go to get done about the whites because the Mayor or Chief was the one setting it all up.
Also the judges had some to do with it because people seen the whites doing it with many others witness but would never get persecuted just because of their skin color but that was wrongful because there are harming others, hurting and scaring all of the African American because they could never know when it’s their time because the white were so harmful. They just had to get the Indians back when they get on the frontier for war for sneaking and harming some of their brave soldiers.