The Struggles of Buffalo Soldiers in America

What if you work so hard to achieve something but you still end up at nothing. That is the reality that are happening to us right now, the buffalo soldiers. We knows as a symbol of hope for a better future. We are formed by the U.S. Army regiments of black men, many of whom had served in the United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.). The cavalry units were the 9th and 10th Cavalry, and the infantry were the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st which several years later were consolidated into the 24th and 25th infantry units. As you know, many of us, the original members of the African American units, were former slaves who had served in the Union Army. We consider that army is the new way to start a new life on frontier. We think that the men who displaced

We are allude in the future that never happen. We are sadly mistaken in thinking they would gain these components of freedom, in a country built in-part by their enslavement and which still held deep racial and cultural prejudices. The racism are happen everywhere, even in this troop. Although we were rarely guilty of drunkenness in time and place where alcoholism was common, which the rate of desertion and court martial was much lower than that of white soldiers, we still have to receive some of the worst assignments the Army handed out. We also faced fierce prejudice against both the color of their Union uniforms and their skin, by many of the citizens of the post-war frontier towns who we are trying to protect and fight for their country. According to newspaper that “As soon as these soldiers were relocated into their hostile environments, they were engaged in life and death struggles. They were under fire. Friends were killed and their oath to keep the peace, put to the test by Indians, settlers and those outside the law. Though they guarded railroads and telegraph lines, stagecoaches, arms shipments, towns, homesteads, whites and Indians, they never knew when they would be ambushed by foes or the very townspeople they were protecting! Not infrequently, just by entering a town or saloon, shoot-outs occurred. There was also the occasional sniper, waiting for a kill. Those that murdered troopers were never punished for their crimes, even when there were witnesses. The troopers always responded with a deadly intent of their own. When investigated by the military, those troopers found guilty were punished accordingly, but not always justly”. In the end, we finally realize that freedom and equality will never happen with us. The buffalo soldiers like us now just do our duty as the soldier carrying out the government's law and order on the frontier west. But inside our heart, we are strongly against this fight because we can see ourselves through