The Buffalo Soldiers was the nickname for the African American regiments that served in the West. There were five regiments in total, two calvary and three infantry. This 1890s photograph shows members of one of these regiments escorting a stagecoach.
Image: “Boudoir photograph of Buffalo Soldiers escorting a stage coach” by Frank J. Haynes (c. 1890). From the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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