Congress to recognize Buffalo Soldiers
BY TRACIE CONE
Associated Press
Posted 6/26/13
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first …
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