Now open, Galveston’s newest attraction, The Bryan Museum, celebrates Juneteenth with an exhibit featuring the Buffalo Soldiers. The Buffalo Soldiers will be on exhibit now through September. Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the ‘Negro Cavalry’ by the Native American tribes they fought; the term eventually became synonymous with all of the African-American regiments formed in 1866: The Buffalo Soldiers fought with distinction in the Indian Wars. Although several African-American regiments were raised during the Civil War as part of the Union Army (including the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments), the ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments

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