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Twenty-three of these men won the nation\'s highest award for.
They were known as Buffalo soldiers, believed to have been named by Indians who had seen a similarity between the coarse hair and dark skin of the Soldiers and the coats of the buffalo.
Several thousand African Americans served as Soldiers in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Just a few years earlier, some had been slaves.
Army soldiers.
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