Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta
There was a buffalo soldier in the heart of America
Stolen from Africa brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Said he was a buffalo soldier, win the war for America.
Lyrics - Bob Marley
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Negro troops marched with George Washington's army in the battles for Independence.
Negro troops served with Andrew Jackson at New Orleans to repel British invaders in 1815.
Slave regiments 180,000 strong served in the Civil War's Union army and untold others fought in the Confederate army.
The post Civil War peacetime army authorized 6 Negro regiments - 2 Cavalry, 4 infantry - for 24 years they campaigned in the Great Plains along the Rio Grande, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and in the Dakotas. The 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments guarded mail, escorted/guarded stage coaches, cattle drives, railroad crews and surveyors. They built roads, laid telegraph lines, mapped and explored fland as expansion moved westward.
Buffalo soldiers fought during the Native Indian war period, they were called "Buffalo" by Indians partly because Negro hair shared some similarity to the Buffalo but mostly as a sign of respect.
The 10th Cavalry fought in the Spanish-American war and were included in Teddy Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill and later served in the Phillipine Insurrection.
Danny Glover recently wrapped filming in a project dedicated to the memory of Buffalo Soldiers in Arizona.
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