The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American ("colored") soldiers. First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted approximately one-tenth of the Union Army.
African Americans in the United States Army in decades after the war became known as the Buffalo Soldiers; they fought in the Indian Wars later in the nineteenth century and received their nickname in the American West.
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—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
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—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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—Paula Lopossa, U.S. judge. As quoted in the New York Times, p. B9 (May 21, 1993)
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—Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)
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—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)