A senator in congress wanted to keep six regiments of blacks in the military after the Civil War. Another Senator, Senator Benjamin F. Wade, proposed that two Cavalry regiments be composed of black enlisted personel. After much debate and opposition, mostly from democrats, the legislation was passed to create six black regiments in the United States Army, four were to be infantry and two to be cavalry. These men were to be posted on the frontier. They were not ther first black men to be posted out on the frontier, because in 1865 and 1866 there were black regiments posted in New Mexico to protect white set

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