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DESCRIPTION:US Colored troops will hold their place in the Army of the United States as 
 long as the government lasts.\n-Colonel Benjamin Grierson, \n10th United 
 States Cavalry, 1867\n\n2025 National Buffalo Soldiers Day marks the 
 anniversary of the creation of the original segregated black Regular Army 
 regiments known collectively as the Buffalo Soldiers, constituted by an act 
 of Congress on July 28, 1866.\n\nDuring the 1st Session of the 39th 
 Congress, the US Army was dramatically reorganized and expanded following 
 the end of the Civil War.\n\nUS Colored Troops who enlisted from California 
 during our U.S. Civil War remain”hidden figures” just as Juneteenth 
 remains a quasii-optional holiday for State of California 
 employees.\n\nAfter our U.S. Civil War, the US Army consisted of 60 
 regiments: 45 infantry; 10 cavalry; 5 artillery; and a corps of cadets at 
 the United States Military Academy at West Point, "to be known as the Army 
 of the United States."\n\nThe Army Reorganization Act of 1866 was a seminal 
 moment for newly freed USCT soldiers in the US military.  For the first 
 time in the nation's history, the Regular Army featured permanent regiments 
 of then known as Colored or Negro Soldiers.\n\nPrior to the Civil War, 
 soldiers of Pan African Ancestry, both enslaved and free had a proud 
 lineage of Military Service paralleling the country's origin during the 
 Revolutionary War and continuing for the next half-century. \n\nAmerican 
 soldiers of Pan African Ancestry saw action during the War of 1812 and the 
 Mexican-American War. \n\nColored soldiers served in volunteer regiments 
 organized for the military emergency or were attached to Regular Army 
 units.\n\nIt was not until the Civil War that a formal government 
 organization was created to recruit and train free and formerly enslaved 
 men for service in  the Bureau of Colored Troops (United States Colored 
 Troops). \n\nNearly 210,000, earned through service the right to be called 
 African Americans in the US armies and navies during the war. Of that 
 number, 1,918 men were recruited and enlisted from the State of California, 
 according to the African American US Civil War Museum in Washington 
 DC.\n\nOur California Buffalo Soldier Project highlights \nGabriel Young, 
 an enslaved man from May's Lick, Kentucky who self-emancipated by enlisting 
 with the Co. F, 5th US Colored Heavy Artillery in Ohio. \n\nHe was the 
 father of Brigadier General Charles Young, born enslaved on March 12, 1864, 
 who was the highest-ranked Black officer in the US Army at the time of his 
 death in 1922. \n\nNational Buffalo Soldiers Day, July 28, 1866, authorized 
 the organization and recruitment of six regiments (2 cavalry and 4 
 infantry) to "be composed of colored men" and led by white officers. 
 \n\nThe army designated the colored infantry regiments as the 38th 
 Infantry, 39th Infantry, 40th Infantry, and 41st Infantry. The 9th Cavalry 
 and 10th Cavalry comprised the mounted arm. \n\nOn March 3, 1869, Congress 
 reduced the Regular Army from forty-five to twenty-five infantry regiments. 
 The black infantry regiments were consolidated: the 39th and 40th became 
 the 24th Infantry; the 38th and 41st became the 25th Infantry. The 9th and 
 10th cavalry regiments kept their original designations.\n 
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SUMMARY:From Civil War to Civil Rights - the path to align our Title 5 US Juneteenth Holiday
LOCATION:Gold Rush Grill\n2nd Floor\nCalifornia Secretary of State Office\n11th St. 
 and O Street\nSacramento, CA. 95814, 
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