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=== Post-Civil War<br>  ===
=== Post-Civil War<br>  ===


*After the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, the US Army assigned&nbsp;a small number of African Americans to keep the peace.&nbsp;<ref name="Black Heritage Sites: The South">Curtis, Nancy C. Black Heritage Sites: The South. The New Press, 1996, see page 31.</ref>
*After the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, the US Army assigned&nbsp;a small number of African Americans to keep the peace.&nbsp;<ref>Black Heritage Sites: The South. Page 31.</ref>


=== Reconstruction Era (1868-1878)  ===
=== Reconstruction Era (1868-1878)  ===
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