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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 a small number of African Americans to keep the peace. <ref name="Black Heritage Sites: The South">Curtis, Nancy C. Black Heritage Sites: The South. The New Press, 1996, see page 31.</ref> | |||
=== Reconstruction Era (1868-1878) === | === Reconstruction Era (1868-1878) === | ||