My comments are based on a copy of a talk(mss) found in the U.S.Army Museum-Archives(Hawaii) given by Frank N.Shubert, former U.S. Army historian, author of books and articles on Blacks in the military. My quotes are from the copy of his speech. You can check his writings on the Buffalo Soldiers through Google.
He is a very popular speaker on the east coast with black audiences. As you know all of history is not as we would like it to be. As he said in his talk," we must have respect for the strangeness of the past."