Noun
buffalo soldier (plural buffalo soldiers)
(US, military, historical) An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War.
It was Buffalo Soldier troops from Company B, 125th US Colored Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant James M. Kerr, who had established Fort Bayard in the first place, on August 21, 1866. Source: Internet
While she is not currently in service with MSC, ships with her general characteristics are designated Buffalo Soldier class, fleet designation AK 2222. Source: Internet