It kept the number of slave and free states even
First Lieutenant Jules Garesche Ord ordered the advance of the Buffalo Soldiers (black members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment).
Ord (a white officer) died in the attack. But the efforts of the Buffalo Soldiers and his leadership are credited with the success of the battle. One of Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" said of the Buffalo Soldiers and their dedication: "<span>I never saw braver men anywhere."</span>
Various ideas of reconstructing plan. The radicals vs. ten percent plan.
Radicals wanted southerns to be punished more harshly.
Radicals also wanted freedmen to be given full rights. Full voting. (No Jim Crow laws.)
Ten percent plan. Was a bit softer. Only ten percent swear an oath, state can be reunited. Sometime called the Lincoln plan.
(Just think what would have happened if the Radicals would have taken over. AND stayed for several decades as part of the reconstruction plan. There would have been no poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause. So much hatred today... Probably not. No freedom rides, marches, or sit - ins in the 1960's. Just a thinking a speculation idea...)
At state level should be endorsing legislation or a new law like no guns