Gage second cornet, William Quarles and third cornet, G. 1 Three cornetists in the Twenty-fourth Infantry Band were as follows: fi rst cornet, W. Military bands of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fi fth Infantry became famous units and served for more than twenty years on America's frontier. On 28 July 1866 Congress passed an act establishing two African American cavalry and four African American infantry regiments in the Army.
At the end of the Civil War, many of these instrumentalists returned to civilian life to perform in various musical organizations, but some remained in the service of their country. Although not per-mitted to enlist in the Union Army until the fall of 1862, African Americans were involved in many regimental bands of their own in the union, among the most important of which were those of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw's Fifty-fourth Regiment, the First Regiment of the Kansas Colored Volunteers, the Fifty-fi fth Regiment of Massachusetts, and the 107 th United States Colored Infantry.
Background A signifi cant performing vehicle for African American cornetists in the mid-nineteenth-century was the African American regiment band during the Civil War.
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