from nearly a million men in arms to a mere 15 to 20,000, by 1866;

就从近百万人降至1866年的一万五千余人
and a fair portion of those are being sent west to fight Indians.

相当一部分人被派到西边与印第安人作战
And one of the great deep myths about the melodrama of Reconstruction,

重建进程中有一个很荒谬的说法
or the Lost Cause version of Reconstruction over the years,

败局命定论中也对其有所描述
is that the South was put under this military occupation,

就是说南方处于军队的占领下
"Bayonet rule," As it so often was called.

这通常被称为刺刀统制
About the only time a Union soldier fixed a bayonet,

这是历史上唯一一次联邦士兵配备刺刀
in all the Reconstruction years,

在重建的年岁里
was when they put their bayonets on,

这些士兵装配上刺刀
in part to defend themselves and go after the people who were murdering

自卫的同时用于对付那些在1866年
and massacring black people in Memphis and New Orleans in 1866.

在孟菲斯和新奥尔良屠杀黑人的家伙们
The vast majority of Union troops throughout the Reconstruction years,

重建数年间大多数联邦士兵