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During the 150th anniversary of the 1862 defense of Cincinnati, a memorial monument to the Black Brigade was dedicated in Smale Riverfront Park in Cincinnati on September 9, 2012. Designed by Jan Brown Checco and Sasaki Associates, sculptors John Hebenstreit and Carolyn Manto created three life-size bronze figures, relief panels, while Tyrone ...
Union Major General Lew Wallace declared martial law, seized sixteen steamboats and had them armed, [2] and organized the citizens of Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport, Kentucky for defense. Among the groups organized were the Black Brigade of Cincinnati, a forcibly conscripted group of free African Americans. The Black Brigade was given its ...
The ill-fated ship had been constructed in 1862 by the John Lithoberry Shipyard on Front Street in Cincinnati. Other markers and monuments are scattered throughout the town. Cincinnati has busts for Robert L. McCook and Friedrich Hecker and statues of Civil War-era composer Stephen Foster and Union general / President James A. Garfield. There ...
Black Brigade given the dignity of volunteering after racist abuse. Under the orders of Cincinnati Mayor George Hatch, the city’s Black men were apprehended to do the labor of digging rifle pits ...
During the Civil War, Fossett served as a captain in the Black Brigade that helped protect Cincinnati under siege by Confederate forces in September 1862. Taking a stand and refusing to leave.
During the American Civil War, nearly 320,000 Ohioans served in the Union Army, more than any other Northern state except New York and Pennsylvania. [1] Of these, 5,092 were free blacks.
Peter Farley Fossett (June 5, 1815 – January 3, 1901) was an enslaved laborer at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's plantation, who after he attained his freedom in the mid-19th century, settled in Cincinnati where he established himself as a minister and caterer. He was a captain in the Black Brigade of Cincinnati during the Civil War. Fossett ...
Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868. ISBN 978-1-154-80196-5; Wulsin, Lucien. Roster of the Surviving Members of the Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 1861-1865: With a Brief Historical Sketch of the Regiment (Cincinnati, OH: C. H. Thomson), 1891.