RECOGNITION FOR THE CINCINNATI
BLACK BRIGADE (CIVIL WAR)
Resolution Sponsored by The
Honorable Sylvester Patton, D-Youngstown in the Ohio House of Representatives on
Behalf of the Research History Class at Washington Senior High School,
Washington Courthouse, Ohio
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| L-R: Ms. Alexandra Lightle, Representative Sylvester
Patton, D-Youngstown, Ms. Jennifer North, and Mr. Paul LaRue,
Instructor. |
“A flag is the emblem of
sovereignty - a symbol and guarantee of protection. Every nation and people are
proud of the flag of their country. England, for a thousand years boasts her Red
flag and Cross of St. George; France glories in her Tri-color and Imperial
Eagle; ours the ‘Star-spangled Banner,’ far more beautiful than they - this
dear old flag! - the sun in heaven never looked down on so proud a banner of
beauty and glory. Men of the Black Brigade, rally around it!
Assert your manhood, be loyal to duty, be obedient, hopeful, patient. Slavery
will soon die; the slaveholders’ rebellion, accursed of God and man, will
shortly and miserably perish. There will then be, through all the coming ages,
in very truth, a land of the free - one country, one flag, one destiny. I charge
you, Men of the Black Brigade of Cincinnati, remember that for you, and for me,
and for your children, and your children’s children, there is but one Flag, as
there is but one Bible, and one God, the Father of us all.”
James Lupton,
Acting Camp Commandant
presenting the National flag to The Cincinnati Black Brigade
September 4, 1862
INDEX
LEGISLATIVE
ANALYSIS - Mr. Paul LaRue
TESTIMONY
- Ms. Alexandra Lightle
CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION - Representative Sylvester Patton
FIRST
REGIMENT ROSTER
SECOND
REGIMENT ROSTER
THIRD
REGIMENT ROSTER AND CONCLUSION
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
THE
BLACK BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI - By William Wells Brown
WASHINGTON
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CIVIL WAR USCT SITE
FREEDOM FIGHTERS - UNITED STATES COLORED
TROOPS IN THE CIVIL WAR
Documents submitted by
Paul LaRue
Washington Courthouse, Ohio
Posted by
Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
Trotwood, Ohio
