[PDF] Ohio Negroes In The Civil War eBook

Author : David Meyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1439668957

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In the years leading up to the Civil War, Ohio had more African American settlements than any other state. Owing to a common border with several slave states, it became a destination for people of color seeking to separate themselves from slavery. Despite these communities having populations that sometimes numbered in the hundreds, little is known about most of them, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, nearly all had lost their ethnic identities as the original settlers died off and their descendants moved away. Save for scattered cemeteries and an occasional house or church, they have all but been erased from Ohio's landscape. Father-daughter coauthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker piece together the stories of more than forty of these black settlements.

Author : Eric Eugene Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2014
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : 9781505221749

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Ohio's Black soldiers have always been in the forefront of this nation's wars and the American Civil War is no exception. The state raised two infantry regiments for the United States Colored Troops during this war and then sent recruits to other regiments organizing in the South. Over 6,700 Black Ohioans served in this war and the names of many of these men have been lost until now. The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 has the rosters for the two Black regiments and additionally, the names of 1,007 more men who were listed as being unassigned to a regiment for a total of 5,092 men. This roster simply states "no further record found" for these men. The author has researched each man using the Compiled Military Service Records of Colored Troops and he has been able to identify the regiments in which these other men were assigned. In the process he was also able to identify over 1,600 more Black Ohioans who are not listed in the Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. Besides listing the name of each soldier and his regiment, this book also lists the company, rank, age, birth place, enlistment and discharge information, and death and burial information if occurred during the war. The author was also able to identify a number of Blacks who served with Ohio's white volunteers both as combatants and non-combatants.

Author : Kelly D. Selby
Publisher :
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN :

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The 27th United States Colored Troops consisted largely of Ohioans. They served in the Union Army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. These men who were already free before the war hoped that their participation would lead to increased rights in the northern states. The creation and success of the 166 black regiments during the Civil War served as contradictory evidence against the tenets of nineteenth-century ideals of white racial superiority. Black troops had confidence in their military accomplishments, therefore they believed that their manhood should be recognized as carrying the same birthright of political and social justice as white soldiers. The men of the 27th returned to Ohio after the war. They and their families optimistically sought full access to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and compensatory citizenship rights for their collective sacrifice. For the rest of their lives black veterans experienced both success and disappointment as they strived to obtain their due. In spite of Ohio's persistently discriminatory atmosphere, they contributed significantly to societal changes in northern communities during the postwar years. This dissertation expands the discussion of black wartime participation to include the postwar results of their involvement. It moves the conversation away from the debate over the degree of significance that can be attributed to black troops concerning Union victory or Confederate loss. Instead this project analyzes how the Civil War and African American participation affected post-bellum society. Specifically, how free Ohio blacks interpreted and understood their own participation in the Civil War. It also reveals how they and their families used their military service to negotiate an increased role in Ohio society and obtain the benefits of federal citizenship. Despite the white resistance to blacks obtaining their rights, African Americans who served in the 27th Regiment understood their role in helping to preserve the Union. Ultimately, they used their position as martial citizens to pursue personal gains. But they also gave the Ohio black community realistic hope of achieving equal status as American citizens through the tangible evidence provided by their receipt of pensions, GAR membership, and participation in Civil War commemorative activities.

Author : Thomas F. Stander
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1995
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN :

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Includes newspaper notice of the formation of Old John Brown Post no. 450 of the Grand Army of the Republic and list of soldiers compiled for a 1995 program, "Oxford's Sable Arm in the Civil War," by Thomas F. Stander.

Author : Amy L. Crow
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2009
Category : African American veterans
ISBN :

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In the past two decades, historians have begun to focus attention on the story and struggle of the more than 186,000 African American men who served in the Civil War. While scholars have produced books such as Forged in Battle and Black Soldiers in Blue which have greatly advanced knowledge about the role of these men during the war, relatively little has been written about what happened to these men after they returned home. There are several noteworthy books about the post-war experiences of Union soldiers. However, none of them delve deeply into the topic of African American veterans. A notable exception to this pattern of scholarship is Donald Shaffer's book After the Glory. In this book, Shaffer gives the results of his research into the post-war experience of black veterans. His groundbreaking research compares African American veterans to white veterans and, to a lesser extent, to the African American population as a whole. The goal of "With Diplomas of Patriotism" is to see whether Shaffer's conclusion holds true in Ohio. Using Springfield as a case study, African American veterans were compared with white veterans and with African Americans who did not serve in the Civil War. The results were somewhat surprising.

Author : Marsha R. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Pub
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2015-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443872218

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African Americans carved spaces of freedom in Ohio for more than two hundred years and their work is still incomplete. Generations before the US Civil War, free African Americans owned farms and businesses in Ohio. Social networking, education and dignity were tools used in multigenerational efforts to demand the benefits of liberty and citizenship as free and equal citizens. African Americans carved several havens of democracy in Ohio despite the tyranny of racial oppression in Antebellum and post-Civil War American culture. Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada: African Americans in Ohio presents the work of several scholars who have researched the micro-tactics of ordinary people who attempted to create a little space of peace in a place that was less heavenly than some might suppose. This volume presents histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ohio African American individuals who fought for higher education, voting rights, the right to live where they chose and the right to secure the blessings of liberty and equality for themselves and their children. Some were prosperous farmers. Others were masters of print and radio media. Still others dedicated themselves to freeing fellow citizens from the oppression of ignorance. This book shows that they all used social networks to secure the fulfillment of the promises made in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. These lessons in social networking and in perfecting democracy from Ohio African Americans' experiences will inspire ordinary people everywhere. Democratic popular uprisings are just the beginning. The many people and families in this volume are a reminder that the fruits of democracy are worthy of diligent and brave efforts by demonstrators and their descendants.