Between Red & Green: Narrative of the Black Brigade
Panagiotis, Tsonis A.
Poetry. African & African American Studies. On September 2, 1862, Cincinnati's mayor, fearing an imminent invasion by Confederate forces, ordered police to draft men to build forts across the Ohio River in northern Kentucky. The police forcefully rounded up three hundred free black men in the city, brought them to the riverfront and placed them in cages. The next day Federal officer William Dickson, in charge of building the fortifications, or...