The Military History of Ohio…, “Roll of Honor of Ohio’s Rank and File from Wood County in the War of the Rebellion,” 1886.
Fielding McCoglin, 27 USCI (incorrectly listed as 27 OVI)
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Wood County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
1890 Census
Albert Johnson, 14 USCI
James I. Hamilton, widow Mary, 12 USCHA
Joseph Perkins, alias Joseph Lamb, 5 USCHA
Ft. Meigs Cemetery
James J. Hamilton, 12 USCHA and 72 USCI, died April 24, 1882
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Wood County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
1890 Census
William Dixon, 102 USCI
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Wood County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
1890 Census
John Willis, 27 USCI
You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans from Wood County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans who served from or lived in the state.… Read more
Lafayette D. Rose, a veteran of the 27th USCI, requested in his will that “If for any reason I shall be unable to complete the writing and publication of my history at work now well under way I here by request and designate my said wife and my half brother William H. Sparrow to take charge of the same and carry out my arrangements provisions or agreement I may have made with other parties for the same… As soon as sufficient number of copies of my said work or book shall have been sold to pay the cost of publication and sale there of then as to all subsequent sales my said wife shall be entitled to receive a royalty.”… Read more
“And at his death had almost completed a history of his life,” Lafayette Rose, 27 USCI Read More »
The Anglo-African, September 3, 1865
SOLDIERS, YOU HAVE LADY FRIENDS IN CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, O., August, 1865.
DEAR EDITOR: Permit me to make your excellent paper the medium of giving credit to the ladies of the Cleveland Soldiers Aid Society, with a semi-annual report of their labors. I hope that you had not drawn the conclusion that silence indicated a relaxation in the great work they began for the welfare of the soldiers; but rather, I shall frankly acknowledge, remissness on my part in writing to you, for which I am exceedingly sorry, and fear that the imperfectness of my report will subject me to the severest reprimanding I have ever received from that sex, within the bounds of my recollection.… Read more