Cincinnati, OH - (Video) Great piece on the U. S. Colored Troops buried in Union Baptist Cemetery, and the student-led effort to honor their service. "Union Baptist Cemetery is tucked away in a quiet spot off Cleves-Warsaw Road in Covedale. It’s the oldest Baptist African-American cemetery in Cincinnati, run by the oldest black Baptist congregation in the city. It’s also a monument to about 120 free black men...They might have been all but forgotten without help about 10 years ago from an unlikely source – a history teacher and his students at a rural high school in Washington Court House. They took up the cause of documenting the burial places of more than 3,000 African American soldiers from Ohio who fought in the Civil War." wvxu.org/post/union-baptist-cemetery-and-its-black-civil-war-heroes#disqus_thread
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:41:58 +0000