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Title
127th
Ohio
Volunteer
Infantry
-
5th
United
States
Colored
Troops
photograph
Subject
Military Ohio
Civil War
African American Ohioans
127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.)
5th Regiment United States Colored Troops
African American soldiers
Time Period
1860s
Place
Delaware (Ohio)
Delaware County (Ohio)
Description
This
5
by
6.75-inch
(12.25
by
17-cm)
photograph
shows
members
of the
127th
Ohio
Volunteer
Infantry
, the
first
African
American
regiment
recruited
in
Ohio
during
the
Civil
War
. The
regiment
was
formed
in
1863
, and was
subsequently
designated
as the
5th
Regiment
,
United
States
Colored
Troops
. The
photograph
was
taken
in
Delaware
,
Ohio
, on
Sandusky
Street
near
the
Ft
.
Delaware
Hotel
. In
May
1863
,
Massachusetts
became
the
first
state
to
organize
a
regiment
of
African
Americans
.
Because
Ohio
did
not then
allow
black
men
to
join
its
regiments
,
many
Ohioans
enlisted
in the
54th
and
55th
Massachusetts
Regiments
. In the
summer
of
1863
,
Ohio
Governor
David
Tod
authorized
the
recruitment
of
African
Americans
, and the
127th
was
formed
in
Delaware
,
Ohio
,
between
August
and
November
1863
as an
African
American
regiment
organized
under
white
officers
.
Date of Original
1863
Collection
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam
(for
more
information
on
African
Americans
in
Ohio)
Source
Audiovisual
material
;
SC
1018
Format
picture
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1277_781147_123.tif
Image Height
1815
Image Width
2680
File Size
593.655 KB
Date created
2009-01-13
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