Newport Barracks Soldiers
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Friday, 6 Oct 1865, page 2
The Newport Garrison is to be hereafter garrisoned with colored troops.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Friday, 13 May 1870, page 7
JULIA ANN MATHEWS, the colored cook at the Newport Barracks, who cut John Anderson, a colored soldier on the arm with a knife on Tuesday, was fined $80 and costs by the Mayor yesterday morning.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Tuesday, 21 September 1871, page 7
Two young men named George Smith and George Elliott took it into their hands on Tuesday afternoon, to "clean out" as they expressed it, the Newport Barracks. They commenced by throwing stones at the windows of the Barracks buildings, which soon brought out a number of soldiers and quite a melee ensued. Smith and Elliott made brickbats, stones and other missiles fly around at a dangerous rate for a few minutes, but they were finally overpowered by superior numbers and most unmercifully thrashed, as they richly deserved.
Sergeant John Orr received quite a severe cut about his eye by being struck with at stone and a colored soldier was somewhat injured.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 4 January 1872, page 7
FIFTY colored recruits will leave the Newport Barracks today for Texas.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 22 April 1875, page 7
TWO RECRUITS, one white and one colored, passed their final examination at the Barracks yesterday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 1 June 1875, page 7
THIRTEEN recruits, one colored, passed their second examinations at the Barracks yesterday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 20 July 1875, page 7
THIRTY-THREE recruits were accepted at the Barracks yesterday. Of this number two were colored.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 29 July 1875, page 7
Three recruits passed their final examination yesterday at the Barracks-one white and two colored.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Wednesday, 11 August 1875, page 7
Twenty white recruits and one colored were accepted at the Barracks yesterday. The supposition is that the troops at the Barracks will soon hear from the Paymaster.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, 29 August 1875, page 7
Eleven white and one colored recruit were accepted at the Barracks yesterday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 2 September 1875, page 7
Thirty-two white and six colored recruits were received at the Barracks yesterday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, 16 September 1875, page 7
Four white and six colored recruits were accepted at the Barracks yesterday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 16 November 1875, page 2
SEVENTY-FIVE colored troops from the Newport Barracks left last evening under command of Lieutenant Burbank, for Texas.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, 3 April 1876, page 1
It is rumored that a regiment of colored troops will be sent to Newport, with a full drum corps, to keep the people of that town in good humor, but his story has probably been set afloat by Columbus people to vex the chivalrous souls of such men as Hon. Gawge Hawdge. (George Hodge)
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Wednesday, 8 August 1877, page 7
NEWPORT
The colored troops fought well.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 28 Aug 1879, page 2
NEWPORT
The soldiers and sailors of the late war, colored, will have a reunion at Manchester, Ohio, on Friday next. An excursion from the city will leave on the steamer Ellen McCoy.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 10 October 1899, page 12
With the arrival of recruits for the Forty-eighth Volunteer Infantry (colored) at Ft Thomas yesterday the regiment lacks only about 100 men of having its full strength of 1300. The necessary men to fill out the quota are expected by the middle of next week. Recruiting for the Forty-eighth will then be discontinued at the various stations throughout the South and East, and all colored recruits enlisted will be assigned to the Forty-ninth, mobilizing at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, which is still shy several hundred men.