Am. S.C.R. No. 23 Summary

• Commends the members of the Black Brigade for their defense of Cincinnati in September 1862 against threatened Confederate invasion by building city fortifications.

• Designates all members of the Black Brigade as veterans of the American Civil War, providing official recognition previously denied to them.

• Names William M. Dickson as Commandant and lists approximately 600 members across three regiments and multiple companies organized under his command.

• Recognizes that Black Brigade members were noted by engineers as the hardest working and most efficient laborers in the defense effort, and many subsequently entered the first Union military units for African Americans.

• Directs the Senate Clerk to transmit authenticated copies of the resolution to the Governor, Adjutant General, and Ohio news media.