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Hidden : 12/31/2011
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Beaty was born into slavery on October 8, 1837 in Richmond, Virginia.
He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849, where he received an education.
He gained his freedom sometime on or before April 19, 1861; the exact
date is unknown and may have been before his move to Ohio.

While in school, he developed an interest in theater and made his public
acting debut at a school concert. After leaving school, he was apprenticed
to a black cabinet maker and eventually worked as a turner. He continued
to study acting privately and received training in the field from several
coaches, including James E. Murdock, a retired professional stage actor
from Philadelphia.

A year after the outbreak of the Civil War, with the decisive Confederate
victory at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, on August 30, 1862, rumors
of an impending Confederate attack on Cincinnati began to circulate.
Richmond was one hundred miles to the south of Cincinnati, and no
organized Union troops lay between the two cities. An attack by
Confederate Colonel John Hunt Morgan, who had led his cavalry on
a raid behind Union lines in Kentucky the previous month, was also feared.

On September 2, the men of Cincinnati were organized into work units to
build fortifications around the city. Although Cincinnati's African Americans
were initially pressed into service at bayonet point, after the appointment of
William Dickson as commander of the black troops their treatment improved
significantly. Dickson promised that they would be treated fairly and kept
together as a distinct unit, to be called the Black Brigade. He then allowed
them to return home to prepare for military service, with orders to report the
next morning for duty. About four hundred men were released that day,
September 4, and the next morning about seven hundred reported for duty.

Among those men was Beaty, who served in Company Number 1 of the
Brigade's 3rd Regiment. Despite the danger of Confederate attack, the
unarmed unit was assigned to build defenses near the Licking River in
Kentucky, far in advance of the Union lines. For the next fifteen days,
they cleared forests, constructed forts, magazines and roads, and dug
trenches and rifle pits. The brigade was disbanded on September 20, the
threat of attack having receded.


Beaty served in the Union Army's 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment
throughout the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign. He received America's highest
military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for taking command of his company at
the Battle of Chaffin's Farm after all officers had been killed and/or wounded.

Following the war, he became an orator and actor, appearing in amateur theater
productions in his home of Cincinnati, Ohio. His most well-known stage performance
was an 1884 appearance at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., opposite Henrietta
Vinton Davis.

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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