Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall
(1825-1891)
First black captain in US army
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Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall, known as O.S.B. Wall (1825-1891), was an American attorney and politician who was born into slavery but, during the American Civil War, became the first black man to be commissioned as captain in the Regular U.S. Army. One of several mixed-race children of a white planter, Wall and others were freed by their father, given a bequest and guardian, and sent to Ohio to be educated at Oberlin College. After the war, Wall read the law and passed the bar.
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12 August 1825 Richmond County, North Carolina
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26 April 1891 (aged 65)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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