Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall
Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall, known as O.S.B. Wall , 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 mixedrace 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.
Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall, was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, the mixedrace son of a white planter, Stephen Wall, and his slave Priscilla. She had four children by Wall O.S.B., Napoleon, Caroline Matilda, and Benjamin Franklin Wall. Wall also had a child with Priscillas sister Jane, known as Sara Kelly Wall. Wall was also involved with Rody, another enslaved woman, by whom he had two sons, John and Albert Wall, with Rody, another enslaved woman. In 1838, Stephen Wall freed O.S.B., Napoleon, Caroline, Benjamin, and Sara, and sent them north to live in the Quaker settlement of Harveysburg, Ohio, trusting 1,000 for each child to their guardian, Nathan Dix. Their younger halfbrothers, John and Albert, were sent to join them in 1845 after their father Stephen Walls death. The bequest made the Wall children among the wealthiest residents of Oberlin.
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