Powhatan Beaty, born in Richmond, Virginia, moved to Cincinnati in 1849, where he spent most of his life. He enlisted as a private in the Union Army in June 1863 and two days later was promoted to first sergeant of Company G, 5th United States Colored Troops. During an attack on Confederate forces at New Market Heights, Virginia, in September 1864, all the officers of Company G were killed or wounded, and Beaty took command of his company; for his valor he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was one of two African Americans buried in Ohio to receive the Medal of Honor for Civil War service. He died on December 6, 1916, leaving two sons, attorney and state representative A. Lee Beaty and John W. Beaty, and was buried in Union Baptist Cemetery along with nearly 150 United States Colored Troops veterans. Established in 1864, Union Baptist Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Hamilton County at its original location purchased, maintained, and still used by a black congregation. Union Baptist Church began in 1831 as the Colored Branch of Enon Baptist Church, when fourteen black members of the predominantly white Enon Baptist congregation withdrew and formed their own congregation. After four years, Reverend David Leroy Nickens became the first minister, and the church's name changed to African Union Baptist Church and, in 1845, to the Union Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. The cemetery contains the graves of prominent African Americans including Reverend Nickens, Honorable George W. Hays, Jr., and Jennie D. Porter, founder and principal of the Harriet Beecher Stowe School, as well as many former slaves, antislavery advocates, and active members of the Underground Railroad.