sentences:  On September 2, 1862, the Cincinnati police force abruptly and forcefully impressed male black residents to construct fortifications, often at gunpoint and with rough treatment, and without a plan or explanation.The men were gathered and put in a mule pen on Plum Street, not knowing what would become of them and fearfully that they might be left in Kentucky and become enslaved.Some of the men labored at the river and others were taken at bayonet to work as servants, camp cooks and laundrymen for Union troops at Fort Wright.