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29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment

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Demonstration on North Side of the James River, August 13–20, 1864. Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains, August 14–18. Duty in the trenches before Petersburg, August 25-September 24. New Market Heights and Fort Harrison, September 28–29. Chaffin's Farm, September 29–30. Darbytown Road, October 13. Battle of Fair Oaks, October 27–28. Duty in trenches before Richmond until April 1865. Occupation of Richmond, April 3. (First infantry regiment to enter the city.) Moved to City Point April 18, then to Point Lookout, Maryland, and duty there guarding prisoners until May 28. Moved to City Point May 28–30, then sailed for Texas, June 10, arriving at Brazos, Santiago, July 3. March to Brownsville and duty there until October. At New Orleans October 27-November 11.
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Left Connecticut for Annapolis, Maryland, March 19. Moved to Beaufort, South Carolina, April 8–13, and duty there until August 8. Moved from Beaufort, South Carolina, to Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, August 8–13, 1864. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, August 13, 1864 to April 2, 1865.
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The regiment lost a total of 198 men during service; 1 officer and 44 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 152 enlisted men died of disease.
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William B. Wooster. Over 1,200 volunteers were recruited, exceeding the regiments mandated strength, and 400 were used to form the
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The 29th Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service on October 24, 1865, and was discharged November 25, 1865, at
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Out of the Briars: An Autobiography and Sketch of the Twenty-Ninth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers
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Double Duty in the Civil War: The Letters of Sailor and Soldier Edward W. Bacon
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African-American military units and formations of the American Civil War
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James L. Saunders, one of four children born to Virginia slave trader
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Connecticut's African American Soldiers in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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The 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment was organized at
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A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops
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Units and formations of the Union Army from Connecticut
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The regiment was attached to the District of Beaufort,
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Connecticut U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
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and mustered on March 8, 1864, under the command of
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United States
Union
Infantry
Siege of Petersburg
Battle of Chaffin's Farm
Second Battle of Deep Bottom
Battle of Darbytown Road
Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road
Appomattox Campaign
28th Connecticut Infantry Regiment
30th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment
infantry
regiment
Union Army
American Civil War
Richmond
Virginia
Siege of Petersburg
Fair Haven
Connecticut
Colonel
30th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Department of the South
X Corps
Army of the James
Department of Virginia and North Carolina
XXV Corps
XXII Corps
Department of Washington

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