29th Connecticut Infantry Regiment (Colored)

Organized at Fair Haven

March 8

Mustered in under Colonel William B. Wooster

March 19

Left State for Annapolis, Md. on the transport Warrior after being addressed by Governor Buckingham and Frederick Douglass.

April 8-13

Moved to Beaufort, S.C.

April-August

Duty at Beaufort, S.C. Attached to District of Beaufort, Dept. of the South

August 8-13

Moved from Beaufort, S.C., to Bermuda Hundred, Va. for siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina

August 13-20

Demonstration on North Side of the James

August 14-18

Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains

August 25-
September 24

Duty in the trenches before Petersburg

September 28-29

New Market Heights and Fort Harrison

September 29-30

Chaffin's Farm

October 13

Darbytown Road

October 27-28

Battle of Fair Oaks

The regiment suffered 80 casualties acting as the skirmish line for the division.

November-April

Duty in trenches before Richmond garrisoning the line of forts along Newmarket Road

December

Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Army Corps

January

Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Army Corps

March

Moved to Fort Harrison

April 3

Occupation of Richmond. The first infantry regiment to enter the city, with Companies C and G leading the way as skirmishers. Assigned to District of St. Marys, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington

April 18

Moved to City Point then to Point Lookout, Md., and duty there guarding prisoners

May 28-30

Moved to City Point

June 10

Sailed for Texas

July 3

Arrived at Brazos de Santiago and assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Texas

July

March to Brownsville and duty there

October 24

Mustered out

October 27-November 11

At New Orleans

November 25

Honorably discharged at New Haven, Conn..