29th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Colored)
Connecticut's Own Black Civil War Regiment
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Welcome to the 29th Regiment Connecticut (Colored) Volunteer Infantry Regiment Web Site!
This site is dedicated to the officers and enlisted men of the 29th Regiment Connecticut (Colored) Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
This is not a professionally designed web page. I am doing it as a labor of love and to have fun along the way. I am seeking descendants of any member of this gallant regiment and hope to one day hold a reunion for all 29th descendants. I am a Civil War Reenactor with B Company, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment based in Washington, D.C. and travel throughout the country participating in reenactments and living history presentations. If you are interested in information pertaining to the 29th Regiment and would like to be added to our email list, drop me a line. 29thconn@comcast.net
I was invited to participate in Bermuda Hundred Day one day in the fall of 2007. As a 29th descendant and Civil War Reenactor I was received very well. I found the residents of Bermuda Hundred a wealth of information and well aware of the 29th Regiment's history and talked openly about the history of this historic site. I cannot describe the emotion I had while marching in my Civil War uniform in the steps that our ancestors marched as they disembarked here at Bermuda Hundred. This picture is one of several that I took to show what Bermuda Hundred looks like today.
History of Bermuda Hundred: The regiment was assigned to the Ninth Corps, and on the 9th of April sailed on two transports for Hilton Head, South Carolina, where it arrived on April 13th. Thence it was ordered to Beaufort, South Carolina, where it disembarked and encamped the same day. Here drill, picket, and guard duty occupied the attention of officers and men nearly four months. August 8th orders came to leave, and the next day the regiment sailed for Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, arriving August 14th. A part of the regiment was immediately sent on a reconnaissance with a portion of the Tenth Corps.
This site is dedicated to the officers and enlisted men of the 29th Regiment Connecticut (Colored) Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
This is not a professionally designed web page. I am doing it as a labor of love and to have fun along the way. I am seeking descendants of any member of this gallant regiment and hope to one day hold a reunion for all 29th descendants. I am a Civil War Reenactor with B Company, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment based in Washington, D.C. and travel throughout the country participating in reenactments and living history presentations. If you are interested in information pertaining to the 29th Regiment and would like to be added to our email list, drop me a line. 29thconn@comcast.net
I was invited to participate in Bermuda Hundred Day one day in the fall of 2007. As a 29th descendant and Civil War Reenactor I was received very well. I found the residents of Bermuda Hundred a wealth of information and well aware of the 29th Regiment's history and talked openly about the history of this historic site. I cannot describe the emotion I had while marching in my Civil War uniform in the steps that our ancestors marched as they disembarked here at Bermuda Hundred. This picture is one of several that I took to show what Bermuda Hundred looks like today.
History of Bermuda Hundred: The regiment was assigned to the Ninth Corps, and on the 9th of April sailed on two transports for Hilton Head, South Carolina, where it arrived on April 13th. Thence it was ordered to Beaufort, South Carolina, where it disembarked and encamped the same day. Here drill, picket, and guard duty occupied the attention of officers and men nearly four months. August 8th orders came to leave, and the next day the regiment sailed for Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, arriving August 14th. A part of the regiment was immediately sent on a reconnaissance with a portion of the Tenth Corps.
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