United States Regiments & BatteriesUnited States Colored Troops


The 29th Regiment United States Colored Troops lost 3 officers and 43 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 188 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
April 24 Organized at Quincy, Ill.,
May 27 Ordered to Annapolis, Md., then to Alexandria, Va.
May Duty at Alexandria, Va. attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps
June 15 Moved to White House, Va., thence to Petersburg, Va.and attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac
June 19 – April 3 Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond
July 30 Mine Explosion, Petersburg
August 18-21 Weldon Railroad
September Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps
September 29-30 Poplar Grove Church
October 1 Poplar Grove Church
October 27-28 Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run
November On the Bermuda Hundred front and before Richmond
December Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps
1865
March 28-April 9 Appomattox Campaign
April Duty in the Dept. of Virginia
May and June Moved to Texas, and duty on the Rio Grande
November 6 Mustered out