29th REGIMENT INFANTRY. (US COLORED TROOPS)
Dyer's Regimental History

from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. III, Regimental Histories
by Frederick H. Dyer [1908]

Note: HTML format added to aid digestion.--if you remove the format you have Dyer's original text [He didn't use complete sentences].

29th REGIMENT INFANTRY. (US COLORED TROOPS)

• Organized at Quincy, Ill., April 24, 1864.
• Ordered to Annapolis, Md., May 27, 1864,
• thence to Alexandria, Va.

• Attached to Defences of Washington, D. C., 22nd Corps to June, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps, to December, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps, and Dept. of Texas, to November, 1865.

• Duty at Alexandria, Va., till June 15, 1864.
• Moved to White House, Va.,
• thence to Petersburg, Va.
• Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 19, 1864, to April 3, 1865.
  • Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864.
  • Weldon Railroad, August 18-21.
  • Poplar Grove Church September 29-30, and October 1.
  • Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.
• On the Bermuda Hundred front and before Richmond till April, 1865.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Duty in the Dept. of Virginia till May.
• Moved to Texas May and June, and
• duty on the Rio Grande till November.
• Mustered out November 6, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• 3 Officers and 43 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
• 188 Enlisted men by disease.
• Total 234

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