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The 29th United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment of United States Colored Troops from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The regiment was officially accepted for service in April 1864 and sent to fight in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
At the commencement of the battle the regiment had for duty 435 officers and men. The loss on the 6th was 10 killed, 63 wounded and 2 missing, but none were injured on the second day. The 3 color bearers who carried the flag in the first day's conflict were all killed while supporting the banner.
The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth US Colored Infantry (Univ of South Carolina Press, 2021). Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago: Volume II: From Town to City 1848–1871 (1937) Swan, James B. Chicago's Irish Legion: The 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009)
Despite being the first troops raised in Illinois, the regiment was numbered the 7th Illinois, paying homage to the six Illinois infantry volunteer regiments that were raised to fight in the Mexican–American War fourteen years earlier. During their service part of the regiment wore gray zouave uniforms with orange piping. [2]
From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 14th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was one of the ten infantry regiments authorized on May 2, 1861, by the Illinois Ten ...
From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Corporal David H. Dickinson of Co. K, 36th Illinois Infantry Regiment. The 36th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was mustered ...
The 114th Illinois Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Formed in September 1862, the regiment served in Ulysses S. Grant's Central Mississippi campaign, in the Vicksburg campaign, at Brices Cross Roads, at Tupelo, in the 1864 Missouri campaign, at Nashville, and at Spanish Fort.
A, 99th Illinois Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 99th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] [2]