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28th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (African Descent) 30th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (African Descent) - four companies organized in March 1864; consolidated with the 31st United States Colored Infantry on May 18, 1864
The New England Civil War Museum and Research Center was originally started by local Civil War veterans in 1896. It was not until March 1994 that it was formally established as a museum and opened to the public. It is located within the Memorial Building, inside a former Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Hall in Rockville, Connecticut. Thomas F ...
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Hill, Isaac J. A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops (Baltimore: Printed by Daughtery, Maguire), 1867. McCain, Diana Ross. Connecticut's African American Soldiers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Commission), 2000.
The 30th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment was raised from 400 excess volunteers of 1,200 who had responded in the autumn and winter of 1863 to a call by Governor Buckingham for recruits to the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment. The 31st became active on 14 November 1864, in Virginia. The 30th was amalgamated into it on 18 May 1864.
The County Regiment: A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War (Good Press, 2019). Warshauer, Matthew, Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice and Survival, Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0819573643.
The 12th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at Hartford, Connecticut, beginning November 19, 1861, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 3, 1861. The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, Department of the Gulf, to October 1862.
Connecticut's 29th Colored Regiment was the first all-black regiment in Connecticut and consisted of more than 900 enlisted men who volunteered to fight in the American Civil War. Recruiting began in August 1863 and the Connecticut General Assembly passed legislation for the creation of the black regiment that would have white officers.
The 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, also known as the Nutmeg Regiment, was an infantry regiment that participated in the American Civil War. It participated in the Battle of Gettysburg , helping to repulse the Confederate attack on the third day known as Pickett's Charge .