THE CIVIL WAR – 29TH COLORED REGIMENT MEMORIAL
Criscuolo Park, 290 Chapel Street, New Haven (click for map)
As luck would have it, I got turned around while driving through New Haven and found a park with a monument to the 29th Colored Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, a part of the Connecticut Freedom Trail. The monument lists all of the Connecticut residents who were in the unit to include 29 Norwalk residents. This web site is incomplete without sharing this piece of American and Norwalk history.
From connecticuthistory.org: Midway through the Civil War, Connecticut created the state’s first African American regiment, the 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Fighting bravely for the final year of the war, the regiment won many important battles and became one of the first Union regiments to march through the Confederate capital of Richmond. With its respectable service, the 29th Connecticut demonstrated the merits and justification for racial equality and freedom in Connecticut. The regiment, established late in 1863, was honorably disbanded in November 1865.
Those who served from Norwalk
Private James York Anthony
Private John Bailey
Private Brinton Milton
Private Augustus Burton
Private Amos F Carpenter
Corporal David Chippie
Private David Conklin
Private Henry Deberty
Private Lewis O Drake
Private Stephen Farrow
Private Silas Floyd
Private Joseph Fogg
Private Williams Grames
Private George E Green
Private Edwin Hall
Private Nicholas Harrison
Private Williams H Hathaway
Private Benjamin Hugee
Private Charles Jackson
Private Lewis Jackson
Private Thomas Johnson
Private Robert Manliff
Corporal Andrew Nash
Private Hannibal Parker
Private Jacob Pigery
Private James H Raymond
Corporal George Spywood
Corporal George W Thompson
Sergeant Isaac J Wilson