Excerpt from The Principal Battles of the Twenty-Ninth Regiment, U. States Colored Troops
The 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment was gotten up by Colonel Pardee, and encampted at Crape Vine Point, New Haven, Connecticut. The recruiting was commenced in August, 1863. The inducements held out to men to join this Regiment were these: they were to receive a bounty of $310 from the State, $75 from the County from which they enlisted, and $300 from the United States. The $310 from the State we received, the other bounties we did not receive.
There were several men who took an active part in recruiting for this Regiment, among them Lieutenant Brown of New York, to whom great credit is due. There were others, both colored and white, who did very much towards filling up the Regiment. Sergeant Archie Howard, Orderly of Company C, recruited more men than any other excepting Lieut. Brown, but I am sorry to say, that after all he did the parties failed to pay him according to promise, and he was ordered to his Regiment without receiving a just compensation for his labors.
The first of January, 1804, the 29th Regiment was filled up. The writer of this narrative was in the last squad of men that enlisted for this Regiment, and out of the forty men I was the only one that was admitted into the 29th, the balance of the recruits being put into the 30th Regiment, that was then recruiting in the same camp. We remained at New Haven until the 8th of March, and nothing of interest happened up to that date, when we received orders from Colonel Pardee"s Headquarters, stating that the 29th Regiment was to move to Annapolis, Maryland.
March 8, 1864. We broke camp to leave New Haven for Annapolis, Md. At 10 o"clock the whole Regiment was drawn up on the old parade ground, with their knapsacks, to receive the flag, Col. W. B. Wooster in command. The flag was presented by the Rev. Dr. Mott.
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