SUMMARY OF COMPANY "F" 29th Infantry Regiment USCT
The Civil War was the first to recognize the contributions of African Americans
on the battlefield through a formal military chain of command.
The African American troops distinguished themselves in
numerous battles in the second half of the Civil War.

Parades & Reenactments

On May 22, 1863 the War Department established a Bureau of Colored Troops to handle the recruitment, organization
and service of the newly organized black regiments commanded by white officers.

The 29th Infantry Regiment U.S.C.T.  Was formed in Quincy IL April 24, 1964, Seventy-four black men from Milwaukee county
were recruited in Company F, 29th Infantry Regiment U.S. Colored Troops of the, 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps of the Army
of the Potomac. Company F was the Wisconsin Contingent of volunteers of the 29th.  The men of Company F served with distinction
and valor on behalf of Wisconsin, seeing action in the Battle of the Crater, the Petersburg Campaign, the Bermuda Hundred Campaign,
The Richmond Campaign, the Appomattox Campaign and the Rio Grande Campaign.  A small number of surviving members of Company
F returned without fanfare to live and work the remainder of their lives in Wisconsin.

 On April 20, 2003, approximately 140 years after the organization of the original 29th Regiment, a group of African American
men and women formed Company F, 29th Infantry Regiment United States Colored Troops.  In Civil War times, Company F
was made up of free black men from the Wisconsin and those who had escaped from enslavement.

MISSION & OBJECTIVES

We are a living history unit that reenacts the lives of the men of Company F 29th
Infantry Regiment U.S.C.T. which were the Black
men from Wisconsin who volunteered and the women who supported them during the Civil War.
Our mission is to enlighten and inform the general public of the many heroic contributions made by people of color
from the State of Wisconsin during our nation's Civil War.
We conduct school presentations; participate in parades,
community events, battle re-enactments, encampments and many other activities.
It is the main purpose of this organization, through its activities and conduct,
and its thoughts and beliefs that the public will be
more accurately aware of our unit's contribution during America's greatest trial.
Also, these deeds and sacrifices do not go unremembered.
Rather, that all Americans in the Civil War who gave of themselves to the
belief that freedom is not free, are honored, studied,
and remembered by ourselves, our nation's children, our fellow citizens, for the
sake of the past, the present, and above all, the future

We must not forget the many battlefields that have been saturated
with the blood of Black American Manhood."

Battle of the Crater

The Petersburg Campaign

Bermuda Hundred Campaign

The Richmond Campaign

Appomattox Campaign

 The Rio Grande Campaign

 

2005 WISCONSIN SENATE RESOLUTION 3
Relating to: Black History Month and honoring Company F of the 29th USCT.
Whereas, February is Black History Month, giving all citizens an opportunity
to recognize and celebrate the contributions African?Americans have made to
Wisconsin, the United States, and the world; and
Whereas, during the Civil War a substitution and bounty system was
established, allowing states to hire nonresidents and substitutes to meet their draft
quotas for soldiers in the Union Army; and
Whereas, hundreds of African?Americans, including freemen and escaped
slaves, were hired as substitutes and took the place of Wisconsin residents in combat,
despite the fact that many of these African?Americans had never set foot in the state
of Wisconsin; and
Whereas, many of these African?American troops substituting for Wisconsin
residents served in Company F of the 29th Infantry of U.S. Colored Troops, 9th Army
Corps, 4th Division, in the 2nd Brigade in the Army of the Potomac; and

Whereas, the men of Company F of the 29th USCT served with distinction and
valor on behalf of Wisconsin, seeing action in the Battle of the Crater, the Petersburg
Campaign, the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, the Richmond Campaign, the
Appomattox Campaign, and the Rio Grande Campaign; and
Whereas, after the Civil War a small number of the surviving members of the
29th USCT returned without fanfare to live and work the remainder of their lives in
Wisconsin; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the senate, That as part of Black History Month, the members
of the Wisconsin senate salute the service of the men of Company F, 29th USCT, who
placed themselves in harm's way in the cause of freedom; and, be it further
Resolved, That the members of the Wisconsin senate honor the memory of
those African?American troops who laid down their lives as substitutes for
Wisconsin residents.

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