Illinois Civil War Union Colored Troops


 * Unassigned Illinois (Colored) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 29th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry Organized at Quincy, Illinois, April 24, 1864. Ordered to Annapolis, Maryland, May 27, 1864, thence to Alexandria, Virginia. Attached to defences of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps, to June, 1864. Mustered out November 6, 1865.

Other Sources

 * Miller, Edward A. The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry.