A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops

The author offers a first-person account that interweaves personal biography, religious conviction, and military service in a United States Colored Troops regiment. He traces recruitment and formation, embarkation and camp life, disputes over promised bounties, and the regiment's participation in multiple assaults, defenses, and an expedition, concluding with its disbandment. Detailed scenes describe comradeship, command interactions, moments of leave and farewells, and encounters with discrimination and hardship. Throughout, reflections on faith, racial uplift, and the author's hope for peace and improved conditions frame a practical chronicle of soldiering and community during and after wartime.