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    • The 29th Connecticut Bounty Scandal
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  • The Regiment

    • Raising the Regiment
    • Experiences in War
    • Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights
    • Kell House
    • Entering Richmond
    • Experience in Texas
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  • Soldiers of the Regiment

    • John S. Addison
    • James Carl
    • Jesse W. Davis
    • Simon DeWitt
    • James Edwards
    • Henry H. Fitch
    • George H. Foot
    • Henry A. Freeman
    • William Glasgow
    • Frank Hamilton
    • Joseph Hydren
    • Robert Lampman
    • John A. Lepyon
    • Thomas H. McKinley
    • Joseph Parks
    • Josiah Starr
    • Lewis H. Starr
    • John L. Watson
    • Almon L. Wheeler
    • Edward C. Wooster

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    PROJECT29:

    SHARING THE STORIES OF NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT'S AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS

    THE REGIMENT

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    Raising the 
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    Experiences in 
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