F Company, 29th United States Colored Troops is a registered 501c3 corporation with a mission to educate the public and provide an opportunity for the community to get involved.
We are available for speaking engagements, honor/color guard or demonstration for your School, Church or other Organization. Reach out to us using the contact form to schedule your event.
The years of 2025-2033 will be the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, find out more here- https://www.1776inlivingcolor.org/
Upcoming Events!
4 May- Military Veterans Museum Reenactment and Open House, Oshkosh WI
17-19 May- WWII Reenactment at Saukville's Pioneer Village
14-16 June- WWII Days At Old Falls Village, Menomonee Falls, WI
19 June- Milwaukee's annual Juneteenth Parade and Encampment
20-21 July- Civil War Days at Old Falls Village, Menomonee Falls, WI
3 August- Vietnam War Living History Event, Old Falls Village, Menomonee Falls, WI
17-18 August- Badgers for the Civil War, Heritage Hill Park in Green Bay, WI
27-29 September- Civil War Remembered, Manitowoc County Historical Society, Manitowoc WI
5-6 October, World War One Days, Old Falls Village Park, Menomonee Falls, WI
Co. F 29th Infantry U.S. Colored Troops
Co. F of the 29th Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops, was the only African American Civil War unit credited to Wisconsin. During the war, each state was required to supply a quota of soldiers. In order to meet those quotas, states were allowed to pay volunteers to serve in place of people drafted. Co. F, 29th U.S.C.T., was composed primarily of black soldiers who agreed to take the place of white Wisconsin residents.
Most of its men were from Illinois or Missouri.
A handful of Wisconsin African Americans, such as Sgt. Alfred Weaver, a former slave living in Vernon County, also joined Company F. Some members of Co. F from other states settled in Wisconsin after the war.
Co. F saw action mostly late in the war, during the Petersburg Campaign and the Appomattox Campaign, June 1864-April 1865. It arrived in Petersburg, Virginia, on July 22, 1864, in the heat of battle. Eleven of its 85 men, including its white colonel, died the next week in the famous Petersburg Mine Assault, or Battle of the Crater. Some of its members witnessed the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to Union commander Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865.
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, and 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 Americans.
