Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memorial of Colonel John A. Bross, Twenty-Ninth U. S. Colored Troops, Who Fell in Leading the Assault on Petersburgh, July 30, 1864: Together With a Sermon by His Pastor, Rev. Arthur Swazey
Owing to the late day at which the raising of the regiment was undertaken, many of the colored men of Illinois had already left, to join the service in other States. The whole number of such, at that time, was known to be about seven hundred Most of two companies in the celebrated 54th Mas sachusetts, had gone from Illinois, long before their own State offered them the privilege of enlistment.
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