Dane County WI Archives Photo Tombstone.....HUGHES, Carrie Young And Dennis 
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Cemetery:           Forest Hills Cemetery, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
Name:               Carrie Young And Dennis HUGHES
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HUGHES, Carrie Young
 
 
HUGHES, Dennis
1845- 25 Sep 1928
Civil War Vet
Co D, 29th Inf. US Colored troops
Files a Civil War pension request in Jan 1890 in Wi.
American Civil War Soldiers 
about Dennis Hughes 
Name: Dennis Hughes ,   
Residence: Chicago, Illinois  
Enlistment Date: 14 Oct 1864 
Side Served: Union  
State Served: U.S. Colored Troops  
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 14 October 1864.
Enlisted in Company D, 29th Infantry Regiment U.S. Colored Troops on 14 Oct 
1864.
Mustered Out Company D, 29th Infantry Regiment U.S. Colored Troops on 6 Nov 
1865. 

29th REGIMENT INFANTRY. (US COLORED TROOPS)

Organized at Quincy, Ill., April 24, 1864. 
Ordered to Annapolis, Md., May 27, 1864, 
thence to Alexandria, Va. 
Attached to Defences of Washington, D. C., 22nd Corps to June, 1864. 
2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1864. 
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps, to December, 1864. 
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps, and Dept. of Texas, to November, 1865. 
SERVICE.- 
Duty at Alexandria, Va., till June 15, 1864. 
Moved to White House, Va., 
thence to Petersburg, Va. 
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 19, 1864, to April 3, 
1865. 
Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864. 
Weldon Railroad, August 18-21. 
Poplar Grove Church September 29-30, and October 1. 
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. 
On the Bermuda Hundred front and before Richmond till April, 1865. 
Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. 
Duty in the Dept. of Virginia till May. 
Moved to Texas May and June, and 
duty on the Rio Grande till November. 
Mustered out November 6, 1865. 
Regiment lost during service
3 Officers and 43 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 
188 Enlisted men by disease. 
Total 234 
 

Sec 33, lot 068 NW1/4, Gr 2


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