29th Connecticut Colored Regiment Memorial Walk!

Memorial
Written By John Mills

To celebrate the 160th anniversary of the return of the 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment from the Civil War, the Alex Breanne Corporation in collaboration with Connecticut's Old State House is organizing a memorial walk, following in the exact footsteps of the soldiers during the Hartford parade they were given on November 24,1865!  The walk will occur on Saturday November 22, 2025. 

We're tentatively planning to have pre-walk activities begin at 9:30am (still discussing what that will include), and having tables for heritage sites and historical organizations, with the walk beginning at 10am. The route will begin at Connecticut's Old State House, 800 Main Street in Hartford, and end at the same spot.  The full route is 3.1 miles (5k), but you can choose to walk only a portion, or hang out at Connecticut's Old State House to enjoy the museum.

Along with the memorial walk, participants will have access to a downloadable audio tour that will provide GPS-initiated historical facts of historic Hartford buildings and locations that the soldiers would have passed along the route.

The walk was approved by the city of Hartford yesterday. They agreed to provide officers to help with safe intersection crossings.  The open question they had for us is how many people will be walking?  To answer that question, please register using the link HERE so that I can start to compile a head count to provide the city.

God bless.

John

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

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