Connecticut Colored Regiments Memorial Walk Resources!

Memorial
Written By John Mills

Thank you all for attending the innaugural Connecticut Colored Regiments Memorial Walk! Here are a few resources to help you stay connected to the event!

  • Purchase the Walking Tour: You can purchase the audio tour that played during the walk here. Cost is $9.99, giving you unlimited access to play the tour virtually, or as a GPS-enabled walking tour.

  • Event Pictures: After the event, pictures will be placed on Google Drive here.

  • Hoodies and Shirts: If you would like to purchase the official hoodie or shirt, you can do that here.

  • Connecticut Colored Regiments Parade Documentary: Watch on YouTube here.

  • 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment Monument Tour: 1 minute video tour of the 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment Monument at Criscuolo Park in New Haven, CT. Watch it on YouTube here.

  • Beaufort, SC Parade Ground Tour: 1 minute video tour of the location where the 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment took their famous 1864 full regiment photo in Beaufort, South Carolina. Watch it on YouTube here.

  • 29th Regiment Full Photo: You can download the full regiment photo on the Library of Congress website here.

  • Photo of Sgt. Maj. Horace Loudon and Sgt. Daniel Lathrop: You can download the photo on the Yale University website here.

  • Rev. Isaac J. Hill’s 1867 Book: Download here.

  • Sgt. Alexander Newton’s 1910 Book: Download here.

  • 29th Regiment Movie by the Berlin Equity Action Team: Watch here.

  • Kelly Clarkson Show: Sgt. Alexander Newton Descendant on the Kelly Clarkson Show. Watch on YouTube here.

  • Event Videos:

  • Soldier Profiles: Click each image below to play audio of their story.

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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