It is credited as being the first infantry regiment to enter Richmond, Virginia, when the city surrendered in the Siege of Petersburg.

The regiment was attached to the District of Beaufort, Department of the South, April to August 1864.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, X Corps, Army of the James, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to December 1864.

Moved from Beaufort, South Carolina, to Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, August 8–13, 1864.

Moved to City Point May 28–30, then sailed for Texas, June 10, arriving at Brazos, Santiago, July 3.

James L. Saunders, one of four children born to Virginia slave trader Jourdan M. Saunders, an associate of Franklin & Armfield, and Mary Wilkins, a formerly enslaved woman of color, enlisted in the 29th Connecticut in March 1864.