Richmond fell to the Union on April 3rd, 1865

Did you know that when Richmond fell to the Union on April 3rd, 1865, the US Colored Troops soldiers were among the first to march into Richmond and conquer the capital of the Confederacy? 

The 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It is credited as being the first infantry regiment to enter Richmond, Virginia when the city surrendered in the Siege of Petersburg. “In Washington DC, General Benjamin F. Butler, former commander of the Army of the James, told a crowd it was divine retribution that Black soldiers were the first to liberate Richmond.”