The final stop that Friday was the Weld Monument at Old North Cemetery in Hartford.
"WELD MONUMENT, Old North Cemetery, Hartford, is significant historically because of its relationship to black troops in the Union forces during the Civil War. After much controversy, the War Department on May 22, 1863, established the Bureau of Colored Troops which, among its other duties, commissioned officers, almost all white, to command the troops. The 41st Colored Infantry, Lewis Ledyard Weld's regiment, was organized in the fall of 1864, with men from Pennsylvania, and was mustered out December 10, 1865. Fourteen states raised volunteer units that eventually were transferred to U.S. status, as was the case with the 41st. Three states retained their state designations; Connecticut was one of the three. The number of enlisted men who served in U.S. Colored Troops was 178,975; 9,695 served in the navy.
Lewis Ledyard Weld was born in Hartford on May 13, 1833, to a distinguished New England family. A forebear was a member of the Harvard class of 1650. After graduating from Yale in 1854, Weld went west. He was Acting Governor of Colorado for four months in early 1862. When he returned to the East in 1863, Weld was appointed Captain in the 7th Regiment, U.S. Troops, transferring to the 41st in October 1864, at the time it was formed. Early in 1865 he caught a severe cold which did not yield to treatment, leading to his death January 10, 1865, at Point of Rocks on the Appomattox River. His body was returned to Hartford and the monument raised by "EARLY FRIENDS" as noted by the lettering in the base.
Charles Theodore Weld (1831-1863) was a brother of Lewis Ledyard Weld. Charles enlisted from Hartford on April 18, 1861, becoming a first lieutenant in the 17th U.S. Infantry when he was mustered in on May 14, 1861. He died, with the brevet rank of captain, from wounds received at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, on May 14, 1863."
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