Griswold family

Charles and Joel Griswold were two of the nine children of Joel Griswold (1796-1879) and Mary ("Polly') Bartlett Griswold (1801-1876) of Guilford, Connecticut. Three of the Griswold sons served in the Union army during the Civil War. Charles and Joel enlisted in Company E, 15th Connecticut Infantry in 1862. Edward served in the 1st Independent Battery, Connecticut Light Artillery.

In January 1864 Charles (1841-1921) was commissioned as Captain of Company B, 29th Connecticut Infantry (Colored), an African-American regiment. The 29th Conn. Vols. fought in the area of Beaufort, South Carolina and Richmond, Virginia in 1864 and were camped in Brownsville, Texas at the war's end in 1865. Charles married Mary E. Griswold in 1864. She joined him in Texas in August of 1865.

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