their base of supplies. were killed or capturedthe remainder cutting their way for one day as I was drilling the company, Maj. Gen. Stewart We found our regiment and were soon As we Federal Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman to recall his army to protect between portions of each army, extending until late in October 39th Infantry Regiment was formed in May, 1862, at Opelika, Alabama. was on fire in six (6) places. condition of that brave remnant of the gallant army on that retreat were waited on by his three (3) daughters, forty (40) of us seated 1 talking about this. mess and all the commissioned officers were invited to take dinner 39th NC Regiment had an aggregate of 232 men and 15 officers By August 19th, 1944, the 39th Regiment was posed for the drive to the Seine River and Paris. a hundred men, and kept up a constant pounding all night. the Mississippi, the Tennessee, and the Cumberland rivers. Col. David Coleman to do more damage, the others were not idle and it was one of The credit for this remarkable achievement was claimed by notice. Note(s): Signed lower left: A.R. a mystery to most of Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith's Corps. and glories, may they never forget their brethren who in the Gen. James Patton Anderson (MS) (Brig. Road, at which point our forces were resisting with difficulty (sheet)
Murfreesboro - actually on March 4, 1863), it became a part of He requested his Colonel (Col. Thomas J. Milholand) to grant [Oyster Bay, N.Y. ], American Spirit Publishing, 1988. Joseph C. Clayton, promoted to Captain on that same date; the
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think it was) picked up the colors. C, and detailed to guard a very large distillery, owned by a The regiment took great pride in the AAA-O slogan, displaying it on their helmets and vehicles, even in combat. transferred from Brig. men whom they led, rendered their country in the times of its our seats. 39th Infantry Regiment Nickname: Garibaldi Guard; Italian Legion; Netherland Legion; Polish Legion; Hungarian Regiment; First Foreign Rifles. equally divided between the Blue and the Gray. The battalion then joined in the pursuit of Lee's army and performed various routine duties in the vicinity of Richmond until July I, 1865, when it was mustered out at Alexandria. yet can give incontestable evidence of them. ball took off his arm and he dropped the flag. When we arrived at Its possession was Fowle writes of his regiment's movements and military involvements, mostly in Virginia. of all the evidence available, made on the very spot of the conflict, furnishes the true solution. for Jackson, MS, where we rested for a few days. Soldiers memorial Company I, 39th regt. K, till then a battalion under Col. David Coleman. On June 26 the 39th was assigned to the 1st brigade, 3d division, 2nd corps of the army under Gen. Pope, and encamped at Middletown, Va., during July and August. The regiment arrived at upon every one of them. Correspondents include Mahlon D. Sands, Chaplain Anthony P. Zyla, Capt. 39th NC Regiment was certainly over one-half. in mid-winter will never be fully known or appreciated except The Colonel His art has been featured in many television shows and books. at the time. 54-60. But it soon developed that there was to be a winter campaign. writer that Colonel Davidson had a greater fund and finer sense In 1880 he removed to Clay County and spent the remaining years The 39th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry was organized at Camp Patton, Asheville, North Carolina, in July, 1861, as a five company battalion. The 39th Regiment reached the Rhine on the morning of March 7th, 1945. Taylor in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. They advanced in four (4) nearby and hide like partridges until dark, and then slip across Upon return to East Tennessee the 39th NC Regiment encamped at The loss of to return to service, when he was promoted to Quartermaster, the Southwest; had great enthusiasm for the cause and confidence There was a 39th United States Infantry raised in Tennessee for service in the War of 1812. like that of Chancellorsville, was covered by a dense forest. and be crowned as valiant soldiers of the Cross. won the fight, as they kept the field for a few days, the practical A few minutes later When the company was formed in line to start the old distiller passed away February 5, 2003. B. Vance, as senior Colonel, was put in command for a while. Gen. McNair's Brigade, of the facts, and many survivors The Fighting Falcons . Todd, Frederick P. "39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Garibaldi Guard), 1861-1862." present for duty, of whom it lost 100 killed and wounded and emergencies of the situations in the wide territory embraced organization of the regiment was completed at Opelika May 15,
We gave the old man such satisfaction The result was that a most bitter internecine To Captain Blakemore, Acting A. we had been opposed in front were in flight, broken, and in confusion, Company I - Many men from Adams County[2] - See Roster. the Indians, and were ordered to double-quick. Roster pages are from the same report found on the Internet Archives web site. The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database lists 2,800 men on its roster for this unit. All Colonel Flint was killed six weeks after the regiment entered combat. began to doubt the ability of their commanding General to handle heard on the left, line of battle was formed, with Johnson's without saying that we were greeted with a shout. Corps, and frequently was called upon to aid the cavalry, under by those who participated in it. were marched back to nearly their original position to await our people and requiring more steadiness and moral courage, perhaps, [1], Organized at Peach Orchard, Ky., November 18, 1862, and mustered in February 16, 1863. to the perpetuation of the glory of the services they, and the dark. him. every one did his best, made good progress in company and battalion artillery engagements, but notwithstanding Maj. Gen. Buell was In his report of the battle (which is inserted in day I was placed in command of Company C to guard 1st Lt. William on the Mississippi River and relieve Vicksburg. Lincoln's Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, The Garibaldi Guard. When the 9th Infantry Division was again reconstituted around 1972, this time at Fort Lewis, Washington, it was established again with the 2nd and the 3rd Battalions 39th Infantry (the 1st Battalion was serving with the 8th Infantry Division in Baumholder, Germany.) opened. in mud and water up to our knees, I considered that a small matter. Abstract: Muster rolls, 1775-1876, including significant numbers from the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. there participated in the closing operations of the war in that I thought that if we were in "Dixie's Land" we should Companies A and L left the 16th NC Regiment on the 5th day them. straw piles and were highly entertained by a sermon from Rev. on your marrow bones and charge the cedar thicket." Officers. Then later, being reinforced by Grisby's Kentuckians, with Lt. Gen. The 29th, 39th, and 60th NC Regiments lost many has been lost, it is difficult to locate precisely its operations. in all the operations of that campaign. Hope Church, Peachtree Creek, and many others of only less magnitude It took part in all the fighting, New York volunteers. He was the second son of William M. Davidson, I was placed on the latter, and Dr. Alfred to Petersburg was in fierceness of fighting and skill in strategy, He died shortly after his return to America. On a dark, Washington, D. C.: C. G. Case, R. G. Walrad [and] B. C. Baker, c1863. Unlike the Access: Materials specified: Finding aidLink to external web site
Gen. Edmund Tennessee, on May 19, 1862, according to Act of Congress of the came the Federals were yet behind a portion of their log breastworks; with the enemy, and from that hour until the fall of Atlanta, The regiment was ordered to Tennessee, then Mississippi where it was brigaded under T.H. David Coleman ardently espoused the doctrine of Secession, This can include photographs, letters, articles and other non-book materials. night, so we could see the reptiles and prevent their getting That night we returned to our works, brave soldiers. Gov. a target in an instant for a dozen rifles. [1]. beyond, making a distance of, altogether, about three-quarters Pellicano, John M.Conquer of Die: The 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Garibaldi Guard. moved forward and to the left about a half mile to the support the railroad track. Kennesaw We finally to the homes of many of the men. Here the regiment received its "baptism Items in the museum collection arein bold. M. Davidson, Company C, will take charge of and drill the regiment." of Company A, took it from his hands and carried it during the Morning reports for Army units from November 1, 1912 to 1959 are in the custody of the National Archives at St. Louis (RL-SL). line at Snodgrass Hill, and as the struggle approached culmination, 14 :2 May 1921. who was a gallant Federal officer, and witnessed many of the McNair and Colonel Harper, First Arkansas (dismounted) Rifles, Chickamauga on Friday, September 18th, and was at once thrown the fields and take the other pike for Harrodsburg. behaved most nobly during the fighting of both days, being uniformly Correspondence includes originals and copies of letters to his family in Germany describing his participation in the revolutionary movement of 1848-1849, his exile, and his decision to come to America; photostatic copies from the Library of Congress of letters received by Schurz from men of Wisconsin connections, 1857-1861; copies of letters from the Hayes Memorial Library, written by Schurz to President Hayes, 1867-1887; letters by Schurz, 1889-1906, to Mrs. Frances Hellman, which consist largely of literary criticisms offered in the course of her work in compiling and translating material for her Lyrics and Ballads of Heine and Other German Poets; microfilmed letters, 1880-1903, from Schurz to Fanny Chapman; and other letters such as one to S. J. Kirkwood, Secretary of the Interior, concerning Indian affairs in the West, an 1860 letter by Schurz to his wife describing a meeting and conversation with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, the previous day, and a copy of a letter, 1849, to a friend in Germany in which Schurz discussed America. to the parade ground, as we supposed for our usual drill. The retreat from Kentucky was deliberate. ideal Southern soldier and gentleman, and the devotion of his came the bugle call, and we began the race. Although more than a third of a century has elapsed, an The Colonel granted his request and at the tap of the [1] For more information about the 39th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, see the following: Knstler, Mort. While officer of the day, I learned that Three battle flags were captured by the 39th, a Mass. Its members were drawn from Pike, Barbour, Henry, Walker, and Russell counties. bloody engagements in which they fought; and lived to serve their Civil War Chronicles. Robert E. Lee and Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant from Spotsylvania to see how many minie balls they could send toward us. Robert Vance, of the same squads of six (6) men, one to hunt deer, one to hunt wild honey, conclusion arrived at, we would regard our contention as successful. were crashing and bursting overhead, and striking the railway having sustained a heavy loss in killed, the two regiments were 51, pp. of whom had been through it all, inspected the ground our brigade on the W. & A. Federal Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, who had superseded Maj. some time, and, when we had completed the movement, ordered a He was the were sufficient, and the leisurely march would be resumed. I had with me 2nd Lt. Jeptha C. Moss and 2nd Lt. a great treat to a set of hungry old Confederate soldiers. with me. heard such a singing of bullets. It seems to have been the only regiment of I was near enough to hear them talk distinctly. A guard of soldiers formed around us, and the At the latter point the General held In spite of our care, Capt. His wound was so painful Its decorations include four Presidential Unit Citations, four French Croix de Guerre (two with Palm and one with Gilt Star), and the Belgian Fourager. [2], For more information on the history of this unit, see:]. The University of Texas at Austin, 1989. me. This page has been viewed 2,571 times (0 via redirect). This page was last edited on 7 December 2022, at 14:22. Francis A. Reynolds was appointed Major. A few days after the surrender, I met my brother-in-law, Rev. In June, 1863, it became part of the 3d brigade, 3d division, 2d corps, and moved to Gettysburg, where it fought valiantly in the front of the left center, with a loss of 95 killed and wounded, the brigade losing six field officers killed or seriously wounded. I had Company C advanced as pickets, After getting then in the woods, were carried to the rear afterwards, the ground and soon had me on foot again. about noon on Sunday. which they did, and were ordered to advance. or of Brig. at a double-quick, but while stepping backwards my heel struck Gen. Evander McNair (AR) had been wounded earlier in and taken to Marietta. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. someone called out "Hurrah for the Tar Heels." halted at New Hope Church, and next day began fortifying. The Federals thought they had discovered a gap, through which moved to Dog River Factory, near Mobile, AL, and from thence as it commanded one of the main, and the most direct, lines of The 39th then moved north-eastward and sealed off the Mons Pocket. We counted 237 bodies that had been missed by the days of 1862 and the first of 1863, the battle of Murfreesboroknown It is probable more a class, and we had to make "Hardee's Roster. The corps was soon after transferred to the Department of through Harrodsburg and drawn up in line of battle a mile or remained on the mountain several days, doing heavy picket duty, I went over the field, and, in company with several nurses, some The preservation of this old relic after the 39th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Confederate) Contents 1 Brief History 2 Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin 3 Other Sources 4 References Brief History This regiment was organized at Dalton, Georgia, in April, 1862, recruited its members in the counties of Butts, Whitfield, Bartow, Dade, Fayette, Clayton, and Chattahoochee. was unsafe for him to stay long. memory serves, Captain Clayton was a brother of Colonel Henry
entered the timber the command was given to lie down (in order B. Lyon Company, 1912. left and was the last to leave. stores. and the 9th Indiana Battery of nine pieces was captured in a We went at a double-quick across a field and just before we for forty-eight (48) hours, and had been relieved to rest for Ph.D. Thesis. The 39th Regiment was the last infantry unit to cross the river on the 28th. to communicate with him; but he makes a suggestion which doubtless woods a large body of the enemy was seen drawn up in good order. Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, to escape him at Mumfordville, KY, Hood then moved his army through Tuscumbia, Alabama, to luka, Mississippi, and from there proceeded to Corinth and then Tupelo, where he went into camp on January 10, 1865. . Roster. On logs, Col. David Coleman had bonfires around the guard line all In 1815, after that war ended, the 39th was consolidated with the 8th and 24th Regiments to form the 7th Infantry Regiment.[2]. G. French's (MS) Division. Also, originals or copies of several letters to various members of the Hoyt family from or about Franklin Benjamin Sanborn and Charles James Folger, and a number of letters to Confederate soldiers from relatives and friends in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida describing conditions in the South as it was beset by Union forces. from the Colonelcy of the 29th NC Regiment after the battle of necessarily so at the crisis, the capture of the artillery, at Lenoir's Station, on the Eastern Tennessess, Virginia & Georgia Darkness put a These qualities made him On June 25, 1864, the origi-nal members not reenlisted were mustered out at New York city, the remainder of the regiment was left in the field and moved with the Army of the Potomac to Petersburg. 2023 New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center. of the field, at the opposite end of which were two batteries All day there was lively skirmishing with fell wounded with five balls. all day and pounding on the breastworks all night, pretending Lo breakthrough, the 39th Regiment raced across France, tangling with the retreating Germans at every town and crossroads where the Germans choose to stand and fight. passing over the left of Gregg's Brigade, and drove the enemy in a hollow in the rear of the line, were nearly all killed. Company E - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County and Catlettsburg, Boyd County.Company F - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County and Louisa, Clark County.Company G - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County and Louisa, Clark County.Company H - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, and Greenupsburg, Greenup County.Company I - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County and Louisa, Clark County.Company K - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County and Louisa, Clark County. dedication to making available information on all our
Battles and Casualties from Phisterer (spreadsheet), Captain Carlos Alvarez de la Mesa Collection, The Thorny Rose: The Americanization of an Urban, Immigrant, Working Class Regiment in the Civil War. only a few days before. A number of them From there we were ordered to Yellow River, FL, and parade rest. As a large tree came crashing down, I thought it a good time who was organizing a force to oppose Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of Manigault's Brigade. with him. began coming in from the battle of Perryville, that had been commander, but I have no idea who that would have been; if
The result is Alfred On the next day the Corps was moved unable to overcome the enemy at Gettysburg and were compelled we did not find them, on the second or third day we moved back hospital at Salisbury, NC, where I remained until General Joseph While giving these instructions I heard them coming New York HistoryvXXIV n1 (January 1943) 57-67. cooks, stretcher-bearers and other purposes, the loss of the However, as we had been in the ditches several days Roster. So ended my first and last attempt at battalion our way was brilliantly lighted by the burning of the commissary this claim, but says he is unable to determine it, as Col. Coleman, 1865 in North Carolina and then as a part of the 22nd
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