Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. THIRTY-NINTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY --" YATES PHALANX." HOWELL'S BRIGADE — TERRY'S DIVISION — TENTH CORPS. (1) COL. THOMAS O. OSBURN ; BVT. MAJOR-GEN. (2) COL. ORRIN L. MANN; BVT. Biuo.-GEN. Total of killed and wounded, 522 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 30. BATTLES. K. & M.W. Morris Island, S. C 3 Fort Wagner, S. C 3 Fort Moultrie, S. C 2 Drewry's Bluff, Va 19 Ware Bottom Church, Va 7 Bermuda Hundred, Va 8 BATTLES. K. & M.W. Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 7 2 Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 13 20 Fair Oaks, Va., Oct. 27 3 Petersburg Trenches, Va 15 Fort Gregg, Va 21 Appomattox, Va . 2 Deep Bottom, Va 36 Present, also, at Bath, W. Va.; Cacapon Bridge, W. Va.; Alpine Station, W. Va.; Kernstown, Va.; Black-water, Va. NOTES. —Left the State October 13, 1861, and during the next eight months was stationed in West Virginia, guarding railroad most of the time. It served next with Shields's Division in the Shenandoah Valley, and was present at the battle of Kernstown, March 23, 1862, but was not actively engaged. It was ordered to the Penin sula in June, arriving there just after the battle of Malvern Hill, and wasassigned to Peck's Division, Fourth Corps. Upon the withdrawal from the Peninsula the Thirty-ninth was ordered to Suffolk, where it remained for a few months. The year 1863 was passed at Hilton Head, S. C., and in Charleston Harbor, where it was engaged in the siege operations on Morris Island and at Fort Wagner. Having reenlisted it went home on its veteran fur lough, returning in March, 1864, with about 750 men. It was assigned to Howell's (ist) Brigade, Terry's (ist) Division, Tenth Corps, in which it fought during the ensuing campaign against Richmond. In the fighting at Drewry's Bluff and at Bermuda Hundred the regiment lost 14 killed, no wounded, and 49 missing ; total, 173. The regiment encountered more hard fighting at Deep Bottom, August 16, 1864, where it captured an earth-work, losing in the affair 20 killed, 76 wounded, and 7 missing. In December, 1864, it was transferred to Osborn's (ist) Brigade, Foster's (ist) Division, Twenty-fourth Corps. In the victorious assault- on Fort Gregg, at the Fall of Petersburg, the gallantry of the regiment was specially acknowledged by General Gibbon, the corps com mander. In that desperate fight it lost 16 killed and 45 wounded, out of only 150 present in action —a part of the regiment having been absent on picket duty; of the nine men in the color-guard, seven were shot down in this assault. The Thirty-ninth was mustered out at Norfolk, Va., in December, 1865. _10382
