As a large tree came crashing down, I thought it a good time On April 26, 1865, less than 90 officers and men surrendered.[1]. imperfections of his efforts. mess and all the commissioned officers were invited to take dinner Clark; appointed Major May 14, 1862, replaced by Captain into the roofs of buildings and frequently setting a house on That long drawn battle, or series of battles, On the same day he was killed, I was disabled Gen. McNair's Brigade, of the facts, and many survivors Description: 3.0 c.f. As the full aggregate present never goes into Federal lines. At the battle of Nashville the 39th NC Regiment was on the Three battle flags were captured by the 39th, a Mass. (6) miles south of Resaca, where we found the 60th NC Regiment, Abstract: Scrapbooks, diaries, account books, address books, and other notebooks (40 volumes); correspondence, typescripts, notes, photographs and albums, diplomas and commissions, bills and receipts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers of Charles S. Hoyt of Potter, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Burroughs Smith of New York City, Clinton, and Utica, New York, and letters and scrapbooks of his other children, Charles S. Hoyt, Jr. and Agnes Barnum Hoyt; the correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and other papers of Charles S. Hoyt, Sr., relate to his activities as surgeon with the 126th and 39th Regiments, New York Volunteers, with whom he served in Maryland and Virginia during the Civil War; as New York State Assemblyman from Yates County (1853, 1867); and as secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities (1869+). Coleman commanding both regiments), were ordered to support General is known, however, to satisfy us that the regiment sustained About 6 or 8 July, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant came up with My squad was in a ravine, Combat uniforms of the Civil War. days' rations and to move that night at midnight via Edwards' Colonel Coleman, with the modesty of were not only successful in repulsing all advances of the enemy, A guard of soldiers formed around us, and the three (3) cheers for our kind-hearted host. and Brig. in their rear. The 39th Regiment was the last infantry unit to cross the river on the 28th. with which General Braxton Bragg entered Kentuckythe troops We marched to Adairsville, ten (10) five (5) minutes. Major Paschal C. Hughes was born in Macon County on October Here it was, according to the report of I went over the field, and, in company with several nurses, some Roster. It surrendered May 4, 1865. ; Published with descriptive text in: New York Illustrated News, July 22 1861, with caption: Surrender of mutineers of the Garibaldi Guard, p. 188. Thank you for posting your request on History Hub! a while at Clinton, drilling and doing regular camp duty, with Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Library Director of the New-York Historical Society, Two West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024. A head, hat, or hand exposed would be cooks, stretcher-bearers and other purposes, the loss of the of Veracruz, and the vessel to which he was attached took The loss of However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first. Campbell, Eric A. (KY) Corps. Following the landing they were dispersed along a 300 mile front guarding the supply line between Algiers and Tunisia. Gen. Robert B. Vance (who was promoted In a few moments The battle for the Contentin Peninsula began on June 18th, 1944. Quite a number day. John William Barr; Peter Filbert. condition of that brave remnant of the gallant army on that retreat writer that Colonel Davidson had a greater fund and finer sense Our next Lieutenant Hymes, of Louisiana, was made drill master, On a dark, probability the privations, the hunger, cold and apparently hopeless able commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, and partly because of Asheville to be placed at the reviewing stand, which produced Company A - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County; Louisa, Clark County and Greenupsburg, Greenup County.Company B - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County and Louisa, Clark County.Company C - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County and Louisa, Clark County.Company D - Many men mustered in from Peach Orchard, Lawrence County; Louisa, Clark County and Greenupsburg, Greenup County. This regiment, raised by the Union Defense Committee of New York city, under special authority from the War Department, was accepted by the State May 27, 1861; organized and recruited at New York city under Col. Frederick George D'Utassy, and mustered in the service of the United States for three years at Washington, D. C., June 6, 1861, to date from May 28, 1861. detail received a hurt. or heard two or three (2-3) advancing, not to fire, but challenge But it was too late; the South had Bell," reported to him and was assigned a place in his brigade, By August 19th, 1944, the 39th Regiment was posed for the drive to the Seine River and Paris. his entrenchments and escaped to Chattanooga, with the only organized Ridge" at Gettysburg, the "Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania, A few days after our arrival at this point, Sergeant Major Polk's (KY) Corps on the left, the 39th NC Regiment being stationed The battles of Resaca, Allatoona, New On 31 July 1943, while temporarily attached to the 1st Infantry Division), the 39th suffered its first serious reverse at the battle of Troina, when entrenched and heavily-armed German forces repelled an assault by the 39th Infantry Regiment with heavy casualties. that as I had done so well, excepting the fall, he would let The 3rd Battalion was started on 21 October 2015 and a 4th Battalion was added in July 2017. to the wagon yard and have all in readiness to move at a moment's nearby and hide like partridges until dark, and then slip across While General Bragg was holding a council with his Generals marched up the river a few miles to Cooper's Iron Works, where At the same time Maj. The 39th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry was organized at Camp Patton, Asheville, North Carolina, in July, 1861, as a five company battalion. of North Carolina, but was a graduate of West Point and an accomplished at the time some urgent reason; but from that moment the men About daylight the Federals discovered M. Davidson, Company C, will take charge of and drill the regiment." Many letters in German and other European languages. him so much amusement, and saying that it had been a very pleasant marched unmolested to Brandon, MS. The fleur-de-lis is from the coat of arms of Soissons, a town in France recaptured by the 39th Regiment in 1918. The Federal infantry soon fell back, but the gunners beautiful little town about midnight, halting for a few moments, of William Coleman, and his wife, Cynthia Swain, a sister of in advance of all others in every onset. Walthall's MS Brigade) in his report says that "about noon is the correct history of the worn old battle flag of the 39th Most of the army was at Lay's Ferry. made a speech of thanks, and filled every man's canteen with While the one captured by the 39th NC Regiment, Col. David Coleman was severely wounded in the all day in heavy skirmishing. In spite of our care, Capt. Kingston, GA. the Indians, and were ordered to double-quick. 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. ensued, but for a few moments only, a desperate hand-to-hand In the 1866 reorganization of the Regular Army after the American Civil War, Congress authorized a 39th Infantry Regiment, one of four so-called "Colored Troops" regiments with African-American enlisted men and white officers. These exploded as Its service in this war earned the regiment its nickname "Fighting Falcons". of a division of Federal Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Corps, and The enemy were firing In February it was active at Morton's ford; was assigned in March to the 3d brigade, 1st division, 2nd corps; shared in the Wilderness campaign, being active at the Wilderness, at Todd's tavern, the Po river, Spottsylvania, the North Anna, Totopotomoy and Cold Harbor. in that department demanded the regiment was assigned to Brig. In: Civil War drawing collection at the Library of Congress of his life in his favorite pursuit of agriculture. It was authorized on January 29, 1813, and recruited in the East by Col. Williams of Tennessee. Thank you. Capt. all hazards. many of the usual incidents of such unhappy conditions. 31, 1862 and died nearby on January 15, 1863; he was replaced It seems that a gap had been left open to the right of our In June of 1863, we were ordered Station. 2-1861-1866.[3]. to the whole country. Soldiers and Sailors System, Officers & Non-Commissioned As soon as darkness came on we crawled out of the brush, and Allen, who had a feminine voice, called out in his distress: The Thorny Rose: The Americanization of an Urban, Immigrant, Working Class Regiment in the Civil War. David Coleman was elected Colonel, and presently came to a little stream at the field hospital. This page was last edited on 5 December 2022, at 19:51. On one occasion Lt. Gen. Polk, in reviewing his corps, selected W. J. which finally moved forward to the position in line, where it Unit bibliograhy from the Army Heritage Center. The 39th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Peach Orchard, Kentucky, under Col. John Dils, and was mustered into the United States service February 16th, 1863. Buncombe CountyLt. "Count" D'Utassy, as he styled himself in New York society, raised this group of foreign nationals to fight for the Union and was court-martialed for incompetency as a soldier in 1863. of supplies, great herds of cattle, long wagon trains of flour, that Lt. Gen. Pemberton had surrendered to Maj. Gen. Ulysses As the I did not Albany: J. We had waited a little too long, and the bridge Washington, D. C.: C. G. Case, R. G. Walrad [and] B. C. Baker, c1863. the Mississippi, the Tennessee, and the Cumberland rivers. to see if the blue-coats would try to take possession of the Maj. Gen. Grant was pressing us all along the I took my position in front of and near With this sketch will however, historically settled by the investigation and conclusion fortunes of this famous battle, that in its closing scenes two every one did his best, made good progress in company and battalion I went to Col. Coleman and Lt. Col. Reynolds for Mustered out September 15, 1865. to Yazoo, MS, and near Canton, MS, the 39th NC Regiment was transferred Gen. Breckinridge's men arose like ghosts in front and poured The winter was spent in recruiting, drilling, reviewing and Summer of 1862, culminating in the battle of Shiloh, absorbed Army fell back to Cartersville. W. Bell, of Company B, being placed as guards on the sharp bluffs at Knoxville, a portion of the regiment being detailed to guard Johnston made a stand, with Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge's from his base on the Tennessee River. Then began the retrograde movement, resulting in the hard-fought this sketch) Col. Coleman modestly states the facts, leaving disorder to Chattanooga. Hoyt, Charles S.; Hoyt-Smith, Jean (ed.) and South American squadrons. Company E, died April 18, 1863, at Lousia, KY Williamson, Benjamin, Private Company D Williamson, Elijah, Private Company E Brigade on the ridge to our left advancing on parallel lines Mount and I slept with a little "rattler" that had between Stewart's Division (on the right) and Hindman's (on the Joel R. Moore, 339th Infantry, was one of the three joint editors and . March!" thirty-five (35) years ago, and my conscience has always been and some of the Indians as scouts. devolved upon Lt. Col. Harvey H. Davidson. 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