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Thirty-Ninth Illinois Infantry--“Yates Phalanx.”
Howell's Brigade —
Terry's Division--Tenth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Company | A | | 11 | 11 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 161 |
| | B | | 12 | 12 | | 11 | 11 | 152 |
| | C | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 14 | 14 | 143 |
| | D | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 13 | 13 | 150 |
| | E | | 18 | 18 | | 9 | 9 | 138 |
| | F | 2 | 20 | 22 | | 14 | 14 | 147 |
| | G | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 25 | 25 | 175 |
| | H | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 7 | 7 | 134 |
| | I | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 12 | 12 | 157 |
| | K | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 9 | 9 | 158 |
| Totals | 12 | 129 | 141 | 2 | 130 | 132 | 1,531 |
Total of killed and wounded, 522; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 30.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Morris Island, S. C. | 3 | Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 7 | 2 |
| Fort Wagner, S. C. | 3 | Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 13 | 20 |
| Fort Moultrie, S. C. | 2 | Fair Oaks, Va., Oct. 27 | 3 |
| Drewry's Bluff, Va. | 19 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 15 |
| Ware Bottom Church, Va. | 7 | Fort Gregg, Va. | 21 |
| Bermuda Hundred, Va. | 8 | Appomattox, Va. | 2 |
| Deep Bottom, Va. | 36 | | |
Present, also, at
Bath, W. Va.; Cacapon Bridge,
W. Va.; Alpine Station,
W. Va.;
Kernstown, Va.;
Blackwater, 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
Peninsula in June, arriving there just after the
battle of Malvern Hill, and was assigned 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 furlough, returning in March, 1864, with about 750 men. It was assigned to
Howell's (1st) Brigade,
Terry's (1st) 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, 110 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 (1st) Brigade,
Foster's (1st) 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 commander.
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.
