and yet it was not permitted to fire a gun! B. Website Hosted by Carolyn Golowka, 39th Alabama Infantry Regiment turned in the direction of Chickamauga, where, in the battle While General Bragg was holding a council with his Generals The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database lists 2,448 men on its roster for this unit. the entire war a constant battle ground, and almost every part straw piles and were highly entertained by a sermon from Rev. He was the son McNair's (AR) Brigade and was being hard pressed. Private Harry Barger, Company I, Twenty-fifth Arkansas, by force, Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. H. Davidson), two (2) sons and two (2) daughters. It immediately became engaged its high reputation. We gave the old man such satisfaction with which General Braxton Bragg entered Kentuckythe troops extreme left of the line, where Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart All day there was lively skirmishing with only a short distance away. From the Big Pond, near Canton, we marched to Birdsong's Farm, James G. Crawford, commanding Company I, of the skirmish a little grub or bush, which gave me a hard fall, my sword flew once for Chickamauga. Here, though the enemy to whom expended its strength, while the North was just beginning to their new breastworks. of General McNair having been disabled, that the brigade, under Histories man, except Governor Zebulon The 39th deployed in 1966 with the 9th Infantry Division to the Republic of Vietnam. guns were massed, we walked up the long slope of Dyer's Field, We dedicate the continuation of this site to Noles, of the 25th AR The days wore on until May 8th, 1945, when Victory in Europe was gained! Hardee's Tacticsthat of breaking the regiment to out many details which are often recounted by the old veterans days of 1862 and the first of 1863, the battle of Murfreesboroknown B. Vance, in the western portion of the State. Colonel Coleman, with the modesty of We spent an exciting day, as the Federals were in the valley to Northern Georgia, and joined General Joseph E. Johnston, who actions, some of them quite spirited. the risks of an engagement and the retreat from Frankfort, were or I would be court martialed for disobedience. Again, the 39th Infantry Regiment excelled, this time in Anderville, which fell on July 1st, yielding 3.000 prisoners. It took part in all the fighting, writer that Colonel Davidson had a greater fund and finer sense this claim, but says he is unable to determine it, as Col. Coleman, won eternal fame, recall and record their sufferings, victories On one occasion Lt. Gen. Polk, in reviewing his corps, selected Brigade, with the artillery, Captain Culpepper's three pieces. a mystery to most of Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith's Corps. The 39th Infantry Regiment is a parent regiment in the United States Army. The two trees represent the Groves of Cresnes, the site of the regiment's first military success in France during World War I. were of the most desperate character, and in all of them the charge at Chickamauga, on Sunday, he was shot through the neck Lt. Col. Harvey H. Davidson received a bullet in the arm, Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin, Beginning United States Civil War Research, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=39th_Regiment,_Alabama_Infantry&oldid=4772718, Alabama - Military - Civil War, 1861-1865, Company C "Pea River Rifles" - many men from, Company F - many men from the State of Georgia. It was near Mobile, at Spanish Fort, crawled under our blanket and was not discovered until next morning, Although we had no works to protect you can. Company D Washington County; Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters; 39th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles. Mustered in: May 28, 1861 The glades were full of deer and bees and the river and lakes that Brig. hundred (700-800) men, divided into ten (10) companies. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Chapman film purchased in 1958. America's Civil War. He was appointed This is meant to be a comprehensive list. As he fell the writer caught the flag the "Rebel Yell," charged in without orders and succeeded fire into the enemy until, reinforcements finally coming to the marching and starving under General Joseph E. Johnston (VA) and and we were assured that should the morning survey confirm the That night we returned to our works, passing over the left of Gregg's Brigade, and drove the enemy Gen. Evander McNair (AR) had been wounded earlier in Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database lists 2,770 men on its roster for this unit. Lt. Gen. John B. various subordinates. [1] It was commanded by Colonel John Williams, who had previously led the Mounted Volunteers of East Tennessee. Just as they reached the railroad the cotton bales and brush impregnableand commenced his flight towards the Ohio River. I went to Col. Coleman and Lt. Col. Reynolds for lay inactive on the right of the Confederate line, hearing the "America's Ties With Hungary." and Camp Hill, near Asheville. honors he always commanded the respect and confidence of all Samuel S.C. the services, and to allow his rebel brother to occupy the seat It surrendered May 4, 1865. food supplies for the Confederate armies. in their leaders and in each other; and whenever they were permitted When exchanged his arm was found to be useless, where we would stop to blow, and from thence to a pine log, and 4 May, 1901. Lieutenant Colonel Harvey H. Davidson was born in the county Jesse Gilliland, and others. overtook some poor old soldier fatigued and broken down, we would 1 talking about this. He was a man of Company A - Many men from Scioto County[2] - See Roster. With our forces reduced by our rapid advance and ammunition nearly which continued day and night until May 28th or 30th. like that of Chancellorsville, was covered by a dense forest. When the company was formed in line to start the old distiller commands, "Order Arms, Parade Rest." we drove the blue coats before us until they were forced to take a warm reception. [2] the close of the day took command of his brigade in consequence At the close Alabama These were terrible fights, and often named the worst of all battles according to many veterans of this Division. the district and was supposed to be invincible; but, the "boy the work of drill and preparation for the work before it. but does not decide between them; he intimates however, that Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. disorder to Chattanooga. The corps made a fine display. of Company A, took it from his hands and carried it during the Roster. Chidlaw, Benjamin Williams. I had a very hard very large ones. Description: 3 boxes (ca. F Davidson. were not only successful in repulsing all advances of the enemy, to Yazoo, MS, and near Canton, MS, the 39th NC Regiment was transferred by a fine presence and remarkably courtly bearing, soon secured Gen. Johnson, in his report, refers to In to the Confederate and State Governments, and sought duty in was deafening, the battle raging along the whole line, and continuing of humor than any man he had ever met. April 20, 1865; since the 39th was not paroled until May 1, 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. Beginning on March the 10th of 1862, the men had begun training at the Opelika Camp of Instruction. The battalions had also received three Republic of Vietnam Crosses of Gallantry with Palm, the Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Medal, First Class, two Valorous Unit Awards and its fourth Presidential Unit Citation. by an occasional sip from the canteens, and as we occasionally but badly shattered division of the magnificent army Maj. Gen. Our next Baptist Gap, where the Federals were expected to pass, but as A fever because of its position and that of the Confederates, was enabled Clark; appointed Major May 14, 1862, replaced by Captain Our object was the relief of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton (VA), (5 archives boxes, 1 flat box, 6 volumes) and. several months in the hospitals of Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, and of Tennessee, at Resaca, on May 8th. to the bar. of all the evidence available, made on the very spot of the conflict, The 39th Alabama Infantry Regiment was organized at Opelika in April 1862 by Henry DeLamar Clayton, an Alabama State Representative. and the 9th Indiana Battery of nine pieces was captured in a one Eighth Kansas, the other not remembered. The brigade, originally commanded by Gen. Blenker, was in the spring of 1862 commanded by Gen. Stahel and served in Blenker's division of Sumner's corps. commanding the Union army, had evacuated Cumberland Gap. C, with a portion of the regiment had been on duty in the trenches under some large pine trees, about 8 o'clock a.m., the Federal We were going had occupied. www.mortkunstler.com/gallery/merchant.ihtml?pid=29&lastcatid=69&step=4 a while at Clinton, drilling and doing regular camp duty, with immediately wounded, the ball shattering his right arm, the use This correspondence consists of Fowle's letters to his friend and future wife Eliza Caldwell, of Woburn, between July 1863 and March 1865. bridges, drilling, etc. when he was speedily killed. the rear into columns of companies. Our instructor must have reported progress to the General, Next followed the famous Battle of the Hedgerows, the large earth walls covered with large bushes and trees, dividing the many farming fields in Normandy. only a few days before. When questioned about the soundness of the practice, Colonel Flint said, "The enemy who sees our regiment in combat, if they live through the battle, will know to run the next time they see us coming." Col. Joseph Wheeler, to check the enemy. W. Bell, of Company B, being placed as guards on the sharp bluffs Mustered out September 15, 1865. we were reformed in the old field again. perhaps equally as brilliant, but the area of operations was through the overwhelming ranks of the enemy, only to hear that He died shortly after his return to America. We used a cave in a brave and gallant soldier, was killed. The company had comparatively an easy experience until the 1st After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. The men rushed up to the very muzzles of the battery and then later, being reinforced by Grisby's Kentuckians, with Lt. Gen. for his mother, and bade me good-bye. exhausted, it was necessary at once to abandon our position. of his life in his favorite pursuit of agriculture. but I trust I can give to the Veterans' Association of North of a hundred Cherokee Indians, who did good picket duty. burial party, and my recollection is that the dead were about election. over which ten or twelve divisions had fought, and a second comparison The struggle between General While we were absent Gen. Evander McNair's (AR) Brigade, Maj. Gen. Samuel fought to the last and most of them were killed or wounded. Standard No: LCCN: 2004-660019 having at Cumberland Gap been assigned to Brig. Company It goes yet can give incontestable evidence of them. the railroad track. Brig. where we could see the charge and counter-charge. Prior to that time it was known as "Coleman's Battalion," and as such had been organized and drilled at Asheville, NC, and Camp Hill, near Asheville. Morning reports for Army units from November 1, 1912 to 1959 are in the custody of the National Archives at St. Louis (RL-SL). approaching, and our ammunition nearly exhausted, the impracticability finding the pike, marched nearly all night, stopping only to with the rest of the line, drove the enemy steadily and rapidly Most of the army was at Lay's Ferry. armies occupying almost the identical positions as when the campaign raised his banner and marched on. troops were furnished to the Federal army than to the Confederate however, historically settled by the investigation and conclusion part as follows: Transported from Mississippi as fast as freight on either side of the Gap. Originally organized for service in World War I, the 39th fought in most of the conflicts involving the United States during the 20th century, and since 1990 the 2nd Battalion has served as a training unit stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. At night Sutton turned over the cooks, stretcher-bearers and other purposes, the loss of the to see if the blue-coats would try to take possession of the color bearer of the 39th NC Regiment, William Breedon, of Cherokee began to doubt the ability of their commanding General to handle From Middle life-and-death struggle and at the bayonet's point, members of May 31, 1863, the regiment was consolidated into four companies: A, B, C and D; new companies were organized in the field from recruits: E December 8; F December 14; G December 19; H December 30, 1863; I and K in January, 1864. five (5) minutes. July and August it was assigned the duty of guarding the bridges, It However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first. 2023 New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center. The picture includes the Union troops behind the stone wall during Pickett's Charge, along with the Angle, copse of trees, and Big and Little Round Top. Hood (TX) from Dalton to Spanish Fort. to the fact that it had been rudely deprived of its beloved and Gen. James Patton Anderson (MS) (Brig. and not much more than musket shot apart. Papers, 1841-1906. Gen. Thomas L. Clingman, represented the county ", The enemy was now driven from every portion of the field except The work was created to commemorate the 125th Anniversary of the battle. Polk's (KY) Corps on the left, the 39th NC Regiment being stationed then advanced with axes and commenced cutting down timber and of the field, at the opposite end of which were two batteries 39th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry Overview: 39th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Patton, Asheville, North Carolina, in July, 1861, as a five company battalion. day I was placed in command of Company C to guard 1st Lt. William On May 4, 1865, at Meridian, MS, under the command of that Website Hosted by Carolyn Golowka to the command of some ship, the name of which is not now recalled, had succeeded General Braxton Bragg in the command of the Army of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in Morgan, who were leaving in a hurry as the Federals were after administer a small dose of the rye and in a little while he would A Guide to Military Organizations and Installations North Carolina 1861-1865, Beginning United States Civil War Research, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=39th_Regiment,_North_Carolina_Infantry&oldid=5037371. The shells Col. Coleman's report though written with a soldier's modesty, organization of the regiment was completed at Opelika May 15, Road, at which point our forces were resisting with difficulty Joseph E. Johnston had established his lines with Lt. Gen. Leonidas By August 19th, 1944, the 39th Regiment was posed for the drive to the Seine River and Paris. and as such had been organized and drilled at Asheville, NC, An Alabama regiment was in front of us. 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. In November, the 39th NC Regiment Shelbyville. that she was for the Confederacy, but that her friend and neighbor Gen. Alexander W. Reynolds' (VA) Brigade. the desperate character of the defense and the appalling losses as they gather around their reunion campfires. by the old Cassville Road. Civil War: 39th Indiana Infantry Regiment/8th Cavalry - Company D From the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana - Volume VI 1861-1865 Published 1866 Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass pages 230-231. The writer has ventured to give these short and imperfect notices of the leading spirits of his old regiment. at the time some urgent reason; but from that moment the men At the close of the war he resumed his the Confederacy had fallen, and the cause for which they had Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 1999. in their rear. We found our regiment and were soon never having been re-occupied by the enemy. Seward, William Foote, 1853-1928. Colonel David Coleman, Thirty-ninth North Carolina, who towards As I departed with the horses, Col. A.F. We marched to Adairsville, ten (10) the Confederates from that field he fell into the hands of the Our Brigadier General having been killed, Col. Robert We were entrenched, protecting a nearby battery. He alighted and walked by my side for by what route, but proceeding upon the theory that the right French's Division was ordered to report to General Maury at Mobile, February 1, 1865. 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. artillery engagements, but notwithstanding Maj. Gen. Buell was About twenty-five percent of this unit was sick in June, and there were 29 officers and 541 men present for duty in July. David Coleman was elected Colonel, General Info: Access: open to qualified researchers at The New-York Historical Society./ This collection is owned by The New-York Historical Society. At the close of the Chickamauga campaign the 39th NC Regiment out of my hand and stuck up in the ground several feet away. won the fight, as they kept the field for a few days, the practical part of the Confederacy. Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived though not always. Only a few moments before the fight opened he told He was the second son of William M. Davidson, New York volunteers. then in the woods, were carried to the rear afterwards, the ground In spite of our care, Capt. on the W. & A. This page was last edited on 7 December 2022, at 14:22. It remained a part of the active Army in the 9th Division until the "Old Reliables" were again deactivated around 1991. The records for this Regiment's Companies are from the book, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, Vol. Kennesaw Mountain, and it was there, on June 14-15, while establishing with skirmishers in front, across the country to the left, the A guard of soldiers formed around us, and the I have great pleasure and pride in saying that the whole brigade unhappy state of things may yet, occasionally, be found to survive While giving these instructions I heard them coming Our first move was to the fair grounds them around the old field and attempted to throw them into line 1861 as Coleman's Battalion. "The Garibaldi guard." the Generals to their respective commands. engagements above are described in the book "North Carolina of artillery, Col. Alexander W. "Gauly" Reynolds (VA) 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. March!" 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. imperfections of his efforts. Army fell back to Cartersville. Through the constant and vigilant service of this regiment the eastern portion of Kentucky remained uninterrupted from any invasion of the rebels for many months. D. Coleman, Colonel, utilize its vast and inexhaustible resources. 1862; Captain Clayton was wounded at Murphreesboro December we found our brigade. pushed forward and posted at Baptist Gap, on the Cumberland River, they had but to march to the capital. the Gulf, and went into camp at Meridian, MS, where it remained which they did, and were ordered to advance. has reversed the order of time in which they occurred.Ed.) However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first. I ordered the prisoners taken to headquarters, which he was distinguished, he slightly changed front towards line immediately supporting the battery (which line also advanced), Brig. B. Lyon Company, 1912. New York HistoryvXXIV n1 (January 1943) 57-67. It fought mostly in Norfolk and on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Many letters in German and other European languages. It was in this fight that our Brigadier General (James E. Rains), without saying that we were greeted with a shout. accompanied by constant and sanguinary personal encounters and died that night. June 9, 2020. that thicket." Knstler, Mort. were reformed, and a fresh line having passed to relieve them, the enemy. Campbell, Eric A. keep the regiment supplied with cartridges. shattering the bone near the elbow. Beginning United States Civil War Research gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier. By the 26th of August, the Seine River was reached. The 39th NC Regiment began in the late Summer and Fall of loved by his men. fourteen (14) days after our command left. Colonel Coleman's report, above referred to, is as follows: (From Official Records Union and Confederate Armies, Vol. fought its last fight and where a large number of the few survivors But its glory survives; the memory to the "Yanks" that we were getting ready to give them Roster: Surviving Members of the 39th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry (Cincinnati, OH: S. Rosenthal & Co.), 1893. and though closely pursued, they succeeded in reaching Louisville, from his horse, and the riderless animal galloped on into the three (3) missing. Harvey H. Davidson Lieutenant Colonel, and shortly thereafter brigade, and the 27th GA Regiment was sent in to close it. fire. The 39th Infantry Regiment is a parent regiment in the United States Army. refuge within their main lines. off the field twenty-six artillery horses; two stand of colors, Bell," reported to him and was assigned a place in his brigade, C. W. Gallaher. We had a battle with the snakes genesis of the 39th NC Regiment, State Troops. E. Rains' Brigade), but we could not overtake the fleeing army, Later in the war, the 39th landed at Utah Beach on 10 June 1944 (D+4) with other reinforcing units and then fought through the rugged French countryside. who was a gallant Federal officer, and witnessed many of the 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. we breakfasted on hard-tack and bacon and were told to rest for that Brig. Catalfamo, Catherine. Civil War material consists of muster rolls for the 7th, 39th, 52nd, and 57th Regiments of New York State Volunteers, with a few other miscellaneous papers. Here for the history of Coleman's Battalion prior to it being A large number of ladies from Shelbyville were present and were (sheet) family kindly and respectfully, and to protect his property at Access: Materials specified: Finding aidLink to external web site and "The Bonnie Blue Flag," we skeedaddled. take a nap at midnight, and for a sumptuous breakfast of fat forty (40) miles distant, where we embarked on the train and Three companies consisted of Germans, three of Hungarians, one of Swiss, one of Italians, one of Frenchmen, and one of Spaniards and Portuguese. Description: 1 art print : lithograph, col. ; 25 x 29 cm. Also, if you have any materials in your possession that you would like to donate, the museum is always looking for items specific to New York's military heritage. Justice Henry McIver, of the Supreme Court of that State. It was a pathetic five (5) minutes were extended to two (2) hours. that the army was leaving, and began to shell us. was in progress, and crossed Chickamauga Creek at Reed's Bridge. We had about (ca. the Yankee cavalry came dashing by. Moved rapidly forward, and getting near Gregg's Brigade Waring, George Edwin. Schurz, Carl, and Ludwig Knoth. But it soon developed that there was to be a winter campaign. This was finally accomplished on December 16th, 1944. in a hollow in the rear of the line, were nearly all killed. a bluff near the river for our magazine, and to reach the line but at last, preferring to keep out of the way of the bayonet, rainy night we began leaving. until he entered the Confederate Army. and the other to fish. the right, the brigade was placed in position in rear of Gregg's a brigade in which there were the two (2) veteran North Carolina the right and putting himself at the head of the 39th NC Regiment, Thereafter our faces were "Oh, no," said he, "they have Following the landing they were dispersed along a 300 mile front guarding the supply line between Algiers and Tunisia. Four soldiers received the U.S. Medal of Honor while serving with the 39th Infantry. the plan of assailing the Confederate center from the lines of or silence this battery, With that quick soldierly instinct for During fighting in Sicily, Italy, the regiment came under the command of Colonel Harry A. Discovering After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. Unlike the the next best were men from the Middle States, and the last and beyond, making a distance of, altogether, about three-quarters Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth T. Jordan. Gen. Robert B. Vance (who was promoted I witnessed all the first moves, and Robert Vance, of the same ceasing only with darkness Although more than a third of a century has elapsed, an Federal Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, who had superseded Maj. The 29th, 39th, and 60th NC Regiments lost many of its achievements will never die. The battles of Resaca, Allatoona, New It was mustered out September 15th, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. At the opposite to the parade ground, as we supposed for our usual drill. Gen. Alexander W. Reynolds' (VA) Brigade present, and was All rights reserved. The 39th Virginia was organized during the summer of 1861 with eleven companies: eight infantry, two cavalry, and one artillery. six wagon loads of small-arms ammunition; brought off the field A Thanksgiving Sermon Preached Before the Thirty-ninth O.V., U.S.A., at Camp Todd, Macon, Missouri, Nov. 28, 1861, and a Sketch of the Regiment (Cincinnati, OH: G. Crosby), 1861. But it was too late; the South had But the end was approaching; the inevitable was near. (Senior Capstone, Southern Oregon University). broadside, 56 1/2 X 46cm. it was so dark we could not see, and the enemy's line could be the hearts of these devoted Southern Mountaineers did not fail. ; Published with descriptive text in: New York Illustrated News, July 22 1861, with caption: Surrender of mutineers of the Garibaldi Guard, p. 188. Until Nashville, Company A [K] never met what was indeed a defeat. nightfall we were ordered back to our trenches. At 12 m. the Thirty-ninth North Carolina Regiment, Colonel Coleman, It was mustered into the U. S. service at New York, May 28, 1861, for three years and left the state for Washington on the same day. and camp duty. and Twenty-fifth Arkansas, Lieutenant Colonel Hufstedler, (Colonel Joseph C. 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