39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 39th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= October 11, 1861 to December 6, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Winchester
Siege of Fort Wagner
Battle of Drewry's Bluff
Siege of Petersburg
Appomattox Campaign
The 39th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed "Yates' Phalanx," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 39th Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 11, 1861 for three years service.
The regiment was mustered out on December 6, 1865.
Private Henry Hardenbaugh of Company "G" received a posthumous Medal of Honor on April 6, 1865 for bravery at the Second Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia on August 16, 1864. Hardenbaugh had been killed in action near Petersburg on August 28, 1864.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 12 officers and 129 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 130 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 273 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf3.htm#39th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel Austin Light - dismissed on November 25, 1861.
*Colonel Thomas O. Osborn - promoted to brigadier general on May 11, 1865
*Lieutenant Colonel Orrin L. Mann - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/039-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls ]
ee also
*List of Illinois Civil War Units
*Illinois in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]
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