39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 39th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry


dates= May 22, 1861 to July 1, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of First Bull Run
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Wilderness

Siege of Petersburg

The 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the "Garibaldi Guard", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The regiment was organized in New York City, New York and sent to Washington, D.C. and was mustered in for a ? year enlistment on June 8, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out of service on July 1, 1865, and those men who had signed three year enlistments or who re-enlisted were transferred to the 185th New York.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 107 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 158 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 274 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnyinf3.htm 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

ee also

*List of New York Civil War regiments

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionny.htm The Civil War Archive]

External links

* [http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/39thInf/39thInfMain.htm New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center - Civil War - 39th Infantry Regiment] History, photographs, table of battles and casualties, and historical sketch for the 39th New York Infantry Regiment.