The 39th Illinois Infantry Regiment lost 12 officers and 129 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 130 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
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Organized at Chicago, Ill |
October 11 |
Mustered in |
October 13 |
Left state for St. Louis, Mo. |
October 29 |
Ordered to Williamsport, Md. Attached to R. R. Guard, Dept. of West Virginia |
December 11 |
Moved from Williamsport, Md., to Hancock, Md. and guard duty on Baltimore and Ohio R. R. |
1862 |
January |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Lander's Division, Army of the Potomac |
January 3 |
Action near Bath (Companies D, I, and K); Great Cacapon Bridge (Company G) and Alpine Station Companies A, B, C, E, F and H. |
January 5 |
Retreat to Cumberland, Md. |
January |
Moved to New Creek, Va., thence to Patterson's Creek and duty there |
March 7-15 |
Advance on Winchester, Va. attached to 2nd Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps |
March 18 |
Reconnaissance to Strasburg |
March 22 |
Action at Kernstown |
March 23 |
Battle of Winchester |
March 25 |
Pursuit to New Market. Mt. Jackson |
March 27 |
Strasburg |
April 1 |
Woodstock |
April 2 |
Edenburg |
April 17 |
Occupation of Mt. Jackson |
April |
In Luray Valley guarding bridges over South branch Shenandoah River, attached to Department of the Shenandoah |
May 12-21 |
March to Fredericksburg attached to 2nd Brigade, Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
March 25-30 |
To Front Royal |
June 29-July 2 |
Moved to Alexandria, thence to Harrison's Landing, Va. |
July |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 3-4 |
Chickahominy Swamps |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-22 |
Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va. |
September 1 |
Moved to Suffolk, Va. and attached to Ferry's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
October 9 |
Skirmish on the Blackwater |
October 20 |
Zuni |
October 25 |
Zuni and Skirmish on the Blackwater |
October 29 & 30 |
Skirmish on the Blackwater |
December |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
December 1-3 |
Expedition from Suffolk |
December 2 |
Action near Franklin on the Blackwater |
December 12 |
Zuni |
1863 |
January 23 |
Moved to New Berne, N. C. |
January 28-February 1 |
To Port Royal, S. C. |
February |
Camp at St. Helena Island, S.C. attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
April 7-13 |
Expedition against Charleston |
April 13 |
Occupation of Folly Island, S.C. attached to U.S. Forces, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, then 1st Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
July 10 |
Attack on Morris Island, S.C. |
July 11 and 18 |
Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C. attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S.C. 10th Army Corps |
July 18-September 7 |
Siege of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, S.C., and operations against Fort Sumter and Charleston attached to 1st Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
September 7 |
Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg |
September |
Siege operations against Charleston, S.C. attached to Howell's Brigade, Gordon's Division, Folly Island, S.C. |
October-November |
Duty at Folly Island, S.C., |
December |
At Hilton Head, S. C. attached to District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
1864 |
January 1 to February 3 |
Veterans on furlough |
April |
Moved from Chicago to Washington, D.C., thence to Yorktown, Va. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 5-June 15 |
Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond |
May 5 |
Occupation of Bermuda Hundred and City Point |
May 9 |
Weir Bottom Church |
May 9-10 |
Swift Creek or Arrow field Church |
May 12-16 |
Proctor's and Palmer's Creeks and Drury's Bluff |
May 16-June 15 |
Defenses of Bermuda Hundred |
May 20 |
Weir Bottom Church |
June 6-7 |
Chester Station |
June 2 and 14 |
Bermuda Hundred |
June 16-17 |
Bermuda Front |
June 16 |
On the Bermuda Hundred front. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin |
August 14-18 |
Demonstration north of the James; Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 16 |
Deep Run |
August 25-September 27 |
In trenches before Petersburg |
September 28-30 |
Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights |
October 13 |
Darbytown Road |
October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
November-March |
In trenches before Richmond |
December |
Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps |
1864 |
March 27-28 |
Moved to Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-31 |
Hatcher's Run |
April 1-2 |
Assaults on Petersburg |
April 2 |
Assault on Fort Gregg and fall of Petersburg. |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April-July |
Duty at Richmond |
August |
Duty at Norfolk, Va. Attached to District of Eastern Virginia, Dept. of Virginia |
1864 |
December 6 |
Mustered out |
December 16 |
Discharged at Chicago, Ill. |
