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39th USCT Infantry

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Muster In: Organized at Baltimore, Md., March 22-31, 1864.1
Muster Out: Mustered out December 4, 1865.2

Commander(s):
Colonel Ozora P. Stearns
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Commander 2
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Commander 3
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First Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Fourth Division | IX Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army3,4

Second Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Fourth Division | IX Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army6,7

Third Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Fourth Division | IX Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army10,11

  • Commander: Colonel Ozora P. Stearns (July 31, 1864)12
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Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Fourth Division | IX Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army13

  • Commander: Colonel Ozora P. Stearns (August 31, 1864)14
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Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Third Division | IX Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army15

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Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: First Brigade | Third Division | IX Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army16,17

  • Commander: Colonel Ozora P. Stearns (October 31, 1864)18
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle:

First Brigade | Third Division | IX Corps | Army of the Potomac | Union Army (November 1-December 3?)19

Second Brigade | First Division | XXV Corps | Army of the James | Union Army (December 3-31, 1864)20

  • Commander: Colonel Ozora P. Stearns (December 31, 1864)21
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  • Note: On December 3, 1864, the X Corps and XVIII Corps of the Army of the James were reorganized into the XXIV Corps and the XXV Corps.
  • Note: This regiment and the other USCT regiments which made up the Third Division, Ninth Corps, Army of the Potomac were transferred from the Army of the Potomac to the Army of the James in late November or early December 1864. (Need source)
  • Note: Left the Siege of Petersburg on December 7, 1864.22

Eighth Offensive Order of Battle:

  • No longer at the Siege of Petersburg.23

Ninth Offensive Order of Battle:

  • No longer at the Siege of Petersburg.24

Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles25:

  • Before Petersburg June 15-19.
  • Siege of Petersburg and Richmond June 16-December 7.
  • Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30.
  • Weldon Railroad August 18-21.
  • Poplar Grove Church September 29-30 and October 1.
  • Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run, October 27-28.
  • On the Bermuda Hundred front until December.

Bibliography:

    Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:

    Sources:

    1. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
    2. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
    3. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), p. 231 ↩
    4. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 2 (Serial Number 81), p. 550 ↩
    5. Volume 14 (Ordnance Returns for the Second Quarter, April-June, 1864); 39th United States Colored Troops Entry, Page 96; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
    6. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), p. 231 ↩
    7. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 2 (Serial Number 81), p. 550 ↩
    8. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 2 (Serial Number 81), p. 550 ↩
    9. Volume 14 (Ordnance Returns for the Second Quarter, April-June, 1864); 39th United States Colored Troops Entry, Page 96; Summary Statements of Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores on Hand in Regular and Volunteer Army Organizations, 1862-1867, 1870-1876. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1281, Roll 7); Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1797-1969, Record Group 156; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
    10. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 1 (Serial Number 80), page 260 ↩
    11. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 3 (Serial Number 82), page 735 ↩
    12. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XL, Part 3 (Serial Number 82), page 735 ↩
    13. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 2 (Serial Number 88), page 617: “Organization of the Army of the Potomac…August 31, 1864” ↩
    14. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 2 (Serial Number 88), page 617: “Organization of the Army of the Potomac…August 31, 1864” ↩
    15. Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship.  The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1301. ↩
    16. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 463: “Organization of the Union Forces” (October 31, 1864)” ↩
    17. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 1 (Serial Number 87), page 159: “Return of Casualties in the Union Forces…Boydton Plank Road, Va., October 27-28, 1864” ↩
    18. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 463: “Organization of the Union Forces” (October 31, 1864)” ↩
    19. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
    20. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 1126: “Organization of the Union Forces” (December 31, 1864) ↩
    21. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLII, Part 3 (Serial Number 89), page 1126: “Organization of the Union Forces” (December 31, 1864) ↩
    22. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
    23. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
    24. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩
    25. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3) ↩

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