United States Regiments & Batteries * United States Colored Troops
The 39th United States Colored Troops lost 38 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 239 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1864
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| March 22-31 | Organized at Baltimore, Md. |
| April | Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May-June | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va. Guard trains of the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness and to Petersburg. |
| June 15-19 | First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16-December 7 | Siege of Petersburg and Richmond |
| July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg, |
| August 18-21 | Weldon Railroad |
| September | Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps |
| September 29-30 & October 1 | Poplar Grove Church |
| October 27-28 | Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| November | On the Bermuda Hundred front |
| December 7-27 | 1st Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps, then 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps |
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1865
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| January 7-15 | 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Terry’s Provisional Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| January 13-15 | Bombardment of Fort Fisher |
| January 15 | Assault and capture of Fort Fisher |
| January 19 | Sugar Loaf Hill |
| February 11 | Federal Point |
| February 18-20 | Fort Anderson |
| February 22 | Capture of Wilmington |
| February 22 | Northeast Ferry |
| March 1-April 26 | Campaign of the Carolinas. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps. Dept. of North Carolina |
| March 6-21 | Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro |
| March 23-24 | Cox’s Bridge |
| April 9-14 | Advance on Raleigh |
| April 14 | Occupation of Raleigh |
| April 26 | Bennett’s House. Surrender of Johnston and his army. |
| May-December | Duty at various points in the Dept. of North Carolina |
| December 4 | Mustered out |