Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I te wa i whakauruhia ai te roopu ki waho o te ratonga, i te mutunga o nga tikanga whakauru 90-ra, i whakaae a Nugent ki te komihana hei rangatira i roto i te ope taua. I tukuna tonu ia ki te 13th Infantry Regiment i tonoa e te rangatira rangatira, a Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman. I te hararei ki te hoki ki New York, i awhina ia i a Thomas Francis Meagher ki te whakarite i te Irish Brigade. Ko te 69th Infantry Regiment hou i whakahoutia ko te waahanga tuatahi i tohaina ki te Rōpū Irish, a, ko Nugent tana koromatua, i arahi ia i te "Fighting 69th" i nga Pakanga o Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, Savage Station
Ko White Oak Swamp, ko Glendale, ko Malvern Hill.