Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Mgbe a chụpụrụ ndị agha ahụ n'ọrụ, oge 90 e ji edebanye aha ha n'ọrụ agwụla, Nugent nabatara ọrụ dịka onyeisi ndị agha n'agha nkịtị. E kenyere ya ozugbo na 13th Infantry Regiment nke onye isi ya, Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman, rịọrọ n'onwe ya. N'iwere ezumike ịlaghachi New York, o nyeere Thomas Francis Meagher aka ịhazi Irish Brigade. Ọchịchị ndị agha nke iri isii na itoolu bụ nke mbụ e kenyere ndị Irish Brigade na, ya na Nugent dịka onye isi ya, o duziri "Fighting 69th" na agha nke Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, Savage Station
, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, na Malvern Hill.