Kammala wannan jumla: Lokacin da aka cire rukunin daga aikin, lokacin da kwanakin kwanaki 90 suka ƙare, Nugent ya yarda da kwamiti a matsayin kyaftin a cikin rundunar soja. Nan da nan aka sanya shi zuwa 13th Infantry Regiment wanda kwamandansa, Kanar William Tecumseh Sherman, da kansa ya nema. Da yake ba da izini don komawa New York, ya taimaka wa Thomas Francis Meagher wajen shirya Brigade na Irish. Sabuwar da aka sake fasalin Rundunar Sojoji ta 69 ita ce ta farko da aka sanya wa Brigade na Irish kuma, tare da Nugent a matsayin colonel, ya jagoranci "Fighting 69th" a yakin Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill,
Tashar Savage, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, da kuma Malvern Hill.