Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da aka fara fitar da rukunin daga sabis, lokacin da aka gama kwanaki 90, Nugent ya karɓi 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 gyara na 69th Infantry Regiment shi ne na 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, Savage Station
, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, da kuma Malvern Hill.