Timeline of the 2nd New Jersey Infantry (3 years service) |
May 27, 1861 |
Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, N.J. |
June 27 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Runyon's Reserve Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run, Va. (Reserve) |
August |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Kearney's Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
October |
Attached to Kearney's Brigade, Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac |
March, 1862 |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 8-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
April 1 |
Advance from Alexandria to Bristoe Station attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
April 17 |
Embarked for the Virginia Peninsula |
April 19-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown, Va. (on transports) |
May 7-8 |
West Point; attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 27 |
Battle of Gaines Mill and Garnett's Farm |
June 28 |
Golding's Farm |
June 30 |
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July - August |
At Harrison's Landing |
June 16-26 |
Movement to Fortress Monroe and Manassas, Va. |
August 26-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 27 |
Action at Bull Run Bridge, Manassas |
August 30 |
Battle of Bull Run |
August 30-31 |
Cover Pope's retreat to Centreville |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Battle of Crampton's Gap, South Mountain
From the monument: "Late in the afternoon the Brigade advanced from the fields north and west of Burkittsville, charged up the mountain, carried this point, and followed the enemy to the west foot of the mountain. Loss in the Brigade 40 killed, 134 wounded" |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
The brigade was commanded by its senior colonel, Alfred T. A. Torbert of the 1st New Jersey. The 2nd was commanded by Colonel Samuel L. Buck.
From the monument: "The Brigade arrived upon the field from Crampton's Pass about noon, and was formed for a charge upon the Confederate line just North of the Dunkard Church. The order for the charge was countermanded, and the brigade took position across this road, in support of the 6rh Corps Artillery, the right of the brigade in woods North of the road, the left in the open field South, where it remained, under artillery fire, until the morning of the 19th."
From the marker: "This stone marks the right of the brigade, when a little after noon it was formed to charge the woods North of the Dunkard Church. The order was countermanded and the brigade moved a short distance to the left to support the Corps Artillery, soon after which Hexamer's Battery engaged and silenced the Confederate Artillery at Dunkard Church." |
September 18 |
Duty at Sharpsburg, Md. |
October 29-November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
January-April 1863 |
Duty at Falmouth |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations at Franklin's Crossing |
May 3 |
Battle of Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May 4 |
Banks Ford |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
Commanded at Gettysburg by Lt. Col. Charles Wiebecke. It brought 405 men to the field and suffered six wounded.
From the brigade monument: "First Brigade New Jersey Volunteers. Brig. Gen. Alfred T.A. Torbert, 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 15th Regiments Infantry 1st Brigade, 1st Div., 6th Corps. July 2, in reserve, July 3 and 4 detached from the corps, held this position." |
July 5 |
Fairfield, Pa. |
July 10-13 |
At and near Funkstown, Md. |
July |
Near Warrenton, Va. |
September 15 |
At Culpeper |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Rappahannock Station |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
December-
May 1864 |
At Brandy Station |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle" |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
May 29 |
Non-Veterans relieved for muster out. Veterans and Recruits temporarily attached to 15th New Jersey Infantry |
June 1-12 |
Battles about Cold Harbor |
June 17-19 |
Before Petersburg; beginning of Siege of Petersburg |
June 21 |
Non-Veterans mustered out at Newark, N.J. |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 9-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
July 11-12 |
Repulse of Early's attack on Fort Stevens and the Northern Defenses of Washington |
July 14-23 |
Pursuit of Early to Snicker's Gap, Va. |
August 7-November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 14-15 |
Strasburg |
August 15 |
Cedar Creek |
August 17 |
Winchester |
August 21-22 |
Charlestown |
September 19 |
Battle of Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
Otober |
Duty in the Shenandoah Valley |
December |
Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Petersburg, Va. to continue the Siege of Petersburg |
December 17 |
Reorganized as a Battalion |
February 5-7, 1865 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 23-27 |
March to Danville |
May 18 |
March to Richmond, Va. |
May 18-June 3 |
To Washington, D.C. |
June 8 |
Corps Review |
July 11, 1865 |
Mustered out at Hall's Hill, Va. |
