1862 |
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Organized at Camp Stockton, Woodbury, N.J. Colonel Robert C. Johnson and Lieutenant Colonel John Howard Willets. |
September 4 |
Mustered in |
September 7 |
Left State for Baltimore, Md. Attached to Defenses of Baltimore, Md., 8th Army Corps, Middle Dept. |
September 8 |
Guard duty at Ellicott's Mills, Md. |
December 10 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
December 13-17 |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
December 20 |
At Falmouth, Va. |
1863 |
February 27 |
Colonel Johnson discharged for disability due to a fall from his horse. Lieutenant Colonel Willets promoted to colonel. |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville
Colonel Willets wounded in his arm and face, and eventually was discharged for disability. |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Maj. John T. Hill. It brought 532 men to the field, losing 23 killed, 83 wounded and 9 missing.
From the monument north of the Angle: "In memory of the men of the Twelfth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers who upon this field July 2 & 3, 1863, and who elsewhere died under the flag this monument is dedicated by their surviving comrades as an example to future generations."
"Buck & Ball, Calibre. 69.
Two charges were made by this regiment on Bliss's Barn. July 2d & 3d 1863, capturing it."
"Lost on this field; killed, 2 officers, 20 men; wounded, 4 officers, 80 men; missing 9, total 115."
From the marker by the Bliss farm: "Erected by the State of New Jersey, 1888, in honor of the 12th Regiment of volunteers, a detachment of which in the afternoon of July 2nd, 1863, charged the Bliss house and barn here capturing the enemy's skirmish reserve of 7 officers and 85 men stationed therein. On the morning of July 3, another detachment of the regiment charged, capturing the buildings, one officer and one man, and driving back the skirmish reserve. The regiment lost in their charges 60 officers and men." |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap |
August-September |
Duty on Orange & Alexandria Railroad |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
September-October |
Picket duty on the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 28-30 |
Mine Run |
December |
At Stevensburg |
1864 |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan and Morton's Ford |
March |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps
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May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 10 |
Po River |
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 |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
1865 |
February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
February |
John Willian promoted to colonel. |
March 25 |
Watkins House |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 30-31 |
Boydton and White Oak Roads |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
High Bridge, Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May 2-12 |
March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June |
Duty at Washington, D.C. |
July 15 |
Mustered out at Washington, D.C. |
