The Civil War in the East

15th New Jersey Infantry Regiment

The 15th New Jersey Infantry Regiment lost 8 officers and 232 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 131 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1862

 

Organized at Camp Fair Oaks, near Flemmington, N. J.

August 25

Mustered in

August 27

Left State for Washington, D.C. At Tennallytown, D.C. constructing Fort Kearney.

September 30

Moved to Frederick, Md. then to Bakerville, attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

October 29-
November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

January-April

Duty near Falmouth, Va.

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 by Col. William H. Penrose. It brought 441 men to the field and lost three wounded.

 

The regiment is honored on the New Jersey Brigade Monument at Gettysburg.

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va.

July 5

Fairfield, Pa.

July 10-13

At and near Funkstown, Md.

July-September

In camp near Warrenton

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

1864

December-May

Duty 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

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 17-19

Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins

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, D.C.

July 14-23

Pursuit of Early to Snicker's Gap

July 17-18

Snicker's Ferry

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

October-December

Duty in the Shenandoah Valley

December

Moved to Washington, D.C. then to Petersburg, Va. and Siege of Petersburg

1865

February 5-7

Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Assault and capture 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-June 3

March to Richmond, Va. then to Washington, D.C.

June 8

Corps Review

June 22

Mustered out at Hall's Hill, Va.