21st New Jersey Infantry Regiment

The Regiment lost 1 officer and 20 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 30 enlisted men to disease, a total of 52.

 

Timeline of the 21st New Jersey Infantry Regiment

 

Organized at Trenton, N.J.

September 15, 1862

Mustered in

September 16

Left State for Washington, D.C.

September 18

Moved to Frederick, Md. and Joined Army of the Potomac on battlefield of Antietam, Md. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September-October

Duty at Hagerstown, Md., and guard duty at Dam No. 5

October 29-November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

December 11-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

December 11

Cover laying of pontoons and Bowling Green Road in support of Weirs' Maryland Battery.

January 20-24

"Mud March"

January-April 1863

Duty near White Oak Church and constructing corduroy road below Fredericksburg

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 19, 1863

Mustered out at Trenton, N. J.