United States Regiments & Batteries > New Jersey > Twelfth New Jersey Infantry Regiment
The Twelfth New Jersey Infantry Regiment lost 9 officers and 168 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 99 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument and marker at Gettysburg and a monument on the Wilderness battlefield.
1862
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The regiment was organized at Camp Stockton, at Woodbury, New Jersey, under the command of Colonel Robert C. Johnson and Lieutenant Colonel John Howard Willets. | |
September 4 | The Twelfth New Jersey Infantry Regiment mustered in |
September 7 | Left New Jersey for Baltimore, Maryland. Attached to Defenses of Baltimore, Maryland, 8th Corps, Middle Dept. |
September 8 | Guard duty at Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland. |
December 10 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
December 13-17 | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac |
December 20 | At Falmouth, Virginia. |
1863
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February 27 | Colonel Robert Johnson was discharged for disability due to a fall from his horse. Lieutenant Colonel John Willets was promoted to colonel. |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of ChancellorsvilleColonel John Willets was wounded in his arm and face, and eventually was discharged for disability. |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe Twelfth New Jersey Infantry Regiment was commanded by Major John T. Hill. It brought 532 men to the field, losing 23 killed, 83 wounded and 9 missing. From the monument to the 12th New Jersey 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 along the 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
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February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan and Morton’s Ford |
March | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps |
May 3-June 15 | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the WildernessThere is a monument to the 12th New Jersey Infantry Regiment at the corner of Brock Road and Orange Plank Road on the battlefield. |
May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
May 10 |
Po River |
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 |
First Assault on Petersburg |
June 16-18 |
Siege of Petersburg |
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
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February 5-7 |
Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run |
February | John Willian was 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 HouseSurrender 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 | The Twelfth New Jersey Infantry Regiment mustered out at Washington, D.C. |