37th New Jersey Infantry Regiment

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The 37th New Jersey Infantry Regiment lost 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 13 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
The 37th New Jersey Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Delaware in Trenton, N.J. for three months service. They were intended for guarding rear areas and handling supplies to free up veterans for front line duty. They received minimal training, although many of the men were veterans of other regiments which had mustered out. They were armed, although some only had smoothbore muskers. But due to manpower needs they ended up being assigned to combat duty in the trenches.
June 23 Mustered in under the command of Colonel E. Burd Grubb, former colonel of the 23rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment. Colonel Grubb’s younger brother, Parker Grubb, served as the regimental Adjutant. He would die of disease. Lieutenant Colonel John S. Barlow served as second in command.
June 28 Left New Jersey for City Point, Va.
July 1

Siege of Petersburg

Assigned to 10th Corps, Army of the James. Fatigue duty at Point of Rocks, Virginia, and at Redoubt Converse on Spring Hill, near the Appomattox River.
August Assigned to duty by detachments at Broadway Landing, unloading vessels at Corps Headquarters, with the Ambulance Corps. At Point of Rocks in charge of Commissary Department.
August 28 Duty in trenches before Petersburg, Virginia, in rear of Hare House Battery. The regiment lost 8 men killed or mortally wounded and 29 men wounded dueing this month.
September 5 Private Theodore H. Gardner of Company G was killed.
September 12 Lieutenant Colonel John S. Barlow died of disease.
September 15 Private Joseph Bryer of Company D was killed and Corporal George Garwine of Company D was mortally wounded.
September 20 Private Alexander Carpenter of Company I was killed.
September 24 Private Philip Williamson of Company E was killed.
September 25 Private William Morehouse of Company B was killed, and Private Joseph Bryer of Company D died of his wound from the 15th.
September 26 Ordered to Trenton, N.J
October 1 The 37th New Jersey Infantry Regiment mustered out at Trenton, N.J.