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The cost of fitting out and equipping these regiments was one hundred and seventy-seven thousand four hundred and seven- teen dollars and eighty-nine cents.
On the 3d of August a requisition was received from the Presi- dent for five additional regiments of infantry, of ten companies each, and one company of artillery, to be organized and equipped upon the same terms that the three last were, each regiment to be furnished by the State with a baggage train, and on the 8th day of September a regiment of riflemen, of twelve companies, and one company of artillery, was added to the last requisition.
These five regiments were armed with State muskets, altered from flint locks to percussion; the Ninth Regiment with the new model Springfield rifle-muskets, furnished by the Govern- ment.
The cost of organizing and equipping the five regiments of infantry, one of riflemen of twelve companies, two com- panies of artillery, and one. regiment of cavalry, was five hun- dred and fifty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty dollars, and eighty-five cents.
This regiment of cavalry was recruited by Honorable William Halsted, an eminent lawyer of Trenton, at that time in his seventieth year, under authority from the President of the United States, and was recruited in twenty days. It was after- wards attached to the State, and became the Sixteenth Regiment or First Cavalry.
These five regiments were numbered respectively, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Regiments, and were unifor- med, clothed, armed, equipped, and furnished with camp equi- page, horses, ambulances and baggage-wagons, by the State.
These regiments were raised under an order from the War Department of July 29th, 1861. The Fourth Regiment left
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Camp Olden, as also the independent regiment organized by Colonel Halsted on the 20th day of August, and arrived in Washington and reported for duty the next day. The Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Regiments, reported at Washing- ton during the months of August, September, and October, and went into camp at Meridian Hill .*
* Fourth Regiment : Colonel, James U. Simpson; Lieutenant-Colonel, J. L. Kirby Smith; Major, William B. Hatch; Adjutant, Josiah S. Studdiford; Surgeon, Alexander N. Dougherty; Assistant-Surgeon, Joseph D. Osborne; Quartermaster, Samuel C. Harbert; Chaplain, Norman W. Camp, D.D .; Sergeant-Major, Thomas W. Mooney; Quartermaster-Sergeant, James E. Sloan; Commissary-Sergeant, Joseph W. Martin; Hospital Steward, Theron N. Vangieson; Principal Musician, Joseph Mills, and seventeen privates as musicians, making an aggregate of nine hundred and eight.
Fifth Regiment : Colonel, Samuel H. Starr; Lieutenant-Colonel, Gershom Mott; Major, William S. Truex ; Adjutant, Caldwell K. Hall; Surgeon, James C. Fisher; Assistant-Surgeon, Addison W. Woodhull; Quartermaster, James F. Rusling; Chaplain, Thomas Sovereign; Sergeant- Major, William P. Wheeler; Quartermaster-Sergeant, George Sandt; Commissary-Sergeant, . Matthew L. Austin ; Hospital Steward, Edward P. Berry; Principal Musi- cian, Harry Frankenfield, and eleven privates as musicians. Total strength of the regiment, eight hundred and eleven. This regiment left Camp Olden on the 29th of August, and arrived at Washington on the 30th.
Sixth Regiment : Colonel, James T. Hatfield; Lieutenant-Colonel, Simp- son R. Stroud; Major, John P. Van Leer; Adjutant, Leonard J. Gerdon; Quartermaster, Joseph Woodward; Surgeon, John Wiley; Assistant-Surgeon, Redford Sharp; Chaplain, Samuel T. Moore; Sergeant-Major, Charles Mer- riam ; Quartermaster-Sergeant, Allen P. Tilton; Hospital Steward, Marshall C. Holmes; Fife-Major, David S. Bender; Drum-Major, Joseph Rogers; Principal Musician, William H. Geiger, and fourteen privates as musicians. Total, eight hundred and forty. This regiment left Camp Olden September 10th, and arrived at Washington on the 11th.
Seventh Regiment : Colonel, Joseph W. Revere; Lieutenant-Colonel, Ezra A. Carman ; Major, J. Dallas McIntosh; Adjutant, Francis Price, Jr. ; Qartermaster, Thomas P. Johnston ; Surgeon, D. W. C. Hough; Assistant- Surgeon, Alvin Satterthwaite; Chaplain, Julius D. Rose; Sergeant-Major, Paul Babcock, Jr. ; Quartermaster-Sergeant, Samuel R. McClough ; Com- missary-Sergeant, Anthony A. Hemenover; Hospital Steward, Silas B. Cooper ; Drum Major, John Hacker, and a Drum-Corps of twenty-two. Total in the regiment, nine hundred and twenty.
Seven companies of this regiment left Camp Olden September 19th, and reached Washington and reported for duty on the following day; the re-
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The Fourth Regiment was accompanied by a battery of six pieces, furnished by the State, and commanded by Captain William Hexamer, and to the Eighth was attached a battery of six pieces, commanded by Captain John E. Beam.
On the 5th of September the order to organize a regiment of riflemen comprising twelve companies was received from the War Department.
The first muster of this regiment was made at Camp Olden, Trenton, on the 5th of October. It remained at that camp, engaged in continuous drill, under experienced drill sergeants, . until December 4th, when it proceeded to Washington, where it arrived on the 6th.
This was raised as a regiment of sharpshooters, and was in- tended to excel any in the service. It was uniformed, clothed, equipped, and furnished with camp equipage, horses, ambu- lances, and baggage-wagons by the State.
Arriving at Washington, they encamped on the Bladensburg turnpike, about one mile from the Capital, where it remained until January 4th, 1862, when it proceeded by rail to Annapo- lis, to join the famous Burnside expedition. They on the 10th
maining three companies, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Car- man, left October 3d for Washington.
Eighth Regiment: Colonel, Adolphus J. Johnson; Lieutenant-Colonel, Thomas L. Martin ; Major, Joseph Trawin; Adjutant, Charles W. Johnson ; Quartermaster, Ralph Jefferson; Surgeon, Alexander J. McKelway; Assist- ant-Surgeon, H. Genet Taylor; Chaplain, A. St. John Chambre ; Quarter- master-Sergeant, Edwin C. Nichols; Commissary-Sergeant, Charles T. Bow- ers; Hospital Steward, Samuel Clark; Wagonmaster, John Hay; Drum- Major, Nathaniel P. Morris. This regiment left Camp Olden October Ist, and arrived in Washington on the 2d. To it was attached a battery of six pieces, commanded by Captain John E. Beam.
The following were the officers of Hexamer's Battery (Co. A): Captain, William Hexamer; First Lieutenants, John Fingerlin, Christian Woerner; Second Lieutenants, John J. Hoff, Adolph Valois; Assistant-Surgeon, Emil Ohlenshlager. This company comprised one hundred and fifty non-com- missioned officers and privates.
Beam's Battery (Co. B) was officered as follows : Captain, John E. Beam; First Lieutenants, John B. Munroe, A. Judson Clark; Second Lieutenants, George T. Woodbury, Samuel H. Baldwin, and one hundred and fifty-nine non-commissioned officers and privates.
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embarked on two vessels and sailed for Fortress Monroe, and on the 12th they set sail for Hatteras Inlet, soon after reaching which a violent gale arose, the wind blowing fiercely on shore, rendering the situation of those vessels that remained outside of the inlet extremely hazardous.
On the following day, the 15th, the sea having somewhat calmed, Colonel Allen, Lieutenant-Colonel Heckman, Surgeon Weller, Adjutant Zabriskie, and Quartermaster Keys, proceeded in the gig of the Captain of the ship Ann E. Thompson to the shore, for the purpose of reporting to General Burnside. Hav- ing concluded their interview with the General, they were returning to their ship, when they were struck by a heavy sea and their little craft capsized, throwing them into the angry billows. Lieutenant-Colonel Heckman and Adjutant Zabriskie being expert swimmers, used their utmost endeavors to save Colonel Allen, and Surgeon Weller, and the Mate of the ship, in vain ; for they sunk to rise no more, and their bodies were recovered during the day, and though every effort was made to resuscitate them, it was of no avail.
Their bodies were brought home, and lay in state in the Senate Chamber at Trenton, before final interment The funeral of the Colonel was attended by William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and a son of the President of the United States. This was one of the best regiments raised in the State .*
That these regiments acquitted themselves nobly, the records of the War Department fully show. t
* Ninth Regiment : Colonel, Joseph W. Allen; Lieutenant-Colonel, Charles A, Heckman ; Major, James Wilson; Adjutant, Abram Zabriskie; Quarter- master, Samuel Keys; Surgeon, Frederick S. Weller; Assistant-Surgeon, Louis Braun ; Chaplain, Thomas Drum ; Sergeant-Major, William A. Gulick ; Quartermaster-Sergeant, John Bamford; Commissary-Sergeant, Smith Bilder- back; Hospital Steward, John W. Lewis; Wagonmaster, Isaac W. Eayre; Drum-Major, John W. Johnston, and eleven privates as musicians. The regiment consisted of twelve companies, and one thousand one hundred and forty-nine men.
The battles participated in by these regiments were : Bull Run, July 21, 1861 ; Cold Harbor, May 6, and June 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1864, ten successive days; Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862; Newberne, March 14; Fort Macon, April 25; Williamsburg, May 5; West Point, May 7; Wilder-
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The Tenth Regiment, like the First Cavalry, was recruited under authority of the War Department, without the consent, and even against the wishes of the Governor.
The regiment proceeded to Washington in December, 1861, and in January, 1862, the Secretary of War applied to Governor Olden to take charge of the organization as a part of the quota of New Jersey and place it on a proper footing for service ; but this he declined to do, being unwilling to -become responsible for the character of an organization raised and officered in con- travention of all the rules he had established and observed in organizing other regiments .*
The command of this regiment was offered to Colonel William R. Murphy, who was willing to accept the command on condi- tion that the Quartermaster-General of the State should be directed to equip and supply the regiment like the others, and that he should be permitted to select the other officers. The Governor having assented to these conditions, Colonel Murphy at once prepared to accept the command, and on the 19th of February, 1862, reported to Brigadier-General Casey, at Wash- ington, was mustered in, and ordered to join the regiment.t
ness, before Richmond, May 8; Fair Oaks, June 1; Gaines' Mill, June 27; Young's Cross Roads, July 27; Antietam, September 16; Crampton's Pass, October 15; Rowell's Mill, November 7; Fredericksburg, December 11 ; . Deep Creek, December 12; Southwest Creek, December 13; before Kinston, December 13; Kinston, December 14; Whitehall, December 16; Golds- borough, December 17; Chancellorsville, May 8, 1863; Gettysburg, July 1 ; Comfort, July 6; near Winton, July 26; Petersburg, January 29, 1864; Deep Creek, February 7; Cherry Grove, April 14; Port Walthall, May 6 and 7; Swift Creek, May 9 and 10; Drury's Bluff, May 12, 13 14, 15 and 16, five successive days; Petersburg, from June 20 to August 24; Gardner's Bridge, December 9; Foster's Bridge, December 15; Butler's Bridge, December 11 ; near Southwest Creek, March 7, 1865; Wise's Fork, March 8, 9 and 10; Goldsborough, March 21; Shenandoah Valley, Deep Bottom, Jerusalem Plan': Road, Hatcher's Run, and other places.
* The first officers of this regiment upon its organization at Beverly, were : Colonel, William E. Bryan; Lieutenant-Colonel, John M. Wright; Major, Matthew Berryman.
t The following were its officers under the new arrangement: Colonel, William R. Murphy; Lieutenant Colonel, Charles II. Tay; Major, Daniel Lodor, Jr .; Adjutant, Edward E. Kendrick; Quartermaster, Samuel S. Smith;
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Colonel Murphy thoroughly reorganized the regiment ; such officers as had given evidence of their efficiency were retained, while inefficient ones were discharged from the service, and others appointed to fill the vacancies thus occasioned .*
The Adjutant-General, in his report to the Legislature of the State, uses the following language in reference to this regiment :
"The regimentst spoken of in my last annual report, as com- posed of citizens of this State, recruited in the fall of 1861, and accepted by the War Department as independent organizations, were found to be, from various causes, in a partially demoralized condition. On the 29th of January an order was issued from the War Department placing these regiments under the care of the State authorities, and authorizing the appointment of officers in the mode prescribed for the State regiments. Captain Wil- liam R. Murphy, of Trenton, was appointed Colonel, January 29th, 1862, and immediately took charge of the infantry regi- ment, then stationed at Georgetown, D. C. The regiment was thoroughly reorganized, such officers as had given evidence of their efficiency being retained, while inefficient ones were dis- charged from the service, and others appointed to fill the vacan- cies thus occasioned. The regiment was designated the Tenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, and under competent officers,
Surgeon, Otis R. Freeman; Assistant-Surgeons, Richard Thomas Jr., Pelatialı Fitch; Chaplain, J. B. Graw.
* The engagements this regiment participated in were, on the 24th of April, 1863, in a skirmish with a portion of Longstreet's men, defeating them on the Edentown road. It shared in all the battles of the Wilderness, and fought with its corps all the way to Petersburg, on every field displaying con- spicuous gallantry. On the 6th of May it suffered severely in the assault of the rebel General Gordon on our right; in the engagement resulting from this the regiment lost nearly one entire company. In the fighting along the Po, the Tenth shared with the brigade, and at Cold Harbor again suffered largely. From this time forward until the appearance of the army before Petersburg, the regiment was constantly on duty. On the 15th of August it participated in a sharp picket skirmish near Strasburg, and two days after took part in the battle of Winchester. At the close of this affair, the Tenth, which crossed the Rapidan in May with six hundred men, had only eighty men left for duty, showing better than words could express it, the sad experience this regiment had undergone.
t Tenth Regiment and Halsted's Cavalry (Sixteenth Regiment).
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soon attained a commendable degree of discipline and efficiency. During the greater part of the time it has been in service, the regiment has been stationed at Washington, doing duty as pro- vost guard, which duty has been performed in a manner credit- able alike to officers and men. One company (G) of this regi- ment, originally recruited and mustered as a cavalry company, was upon the transfer of the regiment to the care of the State disbanded, and its officers mustered out of service. A company of infantry to fill the vacancy was recruited, and under the com- mand of Captain Charles H. McChesney, of Trenton, forwarded to join the regiment June 12, 1862.
"The regiment of cavalry at the time of its transfer to the care of the State, was also thoroughly reorganized ; inefficient officers being discharged and their places filled by careful selec- tions, and the regiment placed under command of Colonel Percy Wyndham. This regiment has been in almost constant service in the field since its reorganization, and has won golden opinions · from those under whose command it has been placed. The lamented Bayard spoke in the highest terms of the men and their gallant officers while under his command."*
* Report of Adjutant-General R. F. Stockton to the Legislature of New Jersey, December 31, 1862.
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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
1862-1872.
Location of Camps for recruiting-Eleventh to the Fifteenth Regi- ments-Premiums to Volunteers-Draft ordered-Quota filled without draft-Sixteenth to the Thirty- First Regiments-Har- risburg threatened-New Jersey troops fly to the rescue- Thirty-second Regiment (Second Cavalry), Battery D- Thirty-third to the Thirty-sixth Regiments-Batteries C and E-Thirty-seventh to the Fortieth Regiments-National Guard Law.
C N the 7th of July, 1862, the President issued a call for three hundred thousand additional volunteers, to serve for three years or during the war, the quota of New Jersey being five regiments of infantry, of ten companies each, the recruiting, organizing, clothing, and subsisting to be exclusively under the control of the Governor.
Immediately upon the receipt of this call he caused five camps to be located in different parts of the State, in its five different · military divisions. Accordingly Camp Perrine was established at Trenton, under command of Major Charles M. Herbert, where the Eleventh Regiment was recruited. Camp Stockton, at Woodbury, under the command of Major Benjamin Acton, where the Twelfth Regiment was recruited. Camp Freling- huysen, at Newark, under command of Colonel Cornelius Van Vorst, where the Thirteenth Regiment was recruited. Camp Vredenburgh, at Freehold, under command of Major William S Stryker, the present Adjutant-General of the State, where the Fourteenth Regiment was recruited. Camp Fair Oaks, at Flemington, under command of Colonel Charles Scranton, where the Fifteenth Regiment was recruited.
On the same day the call was made for troops the Govern- ment issued an order for the payment of a premium of two dollars for each recruit, and each to receive one month's pay in advance, and an additional sum of twenty-five dollars on the
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one hundred dollars bounty provided by Congress, to be paid to volunteers upon the expiration of their term of enlistment.
In accordance with this, the Eleventh Regiment received a bounty, amounting to $5,950, the advance pay to the five regiments, amounted to $60, 278, and the premiums $7,316.
The Eleventh Regiment was mustered on the 18th of August, 1862, with a total of nine hundred and seven men, and was forwarded to Washington the 25th of August .*
The Twelfth Regiment was mustered September 4, 1862, and forwarded to Washington September 6th. The strength of this regiment was nine hundred and seventy-nine.f
The Thirteenth Regiment was mustered August 25th, 1862, and forwarded to Washington the 31st. Its strength was eight hundred and eighty men.Į
The Fourteenth Regiment was mustered August 26th, 1862, and forwarded to Washington on the Ist of September. Its strength was nine hundred and sixty-three men. §
The Fifteenth Regiment was mustered August 25th, and for- warded to Washington on the 29th, with a strength of nine hundred and fourteen men.||
* Eleventh Regiment : Colonel, Robert McAllister; Lieutenant-Colonel, Stephen Moore; Major, Valentine Mutchler; Adjutant, John Schoonover; Quartermaster, Garret Schenck; Surgeon, Edward L. Welling; Assistant Surgeons, Edward Byington, Edwin B. Young; Chaplain, Frederick Knighton.
t Twelfth Regiment : Colonel, Robert C. Johnson ; Lieutenant-Colonel, J. Howard Willets; Major, Thomas H. Davis; Adjutant, Henry C. Paxson; Quartermaster, Joseph Frank Brown; Surgeon, Alvin Satterthwait; Assistant Surgeons, Samuel T. Miller, Uriah Gilman ; Chaplain, William B. Otis.
# Thirteenth Regiment: Colonel, Ezra A. Carman; Lieutenant-Colonel, Robert'S. Swords; Major, Samuel Chadwick; Adjutant, Charles A. Hopkins ; Quartermaster, Garret Byrne; Surgeon, John J. H. Love; Assistant Surgeons, J. Addison Freeman, William Wallace Cornell; Chaplain, T. Romeyn Beck.
¿ Fourteenth Regiment : Colonel, William S. Truex; Lieutenant-Colonel, Caldwell K. Hall; Major, P. Vredenburg, Jr .; Adjutant, F. Lemuel Buck- elew; Quartermaster, Enoch L. Cowart; Surgeon, Ambrose Treganowan ; Assistant Surgeons, Joseph B. Martin, Joseph S. Martin; Chaplain, Frank B. Rose.
|| Fifteenth Regiment : Colonel, Samuel Fowler; Lieutenant-Colonel, Ed- ward L. Campbell; Major, James M. Brown; Adjutant, William P. Seymour;
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The Adjutant-General says of these regiments: "Soon after reporting for duty to the War Department, these regiments were assigned to important positions in the army of the Potomac, and such of them as have had opportunity, have added new lustre to the fame of the New Jersey Volunteers, in some of the severest battles of the fall and winter campaign. A conspicuous instance of gallantry was furnished by the Thirteenth Regiment, which, within three weeks from the time they left the State, took part in the action of September 17th, near Sharpsburg, Maryland; and although worn out by weary marches went gallantly into action, and by their noble conduct won the praise of all who saw them. The regiment lost in this action in killed, wounded, and missing, one hundred and nine officers and men."
On the 4th of August, 1862, the President ordered that a draft of three hundred thousand militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve for nine months, unless sooner discharged.
.The order from the War Department directed that an enroll- ment be immediately made of all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and that the quota of this State is ten thousand four hundred and seventy- eight men. A subsequent order, dated August 14th, directed that "The draft for three hundred thousand militia, ordered by the President, be made on Wednesday, the third day of Sep- tember, between the hours of 9 o'clock A.M. and 5 o'clock P. M. and continued from day to day, between the same hours, until completed." In pursuance of the several orders the enrollment was ordered in each county of the State, commissioners and examining surgeons were appointed, places of rendezvous for drafted men were designated, and the table of quotas prepared for publication.
At this juncture an order was received from the War Depart- ment allowing credits to counties and sub-divisions of counties,
Quartermaster, Lowe Emerson; Surgeon, Redford Sharp; Assistant Surgeons, George R. Sullivan, George S. Dearborn ; Chaplain, Alanson A. Haines.
* Report of Adjutant-General Stockton, December 31, 1862.
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for all volunteers theretofore furnished by them and mustered into the service of the United States, and whose stipulated term of service had not expired.
"This involved the necessity of ascertaining the number of three years' volunteers that had been furnished by each county and township.
"A general desire was manifested by our citizens to fill the quota of the State by voluntary enlistment, and thus avoid the draft ; but, under the order providing for the enrollment, the time allowed was so short that the returns of the commissioners could not be obtained before the time fixed for the draft, and thus the people be forced to a draft, when, if time was given, New Jersey could raise her quota by voluntary enlistment. More time was requested of the War Department, but denied, and it seemed to be a time for State officials to take responsibility upon themselves and act with promptness and energy ; for the people had a right to know what number of men they were required to raise in time to use all endeavor to raise that number without a draft."*
On the 19th of August a general order issued from the office of the Adjutant-General, announced the quota for each county, city and township in the State. It was then announced that volunteers in lieu of drafted men would be received up to Sep- tember Ist, and if any township at that time failed to furnish its quota, that then the draft would positively take place in that township, to make up the balance of the quota not filled up to that time.
The Adjutant-General says: "The result was gratifying beyond all expectation. For several days previous to the time fixed for the draft, men poured into camp by thousands, and by the evening of the 2d of September, the five camps contained ten thousand eight hundred volunteers, which number was sub- sequently reduced by medical examination to ten thousand seven hundred and fourteen, being two hundred and thirty-six more than the number called for."
On the morning of the 3d, the day fixed for the draft to
* Report of Adjutant-General for 1862.
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commence, Adjutant-General Stockton telegraphed to the Adju- tant-General of the United States, that the quota of New Jersey was in camp, without a single drafted man, and claimed as a right that they should be accepted as nine months' volunteers. This claim was denied, although without question a just one, as this was the only State whose quota was in camp.
The camps of rendezvous had been established at five points in the State, and the following commandants appointed: Ren- dezvous No. 1, at Trenton, Brigadier-General N. Norris Halsted, Commandant.
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