7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
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Organized at Camp Olden, TrentonTrenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, and mustered in September 3, 1861. 7 Companies left State for Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, September 19, 1861, and 3 Companies October 3, 1861.
Attached to:
- Casey's Provisional Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October 1861
- 3rd Brigade, Hooker's Division, Army of the PotomacArmy of the PotomacThe Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-History:The Army of the Potomac was created in 1861, but was then only the size of a corps . Its nucleus was called the Army of Northeastern Virginia, under Brig. Gen...
, to March 1862 - 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March 1864
- 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps, to May 1864
- 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July 1865
1861
- At Meridian Hill till December 6, 1861.
- Expedition to Lower Maryland November 3-11.
- Duty at Budd's Ferry, Md., till April 1862.
1862
- Moved to the Virginia Peninsula April 5-8
- Siege of YorktownSiege of YorktownThe Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis...
, Va., April 10-May 4 - Battle of WilliamsburgBattle of WilliamsburgThe Battle of Williamsburg, also known as the Battle of Fort Magruder, took place on May 5, 1862, in York County, James City County, and Williamsburg, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War...
May 5 - Battle of Fair Oaks (or Seven PinesBattle of Seven PinesThe Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive up the Virginia Peninsula by Union Maj. Gen....
) May 31-June 1 - Duty near Seven Pines till June 25
- Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1
- Action at Oak Grove (near Seven Pines) June 25
- Battle of Savage Station June 29
- Battle of GlendaleBattle of GlendaleThe Battle of Glendale, also known as the Battle of Frayser's Farm, Frazier's Farm, Nelson's Farm, Charles City Crossroads, New Market Road, or Riddell's Shop, took place on June 30, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, on the sixth day of the Seven Days Battles of the American Civil War.The...
June 30 - Battle of Malvern HillBattle of Malvern HillThe Battle of Malvern Hill, also known as the Battle of Poindexter's Farm, took place on July 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, on the seventh and last day of the Seven Days Battles of the American Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee launched a series of disjointed assaults on the nearly impregnable...
July 1 - At Harrison's Landing till August 15
- Movement to Centreville, Va., August 15-26
- Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 26-September 2
- Action at Bristoe Station (or Kettle Run) August 27
- Battle of Groveton August 29
- Second Battle of Bull RunSecond Battle of Bull RunThe Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen...
August 30 - Battle of ChantillyBattle of ChantillyThe Battle of Chantilly took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War. Thomas J...
September 1 - Duty in the Defences of Washington till November 1
- Movement to Falmouth, Va.. November 1-28
- Duty near Falmouth November 28-December 11
- Battle of FredericksburgBattle of FredericksburgThe Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside...
, Va., December 12-15 - Duty near Falmouth till April 27, 1863.
1863
- "Mud March" January 20-24
- Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church February 5-7
- Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6
- Battle of ChancellorsvilleBattle of ChancellorsvilleThe Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. Two related battles were fought nearby on...
May 1-6 - Gettysburg CampaignGettysburg CampaignThe Gettysburg Campaign was a series of battles fought in June and July 1863, during the American Civil War. After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved north for offensive operations in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The...
June 11-July 24 - Battle of GettysburgBattle of GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg , was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac...
July 1-3 - Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24
- Wapping Heights July 23
- Duty near Warrenton till October
- Bristoe CampaignBristoe CampaignThe Bristoe Campaign was a series of minor battles fought in Virginia during October and November 1863, in the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, commanding the Union Army of the Potomac, began to maneuver in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern...
October 9-22 - McLean's Ford October 15
- Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8
- Kelly's Ford November 7
- Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2
- Payne's Farm November 27
- Duty near Brandy Station till May 1864
1864
- Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7
- Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15
- Battle of the WildernessBattle of the WildernessThe Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by...
May 5-7 - Battle of Spotsylvania May 8-12
- Battle of Spotsylvania Court HouseBattle of Spotsylvania Court HouseThe Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania , was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged...
May 12-21 - Assault on the Salient ("Bloody Angle") May 12
- Harris Farm, Fredericksburg Road, May 19
- North Anna River May 23-26
- Ox Ford May 23-24
- On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28
- Totopotomoy May 28-31
- Cold Harbor June 1-12
- Before Petersburg June 16-18
- Siege of PetersburgSiege of PetersburgThe Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865, during the American Civil War...
June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865 - Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864
- Demonstration north of the James July 27-29
- Deep Bottom July 27-28
- Demonstration north of the James August 13-20
- Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18
- Ream's Station August 25
- Fort Sedgwick September 10
- Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2
- Yellow House October 2-5
- Boydton Plank Road. Hatcher's Run, October 27-28
- Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12
1865
- Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7
- Watkins' House March 25
- Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9
- Boydton and White Oak Road March 30-31
- Crow's House March 31
- Fall of Petersburg April 2
- Pursuit of Lee April 3-9
- Sailor's Creek April 6
- High Bridge, Farmville, April 7
- Appomattox Court House April 9
- Surrender of Lee and his army
- March to Washington, D.C., May 2-12
- Grand Review May 23
- Duty at Washington, D.C., till July