The 10th New Jersey Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 91 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 187 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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October 9 |
Organized at Beverly, N.J. under authority of the War Department as the "Olden Legion" under Colonel William Bryan. |
December 26 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. for Provost duty at Washington, D.C. |
1862 |
January 19 |
Colonel Bryan discharged and William R. Murphy appointed colonel. |
January 29 |
Transferred to State of New Jersey, reorganized and designated 10th Infantry. Attached to Wadsworth's Command, Military District of Washington, D.C. |
1863 |
February |
Assigned to District of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps |
March 13 |
Colonel Murphy resigned |
March 26 |
Henry O. Ryerson appointed colonel |
April 12 |
Ordered to Suffolk, Va. attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April 16-May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk, Va. |
April 24 |
Edenton Road |
May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk raised |
July |
Ordered to Washington, D.C., then to Philadelphia, Pa. attached to Dept. of the Susquehanna |
September |
On provost duty at Pottsville, Pa. |
October |
Guard fords of the Potomac at and near Shepherdstown |
November |
At Mauch Chunk. Pa., Sub-District of Carbon, Dept. of the Susquehanna |
1864 |
April |
Ordered to Join Army of the Potomac in the field. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness
Colonel Ryerson mortally wounded, dying on May 12 |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
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 17-July 9 |
Before Petersburg |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 9-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
July 11-12 |
Repulse of Early's attack on Fort Stevens and the Northern Defenses of Washington |
July 14-23 |
Pursuit of Early to Snicker's Gap, Va. |
July 17-18 |
Action at Snicker's Ferry |
August 7-
November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 14-16 |
Strasburg |
August 17 |
Winchester |
August 21 |
Point Pleasant |
September 19 |
Battle of Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October-December |
Duty in the Shenandoah Valley |
December |
Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Petersburg, Va. and the Siege of Petersburg |
1865 |
February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 |
Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 23-27 |
March to Danville |
March 18-June 3 |
March to Richmond, Va., then to Washington, D.C. |
June 8 |
Corps Review |
June 22 |
Mustered out at Hall's Hill, Va. |
