The Civil War in the East

23rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment

The regiment lost 4 officers and 31 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 54 enlisted men to disease.

 

Timeline of the 23rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment

 

Organized at Beverly, N.J.

September 13, 1862

Mustered in

September 26

Left State for Washington, D.C. then moved to Frederick, Md.,

October 8

March to Bakersville, Md. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac (the First New Jersey Brigade).

November 9-16

At New Baltimore

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

January-April, 1863

Duty near Falmouth, Va.

January 20-24

"Mud March"

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29-May 2

Operations at Franklin's Crossing

May 3

Battle of Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg

May 3-4

Salem Heights

May 4

Banks' Ford

 

Regiment volunteered for service before muster out during the Gettysburg Campaign, and moved to Harrisburg, Pa.

June 27, 1863

Mustered out