The Civil War in the East

23rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment

The 23rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 31 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 54 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1862

 

Organized at Beverly, N.J.

September 13

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

Duty near Falmouth, Va.

1863

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

Mustered out