The Civil War in the East

24th New Jersey Infantry Regiment

Regiment lost 3 officers and 46 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 53 enlisted men to disease, a total of 102.

 

Timeline of the

 

Organized at Camp Cadwallader, Beverly, N.J.

September 16, 1862

Mustered in

September 30

Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to District of Washington at Camp Ingham on East Capital Hill

October 14

At Camp Nixon near Chain Bridge attached to Provisional Brigade, Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington

October 18

Picketing Leesburg Road and fatigue duty at Forts Ethan Allen and Marcy

October 25

At Camp Cumberland

December 1-9

March to Falmouth, Va. attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va

December-

At Camp Knight

January 1863

At Camp Robertson

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 29, 1863

Mustered out at Beverly, N.J.