New Jersey State Monument

Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry

Colonel Ezra A. Carman, Commanding

Third Brigade, First Division Twelfth Corps.

Here this Regiment, seventeen days after leaving home, met "its Baptism of fire", September 17, 1862. The first to fall was Captain Hugh C. Irish, later in the day the regiment was heavily engaged in rear of the Dunkard Church, its loss during the day was 102, in the army of the Potomac, and afterwards with General Sherman's Army, the Regiment served until the close of the war.

First New Jersey Infantry

Lieut. Col. Mark W. Collett, Commanding

First Brigade, First Division Sixth Corps.

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th New Jersey Infantry and Hexamer's Battery A, were known as the "First New Jersey Brigade". These were the first three year Volunteers from the State. After serving through the peninsula campaign the Brigade on Sept. 14, 1862 performed such gallant service at Crampton's Pass as to call forth the High Commendation

 

 

Antietam Battlefield-Sharpsburg Md.

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