A Complete and Comprehensive History of the Ninth Regiment New Jersey Vols. Infantry: From Its First Organization to Its Final Muster OutA unit history of the Ninth New Jersey Infantry Regiment, active from 1861-1865. |
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A Complete and Comprehensive History of the Ninth Regiment New Jersey Vols ... Hermann Everts No preview available - 2012 |
A Complete and Comprehensive History of the Ninth Regiment New Jersey Vols ... Hermann Everts No preview available - 2016 |
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18th Army Corps 27th Mass Abram Zabriskie April arrived artillery August bivouacked Brigade Burlington Camp Olden Carolina City cavalry charge Cold Harbor Colonel comm command companies December deserted died at Newbern died in rebel disability discharged at Beaufort discharged at expiration discharged at Newbern discharged for promotion Drury's Bluff enemy expedition February fire Fort Monroe Germany Goldsboro Greensboro halted Heckmann Hufty Hunterdon Ireland James Stewart January John July June 14 killed Kinston March 14 Middlesex miles Morehead City mustered out June Newark Newport Barracks night Ninth New Jersey November Ocean officers Petersburg Philadelphia picket promoted 1st Lieut promoted 2d Lieut Re-Enlisted rebel prison Recruits received river Roanoke Island sailed Salem Surgeon F. B. Gillette Sussex taken prisoner Thomas Trenton troops typhoid fever Walthall Warren William Wise's Fork wounded at Newbern wounded in hand wounded in left wounded in right York
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Page 177 - I received an answer stating that an accident had happened to the downward train, and that no train would run for a day or so. I immediately took up line of march, and that evening encamped thirteen miles from Charlotte. The next morning I resumed the march and arrived in Charlotte at...
Page 177 - Charlotte at 5.30 pm I found the town filled with rebel soldiers; raids were made by mobs on stores that had been left by the rebels. Drunkenness and disorder generally had been the order of the day. I immediately issued an order assuming command of the post; also, another prohibiting the sale of all kinds of spirituous liquors. After my arrival good order prevailed. The following is the list of store?
Page 177 - ... been left by the rebels. Drunkenness and disorder generally had been the order of the day. I immediately issued an order, assuming command of the post, also another, prohibiting the sale of all kinds of spirituous liquors. After my arrival, good order prevailed. The following is the list of stores taken possession of, and guarded by my command : Medical Purveyor's establishment, containing a large quantity of medical stores ; there being no Surgeon in my command, I had no means of determining...
Page 177 - I marched to Concord and telegraphed to Charlotte for a train. I received an answer stating that an accident had happened to the downward train, and that no train would run for a day or so. I immediately took up line of march, and that evening...
Page 178 - Friday, at.5 pm, 1 received an order by telegraph to report to my regiment without delay. The next day, the 13th, I had my command placed on cars, and. reported at regimental headquarters at Greensborough at 4 pm the same day.
Page 178 - Navy-Yard; a number of boxes said to contain the records of the rebel War Department and all the archives of the so-called Southern Confederacy; also, boxes said to contain all the colors and battle-flags captured from the National forces since the beginning of the war; a quantity of naval stores and a quantity of commissary stores ; a branch of the US mint was found, containing the machinery connected with it, all in good order. On Friday, the 12th, Brigadier-General Thomas, of the Third Brigade,...
Page 119 - ... windings, east, west, north and south, as there is perhaps not another on this continent nor in Europe with its picturesque sceneries. Coming to White House landing, we passed, on both sides, a number of vessels of all descriptions, some of them with four, five, and six lights of different colors ; it was a grand and beautiful spectacle, reminding one more of the entering of one of the greatest ports of the new or old world, instead of approaching of a nearly unknown place which, previous to...
Page 133 - ... dispersed after the battle of Sharpsburg. It is probable that if a strong regiment of Marylanders under the Maryland flag had marched with Lee at that time it might have been made the rallying point of a new division. CHAPTER VIII. MARYLAND UNDER FEDERAL MILITARY POWER. GOVERNOR HICKS did not respond to the first call of the President of the United States for troops until he had delivered the State over to the Federal authorities, securely tied, handcuffed and gagged, and when habeas corpus was...
Page 108 - According to subsequent accounts, made by rebel prisoners and rebel official reports, " the loss of the rebels in front of this Heckmann's Brigade doubled in number the whole of that brigade !" The loss of the Ninth was ten killed, seventy-seven wounded, and seventy-five missing ; the loss on Thursday, when regiment left camp, and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, was two killed and twenty-three wounded ; making a total of twelve killed, 100 wounded, and 75 missing during this five days
Page 178 - Yankees, without being compelled to lay down, or without being ordered to do so. There were others who did not like the way pursued by their Generals ; these would rather have fought on than to succumb, but the majority were tired of the war. Many stated that they would never have been in the rebel army, if they could have avoided it. The delay at Salisbury was very...