7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

Contents 1 Organizing 2 SERVICE 2.1 1861 2.2 1862 2.3 1863 2.4 1864 2.5 1865 3 Disbanding 4 Sources

Organizing

Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey, and mustered in September 3, 1861. 7 Companies left State for Washington, D.C., September 19, 1861, and 3 Companies October 3, 1861.

Attached to:

• Casey's Provisional Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October 1861
• 3rd Brigade, Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March 1864
• 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps, to May 1864
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July 1865

SERVICE

1861

• At Meridian Hill till December 6, 1861.
• Expedition to Lower Maryland November 3-11.
• Duty at Budd's Ferry, Md., till April 1862.

1862

• Moved to the Virginia Peninsula April 5-8
• Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 10-May 4
• Battle of Williamsburg May 5
• Battle of Fair Oaks (or Seven Pines) May 31-June 1
• Duty near Seven Pines till June 25
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1
• Action at Oak Grove (near Seven Pines) June 25
• Battle of Savage Station June 29
• Battle of Glendale June 30
• Battle of Malvern Hill July 1
• At Harrison's Landing till August 15
• Movement to Centreville, Va., August 15-26
• Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 26-September 2
• Action at Bristoe Station (or Kettle Run) August 27
• Battle of Groveton August 29
• Second Battle of Bull Run August 30
• Battle of Chantilly September 1
• Duty in the Defences of Washington till November 1
• Movement to Falmouth, Va.. November 1-28
• Duty near Falmouth November 28-December 11
• Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15
• Duty near Falmouth till April 27, 1863.

1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24
• Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church February 5-7
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6
• Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-6
• Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24
• Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3
• Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24
• Wapping Heights July 23
• Duty near Warrenton till October
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22
• McLean's Ford October 15
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8
• Kelly's Ford November 7
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2
• Payne's Farm November 27
• Duty near Brandy Station till May 1864

1864

• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7
• Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15
• Battle of the Wilderness May 5-7
• Battle of Spotsylvania May 8-12
• Battle of Spotsylvania Court House May 12-21
• Assault on the Salient ("Bloody Angle") May 12
• Harris Farm, Fredericksburg Road, May 19
• North Anna River May 23-26
• Ox Ford May 23-24
• On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28
• Totopotomoy May 28-31
• Cold Harbor June 1-12
• Before Petersburg June 16-18
• Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865
• Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864
• Demonstration north of the James July 27-29
• Deep Bottom July 27-28
• Demonstration north of the James August 13-20
• Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18
• Ream's Station August 25
• Fort Sedgwick September 10
• Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2
• Yellow House October 2-5
• Boydton Plank Road. Hatcher's Run, October 27-28
• Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12

1865

• Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7
• Watkins' House March 25
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9
• Boydton and White Oak Road March 30-31
• Crow's House March 31
• Fall of Petersburg April 2
• Pursuit of Lee April 3-9
• Sailor's Creek April 6
• High Bridge, Farmville, April 7
• Appomattox Court House April 9
• Surrender of Lee and his army
• March to Washington, D.C., May 2-12
• Grand Review May 23
• Duty at Washington, D.C., till July

Disbanding

Mustered out July 17, 1865. Non-Veterans mustered out at Trenton October 7, 1864. <dy_1360>Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 126 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 121 Enlisted men by disease. Total 260.

Sources

http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnjinf2.htm#7thinf