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The state of New Jersey in the United States provided a source of troops, equipment and leaders for the Union during the American Civil War.Though no major battles were fought in New Jersey, soldiers and volunteers from New Jersey played an important part in the war, including Philip Kearny and George B. McClellan, who led the Army of the Potomac early in the Civil War and unsuccessfully ran ...
Hicks advocated the plan in a January 2, 1861, letter to Delaware Governor William Burton. [4] As the southern Confederacy peacefully formed, sentiment among the newspapers and people of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York were at its highest for the formation of a Central Confederacy. [5]
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Unshaded areas were not states before or during the Civil War. Historical military map of the border and southern states by Phelps & Watson, 1866. In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union.
The 4th New Jersey Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Overall, the regiment lost 5 officers and 156 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 103 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
The 1st New Jersey Cavalry Regiment was organized at Trenton, New Jersey, under authority of the United States Department of War on August 14, 1861, by William Halstead, a former congressman who served as first Colonel of the regiment. [1] Twelve enlisted soldiers of the regiment performed actions which later earned them the Medal of Honor ...
The 2nd New Jersey Infantry Regiment was first organized at Trenton, New Jersey for three months service on April 26, 1861 and mustered in May 1, 1861 under the command of Colonel George W. McLean. The regiment was attached to Runyon's New Jersey Brigade, Defenses of Washington, to June 1861. 1st Brigade, Runyon's Reserve Division, McDowell's ...
New Jersey and the Rebellion: A History of the services of the troops and people of New Jersey in aid of the Union cause. Newark, New Jersey, US: Martin R. Dennis & Co. by authority of the State of New Jersey. ISBN 0-8328-6032-8. Anderson, Eric (1981). Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872–1901: The Black Second. Baton Rouge, Louisiana ...