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A Brief Account of the 8th New Jersey Volunteers, Company H, During the Early Part of the American Civil War: The Text of the Presentation Made Before the Warren County Historical Society on October 9, 1993 (Flemington, NJ: s.n.), 1993. Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908).
As part of the January 1, 1776 organization of the Continental Army, Huntington's 8th Connecticut Regiment became the 17th Continental Regiment. [ 7 ] : 95 Originally planned to have a strength of 728 officers and men, by the end of January the 17th only had about 400 men, as did most of the other regiments.
7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 8th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment;
The Middle Department was created on February 27, 1776, [4] as a military administrative district embracing New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. When the Main Army moved from Boston to New York in April 1776 and Washington opened his headquarters in New York City, he assumed direct command of the department.
As part of the January 1, 1776, organization of the Continental Army, Huntington's 8th Connecticut Regiment became the 17th Continental Regiment. [ 2 ] : 95 Originally planned to have a strength of 728 officers and men, by the end of January the 17th only had about 400, as did most of the other regiments.
The 8th Infantry Regiment assaulted Utah Beach on June 6, 1944. It was the first of the 4th Infantry Division's infantry regiments to land on Utah Beach. In World War II, the 8th Infantry Regiment was cited twice in the order of the day by the Belgian Army - the first for action in the Belgian Campaign, and later for action in the Ardennes.
Lee's Additional Continental Regiment: Unknown New Jersey Brigade Brigadier General William Maxwell 1,000 1st New Jersey Regiment: Colonel Matthias Ogden: 2nd New Jersey Regiment: Colonel Israel Shreve: 3rd New Jersey Regiment: Colonel Elias Dayton: 4th New Jersey Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel David Brearley Independent artillery company Captain ...
Reorganized and redesignated 21 September 1864 as the 8th Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers; consolidated 12 October 1864 with the 6th Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers (mustered into federal service 19 August 1861 at Trenton as the 6th Regiment of Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 8th ...