NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS.
Second Regiment – Infantry – Volunteers.
The Second Regiment was organized under authority of General Orders, No. 15, War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D. C., May 4th, 1861. The Regiment was fully organized, equipped and officered by the 18th day of May, and on the 26th day of the same month was duly mustered into the service of the United States, for three years, at Camp Olden, Trenton, N. J., by Major Theodore T. S. Laidley, U. S. Army. It left the State, June 28th, 1861, with a full complement of men. Officers, 38; Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates, 1,006. Total, 1,044. Under the provisions of General Orders, No. 191, War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D. C., June 25th, 1863, numbers re-enlisted in the field, for three years or during the war; those who did not re-enlist were mustered out at expiration of service, at Newark, N. J., by Joseph M. Locke, Captain 14th Infantry, U. S. Army, June 21, 1864 – while those whose term of service did not expire with the Regiment, and those who had re-enlisted, were temporarily assigned to duty with the 15th Regiment, under orders issued May 29th, 1864, and so remained until the 20th of December, 1864, when they were consolidated into what was known as Co. A, 2d Batt., and so remained until the early part of 1865, when the Regiment was re-organized and fully completed by the forwarding of large numbers of recruits, substitutes and drafted men, and the raising of a new Company, (B) which was mustered into service, at Trenton, N. J., April 11, 1865, for one year, by James W. Long, Captain Second Infantry, U. S. Army, and continued its organization until its muster out at Hall’s Hill, Va., July 11, 1865, by A. M. Tyler, Major and Assistant Commissary of Musters, First Division, Provisional Corps, Army of the Potomac, in compliance with orders from War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D. C., July 7, 1865.
This Regiment constituted one of the Four Regiments composing what was generally known as the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers, and was first attached to General Runyon’s Division of Reserves, (Militia) at the Battle of Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861; then to the First Brigade, (Kearny’s) Franklin’s Division; afterward to the First Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps, then to the First Brigade, First Division, Sixth Army Corps, and at the close of the war was assigned to what was known as the Provisional Corps, Army of the Potomac.
The Regiment took part in the following engagements: Bull Run, Va., July 21, ’61; West Point, Va., May 7, ’62; Golden’s Farm, Va., June 26, ’62; Gaines Farm, Va., June 27, ’62; Charles City Cross Roads, Va., June 30, ’62; Malvern Hill Va., July 1, ’62; Manassas, Va., August 27, ’62; Chantilly, Va., Sept. 1, ’62; Crampton’s Pass, Md., Sept. 14, ’62; Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, ’62; Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13 and 14, ’62; Fredericksburg, Va., May 3, ’63; Salem Heights, Va., May 3 and 4, ’63; Gettysburg, Pa., July 2 and 3, ’63; Fairfield, Pa., July 5, ’63; Williamsport, Md., July 6, ’63; Funktown, Md., July 12, ’63; Rappahannock, Station, Va., Oct. 12, ’63; Rappahannock Station, Va., Nov. 7, ’63; Mine Run, Va., Nov. 30, ’63; Wilderness, Va., May 5 to 7, ’64; Spottsylvania, Va., May 8 to 10, ’64; Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 12 to 16, ’64; North and South Anna River, May 24, ’64; Hanover C. H., Va.. May 29, ’64; Tolopotomy Creek, Va., May 30 and 31, ’64; Cold Harbor, Va., June 1 to 3, ’64; Before Petersburg, Va., (Weldon Railroad,) June 23, ’64; Snicker’s Gap, Va., July 18, ’64; Strasburg, Va., August 15, ’64; Winchester, Va., Aug. 17, ’64; Charlestown, Va., August 21, ’64; Opequan, Va., Sept. 19, ’64; Fisher’s Hill, Va., Sept. 21 and 22, ’64; New Market, Va., Sept. 24, ’64; Mt. Jackson, Va., Sept. 25, ’64; Cedar Creek and Middletown, Va., Oct. 19, ’64; Hatcher’s Run, Va., Feb. 5, ’65; Fort Steedman, Va., March 25, ’65; Capture of Petersburg, Va., April 2, ’65; Sailors’ Creek, Va., April 6, ’65; Farmville, Va., April 7, ’65; Lee’s Surrender, (Appomattox, Va.,) April 9, ’65.
Field and Staff, Second Regiment.
| NO. | NAME. | RANK. | COM. OR ENROLLED. | MUST’D IN. | PERIOD | MUST’D OUT. | REMARKS. |
| 1 | George W. McLean | Colonel | May 22, ’61 | May 26, ’61 | 3 Yrs | Resigned Dec. 31, ’61. | |
| 2 | Isaac M. Tucker | Colonel | Jan. 20, ’62 | Jan. 21, ’62 | 3 Yrs | Lieut. Col. May 22, ’61; Col. vice McLean resigned; killed in action at Gaines Farm, Va., June 27, ’62. | |
| 3 | Samuel L. Buck | Colonel | July 1, ’62 | July 2, ’62 | 3 Yrs | July 21, ’64 | Maj. May 22, ’61; Lieut. Col. Jan. 20, ’62; Col. vice Tucker killed. |
| 4 | William H. Penrose | Colonel | April 10, ’63 | April 18, ’63 | 3 Yrs | Transferred from 15th Reg., June 22, ’65, S. O. 157, Hd. Qrs. Army of Potomac; promoted Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols. July 1, ’65. | |
| 1 | Henry O. Ryerson | Lieut. Col | July 1, ’62 | July 1, ’62 | 3 Yrs | Capt. Co. B, May 27, ’61; Maj. Jan. 20, ’62; Lieut. Col. vice Buck promoted; promoted Col. 23d Reg. Nov. 12, ’62. | |
| 2 | Charles Wiebecke | Lieut. Col | Nov. 27, ’62 | Nov. 27, ’62 | 3 Yrs | Capt. Co. E, May 28, ’61; Maj. Sept. 14, ’62; Lieut. Col. vice Ryerson promoted; killed in action at Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 14, ’64; buried at Nat. Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Va., Div. B, Sec. A, Grave 63. | |
| 3 | James W. McNeely | Lieut. Col | June 26, ’65 | July 2, ’65 | 3 Yrs | July 11, ’65 | Maj. 10th Reg., April 5, ’65; Lieut. Col. vice Wiebecke killed; Com. Col. July 10, ’65, not mustered. |
| 1 | James N. Duffy | Major | July 1, ’62 | July 1, ’62 | 3 Yrs | Capt. Co. C, May 27, ’61; Maj. vice Ryerson promoted; promoted Lieut. Col. 3d Reg. Sept. 14, ’62. | |
| 2 | James H. Close | Major | Nov. 27, ’62 | Dec. 10, ’62 | 3 Yrs | June 21, ’64 | Capt. Co. G, May 28, ’61; Maj. vice Wiebecke promoted. |
| 3 | James W. Penrose | Major | June 26, ’65 | June 30, ’65 | 3 Yrs | July 11, ’65 | Capt. Co. F, July 3, ’64; Maj. vice Close mustered out; Com. Lieut. Col. July 10, ’65, not mustered. |
| 1 | Joseph W. Plume | Adjutant | May 29, ’61 | May 29, ’61 | 3 Yrs | A. D. C. Staff Brig. Gen. French Feb. 15, ’62; Act. A. A. G. 3d Brigade, Sumner’s Div., June 1, ’62; Act. A. A. G. 3d Div., 2d A. C., Maj. Gen. French Com., Sept. 8, ’62; resigned Dec. 19, ’62. | |
| 2 | Joseph B. Wilde | Adjutant | Dec. 22, ’62 | Jan. 8, ’63 | 3 Yrs | June 21, ’64 | 1st Lieut. Co. I, Nov. 27, ’62; Adj. vice Plume resigned. |
| 1 | William E. Sturgis | Qr. Mr | May 29, ’61 | May 29, ’61 | 3 Yrs | Transferred as 1st Lieut to Co. E, Jan. ’62. | |
| 2 | Aaron D. Crane | Qr. Mr | Dec. 22, ’62 | Jan. 7, ’63 | 3 Yrs | June 21, ’64 | Qr. Mr. Serj.; Qr. Mr. vice Sturges transferred. |
| 1 | Gabriel Grant | Surgeon | June 13, ’61 | June 13, ’61 | 3 Yrs | Promoted Surg. U. S. Vols., Oct. 9, ’61. | |
| 2 | Lewis W. Oakley | Surgeon | Jan. 6, ’62 | Jan. 6, ’62 | 3 Yrs | June 21, ’64 | Asst. Surg. May 27, ’61; promoted Surg. 4th Reg. Oct. 12, ’61; transferred from 4th Reg. |
| 1 | Henry C. Clark | Asst. Surg | Oct. 12, ’61 | Oct. 17, ’61 | 3 Yrs | Promoted Surg. 3d Reg., Feb. 10, ’63. | |
| 2 | Eugen Schumo | Asst. Surg | Aug. 20, ’62 | Sept. 3, ’62 | 3 Yrs | Discharged Jan. 8, ’63, S. O. 43, Par. 7, War Dept., A. G. O., Washington, D. C. | |
| 3 | John R. Hilton | Asst. Surg | Jan. 27, ’63 | 3 Yrs | Asst. Surg. vice Schumo discharged; died of typhoid fever in camp at White Oak Church, Va., March 17, ’63. | ||
| 4 | Luther F. Halsey | Asst. Surg | Mar. 9, ’63 | April 2, ’63 | 3 Yrs | May 31, ’64 | Asst. Surg. 7th Reg., Aug. 20, ’62; Asst. Surg. vice Clark promoted. |
| 5 | John Helm | Asst. Surg | May 11, ’63 | May 25, ’63 | 3 Yrs | June 21, ’64 | Asst. Surg. vice Hilton died. |
| 6 | George D. Fitch | Asst. Surg | Mar. 14, ’65 | Mar. 22, ’65 | 3 Yrs | July 11, ’65 | Transferred from 15th Reg. |
| 1 | Robert R. Proudfit | Chaplain | June 25, ’61 | June 25, ’61 | 3 Yrs | June 21, ’64 |
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