NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS.

Eleventh Regiment – Infantry – Volunteers.

The Eleventh Regiment was organized under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July 22, 1861, and by permission granted the Governor by the War Department, to commence the raising of a regiment in anticipation of a call soon to be issued by the President for more troops. Under the authority thus given, recruiting for the Regiment was commenced in May, 1862, and continued until the issue of a call by the President of the United States, dated Washington, D. C., July 7, 1862, for three hundred thousand additional volunteers, to serve for three years or during the war. At this time about four hundred men had been recruited and were then encamped at Camp Perrine, Trenton, N. J. On the 8th of July, 1862, a telegram was received from the War Department, Washington, D. C., calling for five regiments of infantry from this State, and in compliance with this telegram and the provisions of General Orders No. 75, War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D. C., dated July 8, 1862, the Regiment was completed. The Regiment was fully organized, equipped and officered by the 18th day of August, 1862, at which time it was duly mustered into the service of the United States, for three years, at Camp Perrine, Trenton, N. J., by Llewellyn Jones, Major, First Cavalry, U. S. Army. It left the State August 25, 1862, and reported at Washington, D. C., the day following, with a full complement of men. Officers, 39; Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates, 940. Total, 979. The Regiment remained near Washington, D. C., in the performance of various duties, until the 16th of November, when it was attached to the Brigade of General Carr, Sickles’ Division, and entered upon active duty with the Army of the Potomac. At different times during the year 1864, the strength of the Regiment was increased by the joining from Draft Rendezvous, Trenton, N. J., of a few recruits and a large number of substitutes. The Regiment continued its organization and remained in active service until the close of the war, and those coming under the provisions of General Orders, No. 26, Head Quarters Army of the Potomac, dated May 17, 1865, were mustered out near Washington, D. C., June 6, 1865, by Charles H. Hayes, Captain First Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Assistant Commissary of Musters, Third Division, Second Army Corps, the remainder were transferred to the Twelfth Regiment, in accordance with Special Orders No. 142, Par. 3, Current Series, Head Quarters Army of the Potomac, dated June 5, 1865, and were mustered out with that Regiment.

The Regiment was first attached to the First Brigade, Second Division, Third Corps; then to the First Brigade, (Second N. J. Brigade,) Fourth Division, Second Corps; then to the Third Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps.

The Regiment took part in the following engagements: Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13 and 14, ’62; Chancellorsville, Va., May 3 and 4 ’63; Gettysburg, Pa., July 2 and 3, ’63; Wapping Heights, Va., July 24, ’63; Kelly’s Ford, Va., Nov. 8, ’63; Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, ’63; Mine Run, Va., Nov. 29, ’63; Wilderness, Va, May 5 to 7, ’64; Spottsylvania, Va., May 8 to 11, ’64; Spottsylvania, C. H., Va., May 12 to 18, ’64; North Anna River, Va., May 23 and 24, ’64; Tolopotomy Creek, Va., May 30 and 31, ’64; Cold Harbor, Va., June 1 to 5, ’64; Barker’s Mills, Va., June 10, ’64; Before Petersburg, Va., June 16 to 23, ’64; Deep Bottom, Va., July 26 and 27, ’64; Mine Explosion, Va., July 30, ’64; North Bank of James River, Va., August 14 to 18, ’64; Reams Station, August 25, ’64; Fort Sedgwick, Va., Sept. 10, ’64; Poplar Spring Church, Va., Oct. 2, ’64; Boydton Plank Road, Va., Oct. 27, ’64; Fort Morton, Va., Nov. 5, ’64; Hatcher’s Run, Va., Feb. 5 to 7, ’65; Armstrong House, Va., March 25, ’65; Boydton Plank Road. Va., (Capture of Petersburg,) April 2, ’65; Amelia Springs, Va., April 6, ’65; Farmville, Va., April 6 to 7, ’65; Lee‘s Surrender, (Appomattox Va.,) April 9, ’65.

Field and Staff, Eleventh Regiment.

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