The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-11-26
THEIR RECORDS.
Brief Sketches of the Services Of
Various Commands.

The 11th N. j.
| This regiment is one of the 300 fighting
regiments given by Col Fox 1t was organ
lied at Trenton, n. j., Aug. Is, 1862, to
serve three years, and reported at Washing
ton, D. c., Aug. 90, 1862. 1t was ordered
into Virginia, and in November was assigned
to Cars Brigade, Second Division, Third
Corps At Charlottesville the regiment
was holly engaged, and made splendid
fight. 1t lost Is killed, lac wounded, and a
number missing, out OF the 800 taken into
the action. Gen. Berry, who commanded
| the division, was killed. At Gettysburg the
regiment took 275 officers and men into
action, and lost II killed and nearly 125
wounded. Maj. Philip j. Kearny received
wounds in this action OF which he died,
Aug. z. 1868. 1t was engaged at Nine Run,
and lost heavily. In March, 1854, when the
Third Corps was broken up, the 11th N. j.
was transferred to the Second Corps, where
it became part of McAllister's Brigade,
Motifs Division. Col. McAllister received
the brevet Of Brigadier-Gener for services
at BoydtOn Road. The regiment distin-
guished itself in this action, but suffered
| only slight loss. Lieut.-Col. John Scboon-
over received the brevet of Colonel, March
IL, 1865. The regiment was mustered out
War Department, the command was en-
gagged in Is battles, as follows: Fredericks-
burg, Charlottesville, louisville, Gettys-
burg, Mine Run, Wilderness Spottsylvania,
North Anna, Tolopotomoy, Cold Harbor,
Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bot
tom, Poplar Spring Church, and Boydton
Road. The total enrolment of the regiment
was 1,756. Eleven officers and 131 men
were killed in action or died of wounds, aud
lO7 men died of disease, in prison, etc. OF
the original enrolment of 979 officers and
men, III were killed, or nearly IL per cent.
The 18th N j.
This regiment was organized at Camp
Fair Oaks, N. j., Aug. 25, 1862, for the three
years service, and left the State two DAYS
later with 947 officers and men. Col. Samuel
Fowler, the first commander, was forced to
resign shortly after on account of ill-health.
He was succeeded by Col. VIM. III. Penrose,
an officer of the Regular Army Lieut. Col.
Edward L. Campbell was in command of the
regiment much of the time, as Col. Penrose
commanded the brigade. Both Col. Penrose
and Lieut-Col. Campbell were excellent
officers, and both were honored by the War
Department. Col Penrose received the Bre-
vet OF Brigadier- General, u. s. A., Oct. 10,
1864. Later he was transferred to the I'd
Veteran regiment, New Jersey Vols. Lieut.
Col. Campbell received the Brevet of Brig
adier-General, o. s. v. June 2, 1865, he was
transferred to the 4th N. j. Soon after Ieav-
ing New Jersey the regiment went to Har-
pers Ferry, where it Joined the Army of the
Potomac, and was assigned to the First New
Jersey Brigade, Wright's Division, Sixth
Corps. 1t suffered it's first heavy loss at
Salem flights, Va, where "a were killed, 1875
and q number missing. Col. Fox
states that on May A. 1864, the regiment
crossed the Rapidan with Is officers and 429
men available in action nearly 300 of these
fell atSpottsylvania, the muster-out roll bear
ing the names of 116 who were killed or |
wounded there. The command |
sustained slight loss in the Wilderness, and |
Col. Fox estimates that the number of officers |
and men taken into action at Spottsylvania |
May was about 432. This makes the loss |
in killed or died of wounds 26 per cent. This
great loss was not sustained on one day, but I
vas extended over five days and in three
Inherent actions: Thirty-one on May 8;
i've on May 10, and 80 at the Bloody Angle,
May IL. The total killed, wounded and
Missing IN this battle was 272, or nearly SO
per cent. of the number taken into action.
The regiment lost at Cedar Greek Is killed,
u wounded, and Is missing. 1t will be seen
It once that this loss is terrible for q COM
nand that had been SO reduced by its pre-
7ious hard fighting. The War Department
eports credit the regiment with the follow.
ng battles: Salem flights, Fredericksburg.
Rappahannock Station, Wilder
less, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Opequon,
Petersburg, Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek
2 engagements in all. It is known that,
'esides these, it was engaged in many other
minor battles and skirmishes. After the
ard fighting was mostly over the rolls of
he regiment were sweled by recruits and
which made the tOral enrolment
,7O2. The total loss of the command was
light officers and 232 men killed and one
ficer and 131 men died of disease, accidents.
a prison, etc. The 24O killed or died of
rounds gives the regiment 18th place in
ONT of loss in the Union army during the
'ar, with percentage of little over AL.
hat the loss was mostly among the original
nrollment will be seen by the statement of
oil. Fox that 100, or 20 per cent, of the old
lembers were killed.
The 10th N.Y.
This regiment was organized at ALBANY.
|. Y, Jan. Is, 1862, for the three years.
,rvice. It was formed by the consolidation
two organizations, one recruited in ALLIE {
any and Yates Counties by Col Nelson w. {
reen, the other in Otsego and Schoharie
ounties by Hon. George E. Danforth. To /.
le latter organization a large number of :.
ZEN were furnished by the seth N. Fl.
[ilitia. Nelson w. Green was chosen
olonel of the regiment, which left the State
an. II, 1862. It served at Washington. D.
). in the Third Brigade, Casey's Division.
rmy of the Potomac, from January. 1862: ]
the Military District of Washington from /
[arch, 1862; in Doubleday's Brigade, De-
artment of the Rappahannock, from Nav
|, 1862; in the Second Brigade, First Divis- '
N, Third Corps, Army of Virginia, from
nne 26, 1862; in the Second Brigade, First /
vision, First Corps, Army of the Potomac. v
ON Sept. IL, 1862; in the First Brigade. 2
irst Division, First Corps, from Jan. A, 1864;
the Second Brigade, Fourth Division,
fifth Corps, from March 25, 1864; in the .
bird Brigade, Second Division, Fifth Corps, =
ON August, 1864, and in the Third Brigade =
bird Division, Fifth Corps, from Septem- =
#, 1864, until mustered out in December.
he veterans and recruits remaining in the
rvice were then transferred to the 147th y y
Y. It was gallant command, and is d
ven by Col. Fox as one of the 300 fighting e
giments, a distinction which it won on 4
any hard-fought fields. It's total killed or r,
ed of wounds was 1873 officers and 81
i men-0ut of an enrolment of 1,491. or -
6 per cent. Besides, it lost one officer and Q.