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26th New
Jersey Infantry
| Regimental History |
| Twenty-sixth Infantry. — Col., Andrew J. Morrison: Lieut.-Cols.,
Thomas A. Colt, Edward Martindale: Majs., Jonathan W. DeCamp, William W. Morris. This
regiment, like all the 9-months regiments, was hastily formed. It was composed of men from
Newark and the adjoining towns of Orange, South Orange, Bloomfield and Caldwell, each
furnishing one company, while Newark filled the remaining six. The regiment was mustered
into the state service at Camp Frelinghuysen on Sept. 3, 1862, and some three weeks later,
being officered and equipped, proceeded to Washington, arriving there the day following
and going into camp on Capitol hill. There it was assigned to Gen. Briggs's brigade,
Sumner's corps, and remained until Oct. 1, when it was ordered to Frederick, Md., making
the journey in open cars on which any degree of comfort was altogether impossible. It
stood in line during the battle of Fredericksburg, not being actually engaged, but on the
same ground in the early part of the following May it fought its first battle, doing so
well and courageously. The total loss of the regiment in that series of operations, known
as Hooker's Chancellorsville campaign, and in which it displayed a heroism worthy of
veterans, was 7 killed, 65 wounded and 51 missing. At Franklin's crossing the regiment
suffered heavily, for in the 10 or 15 minutes it was under fire it lost 14 killed or
wounded, among whom was Capt. S. Uzal Dodd, of Co. H. One week after this handsome
achievement, the regiment broke camp at Falmouth and marched to Washington, where it
arrived on June 17. Thence it proceeded by rail to Newark, reaching that city on the
afternoon of the 19th, and being greeted by a grand demonstration of welcome, in which the
military, firemen, municipal authorities and populace alike participated. It was mustered
out at Newark, N. J., June 27, 1863. The total strength of the regiment was 1,031, and it
lost during its term of service, by resignation 14, by discharge 28, by promotion 14, by
death 36, by desertion 26, by dismissal 1, not accounted for 1, mustered out 911. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 3
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