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However, the 6th was soon removed and placed in the "Second New Jersey Brigade" along with the 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, the 7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and the 8th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. Despite its beginnings as an all-New Jersey unit, regiments from other states were eventually added to the brigade, starting in 1863.
John Pugh Van Leer (February 27, 1825 – May 5, 1862) was an American military officer who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.He commanded the 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment and was killed during the Battle of Williamsburg.
The 113th Infantry traces its history back to the 1st New Jersey Regiment, which was organized in the Continental Army in part from existing militia companies from Essex County between October 26 and December 15, 1775. The regiment was assigned to the New Jersey Brigade for service in the American Revolution, during which it participated in ten ...
First New Jersey Brigade (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 15th, 23rd and 40th Infantry Regiments) Second New Jersey Brigade (5th, 6th, 7th and 8th NJ Inf Regts) See also
These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).
America’s Black Holocaust Museum was founded in 1988 by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old. According to the museum’s executive ...
5th New Jersey: Cpt Thomas C. Godfrey; 6th New Jersey: 7th New Jersey: Cpt Thomas C. Thompson; 8th New Jersey: Maj Virgil M. Healy; 11th New Jersey: Col Robert McAllister, Ltc John Schoonover (from July 30) 4th Brigade Col William R. Brewster. 11th Massachusetts (5 companies): Col William Blaisdell; 71st New York: 72nd New York (3 companies ...
6th New Jersey: Col Gershom Mott; 7th New Jersey: Col Joseph W. Revere; 8th New Jersey: Col Adolphus J. Johnson; Artillery Maj Charles S. Wainwright. Battery D, 1st New York Light Artillery: Cpt Thomas W. Osborn; 4th New York Independent Battery: Cpt James E. Smith; 6th New York Independent Battery: Cpt Walter M. Bramhall