Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses THKKK HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. 1MU EIGHTH NEW JERSEY INFANTRY. SECOND JERSEY BRIGADE — HUMPHREYS'S DIVISION — THIRD CORPS. (1) COL. ADOLPH J. JOHNSON. (8) COL. JOHN RAMSEY ; BVT. MAJOR-QW. Of the 889 originally enrolled, 127 were killed — 14.2 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 624; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 21. BATTLM. K. A M \\ Williamsburg, Va 42 Fair Oaks, Va., June 16,1862 i Glendale, Va 2 Kettle Run, Va., Aug. 27, 1862 2 Manassas, Va i o Chancellorsville, Va 32 Gettysburg, Pa 12 Wilderness, Va 11 Totopotomoy, Va 4 BATTLES. K.&M.W. Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864) 7 Petersburg Trenches, Va 4 Picket Line, Petersburg 7 Deep Bottom, Va 4 Boydton Road, Va 12 Hatcher's Run, Va 20 Armstrong House, Va., March 25, 1865 i Fall of Petersburg, Va 4 Farmville, Va i Present, also, at Yorktown ; Malvern Hill; Chantilly ; Fredericksburg ; Kelly's Ford ; Mine Run ; Spotsyl-vania ; North Anna ; Cold Harbor; Poplar Spring Church ; Amelia Springs ; Appomattox. NOTES. —The above enrollment may give an erroneous idea of the size of the regiment. Fully one-third vere not enrolled until after the regiment was through its hardest fighting ; they were conscripts, of whom over 400 deserted, most of them deserting before they joined the regiment, although their names went to swell the enrollment. The Eighth left the State October i, 1861, and joined the Second Jersey Brigade at Meridian Hill, Washington. Having been assigned to Hooker's Division it fought at Williamsburg, where it lost 35 killed, 122 wounded, and 4 missing; total, 161 ; Major Peter M. Ryerson was among the killed. At Chancellorsville, the division (Berry's) took a prominent part, the Jersey Brigade encountering there the severest fighting in its expe rience. The Eighth lost in that battle, 18 killed, 101 wounded, and 6 missing, out of 268 muskets officially reported present. Humphreys commanded Hooker's old division at Gettysburg, where the casualties of the regiment amounted to 7 killed, 38 wounded, and 2 missing, out of a small number engaged. When the Thiid Corps was broken up, in March, 1864, the division was transferred to the Second Corps and General Mott placed in command. The regiment fought in all the succeeding battles of the Second Corps, earning laurels for itself and for its State. At Deep Bottom, August 16, 1864, it numbered only about 100 men; under the gallant Ram sey it won official mention for its admirable bearing in that battle. _07196
