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h, it was assigned to the First Jersey Brigade, and during the following fall and winter was stationed in Virginia, near Fairfax Seminary. In April, 1862, the division — Franklin's — moved to Yorktown and joined the Peninsular army, the brigade, under General Taylor, becoming the First Brigade of Slocum's (1st) Division, Sixth Corps. The regiment was slightly engaged at West Point, and at Gaines's Mill encountered a severe musketry fire, losing 21 killed, 80 wounded, and 58 missing; Major David Hatfield fell, mortally wounded, at Gaines's Mill. The brigade was engaged at Manassas, August 27, 1862, in the action at Bull Run Bridge, in which the First Regiment lost 132 in killed, wounded and prisoners; General George W. Taylor, the brigade commander, was mortally wounded in this affair, while the brigade lost 339 out of about 1,100 engaged. General Brooks commanded the division at Salem Church, a bloody repulse in which the regiment lost 7 killed, 71 wounded, and 27 missing; Colonel