William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington

First New Jersey Cavalry.

Total of killed and wounded, 457; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 35.

notes.--Of the 272 cavalry regiments in the Union Army, the First New Jersey stands sixth in point of losses in action. It was organized at Trenton, N. J., August 14, 1861, and arrived at Washington the same month, where it remained encamped during the succeeding fall and winter. In February, Colonel Halsted resigned, and was succeeded by Percy Wyndham, an officer of the Italian army who had seen some service in Europe. The regiment took the field early in 1862, entering upon a series of arduous and perilous campaigns which ended only with the war. In addition to the actions above mentioned, the regiment was engaged in a large number of affairs in which it lost men wounded or captured. In 1862 it served in General Bayard's cavalry brigade; at Gettysburg, it was in McIntosh's (1st) Brigade, Gregg's (2d) Division, Cavalry Corlps; in 1864 Davies commanded this brigade, in which the regiment remained without further change. Colonel Janeway fell at Amelia Springs; Lieultenant-Colonel Virgil Broderick and Major John H. Shelmire were killed at Brandy Station; Major James H. Hart was killed at Dinwiddie C. H., March 31, 1865.