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Seventh New Jersey Infantry
Second Jersey Brigade —
Humphreys's Division--Third Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 19 |
| Company | A | | 19 | 19 | | 16 | 16 | 302 |
| | B | 3 | 11 | 14 | | 10 | 10 | 280 |
| | C | | 17 | 17 | | 18 | 18 | 273 |
| | D | | 12 | 12 | | 18 | 18 | 326 |
| | E | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 9 | 9 | 215 |
| | F | 2 | 11 | 13 | | 3 | 3 | 231 |
| | G | 1 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 220 |
| | H | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 15 | 15 | 273 |
| | I | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 12 | 12 | 206 |
| | K | | 12 | 12 | | 14 | 14 | 238 |
| Totals | 11 | 126 | 137 | 2 | 121 | 123 | 2,583 |
Original enrollment, 920; killed, 102; percentage, 11.
Total of killed and wounded, 485: died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 18.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Williamsburg, Va. | 40 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 2 |
| Oak Grove, Va. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 1 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 1 | Petersburg, Va. June 18, 1864 | 15 |
| Manassas, Va. | 6 | Weldon Railroad, Va., June 22, 1864 | 5 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 1 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 8 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 10 | Picket, Va., Nov., 1864 | 5 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 24 | Armstrong House, Va. | 2 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 3 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 2 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 10 | Farmville, Va. | 1 |
Present, also, at Yorktown Fair Oaks;
Glendale; Bristoe Station (1862);
Chantilly; McLean's Ford;
Kelly's Ford;
Mine Run;
North Anna;
Deep Bottom; Peeble's Farm; Boydton Road;
Appomattox.
notes.--Seven companies proceeded to
Washington, Sept. 19, 1861; the others followed on Oct. 3d; the whole regiment, 920 strong, encamping on
Meridian Hill, where it remained until December, when it moved to Budd's Ferry, Md. In company with the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth New Jersey Volunteers, it formed what was known as the Second Jersey Brigade, and was assigned to
Hooker's Division, Third Corps.
It was hotly engaged at
Williamsburg, where its casualties aggregated 26 killed, 90 wounded, and 7 missing.
General Mott commanded the brigade, and
General Berry the division at
Chancellorsville, a battle in which the brigade rendered good service, and the Seventh captured five stands of colors; the Seventh lost there 6 killed, and 41 wounded. The brigade was commanded at
Gettysburg by
Colonel George C. Burling (Sixth New Jersey), the losses in the regiment amounting to 15 killed, 86 wounded, and 13 missing;
Colonel Francine was mortally wounded in the battle of the second day. In March, 864, the Third Corps was merged into the Second, the brigade being assigned to
Mott's Division.
The regiment encountered hard fighting at
Spotsylvania, and in the assault on
Petersburg, June 18th; its losses in May and June, 1864, amounting to 12 killed, 97 wounded, and 60 captured or missing. In November, 1864, the men of the Fifth New Jersey Battalion were transferred to the Seventh, and it also received a large number of conscripts and recruits.
The original members were mustered out at
Trenton, N. J., Oct. 7, 1864, but enough men remained in the field to preserve the organization.
