1st Regiment, New Jersey Militia

HISTORICAL NOTES:
Organized at Trenton, N.J., for three months service and mustered in. July 31 Mustered out at Newark, N.J.

OFFICERS:

Colonel Adolphus J. Johnson

Lieutenant Colonel James Peckwell

Major William Michels

ASSIGNMENTS:

assigned to the Department of Washington. Camp at Meridian Hill

July 16 Attached to 1st Brigade, Runyon’s Reserve Division, McDowell’s Army of Northeast Virginia

SERVICE:

May 3 Left State for Annapolis, Md.

May 5 Reported to General Butler

May 6 Moved to Washington, D.C.

May 23-24 Invasion of Virginia

May 24 Occupation of Arlington Heights

May 24-July 16 Duty on line of Alexandria & Loudon Railroad

July 17-21 Advance on Manassas, Va.

July 21 Battle of Bull Run. The regiment was in reserve and suffered no casualties.

ROSTERS:
The composite rosters of this unit contains the names of 774 men.

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