9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

The 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was an American Civil War infantry regiment from New Jersey that served from September 1861 through 1865 in the Union Army.

The 9th was raised as a regiment of riflemen and broadsides were posted throughout the state during September 1861 for sharp shooters. The first muster occurred on October 5 at Camp Olden near Trenton. The camp was named for the governor of New Jersey, Charles Smith Olden.

The regiment was issued new Springfield rifle muskets in late November after being issued smoothbore muskets. Governor Olden made a special request to get the best weapon available to men who had been recruited as sharp shooters.

The 9th moved out of Camp Olden on December 4th for Washington DC to join the Union Army. [Foster, John Y. "New Jersey and the Rebellion: A history of the services of the troops and people of New Jersey in aid of the Union cause". Newark, New Jersey. 1868. pp. 203-204.] The regiment participated in the Burnside Expedition into Roanoke Island, North Carolina commanded by Ambrose E. Burnside. The regiment spent all of 1862 and 1863 in North Carolina before returning to Newark where the men were mustered out to re-enlist.

One member of the 9th New Jersey, 2nd Lieutenant Ethelbert Hubbs of Commack, Long Island, New York,chose to retire from the military in September 1863 to accept an appointment as a Special Agent of the Treasury Department, charged with administering the program on "Abandoned Lands and Plantations" in Craven County, NC(The Freedmen's Bureau). Following his service with the Treasury Department, Hubbs remained in New Bern, North Carolina, for more than twenty years as editor and publisher of The New Bern Daily Times and proprietor of Hubbs & Co, General Store, in partnership with his brother Orlando Hubbs who served as Sheriff of Craven County and later in the United States Congress as Representative of the Eastern District of North Carolina. Both men were prominent in the Republican Party -- the "party of Lincoln" -- and in the Masonic Order. Ethelbert Hubbs was called to Washington, DC, in about 1882 to provide testimony to a US Senate Special Committee investigating the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and violence throughout the south following reconstruction. Ethelbert Hubbs died in about 1909 and Orlando Hubbs died in about 1931 at the Hubbs residence in Commack, Long Island, New York. They are buried in the Commack Cemetery in the Hubbs family plot. Since over 50% of the men re-enlisted the regiment became known as the 9th New Jersey "Veteran" Volunteers in January 1864. The regiment joined the Army of the James during the Peninsular Campaign leading to Petersburg, Virginia. 1865 saw the regiment back in North Carolina where they finished the war.

Regiment commanders

*September 1861 - Colonel Joseph W. Allen, drowned off Hatteras Inlet, NC
*January 1862 - Colonel Charles A. Heckman, promoted
*November 1862 - Colonel Adam Zabriski, killed at Drury's Bluff
*June 1864 - Colonel James Stewart, Jr., promoted

First enlistment

*October 5, 1861 - First Muster at Camp Olden near Newark, New Jersey
*November 26, 1861 - Issued Springfield rifled-muskets to replace smoothbore muskets
*December 4, 1861 - Embarked for Washington to join the Union Army
*December 6, 1861 - Arrived at Washington, entered camp on the Bladensburg turnpike
*January 4, 1862 - Embarked for Annapolis, Maryland
*February 8, 1862 - Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina
*March 14, 1862 - New Berne, North Carolina
*April 25, 1862 - Fort Macon, North Carolina
*July 27, 1862 - Youngs Cross Roads, North Carolina
*November 2, 1862 - Rowell's Mills, North Carolina
*December 12, 1862 - Deep Creek, North Carolina
*December 13, 1862 - Southwest Creek and "before" Kinston, North Carolina
*December 14, 1862 - Kinston, North Carolina
*December 16, 1862 - Whitehall, North Carolina
*December 17, 1862 - Goldsborough, North Carolina
*July 6, 1863 - Comfort Bridget, North Carolina
*July 26, 1863 - Winston, North Carolina
*January 17, 1864 - Mustered out at Newark, New Jersey

econd enlistment

*January 18, 1864 - Re-enlistment at Newark, New Jersey
*February 7, 1864 - Deep Creek, Virginia
*March 1-2, 1864 - Deep Creek, Virginia
*April 14, 1864 - Cherry Grove, Virginia
*May 6-7, 1864 - Walthall, Virginia
*May 9-10, 1864 - Swift Creek, Virginia
*May 12, 1864 - Drury's Bluff, Virginia
*May 15-16, 1864 - Drury's Bluff, Virginia
*May 24, 1865 - Petersburg, Virginia
*June 3-4, 1864 - Cold Harbor, Virginia
*June 16, 1864 - Free Bridge, Virginia
*June 20, 1864 - Petersburg, Virginia
*June 25, 1864 - Petersburg, Virginia
*July 10, 1864 - Petersburg, Virginia
*July 30, 1864 - Petersburg, Virginia (Battle of the Crater)
*August 15, 1864 - Petersburg, Virginia
*August 19, 1864 - Petersburg, Virginia
*December 9, 1864 - Gardner's Bridge, North Carolina
*December 10, 1864 - Foster's Bridge, North Carolina
*December 11, 1864 - Butler's Bridge, North Carolina
*March 7, 1865 - Southwest Creek, North Carolina
*March 8-10, 1865, Wise's Fork, North Carolina
*March 21, 1865 - Goldsborogh, North Carolina
*July 12, 1865 - Mustered out at Greensboro, North Carolina

tatistics

*Total enlistment: 2,701
*Officers killed or wounded: 7
*Officers died of disease, accidents, etc: 3
*Enlisted men killed or wounded: 89
*Enlisted men died of disease, accidents, etc: 163

Further reading

*"New Jersey and the Rebellion: A History of the services of the troops and people of New Jersey in aid of the Union cause". by John Y. Foster. Published by Authority of the State. Newark, N.J.; Martin R. Dennis & Co. 1868. Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem MA. ISBN 0-8328-6032-8

*"Remember You Are Jerseymen!" A Military History of New Jersey's Troops in the Civil War". by Joseph G. Bilby and William C. Goble. Longstreet House, Hightstown NJ. New Book Number 141. 1998. ISBN 0944413544

"Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second" by Eric Anderson. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London. 1981. IBSN 0-8071-0685-2 cloth 0-8071-0784-0 paper

ee also

*List of New Jersey Civil War Units

Notes