7th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry

Organizing

Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey, and mustered in September 3, 1861. 7 Companies left State for Washington, D.C., September 19, 1861, and 3 Companies October 3, 1861.

Attached to:
*Casey's Provisional Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October 1861
*3rd Brigade, Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862
*3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March 1864
*1st Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps, to May 1864
*3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July 1865

ERVICE

1861

*At Meridian Hill till December 6, 1861.
*Expedition to Lower Maryland November 3-11.
*Duty at Budd's Ferry, Md., till April 1862.

1862

*Moved to the Virginia Peninsula April 5-8
*Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 10-May 4
*Battle of Williamsburg May 5
*Battle of Fair Oaks (or Seven Pines) May 31-June 1
*Duty near Seven Pines till June 25
*Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1
*Action at Oak Grove (near Seven Pines) June 25
*Battle of Savage Station June 29
*Battle of Glendale June 30
*Battle of Malvern Hill July 1
*At Harrison's Landing till August 15
*Movement to Centreville, Va., August 15-26
*Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 26-September 2
*Action at Bristoe Station (or Kettle Run) August 27
*Battle of Groveton August 29
*Battle of Bull Run August 30
*Battle of Chantilly September 1
*Duty in the Defences of Washington till November 1
*Movement to Falmouth, Va.. November 1-28
*Duty near Falmouth November 28-December 11
*Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15
*Duty near Falmouth till April 27, 1863.

1863

*"Mud March" January 20-24
*Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church February 5-7
*Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6
*Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-6
*Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24
*Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3
*Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24
*Wapping Heights July 23
*Duty near Warrenton till October
*Bristoe Campaign October 9-22
*McLean's Ford October 15
*Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8
*Kelly's Ford November 7
*Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2
*Payne's Farm November 27
*Duty near Brandy Station till May 1864

1864

*Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7
*Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15
*Battle of the Wilderness May 5-7
*Battle of Spotsylvania May 8-12
*Battle of Spotsylvania Court House May 12-21
*Assault on the Salient ("Bloody Angle") May 12
*Harris Farm, Fredericksburg Road, May 19
*North Anna River May 23-26
*Ox Ford May 23-24
*On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28
*Totopotomoy May 28-31
*Cold Harbor June 1-12
*Before Petersburg June 16-18
*Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865
*Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864
*Demonstration north of the James July 27-29
*Deep Bottom July 27-28
*Demonstration north of the James August 13-20
*Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18
*Ream's Station August 25
*Fort Sedgwick September 10
*Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2
*Yellow House October 2-5
*Boydton Plank Road. Hatcher's Run, October 27-28
*Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12

1865

*Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7
*Watkins' House March 25
*Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9
*Boydton and White Oak Road March 30-31
*Crow's House March 31
*Fall of Petersburg April 2
*Pursuit of Lee April 3-9
*Sailor's Creek April 6
*High Bridge, Farmville, April 7
*Appomattox Court House April 9
*Surrender of Lee and his army
*March to Washington, D.C., May 2-12
*Grand Review May 23
*Duty at Washington, D.C., till July

Disbanding

Mustered out July 17, 1865. Non-Veterans mustered out at Trenton October 7, 1864. <dy_1360>Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 126 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 121 Enlisted men by disease. Total 260.

ources

http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unnjinf2.htm#7thinf