12th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry, United States Civil War

Date: 1862 to 15 Jul 1865
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Surnames/tags: US_Civil_War New_Jersey Griscom

Engagements

'63 May 3-4	Chancellorsville, Va.		'64 May 8-11	Spottsylvania, Va.		'64 Oct 27	Hatcher's Run, Va.
'63 Jul 2-3	Gettysburg, Pa.		'64 May 12-18	Spottsylvania C. H., Va.		'64 Oct 27	Boydton, Plank Road, Va.
'63 Jul 13	Falling Waters, Md.		'64 May 24-26	N&S Anna River, Va.		'65 Feb 6-8	Hatcher's Run, Va.
'63 Oct 14	Auburn Mills, Va.		'64 May 30-31	Tolopotomy, Va.		'65 Feb 28	Dabney's Mills, Va.
'63 Oct 14	Bristow Station, Va.		'64 Jun 2-12	Cold Harbor, Va.		'65 Mar 25	Hatcher's Run, Va.
'63 Oct 15	Blackburn's Ford, Va.		'64 Jun 16-23	Before Petersburg, Va.		'65 Apr 1	Boydton Plank Road, Va.
'63 Nov 27	Robinson's Tavern, Va.		'64 Jul 25-29	Deep Bottom, Va.		'65 Apr 2	Capture of Petersburg, Va.
'63 Nov 28-30	Mine Run, Va.		'64 Jul 30	Mine Explosion, Va.		'65 Apr 6	Sailors' Creek, Va.
'64 Feb 6	Morton's Ford, Va.		'64 Aug 14-18	N Bank of James River, Va.		'65 Apr 7	High Bridge, Va.
'64 May 5-7	Wilderness, Va.		'64 Aug 25	Reams Station, Va.		'65 Apr 7	Farmville, Va.
			'64 Sep 10	Fort Sedgwick, Va.		'65 Apr 9	Lee's Surrender, Appomattox, Va.
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Resources

• Adjutant General William S. Stryker's two-volume Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, '61-'65, p 585. State of New Jersey, 1876.

Company F was composed of all Gloucester County, New Jersey Union soldiers. The unit lost 37 men in the Battle of Chancellorsville.

• Carlton, Ben. "Missing in Action: Corporal James L. Plummer." The Swedesboro Historical Ledger 1, no. 1 (January 2008), p.1, 4

12th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry

Overview:Organized at Camp Stockton, Woodbury, N. J., and mustered in September 4, 1862. Left State for Baltimore, Md., September 7. 1862. Attached to Defences of Baltimore, Md. Unattached, 3th Army Corps, Middle Dept., to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July, 1865.

Service:Guard duty at Ellicott's Mills, Md., September 8-December 10, 1862. Moved to Washington, D. C., December 10, thence to join Army of the Potomac December 13-17, reporting at Falmouth, Va., December 20. Duty there till April 27, 1863. Chancellorsville Campagin April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap July 5-24. Duty on Orange & Alexandria Railroad till September 12. Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-17. Picket duty on the Rapidan till October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Auburn and Bristoe October 14. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Mine Run November 28-30. At Stevensburg till May, 1864. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7. Morton's Ford February 6-7. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Laurel Hill May 8; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Po River May 10; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle," May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. 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. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run), February 5-7, 1865. Watkins House March 25. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Boydton and White Oak Roads March 30-31. 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. Mustered out at Washington, D. C., July 15, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 9 Officers and 168 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 99 Enlisted men by disease. Total 276.

• National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database

Fox's History

Left the State September 7, 1862, joining the main Army in December, when it was placed in the Second Brigade (Wm. Hays's), Third Division (French's), Second Corps. In this brigade it fought at Chancellorsville, its first battle; its casualties there were 24 killed, 132 wounded, and 22 missing; total, 178. General Alex. Hays led the division at Gettysburg, and General Thomas A. Smyth, the brigade. During that battle the Twelfth distinguished itself on the afternoon of the second day by a gallant charge of four companies, in which they captured the Bliss barn, a building situated midway between the lines, and filled with the enemy's sharpshooters; seven Confederate officers and 92 men were captured by the Jerseymen in this notable affair; but, not without severe loss to the four companies engaged. The losses of the entire regiment at Gettysburg were 23 killed, 83 wounded, and 9 missing. Upon the reorganization of the Army, in March, 1864, the regiment was placed in Carroll's (3d) Brigade of Gibbon's (2d) Division, a famous brigade in which seven States were represented. The Twelfth crossed the Rapidan with 425 men, of which number 177 were killed or wounded during the bloody week of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania; Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Davis, who commanded at these battles, was killed at Spotsylvania. The Twelfth made a charge at North Anna, deployed in one rank, which General Smyth pronounced the finest he ever saw. Another hard fight, this time at Cold Harbor, and the regiment was reduced to 90 muskets. In February, 1865, Lieutenant-Colonel Willian of the Eighth New Jersey was promoted to the colonelcy of the Twelfth. Taken from; 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 1888