Identifier: historyoffirstb00baqu (find matches)
Title: History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Baquet, Camille Society of Kearny's New Jersey Brigade
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories
Publisher: Trenton, N. J., MacCrellish & Quigley, state printers
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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neral Order No. 15 made him Major-General, and his command was called the Department of thePotomac. The First New Jersey Brigade was continued in Gen-eral AAilliam B. Franklins division, which was composed of theFirst New Jersev Brigade. General Kearny, General Slocumsbrigade and General Newtons brigade of infantry. Batteries Dand G, the Second U. S. Artillery, Hexamers battery, and theFirst New York (Lincoln) Cavalry, Colonel McReynolds. The first actual contact the Brigade had with the rebels was onAugust 31st. Colonel Taylor, of the Third New Jersey Volun-teers, determined to stop the annoyance caused by the rebelpickets and sharpshooters. He took forty men, who volunteeredfor the sen-ice, from two companies of his regiment, and pro-ceeded along the Little River turnpike under cover of the woodsuntil he arrived at a point where he could strike the road in therear of the rebel pickets, and cut them off. He was obliged topass through a small cornfield, and while there was fired upon.
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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WINFIELD S. SCOTT. FIRST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE. 13 His men promptly returned the fire, but the Colonel fomid thatthree of his men had been wounded. He ordered his men toretire to the cover of the woods, about thirty yards distant,keeping enough men to bring in the wounded, one of whom.Corporal Hand, of Company I, was mortally hurt. In all, fourmen were wounded in this skirmish at )\Iunsons Hill. (Note—Foster mentions another skirmish on the same day, as does Rev.J. M. IMorris in his Leaves from a Soldiers Diary, but theofficial records make no mention of it.) Captain A. T. A. Tor-ttert, of the U. S. Army, took command of the First Regimenton September ist. The next break in the monotony of camp life occurred on Oc-tober 15th, when our pickets were attacked on the Little Riverturnpike. Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac )\I. Tucker, of the vSecondNew Jersey Volunteers, being Brigade officer of the day, madethe following report: Camp Seminary, New Jersey Brigade, Wednesday, Oct.

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