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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their regiments. Accordingly, these short vacationsv/ere liberally distributed among the rank and file. As the springopened and the trees and shrubs showed the delicate green ofawakened life, the roads became passable. Active operationsv/ere planned and preparations made for the coaming campaign.Those in the hospital who- were not fit to return to their regi-ments were sent toWashington or convalescent camps. Cavalry■expeditions were sent out to find out the location and strength ofthe Confederate outposts. Once in a while the enemy did thesame thing, and about the 9th or loth of February the Con-federate cavalry, under General Stuart, made a dash on thepicket line at Hartwood Church, capturing about fifty of theUnion pickets. Along in April, the Fourth Regiment was detached from theBrigade. Three companies under Lieutenant-Colonel Ewingwere ordered to do provost duty for the First Division, and theother seven companies, under Colonel Birney, were train guard atgeneral headquarters.
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BRIGADIER-GENERAL A. T. TORBERT, Commanding First N. J. Brigade. FIRST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE. 75 Third Year. Under Torbert. saIve;m heights (second eredericksburg)—Gettysburg—fairfield rappahannock station mine run—recon-naissance to culpepper court house. Under Penrose. WILDERNESS SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE; COLD HARBOR SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN OPEQUON FISHEr& HILL CEDAR CREEK—RETURNED TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. DURING the first days of April, the President and Mrs. LincohTvisited the Army of the Potomac, being entertained by Gen-eral Hooker at his headquarters. On the 6th a review o£ the cavalry was held. Stoneman, withabout ten thousand of his men passed before the reviewing stand,and a fine show they m.ade. So many horsemen had never beforebeen assembled in the United States for such a display, and theeffect was very inspiring. On the 7th, the visitors inspected some Of the camps of nearby-divisions being conveyed in carriages and ambulances. On the 8th, a review of th

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