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37th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Organized at Camp Delaware, Trenton, N.J. and mustered in June 23, 1864. Left State for City Point, Va., June 28. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., July 1 to September 26, 1864. Attached to 10th Army Corps, Unassigned, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia, and North Carolina.
SERVICE
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Fatigue duty at Point of Rocks, Va., and at Redoubt Converse on
Spring Hill, near Appomattox River, till August 28.
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Assigned to duty by detachments, at Broadway Landing, unloading
vessels, at Corps Headquarters, with the Ambulance Corps.
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At Point of Rocks in charge of Commissary Department.
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Duty in trenches before Petersburg, Va., in rear of Hare House
Battery August 28-September 25.
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Ordered
to Trenton, N.J., September 26.
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Mustered out at Trenton, N.J., October 1, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 5 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 13 Enlisted men by disease. Total 19.
Orders Issued to the 37th Regiment, NJVI
GENERAL
ORDERS No. 34.
HEADQUARTERS
TENTH ARMY CORPS, The Thirty-seventh New Jersey Volunteers, on the 26th
instant, will leave for Trenton, N.J., reporting to the superintendent of
recruiting service of that State, to be mustered out of service at the
expiration of its enlistment. The major-general commanding cannot part with this
regiment of 100-days' men without expressing his gratification and satisfaction
with their conduct. They have endured fatigue, encountered the rebel foe like
good soldiers, and have gained the esteem of the veterans of this corps. He is
confident that when they return to New Jersey, a State that has furnished such
soldiers as Kearny, Mott, Torbert, they will continue to sustain the veterans
they have left at the front, doing what Sherman advised, "fighting this out
like men." The major-general commanding will be pleased to assist the
commanding officer of this regiment in reorganizing it to aid in the finale of
the rebellion in conjunction with this corps. The quartermaster's department
will furnish transportation. By command of Maj. Gen. D. B. Birney: ED. W.
SMITH, Assistant Adjutant-General. |