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

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
 * Second 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. &lt;dy_1360&gt;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.