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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
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yards of the enemys line,when the enemy opened fire, but the two regiments pressed oninto the woods and found an impregnable position. A\ithin fiveminutes the line was flanked on both flanks and compelled to fallback. Both regiments lost very heavily. The Tenth Regimentwas not engaged at this time. I would refer j^ou to Fosters History, pages no, in. Hewill corroborate this statement. I have none of the official-reports to refer to, but I think you can verify this if you willrefer to them. I was wounded in this fight while falling back.I think if you change the regiment number from the Tenth tothe Third, in your manuscript, that it would be satisfactory.Yours respectfully, JOHX W. BODINE, Station Master, Penna. Railroad, Camden, N. J.
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COLONEL JAMES H. SIMPSON,Fourth N. J. Vols. fJRST NJIV JlSRSl-Y BRIGADE. 3G1 Appendix E. An extract from the diai-y oi Captain John P. Beach, FourthNew Jersey Volunteer Infantr)^, gives the following: Ji-ine 27th, Friday. Heavy fighting still going on on ourright. Our division was moved two miles nearer the Chickahominyto guard against a flank attack on our left. At i P. M. wemarched back to camp, when the rebels commenced to shell uspretty lively, and we skedaddled into the woods, out of range,where we lay for about fifteen minutes, when an order came tomove our division double-quick to the support of our force onthe right. The day was terribly hot, but we kept up double-quick nearly all the way. Arriving on the field at about threeoclock and near one of our old camp grounds at Gaines Mill,we found our forces hard pressed (a zouave regiment had ap-parently just retired and were rallying). The brigade was im-mediately formed in two lines, the Third and Fourth Regi-ments in the first l

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