Isaac Chamberlin

  General Notes:

UNION NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS

21st Regiment, New Jersey Infantry


Organized at Trenton, N. J., and mustered in September 15, 1862. Left State for Washington, D. C., September 16, 1862, thence moved to Frederick, Md., September 18, and joined Army of the Potomac on battlefield of Antietam, Md. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1863.

SERVICE.-Duty at Hagerstown, Md., and guard duty at Dam No. 5 till October 29. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 29-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg December 11-15. Cover laying of pontoons December 11. Bowling Green Road December 11 in support of Weirs' Maryland Battery. Duty near White Oak Church and constructing corduroy road below Fredericksburg till April, 1863. "Mud March" January 20-24. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2. Battle of Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3. Salem Heights May 3-4. Banks' Ford May 4. Mustered out at Trenton, N. J., June 19, 1863.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 20 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 30 Enilsted men by disease. Total 52