The 3rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the

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in the

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. Composed of men from

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, it served in the

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History

The 3rd New Jersey Infantry Regiment was recruited and mustered into Federal service in May 1861, and was brigaded with the

1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry The 1st New Jersey Infantry Regiment was an American Civil War Union Army regiment of infantry from New Jersey that served in the Army of the Potomac. 1st New Jersey Infantry Regiment was recruited and mustered into Federal service in May 1861, an ...

, the

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, and the

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to make up what became famed as the "

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". Early on, the regiment participated in small actions such as the

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in Northern Virginia. The regiment and brigade served as the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the

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, and participated in numerous battles from the June 27, 1862, Battle of Gaines Mill,

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, to the final Union assaults on Confederate positions at

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, in April 1865. The remnants of the 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry were mustered out at

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, Virginia, on June 29, 1865.

Notable personnel

*Colonel George W. Taylor-later a Brigadier General and commander of the brigade until mortally wounded during the August 1862 Second Bull Run Campaign. *Colonel Henry Brown - succeeded George Taylor as regiment commander, and later commanded the brigade. *1st Lieutenant Edward Burd Grubb, Jr. - brevetted Brigadier General at the end of the war. *Lieutenant Colonel

Mark Wilkes Collet Mark Wilkes Collet (June 2, 1826 – May 3, 1863) was a Union Army officer who served during the American Civil War. He served as Colonel and commander of the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment, a unit he led from the Second Battle o ...

- later Colonel of the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. *Lieutenant Colonel James N. Duffy - aide to Major General

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, and post-war commissioner of the New Jersey Gettysburg Battlefield Commission, which was responsible for the creation and placement of New Jersey monuments at the Gettysburg National Military Park.

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* Units and formations of the Union Army from New Jersey 1861 establishments in New Jersey {{AmericanCivilWar-unit-stub

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