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  HISTORICAL SKETCH

  OF THE

  FIFTEENTH REGIMENT

  NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS.


  FIRST BRIGADE, FIRST DIVISION, SIXTH CORPS.


  TRENTON, N.J.:
  WM. S. SHARP, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER.
  1880.




SKETCH.


Every regiment of soldiers has a character of its own. This
"character" is the sum of the elements of individual character, and
the circumstances affecting its organization and management.

The Fifteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers was organized at
Flemington. It was recruited in the "hill country" of the State--three
companies from Sussex, two each from Warren, Hunterdon and Morris, and
one from Somerset. There being no large cities in this district, it
was composed almost wholly of "freeholders" or the sons of
freeholders--young men who were well known in the communities from
which they came, who had a good name at home to adorn or lose, and
friends at home to feel a pride in their good behavior or suffer shame
at the reverse. They were an educated and intelligent class of men,
many of them of liberal education and in course of training for the
higher walks