2014 Archives History Game – NJ History – Civil War
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1 | John Morris, a young Long Branch farmer in the 1st Artillery, Battery D, deserted when his unit was sent to Brooklyn to assist police in case of rioting in 1864. | |
2 | When George Ashby, an African American, died in Allentown, New Jersey, on April 26, 1946, he was the last surviving New Jersey Civil War veteran. | |
3 | Ellis Hamilton, 16, who enlisted as a second lieutenant in Company E, 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, was the youngest commissioned officer in New Jersey. | |
4 | In 1862, Swedish musician John Allstrom took command of Company G, 14th Regiment, N.J. Volunteers, a unit recruited entirely in Monmouth County. | |
5 | Quartermaster Enoch Cowart selected the wood for the casket of Peter Vredenburgh Jr., who had wanted him court-martialed for dereliction of duty. | |
6 | During the Civil War, local banks in New Jersey issued fractional currency, also known as paper coins, with a value of less than a dollar. | |
7 | Mexican War veteran William S. Truex, born in Middletown, Monmouth County, was commissioned as major in the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers in August, 1861. | |
8 | Those “opposed to the present State and National Administrations” convened the “Middletown Peace Meeting” on August 29, 1861. | |
9 | In 1913, African American Civil War veteran William H. Reid built his own casket and a brick-lined grave at Eatontown’s White Ridge Cemetery. | |
10 | Although severely wounded during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Colonel Moses Wisewell of the 28th NJ, urged his men on until he was carried from the field. | |
11 | The 9th NJ regiment was nicknamed the “Jersey Muskrats,” due to a successful attack they had made through a North Carolina swamp. | |
12 | Camp Vredenburgh in Freehold was named after a prominent local judge, whose son, Peter Vredenburgh Jr., trained there with the 14th New Jersey Volunteers. | |
13 | The 15th NJ, raised in Flemington, had 846 casualties, out of 1,702 who served in its ranks, and ranked twelfth of all Union regiments in number of fatalities (240). | |
14 | More than half of the 28th regiment, which fought at the Virginia battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, came from Middlesex County. | |
15 | The Middletown Ladies Aid Society made clothing such as socks, shirts and gloves, which were then sent to local soldiers serving on the front. | |
16 | Nominated for Governor by the Democratic Party in 1862, Freehold-born Joel Parker successfully ran as a ‘War Democrat’ supporting a military solution to the Civil War. | |
17 | During the Civil War, Monmouth County men could be exempted from the military draft if they failed a physical examination by ex-Governor Dr. William A. Newell. | |
18 | Captain Symmes Stults of Prospect Plains was waving his sword, gallantly shouting, “Hold up to the line boys!” when he was fatally shot at the Battle of Monocacy. | |
19 | During the Civil War, about 118,000 men served in the U.S. Navy, including Isaac W. Welsh, who mustered in at Marlboro on September 26, 1864. | |
20 | After he was wounded at Gettysburg, Col. Robert McAllister of the 11th New Jersey was cared for by nurse Helen Gilson, who wrote encouragingly to his wife. |
Answers may be found in exhibit captions, reproduced in the catalog, The Civil War: New Jersey in Focus, on the Monmouth County Archives website. (All the statements are true.)