August 11-September 1862: Edward Campbell & the 15th NJ Regt.

 

On August 11, 1862, Captain Edward L. Campbell, of Belvidere, left Company E of the 3rd NJ Volunteer Infantry Regiment to become the Lieutenant Colonel of the new 15th NJ Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

 

In August through September, a number of Warren County men joined Campbell's regiment:

COMPANY A: Color Sergeant David E. Hicks, of Asbury, and Lieutenant George C. Justice, of Phillipsburg; 

COMPANY B: Stephen I. Babbitt, William H. Barnett, Albert L. Drake, Owen Drake, Sergeant George F. Fritts, Henry J. V. Heed, & Henry L. Wiggins, of Belvidere;  John P. Brink, of Broadway; Captain Alfred S. Burtt, Lyman M. Parks, Jacob F. Reidinger, William A. Schrenck & Jacob Stutz, of Hackettstown; Henry W. Cole, Corporal Dayton E. Flint, George Vosler, & Oakley W. Vosler, of Washington;  Sergeant Samuel B. Danley, of Hazen; Sergeant Morris S. Hann, of Hope; James Hoffman, of Rockport; Lieutenant Francis Holmes & Richard Horn, of Phillipsburg; Samson O. Howell & Uzal O. Whitesell, of Vienna; Corporal John A. Wilson, of Johnsonburg; Andrew Yeomans, of Columbia; William Nearlatt, of Danville; and 1st Sergeant George Martin & John O. Martin, of Blairstown;

COMPANY C: Albert C. Dildine, of Belvidere; James H. Cyphers, of Phillipsburg; and Abraham Sawyer, of Oxford; 

COMPANY D: Jacob O. Burdett & Corporal Simon Shaw, of Belvidere; George W. Shipps, of Belvidere/Walnut Valley; John M. Burd, of Montana; and Charles Hawk, of Hackettstown;

COMPANY E: Sergeant James W. VanAntwerp, of Washington;

COMPANY F: Corporal Lewis H. Salmon, of Hackettstown;

COMPANY G: Sergeant Zephaniah Holcomb, William McKenzie Thompson, George D. Wagner & William H. Wyckoff, of Belvidere;

COMPANY H: Moore G. Coen, George C. Dereamer, Hospital Steward Dr. John Hilton, & Henry R. Merrill, of Belvidere; Isaac M. Andrews, William J. Bodine, William Brotzman, Sergeant Jesse S. Castner, Dennis Cole, Isaac B. Cole, Corporal Isaac R. Dereamer, William Dereamer, Corporal James Donnelly, Corporal William Forrester, Martin P. Geary, Sergeant William R. Melroy, Corporal Cornelius Slack, and Captain Andrew Jackson Wight, of Washington;  Benjamin Bates, William H. Chamberlain, Wagoner Henry Crotsley, William H. Howard, Samuel McCrea, & Isaac Medick, of Asbury; Gardner H. Dereamer, of Broadway; Justice L. Force, of Summerfield; David Hoffman, of Mt. Bethel; John B. Miller, of Port Colden; Corporal Moses H. Prall & Abraham F. Rush, of Montana; and Levi Rush, of Port Murray; 

COMPANY I: John C. Chamberlain, of Belvidere; Corporal William H. Decker, of Johnsonburg; and George V. Huff, of Vienna; and

COMPANY K: George O. Haynes, of Washington.

 

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