Text Appearing Before Image: the 202 PIRST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE. severity of the experience which it had been called upon toundergo. In the subsequent battles in the Valley, the regiment, feebleas it was, bravely maintained its reputation. During the winterof 1864-5, having with the brigade rejoined the army beforePetersburg, and being largely recruited, - it participated in thevarious movements which resulted so detrimentally to the enem)-,and in the grand assault of the 2d of April, rendered dis-tinguished service. When the rebel flag went do^\n at Appo-mattox, it turned its face homeward, reaching the vicinity ofWashington, four hundred and fifty strong, on the 2d of June.Thence, some weeks after, it proceeded to Trenton, and was indue time discharged. Its record, from the day it took the field,was one of sublime devotion to the work in which the nationwas engaged, and in the legends and chronicles of the firesidesto which its surAdvors came back scarred and laureled, its deedswill live for long- vears to come. Text Appearing After Image: FIRST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE. 203 The Fifteenth Regiment. The Fifteenth Regiment was (jrganized at Flemington in Julyand August, 1862. Three companies were recruited in SussexCountry, two in Warren, two in Hunterdon, two in Morris andone in Somerset, and all were composed of men of superiorphysical strength and capacities of endurance. The regimentwas mustered into the United States service on the 25th ofAugust, and on the 27th left for Washington, numbering ninehundred and twenty-five officers and men, Colonel SamuelFowler commanding. Reaching the Capital, it encamped atTennallytown, where it remained for about a month, engaged indrill and acquiring discipline for future service. While here,the men were also employed upon the defences of Washington,slashing timber, making mihtary roads, and throwing up earth-works—Fort Kearny being constructed entirely by their labor. On the 30th of September, the regiment proceeded by rail toFrederick, Maryland, and thence marched across to Bakersvill
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