9th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry

Brief History
"Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.

Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin
Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived though not always. After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first.

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database lists 3,355 men on its roster for this unit. Roster.

Wikiapedia article on 9th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry (accessed 8 March 2013)

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Other Sources

 * Beginning United States Civil War Research gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in ‘New Jersey in the Civil War’ and ‘United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865’ (see below).


 * National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information.


 * New Jersey in the Civil War describes many Confederate and Union sources, specifically for New Jersey, and how to find them.. These include compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.


 * United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865 describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.
 * Longacre, Edward G. Sharpshooters, A History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.


 * Drake, J. Madison (James Madison). Fast and loose in Dixie : an unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc. (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1992)


 * New Jersey. State Commission for Erection of Monument to Ninth New Jersey Volunteers. Report of State Commission for Erection of Monument to Ninth New Jersey Volunteers at New Berne, North Carolina : dedication, National Cemetery, New Berne, N.C., May 18, 1905. (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1992),.


 * United States. Army. New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865). Civil War volunteers's certificates, 1863-1865). (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973),.