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Jersey Volunteers 15th New Jersey Volunteers
| The Fifteenth Regiment was organized at Flemington in
July and August, 1862. Three companies were recruited in
Sussex County, two in Warren, two in Hunterdon, two in Morris
and one in Somerset, and all were composed of men of superior
physical strength and capacities of endurance. The regiment
was mustered into the United States service on the 25th of
August, and ont he 27th left for Washington, numbering nine
hundred and twenty-fice officers and men, Colonel Samuel
Fowler commanding. |
| -- New Jersey and the Rebellion. Foster 1868, Page 382. |
This regiment saw service at Fridricksburg,
Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Cold Harbor among other battles.
My connection to this regiment is through my 3rd great-grandmother
Catharine
Losey's brother, Peter
LOSEY (c1823-1864).
Peter was an unmarried farmer living in Stillwater, Sussex County,
New Jersey when he enlisted. His mother Hannah lived with him.
He enlisted on 11 August and was mustered into Company I.
Peter was captured during the Battle of the Wilderness on May
4th, technically before the battle began. A family
story says he was taken to Libby Prision in Richmond, but Libby
was for officers while Belle Isle was for enlisted men.
| On May 4th, the regiment broke camp at daylight, and
marching by way of Brandy Station and Stevensburg, crossed
the Rapidan at Germania Ford by pontoon bridge. The 5th found
it in the Wilderness, and the sounds of battle where Warren
had come into collision with Ewell's Corps, soon brought
the order hastening the Sixth Corps to his support. ... |
| -- New Jersey and the Rebellion. Foster 1868, Page 393. |
I have not found any action that occurred on the 4th but there
have been times when that did not stop small actions from happening.
Was he taken prisioner on the 4th or the 5th, when the regiment
went into battle?
Private Peter Losey was
transferred to Andersonville Prision in July. Details of his time
at Andersonville, generally the most well known of the wartime
prision camps for the terrible conditions, do not exist. We do,
however, know he was exchanged with other terminal cases in November
of that year.
He arrived at Annapolis, Maryland by way of Savannah, Georgia
on November 30, 1864 where he died less than a month later. The
official cause of death was chronis diarrhea.
Peter LOSEY is buried in Ash Grove, Section A, Grave 162 at the
Annapolis Military Cemetery, Annapolis, Maryland on December 31,
1864.
The probate of his Will, on January 20, 1865, does not mention
his mother Hannah so she probably did not survive him. Other family
members are surmised based on his Will but the exact relationships
are not clearly identified.
Additional Reading
New Jersey and the Rebellion: A History of the Services
of the Troops and People of New Jersey in Aid of the Union
Cause
By John Y. Foster.
Published by Martin R. Dennis & Co. 1868.
Published by Authority of the State.
Chapter XIII, Pages 382-407.
"Remember You Are Jerseymen!" A
Military History of New Jersey's Troops in the Civil War
By Joseph G. Bilby & William C. Goble. First Edition.
Published by Longstreet House, Hightstown NJ, 1998.
Chapter 11, Pages 271-292.
ISBN 0-944413-54-4
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