New Jersey Troops in the Gettysburg Campaign: June 5 to July 31, 1863

GETTYSBURG...the name is legendary in the annals of warfare. But in an action as complex and important as Gettysburg, no one person or group can grasp the totality.

For that reason, regimental histories are key to understanding the smaller actions of the larger event. In this history of the New Jersey troops at Gettysburg, one of the boys in blue contributes a stellar accounting of his state's brave volunteers.

Samuel Toombs was the historian of the Thirteenth New Jersey Volunteers. This is a...