| Record
Group: |
Department
of Defense |
| Subgroup: |
New Jersey Militia |
| Series: |
Records
Relating to the Amboy Riots, 1863-1864 |
| Accession
#: |
1976.011 |
| Series
#: |
SDEML005 |
| Guide
Date: |
4/1999
(CSM) |
| Volume: |
0.5
c.f. [1 box] |
Contents
| Content
Note
This
series contains records related to the calling out of the New Jersey
Militia by Governor Parker on December 1, 1863 in response to a
riot caused by striking workers of the Camden and Amboy Railroad
in South Amboy. The companies were mustered out of service from
late December 1863 to early January 1864.
Companies were called out from all parts of the state, specifically:
Chapin’s Battery; Company A, National Guard of Trenton; Companies
A and E, 1st Regiment, New Jersey Militia (Newark Brigade); Company
F, 1st Division, New Jersey Rifle Corps (Burlington Brigade); Company
C, 3rd Division, New Jersey Rifle Corps (Elizabeth); and Freehold
Infantry, 3rd Regiment, (Monmouth and Ocean Brigade).
The series contains correspondence related to the calling up of
the Militia and subsequent pay for service, telegrams, orders, morning
reports of the Militia, and muster rolls.
NOTE: Copies of muster rolls for the militia
companies are in Box 15 of Department of Defense, Adjutant General’s
Office (Civil War), Copy Books [Muster and Bounty Rolls], 1861-1865.
|
| Box
1 |
1. |
Copies
of newspaper accounts |
2. |
Correspondence,
December 1863 |
3. |
Correspondence,
January 1864 |
4. |
Correspondence,
February 1864 |
5. |
Orders,
December 1863 - January 1864 |
6. |
Telegrams,
December 1863 - January 1864 |
7. |
Morning
Reports, December 1863 - January 1864 |
8. |
Proofs
of Service, January 1864 |
9. |
Fragments
of muster rolls |
10. |
Company
Roll - Company E, 1st Regiment, Militia, Newark Brigade |
11. |
Muster
Roll - Company A, National Guard of Trenton |
12. |
Muster
Roll - Company C, 3rd Division, New Jersey Rifle Corps |
13. |
Muster
In Roll - Company F, 1st Division, New Jersey Rifle Corps, Burlington
Brigade |
14. |
Muster
In Roll - Freehold Infantry, 3rd Regiment, Monmouth and Ocean Brigade |
15. |
Muster
Out Roll - Chapin's Battery |
16. |
Muster
Out Roll - Company A, 1st Regiment, New Jersey Militia, Newark Brigade |
17. |
Muster
Out Roll - Company E, 1st Regiment, New Jersey Militia, Newark Brigade |
18. |
Muster
Out Roll - Company F, 1st Division, New Jersey Rifle Corps |
19. |
Muster
Out Roll - Company C, 3rd Division, New Jersey Rifle Corps |
20. |
Muster
Out Roll - Freehold Infantry, 3rd Regiment, Monmouth and Ocean Brigade |
21. |
Payroll
- Chapin's Battery |
|