Annual Report Of The Adjutant General Of The State Of New Jersey 1862 Primary Source Edition

Author : New Jersey Adjutant-General'S Office
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656907144
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Adjutant-General written by New Jersey Adjutant-General'S Office and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Adjutant-General: Of the State of New Jersey 1862 The places of officers have been filled, in nearly every instance, by promotion for meritorious conduct in the field, the plan having been strictly adhered to of promoting upon the nomination of the com manding officers of the regiments. Two editions of the Register of Commissioned Officers of New Jersey Volunteers in the service of the United States have been issued from this office during the year, one containing the names of all officers who had held positions in the three years regiments from New Jersey since the beginning of the war to July 1, 1862, and the other giving the names of officers in commission Oct. 22, 1862, with the changes reported since the date of the previous publication. These, together with my report of last year, and a third edition of the reg ister of this date, form a complete record of commissioned officers of New Jersey regiments since the commencement of the war. It is my duty to report that the vacancies constantly occurring in the ranks of these regiments have not been filled with the alacrity which had been hoped for, and which the services of these regiments would seem to warrant. Every exertion has been made, recruiting parties have been detailed throughout the entire State, old companies have been consolidated, new ones raised, and every effort has been used to have J erseymen who have enlisted in other regiments trans ferred to the State regiments. Every facility in his power has been afforded by the accomplished officer in charge of the recruiting ser vice in this State, but the enlistments have been comparatively few. An order from the War Department, permitting officers of the regu lar army to recruit their commands from the ranks of volunteers, paralyzed the efforts of recruiting parties to a great extent; but volunteers have seemed to prefer enlisting in the new regiments rather than the old. This is unaccountable, inasmuch as the privation and inconvenience incident to a newly organized regiment are entirely avoided by enlistment in an old one, while discipline and promotion are much more easily obtained in a regiment which has seen service under competent officers, and which has already gained well merited distinction. The requisition made upon the State in September last, for three thousand men for the old regiments, has not yet been filled it is due to the regiments that we should fill their ranks as soon as possible, and every effort is still being made to do so yet the excess of men furnished by the State over all former calls made upon her is more than sufficient to fill this call, as is shown in another part of this report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.