For the Union Dead

On this Memorial Day 2015, with the Sesquicentennial drawing to a close, let us remember the over 6000 men from New Jersey who died during the Civil War through these pictures of just a small sample of those who "gave their lives that that nation might live."

"So many, I had not thought death had undone so many." - T.S. Eliot 

"Here was a royal fellowship of death" - William Shakespeare

Charles Angel - 35th New Jersey, killed in action near Ruff's Mill, Georgia, July 4, 1864

Andrew Ackerman - 11th New Jersey - killed in action, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863

Henry Bartlett - 33rd New Jersey - killed in action, Dug Gap, Georgia, May 8, 1864

William Boggs - 33rd New Jersey - mortally wounded at Chattanooga, November 23, 1863

William Cochrane - 33rd New Jersey - killed in action at Pine Knob, Georgia, June 14, 1864

Charles Field - 33rd New Jersey - mortally wounded at Dallas, Georgia, May 28, 1864

Dorastus Logan - 11th New Jersey - killed in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863

Luther Martin - 11th New Jersey - killed in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863

Samuel Waldron - 33rd New Jersey - killed in action at Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 23, 1863