14th New Jersey Infantry Regiment

The 14th Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, part of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac, served heroically at the Battle of Monocacy, Maryland, on July 9, 1864. The regiment was organized on the Monmouth Battle Ground, mustered into United States service near Freehold, New Jersey, on August 26, 1862, and mustered out near Washington, D.C., on June 18, 1865. At Monocacy, Union forces under General Lew Wallace so stubbornly opposed the Confederate troops under General Jubal A. Early that the safety of the national capital was assured.

Ballenger Creek, Maryland · United States