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The 6th New Jersey Volunteers, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel S. R. Gilkyson in the 3d Brigade of Burling's 2d Division, 3d Corps, was engaged here on July 2, 1863. Detached from the brigade, it supported batteries on Cemetery Ridge on July 3. Its losses were 5 killed, 29 wounded, and 7 missing, for a total of 41. The regiment was mustered in on Aug. 9, 1861, consolidated with the 8th Reg. N.J.V. on Oct. 12, 1864, and engaged in 30 battles.
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