Colors of the 23rd NJV with vignette of E. Burd Grubb (New Jersey State Archives)

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Welcome to the Internet Home of the 23rd New Jersey Yahoos

I started working on a book about the Yahoos in January, 2007 and was surprised at how little information was available about the regiment.

Conversations with a number of historians revealed most of the records are lost.

This 1910 letter from E. Burd Grubb to the Acting Adjutant General of New Jersey explains what happened to the records.

 

Grubb Letter                                           June 7th, 1910
To Acting Adjutant General, Colonel Gilkyson, Trenton, NJ:

“In regard to the books of the regiment, viz:- The Guard Book, the General Order Book, and the regimental Court Martial Report Book, I bought them from a butcher in Beverly, five years after the war (1870), and he had copied his accounts in the blank pages of the book for that time.  He said he had picked them up on the Camp Grounds at Beverly after the regiment left the Camp (June 28, 1863).  This butcher is still alive and lives here in Beverly (June 7, 1910).”

Most of what you see in this site has been reconstructed from the History of the Reunion Society, stories  and letters in the New Jersey Mirror, New Jersey Dollar Newspaper, Union and Confederate after action reports, personnel records, letters and diaries of Josiah Crispin, Bob Elmer, Ed Mount, E. Burd Grubb, Henry Ogden Ryerson, Frank Hall, and Forrester Taylor along with nearly 100 books and articles.

I hope this website will be a tool the descendents of the 23rd can use to preserve the history of the regiment for posterity.

 

23rd New Jersey Volunteers

 Jim Buck,  President of NRSNW,  P.O. Box 170,  Joyce, WA 98343
360.928.2177 (phone),        buckdj@olypen.com