8th New Jersey Volunteers Inc

02/10/2026

10/11/2025

The 8th is out at the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center doing living history this weekend

09/24/2024

We will be participating in a special ceremony next month to honor veterans of the civil war! Arranged by the Tabernacle Historical Society, there will be displays and readings performed.

See the attached flyer for dates and location!

11/18/2023

Today we remember

11/19/2022

Remembering the men of the 8th NJ today

10/23/2022

The right flank of the 8th today amongst the changing leaves in Gettysburg

07/18/2022

On May 5, 1862, the 8th New Jersey repulsed an intense attack by Confederate forces at the Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia. During the attack, Private John Coyne’s pocket watch deflected an incoming projectile, causing the damage seen here. Coyne survived and served until the end of the war.

See this pocket watch and other artifacts in the new exhibit "A Rough Coarse Life: The World of the Civil War Soldier" in your next trip to . http://ow.ly/lMb650JXGaa

07/02/2022

159 years ago today, the 8th NJ was dispatched to plug a hole in the 3rd Corps line in the wheatfield at Gettysburg. Based on morning reports from June 28, they had only 137 men and 14 officers ready for duty. The 8th would defend their poor, swampy position against another 8th, the 8th Georgia, a regiment over twice its size that had the high ground of Rose Hill to look down on the exposed boys from New Jersey.

By the morning of July 3rd, 1863, there would only be only around 100 remaining in the regiment from the over 900 that left Trenton less than two years prior.

06/06/2022

A lively game of whist in camp, with Captain Barycki on the losing end 😒