This new digital version of Stryker's classic work, presented by the
New Jersey State Library, is completely searchable utilizing full Boolean
logic. See the search tips and database description pages for more
information.
The Record is arranged by regiments in numerical order. Each regiment's
chapter gives a brief summary of its actions followed by a roster of its
members which provides rank, date commissioned or enrolled, date mustered
in, length of enlistment, date mustered out, and provides other
information including promotions, transfers, wounds, deaths and
desertions.
The New Jersey regiments are listed first followed by "Miscellaneous
Organizations," which are regiments from other states--mostly from
Pennsylvania. It also includes the Veteran Reserve Corps, the United
States Colored Troops, and the U.S. Army and Navy regulars.
An interesting mystery about this publication is its title as listed on
the title page: Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War,
1861-1865 (emphasis added) because 1876 seems very early to be referring
to this as the Civil War (though some in the north always referred to the
war as the Civil War). Indeed, the actual page headers in the paper
version (the only thing omitted in this digital version) say Officers and
Men of New Jersey in the War of the Rebellion (emphasis added). The NJ
State Archives and the NJ Dept of Military and Veterans Affairs have not
been able to shed any light on this.