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Thursday, February 27 - Morris County 7:14 p.m.    NORTH JERSEY CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE  presents Historian and Author JOHN HAYWARD   The 5 th  New Jersey Regiment at The Battle of Gettysburg The 5th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was one of four regiments formed by Governor  Charles Olden  upon the requisition of President  Abraham Lincoln  on July 24, 1861. Fighting in battle on the eastern front, from the siege of Yorktown, the Seven Days Battles, Chancellorsville, the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Gettysburg  the regiment was then commanded by Col. William J. Sewell, who was wounded on July 2nd. Sewell was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Chancellorsville in May two months before Gettysburg and went on to become a State and U.S. Senator. Capt. Henry H. Woolsey took command for the rest of the battle, even though he was slightly wounded on July 2nd. The 5th brought 221 men to the field and lost 1...

Thursday, February 28 – Morris County North Jersey Civil War Round Table - 7:14 p.m. at the Haggerty Education Center at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 353 E. Hanover Avenue, Morris Twp. (opp. the Morris County Library). Admission - $5.  Members & Students – free. NPS Rangers – free    The 7 th  New Jersey Regiment presented by Prof. John Hayward.      The 7 th  New Jersey fought in the major battles in the east among them the Peninsula Campaign, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and the pursuit of Gen. Robert E. Lee to Appomattox Court House.  The presentation will focus on the officers and men of 7th NJ Regiment and on one of its commanders  Morristown’s (and Bill Chemerka’s) Col. Joseph W. Revere.     John Hayward is a graduate from the University of New Hampshire with a Master’s in History. He is currently a professor of History at Southern New Hampsh...