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Hugh Capner
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 8/25/1862 as a Private.
On 9/13/1862 he mustered into "B" Co. NJ 23rd Infantry
He was discharged for wounds on 2/22/1863 at Alexandria, VA
(Discharged at 1st Division Hospital)
He was listed as:
* Wounded 12/13/1862 Fredericksburg, VA (Severe wound in right arm, amputated)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65
- The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War
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Capner, Hugh, Private, Company B, 23rd Regiment New Jersey Infantry, filed for Invalid Class Pension May 1, 1863, Application No. 20,695, Certificate No. 18,154. A Widow’s Class pension was filed, no date, Application No. 437,720, Certificate No 342,367
T289: Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900.
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NEW JERSEY
TWENTY-THIRD INFANTRY
(Nine Months)
Twenty-third Infantry.--Cols., John S. Cox, Henry 0.
Ryerson, E. Burd Grubb; Lieut.-Cols., George C. Brown, Francis
W. Milnor; Majs., Alfred Thompson, William J. Parmentier. This
regiment was raised in the summer and fall of 1862 and was
mustered into the Federal service at Beverly on Sept. 13, Co. A
from the city and township of Burlington being the first to
reach the rendezvous, on Aug. 25, Co. B of Bordentown mustering
the same evening. Leaving Beverly on Sept. 24, the regiment
proceeded to Washington, going into camp on East Capitol hill,
but in a few days afterward moved to Frederick City, Md. There
it remained until Oct. 8, when it started for Bakersville to
join the 1st N. J. brigade, with which it was ever after
identified. It participated in the battle of Fredericksburg
and lost in that engagement 3 officers and 57 men, killed or
wounded. At Chancellorsville and Salem Church it also
performed noble service and continued in the field until the
expiration of its term of enlistment, when it was ordered to
return to New Jersey for discharge. While at Beverly, awaiting
muster out, information was received of the invasion of
Pennsylvania by Gen. Lee with the Confederate army in strength.
The command was immediately tendered to the governor and
accepted, and at once proceeded to Harrisburg, the threatened
point. It remained in that vicinity until the danger had
passed, when it returned to the state and was mustered out at
Beverly, N. J., June 27, 1863. The total strength of the
regiment was 1,035, and it lost during its term of service, by
resignation 18, by discharge 80, by promotion 31, by transfer
4, by death 84, by desertion 10, by dismissal 1, mustered out,
807.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 3