Talk:9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment

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Major revision to this article posted on March 15, 2009 in an attempt to upgrade the quality of the article. --Marksdaly (talk) 18:13, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Nicely done.  shirulashem     (talk)   11:14, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hubbs, Ethelbert (2LT)
In this edit, an IP user posted "New Jersey State Archives, Civil War Treasury Vouchers, 1861-1865; National Archives and Records Administration(NARA), Civil War Service Records" attached to the citation needed tag in #Hubbs, Ethelbert (2LT), breaking the tag. I leave it to the regular editors of this article to determine if that is a valid cite and deal with it appropriately. Anomie⚔ 23:04, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

The "citation needed" tag was replaced with the correct (ref) tag. Thanks. Marksdaly (talk) 23:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Date Springfields Issued to Regiment
I looked for a reference to the 26 November 1861 issue of Springfield rifled muskets to the regiment but Chapter 5 of "Remember You Are Jerseymen!" (1988) by Joseph Bilby and William Goble (p. 137) only says they were issued in "autumn". I also checked "New Jersey and the Rebellion" (1868) by John Y. Foster but didn't find a specific reference to the date.

Bilby states, "The men of the Ninth, drawn from all over the state, were recruited in the autumn of 1861 because of their shooting ability, and protested when they were issued obsolete muskets in Trenton. Sensitive to the regiment's complaints, Governor Charles Olden lobbied for more appropriate weapons and the regiment was entirely reequipped with new Springfield rifle-muskets before it left the state on December 4, 1861." [p. 137]

I know I read the date "26 November 1861" somewhere but when I looked for the specific reference in my library I could not locate it. I haven't given up but, for the time being, that reference under the "key training dates" is unsupported.

--Marksdaly (talk)