. History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers . d fallen almost continually during- the day and nightand the soil was so softened that the passage of the Fifth Corpshad made it a sea of mud. The conditions were most uncom-fortable. At daylight the corps had reached-the Nye River, themarching through the mud making the movement most difficultand fatiguing. The rear of the Fifth Corps had just cleared thecrossing when the head of the Sixth Corps arrived. The brigadeof regular troops of the Fifth Corps were occupying the placeknown as Myers Hill, or Cayles, just beyond the crossing. Assoo
. History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers . d fallen almost continually during- the day and nightand the soil was so softened that the passage of the Fifth Corpshad made it a sea of mud. The conditions were most uncom-fortable. At daylight the corps had reached-the Nye River, themarching through the mud making the movement most difficultand fatiguing. The rear of the Fifth Corps had just cleared thecrossing when the head of the Sixth Corps arrived. The brigadeof regular troops of the Fifth Corps were occupying the placeknown as Myers Hill, or Cayles, just beyond the crossing. Assoon as the Sixth Corps crossed, Uptons brigade, now only abouteight hundred strong, relieved the regulars. Uptorji sent three ofhis regiments deployed as skirmishers to the front. Finding hewould require a stronger force to hold the position he sent toGeneral Wright for another brig-ade. The Second and Tenth Regiments, New Jersey Volunteers,were sent. Two companies of the Second were deployed asskirmishers and the rest of the regiment and the Tenth were. CHARLES WIEBECKE,Lieutenant-Colonel Second New Jersey Volunteers, Killed. FIRST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE. 127 ordered to the intrenchments. The skirmishers had only justarrived at the point they were to occupy when the enemy werediscovered forming in Hne for a charge, in the timber a feu-hundred yards from the skirmish hne. The skirmishers retiredwhile the Second, Tenth and a regiment of Uptons brigade wereordered to advance. They were hardly in position when theConfederate line came out of the woods and charged. At thesame time, a body of cavalry with a section of horse artilleryrode out from behind the woods on the left of the line andopened fire, enfilading it. The rebel charge was checked by thefire poured into them by the Union troops, but they, receivingre-enforcements, resumed the offensive and forced the line back,taking the hill. In this fight the Brigade lost one of its best andmost esteemed officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Wiebe
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