Field Service
Although the unit as it existed at the time was present at the Battle of Hatcher's Run near Dabney's Mills on February 5-7, 1865, the 40th New Jersey participated in their first and last battle on April 2nd at Petersburg, where it participated in the final Union army assaults on Confederate entrenchments. There the unit suffered 23 wounded (2 of whom died later). Private Frank E. Fesq of Company A captured the battle flag of the 18th North Carolina Infantry during the assault, earning him the Medal of Honor.
The regiment remained in occupation duty after the Confederate surrender, then was mustered out at Hall's Hill, Virginia on July 13, 1865.
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